Living Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama

PART I: FICTION1. Stories: Plot, Character, SettingThe Hare and the TortoiseStory with a LessonInspiration: Animation and The Tortoise and the HareVideo locale: Bugs Bunny Cartoons of The Tortoise and the HarePlot Ordering the Plot Kate Chopin, The Story of An HourFor Further Reading: PlotRichard Ford, Under the RadarCharacterTim O’Brien, StockingsTypes of CharactersFor Further Reading: CharacterAlice Munro, PrueSettingJames Joyce, ArabyLiterary Locale: James Joyce and Davy Byrnes PubSymbolic SettingFor Further Reading: SettingLiterary Locale: Colter’s Chicago—The South Side and the ElCyrus Colter, Mary’s Convert2. Stories: Point of View, Theme, Symbol, Performance Point of ViewFirst-Person NarrationThird-Person NarrationSubjective vs. Objective NarrationJamaica Kincaid, GirlPoint of View in “Girl”The Narrator’s RoleFor Further Reading: Point of ViewMargaret Atwood, Happy EndingsThemeJohn Updike, A & PTheme in “A & P”Theme, Meaning, and IntentionFor Further Reading: ThemeAnita Desai, Games at TwilightSymbolStuart Dybek, The Palatski ManFor Further Reading: SymbolGabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the WorldToneInspiration: Carver to Altman: From Fiction to FilmRaymond Carver, CathedralFor Further Reading: ToneAna Castillo, LoverboysStory and PerformanceWallace Stegner, A Note on TechniqueStory and Performance in “A Note on Technique”Audio and Video Locale: Updike’s “A&P” in Performance3. Writing about StoriesThe Cultural ConversationReviewsShort ReviewShort Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s StoneFull ReviewFull Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s StoneBeyond Reviews: CriticismPopular CriticismNewsweek, Here’s Harry: Behind the Fastest-Selling Book in HistoryScholarly ArticlesRoni Natov, Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the OrdinaryHow to Enter the Conversation?Virtual Locale: Blogging about StoriesQuestions to Develop Ideas About a StoryPoint of ViewLanguageSettingCharacterPlotLinks to Other TextsResponseFormats for Writing about StoriesAnnotating a StoryAnnotations for a page of “The Story of An Hour”Summarizing a StorySummaries of “The Story of An Hour”Keeping a Personal JournalDouble-Entry Reaction Journal on a page of “The Story of An Hour”Writing a Response PaperFrom a Response Paper to “The Story of An Hour”Writing an InterventionWriting an ExplicationExplication of the opening of “The Story of An Hour”Writing an Analytical EssayStudent Analytical Essay of “The Story of An Hour”4. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Nathaniel HawthorneLiterary Locale: Hawthorne’s Massachusetts—Concord and SalemVirtual Locale:Hawthorne in Salem WebsiteNathaniel Hawthorne TimelineStories by Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman BrownLady Eleanore’s MantleThe Maypole of Merry MountCommentary: Nathaniel Hawthorne on his Art and His LifeInspiration:Hawthorne and Melville: A Literary Friendship5. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Willa CatherLiterary and Virtual Locale: Willa Cather’s Red Cloud, NebraskaWilla Cather TimelineAudio Locale: Cather’s 1933 Radio SpeechStories by Willa CatherPeterPaul’s CaseA Wagner MatinéeInspiration: “A Wagner Matinée” in Performance—Cather from Page to Radio StageAudio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Scribbling Women “A Wagner Matinée” Radio PlayAn Old BeautyVirtual Locale:The Willa Cather Archive Commentary: Willa Cather on WritingCommentary: Willa Cather the CriticWilla Cather, From “Shakespeare and Hamlet”6. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Charles Baxter Charles Baxter TimelineLiterary Locale: Baxter’s Michigan and the Mystery of the MidwestStories by Charles BaxterShelterInspiration:“Gryphon” in Performance—Chicago Public Radio’s Stories on StageGryphonAudio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Stories on Stage “Gryphon” Dramatic ReadingSaul and Patsy Are PregnantVirtual Locale:Charles Baxter’s WebsiteKiss AwayCommentary: Charles Baxter on Fiction and the Writer’s RoleCommentary: Charles Baxter, Critical Writing on FictionCommentary: Excerpts from Selected ReviewsInspiration: Music in the Fiction of Charles BaxterAudio Locale:Recordings of “Gimme Shelter” and “Unchain My Heart”7. More Than Magnolias: Southern Women StorytellersLiterary and Virtual Locale: The Gravesite of Zora Neale Hurston, Fort Pierce, FloridaSouthern Women Writers TimelineLiterary and Virtual Locale: Zora Festival, Eatonville, FloridaZora Neale Hurston, SweatInspiration:“Sweat” in Performance—Hurston from Page to Radio StageAudio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Scribbling Women “Sweat” Radio PlayLiterary and Virtual Locale:The Homes and the Archives of Eudora Welty—Jackson, MississippiVirtual Locale:The Eudora Welty House and The Eudora Welty CollectionEudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O.A Worn PathA Shower of GoldCommentary: Eudora Welty on the Craft of WritingInspiration: Alice Walker and Lee Smith on Flannery O’Connor and Eudora WeltyLiterary Locale: The Georgia Homes of Flannery O’Connor—Savannah and MilledgvilleVirtual Locale:Flannery O'Connor Home Foundation and Andalusia Farm WebsitesFlannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to FindParker’s BackInspiration: Flannery O’Connor and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska Commentary: Flannery O’Connor on her CraftLee Smith, CakewalkMary Hood, How Far She WentDorothy Allison, I’m Working on My CharmInspiration: Writers Who Inspired Dorothy AllisonVirtual Locale:Alice Walker and other “Voices of Mississippi”Alice Walker, Everyday UseCommentary: Contemporary Southern Women Writers Speak On the South8. Passage to America: New Immigrant Tell Their StoriesPassage to America TimelinePat Mora, ImmigrantsInspiration:“I, Too, Sing América”—“All-American” Writers, from Whitman to Hughes to AlvarezLangston Hughes, I, Too, Sing AmericaVirtual Locale:The “Writers on America” Project: What Does It Means to be an American Writer?Literary Locale:Los Angeles’s Latino Museum of History, Art and CultureJhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final ContinentCommentary: Jhumpa Lahiri on the Short StoryVirtual Locale:The South Asian Women’s Network’s Online BookshelfGish Jen, In the American SocietyCommentary: Gish Jen on the Short StoryVirtual and Video Locale:Interview With Gish Jen on "Becoming American: Personal Journeys"Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto RicanCommentary: Esmeralda Santiago on When I Was Puerto RicanVideo and Virtual Locale:Santiago in Performance: PBS Film Adaptation of Almost a WomanJunot Díaz, Fiesta, 1980Commentary: Junot Díaz on FictionLiterary and virtual Locale: New York’s El Museo del BarrioAnjana Appachana, Her MotherCommentary: Anjana Appachana on the Short StoryLiterary Locale:Ellis Island—The Gateway for the Early U.S. Immigrantvirtual Locale: The Ellis Island Immigration Museum9. Stories for Further ReadingA Brief Note on the Sequencing of the StoriesA Brief Note on the Inclusion of Non-FictionJonathan Swift, A Modest ProposalEdgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale HeartLiterary Locale: Edgar Allan Poe—The Philadelphia YearsAnton Chekhov, The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s DaughterErnest Hemingway, Hills Like White ElephantsInspiration: Imitation Hemingway and Faux Faulkner ContestsVirtual Locale: Hemispheres Magazine WebsiteKatherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny WeatherallWilliam Faulkner, Barn BurningA Rose for EmilyLiterary Locale: Faulkner’s Oxford, MississippiJames Thurber, The Night the Bed Fell InGeorge Orwell, Shooting an ElephantE.B. White, Once More to the LakeRichard Wright, The Man Who Lived UndergroundJorge Luis Borges, Theme of the Traitor and the HeroJames Baldwin, Sonny’s BluesChinua Achebe, A Civil PeaceLeslie Marmon Silko, Yellow WomanKazuo Ishiguro, Family DinnerDavid Leavitt, TerritoryAmy Hempel, In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is BuriedLorrie Moore, How to Become a WriterSherman Alexie, Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in HeavenStuart Dybek, We Didn’tInspiration: From Verse to Prose: Yehuda Amichai’s “We Did It” and Dybek’s “We Didn’t”Andrea Barrett, Rare BirdHa Jin, SaboteurPART II: POETRY 10. Poems: Tone, Image, LanguageShaping ExperiencePaul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the MaskLiterary and VIRTUAL Locale: Paul Laurence Dunbar House—Dayton, OhioToneLinda Pastan, MarksD.H. Lawrence, PianoFor Further Reading: ToneEzra Pound, The River Merchant’s Wife: A LetterInspiration: Two Additional Translations of Li Po’s PoemPhilip Larkin, This Be The VerseVirtual Locale: The Lannan Foundation and Louise GlückLouise Glück, The Red PoppyAudio Locale: Louise Glück’s “The Red Poppy”Margaret Atwood, Siren SongImages and ImageryEzra Pound, In a Station of the MetroWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 73For Further Reading: Images and ImageryRobert Burns, My Luve’s like a Red, Red RoseSylvia Plath, MetaphorsWallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdAdrienne Rich, Diving into the WreckInspiration: Adrienne Rich Rethinks Emily DickinsonPoetic LanguageEmily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the milesWilliam Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of InnisfreeLiterary Locale: Yeats and the Landscape in Sligo, IrelandInspiration: U2’s Bono—The Yeats of Our Time?Before the World Was MadeCommentary: Louise Glück on Poetic LanguageFor Further Reading: Poetic LanguageFrank O’Hara, The Day Lady DiedAudio Locale: Lady Sings the BluesThomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of GoldfishesPhyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Snow-FlakesJimmy Santiago Baca, Green ChileStruggles Over Poetic Language11. Poems: Meter, Stanza, FormMeterWilliam Langland, From Piers PlowmanJohn Newton, From Amazing GraceIambTrocheeAnapestDactylJohn Hollander, Historical ReflectionSpondeeFeetBlank verseWilliam Shakespeare, From MacbethJohn Milton, From Paradise LostElizabeth Barrett Browning, From Aurora LeighFor Further Reading: MeterRobert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningLiterary Locale: The Robert Frost Place, Franconia, New HampshireBen Jonson, Song: To CeliaA.E. Housman, When I Was One-and-TwentyStanzaAlexander Pope, From The Rape of the LockPercy Bysshe Shelley, From Ode to the West WindAnonymous, From Bonny Barbara AllanFree verseWalt Whitman, When I heard the Learn’d AstronomerWilliam Carlos Williams, The Red WheelbarrowWilliam Carlos Williams, This Is Just to SayInspiration: William Carlos Williams and Tino VillaneuvaFor Further Reading: StanzaWilliam Carlos Williams, The Great FigureInspiration: Charles Demuth's painting The Figure 5 in GoldGeorge Herbert, Easter WingsWilliam Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit SealAdrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s TigersVideo Locale: Adrienne Rich and The Lannan FoundationFormSonnetJohn Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerJohn Keats, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeEdna St. Vincent Millay, I will put Chaos into fourteen linesBilly Collins, SonnetCommentary: Billy Collins on American PoetryJohn Milton, On His BlindnessRobert Frost, Once by the PacificAlice Oswald, WeddingWeldon Kees, For My DaughterElegyBen Jonson, On My First SonThomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard WestSamuel Johnson, On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in PhysicChidiock Tichborne, Elegy Written with His Own Hand in the Tower before His ExecutionE.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill’sInspiration: Cummings and Bjork: Poetry as Pop SongI will wade outIt may not always be soAubadeWilliam Shakespeare, Aubade from CymbelineAmy Lowell, AubadeJohn Donne, The Sun RisingRichard Wilbur, A Late AubadeTerese Svoboda, AubadeBarbara Lau, Aubade/IowaPhilip Larkin, AubadeWilliam Shakespeare, Aubade from Romeo and JulietVillanelleElizabeth Bishop, One ArtVideo Locale: Documentary on Elizabeth BishopDylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good nightFor Further Reading: FormTheodore Roethke, The WakingRobert Frost, DesignEdna St. Vincent Millay, Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor DrinkGertrude Schnackenberg, SignsMarge Piercy, Barbie DollMichael Drayton, Since There’s No HelpEdmund Spenser, One day I wrote her name upon the strandThomas Hardy, The Darkling ThrushDuring Wind and RainGerard Manly Hopkins, God’s GrandeurThe Windhover12. Writing about PoetryThe Cultural ConversationReviewsShort Review: The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, ed. by Frank Bidart and David GewanterFull Review: The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, ed. by Frank Bidart and David GewanterBeyond Reviews: CriticismPopular CriticismScott Thrill, Eminem vs. Robert FrostScholarly Articles or WorksEdward Hirsch, From How to Read a PoemHow to Enter the ConversationQuestions to Develop Ideas about a PoemPoint of ViewLanguageSettingCharacterPlotLinks to Other TextsResponseVirtual Locale: Poetry Websites and BlogFormats for Writing about PoemsAnnotating a PoemAnnotations forDickinson’s “After Great Pain”Summarizing or Paraphrasing a PoemSummary of “After Great Pain”Paraphrase of “After Great Pain”Keeping a Personal JournalDouble-Entry Reaction Journal on “After Great Pain”Writing a Response PaperFrom a Response Paper to “After Great Pain”Writing an InterventionInspiration: Two Poets Respond to Emily DickinsonFrancis Heaney, Skinny Domicile [An anagram of Emily Dickinson]Billy Collins,Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s ClothesWriting an ExplicationStudent Explication of “After Great Pain”Professional Explication of “After Great Pain”Writing an Analytical EssayStudent Analytical Essay of “After Great Pain”13. A Poet in Depth: Walt WhitmanInspiration: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Letter to WhitmanVirtual Locale: The Whitman Electronic ArchiveWalt Whitman TimelineLiterary Locale: Walt Whitman House, Camden, New JerseyPoems by Walt WhitmanFrom Song of MyselfAudio Locale: Whitman Reading “America”Crossing Brooklyn FerryLiterary Locale: Whitman in New YorkOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’dO Captain! My Captain!Inspiration: Whitman and the Civil WarA Noiseless Patient SpiderInspiration: The Music of WhitmanI Hear America SingingLiterary Locale: The “I Hear America Singing” Mural, Bronx, New YorkWhen I Heard at the Close of the DayI Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak GrowingVideo Locale: Whitman in VideoCavalry Crossing a FordThe Wound-DresserCommentary: Walt Whitman on his Art and PoetryCommentary: Four Poets Inspired by WhitmanLangston Hughes, Old WaltKenneth Koch, Whitman’s WordsMarge Piercy, How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found MyselfAlicia Ostriker, Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America14. A Poet in Depth: Emily DickinsonLiterary Locale: The Emily Dickinson MuseumEmily Dickinson TimelinePoems by Emily DickinsonI heard a Fly buzz—when I diedBecause I could not stop for DeathA narrow Fellow in the GrassInspiration:Three Poets Write of Emily DickinsonHart Crane, To Emily DickinsonLinda Pastan, Emily DickinsonWild Nights—Wild Nights!It dropped so low—in my Regard—I taste a liquor never brewedSafe in their Alabaster ChambersThere’s a certain Slant of lightI felt a Funeral, in my BrainInspiration:“In My Dreams Awake”: Photos by John Dugdale and Dickinson’s PoetryElysium is as far toWe grow accustomed to the DarkThe Soul selects her own SocietyMy Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—Video Locale: Loaded Gun: Life, Death, and DickinsonTell all the Truth but tell it slantAs imperceptibly as Grief‘Faith’ is a fine inventionFrom all the Jails, the boys and girlsThe Bible is an antique Volume—Audio Locale: The Songs of Emily DickinsonMuch Madness is divinest Sense—Beauty be not caused, it isOn a columnar SelfCommentary: Excerpts from Selected ReviewsCommentary: Emily Dickinson in her Letters15. A Poet in Depth: Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Locale:Brooks inBronzeville, ChicagoGwendolyn Brooks TimelinePoems by Gwendolyn BrooksKitchenette BuildingSadie and MaudThe Motherthe preacher: ruminates behind the sermonGay Chaps at the BarWhat shall I give my children? who are poor (Sonnet 2)First Fight. Then Fiddle (Sonnet 4)In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My FatherBeverly Hills, ChicagoThe Bean EatersAudio Locale: Brooks Reading Her PoetryAudio Locale: Brooks Reading “We Real Cool”Commentary: Gwendolyn Brooks on the Men in “We Real Cool”A Bronzeville Woman Loiters in Mississippi…Crazy WomanBallad of Rudolph ReedInspiration:Artists of Inspiration—Hughes, Frost, and RobesonLangston HughesOf Robert FrostPaul RobesonThe Sermon on the WarplandThe Second Sermon on the WarplandFrom In the MeccaInspiration: Brooks and Emily DickinsonMyselfCommentary: Gwendolyn Brooks on her Life and the Art of PoetryCommentary: Excerpts from Selected ReviewsInspiration:The Wall of Respect, ChicagoThe Wall16. Passionate Verse: Love Poetry of the English Renaissance English Renaissance TimelineSir Philip Sidney, Loving in TruthPastoral PoemsChristopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his LoveInspiration: Sir Walter Raleigh’s Nymph—Talking Back to Marlowe’s Shepherd Poems on ClothingBen Jonson, Still to Be Neat, Still to Be DrestRobert Herrick, Delight in DisorderUpon Julia's ClothesVirtual Locale: Elizabethan ClothingCarpe Diem PoemsRobert Herrick, To Virgins, to Make Much of TimeAndrew Marvell, To His Coy MistressPoems and MusicThomas Campion, When Thou Must Home to Shades of UndergroundFire, Fire, FireShakespearean Love SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 18Audio and Virtual Locale: Sir John Gielgud Reading the Shakespearean SonnetsSonnet 55Sonnet 106Audio Locale: Shakespearean Sonnets Out Loud—Sung and SpokenSonnet 116Sonnet 130INSPIRATION: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 and Sting’s “Sister Moon”Sonnet 138INSPIRATION: Love’s Fire—Shakespeare’s Sonnets from Page to StageGarden scene from Romeo and JulietINSPIRATION: Romeo and Juliet: The Garden Scene, From Stage to ScreenVIDEO AND VIRTUAL LOCALE: Trailer for George Cukor’s 1936 film, Romeo and JulietVIRTUAL LOCALE: Two Versions of the Famous Romeo and Juliet Garden SceneWomen’s Voices in the English RenaissanceLady Mary Wroth, Am I Thus Conquer'd? Have I Lost the PowersWhen every one to pleasing pastime hiesHow fast thou fliest, O time, on loues swift wingsMy paine still smother'd in my grieved brestBen Jonson, A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary WrothKatherine Philips, Against LoveA Married StateTo My Excellent Lucasia, On Our FriendshipAnne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving HusbandCommentary: Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own17. Writing Out Loud: Popular Victorian NarrativesPoetry’s Oral BeginningsVirtual Locale: Aural Poetry on the WebPoetry Readings at HomeProfessional Authors on the StageInspiration: Modern Poetry Out Loud—From Beat Poets to Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry JamProfessonal ReadersVideo Locale: Fooling With Words with Bill MoyersElocutionVictorian Narratives TimelineClement Clark Moore, A Visit from St. NicholasErnest L. Thayer, Casey at the BatFelicia Hemans, CasabiancaINSPIRATION: Elizabeth Bishop Responds to Felicia HemansLetitia Elizabeth Landon, The Proud LaydeEdgar Allan Poe, The RavenCommentary: Poe on the Composition of “The Raven”Literary and Virtual Locale: Poe Historical SitesAnnabelle LeeVideo Locale: Poe on American MastersHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Building of the ShipInspiration: Sonnet on Mrs. Kemble’s Reading from ShakespeareThe Wreck of the HesperusInspiration: George Harrison Riffing on LongfellowRobert Browning, My Last DuchessElizabeth Barrett Browning, Mother and PoetWalt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!Alfred, Lord Tennyson, UlyssesThe Charge of the Light Brigade18. Poems for Further Reading A Brief Note on the Sequencing of the PoemsVideo Locale: Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poems ProjectRobert Southwell, The Burning BabeJohn Donne, First AnniversaryA Valediction: Forbidding MourningBatter My Heart Three Personed GodThe CanonizationDeath be not ProudThe FleaThe RelicThe AnniversarieBen Jonson, Come, my Celia, let us proveOn My First DaughterGeorge Herbert, The PulleyThe WindowsJohn Milton, How Soon Hath TimeRichard Lovelace, To Lucasta, Going to the WarsAndrew Marvell, The GardenMary, Lady Chudleigh, To the LadiesJonathan Swift, A Description of the MorningSamuel Johnson, Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747Christopher Smart, For I will consider my cat JeoffryWilliam Cowper, The CastawayWilliam Blake, Infant JoyThe LambThe TygerInfant SorrowA Poison TreeThe Sick RoseVirtual Locale: The William Blake ArchiveWilliam Wordsworth, Lines Composted a Few Miles Above Tintern AbbeyComposed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802It is a Beauteous EveningLondon, 1802My Heart Leaps Up When I BeholdThe World Is Too Much with UsSurprised by JoyMutabilitySamuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla KhanDejection: An OdeGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, When We Two PartedThe Destruction of SennacheribShe Walks in BeautyPercy Bysshe Shelley, OzymandiasOde to the West WindWhen the lamp is shatteredEngland in 1819John Clare, BadgerJohn Keats, La Belle Dame sans MerciOde to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnThe Eve of St. AgnesTo AutumnElizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love TheeHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mezzo CamminAftermathEdgar Allen Poe, The BellsAlfred Tennyson, Break, Break, BreakNow Sleeps the Crimson PetalTears, Idle TearsRobert Browning, My Last DuchessMeeting at NightParting at MorningMatthew Arnold, Dover BeachInspiration: Anthony Hecht’s The Dover BitchChristina Rossetti, SongLewis Carroll [Charles Ludwig Dodgson], JabberwockyThomas Hardy, HapThe Darkling ThrushThe Convergence of the TwainDuring Wind and RainGerard Manly Hopkins, Spring and FallEmma Lazarus, The New ColossusA.E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowEden Phillpotts, The LearnedW.B. Yeats, The Song of the Wandering AngusThe ScholarsThe Wild Swans at CooleThe Second ComingLeda and the SwanSailing to ByzantiumVirtual Locale: Boland on Yeats—Branching Out Lecture SeriesPaul Lawrence Dunbar, TheologySympathyRobert Gould ShawRobert Frost, Mending WallThe Road Not TakenFor Once, Then, SomethingOnce by the PacificAudio Locale: Frost Reading “The Road Not Taken”Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo (trans. by Stephen Mitchell)Carl Sandburg, ChicagoWallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice CreamAnecdote of the JarThe Snow ManThe Idea of Order at Key WestThe House Was Quiet and the World Was CalmLiterary Locale: Stevens Walking Tour, Hartford, ConnecticutWilliam Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of IcarusVirtual Locale: Pinsky on Williams—Branching Out Lecture SeriesMarianne Moore, PoetryRobinson Jeffers, Continent’s EndCarmel PointT.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockAudio Locale: Eliot Reading PrufrockPreludesAudio Locale: NPR’s top 15 American Poems of the 20th CenturyEdna St. Vincent Millay, RecuerdoWhat lips my lips have kissedWilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed YouthDulce et decorum estLouise Bogan, WomenFederico García Lorca, Arbolé, Arbolé (trans. by William Logan)Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of RiversAudio Locale: Hughes Reading “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”Theme for English BAdviceVirtual Locale: Pinsky on Williams and Frost—Branching Out Poetry Lecture SeriesStevie Smith, Not Waving But DrowningThe Heavenly CityCountee Cullen, Yet Do I MarvelPablo Neruda, OblivionThe PotterThe SonW.H. Auden, Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the TelephoneMusée des Beaux ArtsSeptember 1, 1939Audio Locale: Auden Reading at the 92nd Street YTheodore Roethke, My Papa’s WaltzRoot CellarElizabeth Bishop, At the FishhousesFirst Death in Nova ScotiaThe MooseCzeslaw Milosz, After ParadiseRobert Hayden, Homage to the Empress of the BluesThose Winter SundaysOctavio Paz, With Our Eyes Shut/Con Los Ojos CerradosWilliam Stafford, Ask MeWaiting in LineDylan Thomas, Fern HillIn My Craft or Sullen ArtRobert Lowell, Skunk HourAmy Clampitt, On the Disadvantages of Central HeatingRichard Hugo, Degrees of Gray in PhillipsburgDenise Levertov, The Ache of MarriageThe Wedding-RingJack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the HeartA.R. Ammons, The City LimitsAllen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in CaliforniaAudio Locale: Ginsberg Reading “A Supermarket in California”First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s AngelsJames Merrill, To a ButterflyFrank O’Hara, Why I Am Not a PainterInspiration: Frank O’Hara and the New York School of PaintersAve MariaDigression on Number 1, 1948In Memory of My FeelingsJohn Ashbery, Paradoxes and OxymoronsGalway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear FootstepsBlackberry EatingW.S. Merwin, One of the LivesJames Wright, A BlessingLying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, MinnesotaPhilip Levine, Animals are Passing from Our LivesAnne Sexton, The Starry NightTwo HandsAdrienne Rich, Moving in WinterLiving in SinGary Snyder, Above Pate ValleyDerek Walcott, Midsummer, TobagoGeoffrey Hill, September SongLinda Pastan, AgoraphobiaSylvia Plath, MushroomsThe MirrorDaddyAudre Lorde, CoalMark Strand, Keeping Things WholeMary Oliver, The Wild GeeseWhen Death ComesLucille Clifton, homage to my hipsAudio Locale: Clifton Reading “homage to my hips”Charles Simic, Eyes Fastened With PinsMargaret Atwood, This is a Photograph of MeSiren SongFebruaryFrank Bidart, HammerSeamus Heaney, DiggingFrom the Frontier of WritingThe Summer of Lost RachelBilly Collins, Picnic, LightningAudio Locale: Billy Collins on National Public RadioToi Derricotte, Black Boys Play the ClassicsRobert Hass, Meditation at LagunitasA Story about the BodyMarilyn Hacker, SonnetWilliam Matthews, An Airline BreakfastPat Mora, La MigraSharon Olds, Sex Without LoveTess Gallagher, I Stop Writing This PoemNikki Giovanni, Ego TrippingLouise Glück, Mock OrangeThe School ChildrenJames Tate, Where Babies Come FromEavan Boland, AnorexicThe Dolls Museum in DublinMary Kinzie, Beautiful DaysIra Sadoff, NazisLinda Hogan, First LightJane Kenyon, Let Evening ComeYusef Komunyakaa, Facing ItWendy Rose, For the White Poets Who would be IndianAgha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post OfficeJulia Alvarez, DustingAnne Carson, HelenCarolyn Forche, The ColonelJorie Graham, Over and Over StitchThe Way Things WorkBrooks Haxton, Again Consider the WindEd Hirsch, Fast BreakMarie Howe, IsaacGarrett Hongo, The LegendBrigit Pegeen Kelly, River of HeavenJudith Ortiz Cofer, QuinceañeraRita Dove, Describe Yourself in Three Words or LessSopranoCynthia Huntington, BreakingLinton Kwesi Johnson, Sense Outa NonsenseDorianne Laux, For My Daughter Who Loves AnimalsNaomi Shahib Nye, RainGary Soto, OrangesBlack HairSusan Stewart, Kingfisher CarolRosanna Warren, SimileSandra Cisneros, Loose WomanMarilyn Chin, Composed Near the Bay BridgeCathy Song, Beauty and SadnessA Conservative ViewHenri Cole, Myself With CatsMartin Espada, Public School 190, Brooklyn, 1963The Bouncer’s ConfessionLi-Young Lee, From BlossomsLucia Perillo, The Afterlife of the Fifties DadThe Crows Start Demanding RoyaltiesElizabeth Alexander, Affirmative Action Blues (1993)Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can’t WinSherman Alexie, Evolution19. Biographies of Selected Poets PART III: DRAMAPlays: Action and PerformanceSeeing vs. ReadingTalking about DramaSusan Glaspell, TriflesINSPIRATION: Glaspell’s A Jury of Her PeersDrama as ActionAudio Locale: Scribbling Women’s A Jury of Her PeersPerformance Notes: Trifles in PerformanceVirtual Locale:American Literature on the Web—Susan GlaspellLady Gregory, Spreading the NewsPerformance Notes: Spreading the News in PerformanceVirtual Locale: Gregory’s Our Irish Theatre OnlineDavid Ives, The PhiladelphiaPerformance Notes: The Philadelphia in PerformanceInspiration: Ives on the Power of TheaterWriting about PlaysThe Cultural ConversationReviewsFull ReviewChris Rohmann, Opening Night Review: ArtRoss Wetzsteon, Janet McTeer in A Doll’s HouseBrief ReviewsBeyond Reviews: CriticismHow to Enter the Conversation?Virtual Locale:Blogging about PlaysQuestions to Develop Ideas About a PlayPoint of ViewLanguageSettingCharacterPlotLinks to Other TextsResponseFormats for Writing about PlaysAnnotating a PlayAnnotations forGlaspell’s TriflesKeeping a Personal JournalDouble-Entry Reaction Journal for Spreading the NewsWriting a Response PaperFrom a Response Paper to [EXAMPLE TK]Writing an InterventionInspiration: Muriel Rukeyser on OedipusMuriel Rukeyser, MythWriting a Critical AnalysisCritical Analysis of Glaspell’s TriflesA Playwright in Depth: SophoclesTheater in Sophocles’ TimeLiterary Locale: The Greek TheaterRitual and Religion in Greek Dramavideo locale: Joseph Campbell and The Power of MythTragedy in Greek DramaPerformance Notes on Greek DramaModern Setting and DressMajor AlterationsLanguageThe Greek CanonGreek Drama on the American StageSophocles TimelinePlays by SophoclesOedipus The King (translated by Robert Fagles)Commentary: Aristotle on Tragedy and Oedipus RexCommentary: Other Critical Responses to Oedipus—Freud, Dodds, and ArtaudSigmund Freud, On the Oedipus ComplexE.R. Dodds, disagreeing with Freud, from “On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex”Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and its DoubleINSPIRATION: The Oedipal Complex on FilmAntigone (translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)Antigone on the American StageAudio Locale: Antigone and Modern-Day Current EventsInspiration: Antigone Abroad23. A Playwright in Depth: William Shakespeare Literary Locale: The Globe Theater, LondonWilliam Shakespeare TimelineVideo Locale: Will the Real Will Please Stand Up?—The Shakespeare DebatePerformance Notes on Shakespearean DramaTo Cut or Not to Cut?Radical ChangesModern DressCasting the PlayInspiration: Shakespeare in the Modern MoviesPlays by ShakespeareReading The TempestThe Tempest (edited by David Bevington)Inspiration: The Tempest in Film and VerseThe Tempest in PerformanceCultural Context for The Tempest: O Brave New WorldAUDIO LOCALE: Songs from Shakespeare’s PlaysInspiration: Retelling The Tempest—On Film and In VerseCommentary: Aime Cesaire, A Tempest (translated by Richard Miller)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (edited by David Bevington)Inspiration: Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadCommentary: Danitra Vance, Flotilda Williams as JulietOthello, The Moor of Venice (edited by David Bevington)Virtual Locale: Shakespeare on the WebDrama Becomes ModernLITERARY LOCALE: The Ibsen Museum in Oslo, NorwayHenrik Ibsen, A Doll House (translated by Rolf Fjelde)Inspiration: A “Little” Doll’s HouseVirtual Locale: Ibsen on the NetPerformance Notes on Modern TheaterNew Plays, New AudiencesChanging the StagePsychology, "The Method," and PoliticsTennessee Williams, The Glass MenagerieLiterary Locale: The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary FestivalArthur Miller, Death of a SalesmanAudio Locale: Retrospective of a Master PlaywrightINSPIRATION: Bright Futures in SalesAudio Locale: 50th Anniversary of Death of a SalesmanCommentary: Arthur Miller on Trial25. Sweet Home Chicago: From Renaissance to A Raisin in the Sun VIDEO LOCALE: George King’s Goin’ to ChicagoChicago Renaissance TimelineSt. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, from BronzevilleLITERARY LOCALE: Parkway Community House—Bronzeville, ChicagoPoetry of the Chicago RenaissanceGwendolyn Brooks, We Real CoolThe Lovers of the PoorLITERARY LOCALE: Chicago’s South Side Community Art CenterFrank Marshall Davis, I Sing No New SongsRobert WhitmoreMargaret Walker, I Want to WriteFor My PeopleMargaret Danner, Far From Africa: Four PoemsAUDIO LOCALE: Hughes and Danner’s "Writers of the Revolution" DiscussionThe BluesVIDEO, AUDIO, and VIRTUAL LOCALE: Martin Scorsese’s The BluesRobert Johnson, Sweet Home ChicagoMcKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Rolling StoneWillie Dixon, SpoonfulLITERARY AND AUDIO LOCALE: The Chicago Blues—Chess RecordsCommentary on the BluesLITERARY AND VIRTUAL LOCALE: Chicago Blues ArchiveGospelThomas A. Dorsey, Precious Lord Take My HandSam Cooke, If I Could Just Touch the Hem of His GarmentA Change Is Gonna ComeVIRTUAL LOCALE: Encyclopedia of Chicago WebsiteStories of the Chicago RenaissanceGwendolyn Brooks, “Home” from Maud MarthaRichard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground (in fiction)Commentary: On Richard WrightMargaret Walker, Richard Wright and the Writer’s Art from Daemonic GeniusINSPIRATION: Literature on the Newsstands of ChicagoLangston Hughes, In the DarkCommentary: A Literary Correspondence: Langston Hughes-Arna BontempsCyrus Colter, Mary’s ConvertPlays in the Chicago RenaissanceLorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the SunInspiration: Hughes and Hansberry: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?26. From Avant-Garde to Contemporary TheaterPerformance Notes on Contemporary TheaterPushing BoundariesDesigner TheaterBreaking the Fourth WallSamuel Beckett, Not ICommentary: Beckett’s Legacy in the Drama WorldLuis Valdez, Los VendidosLiterary Locale: El Teatro Campesinoin CaliforniaPhilip Kan Gotanda, The WashVirtual Locale: Philip Kan Gotanda’s WebsiteAugust Wilson, The Piano LessonVIDEO LOCALE: The Piano Lesson on ScreenInspiration: August Wilson and the BluesAnna Deavere Smith, From Twilight, Los Angeles 1992 (selections)Video Locale: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, From Stage to ScreenInspiration:A New Generation of One-Woman Acts on StagePart IV: LITERARY RESEARCH The Literature Research ProjectUnderstanding Literary ResearchEntering the Cultural Conversation about LiteratureChoosing a TopicNarrowing Your Topic and Developing a Research QuestionDetermining Your Purpose: Types of Literary Research ProjectsDistinguishing Between Expository Essays and Literary ArgumentsThe Research Process: A Step-By Step SummaryFinding and Evaluating SourcesFinding SourcesAnnotated References for Literary ResearchAnnotated Library Subscription Databases for Literary ResearchEvaluating SourcesPrint SourcesInternet SourcesTaking Adequate NotesThe Actual Writing ProcessDrafting a ThesisCreating an OutlineWriting a First DraftRevising and EditingAvoiding PlagiarismAcademic HonestyUnintentional PlagiarismAn Example of Plagiarism and How to Prevent ItDocumenting SourcesUsing Parenthetical Citations in Your TextIntegrating QuotationsFormatting Literary Quotations from Stories, Plays, and StoriesCreating the Works Cited PageSample Literary Research Project: From Question to Finished PaperClass Assignment Sheet for Research ProjectSample Student ProspectusSample Student Thesis and OutlineSample Student Research PaperGlossary of Literary TermsCreditsIndex of Authors and TitlesIndex of First Lines of Poetry