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Title: Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry by Richard Ellmann, Robert O'Clair ISBN: 0-393-95636-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $63.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Used it in a first-year ENG course, still comes in handy
Comment: Norton's Anthology of Modern Poetry is quite impressive. It contains a goodly-sized selection of poems from just about all the greats of modern literature. The book is arranged chronologically by the poets' birth years and has an introductory biography/career overview for each, followed by selections of their most distinguished works. As one reviewer noted, both the introductions and the notes are helpful & informative, and I really appreciated them when getting through some of the more difficult poems.
My only complaints about this anthology would have to be that the print is so small that it can be a strain on the eyes when reading from it at length, and also that the paper is so thin. I'm sure both are due to considerations of being able to fit the largest amount into the smallest package, but just because I understand it doesn't mean I have to like it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Anthology, Excellent Intros...
Comment: If you access the reviews of this work at this site,
then you had better be prepared to try to figure out
why the other reviewers have written what they have written.
The collections of poems for each poet, and the
essay introductions are both excellent. People who
don't know poetry or poets might not find them
helpful, but for knowledgable readers of poetry,
this Norton Anthology is of high quality, indeed.
I especially like the Norton editions' excellent
footnotes. Here is a footnote to Yeats's poem
"To the Rose upon the Rood of Time." "The rose, as
an image of transfiguration and fulfillment, is a
frequent symbol in Yeats's poetry of this period
[1892]. In a note dated 1925, he remarks of it
'that the quality symbolised as The Rose differs
from the Intellectual Beauty of Shelley and of
Spenser in that I have imagined it as suffering
with man and not as something pursued and seen
from afar.' The title indicates, and line 12
confirms, that the rose is here eternal beauty,
which flowers from the cross of time and sacrifice."
(p. 113) I think that note is extremely insightful
and helpful. Of course, it also helps greatly if
you know who Shelley and Spenser are (and were),
what types of works they wrote, and what their
most famous works and themes are. If you have
not had that intellectual and educational background,
then, of course, the note will seem meaningless.
This is an anthology which can be read by scholars
and enthusiasts. Read the poems for their wealth
of value and tones and visions -- read the notes
and the introductory essays for insightful,
meaningful information about the poets, their lives,
their struggles, and their accomplishments.
My own favorites in the anthology are: Emily
Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, some of
W.B. Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Ezra Pound, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon,
Robinson Jeffers, T.S. Eliot, and Wilfred Owen.
Of course, there are many more poets and poems
than these that appeal to me personally.
Here is a brief excerpt from the beginning of
the essay on "Emily Dickinson": "Modern American
poetry [in this anthlogy there are both American
and British poets arranged chronologically according
to their birth dates] -- an expression meaning almost
the same thing as 'American poetry' -- has for one
of its founders and ancestral presences a woman.
Emily Dickinson wrote poems which are not only
excellent but lend a standard of excellence. She is
bracketed with Walt Whitman because, unknown to each
other and almost simultaneously, they all but invented
American poetry."
I cannot understand why anyone could not find that
helpful as the beginning of an insightful analysis
of the poet, her poetry, and her influence.
Rating: 3
Summary: An Acceptable Anthology
Comment: I'm not a literary scholar so I'm not going to comment on the selection of poetry or the quality of the introductions to poets. What I can say is that there are a ton of poets, introductions to each poet, and helpful footnotes for the poetry. The anthology appropriately reaches as far back as Walt Whitman.
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Title: The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy ISBN: 0393968200 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $68.20 |
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Title: The New Oxford Book of American Verse by Richard Ellmann ISBN: 0195020588 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1976 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, Robert O'Clair, Richard Ellman ISBN: 039332429X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0156005743 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Arthur M. Eastman, Herbert Barrows, Arthur J. Carr ISBN: 0393092453 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1975 List Price(USD): $4.65 |
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