The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

"The most acute rendering of an era's sensibility is its poetry," wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition.

Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry-now available in two paperback volumes-includes 1,596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first.

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem, eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance.

New Selections

Drawing on a wealth of new and recent poetry, as well as recent scholarship, Professor Ramazani has reconsidered every poem in the anthologies. The Third Edition provides an unprecedentedly rich selection of world poetry in English, opening new possibilities for instructors who want to teach a truly anglophone poetry course. Likewise, fresh attention to experimental poets in both volumes gives new breadth and balance to the collection.

 

Norton Poets Online

In keeping with Norton’s commitment to publishing new works of poetry and new poets, as well as anthologizing established poets, adopters of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry gain free access to nortonpoets.com for their students. Norton Poets Online features a wealth of online poetry resources—poetry workshops on numerous forms and topics, links to related sites, and a monthly newsletter on the poetry scene.

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