The Experience of Literature

The Experience of Literature: A Reader with Commentaries is an anthology of short stories and poems, divided into four parts, and edited in 1967 by Lionel Trilling of Columbia University. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67–15654.

Part 1: Drama
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear

Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making William Butler Yates, Purgatory Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

Part 2: Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" Plus 20 more stories.

Part 3: Poetry
Plus many more poems
 * "Lydicus"
 * "Dover Beach"
 * "Ode to a Nightinggale"
 * "To His Coy Mistress"
 * "Ode to the West Wind"

Part 4: Poetry for Further Reading
Contains over 200 poems