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This title in other editionsLiterature : Introduction To Fiction, Poetry, and Drama - Text Only (10TH 07 - Old Edition)by X. J. Kennedy
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Publisher Comments:Literature, Interactive Edition comes automatically with MyLiteratureLab, Longman's multimedia website. MyLiteratureLab icons are found in the margins of the text along with a list of media assets at the front of the anthology. The material is presented in a newly revised, easier to study format and inlcudes MLA’s latest guidelines. Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, current U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students an insider’s look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. A Latin American Writers casebook is new to Fiction and collects some of the finest authors from the region including Octavia Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Ines Arendondo. A casebook on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is now featured as part of the Three Stories In-depth chapter. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mahfouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. As always, editors X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to the Eleventh Edition of this comprehensive anthology.
Synopsis:The material is presented in a newly revised, easier to study format and inlcudes MLA’s latest guidelines. Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, current U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students an insider’s look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. A Latin American Writers casebook is new to Fiction and collects some of the finest authors from the region including Octavia Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Ines Arendondo. A casebook on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is now featured as part of the Three Stories In-depth chapter. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mahfouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. As always, editors X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to the Eleventh Edition of this comprehensive anthology. Synopsis:The most popular introductory anthology of its kind, Kennedy/Gioia’s Literature continues to inspire students with engaging insights on reading and writing about stories, poems, and plays.
Poets in their own right, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to this comprehensive anthology. Organized into three genres—Literature, Tenth Edition, presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, supported by useful writing tips, and followed by (now) seven full chapters devoted to writing. A broad scope of traditional and contemporary works is provided, most headed by author images and richly detailed biographical notes and some followed by author commentary. While maintaining the characteristics of its previous editions–accessible apparatus, expansive author representation–this tenth edition of Literature has been re-imagined to include new casebooks, a lively new design, and more writing coverage than ever before. About the AuthorX. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (“Actually, I was pretty eighth class”). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.
Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. ("Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry's place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.
He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.
Table of ContentsFICTION
1. READING A STORY Fable, Parable, and Tales W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra * Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun Bidpai, The Camel and His Friends Chuang Tzu, Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death Plot The Short Story John Updike, A & P Writers on Writing: John Updike, Why Write?
2. POINT OF VIEW William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily * Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues * Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Writers on Writing: James Baldwin, Race and the African American Writer
3. CHARACTER Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill * Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother Raymond Carver, Cathedral Writers on Writing: Raymond Carver, Commonplace but Precise Language
4. SETTING Kate Chopin, The Storm Jack London, To Build a Fire T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets Writers on Writing: Amy Tan, Setting the Voice
5. TONE AND STYLE Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place William Faulkner, Barn Burning Irony * O. Henry, Gift of the Magi Ha Jin, Saboteur Writers on Writing: Ernest Hemingway, The Direct Style
6. THEME Stephen Crane, The Open Boat * Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron Writers on Writing: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Themes of Science Fiction
7. SYMBOL John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Elizabeth Tallent, No One’s a Mystery Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas *Writers on Writing: Shirley Jackson, Reactions to "The Lottery"
8. EVALUATING A STORY * Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers WRITING EFFECTIVELY * Writers on Writing: Yiyun Li, “What I Could Not Write about Was Why I Was Writing”
9. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Writers on Writing: Franz Kafka, Discussing The Metamorphosis
10. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: FLANNERY O'CONNOR Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, Revelation * Flannery O'Connor, Parker’s Back Flannery O'Connor on Writing Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “On Her Own Work”: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O'Connor, On Her Catholic Faith Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader Flannery O'Connor, Yearbook Cartoons Critics on Flannery O'Connor Robert Brinkmeyer Jr., Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not so Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" * Kathleen Feeley, The Mystery of Divine Direction: “Parker’s Back”
11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: 3 Stories in Depth Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe on Writing Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition Critics on “The Tell-Tale Heart” Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” * Scott Peeples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a Love Story * John Chua, The Figure of the Double in Poe Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Whatever Is * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Nervous Breakdown of Women Critics on “Yellow Wallpaper” Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” * Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement * Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Alice Walker, Everyday Use Alice Walker on Writing * Black Women Writers in America, Interview by John O’Brien * Alice Walker: “I Know What the Earth Says, ” Interview by William R. Ferris Critics on “Everyday Use” Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” and the Black Power Movement * Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use” * Elaine Showalter, Quilt as Metaphor in “Everyday Use”
12. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark Willa Cather, Paul's Case John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street. Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World * Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the BrightSide Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper James Joyce, Araby Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing * Octavio Paz, My Life with the Wave Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds * Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
POETRY 13. READING A POEM William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Piano Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost, “Out, Out—” Dramatic Poetry Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Writers on Writing: Adrienne Rich, Recalling "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" William Stafford, Ask Me William Stafford, A Paraphrase of "Ask Me"
14. LISTENING TO A VOICE Tone Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles Benjamin Alire Sáenz, To the Desert Weldon Kees, For My Daughter The Person in the Poem Natasha Trethewey, White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting * Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry James Stephens, A Glass of Beer Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley, Oh No W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links * Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig * Joseph Stroud, Missing Thomas Hardy, The Workbox For Review and Further Study William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper * David Lehman, Rejection Slip William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border H. L. Hix, I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Writers on Writing: Wilfred Owen, War Poetry Student Essay, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
15. WORDS Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Marianne Moore, Silence Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down! John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You The Value of a Dictionary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath John Clare, Mouse’s Nest J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Kelly Cherry, Advice to a Friend Who Paints Carl Sandburg, Grass Word Choice and Word Order Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Kay Ryan, Blandeur Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town Billy Collins, The Names Anonymous, Carnation Milk * Kenneth Rexroth, Vitamins and Roughage * Gina Valdes, English con Salsa Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Writers on Writing: Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates "Jabberwocky"
16. SAYING AND SUGGESTING John Masefield, Cargoes William Blake, London Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock * Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner Timothy Steele, Epitaph * E. E. Cummings, next to of course to god america i Robert Frost, Fire and Ice Clare Rossini, Final Love Note * Jennifer Reeser, Winter-proof Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Writers on Writing: Richard Wilbur, Concerning "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
17. IMAGERY Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Anne Stevenson, The Victory Charles Simic, Fork Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence Jean Toomer, Reapers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty About Haiku Arakida Moritake, The falling flower Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell Taniguchi Buson, I go Kobayashi Issa, only one guy Kobayashi Issa, Cricket Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain Neiji Ozawa, War forced us from California Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs Contemporary American Haiku Etheridge Knight, Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, John Ridland, * Garry Gay, Adelle Foley, Jennifer Brutschy, Connie Bensley, A Selection of Haiku For Review and Further Study John Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art T. C. Hulme, The Image Walt Whitman, The Runner * William Carlos Williams, El Hombre Chana Bloch, Tired Sex Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter * Rita Dove, Silos Louise Glück, Mock Orange Billy Collins, Embrace John Haines, Winter News Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning Writers on Writing: Ezra Pound, The Image Student Essay, Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in "The Fish"
18. FIGURES OF SPEECH Why Speak Figuratively? Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? Metaphor and Simile Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand Sylvia Plath, Metaphors N. Scott Momaday, Simile Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low – in my Regard Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Other Figures James Stephens, The Wind Margaret Atwood, You fit into me John Ashbery, The Cathedral Is George Herbert, The Pulley * Dana Gioia, Money * Charles Simic, My Shoes For Review and Further Study Robert Frost, The Silken Tent * April Lindner, Low Tide Jane Kenyon, The Suitor Robert Frost, The Secret Sits A. R. Ammons, Coward Kay Ryan, Turtle * Heather McHugh, Language Lesson, 1976 Robinson Jeffers, Hands Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose Writers on Writing: Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
19. SONG Singing and Saying Ben Jonson, To Celia Anonymous, The Cruel Mother * William Shakespeare, O Mistress Mine Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory Paul Simon, Richard Cory Ballads Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham Blues Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues Rap Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper For Review and Further Study John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin' * Aimee Mann, Deathly Writers on Writing: Paul McCartney, Creating "Eleanor Rigby"
20. SOUND Sound as Meaning Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus? John Updike, Recital William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain Aphra Behn, When Maidens Are Young Alliteration and Assonance A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock * James Joyce, All Day I Hear Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls Rime William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga James Reeves, Rough Weather Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus * Ogden Nash, The Panther William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur Fred Chappell, Narcissus and Echo Robert Frost, Desert Places Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies Chryss Yost, Lai with Sounds of Skin T. S. Eliot, Virginia Writers on Writing: T. S. Eliot, The Music of Poetry
21. RHYTHM Stresses and Pauses Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break Ben Jonson, Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears Sir Thomas Wyatt, With serving still Dorothy Parker, Résumé Meter Max Beerbohm, On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm Thomas Campion, Rose-cheeked Laura, come Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme * Jacqueline Osherow, Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty * William Carlos Williams, Smell! Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums! David Mason, Song of the Powers Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie Writers on Writing: Gwendolyn Brooks, Hearing "We Real Cool"
22. CLOSED FORM Formal Patterns John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable Robert Graves, Counting the Beats John Donne, Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) Phillis Levin, Brief Bio The Sonnet William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds Michael Drayton, Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You * Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: Hands Folded Timothy Steele, Summer A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non * R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet The Epigram Alexander Pope, Sir John Harrington, Robert Herrick, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Brad Leithauser, Dick Davis, Anonymous, Hilaire Belloc, Wendy Cope, A selection of epigrams W. H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius Ter Maat, Clerihews Other Forms Robert Pinsky, ABC Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Robert Bridges, Triolet Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina *Writers on Writing: A. E. Stallings, On Form and Artifice
23. OPEN FORM Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill ’s W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death William Carlos Williams, The Dance Stephen Crane, The Heart Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford * Ezra Pound, Salutation Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Prose Poetry Carolyn Forché, The Colonel * Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness Visual Poetry George Herbert, Easter Wings John Hollander, Swan and Shadow Terry Ehret, from Papyrus Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat Found Poetry Ronald Gross, Yield Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse E. E. Cummings, in Just- Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red * Alice Fulton, Failure Writers on Writing: Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future
24. SYMBOL T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed George Herbert, The World * Edwin Markham, Outwitted * John Ciardi, A Box Comes Home Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Christina Rossetti, Uphill * Christian Wiman, Postolka For Review and Further Study William Carlos Williams, The Term Ted Kooser, Carrie * Jane Hirshfield, Tree Jon Stallworthy, An Evening Walk Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar Writers on Writing: William Butler Yeats, Poetic Symbols
25. MYTH Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay D. H. Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us H. D., Helen Archetype Louise Bogan, Medusa * John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci Personal Myth William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming * Gregory Orr, Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle School Myth and Popular Culture Charles Martin, Taken Up * Andrea Hollander Budy, Snow White Anne Sexton, Cinderella Writers on Writing: Anne Sexton, Transforming Fairy Tales Student Essay, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s "Helen"
26. POETRY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual / Bilingüe Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Claude McKay, America Samuel Menashe, The Shrine Whose Shape I Am Francisco X. Alarcón, The X in My Name * Amy Uyematsu, Deliberate Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceañera Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It Gender Anne Stevenson, Sous-Entendu Emily Grosholz, Listening Donald Justice, Men at Forty Adrienne Rich, Women For Review and Further Study Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to love America Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead Alastair Reid, Speaking a Foreign Language Philip Larkin, Aubade Writers on Writing: Rhina Espaillat, Being a Bilingual Writer
27. TRANSLATION Is Poetic Translation Possible? World Poetry Li Po, Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese text) Li Po, Moon-beneath Alone Drink (literal translation) Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley, Drinking Alone by Moonlight Comparing Translations Horace, “Carpe Diem” Ode (Latin text) Horace, “Carpe Diem” Ode (literal translation) Horace, translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Horace to Leuconoe Horace, translated by James Michie, Don’t Ask Horace, translated by A. E. Stallings, A New Year’s Toast Omar Khayyam, Rubai (Persian text) Omar Khayyam, Rubai (literal translation) Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, A Book of Verses underneath the Bough Omar Khayyam, translated by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, Our Day’s Portion Omar Khayyam, translated by Dick Davis, I Need a Bare Sufficiency Parody Anonymous, We four lads from Liverpool are Wendy Cope, From Strugnell’s Rubaiyat Hugh Kingsmill, What, still alive at twenty-two? Bruce Bennett, The Lady Speaks Again Gene Fehler, If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla Writers on Writing: Arthur Waley, The Method of Translation
28. Poetry in Spanish: Literature of Latin America Sor Juana Asegura la Confianza de que Oculturá de todo un Secreto Translated by Diane Thiel, She Promises to Hold a Secret in Confidence Presente en que el Cariño Hace Regalo la Llaneza Translated by Diane Thiel, A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection Pablo Neruda Muchos Somos Translated by Alastair Reid, We Are Many Cien Sonetos de Amor (V) Translated by Stephen Tapscott, One Hundred Love Sonnets (V) Jorge Luis Borges Amorosa Anticipación Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Anticipation of Love Los Engimas Translated by John Updike, The Enigmas Octavio Paz Con los Ojos Cerrados Translated by Eliot Weinberger, With Our Eyes Shut Certeza Translated by Charles Tomlinson, Certainty Surrealism in Latin American Poetry Frida Kahlo, Two Friedas César Vallejo, La Cólera que Quiebra al Hombre en Niños César Vallejo, translated by Thomas Merton, Anger Contemporary Mexican Poets José Emilio Pacheco, Alta Traición José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Alastair Reid, High Treason * Francisco Hernández, Bajo Cero * Francisco Hernández, translated by Carolyn Forché, Below Zero * Tedi López Mills, Convalecencia * Tedi López Mills, Convalescence Writers on Writing Octavio Paz, In Search of the Present Writers on Translating: Alastair Reid, Translating Neruda
29. RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE Anonymous, O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face Grace Treasone, Life Emily Dickinson, A Dying Tiger – moaned for Drink Rod McKuen, Thoughts on Capital Punishment William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark Wallace McRae, Reincarnation Recognizing Excellence William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Robert Hayden, The Whipping Elizabeth Bishop, One Art W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939 Evaluating Famous Poems Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus * Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Writers on Writing: Edgar Allan Poe, A Long Poem Does Not Exist
30. WHAT IS POETRY? Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica Dante, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. V. Cunningham, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Bly, Some Definitions of Poetry Ha Jin, Missed Time
31. TWO CRITICAL CASEBOOKS: EMILY DICKINSON AND LANGSTON HUGHES Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest * I taste a liquor never brewed Wild Nights – Wild Nights! I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain I'm Nobody! Who are you? * I Dwell in Possibility The Soul selects her own Society Some keep the Sabbath going to Church After great pain, a formal feeling comes This is my letter to the World I heard a Fly buzz – when I died I started Early – Took my Dog Because I could not stop for Death The Bustle in a House Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, Recognizing Poetry Emily Dickinson, Self-Description Critics on Emily Dickinson Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Meeting Emily Dickinson Thomas H. Johnson, The Discovery of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts Richard Wilbur, The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Dickinson and Death (A Reading of “Because I could not stop for Death”) Judith Farr, A Reading of “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Mother to Son Dream Variations I, Too The Weary Blues Song for a Dark Girl Prayer End * Ku Klux Ballad of the Landlord Theme for English B Subway Rush Hour Sliver * As Befits a Man Harlem [Dream Deferred] Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain Langston Hughes, The Harlem Renaissance Critics on Langston Hughes Arnold Rampersad, Hughes as an Experimentalist Rita Dove and Marilyn Nelson, Langston Hughes and Harlem Darryl Pinckney, Black Identity in Langston Hughes Peter Townsend, Langston Hughes and Jazz Onwuchekwa Jemie, A Reading of "Dream Deferred"
32. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: T. S. ELIOT’S “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK” T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Publishing “Prufrock” * Ezra Pound, Letters to Harriet Monroe on “Prufrock” The Reviewers on Prufrock and Other Observations: 1917-1918 * Unsigned, Review from Times Literary Supplement * Unsigned, Review from Literary World * Unsigned, Review from New Statesman * Conrad Aiken, Divers Realists * Babette Deutsch, Another Impressionist * Marianne Moore, A Note on T. S. Eliot’s Book * May Sinclair, Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism T. S. Eliot on Writing * T. S. Eliot, Poetry and Emotion * T. S. Eliot, The Objective Correlative * T. S. Eliot, The Difficulty of Poetry Critics on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” * Christopher Ricks, What’s in a Name? * Philip R. Headings, The Pronouns in the Poem: “One,” “You,” and “I” * Maud Ellmann, Will There Be Time? * Denis Donoghue, One of the Irrefutable Poets * Burton Raffel, “Indeterminacy” in Eliot’s Poetry * John Berryman, Prufrock’s Dilemma * M. L. Rosenthal, from “Adolescents Singing
33. POEMS FOR FURTHER READING Anonymous, Lord Randall Anonymous, The Three Ravens Anonymous, The Twa Corbies Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet (Navajo Mountain Chant) Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach John Ashbery, At North Farm * Margaret Atwood, Siren Song W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station William Blake, The Tyger William Blake, The Sick Rose Eavan Boland, Anorexic Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks, the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty G. K. Chesterton, The Donkey Lucille Clifton, Homage to my hips Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Billy Collins, Care and Feeding Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond * Marisa de los Santos, Perfect Dress John Donne, Death be not proud John Donne, The Flea John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways B. H. Fairchild, A Starlit Night Robert Frost, Birches Robert Frost, Mending Wall Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats Donald Hall, Names of Horses Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy, Hap Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Seamus Heaney, Digging Anthony Hecht, Adam George Herbert, Love Robert Herrick, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers, To the Stone-cutters Ben Jonson, On My First Son * Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats, To Autumn * Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures Irving Layton, The Bull Calf * Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion * Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Riding into California Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo John Milton, How soon hath time John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent Marianne Moore, Poetry Frederick Morgan, The Master Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air * Lorine Niedecker, Poet’s Work Yone Noguchi, A Selection of Hokku Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys’ Party Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Linda Pastan, Ethics Robert Phillips, Running on Empty Sylvia Plath, Daddy Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a Dream Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter Dudley Randall, A Different Image John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane Mary Jo Salter, Welcome to Hiroshima William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Louis Simpson, American Poetry David R. Slavitt, Titanic Christopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry William Jay Smith, American Primitive Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning * Larissa Szporluk, Vertigo Sara Teasdale, The Flight Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dark house, by which once more I stand Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player Derek Walcott, The Virgins Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose * Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing Richard Wilbur, The Writer C. K. Williams, Elms William Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old Lady William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge James Wright, A Blessing James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Mary Sidney Wroth, In This Strange Labyrinth Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometime did me sekë William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop William Butler Yeats, The Magi William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old * Bernice Zamora, Penitents
34. LIVES OF THE POETS DRAMA 35. READING A PLAY A Play in Its Elements Susan Glaspell, Trifles Writers on Writing: Susan Glaspell, Creating Trifles Student Essay, Outside Trifles
36. MODES OF DRAMA: TRAGEDY & COMEDY Tragedy * Christopher Marlowe, A Scene from Doctor Faustus (in which Faustus sells his soul to the devil; Act 2, Scene 1) Comedy David Ives, Sure Thing Jane Martin, Beauty *Writers on Writing: David Ives, On the One-Act Play
37. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: SOPHOCLES The Theater of Sophocles Staging The Civic Role of Greek Drama Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy The Origins of Oedipus the King Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) The Background of Antigonê Sophocles, Antigonê (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) Critics on Sophocles Aristotle, Defining Tragedy Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex E. R. Dodds, On Misunderstanding Oedipus A. E. Haigh, The Irony of Sophocles * David Wiles, The Chorus as Democrat Patricia M. Line, Antigonê's Flaw Writers on Writing : Robert Fitzgerald, Translating Sophocles into English
38. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: SHAKESPEARE The Theater of Shakespeare WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Plays A Note on Othello William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice The Background of Hamlet William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Critics on Shakespeare A. C. Bradley, Hamlet's Character Rebecca West, Hamlet and Ophelia Jan Kott, Producing Hamlet Joel Wingard, Reader-Response Issues in Hamlet W. H. Auden, Iago as a Triumphant Villain Maud Bodkin, Lucifer on Shakespeare's Othello Virginia Mason Vaughan, Black and White in Othello Anthony Burgess, An Asian Culture Looks at Shakespeare * Claire Asquith, Shakespeare’s Language as a Hidden Political Code Germaine Greer, Shakespeare’s “Honest Mirth” Linda Bamber, Female Power in A Midsummer Night's Dream Writers on Writing: Ben Jonson, On His Friend And Rival William Shakespeare Student Essay, Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera?
39. THE MODERN THEATER Realism and Naturalism Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (Translated by James McFarlane) Writers on Writing * Henrik Ibsen, Correspondence on the Final Scene of A Doll’s House Tragicomedy and the Absurd Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer Writers on Writing: Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Writing The Cuban Swimmer Student Essay, Helmer vs. Helmer
40. EVALUATING A PLAY Writing an Evaluation of a Play Judging a Play’s Greatness Checklist: Evaluating a Play Writing Assignment on Evaluation
41. PLAYS FOR FURTHER READING Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Writers on Writing Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Writers on Writing: Tennessee Williams, How to Stage The Glass Menagerie
42. NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN DRAMA * Rita Dove, The Darker Face of the Earth Writers on Writing * Rita Dove, The Inspiration for The Darker Face of the Earth Beth Henley, Am I Blue? Writers on Writing Beth Henley,What’s in a Title? David Henry Hwang, The Sound of a Voice Writers on Writing: David Henry Hwang, Multicultural Theater Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother Writers on Writing: Terrence McNally, How to Write a Play * August Wilson, Fences * Writers on Writing: August Wilson, A Look into Black America
* WRITING (ALL NEWLY REVISED) 43. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Start by Reading Actively Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Planning Your Essay Prewriting: Discovering Ideas -Brainstorming -Clustering -Listing -Freewriting -Journaling -Outlining Developing a Literary Argument -Purpose -Audience -Topic -Thesis -Argument -Organization -Checklist: Developing an Argument Writing a Rough Draft Sample Student Essay, Rough Draft Revising Checklist: Revision Steps Some General Advice on Rewriting Sample Student Essay, Final Draft Using Critical Sources and Maintaining Academic Integrity The Form of your Finished Paper Spell-Check and Grammar-Check Programs Anonymous (after a poem by Jerrold H. Zar), A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers
44. WRITING ABOUT A STORY Start with Active Reading Thinking About the Text Preparing to Write: Discovering Ideas Writing a First Draft CHECKLIST: WRITING A ROUGH DRAFT Revising CHECKLIST: REVISION What’s Your Purpose? Some Common Approaches to Writing About Fiction Explication Sample Student Essay (Explication) Analysis Sample Student Essay (Analysis) The Card Report Sample Student Card Report Comparison and Contrast Sample Student Essay (Comparison and Contrast)
45. WRITING ABOUT A POEM Getting Started Reading Actively Robert Frost, Design Thinking About a Poem Preparing to Write Writing a First Draft CHECKLIST: WRITING A ROUGH DRAFT Revising CHECKLIST: REVISION Some Common Approaches to Writing About Poetry Explication Sample Student Essay (Explication) Randall Jarrell, On Frost’s “Design” Analysis Sample Student Essay (Analysis) Comparison and Contrast Abbie Huston Evans, Wing-Spread Sample Student Essay (Comparison and Contrast) How to Quote a Poem Robert Frost, In White
46. WRITING ABOUT A PLAY Reading a Play Some Methods of Writing About Drama Explication Analysis Comparison and Contrast Card Report Sample Student Card Report A Review Sample Student Drama Review How to Quote a Play
47. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER Getting Started Choosing a Topic Finding Research Sources Finding Print Resources Using Online Databases Using Visual Images CHECKLIST: USING VISUAL IMAGES Finding Reliable Web Sources CHECKLIST: FINDING SOURCES Evaluating Sources Print Resources Choose Web Sources Carefully CHECKLIST: EVALUATING SOURCES Organizing Your Research Refining Your Thesis Organizing Your Paper Writing and Revising Guarding Academic Integrity Papers for Sale Are Papers that “F”ail A Warning Against Internet Plagiarism Acknowledging Sources Quoting a Source Citing Ideas Documenting Sources Using MLA Style List of Sources Parenthetical References Works Cited List Citing Print Sources in MLA Style Citing Internet Sources in MLA Style Sample Works Cited List Endnotes and Footnotes Sample Student Research Paper - Page xxxx Concluding Thoughts Reference Guide for Citations
48. WRITING AS DISCOVERY: KEEPING A JOURNAL Sample Student Journal Entry
49. WRITING AN ESSAY EXAM
50. CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Formalist Criticism Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critic Michael Clark, Light and Darkness in "Sonny's Blues" Robert Langbaum, On Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” Biographical Criticism Virginia Llewellyn Smith, Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Emily Toth, The Source for Alcée Laballière in “The Storm” Brett C. Millier, On Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” Historical Criticism Hugh Kenner, Imagism Joseph Moldenhauer, "To His Coy Mistress" and the Renaissance Tradition * Kathryn Lee Seidel, The Economics of “Sweat” Psychological Criticism Sigmund Freud, The Nature of Dreams Gretchen Schulz and R. J. R. Rockwood, Fairy Tale Motifs in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Harold Bloom, Poetic Influence Mythological Criticism C. J. Jung, The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes Northrop Frye, Mythic Archetypes Edmond Volpe, Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning" Sociological Criticism Georg Lukacs, Content Determines Form Daniel P. Watkins, Money and Labor in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" Alfred Kazin, Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln Gender Criticism Elaine Showalter, Toward a Feminist Poetics * Nina Pelikan Straus, Transformations in The Metamorphosis Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Freedom of Emily Dickinson Reader-Response Criticism Stanley Fish, An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” Michael J. Colacurcio, The End of Young Goodman Brown Robert Scholes, “How Do We Make a Poem?” Deconstructionist Criticism Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author Barbara Johnson, Rigorous Unreliability Geoffrey Hartman, On Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” Cultural Studies Vincent B. Leitch, Poststructuralist Cultural Critique Mark Bauerlein, What Is Cultural Studies? * Camille Paglia, On Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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