The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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With 1,871 poems (351 NEW) and 355 poets (44 NEW), The Norton Anthology of Poetry gives teachers a diverse and flexible core text. He is author of The Art of Robert Frost (2012) and has edited The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), and Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (2013), among other works.

There’s nothing like a fragment of Sappho, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Derek Walcott or Louis MacNeice to remind you that the world is “crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural”. Stallworthy has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. When I go to my house, the pain of missing her / Arrives before me” is by a 12-year-old from Syria and is just one of many similarly powerful verses.He is also the author of Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Over the years, the much imitated initiative has saved tens of thousands of frazzled travellers from seething fury. But I did not mind, as that was the exact instant in my entire life that I did finally “get” how to read poetry. I don’t know enough about the US poetry scene, but Stephen – now Steph – Burt, a poet and Harvard professor, is a fabulous guide. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

She is the author of Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France ( 2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). You can flip from a Yeats (He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved and longs for the End of the World) to Abigail Parry’s Instructions for Not Becoming a Werewolf. Ferguson is coeditor of Feminism in Time; Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law; Literacies in Early Modern England ; and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam.Shenandoah, Frère Jacques, Pop Goes the Weasel, Rock a Bye Baby, Home on the Range: even the ones in languages I don’t know work like spells. Perfect poems for the moment … detail from portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Gustave Courbet (1847). For example, the inclusion of Bob Dylan (whose " Boots of Spanish Leather" was anthologized before he won the Nobel Prize in Literature) was cited as evidence of the acceptance of his credentials as a poet. The musical arrangements are opposite the words, reminding me how much of a poem’s power lies in its music rather than any “deep” meaning.

He is also former John Wendell Anderson Professor at Cornell, where he taught after a career at Oxford University Press. Seeing the difference the right poem can make has given me confidence in poetry’s power to change lives.Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology Of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English.