Literature For Writing - An Anthology of Major British and American Authors
Published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1966
Contents: | Shakespeare's violation of the unities / Samuel Johnson -- The grand style / Matthew Arnold -- The method of scientific investigation / Thomas Henry Huxley -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- The place of science in a liberal education / Bertrand Russell -- A point to be remembered by very eminent men / Sir Max Beerbohm -- The iron string / Howard Mumford Jones -- An old new play / George Bernard Shaw -- "The importance of being earnest" / Arthur Bingham Walkley -- Satiric strategy in "The importance of being earnest" / Otto Reinert -- The meaning of "The importance of being earnest" / Arthur Ganz -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain -- The cliche expert testifies on the atom / Frank Sullivan -- Ivorytown, Rinsoville, Anacinburg, and Crisco Corners / James Thurber -- Caesar's dictatorship and death / Plutarch -- Boswell's first six meetings with Johnson / James Boswell -- Why I write / George Orwell -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Teresa / Sean O'Faolain -- The loan / Bernard Malamud -- Daisy Miller / Henry James -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The dead / James Joyce -- 1 Henry IV / William Shakespeare -- The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Riders to the sea / John MIllington Synge -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Edward (versions A and B); Mary Hamilton; The wife of Usher's Well; Our goodman / Anonymous -- The lover compareth his state to a ship; The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- I mun be married a Sunday / Nicholas Udall -- Importune me no more / Elizabeth I -- Gather the rose; Sonnet 70; Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser -- A description of love / Sir Walter Ralegh -- Sonnet 39; A farewell / Sir Philip Sidney -- Sonnets 31, 33 / Samuel Daniel -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Sonnets 30, 73; Sonnets 116, 129; Who is Silvia? / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet / James I -- Spring; Adieu! farewell earth's bliss / Thomas Nashe -- What if a day, or a month, or a year; There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campion -- Song: To Celia; Come, my Celia, let us prove; On my first son; Love and death; To himself / Ben Jonson -- The canonization; A valediction: Forbidding mourning; A hymn to God the father / John Donne -- Easter wings; The collar; Love / George Herbert -- Lycidas; L'allegro; Il penseroso / John Milton -- To his coy mistress; The fair singer; The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- Mac Flecknoe / John Dryden -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns -- The vision of judgment / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey; Michael; The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- The rime of the ancient mariner; Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ode to the west wind; To a skylark; The mask of anarchy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode to a nightingale; Ode on a Grecian urn; To autumn / John Keats -- Ulysses; Tears, idle tears; Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church / Robert Browning -- The scholar-gypsy; Requiescat; Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- The man he killed; New Year's Eve; Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- The raven; Ulalume; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed / Walt Whitman -- I taste a liquor never brewed; I had been hungry all the years; To make a prairie; Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- The second coming; Sailing to Byzantium; Among school children / William Butler Yeats -- The death of the hired man; Dust of snow; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Preludes; Gerontion / T.S. Eliot -- Musee de Beaux Arts; In memory of W.B. Yeats; Lay your sleeping head, my love / W.H. Auden -- Peter Quince at the clavier; Sunday morning; The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter; Her eyes; The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom -- This is the shape of the leaf; The room; The quarrel / Conrad Aiken -- Elegy; What lips my lips have kissed; Pity me not / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Ars poetica; You, Andrew Marvell; The reconciliation / Archibald MacLeish -- Buffalo Bill's; since feeling is first; pity this busy monster, manunkind / e. e. cummings -- The groundhog; The fury of aerial bombardment; If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness / Richard Eberhart -- Dolor; The partner; I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke -- The refugees; The death of the ball turret gunner; Losses / Randall Jarrell -- A week of doodle; A projection / Reed Whittemore -- Journey through the night; Warning to a guest / John Holloway -- The salt garden / Howard Nemerov -- Epistemology; Years-end / Richard Wilbur -- Masters; Departure / Kinsley Amis -- A summer gone / Howard Moss -- To the ghost of a kite; Paul / James Wright -- Epigenethlion: first child; The body politic / Donald Hall -- A bird in search of a cage; The faithful lover / Robert Pack. |
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