Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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Independence (Chuang Tzu) (Chuang Tzu); The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever) (John Cheever); Greasy Lake (T. Coraghessan Boyle) (T. Coraghessan Boyle); The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke the Evangelist) (Luke the Evangelist); The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) (Franz Kafka); The Element of Surprise in "A Good Man is Hard To Find" (Flannery O'Connor) (Flannery O'Connor) (show all 329); The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader (Flannery O'Connor) (Flannery O'Connor); The Defeated (Nadine Gordimer) (Nadine Gordimer); On the Road (Langston Hughes) (Langston Hughes); The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); The Tale and Its Effect (Edgar Allan Poe) (Edgar Allan Poe); The Writer's Passive Work (Charlotte Bronte) (Charlotte Bronte); The Labor of Style (Gustave Flaubert) (Gustave Flaubert); The Mirror of a Consciousness (Henry James) (Henry James); Natural Description and "the Center of Gravity" (Anton Chekhov) (Anton Chekhov); Writing "Miss Brill" (Katherine Mansfield) (Katherine Mansfield); "The Human Heart in Conflict With Itself" (William Faulkner) (William Faulkner); How the Short Story Differs from the Novel (Nadine Gordimer) (Nadine Gordimer); "Commonplace but Precise Language" (Raymond Carver) (Raymond Carver); Four-Word Lines (May Swenson) (May Swenson); To a Locomotive in Winter (Walt Whitman) (Walt Whitman); Homecoming (Langston Hughes) (Langston Hughes); For My Daughter (Weldon Kees) (Weldon Kees); Sir, Say No More (Trumbull Stickney) (Trumbull Stickney); The Pruned Tree (Howard Moss) (Howard Moss); A Glass of Beer (James Stephens) (James Stephens); Her Kind (Anne Sexton) (Anne Sexton); The Day Zimmer Lost Religion (Paul Zimmer) (Paul Zimmer); Oh No (Robert Creeley) (Robert Creeley); Rites of Passage (Sharon Olds) (Sharon Olds); The Golf Links (Sarah N. Cleghorn) (Sarah N. Cleghorn); Gratitude (Louise Gluck) (Louise Gluck); The Workbox (Thomas Hardy) (Thomas Hardy); In the Counselor's Waiting Room (Bettie Sellers) (Bettie Sellers); On Stella's Birthday (Jonathan Swift) (Jonathan Swift); High Treason (Jose Emilio Pacheco) (Jose Emilio Pacheco); In Place of a Curse (John Ciardi) (John Ciardi); At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border (William Stafford) (William Stafford); Silence (Marianne Moore) (Marianne Moore); Riding a One-Eyed Horse (Henry Taylor) (Henry Taylor); Down, Wanton, Down! (Robert Graves) (Robert Graves); The Last Word (Peter Davison) (Peter Davison); In the Elegy Season (Richard Wilbur) (Richard Wilbur); Friend, on This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead (J. V. Cunningham) (J. V. Cunningham); Like Gulliver (Nina Cassian) (Nina Cassian); Mouse's Nest (John Clare) (John Clare); Reason (Josephine Miles) (Josephine Miles); How I Came to Have a Man's Name (Emma Lee Warrior) (Emma Lee Warrior); Lonely Hearts (Wendy Cope) (Wendy Cope); Once in a While a Protest Poem (David B. Axelrod) (David B. Axelrod); anyone lived in a pretty how town (E. E. Cummings) (E. E. Cummings); Carnation Milk (Anonymous) (Anonymous); Mutability (William Wordsworth) (William Wordsworth); Scottsboro (Anonymous) (Anonymous); Cargoes (John Masefield) (John Masefield); Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock (Wallace Stevens) (Wallace Stevens); A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach (Richard Snyder) (Richard Snyder); Epitaph (Timothy Steele) (Timothy Steele); Merlin (Geoffrey Hill) (Geoffrey Hill); The Piercing Chill I Feel (Tanigucki Buson) (Tanigucki Buson); The Winter Evening Settles Down (T. S. Eliot) (T. S. Eliot); Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke) (Theodore Roethke); The Fish (Elizabeth Bishop) (Elizabeth Bishop); The Victory (Anne Stevenson) (Anne Stevenson); Winter News (John Haines) (John Haines); A Route of Evanescence (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); Reapers (Jean Toomer) (Jean Toomer); On the One-Ton Temple Bell (Taniguchi Buson) (Taniguchi Buson); Heat-Lightning Streak (Matsuo Basho) (Matsuo Basho); Haiku Ambulance (Richard Brautigan) (Richard Brautigan); A Selection of Haiku (Gary Snyder ∙ Michael Stillman ∙ Penny Harter ∙ Nicholas A. Virgilio ∙ Richard Wright ∙ Hayden Carruth ∙ Richard Wilbur ∙ John Ridland) (Gary Snyder ∙ Michael Stillman ∙ Penny Harter ∙ Nicholas A. Virgilio ∙ Richard Wright ∙ Hayden Carruth ∙ Richard Wilbur ∙ John Ridland); Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art (John Keats) (John Keats); Summer (Timothy Steele) (Timothy Steele); The Runner (Walt Whitman) (Walt Whitman); Image (T. E. Hulme) (T. E. Hulme); The Great Figure (William Carlos Williams) (William Carlos Williams); Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter (Robert Bly) (Robert Bly); Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout (Gary Snyder) (Gary Snyder); Heat (H. D.) (H. D.); Toads (Philip Larkin) (Philip Larkin); Letter from Germany (Emily Grosholz) (Emily Grosholz); Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (William Shakespeare) (William Shakespeare); Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Howard Moss) (Howard Moss); Sindhi Woman (Jon Stallworthy) (Jon Stallworthy); A Simile for Her Smile (Richard Wilbur) (Richard Wilbur); To see the world in a grain of sand (William Blake) (William Blake); Metaphors (Sylvia Plath) (Sylvia Plath); It dropped so low -- in my Regard (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); Simile (N. Scott Momaday) (N. Scott Momaday); Castoff Skin (Ruth Whitman) (Ruth Whitman); The Wind (James Stephens) (James Stephens); I Knew a Woman (Theodore Roethke) (Theodore Roethke); Leaving Forever (Denise Levertov) (Denise Levertov); The Suitor (Jane Kenyon) (Jane Kenyon); You Fit Into Me (Margaret Atwood) (Margaret Atwood); Song of Man Chipping an Arrowhead (W. S. Merwin) (W. S. Merwin); The Cathedral Is (John Ashbery) (John Ashbery); Hands (Robinson Jeffers) (Robinson Jeffers); The Cruel Mother (Anonymous) (Anonymous); from Peter Piper (Run D.M.C.) (Run D.M.C.); Richard Cory (Edwin Arlington Robinson) (Edwin Arlington Robinson); Richard Cory (Paul Simon) (Paul Simon); True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance (Alexander Pope) (Alexander Pope); Who Goes with Fergus? (William Butler Yeats) (William Butler Yeats); Recital (John Updike) (John Updike); The Watch (Frances Cornford) (Frances Cornford); A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (William Wordsworth) (William Wordsworth); Rain (Emanuel di Pasquale) (Emanuel di Pasquale); When maidens are young (Aphra Behn) (Aphra Behn); Eight O'Clock (A. E. Housman) (A. E. Housman); Upon Julia's Voice (Robert Herrick) (Robert Herrick); Girl Help (Janet Lewis) (Janet Lewis); The splendor falls on castle walls (Alfred Tennyson) (Alfred Tennyson); On my boat on Lake Cayuga (William Cole) (William Cole); The Angel that presided o'er my birth (William Blake) (William Blake); The Hoppopotamus (Hilaire Belloc) (Hilaire Belloc); Scenes from the Playroom (R. S. Gwynn) (R. S. Gwynn); Narcissus and Echo (Fred Chappell) (Fred Chappell); In Memoriam John Coltrane (Michael Stillman) (Michael Stillman); With rue my heart is laden (A. E. Housman) (A. E. Housman); Virginia (T. S. Eliot) (T. S. Eliot); Atticus (Alexander Pope) (Alexander Pope); With serving still (Thomas Wyatt) (Thomas Wyatt); Resume (Dorothy Parker) (Dorothy Parker); On the impring of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm (Max Beerbohm) (Max Beerbohm); On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia (Walter Savage Landor) (Walter Savage Landor); Counting-out Rhyme (Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Edna St. Vincent Millay); Beat! Beat! Drums! (Walt Whitman) (Walt Whitman); Dream Boogie (Langston Hughes) (Langston Hughes); Yield (Ronald Gross) (Ronald Gross); Grief (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning); Facts (Thomas Carper) (Thomas Carper); Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog (Alexander Pope) (Alexander Pope); A selection of Epigrams (Martial ∙ 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) (Martial ∙ 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 clerihews (W. H. Auden ∙ Edmund Clerihew Bentley ∙ Cornelius J. Ter Maat) (W. H. Auden ∙ Edmund Clerihew Bentley ∙ Cornelius J. Ter Maat); Proposition II (Keith Waldrop) (Keith Waldrop); Rondeau (Leigh Hunt) (Leigh Hunt); Triolet (Robert Bridges) (Robert Bridges); Sestina (Elizabeth Bishop) (Elizabeth Bishop); Six Variations (Part III ∙ Denise Levertov) (Part III ∙ Denise Levertov); Victory Comes Late (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); The Heart (Stephen Crane) (Stephen Crane); Cavalry Crossing a Ford (Walt Whitman) (Walt Whitman); Concrete Cat (Dorthi Charles) (Dorthi Charles); In Just- (E. E. Cummings) (E. E. Cummings); Jump Cabling (Linda Pastan) (Linda Pastan); The City Limits (A. R. Ammons) (A. R. Ammons); I Shall Paint My Nails Red (Carole Satyamurti) (Carole Satyamurti); What I Like (Alice Fulton) (Alice Fulton); La Chute (Charles Olsen) (Charles Olsen); The Boston Evening Transcript (T. S. Eliot) (T. S. Eliot); The Lightning is a Yellow Fork (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); The Parable of the Good Seed (Matthew the Apostle) (Matthew the Apostle); Uphill (Christina Rossetti) (Christina Rossetti); Signs (Gjertrud Schnackenberg) (Gjertrud Schnackenberg); Kites (Hugo Williams) (Hugo Williams); Poem ("As The Cat" ∙ William Carlos Williams) ("As The Cat" ∙ William Carlos Williams); Popcorn-can Cover (Lorine Niedecker) (Lorine Niedecker); Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost) (Robert Frost); Bavarian Gentians (D. H. Lawrence) (D. H. Lawrence); The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) (Thomas Hardy); Night Driving (Dick Allen) (Dick Allen); All Souls' Night (Frances Cornford) (Frances Cornford); Taken Up (Charles Martin) (Charles Martin); Curse of the Cat Woman (Edward Field) (Edward Field); Lady Lazarus (Sylvia Plath) (Sylvia Plath); The Women on My Mother's Side Were Known (Julia Alvarez) (Julia Alvarez); Theme for English B (Langston Hughes) (Langston Hughes); The Shrine Whose Shape I Am (Samuel Menashe) (Samuel Menashe); The X in My Name (Francisco X. Alarcon) (Francisco X. Alarcon); Sous-Entendu (Anne Stevenson) (Anne Stevenson); As the apple tree among the trees of the wood (Song of Songs 2:3-13) (Song of Songs 2:3-13); Facing It (Yusuf Komunyakaa) (Yusuf Komunyakaa); Men at Forty (Donald Justice) (Donald Justice); Women (Adrienne Rich) (Adrienne Rich); To Li Po (Shirley Gook-lin Lim) (Shirley Gook-lin Lim); Spring in the Only Place Spring Was (Alberto Rios) (Alberto Rios); Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead (Andrew Hudgins) (Andrew Hudgins); Well, I Have Lose You and I Lost You Fairly (Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Edna St. Vincent Millay); La Guitarra (Guitar ∙ Federico Garcia Lorca) (Guitar ∙ Federico Garcia Lorca); Translations From Horace (Edwin Arlington Robinson ∙ James Michie ∙ John Frederick Nims) (Edwin Arlington Robinson ∙ James Michie ∙ John Frederick Nims); Translations from Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald ∙ Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah ∙ Dick Davis) (Edward FitzGerald ∙ Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah ∙ Dick Davis); We four lads from Liverpool are (Anonymous) (Anonymous); From From Strugnell's Rubaiyat (Wendy Cope) (Wendy Cope); What, Still Alive at Twenty-Two? (Hugh Kingsmill) (Hugh Kingsmill); The Lady Speaks Again (Bruce Bennett) (Bruce Bennett); Margaret Are You Drug (George Starbuck) (George Starbuck); O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face (Anonymous) (Anonymous); Life (Grace Treasone) (Grace Treasone); My Wife is My Shirt (Stephen Tropp) (Stephen Tropp); A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); Thoughts on Capital Punishment (Rod McKuen) (Rod McKuen); Travelling Through the Dark (William Stafford) (William Stafford); Little Libby (Julia A. Moore) (Julia A. Moore); Poem (Bill Knott) (Bill Knott); Crib Death (Dubney Stuart) (Dubney Stuart); Reuben, Reuben (Michael Harper) (Michael Harper); A Child's Grave Marker (Ted Kooser) (Ted Kooser); Reincarnation (Wallace McRae) (Wallace McRae); My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (William Shakespeare) (William Shakespeare); There is a garden in her face (Thomas Campion) (Thomas Campion); Fog (Carl Sandberg) (Carl Sandberg); Catch (Robert Francis) (Robert Francis); Edward (Anonymous) (Anonymous); Last Words of the Prophet (Navajo Mountain Chant ∙ Anonymous) (Navajo Mountain Chant ∙ Anonymous); At North Farm (John Shbery) (John Shbery); The Insert (R. L. Barth) (R. L. Barth); Filling Station (Elizabeth Bishop) (Elizabeth Bishop); The Dream (Louise Bogan) (Louise Bogan); The Rites for Cousin Vit (Gwendolyn Brooks) (Gwendolyn Brooks); Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (Robert Browning) (Robert Browning); Your yen two wol slee me sodenly (Geoffrey Chaucer) (Geoffrey Chaucer); The Donkey (G. K. Chesterton) (G. K. Chesterton); Indian Boarding School: The Runaways (Louise Erdrich) (Louise Erdrich); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost) (Robert Frost); California Hills in August (Dana Gioia) (Dana Gioia); Helen (H. D.) (H. D.); Names of Horses (Donald Hall) (Donald Hall); In Church (Thomas Hardy) (Thomas Hardy); The Whipping (Robert Hayden) (Robert Hayden); Dry Noon (James Hayford) (James Hayford); Digging (seamus Heaney) (seamus Heaney); Mother of the Groom (Seamus Heaney) (Seamus Heaney); Adam (Anthony Hecht) (Anthony Hecht); Love (George Herbert) (George Herbert); The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad (Robert Herrick) (Robert Herrick); The Cadence of Silk (Garrett Hongo) (Garrett Hongo); Thou are indeed just, Lord, if I contend (Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Gerard Manley Hopkins); The Windhover (Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Gerard Manley Hopkins); Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now (A. E. Housman) (A. E. Housman); Dream Deferred (Langston Hughes) (Langston Hughes); The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Randall Jarrell) (Randall Jarrell); To the Stone-Cutters (Robinson Jeffers) (Robinson Jeffers); I Feel (Elizabeth Jennings) (Elizabeth Jennings); On the Death of Friends in Childhood (Donald Justice) (Donald Justice); Home is So Sad (Philip Larkin) (Philip Larkin); Poetry of Departures (Philip Larkin) (Philip Larkin); The Bull Calf (Irving Layton) (Irving Layton); Animals are Passing from Our Lives (Philip Levine) (Philip Levine); My Father's Martial Art (Stephen Shu-ning Liu) (Stephen Shu-ning Liu); The End of the World (Archibald MacLeish) (Archibald MacLeish); To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell) (Andrew Marvell); Disclosure (David Mason) (David Mason); Lucifer in Starlight (George Meredith) (George Meredith); Charles on Fire (James Merrill) (James Merrill); When I consider how my light is spent (John Milton) (John Milton); The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing (Marianne Moore) (Marianne Moore); The Master (Frederick Morgan) (Frederick Morgan); The Snow Globe (Howard Nemerov) (Howard Nemerov); Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves (Lorine Niedecker) (Lorine Niedecker); The One Girl at the Boys Party (Adrienne Rich) (Adrienne Rich); Ethics (Linda Pastan) (Linda Pastan); With Our Eyes Shut (Octavio Paz) (Octavio Paz); Running on Empty (Robert Phillips) (Robert Phillips); A Little Learning is a Dang'rous Thing (Alexander Pope) (Alexander Pope); The Garret (Ezra Pound) (Ezra Pound); Old Witherington (Dudley Randall) (Dudley Randall); Naming of Parts (Henry Reed) (Henry Reed); Speaking a Foreign Language (Alastair Reid) (Alastair Reid); Peeling Onions (Adrienne Rich) (Adrienne Rich); Power (Adrienne Rich) (Adrienne Rich); Elegy For Jane (Theodore Roethke) (Theodore Roethke); When Icicles Hang By the Wall (William Shakespeare) (William Shakespeare); The Dirty Word (Karl Shapiro) (Karl Shapiro); Butcher Shop (Charles Simic) (Charles Simic); Titanic (David R. Slavitt) (David R. Slavitt); America Primitive (William Jay Smith) (William Jay Smith); Disposal (W. D. Snodgrass) (W. D. Snodgrass); At the Klamath Berry Festival (William Stafford) (William Stafford); The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Wallace Stevens) (Wallace Stevens); Second Hand Coat (Ruth Stone) (Ruth Stone); Dark house, by which once more I stand (Alfred Tennyson) (Alfred Tennyson); Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas) (Dylan Thomas); Ex-Basketball Player (John Updike) (John Updike); Red Rooster, Yellow Sky (Amy Uyematsu) (Amy Uyematsu); Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri (Mona Van Duyn) (Mona Van Duyn); The Virgins (Derek Walcott) (Derek Walcott); Transit (Richard Wilbur) (Richard Wilbur); The Writer (Richard Wilbur) (Richard Wilbur); Thinking About Bill, Dead of AIDS (Miller Williams) (Miller Williams); To Waken an Old Lady (William Carlos Williams) (William Carlos Williams); A Blessing (James Wright) (James Wright); Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (James Wright) (James Wright); Inspiration (Plato) (Plato); Two Causes of Poetry (Aristotle) (Aristotle); Emotion Recolled in Tranquillity (William Wordsworth) (William Wordsworth); Imagination (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (Samuel Taylor Coleridge); The Business of a Poet (Samuel Johnson) (Samuel Johnson); Meter-Making Argument (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (Ralph Waldo Emerson); A Long Poem Does Not Exist (Edgar Allan Poe) (Edgar Allan Poe); Recognizing Poetry (Emily Dickinson) (Emily Dickinson); The Sound of Sense (Robert Frost) (Robert Frost); The Rhythm Persists (William Carlos Williams) (William Carlos Williams); Poetry and Music (Ezra Pound) (Ezra Pound); Emotion and Personality (T. S. Eliot) (T. S. Eliot); Feminist Re-vision (Adrienne Rich) (Adrienne Rich); European Languages and the Literature of the Americas (Octavio Paz) (Octavio Paz); The Sandbox (Edward Albee) (Edward Albee); Tragedy (Aristotle) (Aristotle); Sophocles and Divine Justice (E. R. Dodds) (E. R. Dodds); The Faults of Othello (Thomas Rymer) (Thomas Rymer); Iago as a Triumphant Villan (W. H. Auden) (W. H. Auden); An Asian Culture Looks at Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess) (Anthony Burgess); Ibsen and the Familiar Situation (Bernard Shaw) (Bernard Shaw); The Theater of the Absurd (Edward Albee) (Edward Albee); Characters are Not Real People (Maria Irene Fornes) (Maria Irene Fornes); How to Stage The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) (Tennessee Williams); Tragedy and the Common Man (Arthur Miller) (Arthur Miller); Black Experience in America (August Wilson) (August Wilson); Multicultural Theater (David Henry Hwang) (David Henry Hwang); The Girl Writing Her English Paper (Robert Wallace) (Robert Wallace); Wing-spread (Abbie Huston Evans) (Abbie Huston Evans); The Formalist Critic (Cleanth Brooks) (Cleanth Brooks); On Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" (Robert Langbaum) (Robert Langbaum); The Relationship of Poet and Poem (Leslie Fiedler) (Leslie Fiedler); On Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" (Brett C. Millier) (Brett C. Millier); Imagism (Hugh Kenner) (Hugh Kenner); On Langston Hughes (Daryl Pinckney) (Daryl Pinckney); Towards a Feminist Poetics (Elaine Showalter) (Elaine Showalter); The Freedom of Emily Dickinson (Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar) (Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar); The Destiny of Oedipus (Sigmund Freud) (Sigmund Freud); Poetic Influence (Howard Bloom) (Howard Bloom); Content Determines Form (Georg Lukacs) (Georg Lukacs); Art As Production (Terry Eagleton) (Terry Eagleton); Mythic Archetypes (Northrop Frye) (Northrop Frye); Lucifer in Shakespeare's Othello (Maud Bodkin) (Maud Bodkin); An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily" (Stanley Fish) (Stanley Fish); "How Do We Make a Poem?" (Robert Scholes) (Robert Scholes); On Wordsworth's "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" (Geoffrey Hartman) (Geoffrey Hartman)

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2002 (8e) (8e); 1995 (6e) (6e)