Introduction I. What Is Literature? ��. What Is the Function of Literature? ��. How Do We Appreciate Literature? Chapter One Essay, I. What Is Essay?. ��. Selected Readings 1. Francis Bacon ��1561-1626�� Of Studies 2. Samuel Johnson ��1709-1784�� Conversation 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson ��1803-1882�� Nature ��Excerp0 Self-Reliance ��Excerpt�� 4. Henry David Thoreau ��1817-1862�� Walden ��Excerpts��Chapter Two Poetry I. What Is Poetry? ��. The Elements of Poetry �� Selected Readings 1. William Shakesw.are ��1564-1616�� Sonnet 18 2. William Blake ��1757-1827�� London The Tyger 3. William Wordsworth ��1770-1850�� I WanderedLonely as a Cloud. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 4. George Gordon Byron ��1788-1824�� She Walks In Beauty 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley ��1792-1822�� Song to the Men of England Ode to the West Wind 6. JohnKeats ��1795-1821�� Ode on a Grecian Um 7. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ��1807-1882�� A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls 8. Lord Alfred Tennyson ��1809-1892�� Break, Break, Break Ulysses 9. Robert Browning ��1812-1889�� My Last Duchess Meeting at Night Parting at Morning ~ 10. Walt Whitman ��1819-1892�� Song of Myself ��From Sections 1, 4, 6, 17, 42, 51, 52�� 11. Emily Dickinson ��1830-1886�� Because I Could Not Stop for Death My Life close Twice Before Its Close 12. W.B. Yeats ��1865-1939�� The Ballad of Father Gilligan 13. Robert Frost ��1874-1963�� Mending Wall The Road Not Taken 14. Ezra Pound ��1885-1972�� In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. 15. T.S. Eliot ��1888-1965�� The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 16. Wallace Stevens ��1879-1955�� The Load of Sugar Cane Anecdote of the Jar 17. William Carlos Williams ��1883-1963�� The Red Wheelbarrow The Artist 18. E.E. Cummings ��1894-1962�� r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r your little voice 19. Langston Hughes ��1902-1967�� The Negro speaks of Rivers Mother to Son 20. Gary Snyder ��1930-�� For the Children ���� Chapter Three FictionChapter Four DramGlossary of Literary and Critical TermsReferences