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The Norton anthology of English literature. The major authors / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor ; M.H. Abrams, founding editor emeritus.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Norton, c2006.Edition: 8th edDescription: 2 v. : col. ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0393928306 (vol. A : pbk.)
  • 9780393928303 (vol. A : pbk.)
  • 0393928314 (vol. B: pbk.)
  • 9780393928310 (vol. B: pbk.):
Other title:
  • Major authors
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 1109 .N62 2006
Contents:
Volume A contents: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) -- Anglo-Saxon literature. The dream of the rood ; Beowulf. -- Anglo-Norman literature. Marie De France. -- Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; William Langland ; Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion ; Sir Thomas Malory. -- The sixteenth century (1485-1603) Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; The English BIble ; Elizabeth I ; Edmund Spenser ; Sir Walter Ralegh ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare ; Thomas Nashe. -- The early seventeenth century (1603-1660) John Donne ; Amelia Lanyer ; Ben Jonson ; Mary Wroth ; Thomas Hobbes ; George Herbert ; Robert Herrick ; Richard Lovelace ; Katherine Philips ; Andrew Marvell ; Margaret Cavendish ; John Milton. -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) John Dryden ; John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ; Aphra Behn ; Jonathan Swift ; Alexander Pope ; Eliza Haywood ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; William Hogarth ; Samuel Johnson ; James Boswell ; Thomas Gray ; William Collins ; William Cowper ; Olaudah Equiano ; Frances Burney.
Vol. A: Poems in process. -- Selected bibliographies -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time.
Volume B contents: The romantic period (1785-1830): Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) ; William Blake (1757-1827) ; Robert Burns (1759-1796) ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; William Wordsworth (1770-1850) ; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ; George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; John Clare (1793-1864) ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) ; John Keats (1795-1821) -- The Victorian age (1830-1901): Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) ; Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) ; Robert Browning (1812-1889) ; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) ; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) ; Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). -- The twentieth century and after: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ; James Joyce (1882-1941) ; D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) ; T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) ; Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) ; Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) ; Brian Friel (b. 1929) ; Derek Walcott (b. 1930) ; Alice Munro (b. 1931) ; Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) ; J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940) ; Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) ; Anne Carson (b. 1950).
Volume B.: Poems in process. -- Selected bibliographies -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
vol. A. The middle ages through the restoration and the eighteenth century -- vol. B. The romantic period through the twentieth century and after.

Volume A contents: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) -- Anglo-Saxon literature. The dream of the rood ; Beowulf. -- Anglo-Norman literature. Marie De France. -- Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; William Langland ; Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion ; Sir Thomas Malory. -- The sixteenth century (1485-1603) Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; The English BIble ; Elizabeth I ; Edmund Spenser ; Sir Walter Ralegh ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare ; Thomas Nashe. -- The early seventeenth century (1603-1660) John Donne ; Amelia Lanyer ; Ben Jonson ; Mary Wroth ; Thomas Hobbes ; George Herbert ; Robert Herrick ; Richard Lovelace ; Katherine Philips ; Andrew Marvell ; Margaret Cavendish ; John Milton. -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) John Dryden ; John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ; Aphra Behn ; Jonathan Swift ; Alexander Pope ; Eliza Haywood ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; William Hogarth ; Samuel Johnson ; James Boswell ; Thomas Gray ; William Collins ; William Cowper ; Olaudah Equiano ; Frances Burney.

Vol. A: Poems in process. -- Selected bibliographies -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time.

Volume B contents: The romantic period (1785-1830): Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) ; William Blake (1757-1827) ; Robert Burns (1759-1796) ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; William Wordsworth (1770-1850) ; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ; George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; John Clare (1793-1864) ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) ; John Keats (1795-1821) -- The Victorian age (1830-1901): Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) ; Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) ; Robert Browning (1812-1889) ; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) ; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) ; Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). -- The twentieth century and after: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ; James Joyce (1882-1941) ; D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) ; T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) ; Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) ; Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) ; Brian Friel (b. 1929) ; Derek Walcott (b. 1930) ; Alice Munro (b. 1931) ; Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) ; J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940) ; Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) ; Anne Carson (b. 1950).

Volume B.: Poems in process. -- Selected bibliographies -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

vol. A. The middle ages through the restoration and the eighteenth century -- vol. B. The romantic period through the twentieth century and after.

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