Perrine's literature : structure, sound, and sense / compiled by Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson. [print]

A description of the morning/ Jonathan Swift Fern Hill/ Dylan Thomas The virgins/ Derek Walcott To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand/ Walt Whitman The Critic/ C/ K. Williams Poem ; Spring and all/ William Carlos Williams The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary/ Yvor Winters I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper/ William Wordsworth The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole/ William Butler Yeats Trifles/ Susan Glaspell The stronger/ August Strindberg Beauty/ Jane Martin Tape /Jos e Rivera POOF! / Lynn Nottage The sandbox/ Edward Albee Time flies/ David Ives A doll house/ Hendrik Ibsen The glass menagerie/ Tennessee Williams Los vendidos/ Luis Valdez Oedipus Rex/ Sophocles Othello, the Moor of Venice/ William Shakespeare Tartuffe/ Moli ere Am I blue/ Beth Henley Death of a salesman/ Arthur Miller A midsummer night's dream/ William Shakespeare Fences/ August Wilson Andr e's mother/ Terrence McNally.

For a lamb/ Richard Eberhart Apparently with no surprise/ Emily Dickinson Since there's no help/ Michael Drayton Picnic, lightning/ Billy Collins My mistress' eyes/ William Shakespeare Crossing the bar/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson The oxen/ Thomas Hardy One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us/ Emily Dickinson The apparition ; The flea/ John Donne Dover Beach/ Matthew Arnold Church going/ Philip Larkin The turtle/ Ogden Nash That night when joy began/ W.H. Auden The waking/ Theodore Roethke God's grandeur/ Gerard Manley Hopkins Blow, blow, thou winter wind/ Wlliam Shakespeare We real cool/ Gwendolyn Brooks Woman work/ Maya Angelou Rite of passage/ Sharon Olds As imperceptibly as grief/ Emily Dickinson Music lessons/ Mary Oliver Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford Thistles/ Ted Hughes Nothing gold can stay/ Robert Frost Virtue/ George Herbert ; "Introduction" to Songs of innocence/ William Blake Had I the choice/ Walt Whitman The aim was song/ Robert Frost Stanzas/ George Gordon, Lord Byron Old ladies' home/ Sylvia Plath Africa/ Maya Angelou To a daughter leaving home/ Linda Pastan A blessing/ James Wright Porphyria's lover/ Robert Browning Break, break, break/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson Eight o'clock/ A.E. Housman Sound and sense/ Alexander Pope I heard a fly buzz-when I died/ Emily Dickinson Anthem for doomed youth/ Wilfred Owen Landcrab/ Margaret Atwood Tree at my window/ Robert Frost Aunt Jennifer's tigers/ Adrienne Rich At the round earth's imagined corners/ John Donne Blackberry eating/ Galway Kinnell The health-food diner/ Maya Angelou The dance/ William Carlos Williams The pulley/ George Herbert On first looking into Chapman's Homer/ John Keats That time of year/ William Shakespeare Do not go gentle into that good night/ Dylan Thomas From Romeo and juliet/ William Shakespeare Death, be not proud/ John Donne The sheaves/ Edwin Arlington Robinson The white city/ Claude McKay America/ Claude McKay We wear the mask/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton/ Kim Addonizio Acquainted with the night/ Robert Frost In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn/ T.S. Eliot Villanelle for an anniversary/ Seamus Heaney The house on the hill/ Edwin Arlington Robinson These are the days when birds come back/ Emily Dickinson Delight in disorder/ Robert Herrick Still to be near/ Ben Jonson The canonization/ John Donne Ode on a Grecian urn/ John Keats Home burial/ Robert Frost.

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock/ T.S. Eliot Sunday mornig/ Wallace Stevens The weary blues/ Langston Hughes The fish/ Elizabeth Bishop Diving into the wreck/ Adrienne Rich Mus ee des beaux arts/ W.H. Auden Main character/ Jimmy Santiago Baca On her loving two equally/ Aphra Behn On reading poems to a senior class at South High/ District of Columbia Berry Manners/ Elizabeth Bishop Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega/ Gwendolyn Brooks Combing/ Gladys Cardiff To the ladies/ Mary, Lady Chudleigh good times/ Lucille Clifton Kubla Khan/ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Voyages/ Hart Crane War is kind/ Stephen Crane the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand/ e. e. cummings A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony/ Emily Dickinson The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star/ John Donne Nexus ; Persephone, falling/ Rita Dove Sympathy/ Paul Laurence Dunbar Christ climbed down/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti The colonel/ Carolyn Forch e Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific/ Robert Frost A supermarket in California/ Allen Ginsberg From the wave/ Thom Gunn Snow White and the seven deadly sins/ R.S. Gwynn On the death of a child/ Daniel Halpern Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones/ Thomas Hardy Follower/ Seamus Heaney To an athlete dying young/ A.E. Housman Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant/ Langston Hughes The death of the ball turret gunner/ Randall Jarrell To Celia/ Ben Jonson Warning/ Jenny Joseph Men at forty/ Donald Justice La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent/ John Keats Aubade/ Philip Larkin The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff/ Denise Levertov To Lucasta, on going to the wars/ Richard Lovelace Puberty/ William Matthews Silence/ Marianne Moore Dim lady/ Harryette Mullen I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims/ Sharon Olds R esum e/ Dorothy Parker A work of artifice/ Marge Piercy Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights/ Sylvia Plath Epigram from the French/ Alexander Pope Salutation/ Ezra Pound Here lies a lady/ John Crowe Ransom Poetry: I/ Adrienne Rich The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory/ Edwin Arlington Robinson I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar/ Theodore Roethke Young/ Anne Sexton Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ William Shakespeare Watermelons/ Charles Simic Not waving but drowning/ Stevie Smith Small town with one road/ Gary Soto One day I wrote her name upon the sand/ Edmund Spenser Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier/ Wallace Stevens.

The most dangerous game/ Richard Connell Hunters in the snow/ Tobias Wolff The destructors/ Graham Greene How I met my husband/ Alice Munro Interpreter of maladies/ Jhumpa Lahiri Everyday use/ Alice Walker Miss Brill/ Katherine Mansfield The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright Welding with children/ Tim Gautreaux The darling/ Anton Chekhov A worn path/ Eudora Welty Once upon a time/ Nadine Gordimer Paul's case/ Willa Cather The lottery/ Shirley Jackson The jilting of Granny Wetherall/ Katherine Anne Porter Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence Young goodman Brown/ Nathaniel Hawthorne The ones who walk away from Omelas/ Ursula K. Le Guin A very old man with enormous wings/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez The drunkard/ Frank O'Connor Rape fantasies/ Margaret Atwood The guest/ Albert Camus Roman fever/ Edith Wharton A new leaf/ F. Scott Fitzgerald Civil peace/ Chinua Achebe The swimmer/ John Cheever The story of an hour/ Kate Chopin A rose for Emily/ William Faulkner A jury of her peers/ Susan Glaspell The gilded six-bits/ Zora Neale hurston The real thing/ Henry James Bartleby the scrivener/ Herman Melville The cask of Amontillado/ Edgar Allan Poe A and P/ John Updike The eagle/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson Winter/ William Shakespeare Dulce et decorum est/ Wilfred Owen Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ William Shakespeare The whipping/ Robert Hayden The last night that she lived/ Emily Dickinson Ballad of Birmingham/ Dudley Randall Kitchenette building/ Gwendolyn Brooks The red wheelbarrow/ William Carlos Williams Constantly risking absurdity/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti Terence, this is stupid stuff/ A.E. Housman Archibald MacLeish The man he killed/ Thomas Hardy A study of reading habits/ Philip Larkin Is my team plowing/ A.E. Housman Break of day/ John Donne There's been a death, in the opposite house/ Emily Dickinson When in Rome/ Mari Evans Animals are passing from our lives/ Philip Levine Question/ May Swenson Mirror/ Sylvia Plath The clod and the pebble/ William Blake Ethics/ Linda Pastan Storm warnings/ Adrienne Rich.

There is no frigate like a book/ Emily Dickinson When my love swears she is made of truth/ William Shakespeare Pathedy of manners/ Ellen Kay Naming of parts/ Henry Reed Cross/ Langston Hughes The world is too much with us/ William Wordsworth Desert places/ Robert Frost Let no charitable hope/ Elinor Wylie A hymn to God the Father/ John Donne One art/ Elizabeth Bishop 35/10/ Sharon Olds Meeting at night ; Parting at morning/ Robert Browning Spring/ Gerard Manley Hopkins The widow's lament in springtime/ William Carlos Williams The man with night sweats/ Thom Gunn I felt a funeral, in my brain/ Emily Dickinson Living in sin/ Adrienne Rich The forge/ Seamus Heaney After apple-picking/ Robert Frost Those winter Sundays/ Robert Hayden An August night/ Seamus Heaney The snow man/ Wallace Stevens/ To autumn/ John Keats Harlem/ Langston Hughes Bereft/ Robert Frost It sifts from leaden sieves/ Emily Dickinson The author to her book/ Anne Bradstreet The telephone/ Maya Angelou Bright star/ John Keats Mind/ Richard Wilbur I taste a liquor never brewed/ Emily Dickinson Metaphors/ Sylvia Plath Toads/ Philip Larkin Ghost of a chance/ Adrienne Rich A valediction: forbidding mourning/ John Donne To his coy mistress/ Andrew Marvell Introduction to poetry/ Billy Collins The road not taken/ Robert Frost A noiseless patient spider/ Walt Whitman The sick rose/ William Blake Digging/ Seamus Heaney To the virgins, to make much of time/ Robert Herrick Peace/ George Herbert The writer/ Richard Wilbur Fire and ice/ Robert Frost Up-hill/ Christina Rossetti Harlem hopscotch/ Maya Angelou I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing/ Walt Whitman Because I could not stop for death/ Emily Dickinson Hymn to God my God, in my sickness/ John Donne Weighing the dog/ Billy Collins Ulysses/ Alfred. Lord Tennyson Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson The sun rising/ John Donne Incident/ Countee Cullen Barbie doll/ Marge Piercy The chimney sweeper/ William Blake Ozymandias/ Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady luncheon club/ Maya Angelou Batter my heart, three-personed God/ John Donne Sorting laundry/ Elisavietta Ritchie The history teacher/ Billy Collins Mid-term break/ Seamus Heaney A considerable speck/ Robert Frost The unknown citizen/ W.H. Auden in the inner city/ Lucille Clifton My last duchess/ Robert Browning ; "Out, out" / Robert Frost ; "She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare in Just/ e.e. cummings Yet do I marvel/ Countee Cullen On his blindness/ John Milton Miniver Cheevy/ Edwin Arlington Robinson My son the man/ Sharon Olds Siren song/ Margaret Atwood Journey of the Magi/ T.S. Eliot Little Jack Horner/ Anonymous Loveliest of trees/ A.E. Housman Stopping by woods on a snowy evening/ Robert Frost The rhodora/ Ralph Waldo Emerson Design/ Robert Frost I never saw a moor/ Emily Dickinson --"Faith" is a fine invention/ Emily Dickinson On the sonnet/ John Keats Sonnet/ Billy Collins The lamb ; The tiger/ William Blake The indifferent/ John Donne Love's deity/ John Donne My number/ Billy Collins I had heard it's a fight/ Edwin Denby.

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Thomas R. Arp received a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan (1954) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Stanford University. In 1955-1956, he produced educational television for the University of Michigan. He received an M.A. in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1962 both from Stanford. He taught at Bowdoin College, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, Hull University (England), and Southern Methodist University. Macmillan published his volume THE FORM OF POETRY in 1966, and he received a Fulbright lectureship at University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1969-1970. Arp joined Laurence Perrine in preparing revised editions of SOUND AND SENSE, STORY AND STRUCTURE, and LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE beginning in 1982. He became sole author of the books in 1997 and was joined by Greg Johnson in 2002. Dr. Arp passed away in 2015. Greg Johnson received an M.A. in English from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Dr. Johnson is the author of 12 books of fiction, poetry, criticism, and biography, including LouisianaST ENCOUNTER WisconsinTH THE ENEMY (Johns Hopkins, 2004), WOMEN I'VE KNOWN: NebraskaW AND SELECTED STORIES (Ontario Review, 2007), the novel STICKY KISSES (Alyson Books, 2001), and several books on Joyce Carol Oates, including IndianaVISIBLE WRITER: A BIOGRAPHY OF JOYCE CaliforniaROL OATES (Dutton, 1998) and JOYCE CaliforniaROL OATES: ColoradoNVERSATIONS 1970-2006 (Ontario Review, 2006). He joined the author team of PERRINE'S LITERATURE in 2002 and has been the sole author since Thomas Arp's passing in 2015.