Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (6th Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Literature for Dummies
Review: This is by all means a decent anthology of literature for an introductory course, and a fairly respectable stab at a guide to good university writing.

The selections are for the most part diverse, encompassing Native-American, African-American, Canadian, and English writers. Short fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and, to a more limited degree, film get a fairly decent treatment here, too, encompassing chronolical - literature from the classical to the contemporary period is treated - and thematic terrain, making this a worthwhile text for students who simply want a brief introduction to all aspects of English.

Still, it is a bit unwieldly, and too often feels less like a solid anthology, and more like an 'English-for-beginners' type deal. You get what you pay for, I guess.