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 Introduction

 Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters

 Patterns / Amy Lowell

 Grass / Carl Sandburg

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot

 Mending Wall and Home Burial / Robert Frost

 The Snow Man and Thirteen ways… / Wallace Stevens

 This is just to say and The Red… / William Carlos Williams

 somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond / e. e. cummings

 A Wagner Matinee / Willa Cather

 The Sensible Thing / F. Scott Fitzgerald

 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter

 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place / Ernest Hemingway

 from The Big Money, Newsreel LXVIII / John Dos Passos

 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Darl / William Faulkner

 Richard Cory / E. A. Robinson

 Petit, the Poet / Edgar Lee Masters

 In a Station of the Metro / Ezra Pound

 The Flower-Fed Buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay

 Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay

 Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock / Wallace Stevens

 Wind and Silver and A Lover / Amy Lowell

 anyone lived in a pretty how town / e. e. cummings

 Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson

 from The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck