PART ONE: FICTION
CHAPTER 1: READING STORIES
Luke, The Prodigal Son
The Experience of Fiction
The Interpretation of Fiction
*Reading in Context
The Evaluation of Fiction
John Updike, A&P
The Act of Reading Fiction
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
CHAPTER 2: TYPES OF SHORT FICTION
Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale
Aesop, The Wolf and the Mastiff
Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus
The Short Story
The Nonrealistic Story
The Short Novel
CHAPTER 3: ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Plot and Structure
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation
Character
Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife
Setting
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Point of View
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Language and Style
James Joyce, Araby
Theme
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Irony and Symbol
Irony
Symbol
D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
CHAPTER 4: WRITING ABOUT FICTION
Reasons for Writing about Fiction
Informal Ways of Writing about Fiction
Annotation
Katherine Anne Porter, Magic
Freewriting
Formal Ways of Writing about Fiction
Student Papers on Fiction
Questions for Writing about Fiction
Suggestions for Writing
CHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXT
Reading Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and Sandra Cisneros in Depth
Questions for In-Depth Reading
*Edgar Allan Poe in Context
*Poe and Journalism / Poe and The Horror Story / Poe and The Detective Story / The Dimension of Style / Timeline
Edgar Allan Poe: Stories
*The Black Cat
*The Cask of Amontillado
*The Fall of the House of Usher
*The Purloined Letter
*Edgar Allan Poe: Essays
*Critics on Poe
Flannery O'Connor in Context
Southern Gothic / The Catholic Dimension / O'Connor's Irony / Timeline
Flannery O'Connor: Stories
Good Country People
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Everything That Rises Must Converge
*The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Flannery O'Connor: Essays, Letters
Critics on O'Connor
*Sandra Cisneros in Context
*Culture and Identity
*Literature of the American Southwest / The Feminist Dimension / Timeline
*Sandra Cisneros: Stories
*Barbie-Q?
*Eleven
*There Was a Man, There Was a Woman
*Woman Hollering Creek
*Cisneros on Herself
*Critics on Cisneros
CHAPTER 6: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION
Classics
*Chinua Achebe, Marriage Is a Private Affair
*James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
TRANSLATED BY DONALD YATES
*Anton Chekhov, The Kiss
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
*F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
*Ernest Hemingway, Soldier's Home
*Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk
James Joyce, The Boarding House
James Joyce, The Dead
*Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis?
TRANSLATED BY ALEXIS WALKER
Katherine Mansfield, Bliss
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Luigi Pirandello, War
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool
TRANSLATED BY SAUL BELLOW
Jean Stafford, Bad Characters
*Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O.
Contemporaries
*Sherman Alexie, Indian Education
*Julia Alvarez, The Kiss
*Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
*Anita Desai, Diamond Dust
*Nathan Englander, The Tumblers
*Ursula Hegi, To the Gate
Mary Hood, How Far She Went
*Gish Jen, Who's Irish
*Ha Jin, Taking a Husband
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
*James Alan McPherson, Why I Like Country Music
*Bharati Mukherjee, The Tenant
*Alice Munro, An Ounce of Cure
*Edna O'Brien, Long Distance
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
*Annie Proulx, The Bunchgrass Edge of the World
Leslie Silko, Yellow Woman
Amy Tan, Rules of the Game
*Luisa Valenzuela I’m Your Horse in the Night
TRANSLATED BY DEBORAH BONNER
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
*John Edgar Wideman, Damballah
PART TWO: POETRY
CHAPTER 7: READING POEMS
The Experience of Poetry
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
*Reading in Context
The Interpretation of Poetry
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
*Reading in Context
The Evaluation of Poetry
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Act of Reading Poetry
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
CHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRY
Narrative Poetry
Lyric Poetry
CHAPTER 9: ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Voice: Speaker and Tone
Stephen Crane, War Is Kind
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Muriel Stuart, In the Orchard
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thou art indeed just, Lord
Anonymous, Western Wind
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Jacques Prévert, Family Portrait
Diction
William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
William Wordsworth, It is a beauteous evening
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
Adrienne Rich, Rape
Imagery
Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Robert Browning, Meeting at Night
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may'st in me behold
John Donne, Hymn to God the Father
Robert Wallace, The Double-Play
Louis Simpson, The Battle
Judith Wright, Woman to Child
Symbolism and Allegory
Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son
Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill
William Blake, A Poison Tree
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
George Herbert, Virtue
Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
Syntax
John Donne, The Sun Rising
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
E.E. Cummings, "Me up at does"
Stevie Smith, Mother, Among the Dustbins
Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance
Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy
Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain
Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense
May Swenson, The Universe
Bob McKenty, Adam's Song
Helen Chasin, The Word Plum
Rhythm and Meter
Robert Frost, The Span of Life
Metrical Variation
George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Structure: Closed Form and Open Form
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomer
E.E. Cummings, l(a
E.E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's]
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Denise Levertov, O Taste and See
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
*Christine Molito, Reflections in Black & Blue
C.P. Cavafy, The City
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD
Theme
Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
Revisions
William Blake, London
William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death
Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead the Grass
D.H. Lawrence, Piano
*Langston Hughes, Ballad of Booker T.
Parodies
William Carlos Williams, This is Just to Say
Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort
Gary Layne Hatch, Terrier Torment; or, Mr. Hopkins and his Dog
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
Robert Frost, Dust of Snow
Bob McKenty, Snow on Frost
Translations
*Horace, Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume
TRANSLATED BY DAVID FERRY AND BY HELEN ROWE HENZ
*Francesco Petrarca, S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch’io sento?
[If it is not love, what then is it that I feel]
TRANSLATED BY MARK MUSA AND BY ROBERT M. DURLING
Rainer Maria Rilke, Der Panther [The Panther]
TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN MITCHELL AND BY C.F. MCINTYRE
Guillaume Apollinaire, Le Pont Mirabeau [Mirabeau Bridge]
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD WILBUR AND BY W.S. MERWIN
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nocturno Soñado [Dream Nocturne]
TRANSLATED BY ELEANOR I. TURNBULL AND BY THOMAS MCGREEVY
Responses
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
William Shakespeare, Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Archibald MacLeish, "Not marble Nor the Gilded Monuments"
*William Blake, Nurse's Song [Innocence]; Nurse's Song [Experience]
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Anthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
William Carlos Williams, Queen-Ann's-Lace
Anne C. Coon, Queen Anne's Lace
*Ovid, Siesta time in sultry summer
TRANSLATED BY GUY LEE
*Jay Parini, Amores (After Ovid)
Adaptations (Poetry and Song)
Ecclesiastes, To Everything There Is a Season
Pete Seeger, Turn! Turn! Turn!
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Paul Simon, Richard Cory
Langston Hughes, Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes, Same in Blues
*Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land
*Sonya Sanchez, Blues
Lonnelle Johnson, No Mo' Blues
*Bessie Smith, Lost Your Head Blues
*John Newton, Amazing Grace
Don Maclean, Vincent
Poetry and Painting
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night
Anne Sexton, The Starry Night
Francesco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808
David Gewanter, Goya's "The Third of May, 1808"
Pieter Breughel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Pieter Breughel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow
Joseph Langland Hunters in the Snow: Breughel
William Blake, The Sick Rose (painting)
William Blake, The Sick Rose (poem)
Henri Matisse, The Dance
Natalie Safir, Matisse’s Dance
*Michelangelo Buonarotti, A goiter it seems I got from this backward craning
TRANSLATED BY JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
*Michelangelo Buonarotti, Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Detail)
*Rembrandt van Rijn, The Return of the Prodigal Son
*Elizabeth Bishop, The Prodigal
Kitagawa Utamaro, Girl Powdering Her Neck
*Cathy Song, Girl Powdering Her Neck?
*Gustave Klimt, The Kiss
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt
*Romare Bearden, At Five in the Afternoon
*Federico García Lorca, Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (part 2)
TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN SPENDER AND J.L. LILI
CHAPTER 11: WRITING ABOUT POETRY
Reasons for Writing about Poetry
Informal Ways of Writing about Poetry
Annotation
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Freewriting
Robert Graves, Symptoms of Love
Formal Ways of Writing about Poetry
Sylvia Plath, Mirror
Student Papers on Poetry
Questions for Writing about Poetry
Suggestions for Writing
CHAPTER 12: THREE POETS IN CONTEXT
Reading Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes in Depth
Questions for In-Depth Reading
*Emily Dickinson in Context
*The 19th-Century New England Literary Scene
Dickinson and Modern Poetry / Dickinson and Christianity
Dickinson's Style / Timeline
Emily Dickinson, I cannot dance upon my Toes (326)
Emily Dickinson, The soul selects her own Society (303)
Emily Dickinson: Poems
*108 Surgeons must be very careful
*185 "Faith" is a fine invention
199 I'm "wife"–I've finished that
258 There's a certain Slant of light
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes
214 I taste a liquor never brewed
*328 A Bird came down the walk
348 I dreaded that first Robin, so
*668 "Nature" is what we see
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1068 Further in Summer than the Birds
*252 I can wade Grief
536 The heart asks Pleasure–first
599 There is a pain–so utter
650 Pain–has an element of Blank
744 Remorse–is Memory–awake
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
419 We grow accustomed to the Dark
449 I died for Beauty–but was scarce
465 I heard a Fly buzz–when I died
*501 This World is not Conclusion.
*547 I've seen a Dying eye
1078 The Bustle in a House
1100 The last Night that She lived
324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
*365 Dare you see a Soul at the White heat?
*508 I'm ceded–I've stopped being Theirs–
*512 The Soul has Bandaged moments–
*632 The Brain–is wider than the Sky
*1138 A spider sewed at night
*1142 The Props assist the House
1624 Apparently with no surprise
*448 This was a Poet–It is that
*569 I reckon–when I count at all–
*657 I dwell in Possibility–
*709 Publication–is the Auction
249 Wild Nights–Wild Nights!
*480 "Why do I love" You, Sir?
1732 My life closed twice before its close
*67 Success is counted sweetest
241 I like a look of Agony
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense
1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
585 I like to see it lap the Miles
754 My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun
1463 A Route of Evanescence
*1705 Volcanoes be in Sicily
Questions for Reflection
Three Poems with Altered Punctuation
Poems Inspired by Dickinson
*Jane Kenyon, Notes from The Other Side
*Jane Hirshfield, Three Times My Life has Opened
*Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
*Linda Pastan, Emily Dickinson
Dickinson on Herself and Her First Poems
Critics on Dickinson
*Robert Frost in Context
Frost and Popularity / Frost and Nature / Frost and the Sonnet / Frost's Voices / Timeline
Robert Frost: Poems
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
Birches
Home Burial
*After Apple-Picking
Putting in the Seed
The Look at Two
Fire and Ice
Acquainted with the Night
Tree at My Window?
Departmental
Desert Places
Design
Provide, Provide
The Most of It
Critical Comments by Frost
Critics on Frost
*Langston Hughes in Context
The Harlem Renaissance / Hughes and Music / Hughes's Influences / Hughes's Style/ Timeline
Langston Hughes: Poems
Dream Deferred?
*The Negro Speaks of Rivers
*Mother to Son
*I, Too
*My People
*The Weary Blues
*Young Gals’ Blues
*Morning After
*Trumpet Player
*Dream Boogie
*Ballad of the Landlord
*Madam and the Rent Man
*When Sue Wears Red
*Listen Here Blues
*Consider Me
*Theme for English B
*Aunt Sue's Stories
*Madrid–1937
*Let America Be America Again
*I'm Still Here
*Questions for Reflection
*Hughes on Harlem, the Blues
Critics on Hughes
CHAPTER 13: A COLLECTION OF POEMS
Classics
Anonymous, Barbara Allan
Anonymous, Edward, Edward
William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble
William Blake, The Lamb
William Blake, The Tyger
William Blake, The Garden of Love
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
*Thomas Campion, There Is a Garden in Her Face
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
John Donne, Song: Go and catch a falling star
John Donne, The Canonization
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne, The Flea
John Donne, Death, be not proud
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God
George Gordon, Lord Byron, She walks in beauty
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing
Thomas Hardy, Afterwards
George Herbert, The Altar
*George Herbert, The Pulley
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
A.E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
A.E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
*Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The soote season
Ben Jonson, On My First Son
Ben Jonson, Song: To Celia
John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be
John Keats, La Belle Dame sans merci
*John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent
John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
*Sir Thomas Nashe, A Litany in Time of Plague
Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen
Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Man
William Shakespeare, When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare, Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
*Edmund Spenser, One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle: A Fragment
Walt Whitman, One's-Self I Sing
Walt Whitman, A noiseless patient spider
*Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me
Moderns
W.H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
W.H. Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
*W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
*Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks, First fight. Then fiddle
*Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters
Countee Cullen, Incident
E.E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
E.E. Cummings, i thank You God for this most amazing
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear he Mask
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Philip Larkin, A Study of Reading Habits
*D.H. Lawrence, Humming-bird
D.H. Lawrence, Snake
*D.H. Lawrence, When I Read Shakespeare
*Robert Lowell, Epilogue
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica
Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York
Marianne Moore, Poetry
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Sylvia Plath, Blackberrying
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
*Ezra Pound, The Garden
John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece
Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
Anne Sexton, Two Hands
William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
*Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man
May Swenson, Women
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night
Jean Toomer, Song of the Sun
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Richard Wilbur, Death of a Toad
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
William Carlos Williams, Danse Russe
William Carlos Williams, The Young Housewife
James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm
James Wright, A Blessing
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
*William Butler Yeats, A Coat
*William Butler Yeats, The Scholars
*William Butler Yeats, When You are Old
*William Butler Yeats, Adam's Curse
Contemporaries
*Diane Ackerman, Spiders
*Sherman Alexie, Indian Boy Love Songs #1 and #2
Margaret Atwood, This Is a Photograph of Me
*Margaret Atwood, Spelling
Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Meditations on the South Valley XVII
*Michael Blumenthal, Today I Am Envying the Glorious Mexicans
*Eavan Boland, Anorexic
*David Bottoms, Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
*Neal Bowers, Driving Lessons
Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year
*Sandra Cisneros, Pumpkin Eater
Lucille Clifton, Homage to My Hips
*Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Game
*Billy Collins, Duck / Rabbit
*Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Game
*Billy Collins, Duck / Rabbit
*Jennifer Ritter-Compasso, All I Hear is Silence
*Doretta Cornell, Steady as Any Ship My Father
Grergory Corso, Marriage
*Joseph Coulson, After the Move
*Allen Curnow, The Cake Uncut
*Mark Doty, Golden Retrievals
*Rita Dove, Testimonial
Rita Dove, Canary
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity
Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
*Carolyn Forché, The Memory of Elena
Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping
*Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Rosa
*Louise Glück, The School Children
*Jorie Graham, Mind
Donald Hall, My son, my executioner
*Donald Hall, Kicking the Leaves
*Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem
Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas
Seamus Heaney, Digging
Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break
*Edward Hirsch, For the Sleepwalkers
*Jane Hirshfield, The Heart's Country Knows Only One
*Garrett Hongo, What For
Milton Kessler, Fingertip
Galway Kinnell, Saint Francis and the Sow
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
*Li Young Lee, I Ask My Mother
*Brad Leithauser, From R.E.M.
*Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire
*J.D. McClatchy, Hummingbird
Tom Molito, Cosmic Simplicities
Sharon Olds, Size and Sheer Will
Mary Oliver, Poem for My Father's Ghost
*Simon Ortiz, A Story of How a Wall Stands
Robert F. Panard, On His Deafness
Linda Pastan, Ethics
*Molly Peacock, Now Look What Happened
Marge Piercy, A Work of Artifice
*Robert Pinsky, Dying
*Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Alberto Rios, A Dream of Husbands
Kraft Rompf, Waiting Table
*Mary Jo Salter, Welcome to Hiroshima
*Sonya Sanchez, Towhomitmayconcern
Gertrude Schnackenberg, Signs
*Cathy Song, Lost Sister
Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House
*Ellen Bryant Voigt, Two Trees
*C.K. Williams, Invisibly Mending
*Baron Wormser, Friday Night
*A Selection of World Poetry
Anna Akhmatova (Russia), from Requiem
TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ AND MAX HAYWARD
Bella Akhmadulina (Russia), The Bride
TRANSLATED BY STEPHAN STEPANCHEV
Yehuda Amichai (Israel), A Pity. We Were such a Good Invention
TRANSLATED BY ASSIA GUTMAN
Chairil Anwar (Indonesia), At the Mosque
TRANSLATED BY BURTON RAFFEL
Matsuo Basho (Japan) Three Haiku
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HASS
Charles Baudelaire (France), The Albatross
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD WILBUR
Breyten Breytenback, (South Africa), The Black City
TRANSLATED BY LEON DE KOCK AND SONIA VAN SCHALWYK
Rosario Castellanos (Mexico), Chess
TRANSLATED BY MAUREEN AHERN
Paul Celan (Romania), Fugue of Death
TRANSLATED BY DONALD WHITE
Bernard Dadié (Ivory Coast), I Give You Thanks My God
Bei Dao (China), Declaration
TRANSLATED BY BONNIE S. MCDOUGALL
Odysseus Elytis (Greece), Drinking the Corinthian Sun
TRANSLATED BY KIMON FRIAR
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Pakistan), Before You Came
TRANSLATED BY AGHA SHAHID ALI
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Germany), Nature and Art
TRANSLATED BY JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland), Pebble
TRANSLATED BY CZESLAW MILOSZ AND PETER DALE SCOTT
Ono No Komachi (Japan), Submit to You
TRANSLATED BY H. SATO AND B. WATSON
Osip Mandelstam (Russia), The Stalin Epigram
TRANSLATED BY CLARENCE BROWN AND W.S. MERWIN
Cszeslaw Milosz (Poland), Encounter
TRANSLATED BY THE AUTHOR AND LILLIAN VALLEE
Cszeslaw Milosz (Poland), A Song on the End of the World
TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY MILOSZ
Eurgenio Montale (Italy), The Eel
TRANSLATED BY JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
Pablo Neruda (Chile), Ode to My Socks
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT BLY
José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico), Boundaries
TRANSLATED BY JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
Nicanor Parra (Chile), Piano Solo
TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Boris Pasternak (Russia), Hamlet
TRANSLATED BY JON STALLWORTHY AND PETER FRANCE
Octavio Paz (Mexico), The Street
TRANSLATED BY MURIEL RUKEYSER
A. K. Ramanujan (India), Pleasure
Rainer Maria Rilke (Germany), The Cadet Picture of My Father
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT LOWELL
George Seferis (Greece), Narration
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD
Leopold Senghor (Senegal), I Am Alone
TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL ROLOFF
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Hamlet
Wislawa Szymborska (Poland), Bodybuilders' Contest
TRANSLATED BY STANLEY BARANCZAK AND CLARE CAVANAGH
Shuntaro Tanikawa (Japan), Picnic to the Earth
TRANSLATED BY HAROLD WRIGHT
Derek Walcott (Caribbean), Sea Grapes
Poet’s Lives
PART THREE: DRAMA
CHAPTER 14: READING PLAYS
The Experience of Drama
Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon
The Interpretation of Drama
The Evaluation of Drama
CHAPTER 15: TYPES OF DRAMA
Tragedy
Comedy
CHAPTER 16: ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
Plot
Character
Dialogue
Subtext
Staging
Symbolism and Irony
Theme
CHAPTER 17: WRITING ABOUT DRAMA
Reasons for Writing about Drama
Informal Ways of Writing about Drama
Annotation
Sophocles Antigonê (excerpt)
Double-Column Notebook
Formal Ways of Writing about Drama
Student Papers on Drama
Questions for Writing about Drama
Suggestions for Writing
CHAPTER 18: THE GREEK THEATER: SOPHOCLES IN CONTEXT
*Athens in the Golden Age / Greek Tragedy / Sophocles and His Works / Timeline Sophocles: PlaysCHAPTER 19: THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER: SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT
*London in the Age of Elizabeth / *The Arts in the Age of Elizabeth
Stagecraft in the Elizabethan Age / Shakespeare and His Works / Timeline
Shakespeare: Plays
The Tragedy of Othello
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Critics on Shakespeare
CHAPTER 20: THE MODERN REALISTIC THEATER: IBSEN AND SHAW IN CONTEXT
Realism
*A Note on the Theatre of the Absurd / Timeline
*Ibsen in Context: Ibsen, Exile, and Change
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
TRANSLATED BY ROLF FJELDE
*Shaw in Context
*Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man
CHAPTER 21: A COLLECTION OF MODERN DRAMA
*Anton Chekhov, A Marriage Proposal
TRANSLATED BY ERIC BENTLEY
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
*Eugene Ionesco, The Gap
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea
*Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
CHAPTER 22: A COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY PLAYS
*David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
*Garrison Keillor, Prodigal Son
Josefina López, Simply María
Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother
*Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer
*Drew Hayden Taylor, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
Wendy Wasserstein, Tender Offer
August Wilson, Fences
PART FOUR: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND RESEARCH
CHAPTER 23: WRITING WITH SOURCES
Why Do Research about Literature?
Clarifying the Assignment
Selecting a Topic
Finding and Using Sources
Using Computerized Databases
Using the Internet for Research
Developing a Critical Perspective
Developing a Thesis
Drafting and Revising
Responding to the Ideas of Others: Using One source as a Stimulus for Ideas
Conventions (Using Quotations, Verb Tense Conventions, Manuscript Form, Plagiarism)
Documenting sources
Documenting Electronic Sources
Alternative Documentation Style: Endnotes and Footnotes
A Student Essay Using One Source as a Stimulus
A Research Paper on a Single Work using Multiple Sources
A Research Paper Using Multiple Works and Multiple Sources
CHAPTER 24: CRITICAL THEORY: APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE
Readings for Analysis
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
Emily Dickinson, I'm "wife"–I've finished that
The Canon and the Curriculum
Formalist Perspectives
Biographical Perspectives
Historical Perspectives
Psychological Perspectives
Feminist and Marxist Perspectives
Reader-Response Perspectives
Mythological Perspectives
Structuralist Perspectives
Deconstructive Perspectives
Cultural Studies Perspectives
Using Critical Perspectives as Heuristics
CHAPTER 25: CRITICAL COMMENTS ABOUT LITERATURE
Plato, Poetry and Inspiration
TRANSLATED BY BENJAMIN JOWETT
Aristotle, On Tragedy
TRANSLATED BY GERALD F. ELSE
Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
Samuel Johnson, The Metaphysical Poets
William Blake, Art and Imagination
William Wordsworth, Poetry and Feeling
John Keats, The Authenticity of the Imagination
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poets and Language
Anton Chekhov, Technique in Writing the Short Story
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy
TRANSLATED BY A.G. CHATER
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sprung Rhythm
August Strindberg, The Scene
TRANSLATED BY BORGE GEDSO MADSEN
Bernard Shaw, The Interpreter of Life
Wallace Stevens, Observations on Poetry
T.S. Eliot, The Poet and the Tradition
Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theater
TRANSLATED BY JOHN WILLETT
George Seferis, Poetry and Human Living
TRANSLATED BY A. GAGNOSTOPOULOS
Frank O'Connor, Lyric Poetry and the Short Story
Pablo Neruda, "The Word"
TRANSLATED BY HARDI ST. MARTIN
Eudora Welty, The Origin of a Story
Ralph Ellison, Folklore and Fiction
Octavio Paz, The Power of Poetry
TRANSLATED BY HELEN LANE
Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man
Tennessee Williams, Production Notes to The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams, The Catastrophe of Success
Eric Bentley, On Drama as Literature and Performance
Wendell Berry, Poetry and Song
Audre Lorde, Poems Are Not Luxuries
Mark Strand, Poetry, Language, and Meaning
Margaret Atwood, Our First Stories
Seamus Heaney, Feelings into Words
*Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry
John Edgar Wideman, Stories Are Letters (To Robby)
Diane Ackerman, What a Poem Knows
Tim O'Brien, On the Importance of Mystery in Plot
Alice Fulton, On the Validity of Free Verse
David Henry Hwang, Playwright’s notes to accompany M. Butterfly
*Cultural/Historical Timeline
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
Electronic Texts
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the InternetClassics and Medieval
A full-text gopher site hosted at Oxford University.
Bibliomania: The Network Library
Biblilomania offers 40 complete classic works of fiction, along with reference works, non-fiction works, and works of poetry.
Columbia University's Project Bartleby Archive Bartleby has complete texts of public domain literature, history, and reference works.
Project Gutenberg
Online versions of classic and public-domain books.
The Internet Classics ArchiveEnglish and American
This archive has "441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors," including Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
This library at Berkeley's Sunsite offers plenty of links to resources and etexts.
The English Server
A Server based at Carnegie Mellon that offers over eighteen thousand online humanities texts.
The Modern English Collection
This collection is part of the Electronic Text Center maintained by the University of Virginia Library
The Poetry Archives
This site contains many classical poems in etext.
The Library of Southern Literature
This library "documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works." Includes complete texts of works by such 19th-century Southern authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain and others in electronic format; also offers covers/title pages/frontispieces of many original editions.
The Academy of American Poets
This wonderful website contains photos, bios, and many poems in etext and RealAudio.
The McGraw Hill Writers' CommunityClassics and Medieval
This site has links to The Writing Lab and The Research Library. The Writers' Center also has chat space, info about texts, instructor's resources, and some fun links. The Writing Lab's the place to go for Online Writing Centers and things like dictionaries and grammar guides. Link to the Research Library for lots of info on using the web for research.
Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
This site provides links to lots of lit resources on the web.
The Perseus ProjectEnglish and American
This site from Tufts University focuses on the ancient Greeks.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
This library at Berkeley's Sunsite offers plenty of links to resources and etexts.
The Labyrinth
This site contains resources for medieval studies from Georgetown University
The Voice of the ShuttlePoetry
This site includes a vast number of resources for the study of works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. It includes breakdowns by genre, literary period, cultural context, etc.
Literary Resources on the Net
This site offers a wealth of online resources for most specialties. Maintained by Jack Lynch of U Penn.
The Bread Loaf School of English
This site has good links to general resources, biographies, Shakespeare, and more.
The Victorian Web This is a great site for all things Victorian, at Brown University.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
Paul P. Reuben's wonderful site contains brief bios, links, bibliographies, and study questions regarding major American writers.
American Literature on the Web
An incredibly comprehensive guide maintained by Akihito Ishikawa of the Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages.
Voices From the Gaps
This is a site from the University of Minnesota "focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color."
Yahoo Directory: Authors
The directory at Yahoo about fiction writers.
Poetry.comDrama
A good general site with worldwide links
The Academy of American Poets
This wonderful website contains photos, bios, and many poems in etext and RealAudio.
Irish Poetry
An Irish poetry page from the University of Cologne.
Yahoo Directory: Poets
The directory at Yahoo about poets.
Theater ConnectionsAwards
A site from the University of North Carolina with links to many sites regarding different facets of drama.
Theater Links
A good general site with plenty of links from the University of Haifa.
Yahoo Directory: Playwright
The directory at Yahoo about playwrights.
Nobel Prizes
The website of the Nobel Foundation with bios, speeches, pictures, and more.
Pulitzer Prizes
The website of the Pulitzer Prizes.
National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation homepage
Supplemental Links
Aesop's Fables
More than 600 fables in etext.
Margaret Atwood's Homepage
Margaret Atwood's own site.Margaret Atwood Society
The homepage of the Atwood Society.Margaret Atwood Interview
An interview of Atwood from Mother Jones.
Basho Multimedia
Basho poems, links, illustrations, audio, and video from Columbia University.Basho’s Life
A biography with links.
Elizabeth Bishop Resources
Good general site with links to a bio, bibliography, and more from Vassar.Elizabeth Bishop Video
A link to a video of "One Art," and other links from Voices and Visions.Elizabeth Bishop Poem
"The Shampoo" in etext from the University of North Carolina.
William Blake Resources
A bio, links, and some artworks from the WebMuseum.William Blake Poetry and Prose
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake in etext edited by David V. Erdman.The William Blake Archive
The William Blake Archive linking text and image sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Anne Bradstreet Resources
A brief bio, bibliography, and study questions from the PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Site by Paul P. Reuben.Anne Bradstreet Poems
11 poems in etext from the U of Toronto.Anne Bradstreet Lit Crit
An analysis of "The Author to Her Book."
Gwendolyn Brooks Resources
A general page with a photo, a quote, a bio, bibliography and links from Voices From the Gaps.
Robert Browning Resources
Browning's page at the Victorian Web with links to a bio, bibliography, works, comments, and more.Robert Browning Poems
A collection of Browning's poems in etext.
Other Stories by Chopin (e-text)
Nine stories from the University of Maryland.Biography, Bibliography, and Online Resources
Interviews, a chronology, and an e-library from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A biography, some criticism, and a bibliography from Kutztown University.
Sandra Cisneros Resources
A general page with a photo, a quote, a bio, bibliography and links from Voices From the Gaps.Sandra Cisneros Slide Show
A slide show discussing Cisneros from Robert Morris College.Sandra Cisneros Interview
Cisneros talks about her life and work.
Lucille Clifton Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.
Stephen Crane Society
The homepage of the Stephen Crane Society, with links to etexts.Stephen Crane in Etext
Etexts of writings and reviews at the University of Virginia.
E.E. Cummings Resources
Lots o' Cummings links from American Literature on the Web.E.E. Cummings Poems
Seven Poems in etext from the University of Virginia.
Emily Dickinson Society
The homepage of the Emily Dickinson International Society at Case Western Reserve University.Emily Dickinson Poems
Poems in etext at the University of Michigan.Emily Dickinson Homestead
The homepage of The Emily Dickinson Homestead
John Donne Resources
A general homepage from Western Kentucky University with a picture, a brief bio, and links.John Donne Works
A vast collection of works, some in RealAudio.
Rita Dove Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.Rita Dove's Web Project
The homepage of Dove's web project, "Lady Freedom Among Us."
Louise Erdrich Resources
Links, photos, and more from Reed College.Louise Erdrich Interview
An interview with Erdrich from Salon.
T.S. Eliot Resources
Links to bibliography, poetry, and prose, plus a picture at Bartleby.T.S. Eliot Concordance
An online concordance to Eliot's poems from the University of Missouri.T.S. Eliot Video
A page from Voices and Visions with a link to a video of "Prufrock" and other links.
Ralph Ellison Links
Links concerning Invisible Man from the University of Pennsylvania.Ralph Ellison Obituary
His obituary from Time magazine.Ralph Ellison Discussion
A discussion of Ellison and his work from Dissent
William Faulkner Society
The homepage of the William Faulkner Society.William Faulkner Stamp
A picture of the 1985 Nobel stamp honoring Faulkner.Oxford, Mississippi Map
A literary map of Oxford, Mississippi.
Robert Frost Resources
A good general page with lots o' links from Amherst Common.Robert Frost Works
The Complete Works to 1920 at Bartleby, sound recordings, too.Robert Frost Discussion Site
An online Frost discussion area.
Donald Hall Exhibit
An exhibit devoted to the poetry of Hall and Jane Kenyon with a photo, a brief bio, and links
Lorraine Hansberry Resources
A general page with a photo, bibliography, and some links from San Antonio College.Lorraine Hansberry Concordance
An online concordance for A Raisin in the Sun.
Thomas Hardy Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.Thomas Hardy Poems
Wessex Poems & Other Verses at Bartleby.Thomas Hardy Fiction
Links to The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure in etext.
Nathanial Hawthorne Resources
A good general site with bibliographies, a photo, links, and study questions from PAL.Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Links to Melville's letters to Hawthorne from a Melville society.Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
The homepage of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society.
Seamus Heaney Resources
A good general page with a photo and links to a bio, bibliography, works and more from the University of North Carolina.
Ernest Hemingway Foundation
The homepage of the Hemingway Foundation in Oak Park, Illinois.Ernest Hemingway Filmography
A Hemingway filmography from the Internet Movie Database.Ernest Hemingway Discussion Area
The Ernest Hemingway Campfire Chat.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Resources
Hopkins' page at the Victorian Web with links to a bio, bibliography, works, comments, and more.Gerard Manley Hopkins Society
The homepage of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society.Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems
Sixteen poems in etext.
Langston Hughes Resources
A page from the Academy of American Poets that includes a bio, picture, bibliography, and links.Langston Hughes Photo
A photo of Hughes in 1939 from the National Portrait Gallery.Langston Hughes Video
A page from Voices and Visions with a link to a video and other links.
David Henry Hwang Biography
A brief bio from Infoplease.com.David Henry Hwang Essay
Some observations from the playwright about casting and demographics.
Henrik Ibsen Resources
A site with lots of links from Ibsen's birthplace in Skien.Ibsen's The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck in etext from the University of Virginia.Henrik Ibsen Search Engine
An Ibsen search engine, mostly in Norwegian.
Ben Jonson Resources
A good start page with a picture and links to quotes, a bio, works, and more.Ben Jonson Poems
Eleven poems in etext at Bartleby.
Hypermedia Joyce Studies
News, articles, and links.Dubliners
The stories in etext from Biblomania.Brazen Head
Information and resources on Joyce and his works, links, and more.
John Keats Resources
A good general page from the British Library with a picture, a brief bio, links to works, and more.John Keats Poems
A collection of poems from the Poetry Archive.
D.H. Lawrence Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems, and other links from the Academy of American Poets.D.H. Lawrence Stories
Links to Lady Chatterly's Lover, Sons and Lovers, and Women in Love in etext at Bibliomania.D.H. Lawrence Lit Crit
His Studies in Classic American Literature in etext at Virginia.
Denise Levertov Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Resources
A photo and brief bio with links from the University of New Mexico.Garcia Marquez' Nobel Prize
His lecture from the Nobel Foundation.Gabriel Garcia Marquez Slide Show
A slide show discussing Garcia Marquez from Robert Morris College.
Bobbie Ann Mason Resources
A photo, brief bio, and a bibliography from the University of Virginia.Bobbie Ann Mason Discussion
A discussion between Mason and some Kentucky high school students about her work.
Terrence McNally Interview
An interview with McNally from the London Times.Terrence McNally Filmography
A list of McNally's works that have been made into films.
Arthur Miller Resources
This page has a host of links relating to playwright Miller.Death of a Salesman Site
This is the homepage devoted to the recent revival of the play, with lots of links and photos.
John Milton Resources
A Milton homepage with a picture and links to a chronology, works, images, audio, and more.John Milton Poems
Selected Poetry of John Milton from the University of Toronto.
Pablo Neruda Site
A starting point with many links and illustrations from the University of Chile, in Spanish.Pablo Neruda’s Nobel Prize
A page commemorating his award with a photo, and links to a bio and his acceptance speech.
Flannery O'Connor Resources
A good general page with a brief bio, bibliography and links from the University of North Carolina.Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Foundation
Information about the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Foundation from the University of North Carolina.
Edgar Allan Poe Resources
A short biography, a bibliography, and lots of links at a site by Stefan Gmoser.Edgar Allan Poe Stories and Poems
A Poe collection in etext at Gutenberg.Edgar Allan Poe Links
A listing of plenty o' Poe sites from Rutgers.
Ezra Pound Resources
A good homepage with a bio, bibliography, and links to other sites.Ezra Pound Poem
Hyperlinked version of Canto LXXXI from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.Ezra Pound Video
A page from Voices and Visions with a link to a video of Canto LXXXI and other links.
Adrienne Rich Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, and some links from the Academy of American Poets.
Edwin Arlington Robinson Resources
A bibliography, a link to a bio, and study questions from PAL: Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben.Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems
Children of the Night in etext at the University of Michigan.Edwin Arlington Robinson's Home
A page with info about Robinson's boyhood home.
Theodore Roethke Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.
Anne Sexton Poems
A homepage with links to poems in etext and more from the Academy of American Poets.Anne Sexton Discussion
A discussion of SextonÕs work from Georgetown University.
William Shakespeare Resources
A good collection of Shakespeare links covering many subjects, from the Elizabethan Review.
William Shakespeare Links
Links to Shakespeare in etext from ThinkQuest.org.The William Shakespeare Mystery
The homepage about the Shakespeare Mystery from PBS.The Globe Theater
A site devoted to the Globe Theater.William Shakespeare Movie Reviews
Links to movie reviews of Shakespeare in Love
Sophocles Resources
A bio with links and a bibliography at the Perseus Project.Sophocles Plays
Links to plays by Sophocles in etext.Sophocles Filmography
A list of films made based upon his plays
A page from Voices and Visions with a link to a video of "The Snow Man" and other links
Wislawa Szymborska’s Nobel Prize
This page commemorates her award, and has a photo and links to her acceptance speech, a bio, and selected poems.Wislawa Szymborska—inspired Painting
This is a painting adapted from Szymborska’s "Surplus."
Amy Tan Resources
A good general page with a bio, photos, a bibliography, and links from Voices From the Gaps.Joy Luck Club Review
A movie review of The Joy Luck Club from the Washington Post.Amy Tan Interview
An interview with Tan from Salon.
Jean Toomer Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems, and other links from the Academy of American Poets
E-Texts
Updike reading "The Witnesses" in RealAudio.
Alice Walker Resources
A photo, some comments and lots of links from the University of Texas.An Alice Walker Essay
"A South Without Myths" in etext.Alice Walker Interview
An interview with Walker from Salon
Eudora Welty Resources
A good general page from Ole Miss with a photo, brief bio, and links to bibliographies and more.Eudora Welty Newsletter
The homepage of the Eudora Welty Newsletter with links to a discussion area, bio, bibliography, and FAQ.
Walt Whitman Resources
A huge undertaking with links to biographical material, Whitman's works, notebooks and letters, and reviews of Whitman's works.Leaves of Grass
A searchable Leaves of Grass at Princeton.Walt Whitman Poetry
Links to some poetry online, and a review of Whitman sites from the University of Minnesota.
William Carlos Williams Resources
Page from the Academy of American Poets with a bio, picture, bibliography, and links.William Carlos Williams Bibliography
Bibliographic information from NYU.William Carlos Williams Video
A page from Voices and Visions with a link to a video of "The Great Figure" and other links.
August Wilson Resources
Major works, a photo, and a bibliography from PAL: Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben.August Wilson Commentary
A bio, photo, bibliography, and critical commentary from Bridges Web.
The Wordsworth Circle
The Wordsworth Circle from NYU with links.
James Wright Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.William Wordsworth Poems
The complete poetical works at Bartleby.
William Butler Yeats Resources
A good general page with a photo, bio, bibliography, links to poems and other links from the Academy of American Poets.William Butler Yeats Poems
A vast collection of poems from the Poetry Archive.