Riverside Anthology of Literature

List of contents

A Mini-Anthology of Initiation Stories
Leslie Norris, Blackberries
Jayne Anne Phillips, Cheers
James Joyce, Araby
Barry Yourgrau, By the Creek
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Chronological Collection
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Juniper Tree
Randall Jarrell: On the Truth in Fairy Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
Flannery O''Connor: On Pushing Outward Toward Mystery
Edgar Allan Poe, A Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe: On Unity in the Tale
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart
Flannery O''Connor: On Flaubert''s Use of Setting
Henry James, The Middle Years
Henry James: On Limiting the Protagonist''s Insight
Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant: On the Conflict Between Realism and Art
Kate Chopin, Desirees Baby
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: On Her Own Nervous Prostration
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
Edith Wharton: On Crowding Moral Drama into a Short Story
James Joyce, The Dead
Virginia Woolf, Solid Objects
Virginia Woolf: On Her Rejection of Traditional Fiction
Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist
Flannery O''Connor: On Realism in Fantasy
D.H. Lawrence, The Blind Man
D.H. Lawrence: On the Truths of the Body
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Anne Porter: On Memory
Eudora Welty: On Porter''s Break with Surface Realism
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier''s Home. Two Comments on Being a Writer
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk
Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man
Eudora Welty, Livvie
Eudora Welty: On the Addition of Meaning to Experience
Nadine Gordimer, The Catch
José Donoso, Paseo
James Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues
Chinua Achebe: On Baldwin''s Sadness
Flannery O''Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Michael Wickey: The Meaning of the Mesfit''s Final Comment on the Grandmother
Yukio Mishima, Swaddling Clothes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel GarcIa Marquez: On Matter-of-Factness in the Fantasy
Alice Munro, Circle of Prayer
Chinua Achebe, Girls of War
Chinua Achebe: Fulfillment Rather than Self-Gratification
Edna O''Brien, Sister Imelda
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Raymond Carver: How Memories Find Their Way into Stories
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Toni Cade Bambara: Wholesomeness versus Hatred
Joseph Buchac III, Turtle Meat
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Bobbie Ann Mason: On the Way Stories Grow from Nuggets
Alice Walker. Everyday Use
Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker: The Significance of the Quilt
Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest
Louise Erdrich, Snares
Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
Sandra Cisneros: On Fairy Tales, Myths, and Stories
Ethan Canin, The Emperor of the Air
David Leavitt, Territory
David Leavitt: On the Importance of Seeing Oneself in Stories
Poetry Anthology
A Mini-Anthology of Poetry
Image
Matsuo Basho, The voice has wholly
Chiyo, Morning glories
Kohyo, The stick that strikes at it
Issa, A butterfly, a child
Ezra Pound, In a Station at the Metro
H.D., Evening
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Comparison
Emily Dickinson, The Snow that never drifts
Kofi Awoonor, The Weaver Bird
May Swenson, How Everything Happens
Diction
Carolyn Kizer, Bitch
Amy Clampitt, Beach Glass
Dennis Brutus, Nightsong: City
Sound
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia''s Clothes
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Come Down, O Maid
Wilfred Owen, Arms and the Boy
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Paula Gunn Allen, Hoop Dancer
Tone
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo
Robert Frost, Provide, Provide
Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation
Olga Broumas, Cinderella
Chronological Collection
Po Ch-i, In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight. Watching the Reapers. An Early Levee. Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain. Pruning Trees. Rising Late and Playing with A-Ts''ui, Aged Two. On His Baldness. William Carlos Williams: To the Shade of Po Ch-i. James Wright: As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of the Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55: Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments. Sonnet 65: Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth. nor Boundless Sea. Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold. Sonet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False of Heart. Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth. O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? Come Away, Come Away, Death. Fear No More the Heat o'' the Sun. A.E. Housman: On the Separation of Poetry and Thought.
John Donne, The Relic. The Canonization. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. The Good-Morrow. The Flea. Holy Sonnett 10: Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee. Holy Sonnett 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God. Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness. A.E. Housman: On Wit Versus Poetry. T.S. Eliot: On Intellectual versus Reflective Poetry.
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent. On the Late Massacre at Piedmont. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint. From Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 399-548, 994-1189. T.S. Eliot: On Poetry.
Andrew Marvell, Eyes and Tears. The Definition of Love. A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body. To His Coy Mistress. Bermudas. Archibald MacLeish: You, Andrew Marvell.
William Blake, The Lamb. The Chimney Sweep. The Little Black Boy. The Tyger. The Sick Rose. A Poison Tree. London. Auguries of Innocence. And Did Those Feet. A.E. Housman: Blake''s Revolt Against the Intellect.
William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. She Dwelt Amoung the Untrodden Ways. Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known. There Was a Boy. The World Is Too Much With Us. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge. Resolution and Independence. William Wordsworth: Please Whom? William Wordsworth: The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings.
John Keats, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be. Ode on Melancholy. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. To Autumn. Countee Cullen: To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mariana. The Kraken. Ulysses. Break, Break, Break. Tears, Idle Tears. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. In Memoriam Sections 2, 7, 11, 20, 39. T.S. Eliot: On Tennyson As an Instinctive Rebel.
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Meeting at Night. Fra Lippo Lippi. Two in the Campagna. Curry: Browning''s New Literary Form.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Section 5. The Wound-Dresser. When I Heard the Learn''d Astronomer. A Noiseless, Patient Spider. To a Locomotive in Winter. Allen Ginsburg: A Supermarket in California.
Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader. Correspondence. By Association. The King of the Rainy Country. The Little Old Women. Charles Baudelaire: On the Future of the Middle Class.
Emily Dickinson, I Like a Look of Agony. Wild Nights--Wild Nights!. Of Bronze--and Blaze--. The Soul Selects Her Own Society--. What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--. I Died for Beauty--But Was Scarce. It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up. The Heart Asks Pleasure--First--. Because I Could Not Stop for Death--. My Life Had Stood--A Loaded Gun--. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass. My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close--. Richard Wilbur: On Dickinson''s Religion.
Christina Rossetti, In an Artist''s Studio. Song (When I Am Dead My Dearest). L.E.L.. Good Friday. Life and Death. By the Sea. ''They Deserve a Better Country''. Passing and Glassing. Jennifer Beckman: On the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover. Pied Beauty. God''s Grandeur. The Sea and the Skylark. Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord. Richard Wilbur: On Poetic Cataloguing.
A.E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now. To An Athlete Dying Young. Terence, This is Stupid Stuff. Is My Team Plowing. On Moonlit Heath. Could Man Be Drunk for Ever. When First My Way. Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall. Housman: On the Physical Effect of Poetry.
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The Folly of Being Comforted. The Wild Swans at Coole. The Scholars. The Cat and the Moon. The Second Coming. Leda and the Swan. Sailing to Byzantium. Among School Children. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. William Butler Yeats: On a New Religion.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory. Miniver Cheevy. Eros Turannos. The Mill. Mr. Flood''s Party. The Sheavers. Robert Frost: On Robinson''s Humor.
Robert Frost, Home Burial. The Wood-Pile. Nothing Gold Can Stay. Birches. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Acquainted with the Night. Neither Out Far nor in Deep. Departmental. The Gift Outright. Robert Frost: Saying One Thing in Terms of Another.
Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning. The Emperor of Ice-Cream. Anecdote of the Jar. Disillusionment of Ten O''Clock. Study of Two Pearls. Page from a Tale. Randall Jarrell: On Steven''s Sense of Wonder.
William Carlos Williams, Queen-Ann''s Lace. The Botticellian Trees. This Is Just to Say. A Poor Old Woman. Young Woman at the Window. The Yellow Flower. William Carlos Williams: Three Comments on Poetry.
Marianne Moore, Poetry. Silence. The Fish. Peter. Four Quartz Crystal Clocks. Elephants. Elizabeth Bishop: Marianne Moore Visits the Circus.
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Preludes. Journey of the Magi. Animula. The Hollow Men. William Butler Yeats: On Monotony in Eliot. Robert Lowell: On Eliot''s Personality.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring. Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink. From a Train Window. Justice Denied in Massachusetts. The Oak-Leaves. Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies. Modern Declaration. An Ancient Gesture. Louise Bogan: On Millay''s Strengths and Weaknesses.
E.E. Cummings, All in green went my love riding. the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls. in Just. Buffalo Bill''s, Somewhere i have never traveled,gladly beyond. i sing of Olaf glad and big. r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r. Louise Bogan: On Cummings''s Breaking of Taboos.
Louise Bogan, Medusa. The Engine. To My Brother. Come, Break with Time. The Dream. Evening in the Sanitarium. Zone. The Dragonfly.
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Epilogue. Afro-American Fragment. Harlem Sweeties. Theme for English B. Harlem. Same in Blues. Countee Cullen: Hughes''s Overemphasis on Race. Langston Hughes: Race and Poetry.
Countee Cullen. Incident. Yet Do I Marvel. Heritage. For a Poet. Black Majesty.
Pablo Neruda, Here I Love You. Ritual of My Legs. Horses. Love. Sweetness, Always. Love Sonnet VI. The Danger. Robert Bly: On Neruda''s Imagination.
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts. The Sphinx. The Uncommon Citizen. In Memory of W.B. Yeats. Spain, 1937. Luther. Voltaire at Ferney. The Shield of Achilles. Randall Jarrell: The Old and the New Masters.
Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz. Big Wind. Root Cellar. Child on Top of a Greenhouse. Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze. I Knew a Woman. Theodore Roethke: What Do I Like?
Elizabeth Bishop, The Prodigal. Filling Station. The Armadillo. Questions of Travel. In the Waiting Room. Crusoe in England. One Art. Dana Gioia: A Poetry Class with Elizabeth Bishop.
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner. The Snow-Leopard. Nestus Gurley. Field and Forest. In Montecito. Randall Jarrell: Composing a Poem
Dylan Thomas, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. The Hunchback in the Park. Poem in October. Over Sir John''s Hill. Poem on His Birthday. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. William Carlos Williams: On Thomas''s ''Drunken Poetry.''
John Berryman, The Ball Poem. Winter Landscape. Sonnet 25. Dreamsong 1. Dreamsong 4. Dreamsong 14. Henry''s Understanding. John Berryman: The Origins of Winter Landscape.
Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner. We Real Cool. The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock. The Blackstone Rangers. Riot. The Chicago Picasso. Gwendolyn Brooks: On Her Belated Discovery of Black Identity.
Robert Lowell, The Drunken Fisherman. Waking in the Blue. For the Union Dead. Night Sweat. The Neo-Classical Urn. Epilogue. On the Advantages of Prose.
Richard Wilbur, Praise in Summer. The Death of a Toad. Still, Citizen Sparrow. Richard Wilbur: Mixed Feelings, Clashing Ideas, and Incongruous Images
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer''s Tigers. Love in the Museum. Orion. Gabriel. Planetarium. Diving into the Wreck. Two Songs. Adrienne Rich: On Writing as a Female Poet.
Derek Walcott. A Far Cry From Africa. Tarpon. Crusoe''s Journal. Crusoe''s Island. Homecoming: Anse La Raye. The Sea Is History. Rita Dove: On Walcott''s Struggle with the Postcard Image.
Sylvia Plath, Black Rook in Rainy Weather. Medallion. Tulips. The Arrival of the Bee Box. Cut. Daddy. Lady Lazarus. Robert Lowell: On Plath''s Last and First Poems.
Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby and Poem. God''s Mood. She Understands Me. There Is a Girl Inside. For the Mute. For the Lame. To Joan. Perhaps. Lucille Clifton: On Strength Gotten from Others. Jill Oliver: On Connection and Disconnection in Clifton''s Poems.
Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break. Digging. The Outlaw. Punishment. Casualty.
Robert Hass, Palo Alto: The Marshes. Heroic Simile. Meditation at Lagunitas. Santa Lucia. Old Dominion. Weed. Robert Hass: The World Repeats Itself.
Sharon Olds, The Elder Sister. The Victims. Bathing the Newborn. Summer Soltice, New York City. The Chute. The Race. Kevin Kingbeil: The Machinery that Grinds in ''Summer Solstice.''
Louise Gluck, For My Mother. The Apple Trees. Metamorphosis. Horse. A Fantasy. The Widows.
Rita Dove, Banneker. Daystar. The Satisfaction Coal Company. Crab Boil. Horse and Tree. Ars Poetica.
Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms. My Sleeping Loved Ones. Ash, Snow or Moonlight. Epistle. Arise, Go Down. A Final Thing.
Drama Anthology
Introduction
An Anthology of One-Scene Plays
Athol Fugard, The Drummer
Jane Martin, Twirler
Constance Medley, Waking Women
Samuel Beckett, Krapp''s Last Tape
Wendy Wasserstein, Tender Offer
August Strindberg, The Stronger
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Chronological Collection
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Aristotle: On Reversal, Recognition, and Calamity in Tragedy
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
Arthur Miller: On Joy in Tragedy
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Ardita Maluka: On Lopakhin and His Motives
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller: On Personal Dignity and Tragedy
Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends
Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys
Athol Fugard: A Memory that Underlies the Play
Sam Shepard, True West
August Wilson, Joe Turner''s Come and Gone
August Wilson: On His Image of the Black Tragic Hero
Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
John Simon: On Henley''s Credibility
Walter Kerr: On Henley''s Lack of Credibility
Handbook of Literature
Writing About Literature
Biographical Sketches
Index of Literary Terms
Author/Title Index
Index of First Lines

Summary

For composition and introduction to literature courses, The Riverside Anthology of Literature has long been praised for its rich variety of selections, its interwoven commentary, its eloquent editorial prose, its unobtrusive apparatus, and its organizational flexibility. To acquaint students quickly with the specific qualities of a genre, each section now opens with six short selections that focus on a particular theme for easy comparison and contrast.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Hunt
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.1996
• EAN: 9780395760703
• ISBN: 978-0-395-76070-3
• No. of pages: 1728
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics