Fiction. The art of reading fiction. Two soldiers / William Faulkner -- Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin -- A sick call / Morley Callaghan -- File and forget / James Thurber -- The lift that went down into hell / Pär Lagerkvist.
Fiction. What we were and what we are : the present as the past unfinished. Going away / Alice Marriott -- Relatives out West / Paul Horgan -- Becky / Jean Toomer -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad.
Fiction. A range of human experience. Hodel / Sholom Aleichem -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- The eagles of the valle grande / N. Scott Momaday -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- Debbie go home / Alan Paton -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- Jean Beicke / William Carlos Williams -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- The boarding house / James Joyce -- The new villa / Anton Chekhov -- A country doctor / Franz Kafka.
Fiction. Twentieth century causes : betrayals and loyalties. Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Please don't kill anything / Arthur Miller -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Delta autumn / William Faulkner -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin.
Poetry. The art of reading poetry -- Transition to poetry. Richard Cory ; Mr. Flood's party ; Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Museums / Louis MacNeice -- nobody loses all the time / e.e. cummings -- Sonnet to my mother / George Barker -- Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters -- My last duchess ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / Robert Browning -- Her praise ; No second Troy ; That the night come / William Butler Yeats -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Bonny Barbara Allan ; Marie Hamilton ; Johnie Armstrong ; Sir Patrick Spence ; The twa corbies ; Back and side go bare, go bare / Anonymous -- Proud Maisie / Walter Scott -- The ballad of late Annie / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Slim in hell / Sterling A. Brown -- O what is that sound / W.H. Auden -- The castaway / William Cowper -- The host of the air ; The three beggars / William Butler Yeats.
Poetry. Techniques. Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Autumn ; The embankment / T.E. Hulme -- The balloon of the mind / William Butler Yeats -- [fragment] / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- Lethe / Hilda Doolittle -- a pretty a day / e.e. cummings -- Question / May Swenson -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Birds at winter nightfall / Thomas Hardy -- Triolet / Robert Bridges -- Colonel Fantock / Edith Sitwell.
Poetry. Themes. Love. Who would have thought / Thomas Howell -- Brown is my love ; O western wind, when wilt thou blow ; Thou sleepest fast / Anonymous -- To a lady to answer directly with yea or nay ; The lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed / Thomas Wyatt -- Song / George Peele -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Walter Ralegh -- Still to be neat / Ben Jonson -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- Idolatry / Arna Bontemps -- Shall I, wasting in despair / George Wither -- Why so pale and wan, fond lover? / John Suckling -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- What shall I do when the summer troubles ; The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- The old-marrieds / Gwendoly Brooks -- The lovepet / Ted Hughes -- Guitar recitativos, no. III / A.R. Ammons.
Poetry. Themes. Death. A lyke-wake dirge / Anonymous -- Fear no more ; Full fathom five / William Shakespeare -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Bredon Hill ; The rain, it streams on stone and hillock / A.E. Housman -- The house ; The listeners ; The ghost ; The old men / Walter de la Mare -- The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom.
Poetry. Themes. Man, machine, and society. The chimney sweeper ; London ; From Milton / William Blake -- Lament of the frontier guard / Ezra Pound -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- Limited / Carl Sandburg -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- Pot-luck among the casuals / Marsden Hartley -- Bagpipe music ; Sunday morning / Louis MacNeice -- I, too ; Without benefit of declaration ; Desert / Langston Hughes -- Mose / Sterling A. Brown -- The inquisitors / Robinson Jeffers.
Poetry. Themes. Man and nature. Sumer is icumen in / Anonymous -- Ancient music / Ezra Pound -- Spring ; Winter / William Shakespeare -- The garden ; The mower against gardens / Andrew Marvell -- November ; Nightingales / Robert Bridges -- Under cover ; Euroclydon / Abbie Huston Evans -- The gallows ; Out in the dark / Edward Thomas -- The hermit / William H. Davies -- I hear the cries of evening / Stephen Spender -- The yachts ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- The bear / N. Scott Momaday -- Song of the black bear / Anonymous (Navajo).
Poetry. Themes. Time, space, and mutability. To daffodils ; To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- Blue girls / John Crowe Ransom -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Close your eyes! / Arna Bontemps -- The force that through the green fuse drives ; Fern hill / Dylan Thomas.
Poetry. Themes. On the meaning of life. Ulysses ; The lotos-eaters / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- A loss of something ever felt I ; Finding is the first act / Emily Dickinson -- The wayfarer ; A man said to the universe / Stephen Crane -- Waiting both ; By the earth's corpse / Thomas Hardy -- The life of man / Francis Bacon -- When smoke stood up from Ludlow / A.E. Housman -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- The treehouse / James A. Emanuel -- If the stars should fall / Samuel Allen.
Poetry. Themes. Religion. At the round earth's imagined corners ; Death, be not proud / John Donne -- The collar ; Peace ; The pulley / George Herbert -- Easter hymn / A.E. Housman -- The flight in the desert / Brother Antoninus (William Everson).
Poetry. Forms. The sonnet. A renouncing of love / Thomas Wyatt -- Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton -- Sonnet 18, 29, 30, 33, 65, 71, 73, 106, 116 / William Shakespeare -- When I consider how my light is spent ; On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ; The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- England in 1819 ; Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sonnet 23 from The growth of love / Robert Bridges.
Poetry. Forms. The ode. Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / William Wordsworth -- Dejection : an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Poetry. Forms. The elegy. Lycidas / John Milton -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- After the funeral / Dylan Thomas.
Poetry. Eleven representative poets. The bait ; Song ; The indifferent ; The funeral ; The good-morrow ; The anniversary ; The canonization / John Donne -- The clod and the pebble ; The tyger ; Mad song ; A poison tree ; The garden of love ; The human abstract ; From Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- La belle dame sans merci ; When I have fears that I may cease to be ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; To autumn / John Keats -- Heaven-haven ; Pied beauty ; The windhover ; Spring and fall : to a young child ; No worst, there is none ; Thou art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- I said to love ; The darkling thrust ; In tenebris ; He abjures love ; Channel firing ; The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- The magi ; The second coming ; The cold heaven ; Among school children ; Meru ; Lapis Lazuli / William Butler Yeats -- The runaway ; Dust of snow ; After apple-picking ; Nothing gold can stay ; Fire and ice ; Desert places / Robert Frost -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Rhapsody on a windy night ; Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot -- Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Domination of black ; The snow man ; Sunday morning ; The idea of order at Key West ; A rabbit as king of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens -- Middle passage ; Frederick Douglass ; Unidentified flying object ; From Words in the mourning time ; A plague of starlings / Robert Hayden -- Rebellion ; As a plane tree by the water ; Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell.
Poetry. Recent modes. No swan so fine ; Sojourn in the whale ; To a steam roller / Marianne Moore -- A side-gallery for some insects ; Socrates entranced ; What I will think of as the white dog truth / Alan Stephens -- Epidermal macabre ; The happy three ; Elegy ; The geranium / Theodore Roethke -- Still, citizen sparrow ; Boy at the window / Richard Wilbur -- On the suicide of a friend ; The party / Reed Whittemore -- Reasons for attendance ; Next, please / Philip Larkin -- Don't let that horse ; Constantly risking absurdity ; The pennycandystore beyond the El / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- A race of sound ; A city child's day / Gregory Corso -- Samantha is my negro cat ; You tell me ; Persecuted, betrayal, Volkswagen blues / William J. Harris -- On the move ; The wheel of fortune / Thom Gunn -- The colossus ; Frog autumn / Sylvia Plath.
Drama. The art of reading plays. Antigone / Sophocles -- Othello / William Shakespeare -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- Arms and the man / George Bernard Shaw -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- J.B / Archibald MacLeish -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The police / Slawomir Mrozek.
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