The Norton Anthology of Poetry - OLD EDITION

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The Norton Anthology of Poetry is one of several literary anthologies published by W.W. Norton and Company. It is intended for classroom use, [1] and has sold well. [2] In a sense, this slant towards today is all well and good; I like plenty of contemporary or recent poets. (Truth be told, most of my favorite poets are 20th century.) But, as I read the Norton, I still constantly found myself thinking of Orwell’s Confessions of a Book Reviewer, in which he writes “if one says [...] that King Lear is a good play and The Four Just Men is a good thriller, what meaning is there in the word ‘good’.” In this spirit, what is a reader supposed to take away from this selection? Bibliography examples: Plath, Sylvia, ‘Daddy’, in Collected Poems, ed. by Ted Hughes (London: Faber and Faber, 1981), pp. 222-24

Then found this book, which has been a total feast of beautiful poetry. Not just full of poems, from throughout history, but also an excellent explanation, of what I have come to call the “architecture” of poetry. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, ed. by Maurice Hindle, rev. edn (London: Penguin, 2003), p. 7.Short quotations are those of fewer than forty words or two lines of verse. These can be integrated into your text and should be enclosed in single quotation marks. In many cases the editor of the novel will have also written the introduction, so they need to be credited as both author (of the book section) and as editor (of the whole book). If there is no author or editor, list the source by title, ignoring initial definite or indefinite articles. This edition features NEW poets, NEW poems and innovative digital resources. The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry is an even better teaching tool for instructors and remains an unmatched value for students. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, ed. by Maurice Hindle, rev. edn (London: Penguin, 2003)

The new Norton is not (as Longman personnel have charged) simply an attempt to copy Longman... Norton has defined its scope by uniting works whose common bond is the English language, claiming that a shared vocabulary is essential to cultural unity. [10] Footnote example: Arthur Cotterell, ‘Persephone’, in A Dictionary of World Mythology(2003) < https://www-oxfordreference-com.oxfordbrookes.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780192177476.001.0001/acref-9780192177476-e-263> [accessed 24 October 2023]. Put the entry title from Oxford Reference Online in single quotation marks and the title of the reference book in italics.The anthology appeared in 1970 and is in its sixth edition, a volume which includes 1,871 poems. [3] The book has been seen as representing a canon. 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. [4] Saupe, Karen (2001). "Roundtable: Norton and Longman Travel Separate Roads". Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 1: 201–207. doi: 10.1215/15314200-1-1-201. S2CID 36011929. Firstname Lastname, Book Title, ed. by Firstname Lastname (Place of publication: Publisher, Year), p. x. Sarah A. Kelen summarizes the changes to the NAEL 's inclusions of medieval literature through successive editions, demonstrating the way the Anthology 's contents reflect contemporary scholarship. [12] Note that the format remains the same for footnote and bibliography references, except that you omit the full stop at the end of the bibliography reference.