| BRIEF ENCOUNTERS |
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| The Parable of the Good Samaritan - St. Luke 10:30-37 |
1 |
| Stopover in Querétaro - Jerrold Beim |
4 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
10 |
| The Grains of Paradise - James Street |
16 |
| Techniques: Exposition, Conflict, Climax |
27 |
| Mateo Falcone - Prosper Mérimée |
29 |
| The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy |
37 |
| Channing Way I - Rod McKuen |
38 |
| The Alarm Clock - Mari Evans |
39 |
| Corner - Ralph Pomeroy |
40 |
| Faces - Sara Teasdale |
43 |
| One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts - Shirley Jackson |
44 |
| The Enemy - Pearl Buck |
52 |
| Summing Up |
65 |
| His enemy, his friend - John Tunis |
66 |
| Biographical Notes |
128 |
| CROSSCURRENTS |
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| The Parable of the Prodigal Son - St. Luke 15:11-24 |
130 |
| The Stone Boy - Gina Berriault |
133 |
| Techniques: Characterization, Plot |
140 |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence |
141 |
| Mammon and the Archer - O. Henry |
152 |
| The Ambassador - Edward Newhouse |
157 |
| Souvenir de Londres - Stephen Spender |
170 |
| The Whipping - Robert Hayden |
171 |
| The Veldt - Ray Bradbury |
172 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
182 |
| Summing Up |
188 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank - Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
189 |
| Biographical Notes |
245 |
| PRIVATE MOODS |
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| For Everything There is a Season - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 |
247 |
| RESTLESSNESS |
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| Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar |
250 |
| Spring - Richard Hovey |
251 |
| Travel - Edna St. Vencent Millay |
251 |
| Sea Fever - John Masefield |
252 |
| Ride a Wild Horse - Hannah Kahn |
252 |
| Highway: Michigan - Theodore Roethke |
253 |
| Death is a beautiful car parked only - Richard Brautigan |
254 |
| Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe |
255 |
| Techniques - Rhythm, Rhyme |
255 |
| FEAR |
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| Country night - Selma Robinson |
258 |
| House Fear - Robert Frost |
259 |
| The oft-repeated dream - Robert Frost |
259 |
| The lady - Elizabeth Coatsworth |
259 |
| The warning - Adelaide Crapsey |
260 |
| When I have fears that I may cease to be - John Keats |
260 |
| The panther possible - William D. Barney |
261 |
| Suicide Pond - Kathy McLaughlin |
262 |
| Techniques - Smile |
263 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
264 |
| ANGER AND HATRED |
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| The blach panther - John Hall Wheelock |
270 |
| The Traveler's curse after misderection - Robert Graves |
271 |
| Mood - Countée Cullen |
271 |
| Does it matter - Siegfried Sassoon |
272 |
| Hate - James Stephens |
272 |
| The white house - Claude McKay |
273 |
| Waves against a dog - Taner Baybars |
274 |
| A poison tree - William Blake |
275 |
| Without a cloak - Phyllis McGinley |
275 |
| The heart - Stephen Crane |
276 |
| Techniques: Metaphor |
276 |
| SORROW |
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| My November guest - Robert Frost |
278 |
| The Noise of Waters - James Joyce |
279 |
| Music I heard - Conrad Aiken |
279 |
| The widow - Miller Williams |
280 |
| After great pain a formal feeling comes - Emily Dickinson |
281 |
| The woodspurge - Dante Rossetti |
281 |
| A dirge - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
282 |
| Techniques: Rhythm and sound Effects |
282 |
| NOSTALGIA |
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| The House on the Hill - E. A. Robinson |
284 |
| The west wind - John Masefield |
285 |
| Home thoughts from abroad - Robert Browning |
286 |
| Inland - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
286 |
| My lost youth - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
287 |
| Break, break, break - Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
289 |
| Those winter Sundays - Robert Hayden |
290 |
| Techniques: Diction and imagery |
291 |
| DELIGHT |
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| Reveille - A.E. Housman |
292 |
| Afternoon on a hill - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
293 |
| Silver - Walter de la Mare |
293 |
| Velvet shoes - Elinor Wylie |
294 |
| in Just-spring - E. E. Cummings |
294 |
| Wild blackberries - Frances McConnel |
295 |
| Good Humor Man - Phyllis McGinley |
296 |
| A vagabond song - Bliss Carman |
296 |
| Miracles - Walt Whitman |
297 |
| Pied beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins |
298 |
| Smells - Christopher Morley |
298 |
| Precious words - Emily Dickinson |
299 |
| Sonnet CVI - William Shakespeare |
299 |
| Fast run in the junkyard - Jeannette Nichols |
300 |
| Summing Up |
302 |
| Biographical Notes |
304 |
| THE DREAMS OF MEN |
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| In a glass of cider - Robert Frost |
313 |
| The wooing of ariadne - Harry Mark Petrakis |
316 |
| Techniques: Irony, organization |
324 |
| Dream variation - Langston Hughes |
327 |
| Daybreak in Alabama - Langston Hughes |
328 |
| Youth - Langston Hughes |
329 |
| The dream keeper - Langston Hughes |
329 |
| Dreams - Langston Hughes |
329 |
| I, too - Langston Hughes |
330 |
| As I grew older - Langston Hughes |
331 |
| Let America be America again - Langston Hughes |
332 |
| Dream deferred - Langston Hughes |
333 |
| Scars of honor - Dorothy Johnson |
335 |
| Feels like spring - Milton Kaplan |
345 |
| Project of arriving at moral perfection - Benjamin Franklin |
348 |
| The story of the good little boy - Mark Twain |
355 |
| Silent snow, secret snow - Conrad Aiken |
359 |
| Summing Up |
371 |
| Biographical Notes |
371 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
374 |
| Julius Ceasar - William Shakespeare |
382 |
| PEOPLE UNDER PRESSURE |
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| Boots - Rudyard Kipling |
469 |
| The open window - Saki |
472 |
| Techniques: Theme, style, identification |
474 |
| Going to run all night - Harry Sylvester |
476 |
| Shooting an elepahnt - George Orwell |
484 |
| The vertical ladder - William Sansom |
490 |
| The catbird seat - James Thurber |
498 |
| To build a fire - Jack London |
505 |
| The prisoner of Chillon - George Gordon, Lord Byron |
516 |
| Paul's case - Willa Cather |
523 |
| An occurrence at owl creek bridge - Ambrose Bierce |
539 |
| Miriam - Truman Capote |
547 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
556 |
| A summer tragedy - Arna Bontemps |
562 |
| Summing Up |
569 |
| The pearl - John Steinbeck |
570 |
| Biographical Notes |
610 |
| LIFE'S IRONIES |
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| We real cool - Gwendolyn Brooks |
613 |
| The wrath of the Raped - Mackinlay Kantor |
616 |
| Techniques: Atmosphere, Suspense |
619 |
| The ambitious guest - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
621 |
| The German refugee - Bernard Malamud |
627 |
| Suppressed desires - Susan Glaspell |
636 |
| The cold, cold box - Howard fast |
647 |
| Gallery of Fine Art |
656 |
| Prelude - Albert Halper |
662 |
| The sniper - Liam O'Flaherty |
669 |
| The Pistol shot - Alexander Pushkin |
673 |
| The blue hotel - Stephen Crante |
682 |
| Summing Up |
698 |
| The man that corrupted hadleyurg - Mark Twain |
700 |
| Biographical Notes |
728 |
| Glossary |
732 |
| Literary Terms Index |
752 |
| Literary Types Index |
752 |
| Fine Art Index |
753 |
| General Index |
754 |
| Illustration Sources |
755 |
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