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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: Sixth Edition
Ideally suited for courses emphasizing writing about literature, this new compact edition of The Bedford Introduction to Literature offers all the distinctive features of Michael Meyer's best-selling introduction to literature in a shorter, less expensive paperback format. With its rich array of selections, its many innovative editorial features, and now fully integrated with its own companion Web site, this new compact edition of the most comprehensive three-genre literature anthology available provides more options than ever before to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature.
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1638 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2002
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Michael Meyer
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Michael Meyer has taught writing and literature courses for more than thirty years—since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. In addition to being an experienced teacher, Meyer is a highly regarded literary scholar. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. The American Studies Association awarded his first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize. . He is also the editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings. He has lectured on a variety of American literary topics from Cambridge University to Peking University. His books for Bedford/St. Martin's include The Bedford Introduction to Literature; The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; Literature to Go; Poetry: An Introduction; and Thinking and Writing about Literature.
Michael Meyer has taught writing and literature courses for more than thirty years—since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. In addition to being an experienced teacher, Meyer is a highly regarded literary scholar. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. The American Studies Association awarded his first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize. . He is also the editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings. He has lectured on a variety of American literary topics from Cambridge University to Peking University. His books for Bedford/St. Martin's include The Bedford Introduction to Literature; The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; Literature to Go; Poetry: An Introduction; and Thinking and Writing about Literature.
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November 2, 2011
MID-TERM BREAK BY SEAMUS HEANEY
This is a poem that has stuck in my mind from an anthology of poetry called 'Songs of Ourselves' that my brother studied. It is a child-like recount from a boy away at school who is fetched and taken home for the funeral of his younger brother. The language is rich and descriptive and includes the grief and tears of his parents, the uncomfortable awkwardness of neighbours, the confusion and the sympathy. I like the symbolism of the 'snowdrops and candles' to portray the fragility and temporary nature of life. The description of the "poppy bruise" on his brothers temple where he had been hit by the car and his coffin, "a four foot box, a foot for every year" are memorable and poignant and reflecting premature death.
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