By Michael Meyer
ISBN-10: 0312552408
ISBN-13: 9780312552404
ISBN-10: 0312552424
ISBN-13: 9780312552428
ISBN-10: 0312557779
ISBN-13: 9780312557775
ISBN-10: 0312624123
ISBN-13: 9780312624125
Drawn from our best-selling anthology, The Bedford creation to Literature, Literature to move is a brand new short and cheap choice of tales, poems, and performs supported by means of Michael Meyer's incomparable, class-tested guideline. With literature from many sessions, cultures, and numerous voices, together with brand new funniest writers, the booklet can be an entire consultant to shut examining, severe pondering, and considerate writing approximately literature. scholars observe literature as a various, energetic, and infrequently funny mirrored image in their personal lives. E-Book. Literature to head: the 1st electronic literature anthology! to be had in CourseSmart and Bedford/St. Martin's variations. journey the interactive Bedford e-book.Access the interactive Bedford book.
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Kennedy • ON A YOUNG MAN’S REMAINING AN UNDERGRADUATE FOR TWELVE YEARS 557 A Collection of Poems 559 22. Poems for Further Reading 561 William Blake • INFANT SORROW 561 Robert Burns • A RED, RED ROSE 561 George Gordon, Lord Byron • SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY 562 Lucille Clifton • THIS MORNING (FOR THE GIRLS OF EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL) 563 Samuel Taylor Coleridge • KUBLA KHAN: OR, A VISION IN A DREAM 563 Emily Dickinson • BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH — 565 Emily Dickinson • HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 565 Emily Dickinson • I FELT A FUNERAL, IN MY BRAIN 566 Emily Dickinson • I STARTED EARLY — TOOK MY DOG — 566 Emily Dickinson • MY LIFE HAD STOOD — A LOADED GUN — 567 John Donne • THE APPARITION 568 John Donne • THE FLEA 568 T.
Although the experience itself is imagined, the emotion is real. That’s why the final chapters of a good adventure novel can make a reader’s heart race as much as a 100-yard dash or why the repressed love of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is painful to a sympathetic reader. Human emotions speak a universal language regardless of when or where a work was written. In addition to appealing to our emotions, literature broadens our perspectives on the world. Most of the people we meet are pretty much like ourselves, and what we can see of the world even in a lifetime is astonishingly limited.
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