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Responsibility
Stephen Greenblatt, general editor ; M.H. Abrams, founding editor emeritus.
Edition
9th ed.
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Physical description
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

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Contributor
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • V. A. The Middle Ages / James Simpson, Alfred David. Introduction ; Timeline ; Anglo-Saxon literature: Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon's hymn, The dream of the rood, Beowulf, Judith, The wanderer, The wife's lament ; Irish literature: Cúchulainn's boyhood deeds, Early Irish lyrics ; Anglo-Norman literature: The myth of Arthur's return, Thomas of England, Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) ; Romance: Marie de France, Sir Orfeo ; Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400), Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400), John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), Thomas Hoccleve (ca. 1367-1426), William Langland (ca. 1330-1387) ; William Langland, Middle English incarnation and crucifixion lyrics ; Julian Norwich, Margery Kempe, The York play of the crucifixion ; Mystery plays ; Middle English lyrics ; Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471) ; Robert Henryson (ca. 1425-ca. 1500) ; Everyman (after 1485) ; Appendixes : General bibliography, Literary terminology, Geographic nomenclature, British money, The British baronage, The royal lines of England and Great Britain, Religions in England, Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy
  • v. B. The Sixteenth century and the early Seventeenth century / Stephen Greenblatt, George Logan ... [et al]
  • v. C. The Restoration and the Eighteenth century / James Noggle, Lawrence Lipking
  • v. D. The Romantic Period / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinger
  • v. E. The Victorian Age / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ
  • v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy.
  • v. B. The Sixteenth century and the early Seventeenth century / Stephen Greenblatt, George Logan ... [et al] The sixteenth century (1485-1603). Introduction ; Timeline ; John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529) ; Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) ; Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542) ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) ; Faith in conflict: 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 ; Women in power: Mary I (Mary Tudor), Lady Jane Grey, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I ; Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) ; Renaissance love and desire: Thomas, Lord Vaux, George Gascoigne, Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, Thomas Lodge, Henry Constable, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, Sir John Davies, Barnabe Barnes, Richard Barnfield, Richard Linche ; Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)
  • The early seventeenth century (1603-1660). Introduction ; Timeline ; John Donne (1572-1631) ; Izaak Walton (1593-1683) ; Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) ; Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; Mary Wroth (1587-1651?) ; John Webster (1580?-1625?) ; Gender relations : conflict and counsel: Joseph Swetnam, Rachel Speght, William Gouge ; Inquiry and experience: Sir Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne ; George Herbert (1593-1633) ; Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) ; Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) ; Robert Herrick (1591-1674) ; Thomas Carew (1595-1640) ; Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) ; Katherine Philips (1632-1664) ; Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) ; Crisis of authority: Reporting the news, Political writing, Writing the self ; Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) ; Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) ; John Milton (1608-1674) ; Appendixes : General bibliography, Literary terminology, Geographic nomenclature, British money, The British baronage, The royal lines of England and Great Britain, Religions in England, Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time --
  • v. C. The Restoration and the Eighteenth century / James Noggle, Lawrence Lipking. Introduction ; Timeline ; John Dryden (1631-1700) ; Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) ; John Bunyan (1628-1688) ; John Locke (1632-1704) ; Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ; Samuel Butler (1612-1680) ; John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) ; Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) ; William Congreve (1670-1729) ; Mary Astell (1666-1731) ; Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660-1731) ; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) ; Low people and high people: Henry Fielding, Matthew Prior, Stephen Duck, Mary Collier, Mary Barber, Mary Jones, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Chatterton, Samuel Johnson, George Crabbe ; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ; Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) ; Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ; Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) ; Debating women : arguments in verse : Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope, Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin, Mary Leapor ; John Gay (1685-1732) ; William Hogarth (1697-1764) ; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ; James Boswell (1740-1795) ; Frances Burney (1752-1840) ; Liberty: John Locke, Mary Astell, James Thomson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Olaudah Equiano ; James Thomson (1700-1748) ; Thomas Gray (1716-1771) ; William Collins (1721-1759) ; Christopher Smart (1722-1771) ; Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774) ; William Cowper (1731-1800) ; Appendixes : General bibliography, Literary terminology, Geographic nomenclature, British money, The British baronage, The royal lines of England and Great Britain, Religions in England, Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy
  • v. D. The Romantic Period / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinger
  • v. E. The Victorian Age / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ
  • v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy.
  • v. D. The Romantic Period (1785-1832) / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinger. Introduction ; Timeline ; Balladry and ballad revivals ; Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) ; Mary Robinson (1757?-1800) ; The slave trade and the literature of abolition: John Newton, Thomas Clarkson, William Cowper, Olaudah Equiano, Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cobbett ; William Blake (1757-1827) ; Robert Burns (1759-1796) ; The revolution controversy and the "spirit of the age": Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, James Gillray ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) ; William Wordsworth (1770-1849) ; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ; Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ; Charles Lamb (1775-1834) ; Jane Austen (1775-1817) ; William Hazlitt (1778-1830) ; Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) ; The gothic and the development of a mass readership: Horace Walpole, Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) and John Aikin, William Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; John Clare (1793-1864) ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) ; John Keats (1795-1821) ; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) ; Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) --
  • v. E. The Victorian Age (1830-1901) / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ. Introduction ; Timeline ; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ; John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) ; John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) ; Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) ; Pre-Raphaelitism: Charles Dickens, John Rushkin, William Michael Rossetti ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) ; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) ; William Morris (1834-1896) ; Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) ; Walter Pater (1839-1894) ; Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Victorian issues: Evolution, Industrialism: progress and decline?, The "woman question": the Victorian debate abour gender, Empire and national identity ; Late Victorians. Michael Field (Katharine Bradley, 1846-1914 and Edith Cooper, 1862-1913) ; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ; Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ; Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) --
  • v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy. Introduction ; Timeline ; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ; A. E. Housman (1859-1936) ; Voices from World War I: Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, May Wedderburn Cannan, Robert Graves, David Jones ; Modernist manifestos: T. E. Hulme, F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound ; Stevie Smith (1902-1971) ; George Orwell (1903-1950) ; Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ; W. H. Auden (1907-1973) ; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Vocies from World War II: Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso, Edith Sitwell, Henry Reed, Keith Douglas ; Nation, race, and language: Claude McKay, Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, M. Nourbese Philip, Salman Rushdie, Grace Nichols, Hanif Kureishi ; Doris Lessing (b. 1919) ; Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) ; A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) ; Thom Gunn (1929-2004) ; Derek Walcott ( b. 1930) ; Ted Hughes (1930-1998) ; Harold Pinter (1930-2008) ; Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) ; Alice Munro (b. 1931) ; Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) ; V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932) ; Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) ; Les Murray (b. 1938) ; Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) ; Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) ; J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940) ; Eavan Boland (b. 1944) ; Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) ; Ian McEwan (b. 1948) ; Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) ; Hanif Kureishi (b. 1954) ; Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) ; Kiran Desai (b. 1971) ; Zadie Smith (b. 1975) ; Appendixes : General bibliography, Literary terminology, Geographic nomenclature, Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British money, The British baronage, The royal lines of England and Great Britain, Religions in England.
Publisher's summary
The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.
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Publisher's summary
The ninth edition offers more complete works, more teachable groupings than ever before and the apparatus teachers trust. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard.?New longer texts include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's Defense of Poetry, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Beckett's Waiting for Godot (exclusive to Norton).
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

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English literature.
Great Britain > Literary collections.

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Publication date
2012
Note
Complete in 2 volumes.
ISBN
9780393912470 (v. 1 : pbk.)
0393912477 (v. 1 : pbk.)
9780393912487 (v. 2 : pbk.)
0393912485 (v. 2 : pbk.)

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