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Emily Brontë
Also known as: Brontë, Emily, Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel [Wuthering Heights], a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. She published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell. :
Courage my soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal shield.
— from Selected poems, 1990
Most acclaimed
Selected poems
1990
Charles Olson, the poet who coined the word post-modern and helped shape the generation that would emerge under its mantle, is known for the immense range of his intellectual and poetic reach. Here, in this selection by Robert Creeley, Olson's personal friend and literary ally, is the more "intimate order" of the poet who sought to embrace all of history and human thought. Olson came from working-class immigrant roots in a Massachusetts mill town. A scholar of profound originality and vision, he worked for Roosevelt's administration during the war years, then at Black Mountain, the prototypical experimental college and enclave of avantgarde writers and artists. In 1957 he settled in Gloucester, a town on the shore north of Boston where he had spent summers as a child. It was Gloucester, with its richness of history and human use, that provided the ground of The Maximus Poems, begun as letters some years before and which over the next two decades grew into a masterwork of epic dimensions. From the more than three hundred poems making up The Maximus Poems and the comparable number in Olson's Collected Poems, Creeley's selection makes available for the first time an essential sampling of Olson's poetry. Included are paradigmatic early works like "The Kingfishers," which Guy Davenport called "the most modern of American poems, the most energetically influential text in the last thirty-five years," as well as familiar pieces from Maximus like "Maximus, to Gloucester" and "Celestial Evening." Also represented are less known poems, such as "The chain of memory is resurrection" and "The Lamp," works that reveal a more personal side of this major American poet. Together these poems demonstrate Olson's genius and grace, a poet as at home in Gloucester as in the cosmos, a reckoner with dreams and myths, and "Western man at the limit of himself."
Literature--second edition
1968
I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot Character Setting Point of view Theme Symbol and allegory Style and tone. -- Stories. My kinsman, Major Molineux [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( [Cask of Amontillado]( / Edgar Allan Poe The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev [Bartleby the scrivener]( / Herman Melville The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) The necklace / Guy de Maupassant The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy [The adventure of the speckled band]( / Athur Conan Doyle The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The blue hotel / Stephen Crane The darling / Anton Chekhov Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad The tree of knowledge / Henry james [Araby]( / James Joyce I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The fly / Katherine Mansfield Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway [A rose for Emily]( [Barn burning]( / William Faulkner Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty The grave / Katherine Anne Porter August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The guest / Albert Camus Wine / Doris Lessing The office / Alice Munro A & P / John Updike Patriotism / Yuko Mishima Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates Lost in the funhouse / John Barth A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez Nine lives / Ursuala Le Guin Yellow woman / Leslie Silko Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme Cathedral / Raymond Carver Watch time fly / Laura Furman II: Poetry. III: Drama. What is drama? Drama and poetry Drama and fiction The actors The audience The theater. -- The elements of drama. Dialogue Story Character Action. -- The classifications of drama. Tragedy Comedy. -- Analyzing and evaluating drama -- Plays. King Oedipus / Sophocles Lysistrata / Aristophanes Othello / William Shakespeare Tartuffe / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov Trifles / Susan Glaspell Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill The real inspector hound / Tom Stoppard Amadeus / Peter Shaffer