An approach to literature / Cleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser [and] Robert Penn Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994, editor.

Contributor:

Purser, John Thibaut, editor.

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989, editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College readers.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 917 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1964]

Contents:

Fiction : episode and fictional point. The use of force / William Carlos Williams

An episode of war / Stephen Crane.

Fiction : the tale, feeling and idea. The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen

The three strangers / Thomas Hardy

Flight / John Steinbeck.

Fiction : personality, action and idea. Clay / James Joyce

I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson

Spotted horses / William Faulkner.

Fiction : the simple turn. Wet Saturday / John Collier

The lottery ticket / Anton Chekhov

Legal aid / Frank O'Conner.

Fiction : plot and compexity of movement. The jar / Luigi Pirandello

The valiant woman / J.F. Powers

Keela, the outhcast Indian maiden / Eudora Welty.

Fiction : theme and method. The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence

Araby / James Joyce

Le Mère sauvage / Guy de Maupassant

In another country ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway

The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin.

Fiction : scale, pace and time. Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter

The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Fiction : stories. Kronkin's prisoner / Isaac Babel

La Lupa / Giovanni Verga

Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth / John Updike

The apostate / George Milburn

Daddy wolf / James Purdy

The lagoon / Joseph Conrad

Jerico, Jerico, Jerico / Andrew Nelson Lytle

O youth and beauty! / John Cheever

In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz

Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann

A wife of Nashville / Peter Taylor.

Poetry. Sir Patrick Spens ; Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous

The star-splitter / Robert Frost

Edward ; Lord Randall ; The bonny Earl of Murray / Anonymous

Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling

My last duchess / Robert Browning

Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters

Bredon Hill ; The true lover / A.E. Housman

The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew

Love on the farm / D.H. Lawrence

The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Silver / Walter de la Mare

The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams

Inscription for a fountain / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A complaint / William Wordsworth

Monody / Herman Melville

Sonnet 18 ; Sonnet 73 ; Sonnet 97 / William Shakespeare

To Daffadills / Robert Herrick

Song / Edmund Waller

The bugle song ; The lotos eaters / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The tree of man / A.E. Housman

Nulla fides / Patrick Carey

A passer-by / Robert Bridges

The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats

Hymn to Diana / Ben Johnson

The night-piece to Julia / Robert Herrick

The mower to the glow-worms / Andrew Marvell

God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins

The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake

Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley

That the night come / William Butler Yeats.

Poetry : the mechanics of verse. Come down, O Maid / Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Poetry. Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy

The parting / Michael Drayton

Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor

A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth

On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton

The day of judgment / Jonathan Swift

To Ianthe ; Hymn of Apollo / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sonnet 87 / William Shakespeare

Come up from the fields, Father / Walt Whitman

On an invitation to the United States / Thomas Hardy

His books / Robert Southey

On a young heir's coming of age / Samuel Johnson

Philomela / John Crowe Ransom

The grasshopper / Richard Lovelace

Fidele's dirge / William Shakespeare

Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom

At her window / Frederick Locker-Lampson

Commemorative of a naval victory ; The college colonel / Herman Melville

The need of being versed in country things / Robert Frost

Sonnet 104 / William Shakespeare

In memory of Major Robert Gregory / William Butler Yeats

Lay your sleeping head / W.H. Auden

They flee from me / Sir Thomas Wyatt

Ode on melancholy / John Keats

To Marguerite / Matthew Arnold

Very like a whale / Ogden Nash

You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish

Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Song / Thomas Carew

Death the leveler / James Shirley

Experience of the west / John Peale Bishop

For Rhoda / Delmore Schwartz

Burning the letters / Randall Jarrell

A prayer for my daughter / William Butler Yeats

Hamlet soliloquizes ; Macbeth thinks of murdering the king / William Shakespeare

The leg in the subway / Oscar Williams

The good-morrow / Walter Savage Landor

A serenade at the villa / Robert Browning

Kubla Khan, or, a vision in a dream / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A valediction : forbidding mourning / John Donne

The Abyss / Theodore Roethke

The force that through the green fuse / Dylan Thomas.

Poetry. The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy

Sonnet 55 / William Shakespeare

Elegy / Thomas Gray

I walked out to the graveyard / Richard Eberhart

Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold

The secular masque / John Dryden

London / William Blake

London, 1802 ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth

West London / Matthew Arnold

An elementary school classroom in a slum / Stephen Spender

A refusal to mourn / Dylan Thomas

The lie / Sir Walter Raleigh

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

Sonnet 129 ; Sonnet 146 / William Shakespeare

Sonnets at Christmas / Allen Tate

Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue / Robert Lowell

A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The funeral / John Donne

Eighth Air Force / Randall Jarrell

Hollywood / Karl Shapiro

Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts' 54th / Robert Lowell

The little black boy / William Blake

From Song of myself / Walt Whitman

The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens

Lines / William Wordsworth

Ode to a nightingale ; What the thrush said ; Why did I laugh tonight? ; Ode on a grecian urn ; To autumn / John Keats

The wood-pile ; A leaf treader ; To earthward ; Come in ; The oven bird / Robert Frost

These are the days when birds come back ; The sky is low, the clouds are mean ; The mountains stood in haze ; I could not prove the years had feet ; Hope is the thing with feathers ; Success is counted sweetest ; Our journey had advanced ; I years had been from home ; Her final summer was it ; Because I could not stop for death ; I heard a fly buzz when I died / Emily Dickinson.

Discursive prose : the personal essay. Dream children / Charles Lamb

Farewell, my lovely / Lee Strout White

Wild Bird Hickok and his friends / James Thurber

Let's see who salutes / Art Buchwald

En route to Chicago / Jim Brosnan

The stars / George Santayana.

Discursive prose : the essay of idea and opinion. Pulvis et Umbra / Robert Louis Stevenson

Freedom and the control of men / B.F. Skinner

On Walden two / Joseph Wood Krutch

Culture and anarchy / Matthew Arnold

Literature and the modern world / T.S. Eliot

From hero to celebrity / Daniel Boorstin

The meaning of treason / Rebecca West

The death-in-life of Benjamin Reid / William Styron

In favor of capital punishment / Jacques Barzun

Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy

The deliverance of Dunkirk / Winston Churchill.

Discursive prose : the critical essay. Homage to Hemingway / John Peale Bishop

Ernest Hemingway / Dwight Macdonald

Some lines from Whitman / Randall Jarrell

Robert Frost / W.H. Auden

Why do we read fiction? / Robert Penn Warren.

Discursive prose : biography. Lady Olga / Joseph Mitchell

The young man Washington / Samuel Eliot Morison

The life of Samuel Johnson / James Boswell

The life of Marcus Antonius / Plutarch.

Drama. Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen

Oedipus Rex / Sophocles

Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare

Saint Joan / George Bernard Shaw

Murder in the cathedral / Thomas Stearns Eliot

The circle / W. Somerset Maugham

The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder.

OCLC:

350017