Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6E Major Authors(old edition)(诺顿英国文学选读)

The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship, and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

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The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship, and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

The Editors
M. H. Abrams, General Editor, Emeritus, Cornell University
E. Talbot Donaldson, Late of Indiana University
Alfred David, Emeritus, Indiana University
Hallett Smith, Formerly with The Huntington Library
Barbara K. Lewalski, Harvard University
Robert M. Adams, Late of University of California, Los Angeles
George M. Logan, Queen's University
Samuel Holt Monk, Late of the University of Minnesota
Lawrence Lipking, Northwestern University
Jack Stillinger, University of Illinois
George H. Ford, Late of the University of Rochester
Carol T. Christ, University of California at Berkeley
David Daiches, Emeritus, University of Sussex
Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Introduction
Timeline
BEOWULF
The Last Survivor's Speech in Old English with Verse Translation
Beowulf
[Prologue: The Earlier History of the Danes]
[Beowulf and Grendel]
[Beowulf Returns Home]
[Beowulf and the Dragon]
[Beowulfs Funeral]
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-14oo)
THE CANTERBURY TALES
The General Prologue
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
The Introduction
The Prologue
The Tale
The Epilogue
The Nun's Priest's Tale
From The Parson's Tale
The Introduction
Chaucer's Retraction
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400)
MYSTERY PLAYS
The Chester Play of Noah's Flood
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 14o5-1471)
Morte Darthur 234
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere1
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]
[The Death of Arthur1
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]
The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
Introduction
Timeline
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)
THE FAERIE QUEENE
A Letter of the Authors
Book 1
Amoretti
Sonnet 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands")
Sonnet 34 ("Lyke as a ship that through the ocean wyde")
Sonnet 37 ("What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses")
Sonnet 54 ("Of this worlds theatre in which we stay")
Sonnet 64 ("Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]")
Sonnet 65 ("The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine")
Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace")
Sonnet 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day")
Sonnet 74 ("Most happy letters flamed by skilfull trade")
Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")
Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it")
Epithalamion
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
SONGS FROM THE PLAYS
Under the Greenwood Tree
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
It Was a Lover and His Lass
Oh Mistress Mine
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck Ⅰ
SONNETS
The Dedication
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LYRIC POETS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
THE Early Seventeenth Century(1603-1660)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century(1660-1785)
LYRIC POETS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
The Romantic Period(1785-1830)
The Victorian Age(1830-1901)
POEMS IN PROCESS
INDEX

Customer Reviews
1.The Norton: What We Say About It Says More About Us, June 26, 2002
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　By Martin Asiner (jersey city, nj United States)
As an undergraduate, I used to think that the canon of English literature was as fixed as were the stars tacked onto the heavens. Now as a professor myself, I realize that the stars above truly rotate, often in wild, unpredictable ways. If any reviewer wishes to review the latest edition of the NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, that reviewer would find it wise to compare the evolution of the series from the first edition to the last. What changes have the editors wrought over the decades? What conclusions can anyone draw from these changes? Now these are weighty questions indeed, and there may be no adequate reply readily available. But I shall start with the obvious. (a) For whom is the Norton intended? Clearly the primary target audience is the undergraduate taking a two semester course in Masterpieces of English Literature. A secondary target would be those seeking to prepare for the GRE in English Literature. I think we can discount the second as a concern for the editors. Now who are the authors most likely to be analyzed in a one or two semester course, given the time limitations of a typical 15 meeting schedule? Some authors and works should be a given: Beowulf, Chaucer, More, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Donne, Jonson, Marvell, Milton, Bacon, Hobbes, Butler, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gray, Johnson, Boswell. That's quite a mouthful to digest in one semester. And look whom I have omitted: the Gawain poet, Everyman, Hooker, Wyatt & Surrey, Spenser, Skelton, Campion, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughn, Suckling, Burton, Bunyan, Defoe, Addison & Steele, Goldsmith. I defy any teacher to cover in any meaningful way even a smattering of the given, let alone the omitted. The question boils down to numbers, which in turn boil down to the ever shifting winds of
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