The Norton anthology of poetry

Offers representative selections from the works of major British and American poets, from modernized medieval texts to contemporary verse.

Other Authors: Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-, Salter, Mary Jo., Stallworthy, Jon.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Norton, [2005]
Physical Description: xlv, 1376 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: Shorter 5th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Caedmon's hymn
  • From Beowulf
  • The seafarer
  • Anonymous lyrics of the 12th and 14th centuries
  • Chaucer
  • William Langland
  • Pearl
  • William Dunbar
  • John Skelton
  • Thomas Wyatt
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  • Anne Askew
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • George Gasciogne
  • Isabella Whitney
  • Chdiock Tichborne
  • Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Edmund Spenser
  • John Lyly
  • Sir Philip Sidney
  • Robert Southwell
  • Mary Sidney
  • Samuel Daniel
  • Michael Drayton
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • William Shakespeare (Sonnets and songs from the plays, and The phoenix and the turtle)
  • Thomas Campion
  • Thomas Nashe
  • Aemilia Lanyer
  • John Donne
  • Ben Jonson
  • Mary Wroth
  • Robert Herrick
  • Henry King
  • George Herbert
  • Thomas Carew
  • Edmund Waller
  • John Milton
  • Sir John Suckling
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Richard Crashaw
  • Richard Lovelace
  • Andrew Marvell
  • Henry Vaughan
  • Margaret Cavendish
  • John Dryden
  • Katherine Philips
  • Thomas Traherne
  • Edward Taylor
  • Aphra Behn
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Isaac Watts
  • John Gay
  • Alexander Pope
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • James Thomson
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Thomas Gray
  • William Collins
  • Christopher Smart
  • Jean Elliot
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • William Cowper
  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  • Charlotte Smith
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Robert Burns
  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Walter Savage Landor
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • John Clare
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Edward Fitzgerald
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Robert Browning
  • Emily Bronte
  • Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • Herman Melville
  • Walt Whitman
  • Matthew Arnold.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • George Meredith
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Christina Rosetti
  • Lewis Carroll
  • W.S. Gilbert
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Sidney Lanier
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • A.E. Housman
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Charlotte Mew
  • Stephen Crane
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Robert Frost
  • Amy Lowell
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Edward Thomas
  • Wallace Stevens
  • E.J. Pratt
  • William Carlos Williams
  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Ezra Pound
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • Marianne Moore
  • T.S. Eliot o
  • John Crowe Ransom
  • Isaac Rosenberg
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Wilfred Owen
  • E.E. Cummings
  • Jean Toomer
  • Robert Graves
  • Louise Bogan
  • Hart Crane
  • Laura (Riding) Jackson
  • Sterling A. Brown
  • Langston Hughes
  • Roy Campbell
  • Stevie Smith
  • Countee Cullen
  • Earle Birney
  • C. Day Lewis
  • Patrick Kavanagh
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • William Empson
  • W.H. Auden
  • A.D. Hope
  • Louis MacNeice
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Richard Wright
  • Malcolm Lowry
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Irving Layton
  • Robert Hayden
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • May Swenson
  • R.S. Thomas
  • John Berryman
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Weldon Kees
  • Henry Reed
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Judith Wright.
  • David Gascoyne
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Robert Lowell
  • Amy Clampitt
  • Keith Douglas
  • Howard Nemerov
  • Mona Van Duyn
  • Richard Wilbur
  • Philip Larkin
  • James Dickey
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Denise Levertov
  • Donald Justice
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Kenneth Koch
  • A.R. Ammons
  • James K. Baxter
  • Robert Creeley
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • James Merrill
  • Frank O'Hara
  • W.D. Snodgrass
  • John Ashbery
  • Galway Kinnell
  • W.S. Merwin
  • Charles Tomlinson
  • James Wright
  • Donald Hall
  • Philip Levine
  • Anne Sexton o
  • L.E. Sissman
  • Thom Gunn
  • John Hollander
  • Richard Howard
  • Peter Porter
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • Ted Hughes
  • Gary Snyder
  • Derek Walcott
  • Alan Brownjohn
  • Jay MacPherson o
  • Geoffrey Hill
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Anne Stevenson
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Audre Lorde
  • N. Scott Momaday
  • Wole Soyinka
  • Mark Strand
  • Charles Wright
  • Daryl Hine
  • C.K. Williams
  • Tony Harrison
  • Les Murray
  • Charles Smic
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Billy Collins
  • Robert Hass
  • Derek Mahon
  • Eric Ormsby
  • Alfred Corn
  • Louise Gluck
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Michael Palmer
  • Eavan Boland
  • Craig Raine
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Robyn Sarah
  • Agha Shahid Ali
  • James Fenton o
  • Charles Bernstein
  • Dana Gioia
  • Jorie Graham
  • Paul Muldoon
  • Rita Dove
  • Daniel Hall
  • Vikram Seth
  • Gary Soto
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  • Louise Erdrich
  • Carol Ann Duffy
  • Li-Young Lee
  • Cynthia Zarin
  • Simon Armitage
  • Greg Wiliamson
  • Versification: rhythm, meter, rhyme, forms (composite, irregular, free verse)
  • Poetic syntax.