Product Description
Designed for literature classes that only need the essentials, The PORTABLE LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, Sixth Edition is the affordable, portable alternative to full length-or even compact-introduction to literature texts.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 9 reviews)

A Lovely Literary Companion!

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;
March 12, 2008

Excellent Academic Literature book

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.
February 21, 2008

Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

This book is a good small edition to the full-sized book. While it is off in page numbers, and thusly creates the need to admit to not having the full text, the book itself had everything I needed for my class.
September 19, 2007

Great Book

Great for any English Major will use again and again and its easier than carrying seven books.
May 03, 2006

Excellent resource for any aspiring writer

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to become a better writer. It covers everything from short stories to drama scripts to revising & editing. Very helpful and well written.
February 25, 2006

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