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This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers ed. Michael McFee (University of North Carolina Press 0-807-82583-2, Oct 2000, $29.95, 304pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Michael McFee • in
• Commit to Memory • Michael Parker • ss
• Monette’s Fingers • Heather Ross Miller • ss
• The Prophet from Jupiter • Tony Earley • ss Harper’s Jan ’93
• Across from the Motoheads • Luke Whisnant • ss
• From You Know Who • Melissa Malouf • ss
• Last Rite • Ron Rash • ss
• A Girl in Summer • Marly Youmans • ss
• Missing Women • June Spence • ss The Southern Review, 1996
• The Deer • Jennifer Offill • ss
• The Woods at the Back of Our Houses • Dale Ray Phillips • ss Harper’s Jul ’98
• Moon Pie over Miami • Lawrence Naumoff • ss
• Teen Angel • Marianne Gingher • ss
• Friends and Oranges • Ruth Moose • ss
• Umbrella • Sarah Dessen • ss
• The Night Sky • Peter Turchi • ss
• Slippered Feet • Daniel Wallace • ss Massachusetts Review, 1989
• Carmen Miranda’s Navel • P. B. Parris • ss
• Basse Ville • Joe Ashby Porter • ss
• Buffalo • John Kessel • ss F&SF Jan ’91
• Wedding Night • Tom Hawkins • ss
• Death by Reputation • Philip Gerard • ss
• Piecework • Peter Makuck • ss
• Squabble • John Holman • ss New Yorker Jan 4 ’88
• Dancing with Father • Candace Flynt • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’85
• Shell Island • Ellyn Bache • ss
• About the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
Science and Technology Today: Readings for Writers ed. Nancy R. MacKenzie (St. Martins Press 0-312-09692-5, 1995, 535pp, an); Only fiction listed.

25 • The Moment [from The Search] • C. P. Snow • ex
112 • Pulling Contest • Marjorie Dorner • ss Winter Roads, Summer Fields, Milkweed Editions, 1992
157 • Frankenstein [Chapter 4] • Mary Shelley • ex London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818
261 • The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] • Ray Bradbury • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50
286 • In the Cemetary Where Al Jolson Is Buried • Amy Hempel • ss
380 • Weeds • Rick DeMarinis • ss Under the Wheat, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986
439 • Under/Ground • Joyce Carol Oates • pl
Innovations: An Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Fiction ed. Robert L. McLaughlin (Dalkey Archive Press 1564781852, May ’98, $13.95, 224pp, tp); Contents from Yahoo Books.

• A Character • Felipe Alfau • ss
• Ladies Almanack, July • Djuna Barnes • ss
• Menelaiad • John Barth • ss
• The Balloon • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Apr ’66
• You Must Remember This • Robert Coover • ss Playboy Jan ’85
• Szryk v. Village of Tatamount et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Virginia no. 105-87 • William Gaddis • ss
• Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? • Cris Mazza • ss
• Lady the Brach • Gilbert Sorrentino • ss
• A Little Novel • Gertrude Stein • ss
• Little Expressionless Animals • David Foster Wallace • ss
• Bonanza • Curtis White • ss
• Surfiction • John Edgar Wideman • ss
Winter’s Tales 10 ed. A. D. Maclean (Macmillan UK, 1964, hc); [DKL]

v • Editor’s Note • A. D. Maclean • pr
1 • The Holy Ground • Kevin Casey • nv *
26 • Arrivederci, Elba! • Brian Glanville • ss *
44 • The Flowers of Sorrow • Shirley Hazzard • ss New Yorker
54 • The Prism • Liam Lynch • nv *
76 • A Romantic Hero • Olivia Manning • ss *
96 • The Gorgon’s Head • Gordon Meyer • nv *
129 • Guzman, Go Home • Alan Sillitoe • nv *
160 • A Child’s Four Seasons • Jean Stubbs • nv *
182 • Fingers in the Door • Frank Tuohy • ss *
190 • Suspense of Judgment • Zeno • ss *
Winter’s Tales 12 ed. A. D. Maclean (St. Martin’s LCC# 67-10173, 1966, hc); First American edition (Macmillan UK 1966). [DKL]

vii • Editor’s Note • A. D. Maclean • pr
1 • A Winter Day • Penelope Agnes Bennett • ss *
17 • Something to Take Back • Celia Dale • nv *
41 • Hassan’s Tower • Margaret Drabble • ss *
60 • The Perfectionist • Janice Elliott • ss *
74 • Epithalamion • Tom MacIntyre • na *
121 • Innocent Pleasures • Olivia Manning • ss *
135 • A Reference for Mellors • Anthony Powell • ss *
146 • The Nest Builder • V. S. Pritchett • ss *
160 • The House of the Famous Poet • Muriel Spark • ss New Yorker Apr 2 ’66
171 • A Special Relationship • Frank Tuohy • ss *
Winter’s Tales 16 ed. A. D. Maclean (St. Martin’s 333 11199 0, 1970, hc); First American edition (Macmillan UK 1970). [DKL]

7 • Editor’s Note • A. D. Maclean • pr
9 • Means of Communication • Freda Bromhead • ss *
20 • The Gifts of War • Margaret Drabble • ss *
37 • The Anglo-Saxon • William Golding • ss *
48 • Allotment • Sean Hignett • nv *
87 • The Man Who Was Left Behind • Rachel Ingalls • na *
145 • Get Out of My Way • Patricia Ledward • nv *
180 • How Boetie Came to MArry a Rich LAdy • John McIntosh • nv *
202 • Sad About Miss Brent • Glen Petrie • nv *
232 • Cousin Lewis • Jean Stubbs • nv *
256 • Fiona • Gillian Tindall • ss *
Winter’s Tales 24 ed. A. D. Maclean (St. Martin’s 0-312-88412-5, 1979, $8.95, 216pp, hc)

7 • Editor’s Note • A. D. Maclean • pr
9 • The Man Who Had No Idea • Thomas M. Disch • nv F&SF Oct ’78
50 • Noblesse Oblige • Brian Glanville • ss *
68 • The Hat on the Letter ‘O’ • Nicholas Hasluck • ss, 1978
77 • A Crush on Doctor Dance • Shirley Hazzard • nv New Yorker, 1977
104 • The Misfortunes of Ambrose Gwinnett • Rayner Heppenstall • ss *
119 • The Stepson’s Story • Francis King • nv *
154 • A Balance of Nature • David Paul • ss *
172 • Devotion • Diana Petre • ss *
186 • The Accompanist • V. S. Pritchett • ss *
202 • Not Like the Old Days • Gillian Tindall • ss *
Winter’s Tales 26 ed. A. D. Maclean (Macmillan UK 0-333-26836-9, 1980, £5.95, 223pp, hc); Anthology of 11 stories, eight original.

7 • Editor’s Note • A. D. Maclean • pr
9 • Autumn Sunshine • William Trevor • nv New Yorker Mar 10 ’80; a slightly different version appeared in The Listener, 1979, as ‘Love and Best Wishes’
28 • Beggars Would Ride • Beryl Bainbridge • ss *
35 • The Interment • Francis King • nv *
56 • An Evening at the Track • Douglas Dunn • ss *
67 • Modernisation • Brian Aldiss • nv *
93 • Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? • Julia O’Faolain • nv *
117 • Rags and Bones • Nadine Gordimer • ss Harper’s, 1979
124 • Ladies’ Race • Angela Huth • nv Infidelities, Clarkson Potts, 1979
165 • In the Garden of the North American Martyrs • Tobias Wolff • ss Antæus #37 ’80
177 • Kin [“My Mother’s Mother”] • Edna O’Brien • ss New Yorker, 1979
193 • Descent from Ararat • Christopher Burney • nv *; a much longer version was published by Macmillan in 1962
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West: 1950 to the Present ed. Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster 0-684-86882-2, Jul 2000, $26.00, 352pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • Larry McMurtry • in
• Buglesong • Wallace Stegner • ss
• The Closed Season • Dave Hickey • ss
• Chickens • Dao Strom • ss
• Romero’s Shirt • Dagoberto Gilb • ss
• Good Rockin’ Tonight • William Hauptman • ss Playboy May ’81
• The Mexican Girl [from On the Road] • Jack Kerouac • ex
• True Romance • Ron Hansen • ss Esquire May ’84
• White Line Fever • Diana Ossana • ss
• Glissando • Robert Boswell • ss
• Dogs • Tom McGuane • ss
• The Red Convertible • Louise Erdrich • ss
• Gas Stations • Max Apple • ss
• Cul-de-sacs • Mark Jude Poirier • ss
• Mahatma Joe • Rick Bass • ss
• Indians • Jon Billman • ss
• Rock Springs • Richard Ford • ss Esquire Feb ’82
• The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off • Raymond Carver • ss
• Brokeback Mountain • Annie Proulx • ss New Yorker Oct 13 ’97
• Lullaby • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss Chicago Review v26 #1 ’74
• The Pedersen Kid • William H. Gass • na MSS Spr ’61
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors ed. John McNally (Morrow 0688151744, Jul ’97, 320pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Introduction • John McNally • in
• Adultery • Russell Banks • ss Mother Jones Apr/May ’86
• The Wild • Sara Powers • ss Story Win ’95
• When Dogs Bark • Charles W. Harvey • ss Story Spr ’95
• Secret • Ivy Goodman • ss
• Goodness • David Huddle • ss Five Points Win ’97
• My Wild Life • Abby Bardi • ss
• Flipflops • Robert Boswell • ss
• A Hole in the Language • Marly Swick • ss
• Ike and Nina • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
• Bitter Love • Lynne McFall • ss
• No Pain Whatsoever • Richard Yates • ss
• Buoyancy • Richard Russo • ss
• Cleaning House • Alyce Miller • ss
• The Middleman • Bharati Mukherjee • ss Playboy Apr ’86
• Hairball • Margaret Atwood • ss
• Pie Dance • Molly Giles • ss
• The First Snow • Daniel Lyons • ss
• Silent Partners • Robley Wilson • ss
• Dick York • Max Garland • ss
• Spats • Valerie Martin • ss
• When Love in Autumn Blooms • Gregg Palmer • ss
• The Year of Getting to Know Us • Ethan Canin • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’87
• Ray Sips a Low Quitter • Amy Knox Brown • ss
• The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd • John Updike • ss New Yorker Apr 6 ’81
Besame Mucho: An Anthology of Gay Latino Fiction ed. Jaime Manrique (Painted Leaf Press 1891305069, May ’99, $15.00, tp); Contents list from Yahoo Books.

3 • Introduction • Jaime Manrique • in
7 • The Straight Friend Who Came to Dinner • Guillermo Reyes • ss
33 • The Two Miracles of the Gringos’ Virgin • James Canon • ss
51 • Down Below • Albert E. Cota • ss
61 • My Name, Multitudinous Mass • Larry La Fountain-Stokes • ss
69 • La Quebrada • Rigoberto Gonzalez • ss
79 • Onions Are for Men • Adan Griego • ss
101 • Brujo Time • Robert Vasquez-Pacheco • ss
115 • Ave Roc • Roberto Echavarren • ss
123 • Senoritas in Love • Jaime Manrique • ss
139 • Awakened from Their Dreams • Joel Villalon • ss
147 • Banjee Hustlers • Emanuel Xavier • ss
177 • What’s Up, Father Infante? • Miguel Falquez-Certain • ss
191 • Lord Cornbury’s Ear • Dionisio Canas • ss
199 • Between Dances • Erasmo Guerra • ss
213 • The Nasty Book Wars • Jaime Cortez • ss
227 • Ruby Diaz • Al Lujan • ss
241 • Mara’s Marvelous Match • Alex R. Silva • ss
255 • Afterword • Jesse Dorris • ss
Flying Wildcats ed. Leo Margulies (NY: The Hampton Publishing Company, 1943, 347pp); [DKL]

1 • Malta Masquerade • Robert Sidney Bowen • na
49 • Medals for Josephine • Oscar J. Friend • ss Army-Navy Flying Stories Sum ’43
67 • Sealed Orders • Norman A. Daniels • nv Thrilling Adventures Mar ’35
91 • Jim Creavy, Hoodlum • Don Tracy • nv
117 • Wings of the North • Johnston Carroll • nv
157 • Direct Hit • Joe Archibald • ss
175 • Bomb Trap • William O’Sullivan • ss
195 • Blue Water Pilots • Philip Sherman • na
247 • Flight to Danger • Frank Johnson • nv
269 • Cowboy in the Sky • Sam Mines • ss
283 • Burma Boy • Don Keene • nv
325 • Winds Over Crete • Lieut. Jay D. Blaufox • nv
Popular Book of Western Stories ed. Leo Margulies (Popular Library #156, 1948, pb); Anthology of western stories culled from pulps published between 1910 and 1942.

• Introduction • Leo Margulies • in
• The Lamb of the Flying U • B. M. Bower • ss, 1940
• The Orneriest Three • Walt Coburn • ss Adventure Jan 1 ’29
• In the Mexican Quarter • Tom Gill • ss Cosmopolitan Jun ’30
• Some Were Brave • Ernest Haycox • ss Colliers Jun 15 ’40
• The Saga of Ragged MacLean • James B. Hendryx • ss Short Stories Apr 25 ’27
• Fight at Painted Rock • Alan LeMay • ss
• Hopalong’s Hop [Hopalong Cassidy] • Clarence Mulford • ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) Nov ’12
• This Timid Guy • William MacLeod Raine • ss
• The Ace and the Two Spot • Charles Alden Seltzer • ss
• Clean Crazy • W. C. Tuttle • ss Adventure May 15 ’18
Wings Over the World ed. Leo Margulies (The Hampton Publishing Co., 1942, 433pp, hc, cover by C. R. Schaare); [MH]

1 • The Three Mosquitoes • Ralph Oppenheim • nv
35 • Mercy Planes • Robert Sidney Bowen • na
99 • Transpacific Plunder • Frederick Painton • nv Argosy Sep 12 ’36
145 • African Patrol • F. E. Reichnitzer • na
211 • Unreported • William O’Sullivan • na Five-Novels Monthly May ’41
293 • Savoias Out of Sapporo • Arch Whitehouse • nv
341 • The Falcon Strikes • Major George Fielding Eliot • nv The Lone Eagle Jun ’35
369 • Sky Writin’ Fool • Frank Johnson • nv
403 • The Border Blitzkrieg • Joe Archibald • nv
Man’s Search for Values ed. Thomas H. W. Martin, Dorothy Chamberlin & Irmgard Wieler (Gage Publishing 0-7715-1181-7, 1987, no price, 326pp, hc); Reissue (Gage Publishing 1966) associational anthology. Ninth printing.

viii • Preface • Maurice Gibbons • pr
x • Values [from The Rebels] • Albert Camus • ms
1 • Man and Society
1 • Freewill • Louis Ginsberg • pm The Fiddlehead Sum ’65
1 • The Individual and Society
1 • The Wanderer [from The Exeter Book] • Anon.; trans. by Burton Raffel • pm, 1960; from Poems from the Old English, Bison Books, 1960
3 • Tales from the Gulistan • Muslihu’d din Sa’di • ex
5 • A Man’s a Man for a’ That • Robert Burns • pm
6 • All the World’s a Stage [from As You Like It] • William Shakespeare • pm
6 • ‘Alas! This is Not What I Thought Life Was’ • Percy Bysshe Shelley • pm
7 • The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion • Thomas Hardy • ss; from Wessex Tales
16 • “Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?”
16 • The Old Story • Marcus Argentarius; trans. by Edwin Arlington Robinson • pm, 1915; from Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Macmillan, 1915
16 • Sonnet LXI • Michael Drayton • pm; from Idea
16 • Sonnet CXVI • William Shakespeare • pm
17 • After Long Silence • William Butler Yeats • pm; from The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
17 • An Immorality • Ezra Pound • pm, 1917; from Lustra
17 • In the Sun • Miriam Waddington • pm; from The Season’s Lovers
18 • A Cup of Tea • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Story-Teller May ’22; from The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories
22 • A Girl with Ambition • Morley Callaghan • ss; from Morley Callaghan’s Stories
26 • The Prince • Jacob Zilber • ss The Tamarack Review
32 • Ambition • Raymond Knister • pm; from The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister
33 • Stress and Conflict
33 • The Science of Custom • Ruth Benedict • ar; from Patterns of Culture
41 • On Tolerance • François Marie Arouet de Voltaire; trans. by Joseph McCabe • ar; from Selected Works of Voltaire
42 • Collective Guilt [from The Prophet] • Kahlil Gibran • ms New York: Knopf, 1923
43 • Sweet Content • Thomas Dekker • pm
43 • Song to the Men of England • Percy Bysshe Shelley • pm
44 • It Is an Easy Thing • William Blake • pm; from The Four Zoas: Book Two
44 • Robert Owen • Friedrich Engels • ar
47 • Grave New World • Norman Ward • ar; from Mice in the Beer
48 • Duty
48 • Ode to Duty • William Wordsworth • pm
49 • Voluntaries: III • Ralph Waldo Emerson • pm
49 • Beauty and Duty • Ellen Sturgis Hooper • pm
49 • Kind of an Ode to Duty • Ogden Nash • pm, 1935; from Verses from 1929 on, Curtis, 1935
51 • A Talk Among Leisured People • Count Leo Tolstoy; trans. by Aylmer Maude • ms; from Works Vol XV
52 • The Mass Mind • Arthur Joyce Cary • ar
54 • The Sporting Spirit • George Orwell • ar; from Shooting an Elephant
57 • Hunger • Laurence Binyon • pm
57 • Joseph, The Provider [from The Bible] • Anon. • ex
59 • The Gamut of Hunger • Josué de Castro • ar, 1952; from The Geography of Hunger
62 • The Shadow of Captain Bligh • Hugh MacLennan • ar; from Thirty and Three
65 • To Toussaint L’Ouverture • William Wordsworth • pm
65 • Who Should Be a Slave? • Abraham Lincoln • ar; from an address to an Indian Regiment
66 • The Little Black Boy • William Blake • pm
66 • Keep Your Own Things • Irene Baird • pm North
68 • Babiy Yar • Yevgeny Yevtushenko; trans. by Robin Milner-Gulland & Peter Levi • pm; from Yevtushenko, Selected Poems
69 • The Individual and the State
69 • From Break of Day • Anon.; trans. by Henry H. Hart • pm; from The Hundred Names
69 • The Needs of the State [from The Republic] • Plato; trans. by Benjamin Jowett • ex
73 • Prescription for Political Administration [from The Offices] • Cicero; trans. by Walter Miller • ex
77 • The Man of Law [from The Canterbury Tales] • Geoffrey Chaucer • pm
78 • My Body in the Walls Captived • Sir Walter Raleigh • pm
79 • Lawyers [from Gulliver’s Travels] • Jonathan Swift • ex
80 • The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable • Lord Byron • pm
85 • Law Like Love • W. H. Auden • pm; from Collected Shorter Poems
86 • Court of General Sessions • Raymond Souster • pm; from The Colour of the Times
86 • Promoting a New Nationality • Sir Georges Étienne Cartier • ar
89 • The Organization of the Empire • Joseph Howe • ex
90 • A New Vision of History and the Heart • Révérend Père Jacques Monet, S.J. • ar The Globe and Mail Sep 22 ’65
91 • The World State • G. K. Chesterton • pm; from Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton
92 • The Dinosaur • Bert Leston Taylor • pm The Chicago Tribune
92 • Civil Service Civilities [from Never Cry Wolf] • Farley Mowat • ex
95 • Leadership And Initiative
95 • Reaching Toward Humanity • Joseph K. Hart • ar, 1951; from Education in the Humane Community, Harper, 1951
99 • The Steady Work of Reason [from The Art of Teaching] • Gilbert Highet • ex New York: Knopf, 1950
103 • The Manchu Scholar • Lewis C. Walmsley • ar
105 • The Scholar in the Narrow Street • Tso Ssu; trans. by Arthur Wayley • pm
105 • Solomon Exhorteth to the Study of Wisdom [from The Bible] • Anon. • ex
106 • A Song of the Open Road • Anon. ; trans. by John Addington Symonds • pm
107 • How Gargantua Was Instructed • François Rabelais; trans. by Sir Thomas Urquhart • ex
110 • As The Twig is Bent [from Moral Essays] • Alexander Pope • pm
111 • The Wonderful Book [from Émile, Book III] • Jean Jacques Rousseau; trans. by Dorothy Chamberlin • ex
112 • Of Children [from The Prophet] • Kahlil Gibran • pm New York: Knopf, 1923
113 • The Proverb • Marcel Aymé; trans. by Norman Denny • ss The London Magazine Jul ’56; from The Proverb and Other Stories
119 • About Crows • John Ciardi • pm The Saturday Evening Post, 1961
120 • The Moth and the Star • James Thurber • vi, 1940; from Fables for Our Time, Harper & Row, 1940
121 • The White Knight • Eric Nicol • vi; from Shall We Join the Ladies
122 • Man and War
122 • Most Lovely • Sappho • pm
122 • Attitudes to War
122 • Arjuna’s Dilemma [from The Geeta] • Anon.; trans. by Shree Purohit Swami • ex
125 • Song of Harold Harfager • Sir Walter Scott • pm
126 • Ordinance, Prophecy and Precept [from The Bible] • Anon. • ex
127 • The Battle of Brunanburh [from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle] • Anon.; trans. by Burton Raffel • pm
128 • Visages of War
128 • The Nefarious War • Li Po; trans. by Shigeyashi Obata • pm
128 • Achilles to the King of Ithaca • Samuel Hazo • pm College English Jan ’65
128 • When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home • Lord Byron • pm
129 • Channel Firing • Thomas Hardy • pm
129 • War Song • John Davidson • pm
129 • The Castle • Michael Roberts • pm; from Orlon Marches
130 • Three Trumpets—and a Tuba!
130 • Nicias, to His Army in Retreat from Syracuse • Thucydides; trans. by Benjamin Jowett • ms
130 • Cateline, to His Troops, on the Eve of His Defeat • C. C. Salustius; trans. by Thomas Heywood • ms, 1608
131 • A Second Crusade! • Saint Bernard • ms, 1146
132 • Frederick the Great, to His Officers Before the Battle of Leuthen • Frederick the Great; trans. by Franz Theodor Kugler • ms
133 • How Sir Mordred Presumed • Sir Thomas Malory • ex
134 • The Chivalric Ideal [from The Coming of Arthur] • Alfred Tennyson, Lord • pm
136 • Some Adventures of Don Quixote [abridged from Don Quixote de la Mancha] • Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra; trans. by Jarvis • ex
144 • Actualities of War
144 • The Scimitar of Islam [from Suleiman the Magnificent] • Harold Lamb • ex Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951
148 • By What Means a Prince May Become Esteemed [from The Prince] • Niccolo Machiavelli • ex
149 • The Slaughter of the Esquimaux • Samuel Hearne • ar
153 • Wretched Man [from Satire LXIV] • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester • pm
153 • The Trumpeter • Thomas Raddall • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 17 ’42
161 • Two Friends • Guy de Maupassant; trans. by Dorothy Chamberlin • ss
164 • Pro Patria
164 • To the Lord General Cromwell • John Milton • pm
164 • A Soldier • Sir John Suckling • pm
164 • To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars • Richard Lovelace • pm
165 • Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington • Alfred Tennyson, Lord • ex
167 • Ode: Written in 1746 • William Collins • pm
167 • The Soldier • Rupert Brooke • pm
167 • Dulce et Decorum Est • Wilfred Owen • pm; from The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
168 • Schweik, The Good Soldier, Intervenes in the Great War [from The Good Soldier Schweik] • Jaroslav Hasek; trans. by Paul Selver • ex
172 • Civil War [from And Quiet Flows the Don] • Mikhail Sholokhov; trans. by Stephen Garry • ex
180 • The Sniper • Liam O’Flaherty • ss The New Leader Jan 12 ’23; from Spring Sowing
182 • Conflict • F. R. Scott • pm; from Overture
183 • The Treason of Kenneth Edward [from The Meaning of Treason] • Rebecca West • ex
188 • Last Letters [from Last Letters from Stalingrad] • Anon. • lt
190 • Cannon [from The Faerie Queen] • Edmund Spenser • ex
191 • The Fury of Aerial Bombardment • Richard Eberhart • pm; from Burr Oaks
191 • The Raid • William Everson • pm, 1948; from The Residual Years, New Directions, 1948
192 • Benny, The War in Europe and Myerson’s Daughter Bella • Mordecai Richler • ss The Montrealer, 1957
196 • Peace in our Time
196 • Accursed! [from The Iliad] • Homer; trans. by Alexander Pope • pm
196 • Combat Liberalism • Mao Tse-tung • ar
199 • War and Pacifism • Woodrow Wyatt • iv, 1960 [Lord Bertrand Russell]; from Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, World Publishing Co, 1960
202 • Fame [from Satire VII] • Edward Young • pm
202 • To Posterity • Bertholt Brecht; trans. by H. R. Hays • pm; from Selected Poems of Bertholt Brecht
204 • Science, the Destroyer or Creator? • Jacob Bronowski • ar; from The Common Sense of Science
209 • Sonnet XVI: To Kosciusko • John Keats • pm, 1816
209 • Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth • Arthur Hugh Clough • pm
210 • Reflections on War
210 • On Reading the War Diary of a Defunct Ambassador • Siegfried Sasson • pm, 1947; from Collected Poems
210 • Nationality • Dame Mary Gilmore • pm; from New Land—New Voices
210 • Brave Old World • Elisabeth Lambert • pm
211 • Man and the Unknown
211 • The Unknown [from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam] • Omar Khayyam • ex
211 • Mysteries of the Universe
211 • Out of the Whirlwind [from The Bible] • Anon. • ex
213 • The Protagoras Myth [from The Dialogues] • Plato; trans. by J. A. Stewart • ex
215 • No Single Thing Abides • Titus Lucretius; trans. by W. H. Mallock • pm
216 • Concepts of Space
216 • Ode • Joseph Addison • pm The Spectator Aug 23, 1712
216 • The Infinite • Giacomo Leopardi; trans. by R. C. Trevelyan • pm, 1941; from Translations from Leopardi, Cambridge University Press, 1941
216 • Prometheus Unbound • Percy Bysshe Shelley • ex
217 • To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton • James Thomson • ex
217 • When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer • Walt Whitman • pm, 1865
217 • For the Conjunction of Two Planets • Adrienne Cecile Rich • pm; from A Change of World
218 • The Revolution is Prepared • W. E. K. Middleton • ar
221 • The Naked World • Rene Sully-Prudhomme; trans. by William Dock • pm
221 • Riddles of the Past
221 • A Merchant Digs for Trojan Gold [from Gods, Graves, and Scholars] • C. W. Ceram; trans. by E. B. Garside • ex New York: Knopf, 1951
233 • We Have Been Here Before • Morris Bishop • pm; from Spilt Milk
234 • Bronze Wood • Carl Sandburg • vi, 1940; from Home Front Memo, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1940
235 • The Singing Silence • Eva-Lis Wuorio • ms
238 • Perplexities of the Present
238 • Wisdom and Ignorance [from Satire X] • Decimus Junius Juvenalis; trans. by Samuel Johnson • pm
238 • E=mc² • Morris Bishop • pm New Yorker Oct 26 ’46
239 • Of Suspicion • Sir Francis Bacon • ms
239 • Men Say They Know Many Things • Henry David Thoreau • pm
239 • What’s the Railroad to Me • Henry David Thoreau • pm
240 • Science vs. Luck • Samuel Clemens • ar Galaxy Oct, 1870
241 • Homily for a Troubled Time • Bernard DeVoto • ar
245 • Desert Places • Robert Frost • pm; from Complete Poems of Robert Frost
245 • Mental Mechanisms • John Lovett Doust • ar
248 • Courage and Fear
248 • The Ballad of John Henry • Anon. • pm
250 • Invictus • William Ernest Henley • pm
250 • Fear • Julian Huxley • pm; from The Captive Shrew
250 • Before • William Ernest Henley • pm
250 • To Fight Aloud is Very Brave • Emily Dickinson • pm
251 • Conjectures of the Future
251 • Prophecies
251 • Men Rashly Mounting • Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas • pm
251 • Out of Step • E. J. Pratt • pm; from Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt
251 • The Last Man • Thomas Campbell • pm
252 • The City of the End of Things • Archibald Lampman • pm Alcyone, James Ogilvy, 1899
253 • The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future • Stephen Leacock • ss, 1941; from Nonsense Novels
258 • Meteor [“Phoney Meteor”, as by John Beynon] • John Wyndham • nv Amazing Mar ’41
266 • Go Fly a Saucer • David McCord • pm, 1953; from The Old Bateau and Other Poems, Little, Brown, 1953
267 • The Obsolescence of Man [“Machina ex Deus”] • Arthur C. Clarke • ar Playboy Jul ’61
274 • The Feeling of Power • Isaac Asimov • ss If Feb ’58
279 • John Thomas’s Cube • John Leimert • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’45
284 • Hi-Yo, Hi-Yo, Discernible Today • Maxwell Anderson • pm New Yorker, 1948
285 • The Inner Quest
285 • Dover Beach • Matthew Arnold • pm
285 • Secret Places • Charlotte Brontë • pm, 1846; from Evening Solace
286 • The Shape of Wonder • N. J. Berrill • ar, 1955; from Man’s Emerging Mind, Dodd, Mead, 1955
294 • In Search of the Flame Dancers • Rosita Forbes • ar
296 • The Other Side of the Hedge • E. M. Forster • ss The Independent Nov ’04
299 • Sonnet VII • John Donne • pm
300 • The World • Henry Vaughan • pm
301 • Light Shining out of Darkness • William Cowper • pm
301 • “I Saw Eternity the Other Night” • W. Arthur Boggs • pm College English Nov ’64
302 • The Village Atheist • Edgar Lee Masters • pm, 1916; from The Spoon River Anthology, Macmillan, 1916
302 • Mysticism [from The Summing Up] • W. Somerset Maugham • ex
303 • Bontshe, the Silent • Isaac Peretz; trans. by Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport • ss
307 • Exeunt
307 • Facing Death • Chih Ming; trans. by Henry W. Hart • pm; from The Hundred Names
307 • Journey’s End • Humbert Wolfe • pm; from The Unknown Goddess
307 • Death the Leveler • James Shirley • pm
307 • Speaking about Death • A. J. M. Smith • pm; from Collected Poems
308 • Master of My Fate [from Biology or Oblivion] • Brian Hocking • ex
313 • Prayer Before Birth • Louis MacNeice • pm; from Collected Poems 1925-48
314 • Chronology • Misc. Material • ms
323 • Index of Authors and Translators • Misc. Material • ix
325 • Index of Titles • Misc. Material • ix

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