The Norton Introduction to Poetry - Softcover

Hunter, J. Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393954870 ISBN 13: 9780393954876

Publisher: Norton, 1986

Synopsis

Of the more than 500 poems, nearly 80 are new to this edition, from the deservedly familiar - such as those by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edmund Spenser - to those that rouse the quickening thrill of discovery - such as those by Margaret Atwood, Amy Clampitt, Robert Hayden, and Seamus Heaney. Two introductory chapters illustrate the varieties of subject matter, theme, and tone that poetry offers. These are followed by an eight-chapter section called "Text," in which questions of craft, the so-called elements of poetry, are explored systematically, one by one. A second section, "Context," suggests some ways of seeing a poem within its temporal and cultural contexts. A group of poems for further reading offers a reservoir of additional examples.

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About the Author

Alison Booth is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on Victorian literature and feminist theory and criticism, and her teaching at Virginia has ranged from "The Nineteenth-Century British novel" to "Utopias and Science Fiction." She is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure. J. Paul Hunter is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe's Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe; Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance; and Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. He is author of the first nine editions of The Norton Introduction to Poetry and the long-time co-editor of The Norton Introduction to Literature and New Worlds of Literature. Kelly J. Mays has taught writing and literature courses for 25 years-at Stanford University (where she earned her Ph.D.), in the Harvard Expository Writing Program, at New Mexico State University, and (since 2001) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she is now an Associate Professor of English. A British literature specialist whose work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Critical Inquiry, and other major scholarly journals, she is currently at work on a book exploring when and why nineteenth-century Britons began to label their age, their literature, and even themselves "Victorian."

Edition details

• Publisher: Norton
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393954870
• ISBN 13: 9780393954876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3