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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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TextPermit needed Berg Coll Nabokov ZC6 S57 1968Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Van Gundy, Justine.
  • Dorius, Joel.
Description
xix, 716 p.; 25 cm.
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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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Van Gundy, Justine.
Dorius, Joel.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Former owner
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Contributor
Research Call Number
Berg Coll Nabokov ZC6 S57 1968
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