Introduction -- King Oedipus, by Sophocles -- King Lear, by W. Shakespeare -- Roger Malvin's burial, by N. Hawthorne -- Death of a traveling salesman, by E. Welty -- Edward. Anonymous -- Michael, by W. Wordsworth -- The convergence of the twain, by T. Hardy -- Easter 1916, by W. B. Yeats -- Original sin: a short story, by R. P. Warren -- Benito Cereno, by R. Lowell.
