About the Author |
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Brief Contents |
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Preface |
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INTRODUCTION: LITERATURE: READING, WRITING, AND CRITICAL THINKING |
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1 | (24) |
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Critical Thinking and the Pleasures of Literature |
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1 | (9) |
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2 | (1) |
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Thinking Critically about a Story |
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2 | (1) |
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3 | (2) |
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Critical Thinking and Contexts: Learning to Be Silent |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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Thinking Critically about a Poem |
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6 | (1) |
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Robert Frost Dust of Snow |
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6 | (1) |
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Critical Thinking and Contexts: Dust of Snow |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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Drama and Imaginative Thinking |
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8 | (1) |
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Critical Thinking and Oprah's Book Club: An Exercise |
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9 | (1) |
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Approaching Literature with Critical Thinking: Experience, Interpretation, Evaluation |
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10 | (2) |
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Critical Thinking and Context: Hemingway's Sketch |
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12 | (1) |
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Critical Thinking and Writing about Literature |
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12 | (13) |
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Reasons for Writing about Literature |
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13 | (1) |
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Ways of Writing about Literature |
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13 | (4) |
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17 | (2) |
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Stephen Crane War Is Kind |
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19 | (1) |
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Ironic Contrasts in Crane's War Is Kind |
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20 | (1) |
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War at Home and on the Battlefield |
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21 | (4) |
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25 | (2) |
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READING AND WRITING ABOUT FICTION |
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27 | (103) |
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27 | (16) |
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27 | (1) |
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The Experience of Fiction |
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28 | (1) |
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The Interpretation of Fiction |
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29 | (2) |
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30 | (1) |
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The Evaluation of Fiction |
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31 | (6) |
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32 | (5) |
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The Act of Reading Fiction |
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37 | (6) |
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Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour |
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38 | (5) |
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43 | (6) |
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Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale |
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43 | (3) |
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Aesop The Wolf and the Mastiff |
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44 | (1) |
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Petronius The Widow of Ephesus |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (62) |
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49 | (10) |
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Frank O'Connor Guests of the Nation |
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51 | (8) |
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59 | (7) |
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Kay Boyle Astronomer's Wife |
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62 | (4) |
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66 | (11) |
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67 | (10) |
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77 | (8) |
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William Faulkner A Rose for Emily |
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79 | (6) |
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85 | (5) |
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86 | (4) |
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90 | (7) |
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91 | (6) |
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97 | (14) |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (1) |
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D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner |
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100 | (11) |
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111 | (19) |
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Reasons for Writing about Fiction |
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111 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Fiction |
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111 | (5) |
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112 | (1) |
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Katherine Anne Porter Magic |
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112 | (3) |
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115 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction |
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116 | (14) |
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Student Papers on Fiction |
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117 | (8) |
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Questions for Writing About Fiction |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (3) |
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THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT FICTION |
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130 | (189) |
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Three Fiction Writers in Context |
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130 | (130) |
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Reading Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and Sandra Cisneros in Depth |
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130 | (2) |
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Edgar Allan Poe in Context |
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132 | (5) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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Poe and the Detective Story |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (38) |
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137 | (7) |
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144 | (5) |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
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149 | (13) |
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162 | (13) |
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175 | (3) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (6) |
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Daniel Hoffman On ``The Purloined Letter'' |
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178 | (2) |
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Christopher Benfey On ``The Black Cat'' and ``The Tell-Tale Heart'' |
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180 | (1) |
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Louise J. Kaplan On ``The Fall of the House of Usher'' |
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181 | (2) |
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David S. Reynolds On ``The Cask of Amontillado'' |
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183 | (1) |
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Flannery O'Connor in Context |
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184 | (4) |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (2) |
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Flannery O'Connor: Stories |
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188 | (44) |
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188 | (14) |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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202 | (11) |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge |
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213 | (10) |
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own |
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223 | (9) |
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Flannery O'Connor: Essays and Letters |
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232 | (3) |
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232 | (1) |
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From a letter to Dr. T. R. Spivey, May 25, 1959, On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' |
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233 | (1) |
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From a letter to a Professor of English, March 28, 1961, On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' |
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233 | (1) |
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On ``Good Country People'' |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (3) |
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Frederick Asals On ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' |
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235 | (1) |
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Kathleen Feeley On ``Good Country People'' |
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236 | (1) |
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Dorothy Tuck Mcfarland On ``Everything That Rises Must Converge'' |
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237 | (1) |
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Sandra Cisneros in Context |
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238 | (3) |
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238 | (1) |
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Literature of the American Southwest |
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239 | (1) |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (13) |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (2) |
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There Was a Man, There Was a Woman |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (8) |
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254 | (3) |
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254 | (2) |
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256 | (1) |
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257 | (3) |
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Jeff Thompson On Identity in Cisneros |
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257 | (1) |
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Robin Ganz On Woman Hollering Creek |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (44) |
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What Is Literary Nonfiction? |
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260 | (1) |
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An Album of Literary Nonfiction |
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261 | (43) |
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Rick Bragg 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways |
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261 | (4) |
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Judith Ortiz Cofer Silent Dancing |
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265 | (7) |
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Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels |
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272 | (4) |
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Mary Karr From The Liars' Club |
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276 | (5) |
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Chang-Rae Lee Coming Home Again |
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281 | (8) |
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James McBride Shul/School |
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289 | (11) |
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300 | (4) |
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304 | (15) |
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304 | (1) |
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An Album of Visual Narratives |
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305 | (14) |
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306 | (2) |
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308 | (4) |
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Rachel Masilamani Two Kinds of People |
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312 | (7) |
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION |
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319 | (442) |
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A Collection of Contemporary Fiction |
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319 | (53) |
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Sherman Alexie Indian Education |
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320 | (5) |
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T. C. Boyle After the Plague |
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325 | (15) |
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340 | (8) |
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Jhumpa Lahiri Hell-Heaven |
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348 | (14) |
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362 | (5) |
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Carol Shields Dressing Up for the Carnival |
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367 | (5) |
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A Selection of World Fiction |
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372 | (43) |
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Chinua Achebe Marriage Is a Private Affair |
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373 | (5) |
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Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of Forking Paths |
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378 | (7) |
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385 | (12) |
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397 | (2) |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings |
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399 | (5) |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool |
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404 | (11) |
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415 | (346) |
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416 | (8) |
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Margaret Atwood Happy Endings |
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424 | (3) |
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Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson |
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427 | (6) |
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James Baldwin Sonny's Blues |
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433 | (22) |
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455 | (11) |
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Anton Chekhov The Lady with the Little Dog |
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466 | (11) |
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477 | (5) |
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Stephen Crane The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky |
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482 | (9) |
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491 | (13) |
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Ralph Ellison Battle Royal |
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504 | (11) |
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William Faulkner Barn Burning |
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515 | (12) |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited |
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527 | (15) |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper |
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542 | (11) |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown |
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553 | (10) |
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Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants |
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563 | (4) |
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567 | (5) |
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Shirley Jackson The Lottery |
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572 | (7) |
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James Joyce The Boarding House |
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579 | (5) |
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584 | (28) |
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Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis |
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612 | (30) |
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Katherine Mansfield Bliss |
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642 | (10) |
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Lorrie Moore How to Become a Writer |
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652 | (6) |
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Alice Munro Friend of My Youth |
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658 | (14) |
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Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
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672 | (12) |
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Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried |
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684 | (13) |
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Frank O'Connor My Oedipus Complex |
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697 | (9) |
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Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing |
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706 | (6) |
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Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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712 | (7) |
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Leslie Silko Yellow Woman |
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719 | (7) |
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John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums |
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726 | (8) |
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Amy Tan Rules of the Game |
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734 | (9) |
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Alice Walker Everyday Use |
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743 | (7) |
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Eudora Welty Why I Live at the P.O. |
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750 | (11) |
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761 | (2) |
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READING AND WRITING ABOUT POETRY |
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763 | (99) |
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763 | (12) |
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764 | (1) |
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Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays |
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764 | (1) |
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The Interpretation of Poetry |
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765 | (4) |
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Robert Frost Stopping by the Woods On a Snowy Evening |
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767 | (2) |
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769 | (3) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks A Song in the Front Yard |
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771 | (1) |
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The Act of Reading Poetry |
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772 | (3) |
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Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz |
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773 | (2) |
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775 | (4) |
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775 | (2) |
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777 | (2) |
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779 | (64) |
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779 | (8) |
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Stephen Crane War Is Kind |
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780 | (1) |
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Robert Browning My Last Duchess |
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781 | (2) |
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Muriel Stuart In the Orchard |
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783 | (1) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins [Thou art indeed just, Lord] |
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784 | (1) |
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785 | (1) |
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Henry Reed Naming of Parts |
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785 | (1) |
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Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner |
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786 | (1) |
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787 | (6) |
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William Wordsworth [I wandered lonely as a cloud] |
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788 | (2) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy |
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790 | (2) |
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William Wordsworth It is a beauteous evening |
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792 | (1) |
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Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder |
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792 | (1) |
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793 | (6) |
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Elizabeth Bishop First Death in Nova Scotia |
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794 | (2) |
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William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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796 | (1) |
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Robert Browning Meeting at Night |
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797 | (1) |
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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Heat |
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797 | (1) |
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Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones |
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798 | (1) |
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Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor |
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799 | (5) |
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William Shakespeare That time of year thou may'st in me behold |
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800 | (1) |
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John Donne Hymn to God the Father |
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801 | (1) |
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Robert Wallace The Double Play |
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802 | (1) |
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803 | (1) |
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Judith Wright Woman to Child |
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804 | (1) |
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804 | (6) |
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Peter Meinke Advice to My Son |
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805 | (2) |
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Christina Rossetti Up-Hill |
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807 | (1) |
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William Blake A Poison Tree |
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807 | (1) |
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Robert Frost The Road Not Taken |
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808 | (1) |
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809 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death |
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810 | (1) |
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810 | (7) |
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John Donne The Sun Rising |
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811 | (2) |
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Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed |
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813 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
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814 | (1) |
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Robert Frost The Silken Tent |
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815 | (1) |
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e. e. cummings ``Me up at does'' |
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816 | (1) |
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Stevie Smith Mother, among the Dustbins |
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816 | (1) |
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Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance |
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817 | (7) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins In the Valley of the Elwy |
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819 | (1) |
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Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain |
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820 | (1) |
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Alexander Pope Sound and Sense |
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821 | (1) |
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822 | (1) |
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823 | (1) |
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Helen Chasin The Word Plum |
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824 | (1) |
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824 | (8) |
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Robert Frost The Span of Life |
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825 | (3) |
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828 | (2) |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib |
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830 | (1) |
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831 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow |
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831 | (1) |
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Structure: Closed Form and Open Form |
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832 | (9) |
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John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
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833 | (1) |
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Walt Whitman When I heard the learn'd astronomer |
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834 | (1) |
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835 | (1) |
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e.e. cummings [Buffalo Bill's] |
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836 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams The Dance |
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837 | (1) |
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Denise Levertov O Taste and See |
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838 | (1) |
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Theodore Roethke The Waking |
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838 | (1) |
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Christine K. Molito Reflections in Black & Blue |
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839 | (1) |
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840 | (1) |
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841 | (2) |
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Emily Dickinson Crumbling is not an instant's Act |
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841 | (2) |
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843 | (19) |
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Reasons for Writing about Poetry |
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843 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Poetry |
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843 | (3) |
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844 | (1) |
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Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays |
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844 | (1) |
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844 | (1) |
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Robert Graves Symptoms of Love |
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845 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing about Poetry |
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846 | (16) |
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847 | (1) |
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848 | (1) |
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A Paper That Compares Two Versions of a Poem |
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849 | (9) |
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Questions for Writing about Poetry |
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858 | (1) |
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859 | (3) |
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THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT POETRY |
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862 | (165) |
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862 | (41) |
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862 | (10) |
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863 | (3) |
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William Butler Yeats A Dream of Death |
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866 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson The Wind begun to knead the Grass |
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867 | (1) |
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868 | (3) |
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Langston Hughes Ballad of Booker T. |
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871 | (1) |
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872 | (3) |
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William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say |
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872 | (1) |
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Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
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873 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
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874 | (1) |
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Howard Moss Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? |
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874 | (1) |
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Robert Frost Dust of Snow |
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875 | (1) |
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Bob McKenty Snow on Frost |
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875 | (1) |
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875 | (9) |
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Catullus Vivamus, mea Lesbia, et amemus (We should live, my Lesbia, and love) |
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876 | (1) |
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Francesco Petrarca S' amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' io sento? (If it's not love, then what is it I feel?) |
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877 | (2) |
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Rainer Maria Rilke Der Panther (The Panther) |
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879 | (2) |
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Guillaume Apollinaire Le Pont Mirabeau (Mirabeau Bridge) |
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881 | (2) |
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Juan Ramon Jimenez Nocturno Sonado (Dream Nocturne) |
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883 | (1) |
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Responses (Point-Counterpoint) |
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884 | (8) |
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Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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884 | (1) |
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Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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885 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare Not marble, nor the gilded monuments |
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886 | (1) |
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Archibald MaCleish ``Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments'' |
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886 | (1) |
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William Blake The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence) |
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887 | (1) |
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The Chimney Sweeper (Experience) |
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888 | (1) |
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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach |
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889 | (1) |
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Anthony Hecht The Dover Bitch: a Criticism of Life |
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890 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams Queen-Ann's-Lace |
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891 | (1) |
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Anne C. Coon Queen Anne's Lace |
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891 | (1) |
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Adaptations (Poetry and Song) |
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892 | (11) |
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From Ecclesiastes: 3.1--8 To Everything There Is a Season |
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893 | (1) |
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Pete Seeger Turn! Turn! Turn! |
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893 | (1) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory |
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894 | (1) |
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895 | (1) |
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Langston Hughes Dream Deferred |
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896 | (1) |
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896 | (1) |
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Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land |
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897 | (1) |
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Bessie Smith Lost Your Head Blues |
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898 | (1) |
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Lonnelle Johnson No Mo' Blues |
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899 | (1) |
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900 | (1) |
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John Newton Amazing Grace |
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900 | (1) |
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901 | (2) |
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903 | (4) |
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903 | (4) |
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Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night |
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Anne Sexton The Starry Night |
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Francisco de Goya The Third of May, 1808 |
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David Gewanter Goya's ``The Third of May, 1808'' |
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Pieter Breughel the Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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W. H. Auden Musee des Beaux Arts |
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William Carlos Williams Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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William Blake The Sick Rose |
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Natalie Safir Matisse's Dance |
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Jan Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Jug |
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase |
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X. J. Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase |
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Rembrandt van Rijn The Return of the Prodigal Son |
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Elizabeth Bishop The Prodigal |
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Utamaro Girl Powdering Her Neck |
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Cathy Song Girl Powdering Her Neck |
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Romare Bearden At Five in the Afternoon |
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Federico Garcia Lorca Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias |
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Giorgio de Chirico The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street |
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Roy Jacobstein The Mystery and the Melancholy of the Street |
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Lucille Clifton tuesday 9/11/01 |
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907 | (120) |
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Reading Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes in Depth |
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907 | (2) |
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Emily Dickinson in Context |
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909 | (5) |
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The Nineteenth-Century New England Literary Scene |
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909 | (1) |
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Dickinson and Modern Poetry |
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910 | (1) |
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Dickinson and Christianity |
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911 | (1) |
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911 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson I cannot dance upon my Toes |
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912 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson The Soul selects her own Society |
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912 | (2) |
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914 | (28) |
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Success is counted sweetest |
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914 | (1) |
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Surgeons must be very careful |
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914 | (1) |
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These are the days when Birds come back--- |
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914 | (1) |
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Water, is taught by thirst |
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915 | (1) |
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``Faith'' is a fine invention |
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915 | (1) |
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I'm ``wife''---I've finished that |
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916 | (1) |
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I taste a liquor never brewed |
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917 | (1) |
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918 | (1) |
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Wild Nights---Wild Nights! |
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918 | (1) |
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919 | (1) |
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There's a certain Slant of light |
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919 | (1) |
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
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920 | (1) |
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920 | (1) |
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church |
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921 | (1) |
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A Bird came down the Walk |
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921 | (1) |
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes |
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922 | (1) |
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I dreaded that first Robin, so |
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923 | (1) |
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Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? |
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924 | (1) |
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We grow accustomed to the Dark |
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925 | (1) |
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Much Madness is divinest Sense |
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925 | (1) |
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This was a Poet---It is That |
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925 | (1) |
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I died for Beauty---but was scarce |
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926 | (1) |
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I heard a Fly buzz---when I died |
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926 | (1) |
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``Why do I love'' You, Sir? |
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927 | (1) |
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This World is not Conclusion |
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927 | (1) |
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I'm ceded---I've stopped being Theirs |
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928 | (1) |
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The Soul has Bandaged moments |
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928 | (1) |
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The Heart asks Pleasure---first |
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929 | (1) |
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I reckon---when I count at all |
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929 | (1) |
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I like to see it lap the Miles |
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930 | (1) |
|
There is a pain---so utter |
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930 | (1) |
|
The Brain---is wider than the sky |
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931 | (1) |
|
Pain---has an Element of Blank |
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931 | (1) |
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931 | (1) |
|
``Nature'' is what we see |
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932 | (1) |
|
Remorse---is Memory---awake |
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933 | (1) |
|
My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun |
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934 | (1) |
|
A narrow Fellow in the Grass |
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|
934 | (1) |
|
Further in Summer than the Birds |
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935 | (1) |
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936 | (1) |
|
The last Night that She lived |
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936 | (2) |
|
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant |
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938 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
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939 | (1) |
|
Apparently with no surprise |
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939 | (1) |
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940 | (1) |
|
My life closed twice before its close |
|
|
941 | (1) |
|
Three Dickinson Poems with Altered Punctuation |
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|
942 | (1) |
|
Poems Inspired by Dickinson |
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943 | (4) |
|
Jane Kenyon Notes from the Other Side |
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943 | (1) |
|
Jane Hirshfield Three Times My Life Has Opened |
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944 | (1) |
|
Billy Collins Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes |
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|
944 | (2) |
|
Francis Heaney Skinny Domicile |
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|
946 | (1) |
|
Linda Pastan Emily Dickinson |
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|
946 | (1) |
|
Dickinson on Herself and Her First Poems |
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|
947 | (1) |
|
Letter to Thomas Higginson |
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|
947 | (1) |
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|
948 | (5) |
|
Allen Tate Dickinson and Knowledge |
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|
948 | (1) |
|
Judith Farr On ``Wild Nights'' |
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|
949 | (2) |
|
Allen Tate On ``Because I Could Not Stop for Death'' |
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951 | (1) |
|
Helen Mcneil Dickinson's Method |
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952 | (1) |
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953 | (5) |
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954 | (2) |
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956 | (1) |
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956 | (2) |
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958 | (1) |
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958 | (21) |
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958 | (2) |
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960 | (1) |
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961 | (2) |
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963 | (4) |
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967 | (1) |
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968 | (1) |
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|
968 | (2) |
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970 | (1) |
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971 | (1) |
|
Acquainted with the Night |
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972 | (1) |
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973 | (1) |
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974 | (1) |
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975 | (1) |
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976 | (1) |
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977 | (2) |
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|
979 | (4) |
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979 | (1) |
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|
979 | (2) |
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|
981 | (1) |
|
Neal Bowers Driving Lessons |
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|
981 | (2) |
|
Critical Comments by Frost |
|
|
983 | (2) |
|
From ``The Figure a Poem Makes'' |
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|
983 | (1) |
|
From ``The Constant Symbol'' |
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|
984 | (1) |
|
From ``The Unmade Word, Or Fetching and Far-Fetching'' |
|
|
985 | (1) |
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|
985 | (4) |
|
William Pritchard On ``Stopping by Woods'' |
|
|
985 | (1) |
|
Richard Poirier On ``Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'' |
|
|
986 | (1) |
|
Richard Poirier On ``Mending Wall'' |
|
|
987 | (1) |
|
Yvor Winters Robert Frost: Or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet |
|
|
988 | (1) |
|
Langston Hughes in Context |
|
|
989 | (5) |
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|
989 | (2) |
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991 | (1) |
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992 | (1) |
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|
992 | (2) |
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|
994 | (21) |
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|
994 | (1) |
|
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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995 | (1) |
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995 | (1) |
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996 | (2) |
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998 | (1) |
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998 | (1) |
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999 | (1) |
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1000 | (1) |
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1001 | (1) |
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1001 | (1) |
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1002 | (1) |
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1003 | (2) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1007 | (1) |
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1008 | (1) |
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|
1008 | (1) |
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|
1009 | (2) |
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1011 | (1) |
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|
1011 | (2) |
|
Let America Be America Again |
|
|
1013 | (1) |
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1014 | (1) |
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|
1015 | (4) |
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|
1015 | (1) |
|
Michael S. Harper Martin's Blues |
|
|
1016 | (1) |
|
Dudley Randall The Ballad of Birmingham |
|
|
1016 | (1) |
|
Kevin Young Langston Hughes |
|
|
1017 | (2) |
|
Hughes on Harlem, The Blues |
|
|
1019 | (2) |
|
|
1019 | (1) |
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|
1020 | (1) |
|
|
1021 | (6) |
|
Arnold Rampersad Langston Hughes as Folk Poet |
|
|
1021 | (1) |
|
Onwuchekwa Jemie Hughes and the Evolution of Consciousness in Black Poetry |
|
|
1022 | (1) |
|
Richard K. Barksdale On Hughes's ``Ballad of the Landlord'' |
|
|
1023 | (1) |
|
Onwuchekwa Jemie On ``The Negro Speaks of Rivers'' |
|
|
1024 | (1) |
|
James A. Emanuel On ``Trumpet Player'' |
|
|
1025 | (2) |
|
|
1027 | (218) |
|
A Selection of Contemporary Poetry |
|
|
1027 | (14) |
|
|
1027 | (1) |
|
Jennifer Ritter-Compasso All I Hear Is Silence |
|
|
1028 | (1) |
|
Wendy Cope The Ted Williams Villanelle (for Ari Badaines) |
|
|
1029 | (1) |
|
Doretta Cornell Steady as Any Ship My Father |
|
|
1030 | (1) |
|
Mark Doty Golden Retrievals |
|
|
1031 | (1) |
|
|
1032 | (1) |
|
Deborah Garrison A Working Girl Can't Win |
|
|
1033 | (2) |
|
Jane Kenyon Peonies at Dusk |
|
|
1035 | (1) |
|
Ted Kooser A Spiral Notebook |
|
|
1035 | (2) |
|
Taylor Mali Like Lilly Like Wilson |
|
|
1037 | (2) |
|
Krishna Tateneni Valentine for Amy |
|
|
1039 | (2) |
|
A Selection of World Poetry |
|
|
1041 | (14) |
|
Anna Akhmatova (Russia) From Requiem 1935-1940 |
|
|
1041 | (3) |
|
Bella Akhmadulina (Russia) The Bride |
|
|
1044 | (1) |
|
Yehuda Amichai (Israel) A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention |
|
|
1045 | (1) |
|
Chairil Anwar (Indonesia) At the Mosque |
|
|
1045 | (1) |
|
Matsuo Basho (Japan) Three Haiku |
|
|
1046 | (1) |
|
Rosario Castellanos (Mexico) Chess |
|
|
1046 | (1) |
|
Bernard Binlin Dadie. . . (Ivory Coast) I Give You Thanks My God |
|
|
1047 | (1) |
|
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Pakistan) Before You Came |
|
|
1048 | (1) |
|
Eugenio Montale (Italy) The Eel |
|
|
1048 | (1) |
|
Pablo Neruda (Chile) Ode to My Socks |
|
|
1049 | (2) |
|
Boris Pasternak (Russia) Hamlet |
|
|
1051 | (1) |
|
Octavio Paz (Mexico) The Street |
|
|
1052 | (1) |
|
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Hamlet |
|
|
1052 | (1) |
|
Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) The Acrobat |
|
|
1053 | (1) |
|
Derek Walcott (Caribbean) House of Umbrage |
|
|
1053 | (2) |
|
|
1055 | (170) |
|
Sherman Alexie Indian Boy Love Song (#1) |
|
|
1055 | (1) |
|
Indian Boy Love Song (#2) |
|
|
1056 | (1) |
|
|
1056 | (1) |
|
|
1057 | (2) |
|
Margaret Atwood This Is a Photograph of Me |
|
|
1059 | (1) |
|
|
1060 | (1) |
|
W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen |
|
|
1061 | (1) |
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|
1062 | (2) |
|
|
1064 | (1) |
|
|
1065 | (2) |
|
Jimmy Santiago Baca From Meditations on the South Valley |
|
|
1067 | (1) |
|
|
1068 | (1) |
|
|
1069 | (1) |
|
|
1069 | (2) |
|
William Blake The Clod & the Pebble |
|
|
1071 | (1) |
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1072 | (1) |
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|
1072 | (1) |
|
|
1073 | (1) |
|
|
1073 | (2) |
|
David Bottoms Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt |
|
|
1075 | (1) |
|
Neal Bowers Driving Lessons |
|
|
1075 | (2) |
|
Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband |
|
|
1077 | (1) |
|
Edward Kamau Brathwaite Ogoun |
|
|
1077 | (2) |
|
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool |
|
|
1079 | (1) |
|
|
1079 | (1) |
|
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways |
|
|
1080 | (1) |
|
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose |
|
|
1080 | (1) |
|
Thomas Campion There Is a Garden in Her Face |
|
|
1081 | (1) |
|
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Jabberwocky |
|
|
1081 | (1) |
|
Raymond Carver Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year |
|
|
1082 | (1) |
|
Sandra Cisneros Pumpkin Eater |
|
|
1083 | (1) |
|
Lucille Clifton Homage to My Hips |
|
|
1084 | (1) |
|
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Game |
|
|
1084 | (2) |
|
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan |
|
|
1086 | (1) |
|
Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry |
|
|
1087 | (1) |
|
|
1088 | (1) |
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|
1088 | (1) |
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|
1089 | (1) |
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|
1090 | (3) |
|
Joseph Coulson After the Move |
|
|
1093 | (1) |
|
|
1094 | (1) |
|
e.e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town |
|
|
1094 | (1) |
|
i thank You God for most this amazing |
|
|
1095 | (1) |
|
John Donne Song: Go and catch a Palling star |
|
|
1096 | (1) |
|
|
1097 | (1) |
|
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
|
|
1098 | (1) |
|
|
1099 | (1) |
|
|
1100 | (1) |
|
Batter my heart, three-personed God |
|
|
1100 | (1) |
|
|
1101 | (1) |
|
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask |
|
|
1101 | (1) |
|
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
|
|
1102 | (4) |
|
Louise Erdrich Indian Boarding School: The Runaways |
|
|
1106 | (1) |
|
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity |
|
|
1106 | (1) |
|
Carolyn Forche The Memory of Elena |
|
|
1107 | (1) |
|
Nikki Giovanni Ego Tripping |
|
|
1108 | (2) |
|
|
1110 | (1) |
|
Louise Gluck The School Children |
|
|
1111 | (1) |
|
George Gordon, Lord Byron She walks in beauty |
|
|
1111 | (1) |
|
Donald Hall My son, my executioner |
|
|
1112 | (1) |
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|
1112 | (3) |
|
Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid |
|
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1115 | (1) |
|
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1116 | (1) |
|
|
1117 | (1) |
|
Robert Hass Meditation at Lagunitas |
|
|
1118 | (1) |
|
Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1119 | (1) |
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|
1119 | (1) |
|
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1120 | (1) |
|
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1121 | (1) |
|
Robert Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes |
|
|
1122 | (1) |
|
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
|
|
1122 | (1) |
|
|
1123 | (1) |
|
|
1124 | (2) |
|
Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur |
|
|
1126 | (1) |
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|
1126 | (1) |
|
|
1127 | (1) |
|
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child |
|
|
1127 | (1) |
|
A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty |
|
|
1128 | (1) |
|
To an Athlete Dying Young |
|
|
1128 | (1) |
|
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey The soote season |
|
|
1129 | (1) |
|
Andrew Hudgins Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead |
|
|
1130 | (1) |
|
Ben Jonson On My First Son |
|
|
1130 | (1) |
|
|
1131 | (1) |
|
John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be |
|
|
1131 | (1) |
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|
1132 | (1) |
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|
1133 | (10) |
|
|
1143 | (2) |
|
|
1145 | (2) |
|
|
1147 | (1) |
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|
1148 | (1) |
|
Galway Kinnell Blackberry Eating |
|
|
1148 | (1) |
|
Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It |
|
|
1149 | (1) |
|
Philip Larkin A Study of Reading Habits |
|
|
1149 | (1) |
|
|
1150 | (2) |
|
|
1152 | (1) |
|
Li-Young Lee I Ask My Mother to Sing |
|
|
1153 | (1) |
|
Michael Longley The Butchers |
|
|
1153 | (1) |
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|
1154 | (2) |
|
|
1156 | (1) |
|
Archibald Macleish Ars Poetica |
|
|
1157 | (1) |
|
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress |
|
|
1158 | (2) |
|
Claude McKay The Tropics in New York |
|
|
1160 | (1) |
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed |
|
|
1160 | (1) |
|
|
1161 | (1) |
|
John Milton When I consider how my light is spent |
|
|
1161 | (1) |
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1162 | (1) |
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|
1163 | (1) |
|
Sharon Olds Size and Sheer Will |
|
|
1164 | (1) |
|
|
1164 | (1) |
|
|
1165 | (1) |
|
Mary Oliver Poem for My Father's Ghost |
|
|
1165 | (1) |
|
Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est |
|
|
1166 | (1) |
|
Robert F. Panara On His Deafness |
|
|
1167 | (1) |
|
|
1168 | (1) |
|
Marge Piercy A Work of Artifice |
|
|
1169 | (1) |
|
|
1169 | (1) |
|
Sylvia Plath Blackberrying |
|
|
1170 | (1) |
|
|
1171 | (1) |
|
|
1172 | (1) |
|
|
1172 | (1) |
|
|
1173 | (3) |
|
Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man |
|
|
1176 | (1) |
|
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro |
|
|
1176 | (1) |
|
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
|
|
1177 | (1) |
|
Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
|
|
1178 | (1) |
|
Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926] The Cadet Picture of My Father |
|
|
1179 | (1) |
|
Alberto Rios A Dream of Husbands |
|
|
1179 | (1) |
|
Theodore Roethke Elegy for Jane |
|
|
1180 | (1) |
|
|
1181 | (1) |
|
Kraft Rompf Waiting Table |
|
|
1181 | (1) |
|
Siegfried Sassoon ``They'' |
|
|
1182 | (1) |
|
Mary Jo Salter Welcome to Hiroshima |
|
|
1183 | (1) |
|
Sonia Sanchez Towhomitmayconcern |
|
|
1184 | (1) |
|
|
1185 | (1) |
|
William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes |
|
|
1186 | (1) |
|
Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
|
|
1186 | (1) |
|
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
|
|
1187 | (1) |
|
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
|
|
1187 | (1) |
|
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias |
|
|
1188 | (1) |
|
|
1188 | (2) |
|
Gary Soto Behind Grandma's House |
|
|
1190 | (1) |
|
Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand |
|
|
1191 | (1) |
|
William Stafford Traveling through the dark |
|
|
1191 | (1) |
|
Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
|
|
1192 | (2) |
|
Disillusionment of Ten o'clock |
|
|
1194 | (1) |
|
May Swenson Strawberrying |
|
|
1194 | (1) |
|
|
1195 | (1) |
|
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses |
|
|
1196 | (2) |
|
|
1198 | (1) |
|
|
1198 | (2) |
|
Do not go gentle into that good night |
|
|
1200 | (1) |
|
Jean Toomer Song of the Son |
|
|
1200 | (1) |
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1201 | (1) |
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Ellen Bryant Voigt Two Trees |
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1201 | (1) |
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Walt Whitman One's Self I Sing |
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1202 | (1) |
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A noiseless patient spider |
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1203 | (1) |
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1203 | (4) |
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Richard Wilbur The Death of a Toad |
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1207 | (1) |
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C. K. Williams Invisible Mending |
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1208 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams Spring and All |
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1209 | (1) |
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1210 | (1) |
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1211 | (1) |
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William Wordsworth The world is too much with us |
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1211 | (1) |
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1212 | (1) |
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Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
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1212 | (4) |
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Baron Wormser Friday Night |
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1216 | (1) |
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James Wright Lying in a Hammock a William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota |
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1217 | (1) |
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1217 | (1) |
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Thomas Wyatt They flee from me |
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1218 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats The Second Coming |
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1219 | (1) |
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1219 | (1) |
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1220 | (1) |
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1221 | (1) |
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1222 | (1) |
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1222 | (1) |
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1223 | (1) |
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1223 | (2) |
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1225 | (20) |
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1245 | (2) |
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READING AND WRITING ABOUT DRAMA |
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1247 | (601) |
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1247 | (18) |
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1249 | (11) |
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Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory The Rising of the Moon |
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1252 | (8) |
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The Interpretation of Drama |
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1260 | (2) |
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1262 | (3) |
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1265 | (3) |
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1265 | (1) |
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1266 | (2) |
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1268 | (16) |
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1268 | (2) |
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1270 | (3) |
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1273 | (4) |
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1276 | (1) |
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1277 | (3) |
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1280 | (2) |
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1281 | (1) |
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1282 | (2) |
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1284 | (18) |
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Reasons For Writing about Drama |
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1284 | (1) |
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Informal Ways of Writing about Drama |
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1284 | (4) |
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1285 | (2) |
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1287 | (1) |
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Formal Ways of Writing about Drama |
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1288 | (14) |
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1289 | (3) |
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Two papers on Oedipus the King |
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1292 | (5) |
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Questions for Writing About Drama |
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1297 | (1) |
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Questions for In-Depth Reading |
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1298 | (1) |
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1299 | (3) |
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The Greek Theater: Sophocles in Context |
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1302 | (85) |
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Reading Sophocles in Context |
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1302 | (5) |
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1302 | (1) |
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1303 | (1) |
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1304 | (2) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1307 | (71) |
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1307 | (40) |
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1347 | (31) |
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1378 | (9) |
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Aristotle The Six Elements of Tragedy |
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1378 | (1) |
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1379 | (1) |
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Sigmund Freud The Oedipus Complex |
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1380 | (2) |
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Bernard Knox Sophocles' Oedipus |
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1382 | (2) |
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Adrian Poole Oedipus and Athens |
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1384 | (2) |
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George Steiner Principal Constants of Conflict in Antigone |
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1386 | (1) |
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The Elizabethan Theater: Shakespeare in Context |
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1387 | (276) |
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Reading Shakespeare in Context |
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1387 | (4) |
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London in the Age of Elizabeth |
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1387 | (1) |
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The Arts in the Age of Elizabeth |
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1388 | (1) |
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Stagecraft in the Elizabethan Age |
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1388 | (1) |
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Shakespeare and His Works |
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1389 | (2) |
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1391 | (258) |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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1391 | (63) |
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1454 | (90) |
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
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1544 | (105) |
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1649 | (14) |
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Russ McDonald from Introduction to Midsummer Night's Dream |
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1649 | (2) |
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Joseph Summer from Dreams of Love and Power |
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1651 | (2) |
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Adrian Poole Hamlet and Oedipus |
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1653 | (1) |
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John Ashworth Olivier, Freud, and Hamlet |
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1654 | (1) |
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Maynard Mack The Readiness Is All: Hamlet |
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1655 | (4) |
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Carolyn Heilbrun The Character of Hamlet's Mother |
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1659 | (1) |
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1660 | (1) |
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Maurice Charney Shakespeare's Villains |
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1661 | (2) |
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The Modern Realistic Theater: Ibsen in Context |
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1663 | (54) |
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1663 | (54) |
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1663 | (1) |
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A Note on the Theater of the Absurd |
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1664 | (1) |
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1665 | (1) |
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Henrik Ibsen A Doll House |
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1666 | (51) |
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Envisioning Drama: Williams and Miller in Performance |
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1717 | (131) |
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Envisioning The Glass Menagerie |
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1717 | (57) |
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Tennessee Williams Production Notes to The Glass Menagerie |
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1718 | (4) |
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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie |
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1722 | (52) |
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Envisioning Death of A Salesman |
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1774 | (74) |
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1774 | (3) |
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Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman |
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1777 | (71) |
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1848 | (269) |
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A Collection of Modern Drama |
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1848 | (133) |
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Anton Chekhov A Marriage Proposal |
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1849 | (9) |
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1858 | (12) |
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Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun |
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1870 | (67) |
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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest |
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1937 | (44) |
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A Collection of Contemporary Plays |
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1981 | (136) |
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David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly |
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1982 | (51) |
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2033 | (10) |
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Milcha Sanchez-Scott The Cuban Swimmer |
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2043 | (14) |
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Wendy Wasserstein Tender Offer |
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2057 | (6) |
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2063 | (54) |
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PART FOUR RESEARCH AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES |
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2117 | |
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2119 | (34) |
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Why Do Research about Literature? |
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2119 | (1) |
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Clarifying the Assignment |
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2120 | (1) |
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2120 | (1) |
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Finding and Using Sources |
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2121 | (1) |
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Using Computerized Databases |
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2122 | (2) |
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Using the Internet for Research |
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|
2124 | (2) |
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|
2124 | (1) |
|
Evaluating Internet Sources |
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|
2124 | (2) |
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A Sampling of Internet Resources for Literature |
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|
2126 | (1) |
|
Developing a Critical Perspective |
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|
2126 | (1) |
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2127 | (1) |
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2128 | (1) |
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2128 | (3) |
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2128 | (1) |
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Verb Tense Conventions in Literary Papers |
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2129 | (1) |
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2129 | (1) |
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2130 | (1) |
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2131 | (2) |
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MLA Style: Parenthetical Citations Paired with a List of Works Cited |
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2131 | (1) |
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2132 | (1) |
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Documenting Electronic Sources |
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2133 | (3) |
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2133 | (1) |
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2134 | (2) |
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Alternate Documentation Style: Endnotes and Footnotes |
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2136 | (1) |
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Using Endnotes and Footnotes |
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2136 | (1) |
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2136 | (1) |
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A Student Essay Using one Source as a Stimulus |
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2137 | (5) |
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Patricia Kane The Prodigal Daughter in Alice Walker's ``Everyday Use'' |
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2137 | (2) |
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2139 | (3) |
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A Research Paper on a Single Work Using Multiple Sources |
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2142 | (5) |
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2143 | (4) |
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A Research Paper Using Multiple Works and Multiple Sources |
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|
2147 | (6) |
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|
2148 | (5) |
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Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature |
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|
2153 | (41) |
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2153 | (3) |
|
William Carlos Williams The Use of Force |
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|
2154 | (2) |
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Emily Dickinson I'm ``wife''---I've finished that--- |
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2156 | (1) |
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The Canon and the Curriculum |
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2156 | (5) |
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2157 | (1) |
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2158 | (1) |
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2159 | (1) |
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Canon and Curriculum: Selected Readings |
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2160 | (1) |
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2161 | (3) |
|
An Overview of Formalist Criticism |
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2161 | (1) |
|
Thinking from a Formalist Perspective |
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2162 | (1) |
|
Formalist Criticism: Selected Readings |
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2163 | (1) |
|
Biographical Perspectives |
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|
2164 | (2) |
|
An Overview of Biographical Criticism |
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|
2164 | (1) |
|
Thinking from a Biographical Perspective |
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2165 | (1) |
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Biographical Criticism: Selected Readings |
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2166 | (1) |
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|
2166 | (3) |
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An Overview of Historical Criticism |
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2166 | (1) |
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Thinking from a New Historicist Perspective |
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2167 | (1) |
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Historical and New Historicist Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2168 | (1) |
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Psychological Perspectives |
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|
2169 | (3) |
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An Overview of Psychological Criticism |
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|
2169 | (1) |
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Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective |
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|
2170 | (1) |
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Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism: Selected Readings |
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2171 | (1) |
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Sociological Perspectives |
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|
2172 | (4) |
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An Overview of Sociological Criticism |
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|
2172 | (1) |
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Marxist Critical Perspectives |
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2172 | (1) |
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Thinking from a Marxist Perspective |
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2173 | (1) |
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Marxist Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2174 | (1) |
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Feminist Critical Perspectives |
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2174 | (1) |
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Thinking from a Feminist Perspective |
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2175 | (1) |
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Feminist Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2176 | (1) |
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Reader-Response Perspectives |
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2176 | (4) |
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An Overview of Reader-Response Criticism |
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2176 | (2) |
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Thinking from a Reader-Response Perspective |
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2178 | (2) |
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Reader-Response Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2180 | (1) |
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Mythological Perspectives |
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2180 | (3) |
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An Overview of Mythological Criticism |
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2180 | (2) |
|
Thinking from a Mythological Perspective |
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|
2182 | (1) |
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Mythological Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2183 | (1) |
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Structuralist Perspectives |
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|
2183 | (3) |
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An Overview of Structuralist Criticism |
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|
2183 | (1) |
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2184 | (1) |
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Thinking from a Structuralist Perspective |
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2185 | (1) |
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Structuralist Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2186 | (1) |
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Deconstructive Perspectives |
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|
2186 | (3) |
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An Overview of Deconstructive Criticism |
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|
2186 | (2) |
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Thinking from a Deconstructive Perspective |
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|
2188 | (1) |
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Deconstructive Criticism: Selected Readings |
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|
2189 | (1) |
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Cultural Studies Perspectives |
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2189 | (3) |
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An Overview of Cultural Studies |
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|
2189 | (2) |
|
Thinking from a Cultural Studies Perspective |
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|
2191 | (1) |
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Cultural Studies: Selected Readings |
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|
2191 | (1) |
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Using Critical Perspectives as Heuristics |
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|
2192 | (2) |
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Critical Comments about Literature |
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|
2194 | |
|
Plato Poetry and Inspiration |
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2195 | (1) |
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2196 | (2) |
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Sir Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry |
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2198 | (1) |
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Samuel Johnson The Metaphysical Poets |
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|
2199 | (1) |
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William Blake Art and Imagination |
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|
2200 | (1) |
|
William Wordsworth Poetry and Feeling |
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|
2200 | (1) |
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John Keats The Authenticity of the Imagination |
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|
2201 | (2) |
|
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets and Language |
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2203 | (1) |
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Anton Chekhov Technique in Writing the Short Story |
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2204 | (1) |
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Henrik Ibsen Notes for the Modern Tragedy |
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2205 | (1) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Sprung Rhythm |
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2205 | (1) |
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August Strindberg The Scene |
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2206 | (1) |
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Bernard Shaw The Interpreter of Life |
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|
2207 | (1) |
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Wallace Stevens Observations on Poetry |
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2208 | (1) |
|
T. S. Eliot The Poet and the Tradition |
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|
2209 | (1) |
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Bertolt Brecht Brecht on Theatre |
|
|
2210 | (1) |
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George Seferis Poetry and Human Living |
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|
2211 | (1) |
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Frank O'Connor Lyric Poetry and the Short Story |
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2212 | (1) |
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Pablo Neruda ``The Word'' |
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2213 | (1) |
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Eudora Welty The Origin of a Story |
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|
2213 | (1) |
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Ralph Ellison Folklore and Fiction |
|
|
2214 | (1) |
|
Octavio Paz The Power of Poetry |
|
|
2215 | (1) |
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Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man |
|
|
2216 | (3) |
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Tennessee Williams The Catastrophe of Success |
|
|
2219 | (3) |
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Eric Bentley On Drama as Literature and Performance |
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|
2222 | (1) |
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Wendell Berry Poetry and Song |
|
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2223 | (1) |
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Audre Lorde Poems Are Not Luxuries |
|
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2223 | (1) |
|
Mark Strand Poetry, Language, and Meaning |
|
|
2224 | (1) |
|
Margaret Atwood Our First Stories |
|
|
2225 | (1) |
|
Seamus Heaney Feelings into Words |
|
|
2226 | (1) |
|
Robert Pinsky The Sounds of Poetry |
|
|
2227 | (1) |
|
John Edgar Wideman Stories Are Letters |
|
|
2228 | (1) |
|
Diane Ackerman What a Poem Knows |
|
|
2229 | (1) |
|
Tim O'Brien On the Importance of Mystery in Plot |
|
|
2229 | (1) |
|
Alice Fulton On the Validity of Free Verse |
|
|
2230 | (2) |
|
David Henry Hwang Afterword |
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|
2232 | |
Timeline: Literature in Context |
|
1 | (1) |
Glossary |
|
1 | (1) |
Photo Credits |
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1 | (1) |
Acknowledgments |
|
1 | (1) |
Index |
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1 | |