Includes indexes.

Fiction
Reading a Story
Fable and Tale
W. Somerset Maughan/ The Appointment in Samarra
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm/ Godfather Death
Plot
The Short Story
John Updike/ A & P
Point of View
William Faulkner/ A Rose for Emily
Frank O'Connor/ First Confession
Edgar Allan Poe/ The Tell-Tale Heart
Doris Lessing/ A Woman on a Roof
Setting
James Joyce/ Araby
Kate Chopin/ The Storm
T. Coraghessan Boyle/ Greasy Lake
Character
James Thurber/ The Catbird Seat
Katherine Anne Porter/ The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Willa Cather/ Paul's Case
Isaac Bashevis Singer/ Gimpel the Fool
Tone and Style
Ernest Hemingway/ A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
William Faulkner/ Barn Burning
Alice Walker/ Everyday Use
Irony
Shirley Jackson/ The Lottery
Flann O'Brien/ Two in One
Theme
Flannery O'Connor/ Revelation
E.B. White/ The Door
Stephen Crane/ The Open Boat
Symbol
John Steinbeck/ The Chrysanthemums
Alice Munro/ Wild Swans
Evaluating a Story
Reading a Novel
Stories for Further Reading
Leo Tolstoi/ The Death of Ivan Ilych
Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark
Virginia Woolf/ A Haunted House
Katherine Mansfield/ The Garden-Party
Franz Kakfa/ A Hunger Artist
D.H. Lawrence/ The Rocking-Horse Winner
Edith Wharton/ Roman Fever
Eudora Welty/ A Worn Path
Walter Van Tilburg Clark/ The Portable Phonograph
Isak Dinesen/ A Sailor Boy's Tale
Nagai Tatsuo/ Brief Encounter
Gabriel García Márquez/ The Night of the Curlews
Tillie Olsen/ I Stand Here Ironing
Philip Roth/ The Conversion of the Jews
Joyce Carol Oates/ Where Are You Goin, Where Have You Been?
Toni Cade Bambara/ My Man Bovanne
Ursula K. Leguin/ The Wife's Story.

Criticism: On Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe/ The tale and its effect
Charlotte Brontë/ The writer's passive work
Gustave Flaubert/ The labor of style
Nathaniel Hawthorne/ America and the landscape of Romance
Thomas Hardy/ "The whole secret of a living style"
Henry James/ The mirror of a consciousness
James Joyce/ Epiphanies
Virginia Woolf/ "A luminous halo"
Edith Wharton/ The short story and the novel
William Faulkner/ "The human heart in conflict with itself"
Frank O'Connor/ The greatest essential of a story
Stanley Fish, An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily"
Poetry
Reading a Poem
A.E. Housman/ Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Robert Hayden/ Those Winter Sundays
Linda Pastan/ Ethics
Robert Francis/ Catch
Andrew Marvell/ To His Coy Mistress
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
John Milton/ On the Late Massacre in Piemont
The Person in the Poem
Trumbull Stickney/ Sir, say no more
Randall Jarrell/ A Sick Child
William Wordsworth/ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Edwin Arlington Robinson/ How Annandale Went Out
Paul Zimmer/ The Day Zimmer Lost Religion
Richard Hugo/ In Your Young Dream
William Carlos Williams/ The Red Wheelbarrow
Irony
Robert Creeley/ Oh No
W.H. Auden/ The Unknown Citizen
John Betjeman/ In Westminster Abbey
Sarah N. Cleghorn/ The Golf Links
Thomas Hardy/ The Workbox
For Review and Further Study
Richard Lovelace/ To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen/ Dulce et Decorum Est
James Stephens/ A Glass of Beer
Jonathan Swift/ On Stella's Birthday
A.E. Housman/ Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
Hugh MacDiarmid/ Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
Bettie Sellers/ In the Counselor's Waiting Room
William Blake/ The Chimney Sweeper
Words
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
William Carlos Williams/ This is Just to Say
Knute Skinner/ The Cold Irish Earth
Henry Taylor/ Riding a One-Eyed Horse
Robert Graves/ Down, Wanton, Down!
Peter Davison/ The Last Word
David B. Axelrod/ Once in a While a Protest Poem
Miller Williams/ On the Symbolic Consideration of Hands and the Significance of Death
John Donne/ Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You.

The Value of a Dictionary
Richard Wilbur/ In the Elegy Season
Cid Corman/ The Tortoise
J.V. Cunningham/ Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Herman Melville/ The Portent
John Dryden/ Lines printed Under the Engraved Portrait of Milton
Laurence Perrine/ Janus
John Clare/ Mouse's Nest
Lewis Carroll/ Jabberwocky
Wallace Stevens/ Metamorphosis
Word choice and Word Order
Josephine Miles/ Reason
Hugh MacDiarmid/ Wheesht, Wheesht
Thomas Hardy/ The Ruined Maid
E.E. Cummings/ anyone lived in a pretty how town
James Emanuel/ The Negro
Richard Eberhart/ The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Anonymous/ Carnation Milk
A.R. Ammons/ Spring Coming
William Wordsworth/ My heart leaps up when I behold
William Wordsworth/ Mutability
John Malcolm Brinnin/ The Ascension: 1925
Anonymous/ Scottsboro
Saying and Suggesting
John Masefield/ Cargoes
William Blake/ London
Wallace Stevens/ Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Samuel Johnson/ A Short song of Congratulation
Timothy Steele/ Epitaph
Richard Snyder/ A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach
Geoffrey Hill/ Merlin
Wallace Stevens/ The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Walter de la Mare/ The Listeners
Robert Frost/ Fire and Ice
Imagery
Ezra Pound/ In a Station of the Metro
Taniguchi Buson/ The piercing chill I feel
Theodore Roethke/ Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop/ The Fish
Jean Tommer/ Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins/ Pied Beauty
About Haiku
Richard Brautigan/ Haiku Ambulance
Paul Goodman, Gary Snyder, Virgil Hutton, Raymond Roseliep, Nicholas Virgilio, Richard Wright, Kenneth Rexroth/ A selection of haiku
For Review and Further Study
John Keats/ Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
Carl Sandburg/ Fog
Walt Whitman/ The Runner
T.E. Hulme/ Image
William Carlos Williams/ The Great Figure
Robert Bly/ Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Gary Snyder/ Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
H.D./ Heat
James Preston/ Sunfish Races
Mary Oliver/ Rain in Ohio
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
Richard Wilbur/ A Simile for Her Smile
Alfred, Lord Tennyson/ Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake/ to see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath/ Metaphors
Jane Kenyon/ The Suitor
Emily Dickinson/ It dropped so low
in my Regard
Ruth Whitman/ Castoff Skin
Denise Levertov/ Leaving Forever
Peter Williams/ When she was here, Li Bo, she was like cold summer lager
Other figures
James Stephens/ The Wind
Chidiock Tichborne/ Elegy, Written with his Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution
George Herbert/ The Pulley
Edmund Waller/ On a Girdle
Theodore Roethke/ I Knew a Woman.

For Review and Further Study
Robert Frost/ The Silken Tent
James C. Kilgore/ The White Man Pressed the Locks
Ogden Nash/ Very Like a Whale
Richard Wilbur/ Sleepless at Crown Point
Anonymous/ The fortunes of war, I tell you plain
Robert Frost/ The Secret Sits
Margatet Atwood/ You fit into me
John Tagliabue/ Maine vastly covered with much snow
John Ashbery/ The Cathedral Is
Etheridge Knight/ For black Poets Who think of Suicide
W.S. Merwin/ Son of Man Chipping an Arrowhead
Robert Burns/ Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
Gibbons Ruark/ The rose growing into the house songs
Singing and Saying
Ben Jonson/ To Celia
Anonymous/ The Cruel Mother
Edwin Arlington Robinson/ Richard Cory
Paul Simon/ Richard Cory
Ballads
Anonymous/ Bonny Barbara Allan
John Lennon and Paul McCartney/ Eleanor Rigby
For Review and Further Study
Adrienne Rich/ Song
Anonymous/ Fa, mi, fa, re, la, mi
Anonymous/ The silver swan, who living had no note
Willie Nelson/ Heaven and Hell
Bruce Springsteen/ Born to Run
Sound
sound as Meaning
Alexander Pope/ True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats/ Who goes with Fergus?
John Updike/ Winter Ocean
Frances Cornford/ The Watch
William Wordsworth/ A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Emanuel di Pasquale/ Rain
Alliteration and Assonance
A.E. Housman/ Eight O'Clock
Robert Herrick/ Upon Julia's Voice
Janet Lewis/ Girl Help
Alfred, Lord Tennyson/ The splendor falls on castle walls
Rime
Anonymous/ Julius Caesar
William Blake/ The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Hilaire Belloc/ The Hippopotamus
Brad Leithauser/ Trauma
James Hayford/ Mason's Trick
Robert Frost/ Desert Places
William Butler Yeats/ Leda and the Swan
Gerard Manley Hopkins/ God's Grandeur
Emily Dickinson/ the soul selects her own Society
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud
James Wright/ Saying Dante Aloud
Michael Stillman/ In Memoriam John Coltrane
William Shakespeare/ Full fathom five thy father lies
A.E. Housman/ With rue my heart is laden
T.S. ELiot/ Virginia
Galway Kinnell/ Blackberry Eating
Rhythm
Stresses and Pauses
Gwendolyn Brooks/ We Real Cool
Robert Frost/ Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
Ben Jonson/ Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears
Alexander Pope/ Atticus
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
Walter Savage Landor/ On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia
Edna St. Vincent Millay/ Counting-out Rhyme
A.E. Housman/ When I was one-and-twenty
William Carlos Williams/ The Descent of Winter (section 10/30)
Walt Whitman/ Beat! Beat! Drums!

Closed Form, Open Form
Closed Form: Blank verse, Stanza, Sonnet
John Keats/ This living hand, now warm and capable
John Donne/ Song ("Go and catch a falling star")
Roy Campbell/ On Some South African Novelists
Ronald Gross/ Yield
Rosemarie Waldrop/ The Relaxed Abalone
Michael Drayton/ Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
Elizabeth Barrett Browning/ Grief
Archibald MacLeish/ The End of the World
Alexander Pope, Martial, Sir John Harrington, William Blake, E.E. Cummings, J.V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Robert Crawford, Paul Ramsey, Bruce Bennett, / A selection of epigrams
Mark Twain/ A Limerick
W.H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius J. Ter Maat, A selection of clerihews
Dylan Thomas/ Do not go gentle into that good night
Open Form
Denise Levertov/ Six Variations (part iii)
E.E. Cummings/ Buffalo Bill's
Emily Dickinson/ Victory comes late
Robert Herrick/ Upon a Child That Died
Saint Geraud/ Poem ("The only response")
William Carlos Williams/ The Dance
Stephen Crane/ The Heart
Walt Whitman/ Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Wallace Stevens/ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Gary Gildner/ First Practice
Leonard Cohen/ All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann
Bruce Guernsey/ Louis B. Russell
Christopher Bursk/ First Aid at 4 A.M.
For Review and Further Study
Leigh Hunt/ Rondeau
Stevie Smith/ I Remember
Keith Waldrop/ Proposition II
Elizabeth Bishop/ Sestina
Geoffrey Chaucer/ Your ÿen two wol slee me sodenly
E.E. Cummings/ in Just-
Linda Pastan/ Jump Cabling
Donald Finkel/ Gesture
Charles Olson/ La Chute
Poems for the Eye
George Herbert/ Easter Wings
John Hollander/ Swan and Shadow
William Blake/ A Poison Tree
Wang Wei/ Bird-Singing Stream
Edwin Morgan/ Siesta of a Hungarian Snake
Richard Kostelanetz/ Disintegration
Dorthi Charles/ Concrete Cat
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/ Redemption
Sir Philip Sidney/ You that with allegory's curious frame
Emily Dickinson/ I heard a Fly buzz
when I died
Gjertrud Schnackenberg/ Signs
Louis Simpson/ The Boader
Christina Rossetti/ Uphill
Philip Dow/ Drunk Last Night with Friends, I Go to Work Anyway
William Carlos Williams/ Poem ("As the cat")
Theodore Roethke/ Night Crow
John Donne/ A Burnt Ship
Wallace Stevens/ Anecdote of the Jar
Myth
D.H. Lawrence/ Bavarian Gentians
Thomas Hardy/ The Oxen
William Wordsworth/ The World Is Too Much with Us
William Butler Yeats/ The Second Coming
John Milton/ Lycidas.

Alternatives
The Poet's Revisions
William Butler Yeats/ The Old Pensioner
William Butler Yeats/ the Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
Walt Whitman/ A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman/ The Soul, reaching, throwing out for love
Translations
Federico García Lorca/ La guitarra (Guitar)
Horace/ Odes I (38)
William Cowper, Hartley Coleridge, Eugene Field, / Translations for Horace
Charles Baudelaire/ Recueillement (Meditation)
Lord Alfred Douglas, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Richard Howard, / Translatons for Baudelaire
Parody
T.E. Brown/ My Garden
J.A. Lindon/ My Garden
Hugh Kingsmill/ What, still alive at twenty-two?
Kenneth Koch/ Mending Sump
George Starbuck/ Margaret Are You Drug
Evaluating a Poem
Telling Good from Bad
Anonymous/ O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Grace Treasone/ Life
M. Krishnamurti/ the Spirit's Odyssey
Stephen Tropp/ My Wife Is My Shirt
Emily Dickinson/ A Dying Tiger-moaned for Drink
Robert Burns/ John Anderson my jo, John
Rod McKuen/ Thoughts on Capital Punishment
Wiliam Stafford/ Traveling Through the Dark
Hart Crane/ My Grandmother's Love Letters
Eliza Cook/ The Old Arm-Chair
D.H. Lawrence/ Piano
Alfred, Lord Tennyson/ Tears, Idle Tears
Knowing Excellence William Butler Yeats/ Sailing to Byzantium
Arthur Guiterman/ On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
Percy Bysshe Shelley/ Ozymandias
William Shakespeare/ My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Thomas Campion/ There is a garden in her face
Walt Whitman/ O Captain! My Captain!
Thomas Gray/ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
David Bottoms/ Smoking in an Open Grave
Maria Lowell/ An Opium Fantasy
What is Poetry?
Archibald MacLeish/ Ars Poetica.

Poems for Further Reading
Anonymous/ Edward
Sir Patrick Spence
the Three Ravens
The Twa Corbies
Sumer is icumen in
I sing of a maiden
Western Wind
Matthew Arnold/ Dover Beach
John ashbery/ City Afternoon
W.H. Auden/ As I Walked Out One Evening
Musée des Beaux Arts
R.L. Barth/ The Insert
Eilzabeth Bishop/ Filling Station
William Blake/ The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Louise Bogan/ The Dream
Mark Alexander Boyd/ Cupid and Venus
Emily Brontë/ Love and Friendship
Gwendolyn Brooks/ The Rites for Cousin Vit
Sadie and Maud
Olga Broumas/ Cinderella
Elizabeth Barrett Browning/ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Robert Browning/ My Last Duchess
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Thomas Carew/ Ask me no more where Jove bestows
Fred Chappell/ Skin Flick
G.K. Chesterton/ The Donkey
Amy Clampitt/ The Cormorant in His Element
Lucille Clifton/ to the unborn and waiting children
Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ Kubla Khan
William Cowper/ Praise for the Fountain Opened
Emily Dickinson/ Because I could not stop for Death
I started Early
Took my Dog
My Life has stood
a Loaded Gun
John Donne/ The Bait
Death be not proud
The Flea
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Dryden/ To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Norman Dubie/ The Funeral
Alan Dugan/ Love Song: I and Thou
T.S. Eliot/ Journey of the Magi
the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Robert Frost/ Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening
The Wood-Pile
Tess Gallagher/ Under Stars
Allen Ginsberg/ A Supermarket in California
Dana Gioia/ California Hills in August
Donald Hall/ Names of Horses
Thomas Hardy/ The Convergence of the Twain
Five satires of Circumstance
Seamus Heaney/ Sunlight
Anthony Hecht/ The Vow
George Herbert/ Love
Robert Herrick/ Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Michael Hogan/ Spring
Garrett Kaoru Hongo/ The Hongo Store /29 Miles Volcano / Hilo, Hawaii
Gerard Manley Hopkins/ Spring and Fall
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
The Windhover
A.E. Housman/ Terence, this is stupid stuff
To an Athlete Dying Young
Langston Hughes/ Dream Deferred
Subway Rush Hour
David Ignatow/ Get the Gasworks
Randall Jarrell/ The Death of the BallTurret Gunner
Well Water
Ben Jonson/ On my First Son
Donald Justice/ On the Death of Friends in Childhood
John Keats/ Ode on Melancholy
To Autumn
Galway Kinnell/ Saint Francis and the Sow
Carolyn Kizer/ The Intruder
Ted Kooser/ Flying at Night
Philip Larkin/ Home is so Sad
A Study of Reading Habits
D.H. Lawrence/ A Youth Mowing
Irving Layton/ The Bull Calf
Denise Levertov/ The Ache of Marriage
Philip Levine/ To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop
Robert Lowell/ Skunk Hour
Christopher Marlowe/ The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
George Meredith/ Lucifer in Starlight
James Merrill/ Laboratory Poem
Charlotte Mew/ Fame
John Milton/ When I consider how my light is spent
N. Scott Momaday/ The Delight song of Tsoai-talee
Marianne Moore/ The Mind is an Enchanting Thing
Howard Nemerov/ Storm Windows
Joh Frederick Nims/ Love Poem
Sharon Olds/ The One Girl at the Boys Party
Wilfred Owen/ Anthem for Doomed Youth
Robert Phillips/ Running on Empty
Sylvia Plath/ Daddy
Morning Song
Ezra Pound/ The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter
Sir Walter Raleigh/ The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Dudley Randall/ Ballad of Birmingham
John Crowe Ransom/ Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Henry Reed/ Naming of Parts
Adrienne Rich/ Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Diving into the Wreck
Theodore Roethke/ Elegy for Jane
The Waking
Paul Ruffin/ Hotel Fire: New Orleans
Winfield Townley Scott/ Mrs. Severin
Anne Sexton/ To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
William Shakespeare/ That time of year thou mayst in me behold == When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
When daisies pied and violets blue
When icicles hang by the wall
Karl Shapiro/ The Dirty Word
Stephen Shu-ning Liu/ My Father's Martial Art
Charles Simic/ Butcher Shop
Christopher Smart/ For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
William Jay Smith/ American Primitive
W.D. Snodgrass/ The Operation
Gary Soto/ Black Hair
William Stafford/ At the Klamath Berry Festival
Timothy Steele/ Timothy
Wallace Stevens/ Peter Quince at the Clavier
May Swenson/ Question
Jonathan Swift/ A Description of the Morning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson/ Dark house, by which once more I stand
Ulysses
Dylan Thomas/ Fern Hill
John Updike/ Ex-Basketball Player
Henry Vaughan/ The Retreat
David Wagoner/ Staying Alive
Edmund Waller/ Go, Lovely Rose
Walt Whitman/ I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Richard Wilbur/ Museum Piece
William Carlos Williams/ Spring and All
To Waken an Old Lady
Yvor Winters/ At the San Francisco Airport
William Wordsworth/ Composed upon Westminster Bridge
James Wright/ A Blessing
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Sir Thomas Wyatt/ They flee from me that sometime did me sekë
William Butler Yeats/ Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
For Anne Gregory
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
To a Friend Whose Work Has come to Nothing
The Magi.

Lives of the Poets
John Ashbery
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Robert Bly
Gwendolyn Brooks
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Thomas Campion
William Cowper
E.E. Cummings
J.V. Cunningham
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
John Dryden
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
George Herbert
Robert Herick
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A.E. Housman
Langston Hughes
Randall Jarrell
Ben Jonson
John Keats
Galway Kinnell
Philip Larkin
D.H. Lawrence
Denise Levertov
Robert Lowell
Hugh MacDiarmid
Jhn Milton
John Frederick Nims
Wilfred Owen
Linda Pastan
Sylvia Plath
Alexander Pope
Ezra Pound
Adrienne Rich
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Theodore Roethke
William Shakespeare
William Stafford
Timothy Steele
James Stephens
Wallace Stevens
Jonathan Swift
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
John Updike
Keith Waldrop
Walt Whitman
Richard Wilbur
william Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth
James Wright
Sir Thomas Wyatt
William Butler Yeats.

Criticism: On Poetry
Plato/ Inspiration
Socrates banishes poets from his ideal state
Aristotle/ Two causes of poetry
Sir Philip Sidney/ Nature and the poet
Samuel Johnson/ The business of a poet
William Wordsworth/ Emotion recollected in tranquillity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ Imagination
Percy Bysshe Shelley/ Unacknowledged legislators
Ralph Waldo Emerson/ Meter-making argument
Edgar Allan Poe/ A long poem does not exist
Robert Frost/ The sound of sense
Wallace Stevens/ Proverbs
William Carlos Williams/ The rhythm persists
The crab and the box
Ezra Pound/ Poetry and music
T.S. Eliot/ Emotion and personality
Yvor Winters/ The fallacy of expressive form
Randall Jarrell/ On the charge that modern poetry is obscure
Sylvia Plath/ The magic mountains
Barbara Herrnstein Smith/ Closure and anti-closure.

Drama
Reading a Play
A Play in its Elements
Susan Glaspell/ Trifles
Tragedy
The Theater of Sophocles
Sophocles/ Oedipus Rex
The Theater of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare/ The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice
Comedy
William Shakespeare/ The Tempest
Woody Allen/ Death Knocks
The Theater of Molière
Molière/ The Physician in Spite of Himself
The Modern Theater
Relaism and Nonrealism
Henrik Ibsent/ A Doll House
William Butler Yeats/ Purgatory
Tragicomedy and the Absurd
Edward Albee/ The Zoo Story
Evaluating a Play
Plays for Further Reading
Sophocles/ Antigonê
Tennessee Williams/ The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller/ Death of a Salesman
Criticism: On Drama
Aristotle/ Tragedy
Sigmund Freud/ The destiny of Oedipus
E.R. Doods/ Sophocles and divine justice
Charles Paul Segal/ Antigone's womanly nature
Thomas Rymer/ The faults of Othello
Samuel Johnson/ "Shakespeare has no heroes"
Sylvan Barnet/ Te Tempest: Old conventions, new meanings
Bernard Shaw/ Ibsen and the familiar situation
Edward Albee/ The Theater of the Absurd
Tennessee Williams/ How to Stage The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller/ Tragedy and the Common Man
Supplement: Writing
Writing about Literature
Some approaches to literature
Beginning
Discovering and planning
Drafting and revising
The Form of your finished paper
Documenting your sources
Keeping a journal
Robert Wallace/ The Girl Writing Her English Paper
Writing about a Story
Explicating
analyzing
Comparing and contrasting
Suggestions for writing
Writing a Story
Finding a story
The Process of storytelling
Suggestions for writing
Writing about a Poem
Explicating
Robert Frost/ Design
Analyzing
Comparing and contrasting
Abbie Huston Evans/ Wing-Spread
How to quote a poem
Before you begin
Suggestions for writing
Writing a Poem
How does a poem begin?
On blotting out lines
Reaching an audience
Suggestions for writing
Writing about a play
Methods
Writing a card report
Reviewing a play
Suggestions for writing
Writing a Play
Suggestions for writing.