Elements of Literature: Poetry, Fiction, Drama

by Robert Scholes, Nancy R. Comley (Editor), Carl H. Klaus (Editor)

Fiction.
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heartache / Anton Chekhov
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane
Araby / James Joyce
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
A cap for Steve / Morley Callaghan
The painted door / Sinclair Ross
Antigone / Sheila Watson
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The swimmer / John Cheever
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
A bird in the house / Margaret Laurence
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
Family furnishings / Alice Munro
The boat / Alistair MacLeod
The lady from Lucknow / Bharati Mukherjee
Borders / Thomas King
The collectors / Rohinton Mistry
Fleur / Louise Erdrich

Poetry.
The miller's prologue and tale / Geoffrey Chaucer
Shall I compare there ... ; When, in disgrace ... ; No more be grieved ... ; Not marble nor the gilded monuments ; Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea ; that time of year though mayst in me behold ; My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare
The good morrow ; The sun rising ; The canoniztion; The relic ; Death, be not proud ; Batter my heart / John Donne
Delight in disorder ; Upon Julia's clothes ; To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
On Shakespeare ; how soon hath time ; Lycidas ; When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton
To his coy mistress ; The garden ; The fair singer ; The coronet / Andrew Marvell
Eloisa to Abelard ; Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlingon / Alexander Pope
The lamb ; The clod and the pebble ; The chimney-sweeper ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; London ; Auguries of innocence / William Blake
I wandered lonely as a cloud ; intimations of immortality ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; The world is too much with us ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode to autumn ; La belle dames sans merci ; Bright star ; On the sonnet / John Keats
The lady of Shalott ; Ulysses ; Tears, idle tears ; Dark house, by which once more I stand ; A happy lover who has come ; Now fades the last long streak of snow / Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- Solioquy of the Spanish cloister ; my last duchess ; The bishop orders his tomb ; Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; I hear America singing ; A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim ; The ox-tamer ; The dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest ; I'm 'wife'
I've finished that ; The heart asks pleasure
first ; Because I could not stop for death ; What is
'Paradise' ; I never hear the word ; I heard a fly buzz / Emily Dickinson
Hap ; The darkling thrush ; The convergence of the twain ; The oxen ; During wind and rain ; In time of 'The breaking of nations' / Thomas Hardy
God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Spring and to a young child ; Though art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The death of Tennyson ; The city of the end of things ; Winter-solitude ; At the long May 1660 / Archibald Lampman
The lake isle of Innisfree ; The wild swans at Coole ; The second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; Sailing to Byzantium ; After long silence ; The circus animal's desertion / William Butler Yeats
Mending wall ; After apple-picking ; Birches ; Design ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Provide, provied / Robert Frost
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 / Wallace Stevens
The shark ; One hour of life ; Erosion; Silences; The deed / E.J. Pratt
The widow's lament in springtime ; Spring and all ; The red wheelbarrow ; Flowers by the sea ; The last words of my English grandmother ; The yachts ; Landscape with the fall of Icarus / William Carlos Williams
The fish ; Nevertheless ; A Jellyfish / Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Journey of the Magi ; Marina / T.S. Eliot
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 / e. e. cummings
Who's who ; As I walked out one evening ; Lullaby ; Musee des beaux arts ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
Soiree of Velvel Kleinburger ; The rocking chair ; Portrait of the poet as landscape / A.M. Klein
The map ; First de...

Genres: Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories, Poetry

1349 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Robert E. Scholes was an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction.

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