Includes fiction by Kate Chopin, Gail Godwin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Faulkner, Grace Paley, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Mark Twain, Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, John Cheever, Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Updike, Yukio Mishima, Louise Erdrich, Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. others. Includes poems by Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, John Donne, Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Jane Kenyon, William Carlos Williams, Adelaide Crapsey, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Arnold, H.D., William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Margaret Atwood, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Bradstreet, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Robert Frost, Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Eberhart, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bogan, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Jean Toomer, Pope, Yeats, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Tennyson, Richard Lovelace, Shakespeare, Basho, Seamus Heaney, Shelley, George Herbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Keats, W.H. Auden, Robert Bly, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Countee Cullen, Lucille Clifton, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, X.J. Kennedy, Audre Lord, Archibald MacLeish, Claude McKay, Christopher Marlowe, Milton, Ogden Nash, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Anne Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatove, Claribel Alegria, Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Sappho, Amy Clampitt, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, and others. Includes drama and writings on drama by Sophocles, Aristotle, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Sagoff, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Freud, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, James Gibb, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Owen Davis, Susan Glaspell, Eric Bentley, David Savran, Susan Sontag, Judith Fetterley, Annette Kolodny, and others.