Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume 1

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 Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

Book Description
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel's Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.

Book Dimension:
length: (cm)23.3 　　　 　　　　　 　width:(cm) 18

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Middle Ages（to ca.–1830）
Introduction
Timeline
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT（1375-1400）
WILLIAM LANGLAND（1330-1387）
WILLAM LANGLAND
MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND CRUCIFIXION LYRICS
JULIAN OF NORWICH（1342-1416）
MARGERY KEMPE（1373-1438）
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION（1425）
MYSTERY PLAYS
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
SIR THOMAS MALORY（1405-1471）
ROBERT HENRYSON（1425-1500）
EVERYMAN（1485）
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY（1485-1603）
INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE
JOHNSKELTON（1460-1529）
SIR THOMAS MORE（1478-1535）
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER（1503-1542）
HENRY HOWARD,EARL OF SURREY（1517-1547）
THE ENGLISH BIBLE
WILLIAM TYNDALE:THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN
THOMAS MORE:A DIALOGUE COMCERNING HERESIES
JOHN CALVIN:THE INSTITUTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION
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PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX