Part I. The short story

British, American, and European short stories

The use of force / William Carlos Williams

An episode of war / Stephen Crane

Moonlight / Guy de Maupassant

The last judgment / Karel Capek

The fly / Katherine Mansfield

In exile / Anton Chekov

Araby / James Joyce

The innocent / Graham Greene

Flight / John Steinbeck

The Horse dealer's daughter / D.H Lawrence

A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway

The lagoon / Joseph Conrad

Children are civilians too / Heinrich Boll

The new dress / Virginia Woolf

Asian, Latin American, and African short stories

A little incident / Lu Hsun

Karma / Khushwant Singh

Incense in the lab / Victor Barnouw

The last rite / Lee Yu-Hwa

The handstand / Ogawa Mimei

In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The baby in the bottle / Benjamin Bautista

A long day's dying / William Eastlake

Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer

Balthazar's marvelous afternoon / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hunger / Gilda Cordero-Fernando

The yellow shawl / Francisco Arcellana

Faith, love, time and Dr. Lazaro / Gregorio C. Brillantes

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

Alternate listing of short stories

Plot :

The fly / Katherine Mansfield

Flight / John Steinbeck

The lagoon / Joseph Conrad

The handstand / Ogawa Mimei

In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Balthazar's marvelous afternoon / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The yellow shawl / Francisco Arcellana

Faith, love, time and Dr. Lazaro / Gregorio Brillantes

Characters :

In exile / Anton Chekov

The new dress / Virginia Woolf

Karma / Khushwant Singh

A long day's dying / William Eastlake

Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer

Hunger / Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Faith, love, time and Dr. Lazaro / Gregorio Brillantes

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

Theme :

Moonlight / Guy de Maupassant

Araby / James Joyce

Flight / John Steinbeck

The horse dealers's daughter / D.H Lawrence

Children are civilians too / Heinrich Boll

Incense in the lab / Victor Barnouw

Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer

Hunger / Gilda Cordero-Fernando

faith, love, time and Dr. Lazaro / Gregorio Brillantes

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

Style :

A clean, well-light place / Ernest Hemingway

The lagoon / Joseph Conrad

The new dress / Virginia Woolf

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

Setting :

In exile / Anton Chekov

The lagoon / Joseph Conrad

Incense in the lab / Victor Barnouw

The last rite / Lee Yu-Hwa

Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

Part II : The poem

Section one - form

The three ravens / Anonymous

The twa corbies / Anonymous

On "The three ravens" and "The twa corbies" / Earl Daniels

Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous

Lord Randal / Anonymous

Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous

All in green went my love riding / E.E Cummings

Sonnet XV / William Shakespeare

Batter my heart, three person'd God / John Donne

Prospice / Robert Browning

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot

Elegy / Gene Derwood

To my brother Miguel: in memorian / Cesar Vallejo

Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

The walking / Theodore Roethke

Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc

Two translations of a haiku by Issa

Three translations of a haiku by Basho

The bright centipede / Jose Garcia Villa

Homage / Kenneth Fearing

Poem / E.E. Cummings

Poem I / E.E. Cummings

The emperor's new sonnet / Jose Garcia Villa

The bashful one / Jose Garcia Villa

Section two - imagery

Night clouds / Amy Lowell

Night rain / John Pepper Clark

Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins

landscape II / Carlos Angeles

The white pony / Anonymous

Preludes / T.S. Eliot

Marina / T.S. Eliot

Spanish dancer / Rainer Maria Rilke

The panther / Rainer Maria Rilke

The river / Kedar Nath Agrawal

Design / Robert Frost

Juggler / Richard Wilbur

Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson

On "Because I could not stop for death" / Richard Chase

The brain is wider than the sky / Emily Dickinson

It dropped so low in my regard / Emily Dickinson

After great pain a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson

Sonnet 65 / William Shakespeare

Sonnet 73 / William Shakespeare

To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman

The enamel girl / Genevieve Taggard

The town where eggs are falling / Shiraishi Kazuko

Reascending Chingkangshan / Mao Tsetung

Jade flower palace / Tu Fu

Haiku / Moritake

Two haikus / Basho

Africa / Jacques Roumain

Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare

Love on the farm / D.H. Lawrence

Section three - diction

The rose tree / William Butler Yeats

On "The rose tree" / Wayne Shumaker

And what are words? / Gemino Abad

Spring and fall: to a young child / Gerard Manley Hopkins

The leaden echo and the golden echo / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Canzone. W.H. Auden

Lay your sleeping head, my love / W.H. Auden

Poem in October / Dylan Thomas

Pity this busy monster, mankind / E.E. Cummings

I think continually of those who were truly great / Stephen Spender

Always and always the amaranth astir / Jose Garcia Villa

Love is that later thing than death / Emily Dickinson

She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth

God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins

In the deep museum / Anne Sexton

The force that through the green fuse / Dylan Thomas

The second coming / William Butler Yeats

From "Open letters to Filipino artists" / Emmanuel Lacaba

Vanity of vanities / Anonymous

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost

The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson

From "Howl, Part I" / Allen Ginsberg

Poem VII / E.E. Cummings

Congealation / Homero Ch. Veloso

Reaching for a handful / Homero Ch. Veloso

Manila / Federico Licsi Espino, Jr.

Section four - tone

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

On "To his coy mistress" / John Hawley Roberts

The groundhog / Richard Eberhart

Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom

Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode to a dead millionaire / Pablo Neruda

War is kind / Stephen Crane

The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden

The man he killed / Thomas Hardy

The world is a beautiful place / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Telephone conversation / Wole Soyinka

What the rich think of the masses / Emmanuel Torres

A red, red rose / Robert Burns

Song / John Donne

An elementary school classroom in a slum / Stephen Spender

In time of "The breaking of nations" / Thomas Hardy

Life cycle of common man / Howard Nemerov

A eulogy of roaches / Bienvenido Lumbera

The united fruit company / Pablo Neruda

If you wants to know what we are (1940) / Carlos Bulosan

Poem for study

I. British, American, and European poetry

The good morrow / John Donne

Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen

The wild swans at coole / William Butler Yeats

In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas

The last Chrysanthemum / Thomas Hardy

Eleanor Rigby / John Lennon

The sounds of silence / Paul Simon

Poetry / Marianne Moore

Art poetica / Archibald Macleish

of modern poetry / Wallace Stevens

Somewhere I have never travelled / E.E. Cummings

Auto wreck / Karl Shapiro

Romance sonambulo / Federico Garcia Lorca

Walking asleep / Federico Garcia Lorca

Ariettes Oubliees III / Paul Verlaine

Songs forgotten III / Paul Verlaine

Homage to life / Jules Supervielle

Autumn / Rainer Maria Rilke

Readings / Czeslaw Milosz

Hope / Czeslaw Milosz

II. Asian, Latin American, and African poetry

Fighting on the South frontier / Li Po

Ripe plums / Anonymous

Ono no Yoshiki / Kokim Shu

Jungle rot and open arms / Janice Mirikitani

The leg irons / Ho Chi Minh

The Taj Mahal / Sahir Ludhianvi

Politics / Amrita Pritam

Poem / Taufiq Rafat

All men are created equal / Carlos Bulosan

The moon and the prisoner / Gemino Abad

An armstretch of sky / Amado Hernandez

Pedagogic / Cirilo Bautista

Plaza Miranda, 1960 / Federico Licsi Espino, Jr.

Deber del Poeta / Pablo Neruda

Poet's obligation / Pablo Neruda

From "names" / Nicolas Guillen

Piano and drums / Gabriel Okara

Part III: The play

The nature of drama

The Greek theater: Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex"

Oedipus Rex / Sophocles

The epic theater: Brecht's "Mother courage and her children"

Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht

American expressionist theater: Williams' "The glass menagerie"

The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams

The modern Noh play: Mishima's "The lady Aoi"

The lady Aoi / Yukio Mishima

African drama in English: Soyinka's "The swamp dwellers"

The swamp dwellers / Wole Soyinka

Realism in the Philippine theater in English: Joaquin's "Father and sons"

Father and sons / Nick Joaquin

Expressionism in Philippine drama: Bonifacio's "Sepang Loca"

Sepang Loca / Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio