Preface for Instructors | |
35 Stories | p. 1 |
Young Goodman Brown | p. 3 |
The Cask of Amontillado | p. 14 |
Bartleby, the Scrivener | p. 20 |
A White Heron | p. 50 |
The Necklace | p. 59 |
The Story of an Hour | p. 66 |
The Lady with the Dog | p. 68 |
The Yellow Wallpaper | p. 82 |
Araby | p. 96 |
The Metamorphosis | p. 101 |
The Rocking-Horse Winner | p. 140 |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | p. 153 |
Barn Burning | p. 161 |
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | p. 176 |
The Chrysanthemums | p. 180 |
A Worn Path | p. 189 |
Battle Royal | p. 196 |
The Lottery | p. 208 |
A Conversation with My Father | p. 216 |
Sonny's Blues | p. 220 |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | p. 247 |
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | p. 260 |
Civil Peace | p. 266 |
A & P | p. 270 |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | p. 276 |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | p. 290 |
Happy Endings | p. 300 |
The Lesson | p. 304 |
The Management of Grief | p. 310 |
Everyday Use | p. 324 |
The Things They Carried | p. 332 |
Girl | p. 347 |
Two Kinds | p. 348 |
The House on Mango Street | p. 358 |
The Red Convertible | p. 359 |
250 Poems | p. 369 |
Sir Patrick Spens | p. 371 |
Lord Randal | p. 372 |
They flee from me | p. 374 |
When I was fair and young | p. 375 |
One day I wrote her name upon the strand | p. 375 |
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show | p. 376 |
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo | p. 377 |
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part | p. 377 |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | p. 378 |
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) | p. 379 |
Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) | p. 379 |
Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) | p. 380 |
Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) | p. 380 |
When thou must home | p. 381 |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | p. 382 |
The Flea | p. 383 |
Batter my heart, three-personed God | p. 384 |
On My First Son | p. 385 |
Am I thus conquered? | p. 385 |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | p. 386 |
Easter-wings | p. 387 |
The Pulley | p. 387 |
Song | p. 388 |
Lycidas | p. 389 |
When I consider how my light is spent | p. 395 |
To My Dear and Loving Husband | p. 396 |
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | p. 396 |
To His Coy Mistress | p. 397 |
On Her Loving Two Equally | p. 398 |
Housewifery | p. 399 |
From The Introduction | p. 400 |
A Description of the Morning | p. 401 |
The Rape of the Lock | p. 402 |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | p. 412 |
From Jubilate Agno | p. 416 |
The Indian Burying Ground | p. 419 |
The Lamb | p. 420 |
The Tyger | p. 421 |
London | p. 422 |
A Red, Red Rose | p. 422 |
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey | p. 423 |
I wandered lonely as a cloud | p. 427 |
Ode: Intimations of Immortality | p. 428 |
The world is too much with us | p. 434 |
Kubla Khan | p. 435 |
She walks in beauty | p. 437 |
Ozymandias | p. 438 |
Ode to the West Wind | p. 438 |
When I have fears that I may cease to be | p. 441 |
The Eve of St. Agnes | p. 442 |
Ode on a Grecian Urn | p. 454 |
To Autumn | p. 456 |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways | p. 457 |
To Helen | p. 458 |
Annabel Lee | p. 458 |
Ulysses | p. 460 |
Tears, idle tears | p. 462 |
Crossing the Bar | p. 463 |
My Last Duchess | p. 464 |
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad | p. 465 |
Riches I hold in light esteem | p. 466 |
From Song of Myself | p. 467 |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | p. 479 |
A Noiseless Patient Spider | p. 486 |
Dover Beach | p. 486 |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | p. 488 |
Much Madness is divinest Sense | p. 488 |
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died | p. 489 |
Because I could not stop for Death | p. 490 |
Song | p. 491 |
The Convergence of the Twain | p. 491 |
The Windhover | p. 493 |
God's Grandeur | p. 494 |
Pied Beauty | p. 494 |
Spring and Fall | p. 495 |
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now | p. 495 |
To an Athlete Dying Young | p. 496 |
"Terence, this is stupid stuff" | p. 497 |
The Second Coming | p. 499 |
Leda and the Swan | p. 500 |
Among School Children | p. 501 |
Sailing to Byzantium | p. 504 |
Richard Cory | p. 505 |
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind | p. 506 |
We Wear the Mask | p. 507 |
After Apple-Picking | p. 508 |
The Road Not Taken | p. 509 |
Birches | p. 510 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | p. 511 |
Susie Asado | p. 512 |
The Emperor of Ice-Cream | p. 513 |
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | p. 513 |
Sunday Morning | p. 514 |
The Red Wheelbarrow | p. 517 |
Spring and All | p. 518 |
This Is Just to Say | p. 519 |
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | p. 519 |
Garden | p. 520 |
Poetry | p. 521 |
Lullaby | p. 522 |
Hurt Hawks | p. 524 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 525 |
Preludes | p. 529 |
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | p. 531 |
America | p. 531 |
Wild Swans | p. 532 |
Dulce et Decorum Est | p. 532 |
in Just- | p. 533 |
pity this busy monster, manunkind | p. 534 |
Reapers | p. 535 |
Women | p. 535 |
My Grandmother's Love Letters | p. 536 |
Riverbank Blues | p. 537 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers | p. 538 |
Harlem | p. 539 |
Incident | p. 539 |
From "A" 15 | p. 540 |
Father and Son | p. 542 |
As I Walked Out One Evening | p. 543 |
Musee des Beaux Arts | p. 545 |
My Papa's Waltz | p. 547 |
The Forms of Love | p. 547 |
The Fish | p. 548 |
One Art | p. 550 |
Love Poem | p. 551 |
Those Winter Sundays | p. 552 |
Ballad of Birmingham | p. 552 |
Henry's Confession | p. 553 |
Traveling through the Dark | p. 554 |
Fern Hill | p. 555 |
Do not go gentle into that good night | p. 556 |
Naming of Parts | p. 557 |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo | p. 558 |
We Real Cool | p. 559 |
The Bean Eaters | p. 559 |
Skunk Hour | p. 560 |
The Torso | p. 561 |
my old man | p. 563 |
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World | p. 565 |
Regarding Chainsaws | p. 567 |
High Windows | p. 569 |
February Evening in New York | p. 570 |
The Excrement Poem | p. 571 |
The History of Jazz | p. 572 |
Cow Worship | p. 574 |
Michiko Dead | p. 575 |
The Day Lady Died | p. 575 |
A Supermarket in California | p. 576 |
Time | p. 577 |
The Pier: Under Pisces | p. 578 |
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter | p. 580 |
Yesterday | p. 580 |
One Coat of Paint | p. 582 |
The Bear | p. 583 |
A Blessing | p. 585 |
What Work Is | p. 586 |
Player Piano | p. 587 |
For Fawzi in Jerusalem | p. 589 |
Cinderella | p. 591 |
Diving into the Wreck | p. 594 |
Hitch Haiku | p. 596 |
Sea Grapes | p. 599 |
In Memory of Jane Fraser | p. 600 |
An Early Afterlife | p. 601 |
Metaphors | p. 602 |
Daddy | p. 602 |
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane | p. 605 |
Return to La Plata, Missouri | p. 606 |
December 21st | p. 607 |
An Anthem | p. 607 |
Zimmer Imagines Heaven | p. 609 |
Coal | p. 610 |
March Journal | p. 611 |
August | p. 613 |
Into This Time | p. 614 |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 | p. 616 |
Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him | p. 617 |
The Protable Earth-Lamp | p. 618 |
Barbie Doll | p. 619 |
From Speeches at the Barriers | p. 620 |
Begotten of the Spleen | p. 622 |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility | p. 623 |
Digging | p. 624 |
The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart | p. 625 |
A Dance for Ma Rainey | p. 626 |
Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat | p. 627 |
Grandmother's Song | p. 628 |
Shirt | p. 629 |
Late Spring | p. 631 |
Aristotle | p. 632 |
Why I Left the Church | p. 634 |
Speaking | p. 635 |
A Note on My Son's Face | p. 636 |
A Mask of Anger | p. 638 |
I Go Back to May 1937 | p. 639 |
Villanelle | p. 640 |
Woman Who Weeps | p. 641 |
Parable of Flight | p. 642 |
The Wheelchair Butterfly | p. 642 |
Snake-Back Solo 2 | p. 644 |
The Pomegranate | p. 646 |
Mountain Bride | p. 648 |
Makeup on Empty Space | p. 649 |
The Poem You Asked For | p. 653 |
The History of Red | p. 654 |
Why Can't I Leave You? | p. 656 |
Facing It | p. 657 |
From Room to Room | p. 658 |
What He Thought | p. 659 |
Prayer to the Pacific | p. 661 |
Blink Your Eyes | p. 662 |
I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi | p. 663 |
Problems with Hurricanes | p. 664 |
Functional Poem | p. 666 |
From the Spotted Night | p. 668 |
The Colonel | p. 669 |
Sumptuous Destitution | p. 670 |
Chinese Villanelle | p. 671 |
Reading Plato | p. 672 |
She Had Some Horses | p. 674 |
Yellow Light | p. 675 |
Grandfather-in-Law | p. 677 |
The Satisfaction Coal Company | p. 678 |
The Small Vases from Hebron | p. 680 |
You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain | p. 681 |
Nani | p. 682 |
The Elements of San Joaquin | p. 684 |
Family Ties | p. 687 |
Cold as Heaven | p. 688 |
The Girl Who Loved the Sky | p. 689 |
Praise the Tortilla, Praise the Menudo, Praise the Chorizo | p. 691 |
Tiara | p. 692 |
Cathedral | p. 693 |
The Stone of Heaven | p. 694 |
Freeway 280 | p. 696 |
Tornados | p. 697 |
A Love Medicine | p. 698 |
My Mother, If She Had Won Free Dance Lessons | p. 699 |
Turtle Soup | p. 700 |
Girl Powdering Her Neck | p. 701 |
When You Leave | p. 704 |
Short-order Cook | p. 704 |
Eating Alone | p. 705 |
The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp | p. 706 |
Syntax | p. 707 |
The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle | p. 708 |
The Ways of Guilt | p. 711 |
Thoreau | p. 713 |
Postcards to Columbus | p. 714 |
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person | p. 715 |
9 Plays | p. 717 |
Oedipus Rex | p. 719 |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | p. 763 |
A Doll House | p. 885 |
Trifles | p. 944 |
The Glass Menagerie | p. 956 |
Death of a Salesman | p. 1012 |
Top Girls | p. 1091 |
"Master Harold"...and the boys | p. 1153 |
The Piano Lesson | p. 1191 |
Writing About Literature | p. 1263 |
The Role of Good Reading | p. 1267 |
The Writing Process | p. 1278 |
Some Common Writing Assignments | p. 1302 |
Writing about Stories | p. 1318 |
Writing about Poems | p. 1325 |
Writing about Plays | p. 1331 |
Writing a Literary Research Paper | p. 1338 |
Biographical Notes on the Authors | p. 1371 |
Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms | p. 1430 |
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | p. 1467 |
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