The Riverside Anthology of Literature, Third Edition
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Rating | : | 4.24 (748 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0395760704 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 1728 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-01-10 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
To acquaint students quickly with the specific qualities of a genre, each section now opens with six short selections that focus on a particular theme for easy comparison and contrast.. For composition and introduction to literature courses, The Riverside Anthology of Literature has long been praised for its rich variety of selections, its interwoven commentary, its eloquent editorial prose, its unobtrusive apparatus, and its organizational flexibility
Just okay I got this book for a literature class. It has a great collection of stories but was very hard to get around. The lack of orginization made it difficult to enjoy.. An overall great book This book has some great poetry in it as well as some really good plays and short stories. I definitely reccomend it as a good addition to any bookshelf.. "Nice Book, But Doesn't Really Contain Anything MOre Than Literatures" according to Nathan T.. The book is like most other literature books, this one was meant more for college. Containing mainly poems, plays, and short stories written by some well known writers that some of you could probably feel familiar with more or less. The book mainly delievers what it is about and therefore its satisfactory. The book also talks about the author such as dates and the other books in their collection o
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz. There Is a Girl Inside. The Fish. God's Grandeur. William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. Ash, Snow or Moonlight. A Poison Tree. Eliot: On Intellectual versus Reflective Poetry. Countee Cullen: Hughes's Overemphasis on Race. Terence, This is Stupid Stuff. The Sick Rose. The Scholars. T.S. Leda and the Swan. The Hollow Men. Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms. The Snow-Leopard. Cut. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun. A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body. Preludes. To My Brother. The Engine. Incident. The Tyger. A.E. Dreamsong 4. Two in the Campagna. Housman: Blake's Revolt Against the Intellect. Daddy. The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock. Elephants.