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WHY DO YOU NEED THIS NEW EDITION? If you’re wondering why you should buy this new edition of An Introduction to Literature, here are six great reasons.

1. With nearly 50 selections new to this edition, you will find a wealth of clas- sic and contemporary voices that were especially selected with you, the student, in mind. Be prepared to be surprised as you encounter not only universally acknowledged masterpieces but also recent works includ- ing stories no longer than a paragraph and plays no longer than a single act. (see Lydia Davis’s “Childcare”and David Ives’s Sure Thing).

2. You may find the topics of many of the poems new to this edition surprising. Are you a sports fan? Find out why baseball is said to be a “metaphor for life” in Linda Pastan’s poem “Baseball.” Is working out your passion? You may find Diane Ackerman’s “Pumping Iron” of interest. Poets and acrobats? You’ll see how much they have in common in Lawrence Fer- linghetti’s “Constantly Risking Absurdity.”

3. A new Chapter 2 has been added to help you with your writing assign- ments.While all of us at times have probably shared Edna Ferber’s sentiment that “writing is a combination of ditch-digging,mountain-climbing, treadmill, and childbirth,” this chapter shows you how to approach your reading and how to get started writing.

4. We now give additional help with writing, in the shape of three new chapters, “Students Writing about Stories,” “Students Writing about Poems,” and “Stu- dents Writing about Plays.” These chapters include 25 sample papers—more than a dozen new to this edition—that are models of the most frequently assigned kind of papers. Many of these papers are annotated, showing you how to move from reading to completing your writing assignment.

5. For movie fans, An Introduction to Literature now offers a new discus- sion about film that includes suggestions for experiencing and writing about films that are derived from stories or plays.

6. Newly revised Appendix A now includes coverage of MLA documentation and advice about how to avoid plagiarism, along with advice on how to format your paper, giving you in one easy-to-use chapter all the guidance you need.

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An Introduction to Literature

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The dalliance of the eagles

In [full?] clear sight, high in the ample space

? I see The rushing contact amp amorous contact of the eagles

(The twain—the male and female) The interlocking claws, the spreading wings, The spiral cutting the air together By locking talons held—one mass reliev’d against the sky

Swift ^Four wings, gigantic—two beaks— Downward gyrating—splendid ^swift

loops—over and over falling, rolling turning, an falling, pausing swift revolving circling, falling

Over Abo Close to the river pausing—motionless—? a minute—balanced motionless

Then Till tacitly unlocking on slow majest firm pinion, then, she hers, [he ?] his, their seperate flight pursuing

We reproduce the draft (along with a modern transcription) of Walt Whitman’s “The Dalliance of Eagles,” written in 1870. For the final version of the poem, see page 939. The manuscript is now in the Clifton Waller Barnett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Manuscript for “Dalliance of the eagles” by Walt Whitman, MMS 3829, Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collec- tions, University of Virginia. Reprinted by permission.

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F I F T E E N T H E D I T I O N

An Introduction to Literature Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Second Printing

SYLVAN BARNET Tufts University

WILLIAM BURTO University of Massachusetts at Lowell

WILLIAM E. CAIN Wellesley College

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barnet, Sylvan. An introduction to literature: fiction, poetry, and drama / Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E.

Cain. — Fifteenth ed. p. cm.

ISBN 0-205-59909-5 1. Literature—Collections. I. Burto, William. II. Cain, William E., – III. Title.

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Copyright © 2008 by Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E. Cain

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