CONTENTS
PREFACE = xxxviii
FICTION = 1
1 Reading a Story = 3
FABLE AND TALE = 4
W. Somerset Maugham, THE APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA = 4
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, GODFATHER DEATH = 6
Chuang Tzu, INDEPENDENCE = 8
PLOT = 9
THE SHORT STORY = 11
John Updike, A & P = 12
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 18
2 Point of View = 19
William Faulkner, A ROSE FOR EMILY = 25
Katherine Mansfield, Miss BRILL = 33
James Baldwin, SONNY'S BLUES = 37
Edgar Allan Poe, THE-TELL TALE HEART = 61
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 65
3 Character = 67
Katherine Anne Porter, THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL = 70
John Cheever, THE FIVE-FORTY-EIGHT = 78
Alice Walker, EVERYDAY USE = 90
Isaac Bashevis Singer, GIMPEL THE FOOL(TRANSLATED BY SAUL BELLOW) = 98
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 109
4 Setting = 110
Kate Chopin, THE STORM = 113
Jack London, TO BUILD A FIRE = 117
T. Coraghessan Boyle, GREASY LAKE = 129
Amy Tan, A PAIR OF TICKETS = 138
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 153
5 Tone and Style = 154
Ernest Hemingway, A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE = 158
William Faulkner, BARN BURNING = 162
IRONY = 176
James Joyce, ARABY = 177
Jorge Luis Borges, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK = 183
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 188
6 Theme = 189
Stephen Crane, THE OPEN BOAT = 192
Nathaniel Hawthorne, YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN = 211
Luke 15 : 11-32, THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON = 222
Raymond Carver, CATHEDRAL = 223
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 234
7 Symbol = 236
John Steinbeck, THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS = 239
Shirley Jackson, THE LOTTERY = 248
Ursula K. Le Guin, THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS = 255
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 260
8 Evaluating a Story = 261
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 263
9 Reading Long Stories and Novels = 264
Leo Tolstoi, THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH = 269
Franz Kafka, THE METAMORPHOSIS = 311
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 345
10 A Writer in Depth = 347
Flannery O'Connor, EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE = 347
Flannery O'Connor, A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND = 359
Flannery O'Connor, REVELATION = 371
Flannery O'Connor, THE ELEMENT OF SUSPENSE IN "A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND" = 386
Flannery O'Connor, THE SERIOUS WRITER AND THE TIRED READER = 389
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 390
11 Stories for Further Reading = 392
Ambrose Bierce, AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE = 392
Willa Cather, PAUL'S CASE = 400
Anton Chekhov, MISERY = 415
Kate Chopin, THE STORY OF AN HOUR = 419
Sandra Cisneros, BARBIE-Q = 422
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER = 424
Nadine Gordimer, THE DEFEATED = 437
Langston Hughes, ON THE ROAD = 448
Zora Neale Hurston, SWEAT = 452
D. H. Lawrence, THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER = 462
Doris Lessing, A WOMAN ON A ROOF = 474
Gabriel Garc$$\acute i$$a M$$\acute a$$rquez, THE WOMAN WHO CAME AT SIX O'CLOCK = 481
Bobbie Ann Mason, SHILOH = 490
Alice Munro, HOW I MET MY HUSBAND = 501
Joyce Carol Oates, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? = 515
Frank O'Connor, FIRST CONFESSION = 528
Tillie Olsen, I STAND HERE IRONING = 534
Philip Roth, THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS = 541
James Thurber, THE CATBIRD SEAT = 552
Eudora Welty, A VISIT OF CHARITY = 559
William Carlos Williams, THE USE OF FORCE = 564
Virginia Woolf, A HAUNTED HOUSE = 567
12 Criticism : On Fiction = 570
Edgar Allan Poe, THE TALE AND ITS EFFECT = 570
Charlotte Bront$$\ddot e$$, THE WRITER'S PASSIVE WORK = 571
Gustave Flaubert, THE LABOR OF STYLE = 572
Henry James, THE MIRROR OF A CONSCIOUSNESS = 572
Anton Chekhov, NATURAL DESCRIPTION AND "THE CENTER OF GRAVITY" = 573
James Joyce, EPIPHANIES = 574
Katherine Mansfield, WRITING "MISS BRILL" = 575
William Faulkner, "THE HUMAN HEART IN CONFLICT WITH ITSELF" = 575
Nadine Gordimer, HOW THE SHORT STORY DIFFERS FROM THE NOVEL = 576
Raymond Carver, "COMMONPLACE BUT PRECISE LANGUAGE" = 577
POETRY = 579
13 Reading a Poem = 583
William Butler Yeats, THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE = 585
LYRIC POETRY = 588
D. H. Lawrence, PIANO = 589
May Swenson, FOUR-WORD LINES = 589
NARRATIVE POETRY = 590
Anonymous, SIR PATRICK SPENCE = 590
Robert Frost, "OUT, OUT-" = 592
DRAMATIC POETRY = 593
Robert Browning, MY LAST DUCHESS = 594
14 Listening to a Voice = 597
TONE = 597
Theodore Roethke, MY PAPA'S WALTZ = 598
Countee Cullen, FOR A LADY I KNOW = 599
Anne Bradstreet, THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK = 599
Walt Whitman, TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER = 600
Emily Dickinson, I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP THE MILES = 601
Langston Hughes, HOMECOMING = 602
Weldon Kees, FOR MY DAUGHTER = 602
THE PERSON IN THE POEM = 603
Trumbull Stickney, SIR, SAY NO MORE = 603
Howard Moss, THE PRUNED TREE = 604
William Wordsworth, I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD = 605
James Stephens, A GLASS OF BEER = 607
Anne Sexton, HER KIND = 607
Paul Zimmer, THE DAY ZIMMER LOST RELIGION = 608
William Carlos Williams, THE RED WHEELBARROW = 609
IRONY = 609
Robert Creeley, OH NO = 610
W. H. Auden, THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN = 611
Sharon Olds, RITES OF PASSAGE = 612
John Betjeman, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY = 613
Sarah N. Cleghorn, THE GOLF LINKS = 615
Louise Gl$$\ddot u$$ck, GRATITUDE = 615
Thomas Hardy, THE WORKBOX = 616
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 617
Richard Lovelace, To LUCASTA = 617
Wilfred Owen, DULCE ET DECORUM EST = 617
Bettie Sellers, IN THE COUNSELOR'S WAITING ROOM = 618
Jonathan Swift, ON STELLA'S BIRTHDAY = 619
Jos$$\acute e$$ Emilio Pacheco, HIGH TREASON = 620
John Ciardi, IN PLACE OF A CURSE = 620
William Stafford, AT THE UN-NATIONAL MONUMENT ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER = 621
William Blake, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER = 621
15 WordS = 624
LITERAL MEANING : WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST = 624
William Carlos Williams, THIS IS JUST TO SAY = 625
Marianne Moore, SILENCE = 627
Henry Taylor, RIDING A ONE-EYED HORSE = 627
Robert Graves, DOWN, WANTON, DOWN! = 628
Peter Davison, THE LAST WORD = 629
John Donne, BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD, FOR YOU = 629
THE VALUE OF A DICTIONARY = 630
Richard Wilbur, IN THE ELEGY SEASON = 631
J. V. Cunningham, FRIEND, ON THIS SCAFFOLD THOMAS MORE LIES DEAD = 633
Nina Cassian, LIKE GULLIVER = 633
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, AFTERMATH = 633
James Wright, SAINT JUDAS = 634
John Clare, MOUSE'S NEST = 634
WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER = 635
Josephine Miles, REASON = 637
Emma Lee Warrior, HOW I CAME TO HAVE A MAN'S NAME = 640
Thomas Hardy, THE RUINED MAID = 641
Richard Eberhart, THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT = 642
Wendy Cope, LONELY HEARTS = 643
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 644
David B. Axelrod, ONCE IN A WHILE A PROTEST POEM = 644
Lewis Carroll, JABBERWOCKY = 644
Jonathan Holden, THE NAMES OF THE RAPIDS = 645
E. E. Cummings, ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN = 646
Anonymous, CARNATION MILK = 647
William Wordsworth, MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD = 648
William Wordsworth, MUTABILITY = 648
Anonymous, SCOTTSBORO = 648
16 Saying and Suggesting = 650
John Masefield, CARGOES = 651
William Blake, LONDON = 652
Wallace Stevens, DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK = 654
Gwendolyn Brooks, THE BEAN EATERS = 655
Richard Snyder, A MONGOLOID CHILD HANDLING SHELLS ON THE BEACH = 655
Timothy Steele, EPITAPH = 656
Geoffrey Hill, MERLIN = 656
Walter de la Mare, THE LISTENERS = 657
Robert Frost, FIRE AND ICE = 658
17 Imagery = 660
Ezra Pound, IN A STATION OF THE METRO = 660
Taniguchi Buson, THE PIERCING CHILL I FEEL = 660
T. S. Eliot, THE WINTER EVENING SETTLES DOWN = 662
Theodore Roethke, ROOT CELLAR = 662
Elizabeth Bishop, THE FISH = 663
Anne Stevenson, THE VICTORY = 665
John Haines, WINTER NEWS = 666
Emily Dickinson, A ROUTE OF EVANESCENCE = 666
Jean Toomer, REAPERS = 667
Gerard Manley Hopkins, PIED BEAUTY = 667
ABOUT HAIKU = 668
Taniguchi Buson, ON THE ONE-TON TEMPLE BELL = 668
Matsuo Basho, HEAT-LIGHTNING STREAK = 668
Richard Brautigan, HAIKU AMBULANCE = 669
Gary Snyder, Michael Stillman, Penny Harter, Nicholas A. Virgilio, Richard Wright, Hayden Carruth, Richard Wilbur, John Ridland, A SELECTION OF HAIKU = 670
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 670
John Keats, BRIGHT STAR! WOULD I WERE STEADFAST AS THOU ART = 670
Timothy Steele, SUMMER = 671
Walt Whitman, THE RUNNER = 671
T. E. Hulme, IMAGE = 672
William Carlos Williams, THE GREAT FIGURE = 672
Robert Bly, DRIVING TO TOWN LATE TO MAIL A LETTER = 672
Gary Snyder, MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT = 673
H. D., HEAT = 673
Philip Larkin, TOADS = 673
Emily Grosholz, LETTER FROM GERMANY = 674
Stevie Smith, NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING = 675
18 Figures o f Speech = 677
WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY? = 677
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, THE EAGLE = 677
William Shakespeare, SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY? = 678
Howard Moss, SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY? = 679
Jon Stallworthy, SINDHI WOMAN = 680
METAPHOR AND SIMILE = 680
Richard Wilbur, A SIMILE FOR HER SMILE = 682
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL = 682
William Blake, TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND = 683
Sylvia Plath, METAPHORS = 683
Emily Dickinson, IT DROPPED SO LOW - IN MY REGARD = 684
N. Scott Momaday, SIMILE = 684
Ruth Whitman, CASTOFF SKIN = 685
OTHER FIGURES = 686
James Stephens, THE WIND = 686
Chidiock Tichborne, ELEGY, WRITTEN WITH HIS OWN HAND IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION = 688
George Herbert, THE PULLEY = 690
Edmund Waller, ON A GIRDLE = 691
Theodore Roethke, I KNEW A WOMAN = 691
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 692
Robert Frost, THE SILKEN TENT = 692
Denise Levertov, LEAVING FOREVER = 693
Jane Kenyon, THE SUITOR = 693
Robert Frost, THE SECRET SITS = 694
Margaret Atwood, YOU FIT INTO ME = 694
W. S. Merwin, SONG OF MAN CHIPPING AN ARROWHEAD = 694
John Ashbery, THE CATHEDRAL IS = 694
Robinson Jeffers, HANDS = 695
Robert Burns, OH, MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ROSE = 695
19 Song = 697
SINGING AND SAYING = 697
Ben Jonson, TO CELIA = 698
Anonymous, THE CRUEL MOTHER = 699
Run D.M.C., FROM PETER PIPER = 701
William Shakespeare, TAKE, O, TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY = 702
Edwin Arlington Robinson, RICHARD CORY = 703
Paul Simon, RICHARD CORY = 704
BALLADS = 705
Anonymous, BONNY BARBARA ALLAN = 705
Dudley Randall, BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM = 709
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 710
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, ELEANOR RIGBY = 710
Anonymous, THE SILVER SWAN, WHO LIVING HAD NO NOTE = 711
William Blake, JERUSALEM = 712
20 Sound = 714
SOUND AS MEANING = 714
Alexander Pope, TRUE EASE IN WRITING COMES FROM ART, NOT CHANCE = 715
William Butler Yeats, WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? = 717
John Updike, RECITAL = 718
Frances Cornford, THE WATCH = 718
William Wordsworth, A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL = 719
Emanuel di Pasquale, RAIN = 719
Aphra Behn, WHEN MAIDENS ARE YOUNG = 719
ALLITERATION AND ASSONANCE = 719
A. E. Housman, EIGHT O'CLOCK = 721
Robert Herrick, UPON JULIA'S VOICE = 721
Janet Lewis, GIRL HELP = 722
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, THE SPLENDOR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS = 723
RIME = 723
William Cole, ON MY BOAT ON LAKE CAYUGA = 724
William Blake, THE ANGEL THAT PRESIDED O'ER MY BIRTH = 725
Hilaire Belloc, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS = 727
R. S. Gwynn, SCENES FROM THE PLAYROOM = 727
William Butler Yeats, LEDA AND THE SWAN = 728
Gerard Manley Hopkins, GOD's GRANDEUR = 729
Fred Chappell, NARCISSUS AND ECHO = 729
Robert Frost, DESERT PLACES = 730
READING AND HEARING POEMS ALOUD = 731
Michael Stillman, IN MEMORIAM JOHN COLTRANE = 733
William Shakespeare, FULL FATHOM FIVE THY FATHER LIES = 733
A. E. Housman, WITH RUE MY HEART IS LADEN = 734
T. S. Eliot, VIRGINIA = 734
21 Rhythm = 735
STRESSES AND PAUSES = 735
Gwendolyn Brooks, WE REAL COOL = 740
Robert Frost, NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME = 741
Ben Jonson, SLOW, SLOW, FRESH FOUNT, KEEP TIME WITH MY SALT TEARS = 741
Alexander Pope, ATTICUS = 742
Sir Thomas Wyatt, WITH SERVING STILL = 743
Dorothy Parker, R$$\acute E$$SUM$$\acute E$$ = 743
METER = 744
Max Beerbohm, ON THE IMPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM = 744
Thomas Campion, ROSE-CHEEKED LAURA, COME = 748
Walter Savage Landor, ON SEEING A HAIR OF LUCRETIA BORGIA = 749
Edna St. Vincent Millay, COUNTING-OUT RHYME = 751
A. E. Housman, WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY = 751
William Carlos Williams, THE DESCENT OF WINTER(SECTION 10/30) = 752
Walt Whitman, BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! = 752
Langston Hughes, DREAM BOOGIE = 753
22 Closed Form = 755
FORMAL PATTERNS = 756
John Keats, THIS LIVING HAND, NOW WARM AND CAPABLE = 757
John Donne, SONG("GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR") = 759
Ronald Gross, YIELD = 761
THE SONNET = 762
Michael Drayton, SINCE THERE'S NO HELP, COME LET US KISS AND PART = 763
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, GRIEF = 764
Thomas Carper, FACTS = 765
Robert Frost, ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT = 765
EPIGRAMS = 766
Alexander Pope, EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG = 766
Martial, Sir John Harrington, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Thom Gunn, Bruce Bennett, Hilaire Belloc, Wendy Cope, A SELECTION OF EPIGRAMS = 767
W. H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius J. Ter Maat, A SELECTION OF CLERIHEWS = 769
Keith Waldrop, PROPOSITION Ⅱ = 770
OTHER FORMS = 770
Dylan Thomas, DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT = 771
Leigh Hunt, RONDEAU = 771
Robert Bridges, TRIOLET = 772
Elizabeth Bishop, SESTINA = 772
23 Open Form = 775
Denise Levertov, SIX VARIATIONS(PART Ⅲ) = 775
E. E. Cummings, BUFFALO BILL'S = 779
Emily Dickinson, VICTORY COMES LATE = 780
William Carlos Williams, THE DANCE = 781
Stephen Crane, THE HEART = 782
Walt Whitman, CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD = 782
Wallace Stevens, THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD = 783
Gary Gildner, FIRST PRACTICE = 785
Carolyn Forch$$\acute e$$, THE COLONEL = 787
VISUAL POETRY = 787
George Herbert, EASTER WINGS = 788
John Hollander, SWAN AND SHADOW = 789
Dorthi Charles, CONCRETE CAT = 791
SEEING THE LOGIC OF OPEN FORM = 792
E. E. Cummings, IN JUST- = 792
Linda Pastan, JUMP CABLING = 793
A. R. Ammons, THE CITY LIMITS = 793
Carole Satyamurti, I SHALL PAINT MY NAILS RED = 794
Alice Fulton, WHAT I LIKE = 794
Charles Olson, LA CHUTE = 795
24 Symbol = 796
T. S. Eliot, THE Boston Evening Transcript = 797
Emily Dickinson, THE LIGHTNING IS A YELLOW FORK = 798
Thomas Hardy, NEUTRAL TONES = 800
Matthew 13 : 24-30, THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SEED = 801
George Herbert, REDEMPTION = 802
Emily Dickinson, I HEARD A FLY BUZZ - WHEN I DIED = 802
Robert Frost, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN = 803
Christina Rossetti, UPHILL = 804
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, SIGNS = 805
Hugo Williams, KITES = 805
William Carlos Williams, POEM ("AS THE CAT") = 806
Lorine Niedecker, POPCORN - CAN COVER = 806
Wallace Stevens, ANECDOTE OF THE JAR = 806
25 Myth and Narrative = 808
Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY = 810
D. H. Lawrence, BAVARIAN GENTIANS = 811
Thomas Hardy, THE OXEN = 812
William Wordsworth, THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US = 812
PERSONAL MYTH = 813
William Butler Yeats, THE SECOND COMING = 813
Dick Allen, NIGHT DRIVING = 815
Frances Cornford, ALL SOULS' NIGHT = 815
MYTH AND POPULAR CULTURE = 815
Charles Martin, TAKEN UP = 816
Edward Field, CURSE OF THE CAT WOMAN = 817
A. D. Hope, IMPERIAL ADAM = 819
Anne Sexton, CINDERELLA = 820
26 Poetry and Personal Identity = 824
Sylvia Plath, LADY LAZARUS = 825
Julia Alvarez, THE WOMEN ON MY MOTHER'S SIDE WERE KNOWN = 828
RACE AND ETHNICITY = 829
Claude McKay, AMERICA = 829
Langston Hughes, THEME FOR ENGLISH B = 831
Samuel Menashe, THE SHRINE WHOSE SHAPE I AM = 832
Francisco X. Alarc$$\acute o$$n, THE X IN MY NAME = 833
GENDER = 833
Anne Stevenson, SOUS ENTENDU = 834
Song of Songs 2 : 3-13, AS THE APPLE TREE AMONG THE TREES OF THE WOOD = 835
Yusef Komunyakaa, FACING IT = 836
Donald Justice, MEN AT FORTY = 837
Adrienne Rich, WOMEN = 838
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY = 838
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, To Li PO = 838
Alberto R$$\acute i$$os, SPRING IN THE ONLY PLACE SPRING WAS = 839
Andrew Hudgins, ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD = 840
Edna St. Vincent Millay, WELL, I HAVE LOST YOU ; AND I LOST YOU FAIRLY = 840
Philip Larkin, AUBADE = 841
27 Alternatives = 843
TRANSLATIONS = 843
Federico Garc$$\acute i$$a Lorca, LA GUITARRA(GUITAR) = 844
Horace, ODES Ⅰ(11) = 845
Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Michie, John Frederick Nims, TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE = 845
Omar Khayyam, RUBAI = 847
Edward FitzGerald, Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, Dick Davis, TRANSLATIONS FROM OMAR KHAYYAM = 847
PARODY = 849
Anonymous, WE FOUR LADS FROM LIVERPOOL ARE = 849
Wendy Cope, FROM "STRUGNELL'S Rubaiyat" = 849
Hugh Kingsmill, WHAT, STILL ALIVE AT TWENTY-TWO? = 850
Bruce Bennett, THE LADY SPEAKS AGAIN = 851
George Starbuck, MARGARET ARE YOU DRUG = 851
28 Evaluating a Poem = 853
TELLING GOOD FROM BAD = 853
Anonymous, O MOON, WHEN I GAZE ON THY BEAUTIFUL FACE = 855
Grace Treasone, LIFE = 856
Stephen Tropp, MY WIFE IS MY SHIRT = 856
Emily Dickinson, A DYING TIGER - MOANED FOR DRINK = 856
Rod McKuen, THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT = 859
William Stafford, TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK = 860
Julia A. Moore, LITTLE LIBBY = 861
Bill Knott, POEM = 862
Dabney Stuart, CRIB DEATH = 862
Michael Harper, REUBEN, REUBEN = 862
Ted Kooser, A CHILD'S GRAVE MARKER = 863
Wallace McRae, REINCARNATION = 863
KNOWING EXCELLENCE = 865
William Butler Yeats, SAILING TO BYZANTIUM = 866
Arthur Guiterman, ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS = 868
Percy Bysshe Shelley, OZYMANDIAS = 869
William Shakespeare, MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN = 869
Thomas Campion, THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE = 870
Walt Whitman, O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! = 871
Carl Sandburg, FOG = 872
Thomas Gray, ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD = 873
Emma Lazarus, THE NEW COLOSSUS = 878
Edgar Allan Poe, ANNABEL LEE = 879
29 What Is Poetry? = 881
Robert Francis, CATCH = 881
30 Poems for Further Reading = 885
Anonymous, EDWARD = 886
Anonymous, THE THREE RAVENS = 887
Anonymous, THE TWA CORBIES = 888
Anonymous, SUMER IS ICUMEN IN = 889
Anonymous, WESTERN WIND = 889
Anonymous, LAST WORDS OF THE PROPHET(NAVAJO MOUNTAIN CHANT) = 889
Matthew Arnold, DOVER BEACH = 890
John Ashbery, AT NORTH FARM = 891
Margaret Atwood, SIREN SONG = 891
W. H. Auden, AS I WALKED OUT ONE EVENING = 893
W. H. Auden, MUS$$\acute E$$E DES BEAUX ARTS = 895
R. L. Barth, THE INSERT = 896
Elizabeth Bishop, FILLING STATION = 896
Elizabeth Bishop, ONE ART = 897
William Blake, THE SICK ROSE = 899
William Blake, THE TYGER = 899
Louise Bogan, THE DREAM = 900
Emily Bront$$\ddot e$$, LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP = 900
Gwendolyn Brooks, THE RITES FOR COUSIN VIT = 901
Gwendolyn Brooks, A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE : SOUTHEAST CORNER = 902
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS = 902
Robert Browning, SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER = 902
Thomas Carew, ASK ME NO MORE WHERE JOVE BESTOWS = 904
Geoffrey Chaucer, YOUR $$\ddot Y$$EN TWO WOL SLEE ME SODENLY = 905
G. K. Chesterton, THE DONKEY = 906
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, KUBLA KHAN = 906
Emily Dickinson, BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH = 908
Emily Dickinson, I STARTED EARLY - TOOK MY DOG = 909
Emily Dickinson, MY LIFE HAD STOOL - A LOADED GUN = 910
John Donne, DEATH BE NOT PROUD = 910
John Donne, THE FLEA = 911
John Donne, A VALEDICTION : FORBIDDING MOURNING = 912
Rita Dove, DAYSTAR = 913
John Dryden, TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM = 914
T. S. Eliot, JOURNEY OF THE MAGI = 914
T. S. Eliot, THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK = 916
Louise Erdrich, INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL : THE RUNAWAYS = 920
Robert Frost, BIRCHES = 920
Robert Frost, MENDING WALL = 922
Robert Frost, STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING = 923
Allen Ginsberg, A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA = 923
Dana Gioia, CALIFORNIA HILLS IN AUGUST = 924
H. D., HELEN = 925
Donald Hall, NAMES OF HORSES = 926
Thomas Hardy, THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN = 927
Thomas Hardy, DURING WIND AND RAIN = 929
Thomas Hardy, HAP = 930
Thomas Hardy, IN CHURCH = 930
Robert Hayden, THE WHIPPING = 931
Robert Hayden, THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS = 932
James Hayford, DRY NOON = 932
Seamus Heaney, DIGGING = 933
Seamus Heaney, MOTHER OF THE GROOM = 933
Anthony Hecht, ADAM = 934
George Herbert, LOVE = 935
Robert Herrick, THE BAD SEASON MAKES THE POET SAD = 936
Robert Herrick, TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME = 937
Garrett Hongo, THE CADENCE OF SILK = 937
Gerard Manley Hopkins, SPRING AND FALL = 939
Gerard Manley Hopkins, THOU ART INDEED JUST, LORD, IF I CONTEND = 940
Gerard Manley Hopkins, THE WINDHOVER = 941
A. E. Housman, LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY NOW = 941
A. E. Housman, TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG = 942
Langston Hughes, DREAM DEFERRED = 943
Langston Hughes, THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS = 943
Randall Jarrell, THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER = 944
Robinson Jeffers, TO THE STONE-CUTTERS = 945
Elizabeth Jennings, I FEEL = 946
Ben Jonson, ON MY FIRST SON = 946
Donald Justice, ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD = 947
John Keats, ODE ON A GRECIAN URN = 947
John Keats, ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER = 948
John Keats, WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE = 949
John Keats, TO AUTUMN = 950
Philip Larkin, HOME IS SO SAD = 951
Philip Larkin, POETRY OF DEPARTURES = 952
Irving Layton, THE BULL CALF = 953
Philip Levine, ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES = 954
Stephen Shu-ning Liu, MY FATHER'S MARTIAL ART = 954
Robert Lowell, SKUNK HOUR = 955
Archibald MacLeish, THE END OF THE WORLD = 956
Andrew Marvell, TO HIS COY MISTRESS = 957
David Mason, DISCLOSURE = 958
George Meredith, LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT = 959
James Merrill, CHARLES ON FIRE = 959
Charlotte Mew, THE FARMER'S BRIDE = 960
Edna St. Vincent Millay, RECUERDO = 961
John Milton, LYCIDAS = 962
John Milton, WHEN I CONSIDER HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT = 968
Marianne Moore, THE MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING = 968
Frederick Morgan, THE MASTER = 970
Howard Nemerov, THE SNOW GLOBE = 970
Lorine Niedecker, SORROW MOVES IN WIDE WAVES = 971
Sharon Olds, THE ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY = 972
Wilfred Owen, ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH = 972
Linda Pastan, ETHICS = 973
Octavio Paz, WITH OUR EYES SHUT = 974
Robert Phillips, RUNNING ON EMPTY = 974
Sylvia Plath, DADDY = 975
Edgar Allan Poe, To HELEN = 978
Alexander Pope, A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANG'ROUS THING = 978
Ezra Pound, THE GARRET = 979
Ezra Pound, THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE : A LETTER = 980
Dudley Randall, OLD WITHERINGTON = 981
John Crowe Ransom, BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER = 982
Henry Reed, NAMING OF PARTS = 982
Alastair Reid, SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE = 983
Adrienne Rich, AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS = 984
Adrienne Rich, PEELING ONIONS = 985
Adrienne Rich, POWER = 985
Edwin Arlington Robinson, MINIVER CHEEVY = 986
Theodore Roethke, ELEGY FOR JANE = 987
Mary Jo Satter, WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA = 988
William Shakespeare, NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS = 990
William Shakespeare, THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD = 991
William Shakespeare, WHEN, IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES = 991
William Shakespeare, WHEN DAISIES PIED AND VIOLET BLUE = 991
William Shakespeare, WHEN ICICLES HANG BY THE WALL = 992
Karl Shapiro, THE DIRTY WORD = 993
Charles Simic, BUTCHER SHOP = 993
David R. Slavitt, TITANIC = 994
Christopher Smart, FOR I WILL CONSIDER MY CAT JEOFFRY = 994
William Jay Smith, AMERICAN PRIMITIVE = 997
W. D. Snodgrass, DISPOSAL = 997
William Stafford, AT THE KLAMATH BERRY FESTIVAL = 998
Wallace Stevens, PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER = 998
Wallace Stevens, THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM = 1000
Ruth Stone, SECOND HAND COAT = 1001
Jonathan Swift, A DESCRIPTION OF THE MORNING = 1002
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, DARK HOUSE, BY WHICH ONCE MORE I STAND = 1002
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ULYSSES = 1003
Dylan Thomas, FERN HILL = 1005
John Updike, EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER = 1006
Amy Uyematsu, RED ROOSTER, YELLOW SKY = 1007
Mona Van Duyn, EARTH TREMORS FELT IN MISSOURI = 1008
Derek Walcott, THE VIRGINS = 1008
Edmund Waller, Go, LOVELY ROSE = 1009
Walt Whitman, A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER = 1010
Walt Whitman, I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING = 1010
Richard Wilbur, TRANSIT = 1011
Richard Wilbur, THE WRITER = 1012
Miller Williams, THINKING ABOUT BILL, DEAD OF AIDS = 1013
William Carlos Williams, SPRING AND ALL = 1014
William Carlos Williams, TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY = 1015
Yvor Winters, AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT = 1016
William Wordsworth, COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE = 1016
James Wright, A BLESSING = 1017
James Wright, AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO = 1018
Sir Thomas Wyatt, THEY FLEE FROM ME THAT SOMETIME DID ME SEK$$\ddot E$$ = 1019
William Butter Yeats, CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP = 1019
William Butler Yeats, LONG-LEGGED FLY = 1020
William Butler Yeats, THE MAGI = 1021
William Butler Yeats, WHEN YOU ARE OLD = 1022
31 Criticism : On Poetry = 1023
Plato, INSPIRATION = 1025
Aristotle, Two CAUSES OF POETRY = 1026
Samuel Johnson, THE BUSINESS OF A POET = 1027
William Wordsworth, EMOTION RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILLITY = 1027
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, IMAGINATION = 1028
Percy Bysshe Shelley, UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATORS = 1029
Ralph Waldo Emerson, METER-MAKING ARGUMENT = 1029
Edgar Allan Poe, A LONG POEM DOES NOT EXIST = 1030
Emily Dickinson, RECOGNIZING ROETRY = 1030
Robert Frost, THE SOUND OF SENSE = 1030
William Carlos Williams, THE RHYTHM PERSISTS = 1032
Ezra Pound, POETRY AND MUSIC = 1032
T. S. Eliot, EMOTION AND PERSONALITY = 1032
Adrienne Rich, FEMINIST RE-VISION = 1033
Octavio Paz, EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND THE LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS = 1034
32 Lives of the Poets = 1035
DRAMA = 1061
33 Reading a Play = 1063
A PLAY IN ITS ELEMENTS = 1065
Susan GLaspell, TRIFLES = 1066
TRAGEDY AND COMEDY = 1081
John Millington Synge, RIDERS TO THE SEA = 1083
Garrison Keillor, THE PRODIGAL SON = 1095
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1101
34 The Theater o f Sophocles = 1102
Sophocles, OEDIPUS THE KING(TRANSLATED BY DUDLEY FITTS AND ROBERT FITZGERALD) = 1105
ARISTOTLE'S CONCEPT OF TRAGEDY = 1147
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1149
35 The Theater of Shakespeare = 1150
William Shakespeare, THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE = 1153
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1254
36 The Modern Theater = 1255
Henrik Ibsen, A DOLL's HOUSE = 1258
TRAGICOMEDY AND THE ABSURD = 1315
Edward Albee, THE SANDBOX = 1318
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1323
37 Evaluating a Play = 1324
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1326
38 Plays for Further Reading = 1327
Sophocles, ANTIGON$$\hat E$$(TRANSLATED BY DUDLEY FITTS AND ROBERT FITZGERALD) = 1328
William Shakespeare, THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK = 1359
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN = 1476
Tennessee Williams, THE GLASS MENAGERIE = 1548
39 New Voices in American Drama = 1598
Beth Henley, CRIMES OF THE HEART = 1598
David Henry Hwang, THE SOUND OF A VOICE = 1647
Terrence McNally, ANDRE'S MOTHER = 1662
August Wilson, JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE = 1665
40 Criticism : On Drama = 1715
Aristotle, TRAGEDY = 1715
E. R. Dodds, SOPHOCLES AND DIVINE JUSTICE = 1717
Thomas Rymer, THE FAULTS OF OTHELLO = 1717
W. H. Auden, IAGO AS A TRIUMPHANT VILLAIN = 1718
Samuel Johnson, "SHAKESPEARE HAS NO HEROES" = 1719
Anthony Burgess, AN ASIAN CULTURE LOOKS AT SHAKESPEARE = 1720
Bernard Shaw, IBSEN AND THE FAMILIAR SITUATION = 1721
Virginia Woolf, WHAT IF SHAKESPEARE HAD HAD A SISTER? = 1722
Edward Albee, THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD = 1723
Tennessee Williams, HOW TO STAGE THE GLASS MENAGERIE = 1724
Arthur Miller, TRAGEDY AND THE COMMON MAN = 1726
Maria Irene Fornes, CHARACTERS ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE = 1729
August Wilson, BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA = 1729
David Henry Hwang, MULTICULTURAL THEATER = 1730
SUPPLEMENT : WRITING = 1733
1. Writing about Literature = 1735
BEGINNING = 1735
DISCOVERING AND PLANNING = 1737
DRAFTING AND REVISING = 1739
THE FORM OF YOUR FINISHED PAPER = 1742
DOCUMENTING YOUR SOURCES = 1743
Robert Wallace, THE GIRL WRITING HER ENGLISH PAPER = 1746
2. Writing about a Story = 1747
EXPLICATING = 1747
ANALYZING = 1750
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING = 1756
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1757
3. Writing about a Poem = 1761
EXPLICATING = 1762
Robert Frost, DESIGN = 1763
ANALYZING = 1767
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING = 1770
Abbie Huston Evans, WING-SPREAD = 1771
HOW TO QUOTE A POEM = 1773
BEFORE YOU BEGIN = 1775
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1776
4. Writing about a Play = 1780
METHODS = 1780
WRITING A CARD REPORT = 1782
REVIEWING A PLAY = 1785
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING = 1787
5. Critical Approaches to Literature = 1790
FORMALIST CRITICISM = 1791
Cleanth Brooks, THE FORMALIST CRITIC = 1792
Robert Langbaum, ON ROBERT BROWNING'S "MY LAST DUCHESS" = 1793
BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM = 1795
Leslie Fiedler, THE RELATIONSHIP OF POET AND POEM = 1796
Brett C. Millier, ON ELIZABETH BISHOP'S "ONE ART" = 1797
HISTORICAL CRITICISM = 1798
Hugh Kenner, IMAGISM = 1799
Daryl Pinckney, ON LANGSTON HUGHES = 1801
GENDER CRITICISM = 1802
Elaine Showalter, TOWARD A FEMINIST POETICS = 1802
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, THE FREEDOM OF EMILY DICKINSON = 1803
PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM = 1804
Sigmund Freud, THE DESTINY OF OEDIPUS = 1805
Harold Bloom, POETIC INFLUENCE = 1806
SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM = 1807
Georg Lukacs, CONTENT DETERMINES FORM = 1808
Terry Eagleton, ART AS PRODUCTION = 1808
MYTHOLOGICAL CRITICISM = 1809
Northrop Frye, MYTHIC ARCHETYPES = 1810
Maud Bodkin, LUCIFER IN SHAKESPEARE'S Othello = 1811
READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM = 1811
Stanley Fish, AN ESKIMO "A ROSE FOR EMILY" = 1812
Robert Scholes, "HOW DO WE MAKE A POEM?" = 1813
DECONSTRUCTIONIST CRITICISM = 1815
Roland Barthes, THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR = 1816
Geoffrey Hartman, ON WORDSWORTH'S "A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL" = 1817
Acknowledgments = 1819
Index to Authors and Titles = 1831
Index to Terms = 1852