Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

The authors, writers, poets, and playwrights include the following; Maya Angelou; Leonard Adame; W.H. Auden; Margaret Atwood; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Rupert Brooke; Charles Bukowski; Suzanne Berger; Matsuo Basho; Kate Chopin; Raymond Carver; e.e. cummings; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Lucille Clifton; Thomas Campion; Emily Dickinson; Ariel Dorfman; William Faulkner; Robert Frost; Jane Flanders; Susan Glaspell; Nadine GOrdimer; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Nikki Giovanni; Louise Gluck; Barbara Greenberg; Ernest Hemingway; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Robert Hayden; Seamus Heaney; Ted Hughes; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hardy; Robert Herrick; A.E. Housman; James Joyce; Shirley Jackson; David Michael Kaplan; Jamaica Kincaid; Yusef Komunyakaa; Carolyn Kizer; D.H. Lawrence; Robert Lowell; Denise LEvertov; Katherine Mansfield; Archibald Macleish; Marianne Moore; Christopher Marlowe; Janice Mirikitani; Tillie Olsen; Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Wilfred Owen; Ann Petry; Edgar Allan Poe; Dorothy Parker; Sylvia Plath; Ezra Pound; Alberto Alvaro Rios; Adrienne Rich; Theodore Roethke; Sir Walter Raleigh; Dudley Randall; William Shakespeare; Leslie Marmon SIlko; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Anne Sexton; Sipho Sepamla; William Stafford; Jim Sagel; Edmund Spenser; Gary Snyder; Amy Tan; Dylan Thomas; John Updike; Richard Wright; Alice Walker; Eudora Welty; William Wordsworth; Walt Whitman; James Wright; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams; William BUtler Yeats; Louis ZUkofsky;

I had to buy this book for a literature class, and it is chock full of everything from poetry to plays to fiction, long and short stories. Nice book. Have been reading more than the required because it has such a nice selection.

Great for any English Major will use again and again and its easier than carrying seven books.

We used this book in my literature class, and I should say that I am not a fan of literature classes, but this book was very surprising. It contains short stories, poems, and plays like any other text, but if offers a wide variety of topics for selection by the professor or the student based on personal preferences or educational objectives. For instance, when working with poetry, students may choose from a variety of poems from baseball to romance. It is all there! Another example would be the short stories in the text; they range from stories of military experience to Asian family traditions. It is not only a literature book, but also a book of culture and variety. It is so well rounded it should appeal to all types of personalities, likes, and dislikes.

I used this book for a college literature class. It is a great book covering short stories, plays, poems and more. This is one book I will not be selling back!