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Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. Fiction
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell
The child by tiger / Thomas Wolfe
The destructors / Graham Greene
The Japanese quince / John Galsworthy
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
The kiss / Anton Chekhov
Sanatorium / W. Somerset Maugham
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The silver crown / Bernard Malamud
Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
Haircut / Ring Lardner
Paul's case / Willa Cather
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The guest / Albert Camus
Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
Two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany
That evening sun / William Faulkner
The catbird seat / James Thurber
The drunkard / Frank O'Connor
Young man Axelbrod / Sinclair Lewis
Alma mater / O.F. Lewis
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes
A municipal report / O. Henry
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
The infant prodigy / Thomas Mann
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
Clay / James Joyce
Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty
Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn violin concerto / Barry Targan
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
Rope / Katherine Anne Porter
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
Health card / Frank Yerby
My first goose / Isaac Babel
Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby / Donald Barthelme
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
pt. 2. Poetry
The eagle / Aflred, Lord Tennyson
Winter / William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum est / Wilfred Owen
Spring / William Shakespeare
Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
The pasture / Robert Frost
This is my letter / Emily Dickinson
Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
Is my team ploughing / A.E. Housman
I gave myself to him / Emily Dickinson
Bedtime story / George MacBeth
When in Rome / Mari Evans
Mirror / Sylvia Plath
Break of day / John Donne
There's been a death in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson
A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin
Engraved on the collar of a dog which i gave to his royal highness / Alexander Pope
There is not frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson
When my love swears that she is made of truth / William Shakespeare
The naked and the nude / Robert Graves
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
When green buds hang in the elm / A.E. Housman
Naming of parts / Henry Reed
Judging distances / Henry Reed
Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons / David Wagoner
Cross / Langston Hughes
Base details / Siegfried Sassoon
Inspiration on perspiration / Anonymous
Meeting at night / Robert Browning
Parting at morning / Robert Browning
A late aubade / Richard Wilbur
On moonlit heath and lonesome bank / A.E. Housman
A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
Living in sin / Adrienne Rich
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
To Autumn / John Keats
Of Phyllis / William Drummond
The guitarist tunes up / Frances Cornford
The hound / Robert Francis
Bereft / Robert Frost
It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson
Dr. Sigmund Freud discovers the sea shell / Archibald MacLeish
To daffodils / Robert Herrick
She sights a bird / Emily Dickinson
The silken tent / Robert Frost
Metaphors / Sylvia Plath
Toads / Philip Larkin
A valediction : forbidding mourning / John Donne
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman
To a friend whose work has come to nothing / William Butler Yeats
Dream deferred / Langston Hughes
On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor
On a clergyman's horse biting him / Anonymous
The road not taken / Robert Frost
A white rose / John Boyle O'Reilly
My star / Robert Browning
You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
Peace / George Herbert
Others, i am not the first / A.E. Housman
Fire and ice / Robert Frost
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Curiosity / Alastair Reid
The sea-turtle and the shark / Melvin B. Tolson
Love song : i and thou / Alan Dugan
Dust of snow / Robert Frost
Soft snow / William Blake
Epigram / Langston Hughes
Fog / Carl Sandburg
On seeing weather-beaten trees / Adelaide Crapsey
Wind and silver / Amy Lowell
Pessimist and optimist / Frederick Langbridge
The silver swan / Anonymous
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
The Rose family / Robert Frost
Heart! We will forget him! / Emily Dickinson
The chimney sweeper / William Blake
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth
Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne
Scylla toothless / Anonymous
Incident / Countee Cullen
Southern cop / Sterling Brown
Formal application / Donald W. Baker
The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
Departmental / Robert Frost
Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman
When first my way to fair i took / A.E. Housman
My last duchess / Robert Browning
Eart / John Hall Wheelock
Jack and his father / John Heywood
Out, out / Robert Frost
She should have died hereafter / William Shakespeare
In just / E.E. Cummings
On his blindess / John Milton
God is a distant, stately lover / Emily Dickinson
1887 / A.E. Housman
Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats
The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden
Progress / Peter Meinke
The goodnight / Louis Simpson
Narcissus, photographer / Erica Jong
Little Jack Horner / Anonymous
Barter / Sara Teasdale
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / My sweetest Lesbia
Nature the gentlest mother is / Emily Dickinson
What mystery pervades a well! / Emily Dickinson
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
Design / Robert Frost
What if a much of a which of a wind / E.E. Cummings
When serpents bargain for the right to squirm / E.E. Cummings
The caged skylark / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The immortal part / A.E. Housman
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish
The villain / W.H. Davies
Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson
The coming of wisdom with time / William Butler Yeats
Since there's no help / Michael Drayton
Toads revisited / Philip Larkin
To a friend who work has come to triumph / Anne Sexton
Elegy for Alfred Hubbard / Tony Connor
One dignity delays for all / Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm at first like us / Emily Dickinson
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The oxen / Thomas Hardy
A mad answer of a madman / Robert Hayman
Love / Anonymous
The turtle / Ogden Nash
That night when joy began / W.H. Auden
When the hounds of spring / Algernon Charles Swinburne
God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
I hear an army / James Joyce
Parting, without a sequel / John Crowe Ransom
Winter ocean / John Updike
A prompt, executive bird / Emily Dickinson
On Wenlock edge / A.E. Housman
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
Three grey geese / Anonymous
Virtue / George Herbert
Song : to Cynthia / Ben Jonson
The je ne sais quoi / William Whitehead
If everything happens that can't be done / E.E. Cummings
Oh who is that young sinner / A.E. Housman
John Gorham / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Down by the Salley gardens / William Butler Yeats
Had i the choice / Walt Whitman
The aim was song / Robert Frost
Pease porridge hot / Anonymous
Song : hark, hark! / William Shakespeare
Splinter / Carl Sandburg
Upon Julia's voice / Robert Herrick
The span of life / Robert Frost
Sound and sense / Alexander Pope
I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson
Brainstorm / Howard Nemerov
Heaven-heaven / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen
The dark hills / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman
All day i hear / James Joyce
Lightly stepped a yellow star / Emily Dickinson The dance / William Carlos Williams
Little Dicky Dilver / Anonymous
The greedy the people / E.E. Cummings
There was a young lady of Niger / Anonymous
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
That time of year / William Shakespeare
A handful of limericks / Anonymous
Poem in October / Dylan Thomas
Two Japanese haiku / Matsuō Bashō/ Moritake
A wreath / George Herbert
Gull Skelton / Jonathan Revere
If i profane with my unworthiest hand / William Shakespeare
Edward / Anonymous
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers / A.E. Housman
400-meter freestyle / Maxine Kumin
Slowly / Mary Coleridge
A Christmas tree / William Burford
Loitering with a vacant eye
Be strong
A prayer in Spring
Pray in May
God's will for you and me
Pied beauty
A poison tree
The most vital thing in life
If i can stop one heart from breaking
Death is a dialogue
On a dead child
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter
The send-off
Cha Till Maccruimein
Little boy blue
The toys
The death of the hired man / Robert Frost
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman
Morning song from Senlin / Conrad Aiken
The last war / Kingsley Amis
Dover beach / Matthew Arnold
To Marguerite / Matthew Arnold
O where are you going? / W.H. Auden
On reading poems to a senior class at South High / D.C. Berry
The little black boy / William Blake
The lamb / William Blake
The tiger / William Blake
The garden of love / William Blake
Southern Mansion / Arna Bontemps
Paranoia / Michael Dennis Browne
Andrea del Sarto / Robert Browning
The scientist / Janet Burroway
Badger / John Clare
Good times / Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Song / William Congreve
The listeners / Walter de la Mare
The bee / James Dickey
Because i could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson
Song : go and catch a falling star / John Donne
The flea / John Donne
The good-morrow / John Donne
The sun rising / John Donne
Vergissmeinicht / Keith Douglas
On hearing the airlines will use a psychological profile to catch potential skyjackers / Stephen Dunn
Broadminded / Ray Durem
Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost
Mending wall / Robert Frost
Considering the snail / Thom Gunn
Dear God, the day is grey / Anne Halley
The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy
Channel firing / Thomas Hardy
The wife's tale / Seamus Heaney
More light! More light! / Anthony Hecht
The chestnut casts his flambeaux / A.E. Housman
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
Pike / Ted Hughes
Wind / Ted Hughes
Approaching the castle / Richard Hugo
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
La belle dame sans merci / John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats
Sheepdog trials in Hyde Park / C. Day Lewis
Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell
Portrait of girl with comic book / Phyllis McGinley
Oh, oh you will be sorry for that word / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The horses / Edwin Muir
Love poem / John Frederick Nims
The mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
The waking / Theodore Roethke
Silent noon / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fear no more / William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare
Telephone conversation / Wole Soyinka
At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / William Stafford
Peter Quince at the Clavier / Wallace Stevens
The watch / May Swenson
A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
The gallows / Edward Thomas
Sea grapes / Derek Walcott
A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman
When i heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman
The mill / Richard Wilbur
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
There was a boy / William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
Puritan sonnet / Elinor Wylie
Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats
pt. 3. Drama
The stronger / August Strindberg
The brute / Anton Chekhov
An enemy of the people / Henrik Ibsen
The madwoman of Chaillot / Jean Giraudoux
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles
Othello / William Shakespeare
The misanthrope / Molière
Candida / George Bernard Shaw
A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller

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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1978

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxv, 1525 p.
Number of pages
1525

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Open Library
OL39476169M
Internet Archive
literaturestruct0000laur
ISBN 10
0155511041
ISBN 13
9780155511040
LCCN
77026536
OCLC/WorldCat
4137165
Goodreads
2713950

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