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Reading for understanding : fiction, drama, poetry
- Title
- Reading for understanding : fiction, drama, poetry / [compiled by] Caroline Shrodes, Justine Van Gundy [and] Joel Dorius.
- Author
- Shrodes, Caroline.
- Publication
- New York : Macmillan, [1968]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Nabokov ZC6 S57 1968 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- xix, 716 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Contents
- Fiction. The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawethorne -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The bet / Anton Chekhov -- Eveline / James Joyce -- A country doctor / Franz Kafka -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- Barn Burning / William Faulkner -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- "That in Aleppo once--" / Vladimir Nabokov -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- The guest / Albert Camus -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor.
- Drama. King Oedipus (adaptation by William Butler Yeats) / Sophocles -- Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The seagull / Anton Chekhov -- The words upon the window pane / William Butler Yeats -- The zoo story / Edward Albee.
- Poetry. Whoso list to hunt ; My galley chargéd with forgetfulness ; They flee from me / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- From Astrophel and Stella (1 and 31) ; Leave me, o love / Philip Sidney -- From Amoretti (70 and 75) / Edmund Spenser -- Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") ; Sonnet 29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") ; Sonnet 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") ; Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") ; Sonnet 87 ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing") ; Sonnet 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") ; Sonnet 107 ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul") ; Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") ; Sonnet 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame") ; Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") / William Shakespeare -- From Ideas mirror (61) / Michael Drayton -- The sun rising ; The canonization ; A valediction : forbidding mourning ; From holy sonnets (10 and 14) / John Donne -- The collar ; The flower ; Love (III) / George Herbert -- To his coy mistress ; The definition of love ; The garden / Andrew Marvell -- Lycidas ; On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three ; On the late massacre in Piedmont ; On his blindness / John Milton -- Stella's birthday / Jonathan Swift -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- The sick rose ; The tiger ; London ; A poison tree ; Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; From Preface to Milton / William Blake -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 ; It is a beauteous evening ; The world is too much with us ; London, 1802 / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; When I have fears ; Bright star ; La bell dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Ozymandias ; Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Poetry. The Kraken ; Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess ; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church / Robert Browning -- Shakespeare ; Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- From Modern love (XLIII) ; Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith -- A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim ; A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- I taste a liquor never brewed ; The soul selects her own society ; I heard a fly buzz, when I died ; I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- God's grandeur ; Pied beauty ; The windhover ; Spring and fall ; Carrion comfort ; No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Neutral tones ; The darkling thrush ; In time of "The breaking nations" / Thomas Hardy -- Two songs from a play ; The magi ; The dolls ; The second coming ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Byzantium ; A dialogue of self and soul ; A prayer for my daughter ; Leda and the swan (four versions) ; Among school children ; Coole Park and Ballylee ; For Anne Gregory ; Crazy Jane and the bishop ; Crazy Jane talks with the bishop ; Meru ; Lapis lazuli ; An acre of grass ; Long-legged fly ; The circus animals' desertion / William Butler Yeats -- Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Reluctance ; After apple-picking ; Once by the Pacific ; Bereft ; Desert places ; Design ; Directive / Robert Frost -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men / Thomas Stearns Eliot -- Lay your sleeping head, my love ; From In time of war (I and XXVII) ; In memory of W.B. Yeats / Wystan Hugh Auden -- The emperor of ice-cream ; Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens -- The yachts / William Carlos Williams -- A virginal portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound -- What are years? ; Poetry / Marianne Moore -- Piazza piece ; The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- Moss-gathering ; I knew a woman ; In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas -- 2nd air force / Randall Jarrell -- After the surprising conversions / Robert Lowell -- Still, citizen sparrow ; Museum piece / Richard Wilbur -- Church going / Philip Larkin -- The unsettled motorcyclist's vision of his death ; Modes of pleasure / Thom Gunn -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Nabokov ZC6 S57 1968
- LCCN
- 68011432
- OCLC
- 436639
- Author
- Shrodes, Caroline.
- Title
- Reading for understanding : fiction, drama, poetry / [compiled by] Caroline Shrodes, Justine Van Gundy [and] Joel Dorius.
- Imprint
- New York : Macmillan, [1968]
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy formerly owned by Vladimir Nabokov and acquired with his archive in July 1991.Berg Collection copy with flag penned in Dmitri Nabokov's hand indicating shelf mark.
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- Added Author
- Van Gundy, Justine.Dorius, Joel.Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Former ownerNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Contributor
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Nabokov ZC6 S57 1968