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The Norton Anthology of Poetry

10 best books like The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Margaret Ferguson): The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Top 500 Poems, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Collected Lyrics, The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0393321789
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form

Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1555974554
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me


Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
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 Top 500 Poems
AuthorWilliam Harmon
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393925315
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...
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...
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679724451
As a phrase and idea, "the palm at the end of the mind" serves well in illustrating the distinctive elegance of Wallace Stevens' poetry. He had a way of boosting odd notions into the aesthetic stratosphere; appealing enigmas were his forte. What palm and why at the end of the mind and how did it get there?

Stevens'...
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...
Collected Lyrics
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0060908637
Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923, and when she published one of her collections, "Huntsman, What Quarry " it made the bestseller list. Can you imagine a book of poetry on the bestseller list today? I have always loved her poetry and it was fun to reread the old favorites and discover some...
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0451627911
Many of the poets are great, and all have at least one or two great poems as well as at least a couple more worth reading, but much of this anthology was a slog for me.

I love Dickinson, and Whitman, and Pound, Stevens, Cummings, and Auden. I got my first taste of a selection of several of the poets,...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN1400030935
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas...
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 Modern Poetry
AuthorRichard Ellmann
ISBN0393956369
Welcome to the graveyard of forgotten poets. About half of these poets have been obliterated from discussions, another third hangs on as historically important, and about 20% heralded as Ist-icons of other some -Ism. Although Norton has selected a number of the most topical and respected poets of...
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
AuthorDavid Lehman
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often...
The Portable Blake
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0140150269
This has additions. Better collection than other editions on my shelf.

The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold! . . .
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling beds of dawn
The earth do scorn....
The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
AuthorHayden Carruth
ISBN0553262637
I purchased a copy of this book before leaving for Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1974. For two years I lived in a mud hut in a small village on the edge of the Sahara, far from running water, electricity, or anybody who spoke english.

The Voice That Is Great Within Us kept me excellent company...
The Norton Anthology Of American Literature
AuthorNina Baym
ISBN0393958728
The editors chosen poets and writers of 1914-1945 shaped the depressing, radical, self-loathing underbelly of American youth of that generation. The biographies favor the atheists, agnostics, promiscuous, womanizing, socialists, communists, traitors (Mussolini-supporter Ezra Pound went...
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...
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