Contents
- Stories
- Chinua Achebe, Uncle Ben’s Choice
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral
- John Cheever, The Swimmer
- Anton Chekhov, In Exile
- Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
- Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
- William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
- Gabriel GarcÌa M·rquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
- Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
- O. Henry, The Furnished Room
- James Joyce, Araby
- Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist
- D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
- James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread
- Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Frank O’Connor, Guests of the Nation
- Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
- Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
- John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
- John Updike, A & P
- Alice Walker, Everyday Use
- Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
- Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
- Poems
- Anonymous
- Western Wind
- Sir Patrick Spens
- John Agard
- Palm Tree King
- Paul Allen
- The Man with the Hardest Belly
- Matthew Arnold
- Dover Beach
- Margaret Atwood
- You Fit into Me
- W. H. Auden
- Musée des Beaux Arts
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats
- Elizabeth Bishop
- The Fish
- Sestina
- One Art
- William Blake
- The Lamb
- The Chimney Sweeper (1789)
- The Sick Rose
- The Tyger
- London
- The Chimney Sweeper (1794)
- Anne Bradstreet
- To My Dear and Loving Husband
- A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- the mother
- We Real Cool
- The Bean Eaters
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 ("How do I love thee?")
- Robert Browning
- My Last Duchess
- Lynne Bryer
- The Way
- Lewis Carroll
- Jabberwocky
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Kubla Khan
- Billy Collins
- Picnic, Lightning
- On Turning Ten
- Sonnet
- E. E. Cummings
- Buffalo Bill’s
- in Just-
- Emily Dickinson
- 249 ("Wild Nights—Wild Nights!")
- 303 ("The Soul selects her own Society—")
- 341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes—")
- 465 ("I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—")
- 712 ("Because I could not stop for Death—")
- 986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")
- John Donne
- The Sun Rising
- The Canonization
- The Flea
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Holy Sonnet 10 ("Death, be not proud")
- Holy Sonnet 14 ("Batter my heart")
- Rita Dove
- The House Slave
- Daystar
- T. S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Louise Erdrich
- Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
- Captivity
- Carolyn Forché
- The Colonel
- Robert Frost
- Home Burial
- After Apple-Picking
- Mending Wall
- "Out, Out—"
- The Road Not Taken
- Birches
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Acquainted with the Night
- Design
- Allen Ginsberg
- A Supermarket in California
- Thomas Gray
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Thomas Hardy
- Hap
- The Convergence of the Twain
- Channel Firing
- Robert Hayden
- Those Winter Sundays
- Seamus Heaney
- Digging
- Punishment
- Robert Herrick
- Delight in Disorder
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- Upon Julia’s Clothes
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- God’s Grandeur
- The Windhover
- Spring and Fall
- A. E. Housman
- 1887
- To an Athlete Dying Young
- The Immortal Part
- Shot? So quick, so clean an ending?
- "Terence, this is stupid stuff . . ."
- Langston Hughes
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Harlem
- Theme for English B
- Randall Jarrell
- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
- Ben Jonson
- Song: To Celia
- On My First Daughter
- On My First Son
- John Keats
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- When I Have Fears
- La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- To Autumn
- Galway Kinnell
- Blackberry Eating
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Facing It
- We Never Know
- Maxine Kumin
- Woodchucks
- Philip Larkin
- Aubade
- Li-Young Lee
- Visions and Interpretations
- The Gift
- Robert Lowell
- Skunk Hour
- Susan Ludvigson
- After Love
- Archibald MacLeish
- Ars Poetica
- Christopher Marlowe
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Andrew Marvell
- To His Coy Mistress
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
- Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink
- John Milton
- When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
- Marianne Moore
- Poetry
- Sharon Olds
- Sex Without Love
- The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
- Wilfred Owen
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Marge Piercy
- Barbie doll
- Sylvia Plath
- Metaphors
- Daddy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Raven
- Ezra Pound
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
- In a Station of the Metro
- John Crowe Ransom
- Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Richard Cory
- Theodore Roethke
- Root Cellar
- My Papa’s Waltz
- I Knew a Woman
- William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee")
- Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune")
- Sonnet 73 ("That time of year")
- Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage")
- Sonnet 130 ("My mistress’ eyes")
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ozymandias
- Ode to the West Wind
- Bruce Springsteen
- The River
- William Stafford
- Traveling through the Dark
- Wallace Stevens
- Anecdote of the Jar
- Sunday Morning
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
- Leon Stokesbury
- Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Ulysses
- Crossing the Bar
- Dylan Thomas
- Fern Hill
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Walt Whitman
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Richard Wilbur
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- William Carlos Williams
- Spring and All
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- This Is Just to Say
- William Wordsworth
- The Tables Turned
- Nutting
- The World Is Too Much with Us
- James Wright
- A Blessing
- Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
- My Galley
- They Flee from Me
- William Butler Yeats
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Second Coming
- Leda and the Swan
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Plays
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- Susan Glaspell, Trifles
- Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
- August Wilson, Fences
- David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
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