Product Description For Introduction to Literature courses and Freshman Composition courses that emphasize writing about literature. Roberts delivers the best coverage of writing about literature. Complete coverage of writing about fiction, poetry, and drama and a total of 32 student essays with accompanying commentary ensure student comprehension of writing about literature, which helps students produce better papers. Edgar Roberts was inspired to create his first book - Writing about Literature - as a direct result of his experiences in the college classroom. Professor Roberts noticed that there was a clear correlation between the level of detail he provided when explaining his class assignments and the quality of work he received from his students: the more class time he devoted to describing what he wanted, the better the final essays turned out to be. As a result of this observation, Roberts created his successful text Writing about Literature to fill this need in literature and composition classrooms everywhere. Soon afterwards, Roberts realized that literature classrooms needed both the instruction provided in Writing about Literature and an anthology to meet the needs of a course based around that text. This led him to create Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. This volume contains classroom-tested selections in the areas of fiction, poetry, and drama, with analysis of each. Additionally, Roberts provides explanatory material in all relevant subject areas drawn from his years of experience teaching literature.
Book came in great condition, just what we needed December 12, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book came quickly and in good condition. Good buy and my daughter really needed it for school.
Great Stories October 7, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the better English books I have used. It has a great variety of short stories and discussion topics.
Excellent Anthology of Literature March 20, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's an excellent anthology. Here are some of the writers, playwrights, authors, and others who have contributed to this text.
Aesop; Matthew Arnold; Anne Bradstreet; Aphra Behn; William Blake; Robert Burns; Lord Byron; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Robert Bridges; Thomas Campion; Richard Crashaw; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lewis Carroll; Michael Drayton; John Donne; John Dryden; Emily Dickinson; Anne Finch; Thomas Gray; Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Frances E.W. Harper; Thomas Hardy; Henrik Ibsen; Ben Jonson; Henry King; John Keats; Richard Lovelace; Christopher Marlowe; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; Moliere; Thomas Nashe; Katherine Phillips; Alexander Pope; Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Walter Raleigh; Christina Rossetti; Sophocles; Saint Luke; Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney; William Shakespeare; Jonathan Swift; Percy Shelley; Edward Taylor; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Mark Twain; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Edmyund Waller; Phyllis Wheatley; William Wordsworth; Cornelius Whur; Walt Whitman;
For a textbook it's a really good book January 22, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Obviously I purchased this for class, but unlike some textbooks which can be boring this one was really great. It's more of a collection of plays, stories, poems, etc. than a "literature is blah, blah, blah". It's also very informative, some of the english books I've had for other classes have been really boring or they've cut some of the authors work short. This one gives you so much that I'd really call it more of a book of collected works than a textbook.
It's also broken into sections like Fiction, Poems, which makes it easy to navigate through and the sections are further broken into chapters such as theme, setting, etc. with works that correspond, so you really get a good example of what each chapter is talking about.
One negative though would be the size, it's really big but with all that's included I guess it only makes sense that it would be that massive.
All in all it was a great purchase plus I think I bought it from someone on Amazon for a $1 (for a hardcover!) so it was also a good buy. My suggestion would be that more English professosrs should use it or for anyone who just wants to be informed literally, this is a really good book.
Pretty good text with online adjunct videos for free October 30, 2005 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Used for my college English II class, this text presents many literary ideas which could be useful for fully learning the many apsects of english.
There is an adjunct video course also usually taught in conjunction with this text, and its available for free on demand online at learner dot org.
I've kept this text for the many stories and usefull English info. Worth having.
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