viii, 1349 p. ; 23 cm

Includes index

Errata sheet tipped in

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 IV: 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 ; Ode: 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 fall: 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 sault: 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

Poetry. 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 -- Poetry ; 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 death in Nova Scotia ; In the waiting room ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- The cold green element ; Berry picking ; Whatever else poetry is freedom ; Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 / Irving Layton -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Do not go gentle into that good night ; Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas --The stenographers ; Photos of a salt mine ; Arras ; The new bicycle ; Deaf-mute in the pear tree / P. K. Page -- 'To speak of woe that is in marriage' ; Skunk hour ; Water; For the union dead / Robert Lowell -- 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 / Margaret Avison -- The poet's mother ; Hornbook #43 ; Hornbook #45 / Robert Kroetsch -- Marvell's garden ; Lament ; To friends who have also considered suicide ; The days of the Unicorns / Phyllis Webb -- The afterwake ; Moving in winter ; Novella ; Night-pieces: for a child ; Rape / Adrienne Rich -- Sheep in fog ; Daddy ; Kindness ; Edge ; Words / Sylvia Plath -- At the tourist centre in Boston ; Death of a young son by drowning ; Variations on the word Love ; Variation on the word Sleep ; Interlunar ; Morning in the burned house / Margaret Atwood -- make it new ; attractive ; subversion in tokyo ; on the sublime / Roy Miki -- Bearhug ; Letters & other worlds ; Elizabeth ; The cinnamon peeler / Michael Ondaatje -- Essay on Adam ; The stonecutter's horses / Leda and the swan / Robert Bringhurst --Island vanish ; From thirsty / Dionne Brand -- Look homeward, exile ; Bees' wings ; Blank sonnet ; Le tombeau de bishop ; Paris annapolis ; Burning poems / eorge Elliott Clarke

Drama. Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- King Lear / William Shakespeare -- The school for scandal / Robert Brinsley Sheridan -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- Krapp's last tape / Samuel Beckett -- The price / Arthur Miller -- The zoo story / Edward Albee -- Doc / Sharon Pollock -- For the pleasure of seeing her again / Michel Tremblay -- The Rez sisters / Tomson Highway

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