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Perrine's literature, structure, sound, and sense, [compiled by] Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

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Perrine's literature

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[compiled by] Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

structure, sound, and sense

The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- The destructors / Graham Greene -- How I met my husband / Alice Munro -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux -- The darling / Anton Chekhov -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The jilting of Granny Wetherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The drunkard / Frank O'Connor -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- A new leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale hurston -- The real thing / Henry James -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- A & P / John Updike -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Winter / William Shakespeare -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare -- The whipping / Robert Hayden -- The last night that she lived / Emily Dickinson -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman -- Archibald MacLeish -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin -- Is my team plowing / A.E. Housman -- Break of day / John Donne -- There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson -- When in Rome / Mari Evans -- Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine -- Question / May Swenson -- Mirror / Sylvia Plath -- The clod and the pebble / William Blake -- Ethics / Linda Pastan -- Storm warnings / Adrienne RichThere is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson -- When my love swears she is made of truth / William Shakespeare -- Pathedy of manners / Ellen Kay -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Cross / Langston Hughes -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- 35/10 / Sharon Olds -- Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning -- Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams -- The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- Living in sin / Adrienne Rich -- The forge / Seamus Heaney -- After apple-picking / Robert Frost -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- An August night / Seamus Heaney -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens / To autumn / John Keats -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Bereft / Robert Frost -- It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- The telephone / Maya Angelou -- Bright star / John Keats -- Mind / Richard Wilbur -- I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson -- Metaphors / Sylvia Plath -- Toads / Philip Larkin -- Ghost of a chance / Adrienne Rich -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- The sick rose / William Blake -- Digging / Seamus Heaney -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- Peace / George Herbert -- The writer / Richard Wilbur -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Hymn to God my God, in my sickness / John Donne -- Weighing the dog / Billy Collins -- Ulysses / Alfred. Lord Tennyson -- Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson -- The sun rising / John Donne -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Barbie doll / Marge Piercy -- The chimney sweeper / William Blake -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Lady luncheon club / Maya Angelou -- Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne -- Sorting laundry / Elisavietta Ritchie -- The history teacher / Billy Collins -- Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney -- A considerable speck / Robert Frost -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- in the inner city / Lucille Clifton -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- "Out, out" / Robert Frost -- "She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare -- in Just / e.e. cummings -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- On his blindness / John Milton -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- My son the man / Sharon Olds -- Siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- Little Jack Horner / Anonymous -- Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Design / Robert Frost -- I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson --"Faith" is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson -- On the sonnet / John Keats -- Sonnet / Billy Collins -- The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake -- The indifferent / John Donne -- Love's deity / John Donne -- My number / Billy Collins -- I had heard it's a fight / Edwin DenbyFor a lamb / Richard Eberhart -- Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson -- Since there's no help / Michael Drayton -- Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins -- My mistress' eyes / William Shakespeare -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us / Emily Dickinson -- The apparition ; The flea / John Donne -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Church going / Philip Larkin -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- That night when joy began / W.H. Auden -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Wlliam Shakespeare -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Woman work / Maya Angelou -- Rite of passage / Sharon Olds -- As imperceptibly as grief / Emily Dickinson -- Music lessons / Mary Oliver -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Thistles / Ted Hughes -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Virtue / George Herbert -- "Introduction" to Songs of innocence / William Blake -- Had I the choice / Walt Whitman -- The aim was song / Robert Frost -- Stanzas / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Old ladies' home / Sylvia Plath -- Africa / Maya Angelou -- To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan -- A blessing / James Wright -- Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning -- Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman -- Sound and sense / Alexander Pope -- I heard a fly buzz-when I died / Emily Dickinson -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Landcrab / Margaret Atwood -- Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich --At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne -- Blackberry eating / Galway Kinnell -- The health-food diner / Maya Angelou -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- The pulley / George Herbert -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- That time of year / William Shakespeare -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- From Romeo and juliet / William Shakespeare -- Death, be not proud / John Donne -- The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The white city / Claude McKay -- America / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton / Kim Addonizio -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / T.S. Eliot -- Villanelle for an anniversary / Seamus Heaney -- The house on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Still to be near / Ben Jonson -- The canonization / John Donne -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Home burial / Robert FrostThe love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Sunday mornig / Wallace Stevens -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden -- Main character / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- On her loving two equally / Aphra Behn -- On reading poems to a senior class at South High / D.C. Berry -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega / Gwendolyn Brooks --Combing / Gladys Cardiff -- To the ladies / Mary, Lady Chudleigh -- good times / Lucille Clifton -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Voyages / Hart Crane -- War is kind / Stephen Crane -- the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand / e. e. cummings -- A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony / Emily Dickinson -- The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star / John Donne -- Nexus ; Persephone, falling / Rita Dove -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The colonel / Carolyn Forché -- Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- From the wave / Thom Gunn -- Snow White and the seven deadly sins / R.S. Gwynn -- On the death of a child / Daniel Halpern -- Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant / Langston Hughes -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- To Celia / Ben Jonson -- Warning / Jenny Joseph -- Men at forty / Donald Justice -- La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent / John Keats -- Aubade / Philip Larkin -- The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff / Denise Levertov -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- Puberty / William Matthews -- Silence / Marianne Moore -- Dim lady / Harryette Mullen -- I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims / Sharon Olds -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker -- A work of artifice / Marge Piercy -- Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights / Sylvia Plath -- Epigram from the French / Alexander Pope -- Salutation / Ezra Pound -- Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom -- Poetry: I / Adrienne Rich -- The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar / Theodore Roethke -- Young / Anne Sexton -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- Watermelons / Charles Simic -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Small town with one road / Gary Soto -- One day I wrote her name upon the sand / Edmund Spenser -- Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier / Wallace StevensA description of the morning / Jonathan Swift -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- The virgins / Derek Walcott -- To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand / Walt Whitman -- The Critic / C/ K. Williams -- Poem ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary / Yvor Winters -- I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth -- The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- The stronger / August Strindberg -- Beauty / Jane Martin -- Tape /José Rivera -- POOF! / Lynn Nottage -- The sandbox / Edward Albee -- Time flies / David Ives -- A doll house / Hendrik Ibsen -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Los vendidos / Luis Valdez -- Oedipus Rex / Sophocles --Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Tartuffe / Molière -- Am I blue / Beth Henley -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare -- Fences / August Wilson -- André's mother / Terrence McNally