How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster

Robert Coover

“The Gingerbread House” (1969)

Angela Carter does that in The Bloody Chamber (1979),

We sometimes forget that people in an age of top hats and stiff collars had tribes, but we do so at our peril.

two great poems based on that painting, W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” (1940) and William Carlos Williams’s “Landscape with Fall of Icarus” (1962).

Derek Walcott does in his Omeros (1990).

Thomas Hardy,

“The Three Strangers” (1883)

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” (1947),

poem “The Snow Man” (1923), Wallace Stevens

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)