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