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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.008 EAN: 9780393324297 Edition: 3 Sub Format: Box set ISBN: 039332429X Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 2 Number Of Pages: 2000 Publication Date: 2003-04 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: A new edition of the acclaimed anthology—the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English available. "The most acute rendering of an era's sensibility is its poetry," wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later, this thorough and sensitive revision freshly renders the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry, from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Carol Ann Duffy and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first century. With 195 poets and 1,596 poems, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry richly represents the major figures—Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Olson, Bishop, Larkin, Plath, Rich, Heaney, and Walcott, among others. It also gives full voice to postcolonial and transnational poets, ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, and the long poem. Each volume concludes with a Poetics section that provides essential contexts for reading the poems. With substantially new introductions, headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies by the award-winning scholar and teacher Jahan Ramazani, this anthology is indispensable for all who love poetry. Two volumes, slipcased. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - tremendous anthologyIn the past I've read less expensive anthologies, but the quality of the selections and the excellent introductions (especially the poetics section at the back) make it well worth the extra money. To double your pleasure, read the first volume in conjunction with an excellent free on-line course at Yale.edu. Rating:  - BoringI found only one poem in the whole collection to be enjoyable. The remainder of the collection is probably useful as a reference but I wouldn't recommend it to individual buyers. Rating: - Good survey referenceI am a poet and I bought this for research and inspirational value. Its primary authors are also represented in the regular Norton Anthology of Poetry, but this is, as the name implies, a much more exhaustive representation of the past 150 years or so. It starts with Dickinson, Hardy, Whitman and Yeats, and moves on from there. Selections are ample for deciding whether I'd like to read more, and it's pretty much a who's who of poetic style. Since I am by no means an expert on literature, ... Read More Rating:  - Great source for 20th century lit!I picked up these two books for an english class i'm taking as a grad student. I only needed the first volume, but the price of one volume at the local bookstore was more expensive than what amazon was offering for BOTH. Naturally, I decided to get both volumes and they're both great. They cover a wide range of poetry over the 20th century with both modern and post modern. As a grad student, I'll gladly be holding on to these books. Great purchase! Rating: - There are no better anthologiesThe title for this review says it all. The Norton Anthologies are the absolute quintessential books for any literature lover. They are worth every penny of the cost. |
