- Laughing Boy
- Tribes and Temples
- The Enemy Gods
- The Way West (movie)
- Fair Land, Fair Land
- These Thousand Hills (movie)
- Shane (movie)
- The Kentuckian (movie)
- The Big Sky (movie)
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- Michael Scarlett
- The Last Adam
- Guard of Honor
- By Love Possessed
- Tobacco Road
- God's Little Acre
- The Women
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye
- Margin for Error
- Lamb in His Bosom
- One In A Lifetime
- You Can't Take It With You (with George S. Kaufman)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- George Washington Slept Here
- As Thousands Cheer
- Act One
- Long Remember
- Arouse and Beware
- Andersonville
- Studs Lonigan
- Appointment in Samarra
- Butterfield 8
- Times Three
- The Children's Hour
- Watch on the Rhine
- The Little Foxes
- Toys in the Attic
- All the King's Men
- "Lullaby: Smile in Sleep"
- "Love Recognized"
- Waiting For Lefty
- Golden Boy
- Awake and Sing
- The Big Knife
- The Country Girl
- Men In White
- Dead End
- Detective Story
- Darkness at Noon
- "As I Walked Out One Evening"
- "Musee des Beaux Arts" (With link to Breughel's "Fall of Icarus")
- "The Unknown Citizen"
- Tales of the South Pacific
- Hawaii
- Harvey
- Mrs. McThing
- Native Son
- Black Boy
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- The Human Comedy
- A Death in the Family
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- "The Man With the Golden Arm"
- "A Walk on the Wild Side"
- The Big Rock Candy MOuntain
- Joe Hill
- All the Little Live Things
- Angle of Repose
- Recapitulation
- Crossing to Safety
- Collected Stories
- The Ponder Heart
- A Curtain of Green
- "A Worn Path"
- "A Still Moment"
- "Why I Live at the P.O.
- Now in November
- Wildwood
- Four Poems: "Filling Station," "The Bight," "Five Flights Up," "Lullaby for the Cat"
- "The Shampoo"
- Eleven poems:"At the Fishhouses," "Visits to St. Elizabeths," "In the Waiting Room," "One Art," "The Moose," "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore," "The Fish," "The Man-Moth," "The Armadillo"
- The Glass Menagerie
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Summer and Smoke
- Camino Real
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Rose Tattoo
- Suddenly Last Summer
- Sweet Bird of Youth
- The Night of the Iguana
- "Love and Death in Tennessee Williams by John J. Fritscher, Ph.D.
- "The Death of Justina"
- "The Fourth Alarm"
- Bullet Park
- The Wapshot Chronicle
- "John Cheever: Parody and the Suburban Aesthetic" by John Dyer
- "Position Paper on 'Goodbye, My Brother'"
- Come Back, Little Sheba
- Picnic
- Bus Stop
- The Dark At the Top of the Stairs
- "Those Winter Sundays"
- Five Poems: "Full Moon," "Middle Passage," "The Whipping," "Those Winter Sundays," "Soledad
- The Young Lions
- "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses"
- "The First Time"
- "You Lay Above Me"
- "A Critical History of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse During the Editorship of Karl Shapiro (1950- 1955) by Diederik Oostdijk
John Berryman
(1914-1972)
- Nine poems: "The Ball Poem," "Sonnet 117," "Dream Song 1," "Dream Song 4," "Dream Song 13," "Dream Song 22," "Dream Song 29," "Dream Song 77," "Dream Song 324: An Elegy for W. C. W., the Lovely Man"
- From "Dream Songs I"
- "Dream Songs 14"
- "Dream Songs 146
- Criticism
- "Dream Songs and Nightmare Songs: The Balance of Style in the Later Poems of John Berryman by Jeffrey Alan Triggs
- The Assistant
- The Fixer
- The Magic Barrel
- A Bell for Adano
- Hiroshima
- The War Lover
- White Lotus
- Naked Lunch
- Invisible Man
- "Man Underground": Saul Bellow on Invisible Man
- The Collected Stories
- The Adventures of Augie March
- Herzog
- Mr. Sammler's Planet
- Saul Bellow: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- All My Sons
- Death of a Salesman
- The Crucible
- After the Fall
- A View from The Bridge
- The Price
- The Caine Mutiny
- Marjorie Morningstar
- Youngblood Hawke
- Don't Stop the Carnival
- The Moviegoer
- The Walker Percy Project
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- "Kilroy"
- The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans (Foreword, Chapters 1, 2, and 31)
- Conservatism from John Adams to Churchill
- Terror and Decorum
- The Tree Witch
- Criticism
- "Dignity in Old Age: The Poetical Meditations of Peter Viereck" by Michael A. Weinstein
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Member of the Wedding
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Links to sites on McCullers
- The Kentucky Cycle
- A Summons to Memphis
- Catcher in the Rye
- "A Perfect Day for Banana-Fish"
- "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry"
- "Definition"
- "Trees"
- "Learning By Doing (about 3/5th down the page)
- "The Great Gull" (halfway down the page)
- The Martian Chronicles
- Fahrenheit 451
- From Here to Eternity
- Some Came Running
- The Pistol
- The Thin Red Line
- "In the Smoking Car"
- Two poems: "Bone Key," "Compulsions"
- "Boy at the Window
- On the Road
- The Subterraneans
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Breakfast of Champions
- Miscellaneous
- Catch-22
Denise
Levertov (1923-1997)
- The Naked and the Dead
- The Armies of the Night
- Other Voices, Other Rooms
- In Cold Blood
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
- Notes of a Native Son
- The Fire Next Time
- Poems
- Wise Blood
- "The Geranium"
- "The Artificial Nigger"
- "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
- "A South Without Myths" by Alice Walker
- No Place to Be Somebody
- "The Short Happy Afterlife of Charles Gordone" by Richard H. Costa
- Williwaw
- The City and the Pillar
- A Search for the King
- The Judgment of Paris
- Visit to a Small Planet
- The Best Man
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Lie Down in Darkness
- "From 'For Love'"
- "Four Days in Vermont"
- "Nothing New"
- "Goodbye"
- "Ballad of the Despairing Husband"
- "I Know a Man"
- "A Form of Women"
- "The Conspiracy"
- Four poems: "The Conspiracy," "love," "Myself," "A Form of Women"
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Foreign Affairs
- Poems
John Ashbery (1927- )
- Barefoot in the Park
- The Odd Couple
- Brighton Beach Memoirs
- The Sunshine Girl
- The Zoo Story
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- A Delicate Balance
- Tiny Alice
- Seascape
- Three Tall Women
- "Aggressing Against the Status Quo" (Interview with Albee)
- "Phenomenal Women"
- "When You Come to Me"
- "Poor Girl"
- "Woman Work"
- "Where We Belong, A Duet"
- "Come, And Be My Baby"
- "Still I Rise"
- "The Lie"
- Maya Angelou Home Page: contains poems ("Ain't That Bad?," "Alone," "A Brave & Startling Truth," "The Black Family Pledge," "Equality," "Glory Falls," "Insomniac," "Phenomenal Woman," "Recovery," "On the Pulse of the Morning," "Still I Rise," A poem written for Touched By An Angel); a biography; an interview with Angelou; other links
- 22 Poems: "A Brave and Startling Truth," "A Poem from the Million Man March," "Ain't That Bad," "Equality," "Glory Falls," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "On the Pulse of Morning," "Our Grandmothers," "Phenomenal Woman," "Preacher, Don't Send Me," "Prisoner," "Recovery," "Son to Mother," "Song for the Old Ones," "Still I Rise," "Televised," "The Black Family Pledge," "The Rock Cries Out to Us Today," "Those Yet to be United States," "Touched by an Angel," "The Traveller," "Weekend Glory"
- Ironweed
- The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore
- The Lathe of Heaven
- Dancing at the Edge of the World
- The Dispossessed
- "The Bear's Gift"
- "Miracle Ice Cream"
- Four poems: "In Those Years," "Prospective Immigrants Please Note," "In a Classroom," "From An Atlas of the Difficult World"
- "For the Dead"
- "From a Survivor
- "From Two Songs"
- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Sot-Weed Factor
- Giles Goat-Boy
- Lost in the Funhouse
- The Book of Daniel
- Ragtime
- Billy Bathgate
- Loon Lake
- Waterworks
- "The Last American Hero"
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- The Right Stuff
- "Daddy"
- "Two Sisters of Persephone"
- "Lady Lazarus"
- "Metaphors"
- Several Poems : "Fever 103 deg.," "Mad Girl's Love Song," "Mushrooms," "The Colossus," "The Eye-Mote," "Pursuit," "Monologue at 3 a.m.," "The Rival," "Paralytic," "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy," "Elm," "Virgin in a Tree," "Poems, Potatoes," "I Am Vertical," "Mirror," "Words," "In Plaster"
- 42 poems: "The Eye-Mote," "The Colossus," "The Thin People," "Mushrooms," "The Disquieting Muses," "Frog Autumn," "Crossing the Water," "Blackberrying," "I Am Vertical," "In Plaster," "Stillborn," "Mirror," "Winter Trees," "Child," "Morning Song," "The Couriers," "Sheep in Fog," "The Applicant," "Lady Lazarus," "Tulips," "Cut," "Elm," "The Night Dances," "Poppies in October," "Berck-Plage," "Ariel," "Death & Co.," "Nick and the Candlestick," "Medusa," "The Moon and the Yew Tree," "The Rival," "Daddy," "Fever 103 deg.," "Paralytic," "Edge," "Words," "Soliloquy of the Solipist," "Tale of a Tub," "Electra on Azalea Path," "The Night Dances," "Mad Girl's Love Song," "Pursuit," "Monologue at 3 a.m.," "Virgin in a Tree," "Poems, Potatoes"
- Rabbit Run
- Rabbit Redux
- The Centaur
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- Portnoy's Complaint
- Goodbye, Columbus
- American Pastoral
- Dutchman
- House Made of Dawn
- The Stone Diaries
- The Shipping News
- Bedrock
- Lonesome Dove
- Driving Miss Daisy
- The Last Night of Ballyhoo
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
- Indians
- The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
- The Crying of Lot 49
- Lemon Sky
- Short Stories
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- Breathing Lessons
- "That Day"
- "Nikki-Rosa" (Very difficult to read because of background color and text color)
- "Communication" (Very difficult to read because of background color and text color)
- Elbow Room: Stories
- "More Later, Less the Same"
- "The Wrong Way Home
- "Happy As the Day is Long
- Eight Poems: "Never Again the Same," "The Definition of Gardening," "My Felisberto," "Dream On," "Non-Stop," "The New Ergonomics," "Days of Pie and Coffee," "Restless Leg Syndrome"
- Independence Day
Alice Walker
(1944- )
- The Color Purple
- The Piano Lesson
- Fences
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
- Coffee, Cigarettes, and a Run in the Park
- The Alleys of Eden: A Novel
- Countrymen of Bones
- The Deep Green Sea: A Novel [Reviews by Paul Kafka and James Busbee]
- The Deuce
- On Distant Ground
- Sun Dogs
- Tabloid Dreams: Stories [Reviews by Clark Humphrey and Kelly Bahmer-Brouse]
- They Whisper: A Novel
- Wabash: A Novel
- "Saigon"
- 24 poems: "Ode to the Maggot," "Ode to the Raccoon," "Lime," "Venus's-flytraps," "The Smoke House," "Blackberries," "Yellow Jackets," "My Father's Love Letters," "Believing in Iron," "Slam, Dunk, & Hook," "Camouflaging the Chimera," "You And I Are Disappearing," "We Never Know," "A Break from the Bush," "Tu Do Street," "Prisoners," "Thanks," "Blue LIght Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel," "Ode to a Drum," "A reed Boat," "The Deck," "Rhythm Method," "Facing It," "Anodyne"
- "Tobe's Blues"
- "The Music That Hurts"
- "Outside the Blue Nile"
- "My Father's Love Letters"
- "Charmed"
- "Starlight Scope Myopia"
- "Salt"
- "The Plea"
- "When Loneliness is a Man"
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- A Thousand Acres
- Brief Synopsis
- Moo
- The Heidi Chronicles
- The American Daughter
- The Sisters Rosensweig
- "A Beautiful, Disintegrating World" by Mark S. P. Turvin
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- "My Mother Enters the Work Force"
- "Lady Freedom Among Us"
- "The Slave's Critique of Practical Reason"
- "Flirtation"
- "The Yellow House on the Corner"
- "Adolescence I
- "Hade's Pitch"
- "The Fish in the Stone"
- "Used"
- "History"
- "Afield"
- "Lost Brilliance"
- "Primer for the Nuclear Age"
- An Interview with Rita Dove
- Angels in America