Literature - A Pocket Anthology

A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.

List of contents

Introduction
Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature
* indicates a selection new to this edition
 
Fiction
Introduction to Fiction
The Telling of the Tale
The Short Story Genre
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction
 
Nathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  * Young Goodman Brown
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
   The Cask of Amontillado
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
   A White Heron
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
  *The Necklace
Kate Chopin  (1851-1904)
   The Story of an Hour
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
   The Yellow Wallpaper
Willa Cather (1876-1947)
   Paul’s Case
James Joyce (1882-1941)
   Araby
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
   Sweat
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
   A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
   *Hills Like White Elephants
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
   The Man Who Was Almost a Man
John Cheever (1912-1982)
   Reunion
Ralph Ellison (1914-1995)
   A Party Down at the Square
Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)
   The Lottery
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
   Seventeen Syllables
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
   *Good Country People
Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)
   A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
   Dead Men’s Path
*John Updike (1932-2009)
   *A & P
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
   Cathedral
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
   Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
   Happy Endings
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
   Shiloh
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
   Everyday Use
*Amy Tan (b.1952)
  *Two Kinds
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
   The Red Convertible
*Rick Moody (b. 1961)
   *Boys
Sherman Alexie
   This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
*Etgar Keret (b. 1967)
*Creative Writing
Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)
   A Temporary Matter
Susan Perabo (b. 1969)
   The Payoff
*Jill Patterson (b. 1972)
*The Fires We Can't Control
*Johnathan Safran Foer (b. 1977)
   * Here We Aren't, So Quickly
 
Poetry 
Introduction to Poetry
An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts 
Speaker, Listener, and Context 
“The Star-Spangled Banner” 
Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic 
The Language of Poetry 
 Figurative Language 
Allegory and Symbol 
Tone of Voice 
Repetition: Sounds and Schemes 
Meter and Rhythm 
Free Verse and Open Form
Stanza Forms 
Fixed Forms 
Literary History and Poetic Conventions 
 
Writing about Poetry
 
Poetry
Anonymous
   Western Wind
   Bonny Barbara Allan
   Sir Patrick Spens
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)
   They Flee from Me 
   Whoso List to Hunt
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
   Amoretti: Sonnet 75
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
   Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1
Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)
   The Burning Babe
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
   Idea: Sonnet 61
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
   Sonnet 18
   Sonnet 20
   Sonnet 29
   Sonnet 73
   Sonnet 116
   Sonnet 130
   When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
   There Is a Garden in Her Face
John Donne (1572-1631)
   The Flea
   Holy Sonnet 10
   Holy Sonnet 14
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
   On My First Son
   Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)
In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
   To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
George Herbert (1593-1633)
   Easter Wings
   The Pulley
   Redemption
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
   Song
John Milton (1608-1674)
   How Soon Hath Time
   On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
   When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
   The Author to Her Book
*To My Dear and Loving Husband
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
   To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
   To His Coy Mistress
John Dryden (1631-1700)
   To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
   A Description of a City Shower
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
   from An Essay on Criticism
 Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
   Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake (1757-1827)
   The Chimney Sweeper
   The Little Black Boy 
   A Poison Tree
   The Tyger
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
   A Red, Red Rose
   John Barleycorn
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
   I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
   It Is a Beauteous Evening
  *Llines: Composted a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting The Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
   Frost at Midnight
   Kubla Khan
   Work Without Hope
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
   She Walks in Beauty
   Stanzas
   When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
   Ode to the West Wind
   Ozymandias
John Keats (1795-1821)
   * Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art
   La Belle Dame sans Merci
   *Ode on a Grecian Urn
   On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
   Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18
   Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
   The Arsenal at Springfield
   The Cross of Snow
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Haunted Palace
The Raven
Sonnet to Science
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
   The Lady of Shallot
   Tears, Idle Tears
   Ulysses
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
   My Last Duchess
   Porphyria's Lover
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
   A Noiseless Patient Spider
   O Captain, My Captain
 Song of Myself, 6
   Song of Myself, 11
   When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
   Dover Beach
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
   After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
   Because I Could Not Stop for Death
   The Brain Is Wider than the Sky
   A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
   Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
   The Soul Selects Her Own Society
   Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
   Wild Nights--Wild Nights
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
   Up-Hill
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
   Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
Channel Firing
   Neutral Tones
   The Ruined Maid
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
   God's Grandeur
   Pied Beauty
   Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
   The New Colossus
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
   Eight O'Clock
   Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
   “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .”
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
   The Lake Isle of Innisfree
   Leda and the Swan
   Sailing to Byzantium
   The Second Coming
   The Song of Wandering Aengus
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
   Firelight
   The Mill
   Richard Cory
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
   The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers
   The Wayfarer
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
   We Wear the Mask
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
   Acquainted with the Night
   After Apple-Picking
   Design
   Home Burial
   The Road Not Taken
   Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
   Anecdote of the Jar
   Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
   The Emperor of Ice-Cream
   The Snow Man
 The Worms at Heaven’s Gate
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
   The Last Words of My English Grandmother
   The Red Wheelbarrow
   Spring and All
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
   In a Station of the Metro
 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
   Pear Tree
   Sea Rose
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
   Dreamers
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
   The Fish
   Silence
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
   If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way
   Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word
   What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
   Dulce et Decorum Est
E.. E.. Cummings (1894-1962)
   *anyone lived in a pretty how town
  pity this busy monster,manunkind
  plato told
  r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
 Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
   Georgia Dusk
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
   Women
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
   Dream Boogie
   *Theme for English B
   The Weary Blues
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
   Incident
   Yet Do I Marvel
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Musée des Beaux Arts
   The Unknown Citizen
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
   Dolor
   My Papa's Waltz
   Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
   The Fish
   One Art
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
   Those Winter Sundays
Dudley Randall (b. 1914)
   Ballad of Birmingham
William Stafford (1914-1993)
   Traveling through the Dark
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
   Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Weldon Kees (1914-1955)
   For My Daughter
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
   the ballad of chocolate Mabbie
   the mother
   We Real Cool
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
   A Coney Island of the Mind, #15
May Swenson (1919-1989)
   How Everything Happens
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
   A Primer of the Daily Round
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
   * For C
   The Writer
   Year's End
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
   Next, Please
  This Be the Verse
James Dickey (1923-1997)
   The Heaven of Animals
Alan Dugan (b. 1923)
   Love Song: I and Thou
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
   The Dover Bitch
   Third Avenue in Sunlight
Louis Simpson (1923-2012)
   American Classic
   My Father in the Night Commanding No
Vassar Miller (1924-1997)
   Subterfuge
Donald Justice (b. 1925)
   Counting the Mad
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)
   The Ungrateful Garden
Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)
   Noted in the New York Times
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
   A Supermarket in California
James Merrill (1926-1995)
   Casual Wear
W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)
   Mementos, I
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
   The Last One
James Wright (1927-1980)
   Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
   Saint Judas
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
   You Can Have It
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
   Cinderella
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)
Terminal
X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)
   In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
   Little Elegy
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
   Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
  Rape
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
   A Walk
Miller Williams (b. 1930)
   The Book
Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
   Ethics
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
   Daddy
   Edge
   Metaphors
Gerald Barrax (b. 1933)
   Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
The Black Walnut Tree
Fred Chappell (b. 1936)
   Narcissus and Echo
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
   homage to my hips
   wishes for sons
Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
   What’s That Smell in the Kitchen?
Betty Adcock (b. 1938)
   Voyages
Robert Phillips (b. 1938)
   The Stone Crab: A Love Poem
Dabney Stuart (b. 1938)
   Discovering My Daughter
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
   Siren Song
Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
   The Sacred
Ted Kooser (b. 1939)
  Abandoned Farmhouse
Tom Disch (b. 1940)
   Ballade of the New God
Florence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940)
   All American Sestina
Pattiann Rogers (b. 1940)
   Foreplay
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
   *The Lanyard
Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941)
   The Visitor
Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942)
   Combing
Charles Martin (b. 1942)
   E.S.L.
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
   The One Girl at the Boys Party
Diane Lockward (b. 1943)
   My Husband Discovers Poetry
*Alfred Corn (b. 1943)
  *Upbringing
Ellen Bryant Voight (b. 1943)
   Daughter
Robert Morgan (b. 1944)
   Mountain Bride
Craig Raine (b. 1944)
   A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Enid Shomer (b. 1944)
   Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen
Wendy Cope (b. 1944)
   Rondeau Redoublé
Kay Ryan (b. 1945)
   Bestiary
Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945)
   The Day Kennedy Died  
John Whitworth (b. 1945)
   *Little
Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)
   The Ballad of Aunt Geneva
Jim Hall (b. 1947)
   Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
   Facing It
Timothy Steele (b. 1948)
   Sapphics against Anger
James Fenton (b. 1949)
   God, a Poem
Sarah Cortez (b. 1950)
   Tu Negrito
Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
   The Colonel
Dana Gioia (b. 1950)
   Planting a Sequoia
Rodney Jones (b. 1950)
   Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Timothy Murphy (b. 1950)
   Case Notes
Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)
   Air View of an Industrial Scene 
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
   The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
   American Smooth
Mark Jarman (b. 1952)
   After Disappointment
Julie Kane (b. 1952)
   Alan Doll Rap
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
   The Traveling Onion
Alberto Ríos (b. 1952)
   The Purpose of Altar Boys
Julia Alvarez (b. 1953)
   Bilingual Sestina
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)
   Dim Lady
Kim Addonizio (b. 1954)
Sonnenizio on a Line from Michael Drayton
David Mason (b. 1954)
   Fog Horns
Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954)
   Welcome to Hiroshima
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
   Stamp Collecting
Ginger Andrews (b. 1956)
   Primping in the Rearview Mirror
Amy Gerstler (b. 1956)
   Advice from a Caterpillar
 Rebecca Foust (b. 1957)
   Family Story
*Denise Duhamel (b. 1961)
   *My Strip Club
Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963)
   Useful Advice
Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966)
   Domestic Work, 1937
Craig Arnold (1967-2009)
   The Singers
Allison Joseph (b. 1967)
   The Athlete
Brian Turner (b. 1967)
   Here, Bullet
Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968)
   Occupation
A. E. Stallings (b. 1968)
   First Love: A Quiz 
*Kevin Prufer (b. 1969)
  *The Viillain and His Helicopter: Possble Movie Rental Version
*Bob Griffith (b. 1970)
  *In the Kitchen
 Ernest Hilbert (b. 1970)
   Domestic Situation
*Alexander Long (b. 1972)
   *Flash Forward with The Amistad Before Us in the Distance 
Chelsea Rathburn (b. 1975)
*What Was Left
Emily Moore (b. 1977)
   Auld Lang Syne
*Caki Wilkinsen (b. 1980)
   *Itinerant
 
Drama
Introduction to Drama
The Play’s the Thing
Origins of Drama
Aristotle on Tragedy
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions
 
Sophocles  (496?-406 B.C.)
   Antigone
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
   *Othelllo
Twelfth Night
Henrik Ibsen  (1828-1906)
   *A Doll House
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
   Trifles
August Wilson  (b. 1945)
   *Fences
David Ives (b. 1950)
   Sure Thing
Milcha Sanchez-Scott (b. 1953)
   The Cuban Swimmer
 
Appendix A: Writing about Literature
 
Appendix B: Thematic Approaches to Literature
 
Index of Critical Terms
 
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems
 
 
 

About the author

R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Drama: A Pocket Anthology; Poetry: A Pocket Anthology; Fiction: A Pocket Anthology; The Art of the Short Story (with Dana Gioia); and Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (with April Lindner).  He has also authored five collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000. He has been awarded the Michael Braude Award for verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

Summary

A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.

Product details

• Authors: R. S. Gwynn
• Publisher: Pearson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9780321942746
• ISBN: 978-0-321-94274-6
• No. of pages: 1040
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 100 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies