Introduction What Is Literature and How to Read Literature 1
Unit One Identity 5
Ⅰ．I'm Nobody! Who are you?by Emily Dickinson 5
Ⅱ．Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 6
Ⅲ．Theme for English B by Langston Hughes 8
Ⅳ．Two Songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney 11
Ⅴ．Dumplings by Yi Sha 14
Ⅵ．"Hamlet's Soliloquy"from Hamlet（Act Ⅲ，Scene 1）by William Shakespeare 16
Ⅶ．A Clean,Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway 19
Ⅷ．A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 25
Ⅸ．Rice by Mary Loh Chieu Kwuan 33
Ⅹ．Luck by Mark Twain 38
Unit Two Spiritual Growth 43
Ⅰ．I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth 43
Ⅱ．Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens 45
Ⅲ．Incident by Countee Cullen 47
Ⅳ．When I Was One-and-Twenty by A.E.Housman 48
Ⅴ．Araby by James Joyce 49
Ⅵ．A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih 56
Ⅶ．The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 61
Ⅷ．Three Days to See by Helen Keller 64
Unit Three Love 74
Ⅰ．"Guan Ju"from Shijing（Book of Verse） 74
Ⅱ．La Belle Dame sans Merci:A Ballad by John Keats 75
Ⅲ．The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine 78
Ⅳ．A Red,Red Rose by Robert Burns 80
Ⅴ．SONNNET 130 by William Shakespeare 83
Ⅵ．When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats 85
Ⅶ．How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 86
Ⅷ．Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood 87
Ⅸ．Under the Willow Tree by Hans Christian Andersen 89
Ⅹ．"Balcony Scene"from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 99
Ⅺ．The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen 109
Ⅻ．The Beggar by Anton Chekhov 111
Unit Four Family 120
Ⅰ．The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 120
Ⅱ．From"On Children"of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 121
Ⅲ．My Father's Song by Simon J.Ortiz 122
Ⅳ．A Story Wet as Tears by Marge Piercy 124
Ⅴ．The Victims by Sharon Olds 127
Ⅵ．The Photos by Diane Wakoske 129
Ⅶ．My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor 131
Ⅷ．"Chapter 1"from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 143
Ⅸ．A Selection from A Doll's House （Act Ⅲ）by Henrik Ibsen 145
Unit Five Man and Society 159
Ⅰ．Two Poems by W.H.Auden 159
Ⅱ．Mending Wall by Robert Frost 164
Ⅲ．Trust by Andy Rooney 166
Ⅳ．The Man Who Married Himself by Charlie Fish 169
Ⅴ．Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe 172
Ⅵ．The Bad Zouave by Alphonse Daudet 176
Ⅶ．Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant 181
Ⅷ．The Law of Life by Jack London 187
Unit Six Contemplations 195
Ⅰ．The Lamb by William Blake 195
Ⅱ．God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins 196
Ⅲ．Design by Robert Frost 197
Ⅳ．Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer 198
Ⅴ．To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker 212
Ⅵ．Allegory of the Cave by Plato 217
Ⅶ．How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 224
Ⅷ．"Solitude"from Walden by Henry David Thoreau 236