Elements of Literature

Fiction
Introduction
Nathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter
Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Charles G. D. Roberts: Strayed (New!)
Stephen Leacock: The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
James Joyce: Araby
D. H. Lawrence: The Rocking-Horse Winner
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party
Ernest Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Elizabeth Bowen: The Demon Lover
Morley Callaghan: A Cap for Steve
Sinclair Ross: The Painted Door
Eudora Welty: Why I Live at the P.O.
Sheila Watson: Antigone
John Cheever: The Swimmer
Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel
Doris Lessing: A Sunrise on the Veld
Mavis Gallant: The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street
Flannery O'Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Margaret Laurence: A Bird in the House
John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse
Alice Munro: Family Furnishings
Alistair MacLeod: The Boat
Bharati Mukherjee: The Lady from Lucknow
Thomas King: Borders
Rohinton Mistry: The Collectors
Louise Erdrich: Fleur
Poetry
Introduction
Chaucer:
From the General Prologue
The Miller's Tale
William Shakespeare:
Sonnets:
18 Shall I compare thee
29 When, in disgrace
35 No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
55 Not marble nor the gilded monuments
65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth
73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
130 My mistress' eyes are nothing
John Donne:
The Good Morrow
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
The Flea (New)
The Relic
Holy Sonnets:
10 Death, be not proud
14 Batter my heart
Robert Herrick:
Delight in Disorder
Upon Julia's Clothes
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
John Milton:
On Shakespeare
How Soon Hath Time
Lycidas
When I Consider How My Light is Spent
Andrew Marvell:
To His Coy Mistress
The Garden
The Fair Singer
The Coronet
Alexander Pope:
The Rape of the Lock (New!)
Epistle IV To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington
William Blake:
The Clod and the Pebble
The Chimney-Sweeper
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
The Lamb
London
Auguries of Innocence
William Wordsworth:
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Sonnets:
4 Composed upon Westminster Bridge
14 The World is too much with us
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
John Keats:
Bright Star
On the Sonnet
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Autumn
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott
Ulysses
Tears, Idle Tears
From In Memoriam:
7 Dark House, by which once more I stand
8 A happy lover
115 Now fades the last long streak
Robert Browning:
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Porphyria's Lover
Walt Whitman:
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
I Hear America Singing
The Dalliance of the Eagles
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
The Ox-Tamer
Emily Dickinson:
Success Is Counted Sweetest
I Never Hear the Word
I'm 'Wife' - I've Finished That
What Is - 'Paradise'
I Heard a Fly Buzz
The Heart Asks Pleasure - First
Because I could not stop for Death
Thomas Hardy:
Hap
The Darkling Thrush
The Convergence of the Twain
The Oxen
During Wind and Rain
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
God's Grandeur
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
Archibald Lampman:
The City of the End of Things
The Death of Tennyson
Winter-Solitude
At the Long Sault: May 1660
The Railway Station (New!)
William Butler Yeats:
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Dolls (New!)
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
Sailing to Byzantium
After Long Silence
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Robert Frost:
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Design
Provide, Provide
Birches
Wallace Stevens:
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Snow Man
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
Of Modern Poetry
E. J. Pratt:
The Shark
Erosion
One Hour of Life
Silences
The Deed
William Carlos Williams:
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
Flowers by the Sea
The Yachts
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
The Red Wheelbarrow
Marianne Moore
Poetry
The Fish
A Jellyfish
Nevertheless
T. S. Eliot:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi
Marina
E. E. Cummings:
Buffalo Bill's
Spring is like a perhaps hand
somewhere i have never travelled
my father moved through dooms of love
pity this busy monster
W. H. Auden:
Who's Who
As I Walked Out One Evening
Lullaby
Musée des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
The Unknown Citizen
A. M. Klein:
Soirée of Velvel Kleinburger
The Rocking Chair
Portrait of the Poet as Landscape
Elizabeth Bishop:
The Map
First Death in Nova Scotia
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Irving Layton:
The Cold Green Element
Berry Picking
Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom
Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959
Dylan Thomas:
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Fern Hill
P. K. Page:
The Stenographers
Photos of a Salt Mine
Arras
The New Bicycle
Deaf-Mute in a Pear Tree
Robert Lowell:
'To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage'
Skunk Hour
Water
For the Union Dead
Margaret Avison:
Snow
New Year's Poem
The Swimmer's Moment
Butterfly Bones; or Sonnet against Sonnets
In a Season of Unemployment
We the Poor Who Are Always with Us
Robert Kroetsch:
The Poet's Mother (from Completed Field Notes)
From The Hornbooks of Rita K.
Hornbook #43
Hornbook #45
Phyllis Webb:
Marvell's Garden
Lament
To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide
The Days of the Unicorns
Adrienne Rich:
The Afterwake
Novella
Night-Pieces: For a Child
Moving in Winter
Rape
Sylvia Plath:
Sheep in Fog
Daddy
Kindness
Edge
Words
Margaret Atwood:
At the tourist centre in Boston
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
Variations on the Word Love
Variations on the Word Sleep
Interlunar
The Door
Roy Miki:
make it new
attractive
subversion in tokyo
on the sublime
Michael Ondaatje:
Bearhug
Letters and Other Worlds
Elizabeth
The Cinnamon Peeler
Robert Bringhurst:
Essay on Adam
The Stonecutter's Horses
Leda and the Swan
Dionne Brand:
Islands Vanish
From Thirsty:
Poem I
Poem II
Poem III
George Elliott Clarke:
From Whylah Falls:
Look Homeward, Exile
Bees' Wings
Blank Sonnet
Le Tombeau de Bishop
Paris Annapolis
Burning Poems
Drama
Introduction
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Robert Brinsley Sheridan: The School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape
Arthur Miller: The Price
Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
Sharon Pollock: Doc
Michel Tremblay: For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
Tomson Highway: The Rez Sisters

Instructor's Manual:
Overviews of each author and work
General notes and suggestions on teaching each genre (fiction, poetry, and drama)
Additional groupings of the works collected in the text as well as listing of main themes
Discussion questions

Robert Scholes is Professor in the Department of Modern Media and Culture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Nancy R. Comley is Professor and Chair of English and former Director of Freshman Composition at Queens College, CUNY, New York, New York. Carl H. Klaus is Professor Emeritus of English at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. David Staines is Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Staines has written two other books for Oxford University Press: The Letters of Stephen Leacock (2006) and The Short Story in English (with Neil Besner, 1991).

Special Features

• Breadth and Depth. A generous selection of works, including 12 unabridged plays, 32 works of fiction, and works by 43 poets, provides students with a vast range of material, helping them to develop a full appreciation of the works and their authors.
• Balance. Writers and their works have been carefully chosen to cover the spectrum from classic to contemporary while providing ample Canadian representation.
• Critical Context. A brief head note introduces each author, providing the biographical and critical background required to assess his or her body of work.
• Updated introductions. Each genre is introduced by a revised essay that discusses its principal characteristics and provides an overview of the relevant approaches to critical analysis, laying the foundation for understanding English literature.

• NEW! This fourth Canadian edition adds fiction by Charles G.D. Roberts and poems by John Donne, Alexander Pope, W.B. Yeats, and Archibald Lampman.
• NEW! A 'Glossary of Critical Terms' has been expanded and now follows the preface. Key terms and their definitions are organized by genre, making this an accessible resource for students.