The Norton Anthology of English Literature : Romantic v

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.

Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare.

Book Description
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.

Synopsis:
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature 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 Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates 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.

About Author
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, Practicing New Historicism, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited six collections of criticism, including Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies, with Giles Gunn, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jack Stillinger (Ph.D. Harvard) is Center for Advanced Study Professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on Keats's Poems, The Texts of Keats's Poems, the standard edition of The Poems of John Keats, Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius, Coleridge and Textual Instability, and Reading "The Eve of St. Agnes." He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Deidre Shauna Lynch (Ph.D. Stanford) is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of The Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA's Prize for a First Book, and editor of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees and, with William B. Warner, Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Humanities Center, of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools' Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.

Book Dimension:
length: (cm)22.8 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)17.7

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Introduction
Timeline
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)
The Mouse's Petition
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
A Summer Evening's Meditation
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
The Rights of Woman
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
Washing-Day
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
ELEGIAC SONNETS
Written at the Close of Spring
To Sleep
To Night
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
The Sea View
The Emigrants
Beachy Head
MARY ROBINSON (1757?-1800)
January, 1795
London's Summer Morning
The Camp
The Poor Singing Dame
The Haunted Beach
To the Poet Coleridge



WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
There Is No Natural Religion [b]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Nurse's Song
Infant Joy
Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurse's Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah Sun-flower
The Garden of Love
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
To Tirzah
A Divine Image
The Book of Thel
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty
BLAKE'S NOTEBOOK
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
Never pain to tell thy love
I asked a thief
And did those feet
From A Vision of the Last Judgment
Two Letters on Sight and Vision
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
Green grow the rashes
Holy Willie's Prayer
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