WADSWORTH The Heath Introduction to Literature

At about half the length and a much lower price than comparable anthologies, this introductory anthology of short fiction, poetry, and drama is organized by genre and features chapter introductions and a bibliography of film adaptations. Readings have been chosen with an eye toward classic selections and gender balance, while allowing the book to retain the teachability and traditional emphases for which it has long been admired. Review INTRODUCTION: ON FICTION The Bases of Literature Writing About Literature FICTION Fiction as Narrative The Art of Narration: Giving Meaning to Action Anonymous, Clever Manka Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour The Storytellers Black Elk, High Horse's Courting John Blackamore, Old Boss Wants into Heaven I.L. Peretz, If Not Higher The Reporters Ernest Hemingway, Hills like White Elephants Kate Chopin, A Pair of Silk Stockings Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? First-Person Narratives Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper Grace Paley, The Loudest Voice Toni Cade Bambara, My Man Bovanne Judith Ortiz Cofer, Not for Sale Tales Within Tales Joseph Conrad, Youth: A Narrative Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Character Study and Social Commentary Looking Inward and Outward Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Grace Paley, Anxiety Tillie Olsen, Dream-Vision Beyond Reality Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron Autobiography Mark Twain, from Old Times on the Mississippi Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Michael Herr, from Dispatches An Anthology of Short Stories Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall John Steinbeck, The Chysanthemums Flannery O'Conner, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing POETRY Reading Poetry Simon Ortiz, And there is always one more story Leslie Marmon Silko, The Storyteller's Escape Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens Anonymous, The Cherry-Tree Carol Anonymous, Get Up and Bar the Door Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Sterling Brown, Slim in Hell Elements of Poetry Repetition and Rhythm William Shakespeare, It Was a Lover and His Lass Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid E.E. Cummings, All in green went my love riding N. Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee Etheridge Knight, Ilu, the Talking Drum Compression and Verse Forms Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness Marianne Moore, I May, I Might, I Must Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Amy Lowell, Wind and Silver William Carlos Williams, The Dance William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us Emily Dickinson, There's a Certain Slant of Light Emily Dickinson, Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant Word Choice: Meanings and Suggestions Emily Dickinson, The Bustle in a House Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death William Wordsworth, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes A. E. Housman, With Rue My Heart Is Laden Gerard Manley Hopkins, Heaven-Haven Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant Ezra Pound, These Fought in Any Case E. E. Cummings, in Just- The Speaker in the Poem The Speaker's Voice Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why Nikki Giovanni, You Are There Robert Hayden, Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Denise Levertov, At David's Grave William Butler Yeats, The Folly of Being Comforted Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Robert Frost, Birches Simon Ortiz, Notes for My