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Literature: structure, sound, and sense
1983, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Table of Contents

The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell
The Child by Tiger / Thomas Wolfe
The Destructors / Graham Greene
The Japanese Quince / John Galsworthy
I'm a Fool / Sherwood Anderson
The Black Madonna / Doris Lessing
The Pot of Gold / John Cheever
An Ounce of Cure / Alice Munro
A Job of the Plains / William Humphrey
Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth
Haircut / Ring Lardner
Paul's Case / Willa Cather
Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway
The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
The Guest / Albert Camus ; translated by Justin O'Brien
Greenleaf / Flannery O' Connor
The Storm / McKnight Malmar
That Evening Sun / William Faulkner
The Catbird Seat / James Thurber
The Drunkard / Frank O'Connor
A Christmas Memory / Truman Capote
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen / Bill Adams
The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence
A Mother's Tale / James Agee
A Municipal Report / O. Henry
A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell
Spotted Horses / William Faulkner
Mule in the Yard / William Faulkner
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
Rope / Katherine Anne Porter
Death of a Traveling Salesman / Eudora Welty
Battle Royal / Ralph Emerson
To Hell With Dying / Alice Walker
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby / Donald Barthelme
Clay / James Joyce
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood
In Exile / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Ann Dunnigan
The Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
The Eagle / Afred, Lord Tennyson
Winter / William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est / Wilfred Owen
Spring / William Shakespeare
A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson
Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Pasture / Robert Frost
Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman
Hast thou given the horse strength / from the Book of Job
The Man He Killed / Thomas Hardy
Is my team ploughing / A.E. Housman
Hyla Brook / Robert Frost
Think'st thou to seduce me then / Thomas Campion
There's been a death in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson
When in Rome / Mari Evans
O what is that sound / W.H. Auden
Mirror / Sylvia Plath
A Study of Reading Habits / Philip Larkin
How Roses Came Red / Robert Herrick
There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson
When my love swears that she is made of truth / William Shakespeare
The Naked and the Nude / Robert Graves
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Naming of Parts / Henry Reed
Judging Distances / Henry Reed
Being Herded Past the Prison's Honor Farm / David Wagoner
Cross / Langston Hughes
Base Details / Siegfried Sassoon
The Careful Angler / Robert Louis Stevenson
Meeting at Night / Robert Browning
Parting at Morning / Robert Browning
A Late Aubade / Richard Wilbur
On moonlit heath and lonesome bank / A.E. Housman
A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
Living in Sin / Adrienne Rich
Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Autumn / John Keats
The Guitarist Tunes Up / Frances Cornford
The Hound / Robert Francis
Bereft / Robert Frost
It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson
Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell / Archibald MacLeish
Pack, clouds, away / Thomas Heywood
A Hummingbird / Emily Dickinson
The Silken Tent / Robert Frost
Metaphors / Sylvia Plath
Toads / Philip Larkin
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / John Donne
To His Coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell
Weep you no more, sad fountains / Anonymous
Loveliest of Trees / A.E. Housman
Dream Deferred / Langston Hughes
Death stands above me / Walter Savage Landor
The Road Not Taken / Robert Frost
A White Rose / John Boyle O'Reilly
My Star / Robert Browning
You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time / Robert Herrick
Redemption / George Herbert
Reveille / A.E. Housman
Fire and Ice / Robert Frost
The Sick Rose / William Blake
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Curiosity / Alastair Reid
Love Song: I and Thou / Alan Dugan
A Hole in the Floor / Richard Wilbur
Sun and Moon / Jay Macpherson
Fame / Robert Browning
Dust of Snow / Robert Frost
Soft Snow / William Blake
My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson
A Red, Red Rose / Robert Burns
The Rose Family / Robert Frost
What soft, cherubic creatures / Emily Dickinson
The Chimney Sweeper / William Blake
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Althea, from Prison / Richard Lovelace
Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne
Love Poem / John Frederick Nims
Incident / Countee Cullen
Formal Application / Donald W. Baker
The Unknown Citizen / W.H. Auden
Departmental / Robert Frost
Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman
My Last Duchess / Robert Browning
Earth / John Hall Wheelock
"Out, Out-" / Robert Frost
from Macbeth: She should have died hereafter / William Shakespeare
In Just / e. e. cummings
On His Blindness / John Milton
God is a distant, stately lover / Emily Dickinson
Aunt Jane / Alden Nowlan
On the idle hill of summer / A.E. Housman
Leda and the Swan / William Butler Yeats
Verteran Sirens / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot
In the Garden / Anonymous
Little Jack Horner / Anonymous
Barter / Sara Teasdale
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost
Song / Robert Browning
Dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
Design / Robert Frost
What if a much of a which of a wind / e. e. cummings
When serpents bargain for the right to squirm / e.e. cummings
The Caged Skylark / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Aubade / Philip Larkin
Ars Poetica / Archibald MacLeish
The Villain / W.H. Davies
Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson
The Coming of Wisdom with Time / William Butler Yeats
Since there's no help / Michael Drayton
Farewell to barn and stack and tree / A.E. Housman
Elegy for Alfred Hubbard / Tony Connor
The Telephone / Robert Frost
Love in Brooklyn / John Wakeman
One dignity delays for all / Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm at first like us / Emily Dickinson
Crossing the Bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Oxen / Thomas Hardy
Love / Anonymous
Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope
The Turtle / Ogden Nash
That night when joy began / W.H. Auden
God's Grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
With rue my heart is laden / A.E. Housman
We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Shoe Shop / Barton Sutter
Winter Ocean / John Updike
Parting, without a Sequel / John Crowe Ransom
Song / Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
Nothing Gold Can Stay / Robert Frost
Autumnus / Joshua Sylvester
Virtue / George Herbert
Seal Lullaby / Rudyard Kipling
"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence / William Blake
The "Je Ne Sais Quoi" / William Whitehead
If everything happens that can't be done / e. e. cummings
Oh who is that young sinner / A.E. Housman
Down by the salley gardens / William Butler Yeats
Had I the Choice / Walt Whitman
The Aim Was Song / Robert Frost
Metrical Feet / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pease porridge hot / Anonymous
Song: Hark, hark! / William Shakespeare
Splinter / Carl Sandburg
Upon Julia's Voice / Robert Herrick
The Span of Life / Robert Frost
Sound and Sense / Alexander Pope
I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson
Wind / Ted Hughes
Heaven-Haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anthem for Doomed Youth / Wilfred Owen
Boot and Saddle / Robert Browning
Night of Spring / Thomas Westwood
Eight O' Clock / A.E. Housman
All day I hear / James Joyce
The Dance / William Carlos Williams
To Fool, or Knave / Ben Jonson
The greedy the people / e. e. cummings
There was a young lady of Niger / Anonymous
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
That time of year / William Shakespeare
A Handful of Limericks / Anonymous
Poem in October / Dylan Thomas
Two Japanese Haiku / Matsuo Bosho/Moritake
When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman
Piazza Piece / John Crowe Ransom
from Romeo and Juliet: If I profane with my unworthiest hand / William Shakespeare
The Magician Suspends the Children / Carole Oles
Edward / Anonymous
400-Meter Freestyle / Maxine Kumin
A Christmas Tree / William Burford
Say not the struggle nought availeth
The Man Who Thinks He Can
God's Will for You and Me
Pied Beauty
Pitcher
The Old-Fashioned Pitcher
To My Son
On the Beach at Fontana
A Poison Tree
The Most Vital Thing in Life
On a Dead Child
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Some keep the Sabbath going to church
My Church
Boy-Man
America for Me
Little Boy Blue
The Toys
Ode to a Nightingale / John Keats
The Death of the Hired Man / Robert Frost
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
Black and White / Leonard Adame
To Satch / Samuel Allen
The Last War / Kingsley Amis
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
Landcrab / Margaret Atwood
Musee des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden
"O where are you going?" / W.H. Auden
On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High / D.C. Berry
Twenty-Third Flight / Earle Birney
One Art / Elizabeth Bishop
The Lamb / William Blake
The Tiger / William Blake
The Garden of Love / William Blake
Southern Cop / Sterling Brown
The Scientist / Janet Burroway
Lisa / Constance Carrier
Gift / Leonard Cohen
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Listeners / Walter de la Mare
The Bee / James Dickey
Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson
Song: Go and catch a falling star / John Donne
The Flea / John Donne
The Good-Morrow / John Donne
The Sun Rising / John Donne
Vergissmeinnicht / Keith Douglas
The Debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Award / Ray Durem
The Mouse Dinners / Russell Edson
Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost
Mending Wall / Robert Frost
Channel Firing / Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy
"More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht
Bredon Hill / A.E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young / A.E. Housman
Pike / Ted Hughes
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell
Pathedy of Manners / Ellen Kay
La Belle Dame sans Merci / John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu / A.M. Klein
Mr. Edwards and the Spider / Robert Lowell
Bedtime Story / George MacBeth
Nevertheless / Marianne Moore
Grace To Be Said at the Supermarket / Howard Nenerov
The Truro Bear / Mary Oliver
The Landlady / P.K. Page
Sestina: Altaforte / Ezra Pound
After the Killing / Dudley Randall
The Mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party / Edwin Arlington Robinson
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
The Waking / Theodore Roethke
Song: When I am dead, my dearest / Christina Rossetti
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Pain for a Daughter / Anne Sexton
Fear no more / William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare
Telephone Conversation / Wole Soyinka
The Snow Man / Wallace Stevens
Lion / May Swenson
A Description of the Morning / Jonathan Swift
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
The Owl / Edward Thomas
The Virgins / Derek Walcott
Boy Wandering in Simms' Valley / Robert Penn Warren
A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman
There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman
The Mill / Richard Wilbur
The Red Wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
The Solitary Reaper / William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats
The Stronger / August Strindberg ; translated by Edith and Warner Oland
Everyman / Anonymous
The Sandbox / Edward Albee
An Enemy of the People / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by R. Farquharson Sharp
The Glass Menagerie / Tennesse Williams
Blood Wedding / Federico Garcia Lorca ; translated by James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles ; translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare
The Misanthrope / Moliere ; translated by Richard Wilbur
Professional Foul (A Play for Television) / Tom Stoppard
The Cherry Ochard / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Ann Dunnigan
Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller
Appendix 1: Writing about Literature
Appendix 2: The Source of Othello

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1983

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808
Library of Congress
PN6014 .P4 1983

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xxii, 1492 p. ;
Number of pages
1492

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3515462M
Internet Archive
literaturestruct0004perr
ISBN 10
0155511068
ISBN 13
9780155511064
LCCN
82083236
OCLC/WorldCat
9466065, 1154530059
Library Thing
45215
Goodreads
60160553

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