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