Literature for Interpretation Author:Wallace A. Bacon and Robert S. Breen Prose fiction. Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- — The real thing / Henry James -- — The mezzotint / M.R. James -- — The burglar / Archibald Marshall -- — The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- — The baby party / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- — The patented gate and the mean hamburger / Robert Penn Warren -- — Lily Daw and the three ladies ; Death of... more » a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --
A story / Dylan Thomas --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote. Poetry. Ballads. Babylon --
Edward --
The maid freed from the gallows --
Lord Randal --
The daemon lover --
Sir Patrick Spence --
To Mistress Margaret Hussey / John Skelton --
Sonnets from Amoretti / Edmund Spencer --
His pilgrimage / Walter Raleigh --
Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella / Philip Sidney --
Sonnet from To Delia / Samuel Daniel --
Sonnet from Idea / Michael Drayton --
From Cymbeline ; From Sonnets / William Shakespeare --
From Holy Sonnets ; Song ; The good morrow ; The funeral ; A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne --
Love ; The pulley / George Herbert --
On his blindness ; from Paradise Lost / John Milton --
The constant lover / John Suckling --
To Althea from prison / Richard Lovelace --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --
The retreat ; The world / Henry Vaughan --
The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake --
The solitary reaper ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; It is a beauteous evening / William Wordsworth --
The ocean ; She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Ode to the west wind ; Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Thanatopsis ; To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant --
When I have fears that I may cease to be ; Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art ; Ode to a nightingale ; To autumn ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; La belle dame sans merci / John Keats --
The rhodora ; The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Mezzo Cammin ; Divina commedia ; The tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Ulysses / Lord Alfred Tennyson --
The chambered nautilus ; The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
My last duchess ; Home-thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning --
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman --
Dover beach / Matthew Arnold --
Lucifer in starlight ; from Modern love / George Meredith --
A narrow fellow in the grass ; I never saw a moor ; Parting ; The soul selects her own society ; They say that time assuages ; I had been hungry all the years ; Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson --
Father William / Lewis Carroll --
Channel firing ; "Ah, are you digging on my grave?" ; The oxen / Thomas Hardy --
A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier --