Part One Poetry
Enjoying Poetry
Elements of Poetry
Suggestions on Reading Poetry
A Selection of Poems
How Do I Love Thee ?Elizabeth Browning
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
My Heart's in the Highlands Robert Burns
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
She Walks in Beauty George Byron
The Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear
Lord Randal 16th Century English Ballad
I, Too Langston Hughes
Dreams Langston Hughes
Hope Emily Dickinson
Fog Carl Sandburg
Young Woman at a Window William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
Mending Wall Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
A Poison Tree William Blake
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day William Shakespeare
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman
40--Love Roger MeGough
l(aE.E. Cummings
Part Two Fiction
Enjoying Fiction
Elements of Fiction
Suggestions on Reading Fiction
A Selection of Short Stories
The Rocking-Horse Winner D.H. Laurence
The Dead James Joyce
A Rose for Emily William Faulkner
Soldier's Home Ernest Hemingway
The Lottery Shirley Jackson
Part Three The Essay
Enjoying Essays
Elements of Essays
Suggestions on Reading Essays
A Selection of Essays
Of Studies Francis Bacon
Nature(excerpt) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marrakech George Orwell
Once More to the Lake E.B. White
The Joys of Writing Winston Churchill
Part Four Drama
Enjoying Drama
Elements of Drama
Suggestions on Reading Drama
A Selection of Plays
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
The Chalky White Substance Tennessee Williams
The Rising of the Moon Lady Gregory
Death Knocks Woody Allen
Bibliography