Preface to the Experience of Literature
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Lionel Trilling
overview
The Experience of Literature: A Reader with Commentaries is an anthology of short stories and poems, divided into four parts, and edited in 1967 by Lionel Trilling of Columbia University. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
contents
Part 1: Drama
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear
Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck
Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making
William Butler Yates, Purgatory
Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
[edit] Part 2: Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorn, My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Plus 20 more stories.
[edit] Part 3: Poetry
Lydicus
Dover Beach
Ode to a Nightinggale
To His Coy Mistress
Ode to the West Wind
Plus many more poems
[edit] Part 4: Poetry for Further Reading
Contains over 200 poems
