Highlights
New Selections
195 poets, 51 new
1,596 poems, 837 new
118 reselected and updated
Drawing on a wealth of new and recent poetry, as well as recent scholarship, Professor Ramazani has reconsidered every poem in the anthologies. The Third Edition provides an unprecedentedly rich selection of world poetry in English, opening new possibilities for instructors who want to teach a truly anglophone poetry course. Likewise, fresh attention to experimental poets in both volumes gives new breadth and balance to the collection.
Classic Strengths Retained
In-depth attention to major poets and major poetic trends—beginning with the "precursors" Whitman, Dickinson, and Hopkins—and generous selections, often demonstrating the span of a career, continue to be key principles of selection. Representation of many canonical figures, especially women and African American poets, has been increased—among them Auden, Bishop, Clampitt, Crane, Eliot, Ginsberg, Glück, Harrison, Hayden, Heaney, Hughes, Larkin, McKay, Merrill, Moore, Owen, Plath, Rich, Roethke, Stevens, and Walcott.
New Poetics Section
Each volume now concludes with a new poetics secton of influential statements by poets.
New Apparatus
Many of the headnotes and annotations, and all of the bibliographies, have been entirely rewritten. New volume introductions outline cogently the varied and interconnected movements of twentieth-century poetry.
New Two-Volume Format
Now more portable, the anthology is available in two paperback volumes: Volume 1, Modern Poetry and Volume 2, Contemporary Poetry.
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