Image and value; an invitation to literature.

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Other Authors: Cox, Martha Heasley (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
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Published: 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.