Over three editions, The Norton Anthology of Poetry has become the class-room standard for the study of poetry in English. A wide and deep quarry of poems from the medieval period to the present, it is a book instructors rely on as a uniquely flexible teaching anthology, and one that students delve into well beyond college. Now, responding to new scholarship, classroom suggestions, and the vitality and diversity of poetry itself, the Fourth Edition introduces a wealth of new poets and poems as well as thoroughly revised editorial apparatus.
HIGHLIGHTS
1600 poems by 355 poets. 600 poems and 100 poets here for the first time.
79 women poets (35 new), with special attention to early women poets.
Greater diversity of American poetry. African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian-American poets have more than doubled.
Tripling of Postcolonial and Commonwealth poets. Now included are more than 40 poets from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Caribbean, South Africa, and India.
Reselection of many classic poets, from Shakespeare and Bradstreet to Larkin and Rich.
Strengthened representations of the beginnings of poetry in English, with newly added Old English selections (among them Cædmon's Hymn and selections from Beowulf), Middle English lyrics, and excerpts from Pearl and Piers Plowman.
Expanded vernacular selections, with more by Anon-medieval lyrics, Elizabe than and Jacobean poems, and African-American spirituals-as well as authored twentieth-century ballads.
More helpful apparatus. Revised and expanded annotation, with new notes providing cultural and literary context; a revised Essay on Versification by Jon Stallworthy; biographical sketches on each poet.
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