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Adventures in English Literature
Adventures in English Literature
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First published January 1, 1996
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October 10, 2012
Best high school textbook ever, period. This was my lit. textbook in grade 11 and It introduced me to many of the poets (and a couple authors) I now consider my favourites. I couldn't contain my joy at finding it at a thrift store a couple years later and I grinned stupidly at the cashier as I paid for it. I hope that other people share the same wonderful sense of nostalgia I have for this book.
June 19, 2009
This was the textbook for my English Lit 12 course. Although an absolute pain to carry to and from school, I felt sad when I handed it back. There are so many good poems and "other" in there. No, I did not read the whole book. Favourite poems: Get Up and Bar the Door, Sonnet 67 by Edmund Spenser, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick, Holy Sonnet 6 by John Donne, Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot
Best units/poems we studied in class: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") by William Shakespeare
Best units/poems we studied in class: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer, Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") by William Shakespeare
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