Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O'Clair, editors

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Third Edition

A new edition of the acclaimed anthology—the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English available.

"The most acute rendering of an era's sensibility is its poetry," wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later, this thorough and sensitive revision freshly renders the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry, from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Carol Ann Duffy and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first century.

With 195 poets and 1,596 poems, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry richly represents the major figures—Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Olson, Bishop, Larkin, Plath, Rich, Heaney, and Walcott, among others. It also gives full voice to postcolonial and transnational poets, ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, and the long poem. Each volume concludes with a Poetics section that provides essential contexts for reading the poems.

With substantially new introductions, headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies by the award-winning scholar and teacher Jahan Ramazani, this anthology is indispensable for all who love poetry. Two volumes, slipcased.

A professor of English at the University of Virginia, Jahan Ramazani is the author of three books on modern poetry, including Poetry of Mourning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The late Richard Ellmann taught at Oxford and Emory Universities. The late Robert O'Clair was professor of English at Manhattanville College.

Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry book jacket

April 2003 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-32429-X / 6" x 9" / 2000 pages / Poetry