Image and value; an invitation to literature.
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New York,
Harcourt, Brace & World
[1966]
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Table of Contents:
- The portable phonograph, The ghost of an apprehension / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Many moons / James Thurber
- A day's wait / Ernest Hemingway
- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
- The downward path to wisdom / Katherine Anne Porter
- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth / John Updike
- Boy in the summer sun / Mark Schorer
- Things / D.H. Lawrence
- The machine stops / E.M. Forster
- Judas / Frank O'Connor
- Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant
- Adventure / Sherwood Anderson
- The missing one / Ana Maria Matute, translation by Gloria Duran / The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
- The lottery / Shirley Jackson
- An episode of war / Stephen Crane
- War / Luigi Pirandello
- Two soldiers / William Faulkner
- Quality / John Galsworthy
- Eveline / James Joyce
- A clod of soil, translation by Takashi Kojima / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- The book of Ruth / The King James Bible
- The Apollo of Bellac, adapted by Maurice Valency / Jean Giraudoux
- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
- A touch of the poet / Eugene O'Neill
- Picnic on the battlefield, translation by James Hewitt / Fernando Arrabal
- Antigone, translation by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald / Sophocles
- Barbra Allen / Anonymous
- John Henry / Anonymous
- Go down, Moses / Anonymous
- Hush, Little Baby / Anonymous
- Red River Valley / Anonymous
- Psalm I / The King James Bible
- Appearance of wisdom, translation by Willis Barnstone / Phocylides
- Inscription for a monument for the Spartan soldiers who died at Thermopylae, translation by William L. Bowles / Simonides
- On magical whiskers, Translation by Willis Barnstone / Lucian
- Pygmalion, Translation by John Dryden / Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
- My mistress' eyes / William Shakespeare
- Polonius' speech to Laertes / William Shakespeare
- There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campion.
- Song, to Celia, Come, my Celia, To my book / Ben Jonson
- Song, Love's deity, Death, be not proud / John Donne
- When I consider how my light is spent, Methought I saw my late espoused saint / John Milton
- The constant lover / Sir John Suckling
- To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
- An epitaph / Matthew Prior
- O God, our help in ages past / Isaac Watts
- From an Essay on Man / Alexander Pope
- Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 / William Collins
- Walking with God / William Cowper
- The little black boy, The clod and the pebble, A poison tree / William Blake
- To a louse / Robert Burns
- She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth
- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
- She walks in beauty, When we two parted, The destruction of Sennancherib / George Gordon, Lord Byron
- / Ozymandias, One word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- On first looking Chapman's Homer, La belle dame sans merci, Ode to a nightingale / John Keats
- There was a child went forth, Beginning my studies, When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When lilacs last in a the dooryard bloom'd, I sit and look out / Walt Whitman
- Ulysses, Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Porphyria's lover, The laboratory / Robert Browning
- Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough
- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
- I like to see it lap the miles, There is no frigate like a book, The grass so little has to do, After great pain, a formal feeling comes, Because I could stop for death, Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson.
- The man he killed, Ah, are you digging my grave?, At the Draper's, The oxen / Thomas Hardy
- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- When I was one-and-twenty, To an athlete dying young, Is my team plowing?, Terence, this is stupid stuff", My dreams are of a field afar / A.E. Housman
- A prayer for my daughter, Why should not old men be mad?, To a friend whose work has come to nothing / William Butler Yeats
- Richard Cory, How Annandale went out, Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Lucinda Matlock, Knowlt Hoheimer / Edgar Lee Masters
- A youth in apparel that glittered, War is kind, A man said to the universe / Stephen Crane
- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Mending wall, A semi-revolution, Design / Robert Frost
- warty bliggens, the toad, the song of mehitabel / Don Marquis
- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens
- A pact / Ezra Pound
- The river merchant's wife: a letter, tranlation by Ezra Pound / Rihaku
- Macavity: the mystery cat, The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
- Dulce et decorum est, The parable of the old men and the young, Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen
- Diogenes / Morris Bishop
- Lines to a daughter
- any daughter / Agnes Rogers Allen
- nobody loses all the time / e.e. cummings
- The Persian version / Robert Graves
- Solitary observation brought back from a sojourn in hell, The dream / Louise Bogan
- Deferred, Harlem / Langston Hughes
- Any man's advice to his son / Kenneth Fearing
- Very like a whale / Ogden Nash.
- Polonius, yes, Polonius, No / Ogden Nash
- The angry man / Phyllis McGinley
- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
- Nothing is given: we must find our law / W.H. Auden
- Dolor / Theodore Roethke
- An elementary school classroom in a slum / Stephen Spender
- In order to / Kenneth Patchen
- In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / Delmore Schwartz
- In my craft or sullen art, Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
- To David, about his education, The triump of education, Trees / Howard Nemerov.