| Edition |
8th ed. |
| Description |
6 volumes : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
v. A. The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) / Alfred David, James Simpson -- v. B. The sixteenth century (1485-1603); the early seventeenth century (1603-1660) / George M. Logan [and others] -- v. C. The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) / Lawrence Lipking, James Noggle -- v. D. The Romantic period (1785-1830) / Jack Stillinger -- v. E. The Victorian age (1830-1901) -- v. F. The twentieth century and after. |
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VOLUME A CONTENTS : -- The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) : -- Anglo-Saxon literature. The dream of the rood ; Beowulf. -- Anglo-Norman literature. Marie De France. -- Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; William Langland ; Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion ; Sir Thomas Malory. |
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VOLUME B CONTENTS : -- The sixteenth century (1485-1603) : -- John Skelton -- Sir Thomas More -- Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- The English BIble -- William Tyndale -- Thomas More -- John Calvin -- Anne Askew -- John Foxe -- Book of Common Prayer -- Book of Homilies -- Richard Hooker -- Robert Southwell -- Roger Ascham -- Sir Thomas Hoby -- Mary I (Mary Tudor) -- Lady Jane Grey -- Mary, Queen of Scots -- Elizabeth I -- Arthur Golding -- Edmund Spenser -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Frobisher's voyages to the Arctic -- Drake's circumnavigation of the globe -- Amadas and Barlowe's voyage to Virginia -- Hariot's report on Virginia -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Nashe -- Richard Barnfield ; -- The early seventeenth century (1603-1660) : -- John Donne -- Izaak Walton -- Amelia Lanyer -- Ben Jonson -- Mary Wroth -- John Webster -- Elizabeth Cary -- Joseph Swetnam -- Rachel Speght -- Sir Frances Bacon -- Robert Burton -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Thomas Hobbes -- George Herbert -- Henry Vaughan -- Richard Crashaw -- Robert Herrick -- Thomas Carew -- Sir John Suckling -- Richard Lovelace --Edmund Waller -- Abraham Cowley -- Katherine Philips -- Andrew Marvell -- Robert Filmer -- John Milton -- Gerrard Winstanley -- Lucy Hutchinson -- Edward Hyde, Earl of Claredon -- Lady Anne Halkett -- Dorothy Waugh -- Thomas Traherne -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Milton -- Poems in process. |
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VOLUME C CONTENTS : -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) : -- John Dryden -- Samuel Pepys -- John Bunyan -- John Locke -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Samuel Butler -- John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester -- Aphra Behn -- William Congreve -- Mary Astell -- Daniel Defoe -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Matthew Prior -- Jonathan Swift -- Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele -- Alexander Pope -- Eliza Haywood -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin -- Mary Leapor -- John Gay -- William Hogarth -- Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell -- Frances Burney -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- James Thomson -- David Hume -- Edmund Burke -- Olaudah Equiano -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Christopher Smart -- Oliver Goldsmith -- George Crabbe -- William Cowper -- Popular Ballads -- Poems in process. |
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VOLUME D CONTENTS : -- The Romantic period (1785-1830) : -- Anna Letitia Barbauld ; Charlotte Smith ; William Blake ; Robert Burns ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; William Wordsworth ; Dorothy Wordsworth ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans ; John Keats. |
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VOLUME E CONTENTS : -- The Victorian Age (1830-1901) : -- Thomas Carlyle ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Elizabeth Gaskell ; Robert Browning ; Matthew Arnold ; Christina Rossetti ; Gerard Manley Hopkins ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Oscar Wilde ; Rudyard Kipling. |
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VOLUME F CONTENTS : -- The twentieth century and after : -- Thomas Hardy ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Virginia Woolf ; James Joyce ; D.H. Lawrence ; T.S. Eliot ; Katherine Mansfield ; Jean Rhys ; Samuel Beckett ; W.H. Auden ; Dylan Thomas ; Philip Larkin ; Nadine Gordimer ; Brian Friel ; Derek Walcott ; Alice Munro ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. Coetzee ; Salman Rushdie ; Anne Carson ; Poems in process. -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Map: London from Chaucer to Johnson ; Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; Map: The British Empire, ca. 1913 ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time. |
| Summary |
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies -- thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible -- the Eighth Edition has been revitalized through the collaboration of six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have rethought all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. - Back cover. |
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English literature.
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Great Britain -- Literary collections.
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
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Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015.
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| ISBN |
039392713X (v. 1) |
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9780393927139 (v. 1) |
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0393927156 (v. 2) |
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9780393927153 (v. 2) |
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0393925315 (v. 1 ; paperback) |
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0393925323 (v. 2 ; paperback) |
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