The treehouse: An introduction to literature

by Linda C. Stanley (Editor), Sheena Gillespie (Editor), Arthur Miller (Contributor)

Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
The Prison / Bernard Malamud
Notes for a case history / Doris Lessing
A Father-to-be / Saul Bellow
The Man child / James Baldwin
Poetry: To david, about his education / Howard Nemerov
Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens
The Applicant / Slyvia Plath
Disabled / Wilfred Owen
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Woman's constancy / John Donne
Outcast / Claude McKay
Dolor / Theodore Roethke
The Return / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Divorced husband demolishes house / John Ciardi
Lines from california / Arthur Miller
Cobwebs / Christina Rossetti
Preludes / T.S. Eliot
Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps
Wanderings in an old cafeteria / Chuck Wachtel
Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser
The Heart asks pleasure first / Emily Dickinson
Port authority terminal:9 a.m. Monday / Chad Walsh
London / William Blake
A Nickle bet / Etheridge Knight
The Cambridge ladies / e.e. cummings
Drama: The Insect play / the Brothers Capek
Stories: Father and I / Par Lagerkvist
The Beach party / Shirley Ann Grau
Girl getting educated at noon on sunday/ Herbert Gold
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
The Sojourner / Carson McCullers
Poetry: On the move / Thom Gunn
Marriage / Gregory Corso
American Rhapsody(2) / Kenneth Fearing
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea / William Shakespeare
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost
What my child learns of the sea / Audre Lorde
Things in common / May Swenson
Mezzo Cammin / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What were they like / Denise Levertov
Those winter sundays / Robert Hayden
When you have forgotten sunday:the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks
If i could only live at the pitch that is near madness / Richard Eberhart
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones
Bright star / John Keats
Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fishermen / James Emanuel
Mementos / W.D. Snodgrass
The Likeness / Arthur Gregor
A Form of women / Robert Creeley
Barbershops and afros / Keith Gilyard
Love's alchemy / John Donne
Drama: A Memory of two mondays / Arthur Miller
Stories: Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
Phineas / John Knowles
Just lather, that's all / Hernando Tellez
The Sky is gray / Ernest Gaines
Poetry: Curiosity / Alastair Reid
Lies / Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Love is not all / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
We have been believers / Margaret Walker
The Ball poem / John Berryman
A Blessing / James Wright
My father moved through the dooms of love / e.e. cummings
I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats
In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton
Colours / Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What are years? / Marianne Moore
Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams
Song of myself / Walt Whiman
Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
How to be old / May Swenson
The Ecstasy / John Donne
My blackness is the beauty of this land / Lance Jeffers
Dover beach / Matthew Arnold
Dream variaton / Langston Hughes
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers
In the tree house at night / James Dickey
Drama: Medea / Euripides

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974