Literature: A Pocket Anthology

IntroductionExperience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study LiteratureFictionIntroduction to FictionThe Telling of the TaleThe Short Story GenreReading and Analyzing Short FictionNathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864)* The Minister’s Black VeilEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)• LigeiaSarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)A White HeronGuy de Maupassant (1850-1893)Mother SavageKate Chopin (1851-1904)The Story of an HourCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)The Yellow WallpaperEdith Wharton (1862-1937)Roman FeverWilla Cather (1876-1947)Paul’s CaseJames Joyce (1882-1941)ArabyZora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)SweatWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962)A Rose for EmilyErnest Hemingway (1899-1961)• Up in MichiganJohn Steinbeck (1902-1968)The ChrysanthemumsRichard Wright (1908-1960)The Man Who Was Almost a ManJohn Cheever (1912-1982)ReunionRalph Ellison (1914-1995)A Party Down at the SquareShirley Jackson (1919-1965)The Lottery* Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)Seventeen SyllablesFlannery O'Connor (1925-1964)• Everything That Rises Must ConvergeGabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsChinua Achebe (b. 1930)Dead Men’s PathAlice Munro (b. 1931)• The Bear Came Over the MountainJoyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?Raymond Carver (1938-1988)CathedralMargaret Atwood (b. 1939)Happy EndingsBobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)ShilohAlice Walker (b. 1944)Everyday Use* Tim O’BrienThe Things They CarriedTim Gautreaux (b. 1947)Died and Gone to VegasSandra Cisneros (b. 1954)Woman Hollering CreekLouise Erdrich (b. 1954)The Red ConvertibleGish Jen (b. 1955)In the American SocietyDaniel Orozco (b. 1957)Orientation* Sherman AlexieThis Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, ArizonaPoetryIntroduction to PoetryAn Anecdote: Where Poetry StartsSpeaker, Listener, and Context“The Star-Spangled Banner”Lyric, Narrative, DramaticThe Language of PoetryFigurative LanguageAllegory and SymbolTone of VoiceRepetition: Sounds and SchemesMeter and RhythmFree Verse and Open FormStanza FormsFixed FormsLiterary History and Poetic ConventionsAnonymousWestern WindBonny Barbara AllanSir Patrick SpensSir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)They Flee from MeWhoso List to HuntEdmund Spenser (1552-1599)Amoretti: Sonnet 75Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)The Burning BabeMichael Drayton (1563-1631)Idea: Sonnet 61William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Sonnet 18Sonnet 20Sonnet 29Sonnet 73Sonnet 116Sonnet 130When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)Thomas Campion (1567-1620)There Is a Garden in Her FaceJohn Donne (1572-1631)The FleaHoly Sonnet 10Holy Sonnet 14• The Sun RisingA Valediction: Forbidding MourningBen Jonson (1573-1637)On My First SonSlow, Slow, Fresh FountMary Wroth (1587?-1651?)In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I TurnRobert Herrick (1591-1674)To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeGeorge Herbert (1593-1633)Easter WingsLove (III)The PulleyRedemptionEdmund Waller (1606-1687)SongJohn Milton (1608-1674)How Soon Hath TimeOn the Late Massacre in PiedmontWhen I Consider How My Light Is SpentAnne Bradstreet (1612-1672)The Author to Her BookRichard Lovelace (1618-1658)To Lucasta, Going to the WarsAndrew Marvell (1621-1678)To His Coy MistressJohn Dryden (1631-1700)To the Memory of Mr. OldhamEdward Taylor (1642-1729)HuswiferyJonathan Swift (1667-1745)A Description of a City ShowerAlexander Pope (1688-1744)from An Essay on CriticismOde on SolitudeThomas Gray (1716-1771)Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardWilliam Blake (1757-1827)The Chimney SweeperThe Little Black BoyA Poison TreeThe TygerRobert Burns (1759-1796)A Red, Red RoseJohn BarleycornWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850)I Wandered Lonely as a CloudIt Is a Beauteous EveningOde: Intimations of ImmortalitySamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)Frost at MidnightKubla KhanWork Without HopeGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)She Walks in BeautyStanzasWhen We Two PartedPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)Ode to the West WindOzymandiasWilliam Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)To the Fringed GentianJohn Keats (1795-1821)La Belle Dame sans MerciOde to a NightingaleOn First Looking into Chapman's HomerWhen I Have FearsElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)The Arsenal at SpringfieldThe Cross of SnowEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)The Haunted PalaceThe Raven* Sonnet to ScienceAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)The Lady of ShallotTears, Idle TearsUlyssesRobert Browning (1812-1889)My Last DuchessPorphyria's Lover• ProspiceWalt Whitman (1819-1892)A Noiseless Patient SpiderO Captain, My Captain• A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Grey and DimSong of Myself, 6Song of Myself, 11When I Heard the Learn'd AstronomerMatthew Arnold (1822-1888)Dover BeachEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling ComesBecause I Could Not Stop for DeathThe Brain Is Wider than the SkyA Narrow Fellow in the GrassSome Keep the Sabbath Going to ChurchThe Soul Selects Her Own SocietyTell All the Truth but Tell It SlantWild Nights—Wild NightsChristina Rossetti (1830-1894)Up-HillThomas Hardy (1840-1928)Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?* Chanel Firing• The Man He KilledNeutral TonesThe Ruined MaidGerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)God's GrandeurPied BeautySpring and Fall: To a Young ChildEmma Lazarus (1849-1887)The New ColossusA. E. Housman (1859-1936)Eight O'ClockLoveliest of Trees, the Cherry NowStars, I Have Seen Them Fall“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .”William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)The Lake Isle of InnisfreeLeda and the SwanSailing to ByzantiumThe Second ComingThe Song of Wandering AengusEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)FirelightThe MillRichard CoryStephen Crane (1871-1900)The Trees in the Garden Rained FlowersThe WayfarerPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)We Wear the MaskRobert Frost (1874-1963)Acquainted with the NightAfter Apple-PickingDesignHome BurialThe Road Not TakenStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningAdelaide Crapsey (1878-1034)AmazeLanguor after PainTrappedWallace Stevens (1879-1955)Anecdote of the JarDisillusionment of Ten O'ClockThe Emperor of Ice-CreamThe Snow ManSunday Morning• The Worms at Heaven’s GateWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963)The Last Words of My English GrandmotherThe Red WheelbarrowSpring and AllEzra Pound (1885-1972)In a Station of the MetroPortrait d'une FemmeThe River-Merchant's Wife: A LetterElinor Wylie (1885-1928)Let No Charitable HopeOpheliaH. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)Pear TreeSea RoseSiegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)DreamersRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962)The Purse-SeineMarianne Moore (1887-1972)The FishSilenceT. S. Eliot (1888-1965)Journey of the MagiThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockJohn Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)Piazza PieceEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual WayOh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that WordWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and WhyWilfred Owen (1893-1918)Dulce et Decorum Este. e. cummings (1894-1962)nobody loses all the timepity this busy monster,manunkind* plato toldr-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-rJean Toomer (1894-1967)Georgia DuskLouise Bogan (1897-1970)WomenHart Crane (1899-1933)ChaplinesqueLangston Hughes (1902-1967)Dream BoogieTheme for English BThe Weary BluesCountee Cullen (1903-1946)IncidentYet Do I MarvelA. D. Hope (1907-2000)Imperial AdamW. H. Auden (1907-1973)As I Walked Out One EveningMusée des Beaux ArtsThe Unknown CitizenTheodore Roethke (1908-1963)DolorMy Papa's WaltzRoot CellarElizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)The FishOne ArtSestinaRobert Hayden (1913-1980)Those Winter SundaysDudley Randall (b. 1914)Ballad of BirminghamWilliam Stafford (1914-1993)Traveling through the DarkDylan Thomas (1914-1953)Do Not Go Gentle into That Good NightPoem in OctoberWeldon Kees (1914-1955)For My DaughterRandall Jarrell (1914-1965)• 8th Air ForceThe Death of the Ball Turret GunnerMargaret Walker (b. 1915)For Malcolm XGwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)the ballad of chocolate Mabbiethe motherWe Real CoolRobert Lowell (1917-1977)For the Union DeadLawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)A Coney Island of the Mind, #15May Swenson (1919-1989)How Everything HappensHoward Nemerov (1920-1991)A Primer of the Daily RoundRichard Wilbur (b. 1921)• AltitudesThe WriterYear's EndPhilip Larkin (1922-1985)Next, PleaseThis Be the Verse• The Whitsun WeddingsJames Dickey (1923-1997)The Heaven of AnimalsAlan Dugan (b. 1923)Love Song: I and ThouAnthony Hecht (b. 1923)• The Dover BitchThird Avenue in SunlightDenise Levertov (1923-1999)The Ache of MarriageLouis Simpson (b. 1923)American ClassicMy Father in the Night Commanding NoVassar Miller (1924-1997)SubterfugeDonald Justice (b. 1925)Counting the MadCarolyn Kizer (b. 1925)The Ungrateful GardenMaxine Kumin (b. 1925)Noted in the New York TimesAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997)A Supermarket in CaliforniaJames Merrill (1926-1995)Casual WearW. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)Mementos, IFrank O'Hara (1926-1966)The Day Lady DiedJohn Ashbery (b. 1927)Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a LandscapeParadoxes and OxymoronsW. S. Merwin (b. 1927)For the Anniversary of My DeathThe Last OneJames Wright (1927-1980)Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, OhioSaint JudasPhilip Levine (b. 1928)You Can Have ItAnne Sexton (1928-1974)CinderellaThom Gunn (b. 1929)From the WaveTerminalX. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day• Little ElegyAdrienne Rich (b. 1929)Aunt Jennifer's TigersDiving into the WreckRapeTed Hughes (b. 1930)PikeGary Snyder (b. 1930)A WalkDerek Walcott (b. 1930)Central AmericaMiller Williams (b. 1930)The BookLinda Pastan (b. 1932)EthicsSylvia Plath (1932-1963)DaddyEdgeMetaphorsGerald Barrax (b. 1933)Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985Mark Strand (b. 1934)The TunnelRussel Edson (b. 1935)ApeMary Oliver (b. 1935)The Black Walnut TreeFred Chappell (b. 1936)Narcissus and EchoLucille Clifton (b. 1936)homage to my hipswishes for sonsMarge Piercy (b. 1936)What’s That Smell in the Kitchen?Betty Adcock (b. 1938)VoyagesGary Gildner (b. 1938)First PracticeRobert Phillips (b. 1938)• The Stone Crab: A Love PoemDabney Stuart (b. 1938)Discovering My DaughterMargaret Atwood (b. 1939)Siren SongStephen Dunn (b. 1939)The SacredSeamus Heaney (b. 1939)Punishment* Clive James (b. 1959)After the StormTed Kooser (b. 1939)Abandoned FarmhouseTom Disch (b. 1940)Ballade of the New GodFlorence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940)All American SestinaPattiann Rogers (b. 1940)ForeplayBilly Collins (b. 1941)LitanyRobert Hass (b. 1941)• Meditation at LagunitasSimon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)The Serenity in StonesGibbons Ruark (b. 1941)The VisitorGladys Cardiff (b. 1942)CombingB.H. Fairchild (b. 1942)Body and SoulCharles Martin (b. 1942)E.S.L.Sharon Olds (b. 1942)The One Girl at the Boys PartyDiane Lockward (b. 1943)My Husband Discovers PoetryEllen Bryant Voight (b. 1943)DaughterRobert Morgan (b. 1944)Mountain BrideCraig Raine (b. 1944)A Martian Sends a Postcard HomeEnid Shomer (b. 1944)Women Bathing at Bergen-BelsenWendy Cope (b. 1944)Rondeau RedoubléDick Davis (b. 1945)A Monorhyme for the ShowerKay Ryan (b. 1945)BestiaryLeon Stokesbury (b. 1945)The Day Kennedy Died* John Whitworth (b. 1945)The ExaminersMarilyn Nelson (b. 1946)The Ballad of Aunt GenevaAi (b. 1947)Child BeaterJim Hall (b. 1947)Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem TooYusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)Facing ItTimothy Steele (b. 1948)Sapphics Against AngerJames Fenton (b. 1949)God, a PoemSarah Cortez (b. 1950) Tu NegritoCarolyn Forché (b. 1950)The ColonelDana Gioia (b. 1950)Planting a SequoiaRodney Jones (b. 1950)Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.Timothy Murphy (b. 1950)Case NotesJoy Harjo (b. 1951)She Had Some HorsesAndrew Hudgins (b. 1951)Air View of an Industrial SceneJudith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)The Latin Deli: An Ars PoeticaRita Dove (b. 1952)• American SmoothMark Jarman (b. 1952)After DisappointmentJulie Kane (b. 1952)Alan Doll RapNaomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)The Traveling OnionAlberto Ríos (b. 1952)The Purpose of Altar BoysJulia Alvarez (b. 1953)Bilingual SestinaHarryette Mullen (b. 1953)Dim LadyKim Addonizio (b. 1954)* Sonnenizio on a Line from Michael DraytonDavid Mason (b. 1954)• Fog HornsMary Jo Salter (b. 1954)Welcome to HiroshimaCathy Song (b. 1955)Stamp CollectingGinger Andrews (b. 1956)Primping in the Rearview Mirror* Joseph Harrison (b. 1957)Air LarryCatherine Tufariello (b. 1963)Useful AdviceSherman Alexie (b. 1966)The Exaggeration of DespairNatasha Trethewey (b. 1966)Domestic Work, 1937* Brian Turner (b. 1967)Here, BulletSuji Kwock Kim (b. 1968)Occupation* Allison Joseph (b. 1967)The AthleteA. E. Stallings (b. 1968)• First Love: A QuizBeth Ann Fennelly (b. 1971)Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field* Sophie Hannah (b. 1971)The Guest Speaker* Emily Moore (b. 1977)Auld Lang SyneDramaIntroduction to DramaThe Play’s the ThingOrigins of DramaAristotle on TragedyBrief History and Description of Dramatic ConventionsSophocles (496?-406 B.C.)• AntigoneWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)OthelloHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906)• An Enemy of the PeopleSusan Glaspell (1882-1948)TriflesTennessee Williams (1911-1983)The Glass MenagerieAthold Fugard (b. 1932)“Master Harold” . . . and the boysAugust Wilson (b. 1945)The Piano LessonDavid Ives (b. 1950)• Sure Thing* Milcha Sanchez-Scott (b. 1953)The Cuban Swimmer* Arlene Hutton (b. 1958)A Dream Before I Take the StandAppendix A: Writing about Literature