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Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 4/E
R. S. Gwynn, Lamar University

ISBN-10: 0321244966
ISBN-13: 9780321244963

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 512 pp
Status: Out of Print

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This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology of poetry features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich.

  • Brief! This pocket-sized anthology focuses mainly on the selections. Apparatus is limited to the essentials.
  • Affordable! In keeping with all of the books in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, this anthology is priced well under that of traditional poetry anthologies.
  • Chronologically organized, the wide range of selections covers the full scope of the poetic tradition from popular ballads to works by poets born in the 60s.
  • “Writing about Poetry” section offers students the most basic tips on organization and MLA style citation.
  • Index of critical terms provides a cross-referenced list of terms covered in the text.

  • 66 new selections including works by Sherman Alexie, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Michael Donaghy, Suji Kwock Kim, and Harryette Mullen.
  • New selections make this only compact anthology of poetry to include examples of virtually every poetic form used in English-language poetry.
  • Expanded appendix treats stanza, fixed, and nonce forms.

"*" Denotes new selection to this edition. This tentative table of contents is for early review purposes; the final contents may not include all of the selections listed here.

Preface.


Introduction.

An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts.

Speaker, Listener, and Context.

“The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic.

The Language of Poetry.

Figurative Language.

Allegory and Symbol.

Tone of Voice.

Repetition: Sounds and Schemes.

Meter and Rhythm.

Free Verse and Open Form.

Stanza Forms.

Fixed Forms.

A Brief Note: Literary History, Poetic Conventions, and Theory.



Writing About Poetry.


Poetry.

Anonymous.

Western Wind.

Bonny Barbara Allan.

Sir Patrick Spens.

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542).

They Flee from Me.

*Whoso List to Hunt.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599).

Amoretti: Sonnet 75.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1.

Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).

The Burning Babe.

Michael Drayton (1563-1631).

Idea: Sonnet 61.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Sonnet 18.

Sonnet 20.

Sonnet 29.

Sonnet 73.

Sonnet 116.

*Sonnet 129.

Sonnet 130.

When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter).

Thomas Campion (1567-1620).

There Is a Garden in Her Face.

John Donne (1572-1631).

The Canonization.

The Flea.

Holy Sonnet 10.

Holy Sonnet 14.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637).

On My First Son.

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount.

Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?).

In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674).

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

George Herbert (1593-1633).

Easter Wings.

Love (III).

The Pulley.

Redemption.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687).

Song.

John Milton (1608-1674).

How Soon Hath Time.

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent.

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).

The Author to Her Book.

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678).

To His Coy Mistress.

John Dryden (1631-1700).

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham.

Edward Taylor (1642-1729).

Huswifery.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).

A Description of a City Shower.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744).

from An Essay on Criticism.

Ode on Solitude.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771).

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Christopher Smart (1722-1771).

from Jubilate Agno.

William Blake (1757-1827).

The Chimney Sweeper.

The Little Black Boy.

A Poison Tree.

The Tyger.

Robert Burns (1759-1796).

A Red, Red Rose.

John Barleycorn.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

It Is a Beauteous Evening.

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

Frost at Midnight.

Kubla Khan.

Work Without Hope.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824).

*She Walks in Beauty.

Stanzas.

When We Two Parted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

Ode to the West Wind.

Ozymandias.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).

To the Fringed Gentian.

John Keats (1795-1821).

La Belle Dame sans Merci.

Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Ode to a Nightingale.

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.

When I Have Fears.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).

*Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18.

Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

The Arsenal at Springfield.

The Cross of Snow.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

*Israfel.
 
The Haunted Palace.

The Raven.

To Helen.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).

The Eagle.

*The Lady of Shalott.

Tears, Idle Tears.

Ulysses.

Robert Browning (1812-1889).

My Last Duchess.

Porphyria's Lover.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

A Noiseless Patient Spider.

*O Captain, My Captain.

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

Song of Myself, 6.

*Song of Myself, 11.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888).

Dover Beach.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

*After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death.

*I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.

*Much Madness is Divinest Sense.

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.

*Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church.

The Soul Selects Her Own Society.

*There's a Certain Slant of Light.

*Wild Nights–Wild Nights.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894).

Up-Hill.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?

The Convergence of the Twain.

Neutral Tones.

The Ruined Maid.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).

God's Grandeur.

Pied Beauty.

*Spring and Fall: To a Young Child.

*The Windhover.

*Emma Lazarus (1849-1887).

*The New Colossus.

A. E. Housman (1859-1936).

Eight O'Clock.

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now.

Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall.

“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff...”

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

Leda and the Swan.

Sailing to Byzantium.

The Second Coming.

The Song of Wandering Aengus.

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935).

Firelight.

Eros Turannos.

The Mill.

Richard Cory.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900).

*The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers.

*The Wayfarer.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).

We Wear the Mask.

Robert Frost (1874-1963).

Acquainted with the Night.

After Apple-Picking.

Design.

Home Burial.

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things.

*The Road Not Taken.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

*Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1034).

*Amaze.

*Languor after Pain.

*Trapped.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).

Anecdote of the Jar.

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.

*The Emperor of Ice-Cream.

The Snow Man.

Sunday Morning.

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963).

The Last Words of My English Grandmother.

The Red Wheelbarrow.

Spring and All.

*This Is Just to Say.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972).

In a Station of the Metro.

Portrait d'une Femme.

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter.

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928).

Let No Charitable Hope.

*Ophelia.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961).

Pear Tree.

Sea Rose.

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).

Dreamers.

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962).

The Purse-Seine.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972).

The Fish.

Silence.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965).

Journey of the Magi.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

*Preludes.

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).

*The Equilibrists.

Piazza Piece.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).

If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way.

Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word.

*Recuerdo.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918).

Dulce et Decorum Est.

e. e. cummings (1894-1962).

In Just-.

nobody loses all the time.

pity this busy monster,manunkind.

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r.

Jean Toomer (1894-1967).

*Georgia Dusk.

Louise Bogan (1897-1970).

Women.

Hart Crane (1899-1933).

Chaplinesque.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967).

Dream Boogie.

Theme for English B.

*The Weary Blues.

Countee Cullen (1903-1946).

Incident.

Yet Do I Marvel.

A. D. Hope (1907-2000).

Imperial Adam.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973).

As I Walked Out One Evening.

Musée des Beaux Arts.

The Unknown Citizen.

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963).

Dolor.

My Papa's Waltz.

Root Cellar.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).

The Fish.

One Art.

*Sestina.

Robert Hayden (1913-1980).

Those Winter Sundays.

Dudley Randall (B. 1914).

Ballad of Birmingham.

William Stafford (1914-1993).

Traveling through the Dark.

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

Fern Hill.

Weldon Kees (1914-1955).

For My Daughter.

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965).

*90 North.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.

Margaret Walker (B. 1915).

For Malcolm X.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000).

*The Ballad of Chocolate Mabbie.

the mother.

We Real Cool.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977).

For the Union Dead.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (B. 1919).

A Coney Island of the Mind, #15.

May Swenson (1919-1989).

How Everything Happens.

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991).

A Primer of the Daily Round.

Richard Wilbur (B. 1921).

Junk.

Playboy.

The Writer.

Year's End.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985).

Next, Please.

Aubade.

This Be the Verse.

James Dickey (1923-1997).

The Heaven of Animals.

Alan Dugan (B. 1923).

Love Song: I and Thou.

Anthony Hecht (B. 1923).

*The Book of Yolek.

*Third Avenue in Sunlight.

*Daniel Hoffman.

*As I Was Going to Saint-Ives.

Denise Levertov (1923-1999).

The Ache of Marriage.

Louis Simpson (B. 1923).

American Classic.

My Father in the Night Commanding No.

Vassar Miller (1924-1997).

Subterfuge.

Donald Justice (B. 1925).

Counting the Mad.

Carolyn Kizer (B. 1925).

The Ungrateful Garden.

*From “Pro Femina” Three.

Maxine Kumin (B. 1925).

Noted in the New York Times.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997).

A Supermarket in California.

James Merrill (1926-1995).

Casual Wear.

Charles on Fire.

W. D. Snodgrass (B. 1926).

Mementos, I.

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966).

The Day Lady Died.

John Ashbery (B. 1927).

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape.

Paradoxes and Oxymorons.

W. S. Merwin (B. 1927).

For the Anniversary of My Death.

The Last One.

James Wright (1927-1980).

A Blessing.

Saint Judas.

Philip Levine (B. 1928).

*Animals Are Passing from Our Lives.

*You Can Have It.

Anne Sexton (1928-1974).

Cinderella.

The Truth the Dead Know.

Thom Gunn (B. 1929).

From the Wave.

Terminal.

X. J. Kennedy (B. 1929).

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day.

*September Twelfth, 2001.

Adrienne Rich (B. 1929).

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.

Diving into the Wreck.

Rape.

Ted Hughes (B. 1930).

Pike.

Gary Snyder (B. 1930).

A Walk.

Derek Walcott (B. 1930).

Central America.

Miller Williams (B. 1930).

The Book.

Linda Pastan (B. 1932).

*1932-.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).

Daddy.

Edge.

Metaphors.

Gerald Barrax (B. 1933).

Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985.

Mark Strand (B. 1934).

The Tunnel.

*Russel Edson (B. 1935).

*Ape.

Mary Oliver (B. 1935).

The Black Walnut Tree.

Fred Chappell (B. 1936).

Narcissus and Echo.

Lucille Clifton (B. 1936).

*homage to my hips.

*wishes for sons.

Marge Piercy (B. 1936).

*What's That Smell in the Kitchen!

Betty Adcock (B. 1938).

Digression on the Nuclear Age.

Gary Gildner (B. 1938).

First Practice.

Robert Phillips (B. 1938).

Compartments.

Dabney Stuart (B. 1938).

Discovering My Daughter.

Margaret Atwood (B. 1939).

Siren Song.

Stephen Dunn (B. 1939).

The Sacred.

Seamus Heaney (B. 1939).

Digging.

Punishment.

*Al Young (B. 1939).

*Sundays in Democracies.

Tom Disch (B. 1940).

Ballade of the New God.

Florence Cassen Mayers (B. 1940).

All-American Sestina.

Pattiann Rogers (B. 1940).

Foreplay.

*Billy Collins (B. 1941).

*Paradelle for Susan.

*Schoolsville.

Robert Hass (B. 1941).

Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan.

Simon J. Ortiz (B. 1941).

The Serenity in Stones.

*James Reiss (B. 1941).

*Arigato Means Thank You.

Gibbons Ruark (B. 1941).

The Visitor.

Gladys Cardiff (B. 1942).

Combing.

Charles Martin (B. 1942).

E.S.L.

Sharon Olds (B. 1942).

The One Girl at the Boys Party.

*Henry Taylor (B. 1942).

*From Brief Candles.

*Diane Lockward (B. 1942).

*My Husband Discovers Poetry.

Ellen Bryant Voigt (B. 1943).

Daughter.

Wendy Cope (B. 1944).

Rondeau Redoublé.

*Triolet.

*Dick Davis (B. 1945).

*A Monorhyme for the Shower.

*Kay Ryan (B. 1945).

*Bestiary.

Robert Morgan (B. 1944).

Mountain Bride.

Craig Raine (B. 1944).

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.

Enid Shomer (B. 1944).

Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen.

B.H. Fairchild (B. 1945).

Body and Soul.

Leon Stokesbury (B. 1945).

Evening's End.

Marilyn Nelson (B. 1946).

The Ballad of Aunt Geneva.

Ai (B. 1947).

Child Beater.

Jim Hall (B. 1947).

Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too.

Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947).

Facing It.

R.S. Gwynn.

Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses an Anthology of Poetry.

Timothy Steele (B. 1948).

Sapphics Against Anger.

James Fenton (B. 1949).

God, a Poem.

Sarah Cortez (B. 1950).

Tu Negrito.

Carolyn Forché (B. 1950).

The Colonel.

Dana Gioia (B. 1950).

Planting a Sequoia.

Rodney Jones (B. 1950).

Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Timothy Murphy (B. 1950).

*Case Notes.

Joy Harjo (B. 1951).

*She Had Some Horses.

Andrew Hudgins (B. 1951).

Air View of an Industrial Scene.

*Judith Ortiz Cofer (B. 1952).

*The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.

Rita Dove (B. 1952).

Adolescence III.

Mark Jarman (B. 1952).

After Disappointment.

Naomi Shihab Nye (B. 1952).

The Traveling Onion.

Alberto Ríos (B. 1952).

The Purpose of Altar Boys.

Julia Alvarez (B. 1953).

Bilingual Sestina.

*Harryette Mullen (B. 1953).

*Dim Lady.

*Michael Donaghy (B. 1953).

*The River Spate.

*Kim Addonizio (B. 1954).

*Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton.

David Mason (B. 1954).

Song of the Powers.

Mary Jo Salter (B. 1954).

Welcome to Hiroshima.

Cathy Song (B. 1955).

Stamp Collecting.

*Ginger Andrews (B. 1956).

*Primping in the Rearview Mirror.

*Annie Finch (B. 1956).

*Coy Mistress.

*April Lindner (B. 1962)

*First Kiss.

Catherine Tufariello (B. 1963).

Useful Advice.

*Sherman Alexie (B. 1966).

*The Exaggeration of Despair.

*Suji Kwock Kim (B. 1968).

Occupation.

*Morrie Creech (B. 1970).

*Broken Glass.

*Beth Ann Fennelly (B. 1971).

*Asked for a Happy Memory of her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field.



Appendix A: Poems Grouped by Genre, Technique, or Subject.


Appendix B: Traditional Stanza and Fixed Forms.


Acknowledgements.


Index of Critical Terms.


Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines.

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    Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

  • 0321421841American Story, The, Volume I, (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 512 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321421841 | ISBN-13: 9780321421845
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    • The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative.

     

    Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

  • 032142185XAmerican Story, The, Volume II, (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 032142185X | ISBN-13: 9780321421852
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    • Brief, flexible, and economical, this Penguin Academics anthology presents classic and contemporary arguments on landmark issues in American life: the environment, education, censorship, civil disobedience, the struggle for liberation, and immigration and assimilation.

    Argument in America offers multi-sided dialogues on timeless issues fundamental to American culture and civic identity. The book introduces students to an historical dimension as well as contemporary perspectives from a wide range of authors writing in many genres: essays, speeches, poems, stories, and visual arguments. The final section of the anthology, “Arguments on Argument,” features several selections on the nature of argument itself. Helpful but unobtrusive editorial apparatus includes a brief general introduction, introductions to the seven sections, discussion questions, and headnotes for the selections, many of which explain how the selection contributes to the argumentative issue at hand.

  • 0321172787Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts (Penguin Academics Series)
    Selzer
    © 2004 | Longman | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321172787 | ISBN-13: 9780321172785
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    • The concise and affordable Penguin Academic Edition of College Success Strategies, 2/e, teaches students the skills and strategies that will enable them to be lifelong learners capable of knowing how to approach new and challenging material in college and beyond.

    Although the first priority of College Success Strategies is to help students learn effectively in their college courses, the skills they learn from this text will serve them well in the future in a variety of learning situations. College Success Strategies is designed to engage students in thought about their own learning and the important role they play in the learning process.

    Because effective learning is a complex process, the authors have based College Success Strategies on the idea that there are four key factors that must interact for learning to occur: 1.) The characteristics of the learner (motivation, interest, beliefs, etc); 2.) The tasks that students are asked to do (both the level of thinking required and type of assessment); 3.) The strategies that students must use (previewing, annotation, mapping, etc); and 4.) The characteristics of the texts with which students interact (textbooks, lecture, internet, and other sources of information).

    The strategies used in this book are based on the authors’ many years of experience interacting with college students and professors, as well as their own research focusing on how college students study. Students are often unprepared for the study demands of college and therefore overwhelmed and frustrated with the work. It takes more than just a few simple tips for a student to succeed academically and this book is designed to help students obtain lifelong methods and strategies to achieve success in college and beyond.

  • 0321332180College Success Strategies (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
    Nist-Olejnik & Holschuh
    © 2006 | Longman | Paper; 320 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321332180 | ISBN-13: 9780321332189
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    • Edited by poets about poets, Contemporary American Poetry is a brief, inexpensive, chronologically organized anthology of the work of major poets born after 1920.

    Featuring a broad scope of works from some of the most important and influential poets of the late 20th century—Howard Nemerov, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Anthony Hecht, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin—to the newest poetic voices, this anthology is a concise, but essential collection of contemporary poetry in America. Each poet is introduced with a brief informative headnote and most are represented by several poems to allow for in-depth study.

    Part of the Penguin Academics series, this text is distinguished for its brevity, economy, and quality. The perfect alternative to lengthy anthologies, it is an affordable introduction to the study of contemporary American literature.

  • 0321182820Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin Academics Series)
    Gwynn & Lindner
    © 2005 | Longman | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321182820 | ISBN-13: 9780321182821
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    • The perfect alternative to lengthy drama anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of the discipline's most widely taught plays provides a concise, but complete, introduction to the study of drama.

    In keeping with the objectives of the Penguin Academics series, Drama: A Pocket Anthology offers highly respected playwrights and a quality trade-format book at a very affordable price.  This expanded edition features five new selections—including plays by Paula Vogel and Athol Fugard—and a revised, updated section on “Writing about Drama.”
  • 0321277228Drama: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
    Gwynn
    © 2006 | Longman | Paper; 624 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321277228 | ISBN-13: 9780321277220
    Brief Description

    • Expanding Horizons is an off-beat collection of essays, poems, stories, and images certain to stimulate the imagination while improving both reading and writing skills.

     

    Each unusual reading selection and image is presented within a pedagogical framework of pre-reading discussion topics and vocabulary work, post-reading comprehension questions, journal responses, writing topics, and a unique feature Expanding Horizons, which introduces research and encourages students to be curious and critical about what they read. Students are urged to look beyond the given world, giving them analytical skills they need to forge their own connections among reading, writing, and thinking.

  • 0321276698Expanding Horizons (Penguin Academics Series)
    Thurman
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 400 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321276698 | ISBN-13: 9780321276698
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    • The perfect alternative to lengthy fiction anthologies, this brief, inexpensive, and diverse collection of 42 short stories provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of fiction.

  • 0321366328Fiction: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 5/E
    Gwynn
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 480 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321366328 | ISBN-13: 9780321366320
    Brief Description

    • Fifty Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

     

    This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

  • 0205533531Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
    DiYanni
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 416 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205533531 | ISBN-13: 9780205533534
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    • Fifty Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

    This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

  • 0321261623Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
    DiYanni
    © 2005 | Pearson Higher Education | Paper; 415 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321261623 | ISBN-13: 9780321261625
    Brief Description

    • Great Interdisciplinary Ideas: A Reader for Writers provides an outstanding collection of essays by major thinkers exploring great ideas in different fields of study.  It is part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

     

    This reader introduces students to the central issues of modern life–such as human rights, gender, economics, and utopias and dystopias–through an exploration of major ideas at work through time within and among different disciplines.  The book’s 58 selections have been chosen both for the high quality and importance of their thought and for their usefulness in stimulating critical reading and analytic and argumentative writing. 

  • 0321450019Great Interdisciplinary Ideas: A Reader for Writers (Penguin Academics Series)
    Vesterman
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 560 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321450019 | ISBN-13: 9780321450012
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    • This concise, affordable, and engaging new text is designed for introductory courses on logic and critical thinking.  This unique book covers the basic principles of informal logic while also raising substantive issues in other areas of philosophy: epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.  

     

    The author’s presentation strikes a careful balance: it offers clear, jargon-free writing while preserving rigor.  Brimming with numerous pedagogical features this accessible text assists students with analysis, reconstruction, and evaluation of arguments and helps them become independent, analytical thinkers.  Introductory students are exposed to the basic principles of reasoning while also having their appetites whetted for future courses in philosophy.

     

  • 0321337778How to Think Logically
    Seay & Nuccetelli
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321337778 | ISBN-13: 9780321337771
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    • Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing—an introduction to creative writing—covers all four genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama.

     

    Imaginative Writing discusses elements of craft common to all creative writing before delving into the individual genres. Each of the first five chapters investigates a specific element of craft–Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and Story–from a perspective that crosses all genres. Integrated readings from talented and renowned writers illustrate the chapter topics. Chapter 6 explores development and revision and serves as a bridge between the craft chapters and the genre chapters–Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. This unique organization allows students to experiment with creative techniques shared by all genres before deciding which form best suits their imagination. Unique "Try-This" exercises help students develop writing skills, while new “Working Toward a Draft” exercises encourage students to think ahead about the direction and possibilities of their work.

     

    In keeping with Longman's "Penguin Academics" series, Imaginative Writing offers an attractive, trade-format book at an affordable price.

  • 032135740XImaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
    Burroway
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 432 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 032135740X | ISBN-13: 9780321357403
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    • Inside Literature guides students through the process of analyzing a rich body of thematically arranged literature and crafting persuasive, well-supported argumentative essays.

     

    As a part of the Penguin Academics series, Inside Literature offers students a compact and portable volume with state-of-the-art scholarship, streamlined editorial apparatus, and an affordable price. Unlike bulky, expensive anthologies that indulge in process-oriented overkill, Inside Literature is designed for instructors who prefer to offer their students general strategies for approaching texts and generating things to say about them.

     

    Inside Literature takes a pragmatic approach. In the introductory chapters, students learn how to apply strategies for reading and responding thoughtfully to the short stories, poetry, drama, and essays, that follow, grouped around six engaging themes.

  • 0321438744Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing (Penguin Academics Series)
    Gwynn & Zani
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 1408 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321438744 | ISBN-13: 9780321438744
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    • Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, Literature as Meaning invites students to explore vital human issues shaped by literary art.

    In this brief, new thematic anthology, acclaimed author Wendy Steiner masterfully addresses a variety of approaches to exploring literature, including close readings of literary texts, a social issues-based approach--gender identity, ecology, and war--and an introduction to literature as a discipline with discussions of genre, canon, metaphor, etc. The text's organization, content, and pedagogy provides students with the opportunity to analyze all aspects of literature, rather than just focusing on the moral, social, or political themes raised.

    Part of the Penguin Academics series, this text is distinguished for its brevity, economy, and quality. The perfect alternative to lengthy anthologies, it is an affordable introduction to the study of literature.

  • 032117206XLiterature as Meaning (Penguin Academics Series)
    Steiner
    © 2005 | Longman | Paper; 1472 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 032117206X | ISBN-13: 9780321172068
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    • A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.

  • 0321366298Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
    Gwynn
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 1408 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321366298 | ISBN-13: 9780321366290
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    • Part of the Penguin Academics series, Major Themes for Modern Writers is a thematically-organized reader offering a balance of contemporary and classic readings with minimal apparatus and a high-quality but low cost design.

     

    Major Themes for Modern Writers explores multiple perspectives on significant topics such as family, education, work and prosperity, law and democracy, gender, science and technology, language, and beliefs and values.  Classic readings whose theses consistently resonate with students are balanced with fresh readings on contemporary issues such as gay parenting, the return of the sweatshop to America’s manufacturing sector, voter apathy, the failures of feminism, global warming, the excesses of cyberspace, diet and behavior, the appeal of superheroes, and 21st century American migration trends.