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The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5e

Meet the Editors

Margaret Ferguson (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California—Davis. She is author of Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). She is coeditor of Feminism in Time, Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law, Literacies in Early Modern England and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam.

Mary Jo Salter (M.A. Cambridge University) is Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, where she teaches poetry and poetry-writing. She has published several books of poems, including Henry Purcell in Japan (1985), Unfinished Painting (1989), Sunday Skaters (1994), A Kiss in Space (1999), and, most recently, Open Shutters (2003). A vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she has also served as poetry editor of The New Republic.

Jon Stallworthy (M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford University) is Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Oxford University. He is author of award-winning biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and has published several books of poems, among them Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet. He is editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; and The Oxford Book of War Poetry.