Index of Authors
Adair, Virginia Hamilton
Peeling an Orange, 673
Adams, Franklin P.
Composed in the Composing
Room, 795
Alexie, Sherman
Flight Patterns, 49
Ali, Agha Shahid
Postcard from Kashmir, 634
Alvarez, A.
from Sylvia Plath, 956
Angelou, Maya
Africa, 901
Annas, Pamela J.
A Disturbance in Mirrors,
965
Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens, 766
[There was a young girl from
St. Paul], 739
The Twenty-third Psalm,
710
Western Wind, 805
Arnold, Matthew
Dover Beach, 668
Atwood, Margaret
Death of a Young Son by
Drowning, 642
Scarlet Ibis, 553
Auden, W. H.
In Memory of W. B. Yeats,
774
Musée des Beaux Arts, 808
[Stop all the clocks, cut off
the telephone], 609
Axelrod, Steven Gould
Jealous Gods, 969
Baldwin, James
Sonny’s Blues, 88
Bambara, Toni Cade
Gorilla, My Love, 418
Barrett, Andrea
Littoral Zone, The, 198
Bashō
[This road—], 888
[A village without bells—],
888
Beattie, Ann Broe, Mary Lynn
Janus, 248 Protean Poetic, 961
Behn, Aphra Brontë, Emily
On Her Loving Two Equally, The Night-Wind, 670
612 Brooks, Gwendolyn
Bernstein, Charles First Fight. Then Fiddle.,
Of Time and the Line, 683 784
Betjeman, John We Real Cool, 655
In Westminster Abbey, 677 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bierce, Ambrose How Do I Love Thee?, 595
An Occurrence at Owl Creek To George Sand [A Desire],
Bridge, 507 829
Birney, Earle To George Sand [A Recogni-
Anglosaxon Street, 799 tion], 829
Irapuato, 680 [When our two souls stand
Bishop, Elizabeth up erect and strong], 786
Casabianca, 822 Browning, Robert
Exchanging Hats, 825 My Last Duchess, 827
Sestina, 792 Soliloquy of the Spanish
Blake, William Cloister, 644
The Lamb, 880 Burns, Robert
London, 625 A Red, Red Rose, 707
The Sick Rose, 723 To a Louse, 652
The Tyger, 978 Bushnell, Rebecca W.
Blundell, Mary Whitlock Prophesying Tragedy: Sign
Helping Friends and Harm- and Voice in Sophocles’
ing Enemies: A Study in Theban Plays, 1466
Sophocles and Greek Buson
Ethics, 1467 [Coolness—], 888
Bontemps, Arna [Listening to the moon], 889
A Black Man Talks of Reap- Byatt, A. S.
ing, 916 The Thing in the Forest, 35
Borges, Jorge Luis
The Garden of the Forking Campion, Thomas
Paths, 546 When to Her Lute Corinna
Borson, Roo Sings, 749
After a Death, 727 Carter, Angela
Bourdillon, Francis Souvenir of Japan, A, 266
William Carver, Raymond
The Night Has a Thousand Cathedral, 20
Eyes, 715 Chabon, Michael
Bowra, Maurice The Lost World, 437
Sophoclean Tragedy, 1455 Chasin, Helen
Bradstreet, Anne Joy Sonnet in a Random
To My Dear and Loving Universe, 788
Husband, 610 The Word Plum, 729
Brewer, Linda Cheever, John
20/20, 15 The Country Husband, 71
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Chekhov, Anton [The Brain—is wider than the Faulkner, William

The Cherry Orchard, 1102 Sky—], 982 A Rose for Emily, 467
The Lady with the Dog, 218 [I dwell in Possibility—], 694 Fearing, Kenneth
Cherry, Kelly [I stepped from Plank to Dirge, 732
Alzheimer’s, 635 Plank], 981 Ferry, David
Chin, Marilyn [A narrow Fellow in the At the Hospital, 714
Summer Love, 672 Grass], 747 Evening News, 801
Chiyojo [My Life had stood—a Fetterley, Judith
[Whether astringent], 887 Loaded Gun—], 811 A Rose for “A Rose for
Chopin Kate [She dealt her pretty words Emily,” 489
The Story of an Hour, 449 like Blades—], 982 Finch, Anne, Countess of
Cleghorn, Sarah [We do not play on Graves— Winchelsea
[The golf links lie so near the ], 981 There’s No To-morrow, 683
mill], 682 [Wild Night—Wild Nights!], Fisher, Rudolph
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 716 The Caucasian Storms Har-
Kubla Khan, 979 [The Wind begun to knead lem, 932
Metrical Feet, 738 the Grass—], 768 Frost, Robert
Collins, Billy Dillon, George L. Design, 810
Morning, 676 Styles of Reading, 481 Fireflies in the Garden, 724
Sonnet, 789 Donne, John Range-Finding, 785
Collins, Martha [Batter my heart], 712 The Road Not Taken, 988
Lies, 693 The Canonization, 713 Stopping by Woods on a
Conrad, Joseph The Computation, 712 Snowy Evening, 989
The Secret Sharer, 299 [Death, be not proud], 982
Constable, Henry The Flea, 661 Gallagher, Tess
[My lady’s presence makes The Good-Morrow, 674 Sudden Journey, 646
the roses red], 782 Song, 984 Garcı́a Márquez, Gabriel
Cope, Wendy The Sun Rising, 983 A Very Old Man with Enor-
Emily Dickinson, 738 A Valediction: Forbidding mous Wings, 451
Crane, Stephen Mourning, 985 Gilbert, Sandra
The Open Boat, 343 Donnelly, Susan Sonnet: The Ladies’ Home
Cullen, Countee Eve Names the Animals, Journal, 816
From the Dark Tower, 918 897 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Saturday’s Child, 917 Dove, Rita The Yellow Wallpaper, 513
Yet Do I Marvel, 916 Daystar, 662 Ginsberg, Allen
Cummings, E. E. Fifth Grade Autobiography, A Further Proposal, 893
[Buffalo Bill ’s], 796 605 [The old pond], 890
[in Just-], 696 Dryden, John Glaspell, Susan
[l(a], 795 To the Memory of Mr. Old- Trifles, 1046
[(ponder,darling,these busted ham, 740 Gray, Thomas
statues], 894 Du Bois, W. E. B. Elegy Written in a Country
Two Novels, 937 Churchyard, 989
Danticat, Edwidge Dunbar, Paul Laurence Grimke, Angelina
A Wall of Fire Rising, 252 Sympathy, 986 The Black Finger, 918
de la Mare, Walter We Wear the Mask, 986 Tenebris, 918
Slim Cunning Hands, 687 Dunn, Stephen Grosholz, Emily
Deutsch, Babette Poetry, 771 Eden, 630
[The falling flower], 890 Gunn, Thom
Dickey, James Eliot, T. S. A Blank, 833
Cherrylog Road, 658 Journey of the Magi, 987 In Time of Plague, 622
The Leap, 718 Emanuel, James A. A Map of the City, 680
Dickinson, Emily Emmett Till, 814
[After great pain, a formal Ray Charles, 891 Ha Jin
feeling comes—], 690 Erdrich, Louise In Broad Daylight, 564
[Because I could not stop for Jacklight, 904 Hansberry, Lorraine
Death—], 980 Love Medicine, 327 A Raisin in the Sun, 1621

Hardy, Thomas
Channel Firing, 815
The Ruined Maid, 639
Harper, Michael
Dear John, Dear Coltrane,
751
Harwood, Gwen
In the Park, 787
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Young Goodman Brown,
232
Hayden, Robert
Frederick Douglass, 821
Homage to the Empress of
the Blues, 750
Those Winter Sundays, 633
The Whipping, 993
Heaney, Seamus
Digging, 993
Mid-Term Break, 604
Hearn, Lafcadio
[Old pond—], 889
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
Casabianca, 821
Hemingway, Ernest
Hills Like White Elephants,
128
Herbert, George
The Collar, 809
Easter Wings, 798
Herrick, Robert
Delight in Disorder, 697
Upon Julia’s Clothes, 806
Hollander, John
Adam’s Task, 897
Hollander, Robert
You Too? Me Too—Why
Not? Soda Pop, 883
Homans, Margaret
A Feminine Tradition, 964
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
God’s Grandeur, 994
Pied Beauty, 695
Spring and Fall, 746
The Windhover, 995
Howe, Irving
The Plath Celebration: A
Partial Dissent, 955
Howe, Marie
Practicing, 826
Hudgins, Andrew
Begotten, 636
Hughes, Langston
The Big Sea, 941
Harlem, 820
I, Too, 921
The Negro Speaks of Rivers,
920
The Weary Blues, 919
Hughes, Ted
To Paint a Water Lily, 701
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll House, 1508
Jarrell, Randall
The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner, 715
Jebb, Richard C.
The Antigone of Sophocles,
1454
Jennings, Elizabeth
Delay, 803
Jiles, Paulette
Paper Matches, 831
Johnson, Helene
Sonnet to a Negro in Har-
lem, 921
Johnson, James Weldon
Preface to The Book of
American Negro Poetry,
924
Jonson, Ben
[Come, my Celia, let us
prove], 879
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.,
811
On My First Son, 602
Still to Be Neat, 697
Jordan, June
Something Like a Sonnet for
Phillis Miracle Wheatley,
901
Joyce, James
Araby, 432
Kafka, Franz
A Hunger Artist, 242
Kawabata, Yasunari
The Grasshopper and the Bell
Cricket, 457
Keats, John
Endymion (Book 1), 842
Letter to Benjamin Bailey,
Nov. 22, 1817, 847
Letter to George and Thomas
Keats, Dec. 21, 1817, 848
Letter to John Hamilton
Reynolds, Feb. 19, 1818,
849
Letter to John Taylor, Feb.
27, 1818, 851
INDEX OF AUTHORS A29
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 845
Ode to a Nightingale, 843
On First Looking into Chap-
man’s Homer, 840
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,
841
On the Grasshopper and the
Cricket, 840
On the Sonnet, 783
Preface to Endymion, 852
Sonnet to Sleep, 841
To Autumn, 846
Kennedy, X. J.
In a Prominent Bar in
Secaucus One Day, 641
Kincaid, Jamaica
Girl, 456
King, Henry
Sic Vita, 711
Kinnell, Galway
After Making Love We Hear
Footsteps, 629
Blackberry Eating, 995
Knight, Etheridge
[Eastern guard tower], 890
Hard Rock Returns to Prison
from the Hospital for the
Criminal Insane, 624
Knox, Bernard
The Three Theban Plays,
1457
Koch, Kenneth
Variations on a Theme by
William Carlos Williams,
895
Kroll, Judith
Rituals of Exorcism:
“Daddy,” 958
Kumin, Maxine
Woodchucks, 627
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Interpreter of Maladies, 284
Larkin, Philip
Church Going, 760
Lawrence, D. H.
I Am Like a Rose, 722
Odour of Chrysanthemums,
524
Layton, Irving
From Colony to Nation,
819
Le Guin, Ursula K.
She Unnames Them, 462
Lee, Li-Young
Persimmons, 631
A30 INDEX OF AUTHORS
Lessing, Doris
Our Friend Judith, 179
Levertov, Denise
Wedding-Ring, 613
Locke, Alain
The New Negro, 927
Lorde, Audre
Hanging Fire, 650
Lovelace, Richard
Song: To Lucasta, Going to
the Wars, 827
Lowell, Amy
The Lonely Wife, 831
Lowell, Robert
Skunk Hour, 996
MacLeish, Archibald
Ars Poetica, 794
Marlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love, 885
Marvell, Andrew
The Garden, 997
On a Drop of Dew, 702
To His Coy Mistress, 671
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
To the Ladies, 613
McGough, Roger
Here I Am, 799
McKay, Claude
The Harlem Dancer, 923
Harlem Shadows, 922
If We Must Die, 922
The Tropics in New York,
923
The White House, 923
Melville, Herman
Bartleby, the Scrivener,
153
Merrill, James
Watching the Dance, 745
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
[I, being born a woman and
distressed], 655
[What lips my lips have
kissed, and where, and
why], 787
[Women have loved before as
I love now], 654
Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman, 1556
Milton, John
On the Late Massacre in
Piedmont, 664
[When I consider how my
light is spent], 786
Miner, Earl
[The still old pond], 890
Montagu, Lady Mary Wor-
tley
Written the First Year I Was
Marry’d, 830
Moore, Gene M.
Of Time and Its Mathemati-
cal Progression: Problems
of Chronology in Faulk-
ner’s “A Rose for Emily,”
495
Moore, Lorrie
How, 132
Moore, Marianne
Love in America? 882
Poetry, 791
Mora, Pat
Elena, 635
Gentle Communion, 688
Sonrisas, 763
Mukherjee Bharati
The Management of Grief,
272
Munro, Alice
Boys and Girls, 422
Nemerov, Howard
Boom! 880
The Goose Fish, 758
The Vacuum, 603
A Way of Life, 999
Nussbaum, Martha C.
The Fragility of Goodness:
Luck and Ethics in Greek
Tragedy and Philosophy,
1462
O’Connor, Flannery
Everything That Rises Must
Converge, 400
A Good Man Is Hard to
Find, 364
The Lame Shall Enter First,
375
Passages from Essays and
Letters, 410
Olds, Sharon
Last Night, 611
Leningrad Cemetery, Winter
of 1941, 717
Sex without Love, 692
The Victims, 764
Ortiz, Simon J.
My Father’s Song, 637
Owen, Wilfred
Dulce et Decorum Est, 823
Paley, Grace
A Conversation with My
Father, 31
Parker, Dorothy
A Certain Lady, 647
One Perfect Rose, 722
Pastan, Linda
love poem, 597
Marks, 706
To a Daughter Leaving
Home, 663
Perdomo, Willie
123rd Street Rap, 752
Piercy, Marge
Barbie Doll, 619
What’s That Smell in the
Kitchen?, 830
Plath, Sylvia
Barren Woman, 1000
Daddy, 948
Lady Lazarus, 1001
Morning Song, 675
Point Shirley, 666
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Cask of Amontillado, 123
The Raven, 742
Pope, Alexander
Sound and Sense, 734
Porter, Katherine Anne
Flowering Judas, 537
Pound, Ezra
In a Station of the Metro,
1003
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A
Letter, 599
A Virginal, 1003
Ralegh, Sir Walter
The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd, 892
Ramsey, Jarold
The Tally Stick, 596
Randall, Dudley
Ballad of Birmingham, 824
Ransom, John Crowe
Bells for John Whiteside’s
Daughter, 1003
Rich, Adrienne
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, 628
At a Bach Concert, 855
A Communal Poetry, 869
Diving into the Wreck, 725
For the Record, 862
History, 863
How Does a Poet Put Bread
on the Table? 867
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Modotti, 865 [Shall I compare thee to a Waddington, Miriam

[My mouth hovers across summer’s day?], 710 Ulysses Embroidered, 898
your breasts], 863 [That time of year thou Wagoner, David
Planetarium, 861 mayst in me behold], 704 My Father’s Garden, 706
Snapshots of a Daughter-in- Shelley, Percy Bysshe Walcott, Derek
Law, 857 Ode to the West Wind, 772 A Far Cry from Africa, 902
Storm Warnings, 856 Skirrow, Desmond Midsummer, 679
Two Songs, 709 Ode on a Grecian Urn Sum- Waller, Edmund
When We Dead Awaken: marized, 895 Song, 721
Writing as Re-Vision, 866 Smith, Stevie Walsh, Clara A.
Why I Refused the National The Jungle Husband, 797 [An old-time pond], 889
Medal for the Arts, 870 Snodgrass, W. D. Welty, Eudora
Rı́os, Alberto Alvaro Leaving the Motel, 620 Why I Live at the P.O., 145
Advice to a First Cousin, 903 Song, Cathy Wharton, Edith
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Heaven, 769 Roman Fever, 110
Mr. Flood’s Party, 755 Sophocles Wheatley, Phillis
Rodgers, Lawrence R. Antigone, 1423 On Being Brought from
“We all said, ‘She will kill her- Oedipus the King, 1470 Africa to America, 900
self ’ ”: The Narrator/ Steiner, George Whitman, Walt
Detective in William Dying Is an Art, 952 Facing West from California’s
Faulkner’s “A Rose for Stevens, Wallace Shores, 1014
Emily,” 474 Anecdote of the Jar, 1005 [I celebrate myself, and sing
Roethke, Theodore The Emperor of Ice-Cream, myself], 656
My Papa’s Waltz, 691 1004 I Hear America Singing, 1014
Rosenberg, Liz Sunday Morning, 1005 A Noiseless Patient Spider,
Married Love, 600 Stoppard, Tom 1015
The Silence of Women, 832 The Real Inspector Hound, Wilbur, Richard
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1058 The Beautiful Changes, 700
A Sonnet Is a Moment’s Suckling, Sir John Love Calls Us to the Things of
Monument, 783 Song, 739 This World, 1015
Rossetti, Christina Swift, Jonathan Wilde, Oscar
In an Artist’s Studio A Description of the Morn- Symphony in Yellow, 699
Rushdie, Salman ing, 677 Williams, C. K.
The Prophet’s Hair, 572 Alzheimer’s: The Wife, 1016
Williams, Miller
Tan, Amy
Seifū Thinking about Bill, Dead of
A Pair of Tickets, 204
[The faces of dolls], 889 AIDS, 819
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Sexton, Anne Williams, Tennessee
The Kraken, 900
The Fury of Overshoes, 606 A Streetcar Named Desire,
Tears, Idle Tears, 1008
Shakespeare, William 1140
Tithonus, 1009
[Th’expense of spirit in a Williams, William Carlos
Ulysses, 1011
waste of shame], 769 The Dance, 767
Thomas, Dylan
[Full many a glorious morn- Raleigh Was Right, 892
Do Not Go Gentle into That
ing have I seen], 674 The Red Wheelbarrow, 694
Good Night, 790
Hamlet, 1325 This Is Just to Say, 695
Fern Hill, 1012
[Let me not to the marriage The Use of Force, 459
Tobin, Daniel
of true minds], 611 Wilson, August
The Clock, 633
[Like as the waves make The Piano Lesson, 1205
Toplady, Augustus
towards the pebbled shore], Winters, Yvor
Montague
745 At the San Francisco Airport,
A Prayer, Living and Dying,
A Midsummer Night’s 685
749
Dream, 1272 Wordsworth, William
[My mistress’ eyes are noth- Lines Written a Few Miles
ing like the sun], 788 Van Duyn, Mona above Tintern Abbey,
[Not marble, nor the gilded What the Motorcycle Said, 1017
monuments], 884 730 London, 1802, 785
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Wordsworth, William Wyatt, Sir Thomas The Lake Isle of Innisfree,

(continued ) They Flee from Me, 651 1020
Nuns Fret Not, 781 A Last Confession, 614
She Dwelt among the Yeats, W. B. Leda and the Swan, 1024
Untrodden Ways, 649 Among School Children, Sailing to Byzantium, 1025
Wright, Richard 1026 The Second Coming, 1023
[In the falling snow], 891 Easter 1916, 1021