The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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You can flip from a Yeats (He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved and longs for the End of the World) to Abigail Parry’s Instructions for Not Becoming a Werewolf. Will point out that one morning, the professor was so insistent that I “get” Keat’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” that I missed my Amtrak for work. I don’t know enough about the US poetry scene, but Stephen – now Steph – Burt, a poet and Harvard professor, is a fabulous guide. Each year, the judges of the Forward prizes read virtually every new collection published in the UK and Ireland and choose their favourites for this book. Not long ago, a condensed version of the trilogy made it on to the World Book Night giveaway list: the anthologies hit home wherever people had troubles – in shelters, prisons and hospitals.

A. Cambridge University) is Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches poetry and poetry-writing. These innovations make the Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched value for students. Professor Ferguson has served as president of the Modern Language Association and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ferguson is coeditor of Feminism in Time; Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law; Literacies in Early Modern England; and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam. Listening to the poems being read adds a fascinating human element to the experience, prompting questions such as What do the poets sound like?A vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she has also served as poetry editor of The New Republic. Since childhood, in my loneliest or most tumultuous hours, I have found solace in identifying the perfect poem for the moment.

The musical arrangements are opposite the words, reminding me how much of a poem’s power lies in its music rather than any “deep” meaning. He is also the author of Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry.Stone and Irving, the two poets responsible for Sidekick Books – a tiny publisher specialising in irresistible anthologies that double as compendia of jokes, puzzles, teases, weird lists and doodle pages – outdid themselves last year with this anthology of new and old poems inspired by ancient Rome’s filthiest wordsmith, Catullus. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.