UNIT
1
Maps
The British Isles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A58
Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A60
The Anglo-Saxon Period and
the Middle Ages 449–1485
Find
“Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.”
—Proverb
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; use graphic sources of information; use text
organizers such as overviews, headings, and graphic
features to locate and categorize information; read
widely to increase knowledge of the student’s culture,
the cultures of others, and the common elements across
cultures; identify and understand elements of text
structure (including headings and sections).
What Do You Think? What moves a hero to act?
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY
Link to Today
J.R.R. Tolkien from The Lord of the Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Compare epics across
cultures; understand and analyze: the archetype of the
epic hero; the characteristics of an elegy; the characteristics of riddles; setting; the use of a foil; the epic simile.
Reading Skills Paraphrase a text; respond to graphics; identify theme; use context clues; evaluate historical context; compare and contrast; visualize imagery.
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NOVEL
4
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The Anglo-Saxons:
Songs of Ancient
Heroes
Literary Focus The Epic Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 17
Reading Focus Paraphrasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 19
Anonymous from Beowulf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EPIC 21
The Monster Grendel translated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . 23
The Arrival of the Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Unferth’s Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Battle with Grendel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The Monster’s Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
The Final Battle translated by Seamus Heaney . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Link to Today
from The Collected Beowulf translated by Francis Gummere;
illustrated by Gareth Hinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GRAPHIC NOVEL
54
Lyrics from The Exeter Book (Introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 60
Anonymous The Seafarer translated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 61
Anonymous The Wife’s Lament translated by Richard Hamer . . . POEM 66
Anonymous The Wanderer translated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . POEM 68
Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Riddles
translated by Burton Raffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VERSE RIDDLES 74
Bede from A History of the English Church and People
translated by Leo Sherley-Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HISTORY
81
Comparing Texts: World Literature
Epics Across Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous from Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
retold by Herbert Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EPIC 89
Homer from the Iliad, Book 22: The Death of Hector
translated by Robert Fagles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EPIC
99
Contents A5
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SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand
medieval narratives; understand and analyze: characterization; the characteristics of a frame story; irony;
the characteristics of a narrator; political context;
the characteristics of ballads; the characteristics of a
romance narrative; the archetype of the romance hero;
the use of allegory.
Reading Skills Analyze style using key details; draw
conclusions; interpret character; understand purpose;
understand cause and effect; analyze details; make
critical judgments.
Informational Text Skills Compare and contrast.
COLLECTION
2
The Middle Ages:
The Tales They Told
Literary Focus Medieval Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
113
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Reading Focus Analyzing Style: Key Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
115
Introduction to The Canterbury Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
118
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales
translated by Nevill Coghill . . . . . . . . . . . . NARRATIVE POEM
The Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
from The Pardoner’s Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
from The Wife of Bath’s Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Link to Today
Jerry Ellis from Walking to Canterbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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TRAVEL BOOK
178
Anonymous Lord Randall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BALLAD
185
Anonymous Get Up and Bar the Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BALLAD
188
Anonymous Edward, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BALLAD
190
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Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
translated by John Gardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROMANCE NARRATIVE 195
Sir Thomas Malory from Le Morte d’Arthur
retold by Keith Baines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROMANCE NARRATIVE 207
Anonymous from Everyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MORALITY PLAY 217
Writing Workshop Literary Analysis: Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Literary Analysis . . . 242
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Literary Skills Review
Anonymous The Twa Corbies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BALLAD 244
Alexander Pushkin Raven doth to raven fly
translated by Walter Arndt . . . . . . . . . . . BALLAD 244
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
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Contents A7
UNIT
2
The Renaissance 1485–1660:
A Flourish of Genius
Find
“So much one man can do,
That doth both act and know.”
—Andrew Marvell
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological
order; use text features such as overviews, headings, and graphic features to locate and categorize
information; identify and understand elements of
text structure (including headings and sections); read
widely to increase knowledge of the student’s culture,
the cultures of others, and the common elements across
cultures.
What Do You Think? How do our hearts and minds influence
our actions?
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Skills Draw inferences; understand inverted
word order; use paraphrasing or retelling as a strategy
for comprehension; identify the main idea of a text;
identify comparison-contrast organization; recognize
patterns of organization; analyze style; compare and
contrast; understand archaic language; make inferences
about theme; recognize and discuss themes and connections that cross cultures; compare main ideas across
texts; compare and contrast; analyze an author’s style;
analyze the author’s purpose or intent; make generalizations about a writer’s beliefs.
Informational Skills Analyze persuasion/arguments
in a text.
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Love, Time, and
Death
Literary Focus Renaissance Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 267
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing an Illumination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Sir Thomas Wyatt Whoso List to Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SONNET 271
Edmund Spenser from Amoretti
Sonnet 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SONNET 271
Sonnet 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
274
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love . . . . . . POEM 277
Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 277
Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 283
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 283
John Donne Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
289
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 291
Meditation 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEDITATION 296
Death be not proud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Link to Today
Gary Fisher Another Renaissance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WEB ARTICLE 262
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand and
analyze: Renaissance poetry; characteristics of the
speaker; characteristics of pastoral poems; carpe diem
poetry; characteristics of metaphysical poetry; metaphysical conceits; the use of tone; paradox; dialogue;
characteristics of lyric poetry; diction; parallelism; characteristics of parables; didactic literature; style; allusion;
allegory; analyze philosophical context.
ESSAY
SONNET
300
Link to Today
Margaret Edson from W;t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DRAMA 304
Ben Jonson On My First Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
309
Song: To Celia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
309
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Sir John Suckling Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 315
Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 315
To Althea, from Prison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
318
King James Bible Psalm 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PSALM 321
Psalm 137 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PSALM 321
The Parable of the Prodigal Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARABLE 325
Comparing Texts: World Literature
Worlds of Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Koran Night translated by N. J. Dawood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SACRED TEXT 332
Bhagavad-Gita from Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline
translated by Barbara Stoler Miller . . . . . . .
SACRED TEXT
334
Buddhist Traditional Zen Parables compiled by Paul Reps . . PARABLES 336
Confucius from The Analects of Confucius
translated and annotated by Arthur Waley . . . . . . . . MAXIMS 338
Lao Tzu from the Tao Te Ching
translated by Stephen Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SACRED TEXT
339
ANECDOTES
340
Tao Traditional Taoist Anecdotes
translated and edited by Moss Roberts . . . . .
Saadi Sayings of Saadi translated by Idries Shah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AXIOMS 341
African Traditional African Proverbs
compiled by Charlotte and Wolf Leslau
PROVERBS
342
Contents A9
Reading Focus Analyzing Milton’s Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY
345
Paradise Lost: Milton’s Epic (Introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
John Milton The Fall of Satan from Paradise Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EPIC
350
SONNET
363
ALLEGORY
367
When I consider how my light is spent . . . . . . . . . . .
John Bunyan from The Pilgrim’s Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparing Texts
Views on Education and Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Francis Bacon Of Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 374
Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle from Female Orations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEBATE 377
Queen Elizabeth I Tilbury Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 380
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand
Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays; understand the
philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period; understand and analyze: the characteristics of Shakespearean sonnets; the
characteristics of a tragedy; historical context.
Reading Skills Use text structure to understand
meaning; use questioning to monitor reading comprehension; respond to graphic.
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William Shakespeare
Literary Focus Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
385
Author Study: William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SONNET 390
Sonnet 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
392
Sonnet 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
393
Sonnet 71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
395
Sonnet 73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
396
Sonnet 116 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
397
Sonnet 130 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
398
Reading Focus Using Questioning to Monitor Reading . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 401
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRAGEDY 404
Act I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Act II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Act III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Act IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Act V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
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Link to Today
from Macbeth: The Graphic Novel adapted by Arthur Byron
Cover; illustrated by Tony Leonard Tamai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRAPHIC NOVEL 496
Writing Workshop Literary Research Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
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Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a
Literary Research Paper . . . . . . . . 518
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Literary Skills Review
Pierre de Ronsard When You Are Old
translated by Humbert Wolfe. . . . . . . . . . . POEM 520
William Butler Yeats When You Are Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 520
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
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Contents A11
UNIT
3
The Restoration and the
Eighteenth Century 1660–1800
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“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
—Edmund Burke
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological
order; use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and graphic features to locate and categorize
information; read widely to increase knowledge of the
student’s culture, the cultures of others, and the common elements across cultures; identify and understand
elements of text structure (including headings and
sections).
What Do You Think? How can order and civilization affect
human behavior?
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Skills Evaluate an author’s credibility; make
critical judgments; analyze an author’s purpose; recognize persuasive techniques; analyze author’s style; draw
inferences about character.
Informational Text Skills Identify comparison-contrast organization.
530
Link to Today
Chris Rose 1 Dead in Attic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 536
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period; understand the rise of
the novel; understand and analyze: the characteristics
of a diary; narrative voice; situational irony; verbal
irony; satire; parody; analyze credibility; analyze political context.
ESSAY
5
The Rise of
the Novel
Literary Focus The Rise of the Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 541
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing an Etching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Samuel Pepys from The Diary of Samuel Pepys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DIARY
545
WEB ARTICLE
550
Link to Today
Phil Gyford Why I turned Pepys’ Diary into a Weblog
from BBC Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Daniel Defoe from A Journal of the Plague Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
NOVEL
557
Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 565
from Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
from Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Reading Focus Recognizing Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
579
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
580
Comparing Texts: World Literature
Satirical Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Voltaire from Candide translated by Richard Aldington . . . . . . NOVEL 595
Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote
translated by Samuel Putnam . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 603
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COLLECTION
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Examined Lives
Literary Focus Form and Function in the Age of Reason . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
613
COUPLETS
615
PHILOSOPHICAL POEM
618
Alexander Pope Heroic Couplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
from An Essay on Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Focus Identifying Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
620
Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MOCK EPIC 621
Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of
the English Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEFINITIONS 633
Link to Today
Simon Winchester from The Meaning of Everything . . . . . . . . HISTORY 639
James Boswell from The Life of Samuel Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BIOGRAPHY
645
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 657
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and
social influences of a historical period; understand and
analyze: elements of literature from the Restoration
and the eighteenth century; antithesis; characteristics
of the mock epic; diction; characteristics of biography;
characteristics of an elegy; tone.
Reading Skills Identify the writer’s stance; identify
tone; analyze an author’s point of view; analyze word
choice and word order; analyze rhetorical devices in
a text.
Informational Text Skills Identify and critique an
author’s argument.
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Comparing Texts
Views on Women’s Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Mary Wollstonecraft from A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PLATFORM 667
Daniel Defoe from The Education of Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
674
Mary, Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 677
Writing Workshop Persuasive Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting and
Analyzing Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
Literary Skills Review
Aphra Behn Love Arm’d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 694
Charles Baudelaire “I love you as I love . . .”
translated by James McGowan . . . . . . . . .POEM 694
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
Contents A13
UNIT
4
The Romantic Period 1798–1832
“The divine arts of imagination: imagination, the real & eternal world
of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
—William Blake
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; identify and understand graphic elements;
use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and
graphic features to locate and categorize information;
identify and understand elements of text structure
(including headings and sections).
What Do You Think? How can we use imagination to
discover truth?
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Skills Use paraphrasing as a strategy for
comprehension; use context clues; draw conclusions
about meaning; identify and understand patterns of
organization; annotate a poem; interpret imagery;
understand archaic words.
Informational Text Skills Analyze main idea and
supporting details.
704
Link to Today
Jane Goodall from A Reason for Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 710
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand and
analyze: the themes of Romantic poetry; dialect; symbols; parallelism; theme; blank verse; meter and rhyme;
personification; allusion; alliteration; the characteristics
of a literary ballad.
ESSAY
7
Truth and
Imagination
Literary Focus Themes of Romantic Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 717
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
Robert Burns To a Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 721
To a Louse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 724
Blake’s Poems: Innocence to Experience (Introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
William Blake The Tyger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
730
The Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 733
The Chimney Sweeper from
Songs of Innocence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 737
The Chimney Sweeper from
Songs of Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
740
A Poison Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 742
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Reading Focus Recognizing Patterns of Organization . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
745
William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 747
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality . . . . . . . ODE 757
Composed upon Westminster Bridge . . . . .SONNET 761
The World Is Too Much with Us . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
763
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 767
The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NARRATIVE POEM 774
Link to Today
Timothy Foote Saving Creatures Great and Small . . . . . MAGAZINE ARTICLE 803
Contents A15
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand forms of
Romantic poetry; understand and analyze: simile; apostrophe; irony; the characteristics of an ode; symbols;
diction; sonnet form; synesthesia; metaphor; imagery;
mood; compare poetry across cultures.
Reading Skills Understand rhyme and rhythm;
compare and contrast; make inferences as a strategy
for comprehension; analyze tone; understand inverted
syntax; read closely for details; visualize imagery; use
text structure to understand meaning;.
Informational Text Skills Analyze primary sources.
8
The Quest for Beauty
Literary Focus Forms of Romantic Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
809
George Gordon, Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 811
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,
Canto IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NARRATIVE POEM 813
Reading Focus Comparing and Contrasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ESSAY 817
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
819
Ode to the West Wind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ODE
824
To a Skylark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ODE
829
Link to Today
W. S. Merwin To a Mosquito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ODE 837
John Keats On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
843
When I Have Fears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
843
Ode to a Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ODE 847
Ode on a Grecian Urn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ODE 852
Keats’s Last Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LETTER 859
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Comparing Texts: World Literature
Japanese and Chinese Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
Introduction to Japanese and Chinese Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 864
Japanese Poetry
Tanka Poets Tanka translated by Geoffrey Bownas and
Anthony Thwaite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TANKA 868
Haiku Poets Haiku translated by Harold G. Henderson,
Peter Beilenson, and Harry Behn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HAIKU 870
Chinese Poetry
Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace translated by Kenneth Rexroth . . . . . . .POEM 873
Night Thoughts Afloat translated by Arthur Cooper . . . . .POEM 875
Li Po Quiet Night Thoughts translated by Arthur Cooper . . . . . . POEM 877
Question and Answer Among the Mountains
translated by Robert Kotewall and Norman L. Smith . . . . . POEM 877
Letter to His Two Small Children
translated by Arthur Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 877
Writing Workshop Reflective Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882
Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Reflective
Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Literary Skills Review
William Blake London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM
Derek Walcott The Virgins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
894
894
894
896
897
Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898
Contents A17
UNIT
5
The Victorian Period 1832–1901
“For each age is a dream that is dying, / Or one that is coming to birth.”
—Arthur O’Shaughnessy
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; identify and understand graphic elements;
use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and
graphic features to locate and categorize information;
read widely to increase knowledge of the student’s culture, the cultures of others, and the common elements
across cultures; identify and understand elements of
text structure (including headings and sections).
What Do You Think? How can appearance be different from reality?
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Skills Identify contrasting images; summarize as a strategy for comprehension; analyze an
author’s style; draw inferences; paraphrase a text; draw
conclusions about meaning.
904
Link to Today
Steven B. Johnson The Night-Soil Men
from The Ghost Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HISTORY 910
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand and
analyze: figurative language; sound devices in poetry;
theme; tone; metaphor; the characteristics of dramatic
monologue; Petrarchan sonnet form; alliteration and
assonance.
ESSAY
9
Love and Loss
Literary Focus Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
915
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NARRATIVE POEM 917
Ulysses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 926
from In Memoriam A.H.H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 931
Crossing the Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 937
Reading Focus Drawing Inferences from Textual Clues . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 941
Robert Browning My Last Duchess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE 943
Porphyria’s Lover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE 947
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONNET
953
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 957
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COLLECTION
10
The Paradox of
Progress
Literary Focus Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 961
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 965
Reading Focus Making Generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 971
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 973
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 976
A. E. Housman To an Athlete Dying Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 981
When I Was One-and-Twenty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 984
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period; understand realism;
understand and analyze: mood; the characteristics of a
speaker; couplets; theme; internal and external conflict;
allegory; irony; analyze historical context; analyze credibility in literature; compare realist works.
Reading Skills Visualize setting; make generalizations; analyze the relationship of form and meaning;
identify conflicts and resolutions; identify theme; make
predictions; draw inferences.
Informational Text Skills Analyze causes and
effects.
Link to Today
Jason La Canfora When Elements Go Extreme. . . . . . . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 988
Rudyard Kipling The Mark of the Beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
993
Comparing Texts: World Literature
Realism and the Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need?
translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude . . . . SHORT STORY 1009
Anton Chekhov The Bet
translated by Constance Garnett . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1023
Guy de Maupassant The Jewels
translated by Roger Colet . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1033
Writing Workshop Fictional Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042
Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
Listening and Speaking Workshop Telling a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054
Literary Skills Review
Thomas Hardy Drummer Hodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1054
Arthur Rimbaud The Sleeper of the Valley
translated by Ludwig Lewisohn . . . . . . . . . POEM 1054
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057
Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058
Contents A19
UNIT
6
The Modern World 1900 to the Present
“Life spends itself in the act of transformation, dissolving, bit by bit,
the world as it appeared.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
What Do You Think? How does experience shape our view of
the world?
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Evaluate and analyze
the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a historical period; understand and analyze elements of literature from the modern world.
Reading Skills Identify and understand chronological order; identify and understand graphic elements;
use text organizers such as overviews, headings, and
graphic features to locate and categorize information;
read to research information; read widely to increase
knowledge of the student’s culture, the cultures of others, and the common elements across cultures; identify
and understand elements of text structure (including
headings and sections).
Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
Introduction to the Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1064
Link to Today
Alice Oswald Spacecraft Voyager 1 Has Boldly Gone . . . SONNET 1070
COLLECTION
11
The World at War
Literary Focus War Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1073
POEM
1075
World War I
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand and
analyze elements of literature from particular periods
in British and world history; understand war literature;
understand and analyze: figures of speech; poetic
structure, imagery; the characteristics of a memoir;
repetition; oratory; flashback; setting; irony; the characteristics of an essay; the use of style; imagery; diction;
analyze political context.
Reading Skills Use context clues; visualize details;
evaluate historical context; draw inferences about an
author’s beliefs; identify and critique an author’s arguments; make and modify predictions; draw inferences
about character motivation; determine the writer’s purpose or intent; identify an author’s beliefs; read closely;
visualize setting; identify tone.
Informational Text Skills Analyze a political statement; analyze the sequence of events in a text; recognize political assumptions.
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rupert Brooke The Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SONNET 1078
Siegfried Sassoon The Rear-Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .POEM 1081
A Soldier’s Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . .
POLITICAL STATEMENT
1084
Link to Today
Richard Norton-Taylor Under Heavy Fire in Iraq . . . . NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 1088
World War II and Aftermath
Primo Levi On the Bottom from Survival in Auschwitz
translated by Stuart Woolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 1093
Elie Wiesel Never Shall I Forget translated by Marion Wiesel . . .
POEM
1103
Reading Focus Identifying and Critiquing
an Author’s Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1107
SPEECH
1109
Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
1117
Graham Greene The Destructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
1127
Winston Churchill Blood, Sweat, and Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clashes of Culture
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1141
Joseph Chamberlain “I Believe in a British Empire”. . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 1151
Jawaharlal Nehru “The Noble Mansion of Free India” . . . . . . . . .
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SPEECH
1155
Comparing Texts: Author Study
Author Study: Virginia Woolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160
Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ESSAY 1162
from Jacob’s Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOVEL 1172
A Haunted House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
from The Letters of Virginia Woolf . . . . . . . . . .
1177
LETTER
1181
Literary Focus Themes of Modern and Contemporary Poetry . . .
ESSAY
1187
T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1189
COLLECTION
12
Modern and
Contemporary
Poetry
Comparing Texts: Author Study
Author Study: William Butler Yeats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198
William Butler Yeats The Second Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1200
The Lake Isle of Innisfree . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1205
The Wild Swans at Coole. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1208
Sailing to Byzantium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1213
from The Autobiography of
William Butler Yeats . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1216
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand and
analyze themes of modern and contemporary poetry;
analyze philosophical context; understand and analyze:
allusion; theme; alliteration and assonance; symbols;
metaphor; connotations; diction; the characteristics
of lyric poetry; the characteristics of an elegy; irony;
the characteristics of the speaker; refrain; metaphor;
imagery; poetic structure; extended metaphor; the
sonnet form.
Reading Skills Draw inferences; visualize imagery;
connect text to experience; analyze style; analyze
author’s purpose; identify theme; analyze details; analyze tone; use prior knowledge; compare and contrast;
interpret imagery; draw inferences.
Informational Text Skills Analyze an author’s
beliefs; use graphics to understand text.
Contents A21
W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1223
Reading Focus Analyzing Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1227
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1229
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night . . . . VILLANELLE 1235
Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1239
Anna Akhmatova Lot’s Wife translated by Richard Wilbur. . . . . .
POEM
1243
POEM
1247
Wislawa Szymborska Lot’s Wife translated by Stanislaw
Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh . . . . . . . . . .
from Nobel Lecture: The Poet and the World
translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare
Cavanagh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEECH 1251
Gabriela Mistral Fear translated by Doris Dana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1257
Pablo Neruda Sonnet 79 translated by Stephen Tapscott . . . . . . .
SONNET
1261
Soneto 79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SONETO
1261
Philip Larkin The Explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1265
WEB ARTICLE
1268
Link to Today
Trapped Australian Miners Rescued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ted Hughes The Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1273
Seamus Heaney Digging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1278
Margaret Atwood Mushrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1285
SONNET
1291
Eavan Boland Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
COLLECTION
SKILLS FOCUS Literary Skills Understand
and analyze: irony; narrative voice; foreshadowing;
epiphany; paradox; the theater of the absurd; dialogue;
theme; symbols; the characteristics of satire; contemporary epics; setting; the use of tone; imagery; analyze
political context; compare works within a literary genre.
Reading Skills Identify cause-and-effect organization; interpret character; compare and contrast aspects
of a story; make predictions as a strategy for comprehension; draw inferences; identify and understand
patterns of organization; identify historical context;
identify language structures; identify and understand
the cultural characteristics of a text; analyze author’s
perspective; use background knowledge; make inferences about theme; analyze author’s purpose; analyze
details.
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13
Expectation and
Reality
Literary Focus Irony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1295
Analyzing Visuals Analyzing a Sculpture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296
Reading Focus Identifying Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ESSAY
1297
Katherine Mansfield The Doll’s House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1299
D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1309
James Joyce Araby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1325
Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Sand
translated by Andrew Hurley. . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1335
Samuel Beckett Come and Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DRAMA
1343
Harold Pinter That’s All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DRAMA 1351
Africa Emerges
Doris Lessing No Witchcraft for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
1357
Nadine Gordimer Once upon a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1369
Chinua Achebe Marriage Is a Private Affair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
Wole Soyinka Telephone Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEM
1377
1385
Comparing Texts: World Literature
Postcolonial Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389
Derek Walcott from Omeros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EPIC POEM 1391
V. S. Naipaul B. Wordsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SHORT STORY
1397
Paul Theroux from Sir Vidia’s Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEMOIR 1407
A Writer’s Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CARTOON
1412
Anita Desai Games at Twilight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHORT STORY 1415
Writing Workshop Literary Analysis: Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1426
Preparing for Timed Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1435
Media Workshop Analyzing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436
Preparing for Standardized Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1444
Literary Skills Review
Heinrich Heine The Lorelei
translated by Louis Untermeyer . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1444
Margaret Atwood Siren Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POEM 1444
Vocabulary Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446
Writing Skills Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1447
Read On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1448
RESOURCE CENTER
Handbook of Literary and
Historical Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
World of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Writer’s Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . .
Language Handbook . . . . . . . . .
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1474
1480
1492
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spanish Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Academic Vocabulary Glossary
in English and Spanish . . . . . . . .
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . .
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1539
Picture Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1552
Index of Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1556
Index of Authors and Titles . . . . 1566
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