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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.  New selections include:   Short story authors new to this collection include award winners Tobias Wolff, Helen Simpson, and Susan Perabo, as well as the Pulitzer-prize winning Indian-American, Jhumpa Lahiri. The poetry collection brings new selections from classic and contemporary authors, including John Keats, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur, as well as fresh models from poets new to this edition including Amy Gerstler, Rebecca Foust, Craig Arnold, Ernest Hilbert and Erica Dawson, whose work brings poetry into the 21st century. The drama section includes Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning comedy The God of Carnage, produced on Broadway with a cast including James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels and reflecting the robust strength of today’s Broadway and of contemporary comedy, as well as Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which brings a classic comedy to this collection for the first time.

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Author:   R. S. Gwynn
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   5th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9780205032198

ISBN 10:   0205032192
Pages:   1376
Publication Date:   28 February 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780321942746
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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   * Washington Irving (1783-1859)             Rip Van Winkle Nathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864)             The Minister’s Black Veil Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)             * The Cask of Amontillado Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)             A White Heron Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)             Mother Savage Kate Chopin  (1851-1904)             The Story of an Hour Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)             The Yellow Wallpaper Edith Wharton (1862-1937)             Roman Fever 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)             Up in Michigan 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)             Everything That Rises Must Converge Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)             A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)             Dead Men’s Path Alice Munro (b. 1931)             The Bear Came Over the Mountain 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 * Tobias Wolff (b. 1945)             Hunters in the Snow Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947)             * Waiting for the Evening News Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)             Woman Hollering Creek Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)             The Red Convertible Gish Jen (b. 1955)             In the American Society * Helen Simpson (b. 1959)             Diary of an Interesting Year Sherman Alexie             This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona * Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)             A Temporary Matter * Susan Perabo (b. 1969)             The Payoff   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             The Sun Rising             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 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             Ode on Solitude 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             Ode: Intimations of Immortality 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 to a Nightingale             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             A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Grey and Dim             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?             Chanel 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             Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall             “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 Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1034)             Amaze             Languor after Pain             Trapped Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)             Anecdote of the Jar             Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock             The Emperor of Ice-Cream             The Snow Man             Sunday Morning             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             Portrait d'une Femme             The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)             Let No Charitable Hope             Ophelia H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)             Pear Tree             Sea Rose Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)             Dreamers Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)             The Purse-Seine Marianne Moore (1887-1972)             The Fish             Silence T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)             Journey of the Magi             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)            pity this busy monster,manunkind            plato told            r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r             * somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond Jean Toomer (1894-1967)             Georgia Dusk Louise Bogan (1897-1970)             Women Langston Hughes (1902-1967)             Dream Boogie             * Harlem Sweeties             The Weary Blues Countee Cullen (1903-1946)             Incident             Yet Do I Marvel W. H. Auden (1907-1973)             As I Walked Out One Evening             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             * The Shampoo 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             Poem in October Weldon Kees (1914-1955)             For My Daughter Margaret Walker (b. 1915)             For Malcolm X 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             The Whitsun Weddings 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 (b. 1923)             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 Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)             The Day Lady Died W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)             Mementos, I John Ashbery (b. 1927)             Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape             Paradoxes and Oxymorons W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)             For the Anniversary of My Death             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)             From the Wave             Terminal X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)             In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day             Little Elegy Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)             Aunt Jennifer's Tigers             Diving into the Wreck             Rape Ted Hughes (b. 1930)             Pike 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 Mark Strand (b. 1934)             The Tunnel Russel Edson (b. 1935)             Ape 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 Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)             Punishment 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)             Litany Robert Hass (b. 1941)             Meditation at Lagunitas Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)             The Serenity in Stones Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941)             The Visitor Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942)             Combing B.H. Fairchild (b. 1942)             Body and Soul 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 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 Dick Davis (b. 1945)             A Monorhyme for the Shower Kay Ryan (b. 1945)             Bestiary Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945)             The Day Kennedy Died   John Whitworth (b. 1945)             The Examiners Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)             The Ballad of Aunt Geneva Ai (1947-2010)             Child Beater 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 Joy Harjo (b. 1951)             She Had Some Horses Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)             Air View of an Industrial Scene * Robert Wrigley             Thatcher Bitchboy 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 Faust (b. 1957)             Family Story Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963)             Useful Advice Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)             The Exaggeration of Despair 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 * Ernest Hilbert (b. 1970)             Domestic Situation Sophie Hannah (b. 1971)               The Guest Speaker Emily Moore (b. 1977)             Auld Lang Syne * Erica Dawson              Somewhere between Columbus and Cincinnati   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)             * Twelfth Night Henrik Ibsen  (1828-1906)             An Enemy of the People Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)             Trifles Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)             The Glass Menagerie Athold Fugard (b. 1932)             “Master Harold” . . . and the boys August Wilson  (b. 1945)             The Piano Lesson David Ives (b. 1950)             Sure Thing Milcha Sanchez-Scott (b. 1953)             The Cuban Swimmer * Yasmina Reza (b. 1959)       The God of Carnage   Appendix A: Writing about Literature   Appendix B: Thematic Approaches to Literature   Index of Critical Terms   Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems   Pearson Penguin Packages    

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R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Drama: A Pocket Anthology; Poetry: A Pocket Anthology; Fiction: A Pocket Anthology; Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing (with Steven Zani); 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.

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