The Pocket Reader ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket Books, June 1941, 108, 25¢, 490pp, pb, an)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. also contains puzzles, not detailed
- vii · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in
- 3 · The Turn of the Screw [Turn of the Screw] · Henry James · na Collier’s Weekly January 27 1898 (+11)
- 141 · The Red Pony [Billy Buck] · John Steinbeck · nv North American Review November 1933
- 175 · Address Unknown · Kressmann Taylor · nv Story #73, September/October 1938
- 204 · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939
- 211 · Mrs. Miniver Comes Back from Abroad [Kay Miniver] · Jan Struther · ss The Times
- 215 · Father and His Hard-Rocking Ship [Day Family] · Clarence Day · ts The New Yorker February 3 1934
- 222 · Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Shakespeare [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ss The New Yorker March 27 1937
- 230 · Uncle Fred Flits By [Uncle Fred; Pongo Twistleton] · P. G. Wodehouse · nv Redbook Magazine July 1935
- 254 · The Open Window · “Saki” · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911
- 259 · The Tuxedos · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker September 17 1938
- 267 · A Friend in Need · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan April 1925, as “The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly”
- 275 · The Vanishing Lady · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker August 13 1932
- 283 · The Monster · Deems Taylor · ar Of Men and Music, Simon and Schuster, 1937
- 289 · Walking · Henry David Thoreau · es (r)
- 326 · The Ratcliffe Murders · Thomas De Quincey · ar (r)
- 383 · The Fall of the City · Archibald MacLeish · pl 1937
- 412 · Be Still, My Soul, Be Still · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896
- 413 · Reveille · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896
- 414 · The Great Lover · Rupert Brooke · pm (r)
- 416 · Exiled · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Ainslee’s December 1919
- 418 · Gloucester Moors · William Vaughn Moody · pm Scribner’s Magazine December 1900
- 421 · Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight · Vachel Lindsay · pm (r)
- 422 · Song of the Open Road · Walt Whitman · pm Leaves of Grass (Second Edition) by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1856, as “Poem of the Road”
- 436 · The Germ · Ogden Nash · pm The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1933
- 436 · Symptom Recital · Dorothy Parker · pm Not So Deep as a Well, Viking, 1936
- 437 · Fighting Words · Dorothy Parker · pm Not So Deep as a Well, Viking, 1936
- 437 · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648
- 438 · The Old Familiar Faces · Charles Lamb · pm Blank Verse by Charles Lamb & Charles Lloyd, 1798
- 439 · In Time of Pestilence · Thomas Nashe · pm 1593
- 441 · Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth · Arthur Hugh Clough · pm The Crayon August 1855, as “The Struggle”
- 441 · The Legacy · John Donne · pm (r)
- 443 · “For Whom the Bell Tolls”: The Tolling Bell-A Devotion · John Donne · pp (r)
- 446 · The Golden Dozen: Twelve Great English Sonnets · gp (r)
- _446 · untitled (“When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes.”) · William Shakespeare · pm (r)
- _446 · untitled (“When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought.”) · William Shakespeare · pm (r)
- _447 · untitled (“When in the chronicle of wasted time.”) · William Shakespeare · pm (r)
- _448 · untitled (“Nor mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul.”) · William Shakespeare · pm (r)
- _449 · On His Blindness · John Milton · pm Poems of Mr. John Milton, 2nd edn. by John Milton, Thomas Dring, 1673, as “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”
- _449 · The World Is Too Much with Us · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807
- _450 · Upon Westminster Bridge · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, as “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
- _451 · To Milton (London, 1802) · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
- _451 · November, 1806 · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
- _452 · Upon First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer · John Keats · pm Poems by John Keats, C. & J. Ollier, 1817, as “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
- _453 · When I Have Fears · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883
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