Chapter 1 William Shakespeare
Selected Reading:Sonnet 18
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Chapter 2 Jane Austen
Selected Reading:Pride and Prejudice
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Pride and Prejudice
Chapter 3 John Milton
Selected Reading:Paradise Lost
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:The Second Coming
Chapter 4 Mary Shelley
Selected Reading:Frankenstein
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Emma
Chapter 5 Alfred Tennyson
Selected Reading:Break,Break,Break
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Kubla Khan
Chapter 6 Oscar Wilde
Selected Reading:The Importance of Bein g Earnest
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Pygmalion
Chapter 7 Matthew Arnold
Selected Reading:Dover Beach
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:My Last Duchess
Chapter 8 Jomo Kenyatta
Selected Reading:The Gentlemen of the Jungle
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Heart of Darkness
Chapter 9 Emily Dickinson
Selected Reading:Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:This Is My Letter to the World
Chapter 10 Arthur Miller
Selected Reading:Death of a Salesman
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Rip Van Winkle
Chapter 11 Robert Frost
Selected Reading:Birches
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day
Chapter 12 Henry David Thoreau
Selected Reading:Walden
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Nature
Chapter 13 Wallace Stevens
Selected Reading:Anecdote of the Jar
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:The Red Wheelbarrow
Chapter 14 Ernest Hemingway
Selected Reading:A Clean,Well-Lighted Place
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:The Red Badge of Courage
Chapter 15 Sylvia Plath
Selected Reading:Ariel
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Chapter 16 Sandra Cisneros
Selected Reading:The House on Mango Street
Sharpen-Your-Ability Exercise:The Awakening
Bibliography