American Literature, Volume II [with MyLiteratureLab Access Code]

by William E. Cain, Alice McDermott, Lance E. Newman

As part of the Penguin Academics series, "American Literature Volume 2," offers a wide range of selections (with minimal editorial apparatus) at an affordable price. This new edition of "American Literature" presents an exciting opportunity for readers. Many of the pieces will be familiar to readers of American literature, but we have also taken steps to include selections that are not as well known and just as compelling. Making this new edition even more attractive are six thematic clusters of excerpts from documents illustrating key trends in American social and literary history; a richer selection of images; and a new page design to enhance the reading experience. 0321924975 / 9780321924971 American Literature, Volume II (Penguin Academics Series) with NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card PackagePackage consists of: 0205883583 / 9780205883585 NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Valuepack Access Card 0321838637 / 9780321838636 American Literature, Volume II (Penguin Academics Series)

Genres: Classics, Textbooks

1500 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2003

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read:

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
- "Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses"
- "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

W. D. Howells
- "Editha"

Sarah Orne Jewett
- "A White Heron"

Kate Chopin
- "The Storm"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "The Yellow Wall-paper"

Charles W. Chesnutt
- "The Sheriff's Children"

Jack London
- "To Build a Fire"

Archibald Macleish
- "Ars Poetica"

Amy Lowell
- "New Heaves for Old"
- "Madonna of the Evening Flowers"

Robert Frost
- "Mending Wall"
- "The Wood-Pile"
- "The Road Not Taken"
- "Fire and Ice"
- "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep"

Wallace Stevens
- "The Snow Man"
- "Anecdote of the Jaw"
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
- "The Death of a Soldier"
- "Of Modern Poetry"
- "The Plain Sense of Things"

William Carlos Williams
- "Portrait of a Lady"
- "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- "This Is Just To Say"
- "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

Ezra Pound
- "In a Station of the Metro"

[Cheryl]

My son's huge textbook. Figured I'd use it to catch up a bit on some authors that I've never read, and so could sample here. Still took me forever to page through, reading here and there, finally closing in Sept. 2022.

Anyway.

Edith Maude Eaton aka Sui Sin Far has an interesting biography. The bit enclosed here is memoir and also interesting.

I really like the poem "A Blessing" by James Wright even though it reminds me of a certain one by Frost.

My son and I both got a kick out of "Sonnet" (All we need is fourteen lines,....) by Billy Collins.

And a big thank you to Nikki Giovanni for "Nikki-Rosa."

Not a bad collection, though, of course & as usual, a little too much emphasis on the important & weighty stuff, the stuff regular people don't much read.

[Ijorabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Includes a wide variety of prose, poetry, and history. A good introduction to American literature. It's not really my style, but it delivers what it's meant to.