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Backpack Literature

ISBN 978-0134582498 or 0134582497
Pearson
2017
Fifth Edition

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Fiction

1. Reading a story

“Death Has an Appointment in Samarra" (Sufi Fable).”
W. Somerset Maugham’s 1933 retelling. Provided by Kansas State University faculty member Lyman A. Baker.
"The North Wind and the Sun"
Worthington, R., and Aesop. "The North Wind and the Sun." Aesop’s Fables. The Floating Press, 2009. EBSCOhost.
"The Tortoise and the Geese"
Lynch, Maude Barrows Dutton, 1880-. The Tortoise And the Geese: And Other Fables of Bidpai. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
"Godfather Death"
Grimm, Jacob, et al. "Godfather Death." The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm : The Complete First Edition. Princeton University Press, 2015. EBSCOhost.
A&P
by John Updike.

2. Point of view

"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. e-artnow, 2013. EBSCOhost.
"Why I live at the P.O."
Welty, Eudora. "Why I live at the P.O." Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers, edited by Clarence C. Strowbridge, Dover Publications, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central,
"Why I live at the P.O."
Welty, Eudora. “Why I Live at the P.O.” Curtain of Green, Jan. 1941, pp. 89–110. EBSCOhost.
"Girl"
Kincaid, Jamaica. ""Girl"." The New Yorker, 26 June 1978. Accessed 30 Nov. 2018.

3. Character

"A Bullet in the Brain"
Wolff, Tobias. Reprinted in no. 27, March 2009 edition of P.O.V.
"What Goes Through Your Head"
from This American Life. Writer Tobias Wolff reads his story "Bullet in the Brain" from his collection of stories The Night in Question, about a bank robbery and a man who's shot, and what he thinks about before he dies. (13 minutes, audio file)
"Everyday Use"
"Everyday Use." Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers, edited by Clarence C. Strowbridge, Dover Publications, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central,
"Cathedral"
Carver, Raymond. Cathedral. Vol. First Vintage Contemporaries ebook edition, Vintage, 2015.

4. Setting

"The Storm"
Chopin, Kate. "The Storm." The Complete Works of Kate Chopin. LSU Press, 1969. EBSCOhost
"To Build a Fire"
by Jack London. Available from U.S. Dept of State American English Resources.
"The Gospel According to Mark"
Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Gospel According to Mark." The New Yorker, Oct. 23, 1971.

5. Tone and Style

"The Necklace"
Maupassant, Guy de. "The Necklace." The World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne. The Floating Press, 2011. EBSCOhost.
"The Story of an Hour"
Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour." The Short Stories Of Kate Chopin. Miniature Masterpieces, 2012. EBSCOhost,
"Barn Burning"
MS Word doc."A Hypertext Version of Barn Burning" as located on the Center for Faulkner Studies Teaching Faulkner website: https://semo.edu/cfs/teaching/index.html

6. Theme

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The World's Greatest Short Stories, edited by James Daley, Dover Publications, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"Dead Men's Path"
Chinua Achebe Harold Ober Associates. "Dead Men's Path," from Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, copyright © 1972, 1973 by Chinua Achebe. Reprinted and recorded on EMCParadigm website by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
World English Bible. Wikimedia, 2014, en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(World_English)/Luke#Chapter_15.
"Harrison Bergeron"
Vonnegut, K.,Jr. (1998, 09). Harrison bergeron: An extravagant satire by a hero of american literature. Literary Cavalcade, 51, 6-10

7. Symbol

"The Chrysanthemums" in The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper". The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2013. EBSCOhost
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Le Guin, Ursula K., "THe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Grave Predictions : Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny, edited by Drew Ford, Dover Publications, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central.
The Lottery
Jackson, Shirley. “Fiction by Shirley Jackson: The Lottery.” The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery.

8. Stories for Further Reading

"This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona"
Alexie, Sherman. "This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona." The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven : Stories. Open Road Media, 2013. EBSCOhost..
"Young Goodman Brown"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown." Great American Short Stories, edited by Paul Negri. Dover Publications, 2002. EBSCOhost
"The Gift of the Magi"
Henry, O. The Gift of the Magi. The Floating Press, 2009. EBSCOhost.
"Miss Brill"
Mansfield, Katherine. "Miss Brill." The Garden Party and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1922. HathiTrust.
"The Things They Carried"
O'Brien, Tim. "The Things They Carried". The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 2013. EBSCOhost
"Saboteur"
Jin, Ha. "Saboteur." The Antioch Review, Fall 1996, p. 409+. Literature Resource Center.
Araby
Joyce, James. "Araby." Dubliners : And Chamber Music. The Floating Press, 2010. EBSCOhost
"Before the Law"
Kafka, Franz. "Before the law." The Metamorphosis : And Other Stories. Schocken, 2013. EBSCOhost.
"A Haunted House"
Woolf, Virginia. "A Haunted House", Monday or Tuesday : And Other Short Stories. The Floating Press, 2010. EBSCOhost.

Poetry

9. Reading a Poem

"The Lake Isle Of Innisfree"
Yeats, William Butler. “The Lake Isle Of Innisfree.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Those Winter Sundays"
Hayden, Robert, and David Peck. “‘Those Winter Sundays.’” Those Winter Sundays, June 2011, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Rich, Adrienne. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." Available Means : An Anthology Of Women’S Rhetoric(S), edited by Joy S. Ritchie and Kate Ronald. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. EBSCOhost
"Sir Patrick Spence"
"Patrick Spence." Glenbuchat Ballads, edited by David Buchan, et al., University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"Out, out - "
Frost, Robert. “Out, Out --.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"My Last Duchess"
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess.” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Ask Me"
Pastan, Linda. “William Stafford (1914-93): On ‘Ask Me.’” Poets Reading: The Field Symposia, Jan. 1999, pp. 521–522. EBSCOhost.

10. Listening to a Voice

"My Papa's Waltz"
Roethke, Theodore. “My Papa’s Waltz.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 126. EBSCOhost.
"The Wayfarer"
Crane, Stephen. “The Wayfarer.” Modern American Poetry, Jan. 1921, p. 128. EBSCOhost.
"The Author to Her Book"
Bradstreet, Anne. "The Author to Her Book." Early American Poetry : Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant, edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein. University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"To a Locomotive in Winter"
Whitman, Walt. "To a Locomotive in Winter." Cameroon Anthology of Poetry, edited by Bole Butake, Langaa RPCIG, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"I like to see it lap the Miles"
Dickinson, Emily. “The Railway Train.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"For My Daughter"
“For My Daughter.” Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Dec. 2003, p. 14. EBSCOhost.
"White Lies"
Trethewey, Natasha. "White Lies." Poetry Foundation.
"Luke Havergal"
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “Luke Havergal.” Collected Classic Poems, Pope to Sterling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Theme for English B"
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Knopf and Vintage Books. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
"The Farmer's Bride"
Mew, Charlotte. "The Farmer's Bride." Selected Poems : Charlotte Mew, edited by Eavan Boland, Carcanet Press Ltd., 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
Williams, William Carlos. "The Red Wheelbarrow." The Poetry Foundation.
"The Unknown Citizen"
Auden, W. H. “The Unknown Citizen.” Hedgehog Review, vol. 10, no. 13, Fall 2008, pp. 38–39. EBSCOhost.
"Rite of Passage"
Olds, Sharon. "Rite of Passage." The Poetry Foundation.
"Second Fig"
“Second Fig.” Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jan. 1956, p. 127. EBSCOhost.
"The Workbox"
Hardy, Thomas. "The Workbox." Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy, with a Portrait. London: Macmillan and co., 1919. HathiTrust.
"Deliberate"
Uyematsu, Amy. "Deliberate." Poetry Foundation.
"To Lucasta"
Lovelace, Richard. "To Lucasta, on Going Beyond the Seas." Collected Classic Poems, Lamb to Poe, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poetry Foundation.

11. Words

"This is Just to Say"
Cureton, Richard. "Readings in temporal poetics: four poems by William Carlos Williams." Style, Summer 2017, p. 187+. Literature Resource Center.
"Cargoes"
Masefield, John. “Cargoes.” Collected Classic Poems, Lamb to Poe, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Batter my Heart, Three Perfon'd God, for You"
“Holy Sonnets. CHAPTER XIV.” Poems of John Donne, Vol. 1, Jan. 1912, p. 328. EBSCOhost.
"Aftermath"
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Aftermath (Longfellow).” Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jan. 1920, p. 297. EBSCOhost.
"That Will to Divest"
Ryan, Kay. ""That Will to Divest"." Yale Review, vol. 86, no. 1, Jan. 1998, p. 13. Wiley Online Library.
"Friend, on this scaffold"
by J.V. Cunningham.
Shaw, Robert B. “Beyond Stanford.” Poetry, vol. 172, no. 2, May 1998, pp. 98–106. EBSCOhost.
"Bread"
Menashe, Samuel. "MANNA." First Things, no. 211, 2011, pp. 33. ProQuest.
"Grass"
Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers, 1918. Poetry Foundation.
"Upon Julia's Clothes"
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia’s Clothes.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"The Ruined Maid"
Hardy, Thomas. “The Ruined Maid.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
Cummings, E.E. "[anyone lived in a pretty how town]. Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George J. Firmage. Poetry Foundation.
"Carnation Milk"
Davenport, Guy. “The Comic Muse.” New Criterion, vol. 13, no. 3, Nov. 1994, p. 74. EBSCOhost.
"English con Salsa"
Valdes, Gina. "English con Salsa." San Diego Reader, 5 May, 2010.
"My Heart Leaps Up"
Wordsworth, William. “My Heart Leaps Up.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Mutability"
Wordsworth, William. “Mutability.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Jabberwocky"
Carroll, Lewis. "Jaberwocky." Decadent Verse : An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900, edited by Caroline Blyth. Anthem Press, 2008. EBSCOhost,

12. Saying and Suggesting

"London"
Blake, William. “London.” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
" Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
Stevens, Wallace. “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 112. EBSCOhost.
"Fire and Ice"
Frost, Robert. “Fire and Ice.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Minefield"
Thiel, Diane. "The Minefield." Diane Thiel.
"Bilingual/Bilingüe"
Espaillat, Rhina P. "Bilingual/Bilingüe." Poetry Foundation.
"Tears, Idle Tears"
Tennyson, Alfred. “Tears, Idle Tears.” Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections & Nature, Jan. 1895, p. 127. EBSCOhost,
"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Wilbur, Richard. “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.” Field (00150657), no. 83, Fall 2010, pp. 27–28. EBSCOhost.

13. Imagery

"In a Station of the Metro"
Pound, Ezra. “In A Station Of The Metro.” Collected Classic Poems, Pope to Sterling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"The Winter Evening Settles Down"
Eliot, T. S. “Preludes.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"A Route of Evanescence"
Emily Dickinson, "A Route of Evanescence" from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Copyright © 1998 by Emily Dickinson. Poetry Foundation.
"Reapers"
Toomer, Jean, et al. "Reapers." The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer. The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. EBSCOhost
"Pied Beauty"
Duncan, Lesley. "Poems of the Day: Inversnaid and Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins." Herald [Glasgow, Scotland], 11 July 2016. Global Issues in Context
"The Old Neighborhood"
Poem on page 3 of article. Black, Rick. “Nick Virgilio, Walt Whitman, and the American Poetic Tradition: An Interview with Kwame Dawes.” Frogpond Journal, vol. 38, no. 1, Winter 2015, pp. 99–112. EBSCOhost
"The Visitor's Room"
The, Associated Press. "DENTIST FROM RURAL ILLINOIS WRITES JAPANESE-STYLE POETRY TWO YEARS IN A ROW, HIS HAIKU HAVE WON TOP AMERICAN PRIZES." St.Louis Post - Dispatch, Sep 05, 2000, pp. B10. ProQuest
"Bright star"
Keats, John. “Bright Star.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"El Hombre"
Williams, William Carlos. “El Hombre.(Spanish) .” Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere!, Jan. 1917, p. 31. EBSCOhost.
"Drinking alone by moonlight"
More Translations from the Chinese (1919) by Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley
Drinking Alone by Moonlight. Wikisource.
"Driving to town late to mail a letter"
Bly, Robert. “Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter.” Silence in the Snowy Fields, Jan. 1962, p. 38. EBSCOhost.

14. Figures of Speech

"The Eagle"
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. “The Eagle.” Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jan. 1901, p. 241. EBSCOhost.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
Shakespeare, William. "Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Poetry Foundation.
"Flower in the Crannied Wall"
Tennyson, Alfred. “Flower in the Crannied Wall.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"To see the world in a grain of sand"
Blake, William. “Auguries Of Innocence.” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–4. EBSCOhost.
“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Raine, Craig. “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.” AGNI, no. 56, Oct. 2002, pp. 312–313. EBSCOhost
"You fit into me"
Simmons, Jes. "Atwood's (Your Fit into Me)." The Explicator, vol. 51, no. 4, 1993, pp. 259. ProQuest.
"Money"
Gioia, Dana. "Money." National Review, vol. 56, no. 7, Apr 19, 2004, pp. 48. ProQuest.
"Fog"
Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Highlights for Children, vol. 70, no. 11, 11, 2015, pp. 7. ProQuest.
"The Secret Sits"
Cox, Sidney, 1889-1952. A Swinger of Birches: a Portrait of Robert Frost. New York: New York University Press, 1957.
"Turtle"
Ryan, Kay. “Turtle.” New Republic, vol. 206, no. 25, June 1992, p. 36. EBSCOhost.
"Love and Friendship"
Bronte, Emily. “Love and Friendship.” CCPA Monitor, vol. 16, no. 10, Apr. 2010, p. 30. EBSCOhost.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Keats, John, and William T. Arnold. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Poetical Works of John Keats, Jan. 1908, pp. 235–236. EBSCOhost.

15. Sound

"Who goes with Fergus"
Yeats, William Butler. “Who Goes With Fergus?” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Ulalume"
Poe, Edgar Allan. “Ulalume.” Collected Classic Poems, Lamb to Poe, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–3. EBSCOhost.
"A slumber did my spirit seal"
Wordsworth, William. “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 145. EBSCOhost.
"The Watch"
Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960. "The Watch." Poems. Hampstead [London]: Priory Press , 1910. HathiTrust.
"The splendor falls on castle walls"
Tennyson, Alfred. “The Princess: The Splendor Falls.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"The Hippopotamus"
Belloc, Hilaire. “The Hippopotamus.” Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, Jan. 1918, p. 12. EBSCOhost.
"Leda and the Swan"
Yeats, William Butler. “Leda and the Swan.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 114. EBSCOhost.
"God's Grandeur"
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “God’s Grandeur.” Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, Jan. 1917, p. 355. EBSCOhost.
"Desert Places"
Hirsch, Edward. “Beyond Desolation.” American Poetry Review, vol. 26, no. 3, May 1997, pp. 33–38. EBSCOhost.
"In Memoriam John Coltrane"
Stillman, Michael. "In Memoriam John Coltrane; from "California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present," Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks (Heyday Books: 378 Pp., $21.95 Paper)." Los Angeles Times, Mar 14, 2004. ProQuest.

16. Rhythm

"We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks. Published in Poetry (1959)
"Break, Break, Break"
Tennyson, Alfred. “Break, Break, Break.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Resume"
Parker, Dorothy. “Resume.” American Interest, vol. 4, no. 5, May 2009, p. 26. EBSCOhost.
"Counting-out Rhyme"
“Counting-out Rhyme.” Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jan. 1956, p. 247. EBSCOhost.
"When I was one and twenty"
Housman, A. E. “When I Was One-And-Twenty.” Modern British Poetry, Jan. 1920, p. 46. EBSCOhost.
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
Whitman, Walt. “Beat! Beat! Drums!” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.

17. Closed Form

"Days of Wine and Roses"
Dowson, Ernest Christopher. “Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Go and Catch a Falling Star"
Duncan, Lesley. "Poem of the Day: Go And Catch A Falling Star by John Donn." Herald [Glasgow, Scotland], 21 Oct. 2017. Global Issues in Context.
"Bonny Barbara Allan"
"Bonny Barbara Allan." Library of Congress.
"Ballad of Birmingham"
Randall, Dudley. "Ballad of Birmingham." SOS -- Calling All Black People : A Black Arts Movement Reader, edited by James Edward Smethurst, et al. University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. EBSCOhost.
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
Shakespeare, William. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Poetry Foundation.
"What lips my lips have kissed"
“What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why.” Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jan. 1956, p. 602. EBSCOhost.
"The Facebook Sonnet"
Alexie, Sherman. "The Facebook Sonnet." The New Yorker, 16 May 2011.
"Treason"
Harrington, John. “Treason.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Thomas, Dylan. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, June 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"We Wear the Mask"
Dunbar, Paul L. "We Wear the Mask." The New Crisis, vol. 106, no. 1, Jan, 1999, pp. 56. ProQuest.

18. Open Form

"Ancient Stairway"
Breslin, Paul. "Black Mountain Reunion." Poetry, vol. 176, no. 3, 06, 2000, pp. 159-170. ProQuest.
"Buffalo Bill's"
cummings, e.e. "Buffalo Bill's." Poetry Foundation.
"The Heart"
Crane, Stephen. “Heart, The.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Cavalry Crossing a Ford"
Whitman, Walt. “Cavalry Crossing A Ford.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird"
Stevens, Wallace. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, vol. 59, no. 2, Summer 2002, p. 138. EBSCOhost.
"in Just"
cummings, e.e. "In Just." Poetry Foundation.
"I, Too"
Hughes, Langston. "I, Too" in “Outside Poetry.” Literary Cavalcade, vol. 54, no. 1, Sept. 2001, p. 14. EBSCOhost.

19. Symbol

"The Boston Evening Transcript"
Eliot, T.S. "The Boston Evening Transcript." The Poetry Foundation.
"The lightning is a yellow fork"
Dickinson, Emily. "The Lightning is a yellow fork." Emily Dickinson Archive.
"Neutral Tones"
Hardy, Thomas. “Neutral Tones.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Facing it"
Komunyakaa, Yusef. “Facing It.” Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, Jan. 2001, pp. 234–235. EBSCOhost.
"Redemption"
Herbert, George. “Redemption.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"The Road Not Taken"
Frost, Robert. “The Road Not Taken.” Mountain Interval, Jan. 1916, p. 3. EBSCOhost.
"Up-hill"
Rosetti, Christina. "Up-hill." Poetry Foundation.
"Wild Geese"
Oliver, Mary. "Wild Geese." Americas, vol. 48, no. 2, 03, 1996, pp. 64. ProQuest.
"Popcorn can cover"
Niedecker, Lorine, and Jenny Lynn Penberthy. "Popcorn can cover." Lorine Niedecker : Collected Works. University of California Press, 2002. EBSCOhost
"Anecdote of the Jar"
Stevens, Wallace. "Anecdote of the Jar." The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990). Poetry Foundation.

20. Myth and Narrative

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Frost, Robert, and 1874-1963. "Nothing Gold can Stay Corrected 10/29/2017]." Chicago Tribune, Oct 29, 2017, pp. 23. ProQuest
"The world is too much with us"
Wordsworth, William, and Stephen Charles Gill. "The world is too much with us." William Wordsworth : 21st-Century Oxford Authors. OUP Oxford, 2010. EBSCOhost.
"Helen"
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helen” from Collected Poems 1912-1944. Copyright © 1982 by The Estate of Hilda Doolittle. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Poetry Foundation.
"Medusa"
Bogan, Louise. “Medusa.” New Republic, vol. 29, no. 368, Dec. 1921, p. 101. EBSCOhost.
"The Second Coming"
Yeats, William Butler. “The Second Coming.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Memento Mori in Middle School"
Thiel, Diane. "Memento Mori in Middle School" Mentor and Muse : Essays from Poets to Poets edited by Blas Falconer et al. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"Lady Lazarus"
Plath, Sylvia. "Lady Lazarus" Revistas - Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 1991, No. 4, pp 242. Repositorio Institutional de la Universidad de Alicante.

22. Poems for Further Reading

"Thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla"
Abeyta, Aaron A. "Thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla." Colcha. University Press of Colorado, 2001. EBSCOhost
"The Powwow at the End of the World"
Sherman Alexie, “The Powwow at the End of the World” from The Summer of Black Widows. Copyright © 1996 by Sherman Alexie. Used by permission of Hanging Loose Press. Poetry Foundation.
"Last words of the Prophet"
source pending
"Dover Beach"
Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach (Arnold).” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Musee des Beaux Arts"
Auden, W. H. “Musee Des Beaux Arts.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 134. EBSCOhost.
"One Art"
Bishop, Elizabeth “One Art.” Always Beginning, edited by Maxine Kumin. Jan. 2000, p. 130. EBSCOhost.
"The Tyger"
Blake, William. “The Tyger.” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"the mother"
Brooks, Gwendolyn. "the mother." Poetry Foundation.
"How do I love thee"
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “How Do I Love Thee?” Read, vol. 54, no. 12, Feb. 2005, p. 20. EBSCOhost.
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
Browning, Robert. “Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister.” Collected Classic Poems, Abercrombie to Clough, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Dostoevsky"
Bukowski, Charles. "Dostoevsky." Open Culture.
"Quinceanera"
Cofer, Judith Ortiz. “Quinceanñera.(Spanish) .” Terms of Survival (Cofer), July 1995, pp. 9–11. EBSCOhost.
"Kubla Khan"
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, and A. Fragment. “Kubla Khan.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Wild Nights"
Dickinson, Emily. “Wild Nights! Wild Nights!” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"
Dickinson, Emily. “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Dickinson, Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Read, vol. 58, no. 15, Apr. 2009, p. 20. EBSCOhost.
"Death be not proud"
Donne, John. “Death.” Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900, Jan. 1922, p. 231. EBSCOhost.
"The Flea"
Donne, John. “The Flea.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Eliot, T. S.. The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems, Dover Publications, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"Mending Wall"
Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall.” North of Boston (Public Domain), Jan. 1915, pp. 11–13. EBSCOhost.
"Birches"
Frost, Robert. “Birches.” Collected Classic Poems, Coleridge to Gascoigne, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Frost, Robert. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” New Republic, vol. 34, no. 431, Mar. 1923, p. 47. EBSCOhost.
"A Supermarket in California"
Ginsberg, Allen. “A Supermarket In California.” Literary Cavalcade, vol. 53, no. 7, Apr. 2001, p. 18. EBSCOhost.
"The Convergence of the Twain"
Hardy, Thomas. “The Convergence of the Twain.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"Digging"
Heaney, Seamus. “Digging.” New Statesman, vol. 142, no. 5173, Sept. 2013, p. 38. EBSCOhost.
"Easter Wings"
Herbert, George. “Easter Wings.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Herrick, Robert. “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
Spring and Fall to a Young Child.\”
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Spring and Fall to a Young Child.” Southern Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 130. EBSCOhost.
"The Windhover"
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "The Windhover:" Poetry Foundation.
"A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now"
Housman, A.E. "A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now." Poetry Foundation.
"To an Athlete Dying Young"
"To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman the Time You...Derived Headline]." The Canberra Times, Dec 03, 2014, pp. 31. ProQuest.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Hughes, Langston. ""The Negro Speaks of Rivers"." The Crisis, June 1921, p. 71. The Modernist Journals Project.
"Harlem [Dream Deferred]"
Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Poetry Foundation.
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Jarrell, Randall. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." Poetry Foundation.
"Missed Time"
Jin, Ha. "Missed Time." Poetry, July 2000. Poetry Foundation.
"On My First Son"
Jonson, Ben. "On My First Son." Poetry Foundation.
"On the Death of Friends in Childhood"
Justice, Donald. "On the Death of Friends in Childhood." Collected Poems. Knopf, 2004. Poetry Foundation.
"Ode to a Nightingale"
Keats, John. “Ode To A Nightingale.” Collected Classic Poems, Gay to Kipling, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–3. EBSCOhost.
"Home is so sad"
Larkin, Phillip. "Home is so sad." Collected Poems. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, 2003. Poets.org
"Piano"
Lawrence, D.H. "Piano." Poetry Foundation.
"Learning to Love America"
Lim, Shirley. "Learning to Love America." The Shirley Lim Collection : Passports and Other Lives. Marshall Cavendish International [Asia] Pte Ltd, 2011. EBSCOhost.
"To His Coy Mistress"
Marvell, Andrew. “To His Coy Mistress.” Objective Standard: A Journal of Culture & Politics, vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 2017, p. 87. EBSCOhost.
"The Harlem Dancer"
McKay, Claude. “The Harlem Dancer.” Collected Classic Poems, Lamb to Poe, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Recuerdo"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Recuerdo" from Collected Poems. Copyright 1931, 8 1958 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.
"When I consider how my light is spent"
Milton, John. "When I consider how my light is spent." Poetry Foundation.
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." The Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Jon Stallworthy (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1986). Poetry Foundation.
"Daddy"
Plath, Sylvia. "Daddy." Collected Poems (HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1992). Poetry Foundation.
"Annabel Lee"
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." Poetry Foundation.
"The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter"
Pound, Ezra. “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.” Collected Classic Poems, Pope to Sterling, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Naming of Parts"
“Naming of Parts.” Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, vol. 44, no. 4, Fall 1980, pp. 273–274. EBSCOhost.
"Miniver Cheevy"
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. "Miniver Cheevy." Poetry Foundation.
"Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"
Rossetti, Christina. "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]." Poetry Foundation.
"Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"
Shakespeare, William. "Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." Poetry Foundation.
"Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
Shakespeare, William. "Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Poetry Foundation.
"Ozymandias"
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." Shelley’s Poetry and Prose (1977). Poetry Foundation.
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream"
Stevens, Wallace. "The Emperor of Ice-Cream." The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1982). Poetry Foundation.
"Ulysses"
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. "Ulysses." Poetry Foundation.
"Fern Hill"
Thomas, Dylan. “Fern Hill.” Fern Hill, June 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost.
"When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer"
Whitman, Walt. "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer." Poetry Foundation.
"O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!." Leaves of Grass, David McKay, 1891. Poetry Foundation.
"Queen Anne's Lace"
Williams, William Carlos. “Queen Anne’s Lace.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Wordsworth, William. “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio"
James Wright, “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio.” Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose (1990). Poetry Foundation.
"In this strange labyrinth"
Wroth, Mary Sidney. “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: 77.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Yeats, William Butler. “He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, p. 1. EBSCOhost.
"Sailing to Byzantium"
Friend, Bill. “Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats.” Western Humanities Review, vol. 65, no. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 39–40. EBSCOhost.
"When you are Old"
Yeats, William Butler. “When You Are Old.” Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, Jan. 1919, p. 868. EBSCOhost.

Drama

23. Reading a Play

Trifles by Glaspell, Susan
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 1916

24. Modes of Comedy: Tragedy and Comedy

The Tragedie History of Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, Christopher
Call Number: ebook
Act 2, Scene 1
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781877527449
Publication Date: 2009
Act 1, Scene 1

25. The Theater of Sophocles

Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Call Number: ebook

26. Theater of Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library: Othello
Read or listen to the play, view images of early printed texts, and of 18-20th century representations of the characters.

Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781775412144
Publication Date: 2009

27. The Modern Theater

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; Thornton Wilder (Adapted by)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781559365253
Publication Date: 2016
"The Sound of a Voice" by Hwang, David Henry
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2011
Hwang, David Henry. "The Sound of a Voice." Trying to Find Chinatown : The Selected Plays of David Henry Hwang. Theatre Communications Group, 2011. EBSCOhost.

A Doll's House - Film Adaptation
1992 film adaptation of Ibsen's work.

Writing

29. Writing about Literature

Active Reading
Sullivan, Brogan. "Active Reading." Writing Commons. Accessed 14 Feb. 2019.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Frost, Robert. "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Poetry Foundation.