the joy of literature poetry, fiction and drama (revised edition)

Contents
Poetry
Love and Death

1. Lord Randal
2. A Red, Red Rose / Robert Burns
3. Sigh No More / William Shakespeare
4. Song / Edmund Waller
5. Come, My Celia Let Us Prove / Ben Jonson
6. Tears, Idle Tears / Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. How Do I Love Thee？Let Me Count The Ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
8. The Soul Selects Her Own Society / Emily Dickinson
9. Let Me Not to The Marriage of True Minds / William Shakespeare
10. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas
11. To an Athlete Dying Young / Alfred Edward Housman
12. The Flea / John Donne
13. To His Coy Mistress / Andrew Marcell

Art and Nature
1. The Red Wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
2. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways / William Wordsworth
3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
4. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / William Wordsworth
5. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day / William Shakespeare
6. Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epiphany and Moral Choice
1. When I Was One-and-Twenty / Alfred Edward Housman
2. I'm Nobody! Who Are You? / Emily Dickinson
3. The Man He Killed / Thomas Hardy
4. The Oxen / Thomas Hardy
5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost
6. The Roads Not Taken / Robert Frost
7. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent / John Milton

Social Issue
1. The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes
2. Harlem / Langston Hughes
3. The Chimney Sweeper / William Blake
4. Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
5. In an Artist’s Studio / Christina Rossetti
6. The Ruined Maid / Thomas Hardy
7. Digging / Seamus Heany
8. The Unknown Citizen / W. H. Auden

Good and Evil
1. The Lamb / William Blake
2. The Tyger / William Blake
3. Uphill / Christina Rossetti
4. My Last Duchess / Robert Browning
5. Leda and the Swan / William Butler Yeats

Fiction
1. Ex Poser / Paul Jennings
2. Reunion / John Cheever
3. Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood
4. Cat in the Rain / Ernest Hemingway
5. The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin
6. The Gift of the Magi / O. Henry
7. Araby / James Joyce
8. The Jewelry / Guy de Maupassant
9. A & P / John Updike
10. The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
11. A Pair of Tickets / Amy Tan

Drama
1. From Antigone / Sophocles
2. From Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare
3. From Romeo & Juliet / William Shakespeare
4. From A Doll’s House / Henrik Ibsen
5. From Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller
6. Trifles / Susan Glaspell

Contents
Poetry
Love and Death

1. Lord Randal
2. A Red, Red Rose / Robert Burns
3. Sigh No More / William Shakespeare
4. Song / Edmund Waller
5. Come, My Celia Let Us Prove / Ben Jonson
6. Tears, Idle Tears / Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. How Do I Love Thee？Let Me Count The Ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
8. The Soul Selects Her Own Society / Emily Dickinson
9. Let Me Not to The Marriage of True Minds / William Shakespeare
10. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas
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