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The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

10 best books like The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (Richard Ellmann): The Complete Poems, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Contemporary American Poetry, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, New Selected Poems, The Complete Poems, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Complete Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0151009961
Can you really write a review for the entire output of one poet? Carl Sandburg represents America of the first half of the 20th century - industry, landscape, society - trust me, it is all in here. I tend to enjoy the smaller poems about weather or relationships, like "The Great Hunt," "Valley Song," "Offering...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393925323
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six...
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
AuthorRichard Bausch
ISBN0393926117
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction is a great place to start to get a sense for the landscape of the short story historically and across continents. Sure, you might take issue with some inclusions (Why this story? Why this author?) and some exclusions, but there is plenty here to learn from and get exposed...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0060540419
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language



A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
New Selected Poems
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0679740562
In ‘New and Selected Poems’, readers will find a real master craftsman at work. His language is conservative and seems simple at first, but when the poem blossoms we are all the more surprised and excited because of it. This book is a gem to read and contains a story, making it as hard to put down as your...
The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520072278
As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
International...
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
AuthorAlex Preminger
ISBN0691021236
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
AuthorJahan Ramazani
"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...
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
AuthorMargaret Ferguson
ISBN0393968200
The fourth edition of this standard work contains 1800 poems by 300 poets, with 600 poems and 100 poets newly included. The anthology offers more poetry by women (40 new poets), with special attention to early women poets. The book also includes a greater diversity of American poetry, with double the...
Collected Poems of Robert Service
AuthorRobert W. Service
ISBN0399150153
"THE LOCKET"
From out her shabby rain-coat pocket
The little Jew girl in the train
Produced a dinted silver locket
With pasted in it portraits twain.
"These are my parents, sir" she said;
"Or were, for now I fear they're dead.

"I know to Belsen they were sent;
I...
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
AuthorAliki Barnstone
ISBN0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of...
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0393048209
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
AuthorMaynard Mack
ISBN0393971430
These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs...
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571087353
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested...
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English
AuthorSandra M. Gilbert
ISBN0393968251
This book is a fantastic resource, not just for the literature itself, but really for the chapters the authors wrote the historical/literary context for each era. Those sections alone are worth reading as a sort of separate work from the literature itself.

Another fascinating thing about...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: v. 1
AuthorNina Baym
"The Book of Love" piece in the goodreads' newsletter reminded me of this wonderful anthology--which I purchased in a travel shop in Barcelona during the Summer of 1990. I anticipated that the various narratives found in the collection would teach me more about American history. But, what surprised...
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
AuthorPaul Hoover
ISBN0393310906
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
Sweet Machine
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060952563
Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, Sweet Machine, see the world from a new, hard-won perspective:...
The Works of John Donne (Poetry Library)
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN1853264008
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne's poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction...
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