Adrienne Rich, Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and prose in recent years. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly annotated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.More
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Reynolds
This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.More
Ben Jonson, Hugh Maclean
This volume offers an abundant and representative selection of the
verse of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets.More
Nicholas Howe, E. Talbot Donaldson
Second Edition
The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.More
Daniel Donoghue, Seamus Heaney
Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).More
William Blake, John E. Grant, Mary Lynn Johnson
Second Edition
The Second Edition of this revered Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive introduction to Blake’s poetry and thought available.More
George Gordon Byron, Alice Levine
Byron's Poetry and Prose presents an extensive selection of Byron's poetry, letters, and journal entries in chronological clusters, allowing readers to see the changes that took place in his writing in the context of the places he lived and his fame, exile, and travels.More
Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson
Second Edition
This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.More
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi, Paul Magnuson, Et Al.
Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.More
Geoffrey Chaucer, Kathyrn L. Lynch
This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer’s four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.More
Edmund Spenser, Hugh Maclean, Anne Lake Prescott
Building on the strengths of two previous editions, this revised and enlarged Third Edition continues to offer more of Spenser's poetry than any other comparable volume. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed and precisely annotated, with an Editor's Note following each section.More
Edmund Spenser, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew Hadfield
Fourth Edition
Edmund Spenser’s Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.More
Robert D. Fulk, John C. Pope
Third Edition
A meticulous updating of the highly respected Norton college paperback
Seven Old English Poems, this Third Edition, retitled Eight Old English
Poems meets the needs of both graduate and undergraduate students of
Old English.More
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saundra Morris, Joel Porte
This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson’s writings available in a paperback edition.More
Benjamin R. Foster
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest epic masterpiece.More