Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Book

There is some great content in here, particularly the bits and pieces about writing by the writers themselves who are featured, and I also really appreciated the chapter at the end about how to write about literature and all the information about literary theory and criticism.

I just wish it was ordered more chronoligcally as I think I would have rather taught it that way instead of being forced into teaching the class by genre--fiction, poetry, then drama. I am a sucker for the Norton Antholgies, especially the textbook, Literature by Women which is organized the way I prefer. You can teach Literature by Women by beginning way back and moving through time into the modern day world to show how literature has continued to tell the same narratives but also has evolved to fit the needs of the time in which it was told.