World Writers: A Book of Readings by Types

xvi, 627 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Tale; The Epic; The Drama; The Religious and Philosophical Mind; History and Oratory; Oratory; Autobiography; Biography, Diaries and Journals; Letters; The Novel; The Essay; Prose Portraits; Lyric Poetry; Poems of Love and Fantasy; Poems of Nature and the Animal World; Poems of Youth and Age; The Epitaph, the Ode, and the Elegy; Sonnets; The Poetic Tale and the Ballad; Poems of Life's Perplexities and Hopes; Poems of Strife and Endeavor; Poems of Religion and Devotion; Poem Portraits; Outline of Literature; A Closing Word; Biographical Dictionary and Glossary of Names and Phrases; Index.