Literature in America

Table of Contents: “…Cummings -- "Sunday Morning" / Wallace Stevens -- "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" / Wallace Stevens -- "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane -- "The Hollow Men," / T. S. Eliot -- "Journey of the Magi" / T. …”


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Shuckin' and jivin' : folklore from contemporary Black Americans by Dance, Daryl Cumber

Table of Contents: “…-- Three surprises -- No men in Heaven -- Teacher shortage -- I know I'm in Hell now -- Don't make a wave -- Hard luck Sam -- Sam goes to Heaven -- 3. …”


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A collection of catches, canons & glees

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin Cooke -- Cupid no more / John Dyne -- Have you never seen / Mr. Elton -- Fair sweet cruel / Thomas Ford -- Come where shall we walk ; Give me the sweet delights ; Hark, hark, ding, ding, ding ; I cannot sing this catch ; Look neighbors look ; O thou whose notes ; Sister! …”


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The complete Stax/Volt soul singles. Volume 3, 1972-1975.

Table of Contents: “…City in the sky (The Staple Singers) -- Title theme (Isaac Hayes) -- Soul street (Eddie Floyd) -- Flat tire (Albert King) -- Love makes it right (The Soul Children) -- Mr. Cool that ain't cool (The Temprees) -- Boogie ain't nuttin' (but gettin' down) (Rufus Thomas) -- Highway to heaven (Ron Banks & the Dramatics) -- Get it while it's hot (William Bell) -- Passing thru (Frederick Knight) -- Keep an eye on your close friends (The Newcomers) -- My main man/There is a God (The Staple Singers) -- That's the way I want to live my life (Mel & Tim) -- Forever and a day (Mel & Tim) -- Baby, I'm through (The Emotions) -- It's September (Johnnie Taylor) -- Woman to woman (Shirley Brown) -- Did you hear yourself (Randy Brown & Company) -- You need a friend like mine (Annette Thomas) -- I love, I love (The Temprees) -- Let me back in (Little Milton).…”


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The Oxford book of verse in English translation

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Documents of American history

Table of Contents: “…Mr. Seward to Mr. Motley (April 16, 1866)] -- 227. …”


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Unsettling America : an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry

Table of Contents: “…Blaeser -- Cortez's horse / Pat Mora -- Oye mundo/sometimes / Jesús Papoleto Meléndez -- The men / E. Ethelbert Miller -- The new apartment: Minneapolis / Linda Hogan -- A dance for Ma Rainey / Al Young -- I ain't going to hurry no more / Jesse F. …”


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Blood to remember : American poets on the Holocaust

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the Revised Second Edition -- Bicycles Cousins, [Would it have been possible to take in the Jews] / Marjorie Agosin -- from Inside Dachau / Sherman Alexie -- "Hitler Builds a City for the Jews", Mr. Panitz, Night Travel, Voices in My Skin, Voyage Home / Karen Alkalay-Gut -- David-Horodok, Pebbles from Auschwitz, Postcard from Poland / Michael Alpiner -- Verboten / John Amen -- Pinochle Day / Frieda Arkin -- Morning After a Fight, He Says / Brett Axel -- The Suffering Cuts Both Ways / David B. …”


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The limits of art : poetry and prose chosen by ancient and modern critics

Table of Contents: “…A Ballad of a Wedding / Suckling -- Visions of the Night / Bible -- A Psalme of Asaph / Bible -- David Praiseth God for His Manifold and Marueilous Blessings / Bible -- A Vine Out of Egypt / Bible -- Love / Bible -- Zion Redeemed / Bible -- Unto the Day / Bible -- A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa / Crashaw -- The Flaming Heart / Crashaw -- Sancta Maria Dolorvm, or the Mother of Sorrows / Crashaw -- The Widow of Ephesus / Taylor -- Maxims / La Rochefoucauld -- Revolutions / Retz -- Song / Lovelace -- The Garden / Marvell -- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland / Marvell -- Adonis and the Water Nymphs / La Fontaine -- Le Loup et le Chien / La Fontaine -- The Glutton / La Fontaine -- From The Night / Vaughan -- The Hypocrite / Molière -- Charity Is Supernatural / Pascal -- Hear God / Pascal -- The Climax of Impiety / Pascal -- The Marriage of Mademoiselle / Sévigné -- Saint Paul / Bossuet -- Madame Is Dead / Bossuet -- The Wilderness of This World / Bunyan -- Human Life / Temple -- Absalom and Achitophel / Dryden -- Religio Laici / Dryden -- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham / Dryden -- To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. …”


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The Norton anthology of American literature. Volume E, Literature since 1945

Table of Contents: “…Ruin stared straight back") ; 384 ("The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done") / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) -- Invisible man ; Prologue ; Chapter I [Battle royal] / Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) -- The adventures of Augie March ; Chapter One / Saul Bellow (1915-2005) -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller (1915-2005) -- Colloquy in black rock ; The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket ; Mr. Edwards and the spider ; My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow ; Memories of West Street and Lepke ; Skunk hour ; Night sweat ; For the union dead / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- A street in Bronzeville ; kitchenette building ; the mother ; a song in the front yard ; The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men ; The womanhood ; The children of the poor (II) ; We real cool ; The bean eaters ; A bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. …”


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Voices of the American Indian experience

Table of Contents: “…Part D: 1878-1920 -- An Indian's View of Indian Affairs: Chief Joseph, 1879 -- We Ask to Be Recognized as Men (1879) -- White Eagle's Statement Regarding the Removal of the Ponca Indians to Indian Territory -- Standing Bear v. …”


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John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley : complete poetical works by Keats, John, 1795-1821, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Table of Contents: “…when I behold thee flippant, vain" / John Keats -- To George Felton Mathew / John Keats -- To my brother George / John Keats -- To Charles Cowden Clarke / John Keats -- To my brother George / John Keats -- To ****** ["Had I a man's fair form"] / John Keats -- Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left prison / John Keats -- "How many bards gild the lapses of time!" …”


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Writings by Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Table of Contents: “…Marshall, March 7, 1830 -- The dangers of presidential elections : To James Hillhouse, May 26, 1830 -- "Mr. Madison ... is himself again" : To Joseph Story, October 15, 1830 -- Jefferson and the federalists : To Henry Lee, October 25, 1830 -- Dining with the French Minister : To Mary W. …”


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The literature of lesbianism : a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall

Table of Contents: “…The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- from Orlando Furioso / Ludovico Ariosto -- "Elegy for a Lady Fallen for Another Lady" / Pontus De Tyard -- "Memorable Stories About Women Who Have Degenerated into Men" / Ambroise Paré -- from The Journal of Montaigne's Travels in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany / Michel De Montaigne -- "Poems XLIX" from The Maitland Quarto Manuscript / Anonymous -- from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney -- from Gallathea / John Lyly -- from As You Like It / William Shakespeare -- from Twelfth Night / William Shakespeare -- The Book of Ruth / The King James Bible -- "On a Lady Named Beloved" / Anne De Rohan -- from Hic Mulier: or, The Man-Woman / Anonymous -- from Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished / George Sandys -- "Sapho to Philaenis" / John Donne -- "To Mr. …”


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The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : with two hundred and seventy illustrations. by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

Table of Contents: “…The angels of the seven planets -- IV. The wise men of the east -- V. The flight into Egypt -- VI. …”


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Living history : the Civil War : the history of the War Between the States in documents, essays, letters, songs, and poems

Table of Contents: “…"We are not enemies but friends" / Abraham Lincoln -- 8. Mr. Lincoln hammers out a cabinet / Thurlow Weed -- 9. …”


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The sacred harp

Table of Contents: “…Sikes -- Thy works of glory, mighty Lord (Ocean) / Swan -- Sinners, perhaps this news with you (Woodville) / Rev. Mr. Thomas & B.F. White -- How beauteous are their feet (Zion's joy) / Dr. …”


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The Norton anthology of Latino literature

Table of Contents: “…: -- Last supper -- Franklin Gutierrez (b 1951): -- Helen -- Oscar Hijuelos (b 1951): -- Mambo kings play songs of love -- Chapter 1 -- Mr Ives' Christmas: -- On Madison and Forty-First Street -- Jimmy Santiago Baca (b 1952): -- From violence to peace -- Place to stand -- Chapter 1-2 -- Sixteen -- ChicaIndio -- Pat Mora (b 1952): -- Child, a child -- La dulceria -- Coatlicue's rules: advice from an Aztec Goddess -- Malinche's tips: Pique from Mexico's mother -- Consejos de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe: Counsel from the Brown Virgin -- Cherrie Moraga (b 1952): -- Giving up the ghost: Teatro in two acts -- Judith Ortiz Cofer (b 1952): -- Story of my body -- Latin Deli: an Ars Poetica -- Chameleon -- Hostages to fortune -- To a daughter I cannot console -- Anniversary -- Gift of a Cuento -- May he be bilingual -- Alberto Alvaro Rios (b 1952): -- Morning -- Man who became old -- Mayates -- Iguana killer -- Gary Soto (b 1952): -- Level at which the sky begins -- How an Uncle became Gray -- At the Cantina -- Catalina Trevino is really from Heaven -- What are you speaking? …”


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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in. The complete sixth season by Schlatter, George, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Opening billboard ; Tarzan ; Just married ; Visit with Mr. Know-it-all ; Fight manager ; Superman's mother ; Fabulous Farkle Family visit ; W.C. …”


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The Field Day anthology of Irish writing

Table of Contents: “…Ode XIV ; Ireland / Jonathan Swift ; A new song sung at the club at Mr. Taplin's the sign of the Drapier's head in truck-street / Richard Witheral (fl. 1720-30) ; A second song, sung at the club at Mr. …”


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