Octagon Books,
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Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (1835-1902); a memoir.
Jones, Henry Festing, 1851-1928.
1968
1919
Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (1835-1902); a memoir.
Folcroft Library Editions,
9780841436190
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Samuel Butler and The way of all flesh
Way of all flesh.
English novelists (Denver, Colo.)
Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard), 1889-1959.
by G. D. H. Cole.
1975
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Samuel Butler and The way of all flesh
[1958]
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University of Minnesota Press
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad; essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse.
James Theodore Hillhouse / The makers of the British novel / The background of Mansfield Park / Critical realism in Northanger Abbey / Scott's Redgauntlet / History on the Hustings : Bulwer-Lytton's historical novels of politics / Thackeray, a novelist by accident A note on Dickens' humor / Self-help and the helpless in Bleak House / Form and substance in the Brontë novels / Charlotte Brontës "New" Gothic / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell / Trollope's Orley Farm : artistry Mangué / Anthony Trollope : the Palliser novels / George Eliot's originals / Middlemarch, George Eliot's masterpiece / Charles Reade's Christie Johnstone : a portrait of the artist as a young pre-Raphaelite / George Meredith's One of our conquerors / Hardy's major fiction / The spiritual theme of George Gissing's Born in exile / Samuel Butler and Bloomsbury / Apology for Marlow / The old novel and the new
Rathburn, Robert Charles, ed.
Steinmann, Martin, 1915-1998 joint ed.
by T. Hornberger -- by R. C. Rathburn -- by C. Murrah -- by A. D. McKillop -- by D. Daiches -- by C. Dahl -- by J. Y. T. Greig -- by D. Bush -- by G. H. Ford -- by M. R. Watson -- by R. B. Heilman -- by Y. Ffrench -- by B. A. Booth -- by A. Mizener -- by G. S. Haight -- by S. J. Ferris -- by W. Burns -- by F. Gudas -- by J. Holloway -- by Korg -- by W. V. O'Connor -- by W. Y. Tindall -- by M. Steinmann, Jr.
Edited by Robert C. Rathburn and Martin Steinmann, Jr.
1958
From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad; essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse.
[1963]
Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works.
Book
Book
Gateway to the great books
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Great books of the Western world.
Introduction & syntopical guide. A Letter To The Reader -- Introduction: The Ways, and Whys, of Reading ; The Imagination of Man ; Man and Society ; Science and Mathematics ; Philosophy ; The Endless Journey -- Syntopical Guide -- Appendices: A plan of graded reading ; Recommended novels ; Recommended anthologies of poetry.
Imaginative Literature -- Robinson Crusoe / Mowgli's Brothers / The Battle with the Cannon (from Ninety-three) / Two Friends / The Killers / The Two Drovers / Youth / Micromegas / The Happy Prince / The Tell-Tale Heart / The Masque of the Red Death / The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg / A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick (from The Pickwick Papers) / The Overcoat / Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians (from Erewhon) / I'm a Fool / Aucassin and Nicolette
Imaginative Literature -- The Open Boat / Billy Budd / The Gentleman from San Francisco / Rappaccini's Daughter / The Lifted Veil / Cupid and Psyche (from The Golden Ass) / First Love / White Nights / The Apple-Tree / The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller / The Diamond as Big as the Ritz / A Passion in the Desert / The Darling / The Spinoza of Market Street / The Queen of Spades / The Rocking-Horse Winner / The Pupil / Mario and the Magician / Sorrow-Acre / The Death of Ivan Ilyitch / The Three Hermits / What Men Live By
Imaginative Literature -- The Misanthrope / The Doctor in Spite of Himself / The School for Scandal / An Ememy of the People / The Cherry Orchard / The Man of Destiny / Riders to the Sea / The Emperor Jones
Critical Essays -- How Should One Read a Book? / The Study of Poetry / Sweetness and Light / What Is a Classic? / Montaigne / Of Beauty / Of Discourse / Of Studies / Of the Standard of Taste / On Style / On Some Forms of Literature / On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art / On Simple and Sentimental Poetry / A Defence of Poetry / Preface to Leaves of Grass / My First Acquaintance with Poets / On Swift / Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen / My First Play / Dream Children, a Reverie / Sanity of True Genius / Preface to Shakespeare / Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power / On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth / Dante / Tradition and the Individual Talent
Man and Society -- Childhood and Youth (from Autobiography) / Learning the River (from Life on the Mississippi) / Characters / The Hero as King / Thoreau / Sketch of Abraham Lincoln / Death of Abraham Lincoln / The Art of Biography / The March to the Sea (from The Persian Expedition) / The Character of Socrates (from Memorabilia) / The Land of Montezuma (from The Conquest of Mexico) / The Power within Us / The Eruption of Vesuvius (from Letters) / The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola / Civilization (from History of Civilization in Europe) / The United States in 1800 (from History of the United States of America) / Herodotus / The Way to Write History / Great Documents : The English Bill of Rights ; Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ; The Virginia Declaration of Rights ; The Declaration of Independence ; Charter of the United Nations ; Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- A Call to Patriots: December 23, 1776 (from The Crisis) / Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army / The Farewell Address / The Virginia Constitution (from Notes on Virginia) / First Inaugural Address / Biographical Sketches / A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America / Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania / The Making of Americans (from Letters from an American Farmer) / Observations on American Life and Government (from Democracy in America) / Civil Disobedience / A Plea for Captain John Brown / Address at Cooper Institute / First Inaugural Address / Letter to Horace Greeley / Meditation on the Divine Will / The Gettysburg Address / Second Inaugural Address / Last Public Address
Man and Society -- Of Youth and Age / Of Parents and Children / Of Marriage and Single Life / Of Great Place / Of Seditions and Troubles / Of Custom and Education / Of Followers and Friends / Of Usury / Of Riches / Resolutions when I Come to Be Old / An Essay on Modern Education / A Meditation upon a Broomstick / A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country / Of Refinement in the Arts / Of Money / Of the Balance of Trade / Of Taxes / Of the Study of History / Of Bashfulness / The Lantern-Bearers / An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age / On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings / The Energies of Men / Great Men and Their Environment / On Education / Observations on Mental Education / Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol / The Concurrent Majority (from A Disquisition on Government) / Machiavelli / English Men and Ideas (from Letters on the English) / On World Government (from De Monarchia) / A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe / Perpetual Peace / What Is War? / The Principle of Population (from Population: The First Essay)
Natural Science -- The Sphinx / Michael Faraday (from Faraday as a Discoverer) / The Discovery of Radium / Autobiography / A Laboratory of the Open Fields / The Sacred Beetle / On Time (from The Immense Journey) / The Sunless Sea / On Being the Right Size / On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals / On a Piece of Chalk / The Classification of Human Ability (from Hereditary Genius) / Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies / Scientific Study of the So-called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals / On the Artificial Production of Urea / Geological Evolution (from The Principles of Geology) / The Starry Messenger / Arguments for and against Galileo (from The Defense of Galileo) / The Chemical History of a Candle / The Genesis of a Law of Nature (from The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements) / On the Conservation of Force / The Rise and Decline of Classical Physics (from The Evolution of Physics) / The Running-Down of the Universe / Beginnings and Endings / Cosmic View
Mathematics -- Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization / Mathematics, in Life and Thought / On Mathematical Method (from An Introduction to Mathematics) / On the Nature of a Calculus / The Study of Mathematics / Mathematics and the Metaphysicians / Definition of Number / New Names for Old / Beyond the Googol / Fingerprints / The Empty Column / The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg / Measurement / Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science / The Postulates of the Science of Space / Space / Mathematical Creation / Chance / Probability (from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities) / The Red and the Black
Philosophical Essays -- The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent / The Ethics of Belief / The Will to Believe / The Sentiment of Rationality / The Process of Thought (from How We Think) / Letter to Herodotus / Letter to Menoeceus / The Enchiridion / The Art of Life (from The Renaissance) / Contentment / On Friendship / On Old Age / Of Truth / Of Death / Of Adversity / Of Love / Of Friendship / Of Anger / Lucretius / Goethe's Faust / St. Thomas Aquinas / The Philosophy of Common Sense (from Philosophical Dictionary) / Nature / Nature / Self-Reliance / Montaigne; or, the Skeptic / On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth / Immortality (from Urn-Burial)
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977, editor.
Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001, editor.
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Daniel Defoe -- Rudyard Kipling -- Victor Hugo -- Guy De Maupassant -- Ernest Hemingway -- Walter Scott -- Joseph Conrad -- Voltaire -- Oscar Wilde -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Mark Twain -- Charles Dickens -- Nikolai Gogol -- Samuel Butler -- Sherwood Anderson -- Anonymous.
Stephen Crane -- Herman Melville -- Ivan Bunin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- George Eliot -- Lucius Apuleius -- Ivan Turgenev -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- John Galsworthy -- Gustave Flaubert -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Honore De Balzac -- Anton Chekhov -- Isaac Singer -- Alexander Pushkin -- D.H. Lawrence -- Henry James -- Thomas Mann -- Isak Dinesen -- Leo Tolstoy -- Leo Tolstoy -- Leo Tolstoy.
Moliere -- Moliere -- Richard Sheridan -- Henrik Ibsen -- Anton Chekhov -- George Bernard Shaw -- John M. Synge -- Eugene O'Neill.
Virginia Woolf -- Matthew Arnold -- Matthew Arnold -- Sainte-Beuve -- Sainte-Beuve -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- David Hume -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Friedrich Schiller -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Walt Whitman -- William Hazlitt -- William Hazlitt -- William Hazlitt -- Charles Lamb -- Charles Lamb -- Charles Lamb -- Samuel Johnson -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas Stearns Eliot -- Thomas Stearns Eliot.
John Stuart Mill -- Mark Twain -- La Bruyere -- Thomas Carlyle -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Walt Whitman -- Virginia Woolf -- Xenophon -- Xenophon -- William H. Prescott -- Haniel Long -- Pliny The Younger -- Cornelius Tacitus -- Francois Guizot -- Henry Adams -- John Bagnell Bury -- Lucian -- Thomas Paine -- George Washington -- George Washington -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin -- Jean De Crevecoeur -- Alexis De Tocqueville -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry David Thoreau -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln.
Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Jonathan Swift -- Jonathan Swift -- Jonathan Swift -- Jonathan Swift -- David Hume -- David Hume -- David Hume -- David Hume -- David Hume -- Plutarch -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- John Ruskin -- William James -- William James -- William James -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Michael Faraday -- Edmund Burke -- John C. Calhoun -- Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Voltaire -- Dante Alighieri -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Immanuel Kant -- Karl Von Clausewitz -- Thomas Robert Malthus.
Francis Bacon -- John Tyndall -- Eve Curie -- Charles Robert Darwin -- Jean Henri Fabre -- Jean Henri Fabre -- Loren Eiseley -- Rachel L. Carson -- J.B.S. Haldane -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Francis Galton -- Claude Bernard -- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov -- Friedrich Wohler -- Charles Lyell -- Galileo Galilei -- Tommaso Campanella -- Michael Faraday -- Dmitri Mendeleev -- H.L.F. Von Helmholtz -- Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld -- Arthur Eddington -- James Jeans -- Kees Boeke.
Lancelot Hogben -- Andrew Russell Forsyth -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Bertrand Russell -- Bertrand Russell -- Bertrand Russell -- Edward Kasner, James R. Newman -- Edward Kasner, James R. Newman -- Tobias Dantzig -- Tobias Dantzig -- Leonhard Euler -- Norman Robert Campbell -- Norman Robert Campbell -- William Kingdon Clifford -- Henri Poincare -- Henri Poincare -- Henri Poincare -- Pierre Simon De Laplace -- Charles Sanders Peirce.
John Erskine -- William Kingdon Clifford -- William James -- William James -- John Dewey -- Epicurus -- Epicurus -- Epictetus -- Walter Horatio Pater -- Plutarch -- Cicero -- Cicero -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon -- George Santayana -- George Santayana -- Henry Adams -- Voltaire -- John Stuart Mill -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- William Hazlitt -- Thomas Browne.
Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
1963
Gateway to the great books
1996.
An anthology of the works of 120 black writers, spanning two centuries, beginning with Lucy Terry's poem, Bars Fight. The anthology features poem
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W.W. Norton & Co.,
9780393040012
9780393959086
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The Norton anthology of African American literature
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; City called heaven ; God's a-gonna trouble the water ; Walk together children ; I know moon-rise ; I'm a-rollin' ; I been rebuked and I been scorned ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Soon I will be done ; No more auction block ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Been in the storm so long ; Oh, freedom! -- This little light of mine ; Down by the riverside ; Freedom in the air ; Take my hand, precious Lord ; Peace be still ; Stand by me -- Yellow dog blues ; St. Louis blues ; Beale Street blues ; Down-hearted blues ; See, see rider ; Prove it on me blues ; Gulf Coast blues ; Trouble in mind ; Backwater blues ; In the house blues ; How long blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; It's a low down dirty shame ; Good morning, blues ; Sent for you yesterday ; Going to Chicago blues ; Fine and mellow ; Hoochie coochie ; Sunnyland.
We raise de wheat ; Me and my captain ; Promises of freedom ; Jack and Dinah want freedom ; Run, nigger, run ; Learn to count ; Another man done gone ; You may go but this will bring you back -- Poor Lazarus ; The signifying monkey ; Wild Negro Bill ; John Henry ; Frankie and Johnny ; Railroad Bill ; Stackolee ; Sinking of the Titanic ; Shine and the Titanic -- Pick a bale of cotton ; Go down, old Hannah ; Can't you line it?
(What did I do to be so) black and blue / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Parker's mood
The revolution will not be televised / The message / Don't believe the hype / The evil that men do
God -- The Eagle stirreth her nest / Faith hasn't got no eyes / I have a dream ; I've been to the mountaintop / The ballot or the bullet
All God's chillen had wings ; Big talk ; Deer hunting story ; How to write a letter ; "'Member youse a nigger" ; "Ah'll beatcher makin' money" ; Why the sister in black works hardest ; Why women always take advantage of men ; "De reason niggers is working so hard" ; The ventriloquist ; You talk too much, anyhow ; The king buzzard ; A flying fool ; Bur Rabbit in Red Hill churchyard ; Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox again ; The wonderful tar-baby story ; How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox ; The awful fate of Mr. Wolf ; What the rabbit learned.
Bars fight / The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself. Volume 1. Chapter I ; Chapter II ; from Chapter III ; from Chapter IV / Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. Preface ; Letter sent by the author's master to the publisher ; To the publick / To Mæcenas ; To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 ; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth ; On imagination ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; To Samson Occom ; To his excellency General Washington / David Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world. Preamble ; Article I : our wretchedness in consequence of slavery / The lover's farewell ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The creditor to his proud debtor ; George Moses Horton, myself
Ar'n't I a woman? speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 ; from The Anti-slavery bugle, June 21, 1851 ; from The narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878 / Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build. Introduction / Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall / Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Preface ; Childhood ; The new master and mistress ; The trials of girlhood ; A perilous passage in the slave girl's life ; Another link to life ; The flight ; The loophole of retreat ; Preparations for escape ; The confession ; The Fugitive Slave Law ; Free at last / Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Chapter V ; from Chapter VI / Clotel, or, The president's daughter. The Negro sale ; Going to the South ; The quadroon's home ; To-day a mistress, tomorrow a slave ; Escape of Clotel / Lines suggested on reading "An appeal to Christian women of the South, " by A.E. Grimke / An address to the slaves of the United States of America / The mulatto / Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / My bondage and my freedom. Introduced to the abolitionists ; Twenty-one months in Great Brittain
from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? : an address delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Second part. Weighed in the balance / Life and times of Frederick Douglass. Third part. Later life / America ; Yes! strike again that sounding string ; Self-reliance / Ethiopia ; Eliza Harris ; The slave mother ; Vashti ; Bury me in a free land ; Aunt Chloe's politics ; Learning to read ; A double standard ; Songs for the people ; An appeal to my country women ; The two offers ; Our greatest want / Fancy etchings. Enthusiasm and lofty aspirations ; Dangerous economies / Woman's political future / Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, north. Preface ; Mag Smith, my mother ; My father's death ; A new home for me ; Visitor and departure ; Perplexities, another death ; The winding up of the matter
A parting hymn / Journals. from Journal one ; from Journal three / Up from slavery. A slave among slaves ; Boyhood days ; The struggle for an education ; The Atlanta Exposition address / The goopherd grapevine ; The passing of Grandison ; The wife of his youth / Womanhood a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Contending forces. The sewing-circle ; Will Smith's defense of his race / Famous men of the Negro race. Booker T. Washington / Famous women of the Negro race. Literary workers : Frances E.W. Harper / Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's reply : March 1903 / A red record. The case stated ; The remedy / A litany of Atlanta ; The song of the smoke ; The souls of black folk ; The damnation of women ; Criteria of Negro art ; Two novels
The snapping of the bow ; Me 'n' Dunbar ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; At the closed gate of justice ; An indignation dinner / Sence you went away ; Lift ev'ry voice and sing ; O black and unknown bards ; Fifty years ; Brothers ; The creation ; My city ; The autobiography of an ex-colored man / The book of American Negro poetry. Preface / Ode to Ethiopia ; Worn out ; A Negro love song ; The colored soldiers ; An ante-bellum sermon ; Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes ; Not they who soar ; When Malindy sings ; We wear the mask ; Little brown baby ; Her thought and his ; A cabin tale ; Sympathy ; Dinah kneading dough ; The haunted oak ; Douglass ; Philosophy ; Black Samson of Brandywine ; The poet ; The Fourth of July and race outrages / The hindered hand, or, The reign of the repressionist. The fugitives flee again ; The blaze / Violets ; I sit and sew ; April is on the way ; Violets / The watchers ; The house of falling leaves ; Sic vita ; Turn me to my yellow leaves ; Quiet has a hidden sound / Singing hallelujia ; Song of the whirlwind ; My God in heaven said to me ; The lonely mother ; Tired ; The scarlet woman
The Negro digs up his past / A winter twilight ; The black finger ; For the candle light ; When the green lies over the earth ; Tenebris / Before the feast of Shushan ; Dunbar ; At the carnival ; Lady, lady ; Letter to my sister ; The wife-woman / Plum bun : a novel without a moral. from Home. Black Philadelphia ; Sundays / The new Negro / The heart of a woman ; Youth ; My little dreams ; Lost illusions ; I want to die while you love me / Africa for the Africans ; The future as I see it / Harlem shadows ; If we must die ; To the white fiends ; Africa ; America ; My mother ; Enslaved ; The White House ; Outcast ; St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd / Home to Harlem. He also loved / Harlem runs wild / Sweat ; How it feels to be colored me ; The gilded six-bits ; Characteristics of Negro expression / Mules and men. Negro folklore / Their eyes were watching God. The return ; Pear tree / Dust tracks on a road. Research / Quicksand. To Denmark ; New life ; Talk of marriage ; Proposal ; Good-bye / Cane / The Negro-art hokum / The city of refuge ; The Caucasian storms Harlem
The wharf rats / On being young, a woman, and colored / Odyssey of Big Boy ; Long gone ; Southern road ; Strong men ; Memphis blues ; Slim Greer ; Tin roof blues ; Ma Rainey ; Cabaret ; Sporting Beasley ; Sam Smiley / Heritage ; To a dark girl ; Sonnet, 2 ; Hatred / Infants of the spring. Harlem salon / Golgotha is a mountain ; A black man talks of reaping ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern mansion ; Miracles ; A summer tragedy / The Negro speaks of rivers ; Mother to son ; Danse africaine ; Jazzonia ; When Sue wears red ; Dream variations ; The weary blues ; I too ; A house in Taos ; Homesick blues ; Po' boy blues ; Gypsy man ; Lament over love ; Red silk stockings ; Bad man ; Song for a dark girl ; Gal's cry for a dying lover ; Hard daddy ; Sylvester's dying bed ; Ballad of the landlord ; Juke box love song ; Dream boogie ; Harlem ; Motto ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain ; The blues I'm playing / The big sea. When the Negro was in vogue ; Harlem literati ; Downtown / The best of Simple. Feet live their own life ; A toast to Harlem ; Jealousy / Yet do I marvel ; Tableau ; Incident ; Saturday's child ; The shroud of color ; Heritage ; To John Keats, poet at spring time ; From the dark tower / Poem ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Remember not ; Invocation
An ex-judge at the bar ; Dark symphony ; A legend of Versailles ; Libretto for the Republic of Liberia ; The birth of John Henry ; Satchmo / The living is easy. Cleo ; Cleo's high jinks ; Cleo goes north / Blueprint for Negro writing ; The ethics of living Jim Crow, an autobiographical sketch ; Long black song ; The man who lived underground / Black boy. Booklist ; Chicago / Salute to the passing / Like a winding sheet / The street. The apartment / The diver ; Homage to the empress of the blues ; Middle passage ; O Daedalus, fly away home ; Runagate runagate ; Frederick Douglass ; A ballad of remembrance ; Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Soledad ; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ; A letter from Phillis Wheatley / Invisible man. Battle royal ; Epilogue / Change the joke and slip the yoke ; The world and the jug
For my people ; Poppa chicken ; For Malcolm X ; Prophets for a new day / Kitchenette building ; The mother ; A song in the front yard ; Sadie and Maud ; The vacant lot ; The preacher : ruminates behind the sermon ; The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith ; Maxie Allen ; The rites for Cousin Vit ; The children of the poor ; The lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock ; A lovely love ; Malcolm X ; Two dedications ; Riot ; The third sermon on the Warpland ; Young heroes ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story ; Maud Martha / Everybody's protest novel ; Many thousands gone ; Stranger in the village ; Notes of a native son ; Sonny's blues / Walking Parker home ; Grandfather was queer, too ; Jail poems ; Unanimity has been achieved, not a dot less for its accidentalness ; War memoir : jazz, don't listen to it at your own risk / A raisin in the sun
Status symbol ; I am a black woman / Towards a black aesthetic / The autobiography of Malcolm X. Saved / The man who cried I am. In an outdoor cafe ; Memories, Margrit, and morphine ; Picture of the writer / Letter from Birmingham jail / The idea of ancestry ; Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; For black poets who think of suicide / The black aesthetic. Introduction / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; In memory of radio ; A poem for black hearts ; I don't love you ; Three movements and a coda ; SOS ; Black art ; The invention of comics ; Dutchman ; The revolutionary theatre
Homecoming ; Poem at thirty ; For our lady ; Summer words of a sistuh addict / A blues book for blue black magical women. Part three. Present / Goin' a buffalo : a tragifantasy / Soul on ice. The primeval mitosis / Did John's music kill him? / How long has Trane been gone / The black arts movement / Black art : mute matter given force and function / Back again, home ; Introduction : to Think black ; The long reality ; Malcolm spoke/who listened? ; A poem to complement other poems / For Saundra ; Beautiful black men ; Nikki-Rosa / A solo song : for Doc / In Texas grass ; Conversation overheard ; Impressions/of Chicago, for Howlin' Wolf / Jesus was crucified ; It is deep ; For sistuhs wearin' straight hair
Train whistle guitar. History lessons / Still I rise ; My Arkansas / I know why the caged bird sings. Mrs. Flowers ; "Mam" / Reena ; To Da-duh, in memoriam ; The making of a writier : from the poets in the kitchen / A movie star has to star in black and white / Sula / The sky is gray / Father Son and Holy Ghost ; The winds of Orisha ; Coal ; Now that I am forever with child ; A litany for survival ; The evening news ; Poetry is not a luxury / Pike Street bus ; The Griots who know Brer Fox ; Tapestries ; Caledonia / The bodies broken on ; The lost baby poem ; Prayer ; Malcolm ; Kali ; If mama/could see ; Homage to my hips ; What spells raccoon to me ; 1. At Jonestown ; A woman who loves ; Wishes for sons ; Move / In memoriam : Martin Luther King Jr. ; I must become a menace to my enemies ; Poem about my rights ; Poem for Guatemala ; The female and the silence of a man ; Intifada ; A new politics of sexuality / Swallow the lake ; Round midnight ; On watching a caterpillar become a butterfly ; Chicago heat
There is a tree more ancient than Eden. The epistle of Sweetie Reed / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Deathwatch ; Here where Coltrane is ; Br'er Sterling and the rocker ; Grandfather ; "Goin' to the territory" ; In Hayden's collage ; The ghost of soul-making / I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra ; Railroad Bill, a conjure man ; Dualism : in Ralph Elliison's Invisible man ; Chattanooga ; Oakland blues ; Neo-HooDoo manifesto / Mumbo jumbo. Chapters 1-2 / Raymond's run / A dance for Ma Rainey ; Conjugal visits / The seduction of light. Ben Franklin ; Secondhand business / Brothers and keepers. Robby's version / Damballah / Atlantis : model 1924 (d) / The peacock poems : 1 ; I want Aretha to set this to music ; Tell Martha not to moan / Women ; Outcast ; On stripping bark from myself ; "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" ; In search of our mothers' gardens ; Everyday use ; Advancing Luna, and Ida B. Wells / The color purple. God love all them feelings / Fences / Within the veil ; Columba
Emmett Till ; Today I am a homicide in the north of the city ; Be quiet, go away ; At the record hop ; American sonnet (10) ; Bedtime story ; Mastectomy / Bloodchild / February in Sydney ; Facing it ; Sunday afternoons ; Banking potatoes ; Birds on a powerline / Falso brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou : 8 / Djbot Baghostu's run. 26.IX.81 / The education of Mingo / from For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ; Nappy edges ; Bocas : a daughter's geography / Annie John. The circling hand / The Chaneysville incident. Old Jack / The women of Brewster Place. The two / Quilting on the rebound / David Walker (1785-1830) ; Parsley ; Receiving the stigmata ; from Thomas and Beulah ; The event ; Motherhood ; Daystar ; The Oriental ballerina ; Pastoral ; from Mother love ; Persephone abducted ; Statistic : the witness ; Mother love ; Demeter mourning ; History ; Demeter's prayer to Hades / Devil in a blue dress. DeWitt Albright ; Joppy ; Daphne Monet / Conditions. XXI ; XXII ; XXIV
Gates, Henry Louis.
McKay, Nellie Y.
Andy Razaf -- Duke Ellington -- King Pleasure.
Gil Scott-Heron -- Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five -- Public Enemy -- Queen Latifah.
C.L. Franklin -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Martin Luther King -- Malcolm X.
Lucy Terry -- Olaudah Equiano -- Phillis Wheatley -- Phillis Wheatley -- David Walker -- George Moses Horton.
Sojourner Truth -- Maria W. Stewart -- Maria W. Stewart -- Harriet Jacobs -- William Wells Brown -- William Wells Brown -- Ada (Sarah L. Forten) -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Victor Séjour -- Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass -- Frederick Douglass -- James M. Whitfield -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Harriet E. Wilson.
Charlotte Forten Grimké -- Charlotte Forten Grimké -- Booker T. Washington -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Pauline E. Hopkins -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- W.E.B. Du Bois.
James D. Corrothers -- James Weldon Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sutton E. Griggs -- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Fenton Johnson.
Arthur A. Schomburg -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Anne Spencer -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Alain Locke -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Marcus Garvey -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Nella Larsen -- Jean Toomer -- George Samuel Schuyler -- Rudolph Fisher.
Eric Walrond -- Marita Bonner -- Sterling A. Brown -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Wallace Thurman -- Arna Bontemps -- Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Countee Cullen -- Helene Johnson.
Melvin B. Tolson -- Dorothy West -- Richard Wright -- Richard Wright -- Chester B. Himes -- Ann Petry -- Ann Petry -- Robert Hayden -- Ralph Ellison -- Ralph Ellison.
Margaret Walker -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- James Baldwin -- Bob Kaufman -- Lorraine Hansberry.
Mari Evans -- Hoyt Fuller -- Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) -- John Alfred Williams -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Etheridge Knight -- Addison Gayle Jr. -- Amiri Baraka.
Sonia Sanchez -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ed Bullins -- Eldridge Cleaver -- A.B. Spellman -- Jayne Cortez -- Larry Neal -- Maulana Karenga -- Haki R. Madhubuti -- Nikki Giovanni -- James Alan McPherson -- Quincy Troupe -- Carolyn M. Rodgers.
Albert Murray -- Maya Angelou -- Maya Angelou -- Paule Marshall -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Toni Morrison -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Audre Lorde -- Colleen McElroy -- Lucille Clifton -- June Jordan -- Clarence Major.
Leon Forrest -- Michael S. Harper -- Ishmael Reed -- Ishmael Reed -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Al Young -- Al Young -- John Edgar Wideman -- John Edgar Wideman -- Samuel R. Delany -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Alice Walker -- Alice Walker -- August Wilson -- Michelle Cliff.
Wanda Coleman -- Octavia Butler -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Charles Johnson -- Ntozake Shange -- Jamaica Kincaid -- David Bradley -- Gloria Naylor -- Terry McMillan -- Rita Dove -- Walter Mosley -- Essex Hemphill.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Nellie Y. McKay, general editor.
1996
The Norton anthology of African American literature
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