The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Carol T. Christ (Editor), Alfred David (Editor), Barbara K. Lewalski (Editor), Lawrence Lipking (Editor), George M. Logan (Editor), Deidre Shauna Lynch (Editor), Katharine Eisaman Maus (Editor), James Noggle (Editor), and Jahan Ramazani (Editor)

The ninth edition offers more complete works, more teachable groupings than ever before and the apparatus teachers trust. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard. New longer texts include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Beckett's Waiting for Godot (exclusive to Norton).

• ISBN10: 0393912477
• ISBN13: 9780393912470
• Publish Date: 3 April 2012 (first published February 1980)
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 4 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: WW Norton & Co
• Edition: Ninth Edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 3192
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

This has a lot of interesting history of the period, as well as an introduction to the different genres and writers.

Not something I would have read right now if I didn't have to read it for class, however, the Norton Anthologies never disappoint me.