eMedia & Ancillaries for Students
Audio Companion
Free with every new copy of the text, the Audio Companion offers 33 audio recordings of poems, from F. Scott Fitzgerald reading “Ode to a Nightingale,” to Garrison Keillor reading Emily Dickinson, to readings by Auden, Ginsberg, Bishop, Plath, and many others.
Student Web Site: LitWeb
This online resource encourages students to think through their responses to poetry in three stages: articulating a personal response, rereading creatively and analytically, and researching contextual and scholarly resources on the Web in order to enrich their own interpretive work. LitWeb’s features include:
- In-Depth Literary Workshops. Featuring 26 poems from the text, these exercises guide students through the reading, rereading, and contextual exploration of a work. Author biographies and related links are included.
- Glossary, containing over 200 literary terms.
- Glossary Flashcards help students to assess and reinforce their knowledge of the terms.
- Writing about Literature, a valuable resource from The Norton Introduction to Literature, included online in its entirety.
- Self-Grading Multiple-Choice Quizzes on the elements of literature.
- Access to Norton Poets Online (nortonpoets.com), which features interviews with over 60 contemporary poets, dozens of audio recordings of poets reading their work, essays, online poetry workshops, and an e-mail newsletter.
Norton Literature Online
Norton Literature Online provides students with the most robust offering of literature resources on the Web. In addition to general tools for reading and writing, the site features a gallery of nearly 400 author portraits, more than 100 maps, timelines, and dozens of recorded readings and musical selections. Access to Norton Literature Online is free with new copies of The Norton Introduction to Poetry.
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