Archetypal patterns in tragic poetry / Maud Bodkin

Archetype and signature (the relationship of poet and poem) / Leslie Fiedler

The nature of symbolic language / Erich Fromm

Family and religion / William J. Goode

The sacred marriage / James G. Frazer

Fictional modes / Northrop Frye

The divine family : sky father, earth mother

The origin of the world / The Mission Indians of California

The creation : Genesis, chapters 1 and 2

Metamorphoses I, 1-373 [excerpts]. The creation ; The four ages ; Jove's intervention ; The story of Lycaon ; The flood / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

Lady Madonna / John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Night-sea journey / John Barth

Crow blacker than ever / Ted Hughes

Europa (from Metamorphoses, II, 830-875) / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

The annunciation : Luke, chapter 1

Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats

The prodigal son : Luke, chapter 15

A voyage to Cythera / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Frederick Morgan

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adam and Eve : Genesis, chapters 2 and 3

The fall of Adam and Eve (from Paradise Lost, IX, 722-1189 / John Milton

Araby / James Joyce

Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas

When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

Innocence / Sean O'Faolain

Jacob serves Laban for Rachel and Leah : Genesis, chapter 29

The golden vanity / Anonymous

The hero with one face / David Wagoner

The exodus : Exodus, chapters 13, 14 and 15

What is the beautiful? / Kenneth Patchen

Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe

I saw a man / Stephen Crane

The land of heart's desire / William Butler Yeats

The Mediterranean / Allen Tate

The promised visit / Grey Cohoe

An encounter / James Joyce

Telemachos (from The Odyssey, Book II / Homer

my father moved through dooms of love / e.e. cummings

Daddy / Sylvia Plath

Father and I / Par Lagerkvist ; translated by M. Ekenberg

In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from Metamorphoses, X, 1085) / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

The raising of Lazarus : John, chapter 11

The resurrection : Luke, chapters 23 and 24

Summer water and Shirley / Durango Mendoza

Snake / D.H. Lawrence

Joe Hill / Alfred Hayes

Achilles (from The Iliad, Book XX) / Homer

Prometheus bound / Aeschylus ; translated by Edith Hamilton

Eclogue IV / Vergil

Messiah : Daniel, chapter 11

Servant of Jehovah : Isaiah, chapter 53

The birth of Jesus : Matthew, chapters 1, 2 and 3

A god and yet a man? / Anonymous

The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woyzeck / Georg Buchner

Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Oedipus / Edwin Muir

Morning song from "Senlin" / Conrad Aiken

Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) / Robert Duncan

Rethinking a children's story / Dick Allen

God's other side / Langston Hughes

New kittens (from Bound for glory, chapter 4) / Woody Guthrie

Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; translated by Saul Bellow

Satan in Hell and in Eden (from Paradise Lost, I, 242-270; IV, 1-113 / John Milton

Faustus (from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, I, iii) / Christopher Marlowe

The dark angel / Lionel Johnson

Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith

in Just-spring / e.e. cummings

Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder

I have no mouth, and I must scream / Harlan Ellison

Cain : Genesis, chapter 4

Ishmael : Genesis, chapters 16, 17 and 21

The man of the crowd