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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.

Preface

xxi

SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY

Fiction: Tales and Portraits

(18)

A Mini-Anthology of Initiation Stories

(13)

Leslie Norris (b. 1921)

Blackberries

(4)

Jayne Anne Phillips (b. 1952)

Cheers

(1)

James Joyce (1882--1941)

Araby

(5)

Barry Yourgrau (b. 1949)

By the Creek

(1)

Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)

Girl

(2)

Chronological Anthology

(522)

Jacob (1785--1863) and Wilhelm (1786--1859) Grimm

The Juniper Tree

(7)

On the Truth in Fairy Tales

(1)

Randall Jarell:

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)

The Birthmark

(13)

On Pushing Outward Toward Mystery

(1)

Flannery O'Connor:

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)

The Tell-Tale Heart

(4)

On Unity in the Tale

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Herman Melville (1819--1891)

Bartleby the Scrivener

(28)

Gustave Flaubert (1821--1880)

A Simple Heart

(26)

On Flaubert's Use of Setting

116

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

Henry James (1843--1916)

The Middle Years

116

(16)

On Limiting the Protagonist's Insight

132

(1)

Henry James

Guy de Maupassant (1850--1893)

The Necklace

133

(7)

On the Conflict Between Realism and Art

140

(1)

Guy De Maupassant

Kate Chopin (1851--1904)

Desiree's Baby

140

(5)

Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)

The Lady with the Pet Dog

145

(13)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)

The Yellow Wallpaper

158

(13)

On Her Own ``Nervous Prostration''

171

(1)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Edith Wharton (1862--1937)

Roman Fever

172

(10)

On Crowding Moral Drama into a Short Story

182

(1)

Edith Wharton

James Joyce (1882--1941)

The Dead

183

(31)

Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)

Solid Objects

214

(5)

On Her Rejection of Traditional Fiction

219

(1)

Virginia Woolf

Franz Kafka (1883--1924)

A Hunger Artist

220

(7)

On Realism in Fantasy

227

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

The Blind Man

228

(15)

On the Truths of the Body

243

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

244

(7)

On Memory

251

(1)

Katherine Anne Porter

On Porter's Break with Surface Realism

252

(1)

Eudora Welty

William Faulkner (1897--1962)

A Rose for Emily

253

(7)

Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)

Soldier's Home

260

(6)

Two Comments on Being a Writer

266

(1)

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck (1902--1968)

The Chrysanthemums

267

(9)

Zora Neale Hurston (1903--1960)

Spunk

276

(5)

Richard Wright (1908--1960)

Big Black Good Man

281

(10)

Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

Livvie

291

(11)

On the Addition of Meaning to Experience

302

(1)

Eudora Welty

Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)

The Catch

303

(10)

Jose Donoso (b. 1924)

Paseo

313

(13)

James Baldwin (1924--1987)

Sonny's Blues

326

(25)

On Baldwin's Sadness

351

(1)

Chinua Achebe

Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

352

(13)

The Meaning of the Misfit's Final Comment on the Grandmother

365

(1)

*Michael Wickey

Yukio Mishima (1925--1970)

Swaddling Clothes

366

(5)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

371

(5)

On Matter-of-Factness in the Fantasy

376

(2)

Gabriel Garcea Marquez

Alice Munro (b. 1930)

Circle of Prayer

378

(15)

Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)

Girls at War

393

(11)

Fulfillment Rather than Self-Gratification

404

(1)

Chinua Achebe

Edna O'Brien (b. 1932)

Sister Imelda

405

(15)

Raymond Carver (1938--1988)

Cathedral

420

(12)

How Memories Find Their Way into Stories

432

(1)

Raymond Carver

Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

433

(14)

Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939)

The Lesson

447

(6)

Wholesomeness Versus Hatred

453

(1)

Toni Cade Bambara

Joseph Bruchac III (b. 1942)

Turtle Meat

454

(6)

Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)

Shiloh

460

(12)

On the Way Stories Grow from Nuggets

472

(1)

Bobbie Ann Mason

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Everyday Use

473

(8)

Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's ``Everyday Use''

481

(1)

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Charlotte Pierce-Baker

Thom Jones (b. 1945)

The Pugilist at Rest

482

(14)

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)

Snares

496

(8)

Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)

Woman Hollering Creek

504

(9)

On Fairy Tales, Myths, and Stories

513

(1)

Sandra Cisneros

Ethan Canin (b. 1960)

Emperor of the Air

514

(11)

David Leavitt (b. 1961)

Territory

525

(15)

On the Importance of Seeing Oneself in Stories

540

(4)

David Leavitt

POETRY ANTHOLOGY

Poetry: Opposition and Ripples

544

(13)

A Mini-Anthology of Poetry

557

(15)

Imagery

Matsuo Basho (1644--1694)

The voice has wholly

557

(1)

Kaga no Chiyo (1703--1775)

Morning glories

557

(1)

Kohyo

The stick that strikes at it

558

(1)

Kobayashi Issa (1763--1827)

A butterfly, a child

558

(1)

Ezra Pound (1885--1972)

In a Station of the Metro

558

(1)

H. D. (1886--1961)

Evening

558

(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

The Red Wheelbarrow

559

(1)

Comparison

May Swenson (1919--1989)

How Everything Happens

560

(1)

Emily Dickinson (1830--1963)

The Snow that never drifts---

561

(1)

Kofi Awoonor (b. 1934)

The Weaver Bird

561

(1)

Diction

Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)

Bitch

562

(1)

Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)

Beach Glass

563

(1)

Dennis Brutus (b. 1924)

Nightsong: City

564

(1)

Sound

Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

Upon Julia's Voice

565

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)

Come Down, O Maid

565

(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893--1913)

Arms and the Boy

566

(1)

Robert Hayden (1913--1980)

Those Winter Sundays

567

(1)

Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939)

Hoop Dancer

567

(1)

Tone

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)

Recuerdo

568

(1)

Robert Frost (1874--1963)

Provide, Provide

569

(1)

Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)

Telephone Conversation

569

(2)

Olga Broumas (b. 1949)

Cinderella

571

(1)

Chronological Anthology

572

(429)

Po Chu-I (772--846)

In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight

572

(1)

Watching the Reapers

573

(1)

An Early Levee

574

(1)

Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain

574

(1)

Pruning Trees

575

(1)

Rising Late and Playing with A-Ts'ui, Aged Two

575

(1)

On His Baldness

576

(1)

To the Shade of Po Chu-i

577

(1)

William Carlos Williams

As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of the Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor

577

(1)

James Wright

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

Sonnet 55: Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments

578

(1)

Sonnet 65: Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea

579

(1)

Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold

579

(1)

Sonnet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False of Heart

580

(1)

Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth

580

(1)

O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?

581

(1)

Come Away, Come Away, Death

581

(1)

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

581

(2)

On the Separation of Poetry and Thought

583

(1)

A. E. Housman

John Donne (1572--1631)

The Relic

583

(1)

The Canonization

584

(2)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

586

(1)

The Good-Morrow

587

(1)

The Flea

587

(1)

Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee

588

(1)

Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God

588

(1)

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

589

(1)

On Wit Versus Poetry

590

(1)

A. E. Houseman

On Intellectual Versus Reflective Poetry

591

(1)

T. S. Eliot

John Milton (1608--1674)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

592

(1)

On the Late Massacre at Piedmont

592

(1)

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

593

(1)

from Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 399--548, 994--1189

593

(9)

On the Sound of Milton's Poetry

602

(2)

T. S. Eliot

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

Eyes and Tears

604

(2)

The Definition of Love

606

(1)

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body

607

(1)

To His Coy Mistress

608

(2)

Bermudas

610

(1)

You, Andrew Marvell

611

(2)

Archibald Macleish

William Blake (1757--1827)

The Lamb

613

(1)

The Chimney Sweeper

613

(1)

The Little Black Boy

614

(1)

The Tyger

615

(1)

The Sick Rose

616

(1)

A Poison Tree

616

(1)

London

616

(1)

Auguries of Innocence

616

(4)

And Did Those Feet

620

(1)

On Blake's Revolt Against Intellect

621

(1)

A. E. Housman

William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

Tintern Abbey

622

(4)

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

626

(1)

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

626

(1)

There Was a Boy

627

(1)

The World Is Too Much with Us

628

(1)

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

629

(1)

Resolution and Independence

629

(4)

My Heart Leaps Up

633

(1)

Please Whom?

634

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings

635

(1)

William Wordsworth

John Keats (1795--1821)

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

636

(1)

Ode on Melancholy

636

(1)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

637

(2)

Ode to a Nightingale

639

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

641

(2)

To Autumn

643

(1)

To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime

644

(2)

Countee Cullen

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)

Mariana

646

(2)

The Kraken

648

(1)

Ulysses

648

(2)

Break, Break, Break

650

(1)

Tears, Idle Tears

650

(1)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

651

(1)

In Memoriam Sections 2, 7, 11, 20, 39

652

(2)

The Eagle

654

(1)

Crossing the Bar

654

On Tennyson as an ``Instinctive Rebel''

652

(4)

T. S. Eliot

Robert Browning (1812--1889)

My Last Duchess

656

(2)

Meeting at Night

658

(1)

Parting at Morning

658

(1)

Fra Lippo Lippi

659

(9)

Two in the Campagna

668

(3)

Browning's New Literary Form

671

(2)

Samuel Silas Curry

Walt Whitman (1819--1892)

Song of Myself, Section 5

673

(1)

The Wound-Dresser

674

(2)

When I Heard the Learn's Astronomer

676

(1)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

677

(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter

677

(2)

A Supermarket in California

679

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

Charles Baudelaire (1821--1867)

To the Reader

680

(1)

Correspondences

681

(1)

By Association

681

(1)

The King of the Rainy Country

682

(1)

The Little Old Women

682

(4)

On the Future of the Middle Class

686

(1)

Charles Baudelaire

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)

I Like a Look of Agony

687

(1)

Wild Nights---Wild Nights!

687

(1)

Of Bronze---and Blaze---

687

(1)

The Soul Selects Her Own Society---

688

(1)

What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---

688

(1)

I Died for Beauty---But Was Scarce

689

(1)

It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up

689

(1)

The Heart Asks Pleasure---First---

690

(1)

Because I Could Not Stop for Death---

690

(1)

My Life Had Stood---A Loaded Gun---

691

(1)

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass]

691

(1)

My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close---

692

(1)

On Dickinson's Religion

693

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)

In an Artist's Studio

694

(1)

Song

695

(1)

L.E.L.

695

(1)

Good Friday

696

(1)

Life and Death

697

(1)

By the Sea

697

(1)

``They Desire a Better Country''

698

(1)

Passing and Glassing

699

(1)

On the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

700

(2)

*Jennifer Beckman

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)

The Windhover

702

(1)

Pied Beauty

702

(1)

God's Grandeur

703

(1)

The Sea and the Skylark

703

(1)

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

704

(1)

On Poetic Cataloguing

705

(1)

Richard Wilbur

A. E. Housman (1859--1936)

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

706

(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young

706

(1)

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff

707

(2)

Is My Team Ploughing

709

(1)

On Moonlit Heath

710

(1)

Could Man Be Drunk for Ever

711

(1)

When First My Way

711

(1)

Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall

712

(1)

On the Physical Effect of Poetry

712

(1)

A. E. Housman

William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

713

(1)

The Folly of Being Comforted

713

(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole

714

(1)

The Scholars

715

(1)

The Cat and the Moon

715

(1)

The Second Coming

716

(1)

Leda and the Swan

716

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

717

(1)

Among School Children

718

(2)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

720

(1)

On a New Religion

721

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)

Richard Cory

722

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

722

(1)

Eros Turannos

723

(1)

The Mill

724

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

725

(2)

The Sheaves

727

(1)

On Robinson's Humor

727

(1)

Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874--1963)

Home Burial

728

(3)

The Wood-Pile

731

(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

732

(1)

Birches

733

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

734

(1)

Acquainted with the Night

734

(1)

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

735

(1)

Departmental

735

(2)

The Gift Outright

737

(1)

Saying One Thing in Terms of Another

738

(1)

Robert Frost

Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)

Sunday Morning

739

(3)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

742

(1)

Anecdote of the Jar

742

(1)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

743

(1)

Study of Two Pears

743

(1)

Page from a Tale

744

(2)

On Stevens's Sense of Wonder

746

(1)

Randall Jarrell

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

Queen-Ann's Lace

747

(1)

The Botticellian Trees

748

(1)

This Is Just to Say

749

(1)

To a Poor Old Woman

749

(1)

Young Woman at the Window

749

(1)

The Yellow Flower

750

(2)

Three Comments on Poetry

752

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Marianne Moore (1887--1972)

Poetry

753

(1)

Silence

754

(1)

The Fish

755

(1)

Peter

756

(1)

Four Quartz Crystal Clocks

757

(1)

Elephants

758

(3)

Marianne Moore Visits the Circus

761

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

762

(3)

Preludes

765

(2)

Journey of the Magi

767

(1)

Animula

768

(1)

The Hollow Men

769

(3)

On Monotony in Eliot

772

(1)

William Butler Yeats

On Eliot's Personality

773

(1)

Robert Lowell

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)

Spring

774

(1)

Justice Denied in Massachusetts

775

(1)

Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink

776

(1)

From a Train Window

776

(1)

The Oak-Leaves

777

(1)

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies

777

(1)

Modern Declaration

778

(1)

An Ancient Gesture

779

(1)

On Millay's Strengths and Weaknesses

780

(1)

Louise Bogan

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)

All in green went my love riding

781

(1)

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

782

(1)

in Just-

782

(1)

Buffalo Bill's

783

(1)

Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

783

(1)

i sing of Olaf glad and big

784

(1)

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

785

(1)

On Cummings's Breaking of Taboos

786

(1)

Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan (1897--1970)

Medusa

787

(1)

The Engine

787

(1)

To My Brother

788

(1)

Come, Break with Time

789

(1)

The Dream

789

(1)

Evening in the Sanitarium

790

(1)

Zone

790

(1)

The Dragonfly

791

(1)

Langston Hughes (1902--1967)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

792

(1)

Epilogue

792

(1)

Afro-American Fragment

793

(1)

Harlem Sweeties

794

(1)

Theme for English B

795

(1)

Harlem

796

(1)

Same in Blues

796

(2)

Hughes's Overemphasis on Race

798

(1)

Countee Cullen

Race and Poetry

799

(1)

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen (1903--1946)

Incident

800

(1)

Yet Do I Marvel

800

(1)

Heritage

801

(3)

For a Poet

804

(1)

Black Majesty

804

(1)

Pablo Neruda (1904--1973)

Here I Love You

805

(1)

Ritual of My Legs

806

(2)

Horses

808

(1)

Love

809

(1)

Sweetness, Always

810

(1)

Love Sonnet VI

811

(1)

The Danger

812

(1)

On Neruda's Imagination

813

(1)

Robert Bly

W. H. Auden (1907--1973)

Musee des Beaux Arts

814

(1)

The Sphinx

815

(1)

The Unknown Citizen

815

(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

816

(2)

Spain, 1937

818

(3)

Luther

821

(1)

Voltaire at Ferney

821

(1)

The Shield of Achilles

822

(2)

The Old and the New Masters

824

(2)

Randall Jarell

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)

My Papa's Waltz

826

(1)

Big Wind

827

(1)

Root Cellar

827

(1)

Child on Top of a Greenhouse

828

(1)

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze

828

(1)

I Knew a Woman

829

(1)

What Do I Like?

830

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)

The Prodigal

831

(1)

Filling Station

832

(1)

The Armadillo

833

(1)

Questions of Travel

834

(2)

In the Waiting Room

836

(2)

Crusoe in England

838

(4)

One Art

842

(2)

On Bishop as a Teacher

844

(1)

Dana Gioia

Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)

The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner

845

(1)

The Snow-Leopard

846

(1)

Nestus Gurley

846

(2)

Field and Forest

848

(2)

In Montecito

850

(1)

Composing a Poem

851

(6)

Randall Jarrell

Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

857

(1)

The Hunchback in the Park

858

(1)

Poem in October

859

(2)

Over Sir John's Hill

861

(1)

Poem on His Birthday

862

(3)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

865

(1)

On Thomas's ``Drunken Poetry''

866

(1)

William Carlos Williams

John Berryman (1914--1972)

The Ball Poem

867

(1)

Sonnet 25

868

(1)

Dream Song 1

868

(1)

Dream Song 4

869

(1)

Dream Song 14

869

(1)

Henry's Understanding

870

(1)

On the Origins of ``Winter Landscape''

871

(2)

John Berryman

Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner

873

(1)

We Real Cool

873

(1)

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

874

(2)

The Blackstone Rangers

876

(2)

Riot

878

(1)

The Chicago Picasso

879

(1)

On Her Belated Discovery of Black Identity

880

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Lowell (1917--1977)

The Drunken Fisherman

881

(1)

Waking in the Blue

882

(1)

For the Union Dead

883

(2)

Night Sweat

885

(1)

The Neo-Classical Urn

886

(1)

Epilogue

887

(2)

On the Advantages of Prose

889

(1)

Robert Lowell

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Praise in Summer

889

(1)

The Death of a Toad

889

(1)

Still, Citizen Sparrow

890

(1)

After the Last Bulletins

891

(1)

The Undead

892

(1)

Cottage Street, 1953

893

(1)

Mixed Feelings, Clashing Ideas, and Incongruous Images

894

(3)

Richard Wilbur

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

897

(1)

Love in the Museum

898

(1)

Two Songs

898

(1)

Orion

899

(2)

Gabriel

901

(1)

Planetarium

902

(1)

Diving into the Wreck

903

(3)

On Writing as a Female Poet

906

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

A Far Cry from Africa

908

(1)

Tarpon

909

(1)

Crusoe's Journal

910

(2)

Crusoe's Island

912

(3)

Homecoming: Anse La Raye

915

(2)

The Sea Is History

917

(3)

On Walcott's Struggle with the Postcard Image

920

(1)

Rita Dove

Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)

Black Rook in Rainy Weather

921

(1)

Medallion

922

(1)

Tulips

923

(1)

The Arrival of the Bee Box

924

(1)

Cut

925

(2)

Daddy

927

(2)

Lady Lazarus

929

(3)

On Plath's Last and First Poems

932

(1)

Robert Lowell

Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

The Lost Baby Poem

933

(1)

God's Mood

933

(1)

She Understands Me

934

(1)

There Is a Girl Inside

934

(1)

For the Mute

935

(1)

For the Lame

935

(1)

To Joan

935

(1)

Perhaps

936

(1)

On Strength Gotten from Others

937

(1)

Lucille Clifton

On Connection and Disconnection in Clifton's Poems

938

(1)

*Jill Oliver

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

Mid-Term Break

939

(1)

Digging

940

(1)

The Outlaw

941

(1)

Punishment

942

(1)

Casualty

943

(3)

Robert Hass (b. 1941)

Palo Alto: The Marshes

946

(3)

Heroic Simile

949

(1)

Meditation at Lagunitas

950

(1)

Santa Lucia

951

(2)

Old Dominion

953

(1)

Weed

954

(1)

The World Repeats Itself

955

(1)

Robert Hass

Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

The Elder Sister

956

(1)

The Victims

957

(1)

Bathing the Newborn

957

(1)

The Race

958

(1)

Summer Solstice, New York City

959

(1)

The Chute

960

(2)

The Machinery That Grinds in ``Summer Solstice''

962

(2)

*Kevin Klingbeil

Louise Gluck (b. 1943)

For My Mother

964

(1)

The Apple Trees

964

(1)

Metamorphosis

965

(1)

Horse

966

(1)

A Fantasy

967

(1)

Widows

968

(1)

On Change and Loss

969

(1)

Louise Gluck

Rita Dove (b. 1951)

Banneker

970

(1)

Daystar

971

(1)

The Satisfaction Coal Company

972

(1)

Crab-Boil

973

(1)

Horse and Tree

974

(1)

Ars Poetica

974

(1)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1959)

From Blossoms

975

(1)

My Sleeping Loved Ones

976

(2)

Ash, Snow, or Moonlight

978

(1)

Epistle

979

(1)

Arise, Go Down

980

(1)

A Final Thing

981

(5)

DRAMA ANTHOLOGY

Drama: The Space in Which Words Are Spoken

986

(15)

A Mini-Anthology of One-Scene Plays

1001

(44)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

The Drummer

1002

(1)

Jane Martin

Twirler

1003

(2)

Cassandra Medley

Waking Women

1005

(8)

Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)

Krapp's Last Tape

1013

(7)

August Strindberg (1849--1912)

The Stronger

1020

(6)

Wendy Wasserstein (b. 1950)

Tender Offer

1026

(6)

Susan Glaspell (1882--1948)

Trifles

1032

(13)

Chronological Anthology

1045

(527)

Sophocles (496--406 B.C.)

Oedipus the King

1045

(55)

On Reversal, Recognition, and Calamity in Tragedy

1100

(2)

Aristotle

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

1102

(94)

On Joy in Tragedy

1196

(1)

Arthur Miller

Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)

The Cherry Orchard

1197

(44)

On Lopakhin and His Motives

1241

(2)

*Ardita Maluka

Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

Death of a Salesman

1243

(81)

On Personal Dignity and Tragedy

1324

(2)

Arthur Miller

Maria Irene Fornes (b. 1930)

Fefu and Her Friends

1326

(35)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

``Master Harold'' ... and the Boys

1361

(39)

A Memory That Underlies the Play

1400

(2)

Athol Fugard

Sam Shepard (b. 1943)

True West

1402

(50)

August Wilson (b. 1945)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

1452

(58)

On His Image of the Black Tragic Hero

1510

(1)

August Wilson

Beth Henley (b. 1952)

Crimes of the Heart

1511

(58)

On Henley's Credibility

1569

(1)

John Simon

On Henley's Lack of Credibility

1569

(3)

Walter Kerr

Handbook of Literature

1572

(11)

Writing About Literature

1583

(24)

Biographical Sketches

1607

(20)

Acknowledgments

1627

(6)

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry

1633

(16)

Index of Literary Terms

1649

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