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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.008
EAN: 9780393324297
Format: Box set
ISBN: 039332429X
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 2
Book Pages: 2000
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: tremendous anthology
Review: In 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.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Boring
Review: I 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.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good survey reference
Review: I 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, I can't question individual selection much, but to tell you the truth, I have the regular Norton 4th Ed., and it has within its covers a good representation of the so-called "Modern" and "Contemporary" poets by itself. Overall, you should have more than just a passing fancy of poetry to warrant the expense of this book. Poetry takes a long time to read and digest, I've found, and this one could easily last you a lifetime.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great source for 20th century lit!
Review: 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!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: There are no better anthologies
Review: The 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.

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