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
William Wordsworth, Nicholas Halmi
The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars.More
Marie Borroff
Of the five poems contained in this book, two are acknowledged masterpieces. The plot of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian romance, brilliantly interweaves elements of suspense and high comedy.More
Marie Borroff, Laura L. Howes
This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes Marie Borroff’s celebrated, newly revised verse translation with supporting materials not to be found in any other single volume.More
Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson, Ian Higgins
This Norton Critical Edition is the fullest single-volume collection of Jonathan Swift's writings, encompassing not only the major prose satires—A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Modest Proposal—but also a large number of other works, including his most important poems and political writings. The texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations by Ian Higgins, thirty illustrations, and a full introduction by Claude Rawson. This is an indispensable edition for scholar and student alike.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
John Keats, Jeffrey N. Cox
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.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
John Donne, Donald R. Dickson
“Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars.”—Harold Bloom, Yale UniversityMore
Robert Browning, James F. Loucks, Andrew M. Stauffer
Second Edition
The Second Edition of this substantial collection of Browning’s poetry again reprints the texts of the seventeen-volume “Fourth and complete edition” (Smith, Elder), of which all but the final volume were approved by Browning before his death.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
Geoffrey Chaucer, Stephen Barney
This Norton Critical Edition of Chaucer’s masterpiece is based on Stephen Barney’s acclaimed text and is accompanied by a translation of its major source, Boccaccio’s Filostrato.More
William Langland, Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.More
Stephen Greenblatt
College Edition
Stephen Greenblatt, esteemed scholar and General Editor of the newly published Eighth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, brings Shakespeare’s world alive in this acclaimed biography, now available as a college paperback with 12 color plates and access to online commentary and discussion questions.More
John P. Rumrich, Gregory Chaplin
Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.More