The Norton anthology of poetry

Preface to the fifth edition -- Editorial procedures -- Acknowledgments -- Caedmon's Hymn / translated by John Pope -- From Beowulf / translated by Seamus Heaney -- Riddles / translated by Richard Hamer -- Wife's lament / translated by Richard Hamer -- Seafarer / translated by Ezra Pound -- Anonymous Lyrics Of The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Langland -- Pearl -- Charles d'Orleans -- Anonymous Lyrics Of The Fifteenth Century -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Early Modern Ballads -- Anonymous Elizabethan And Jacobean Poems -- Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Anne Askew -- Queen Elizabeth I -- George Gascoigne -- Isabella Whitney -- Chidiock Tichborne -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Edmund Spenser -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Astrophil and Stella -- George Peele -- Thomas Lodge -- Robert Southwell -- Mary Sidney -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Nashe -- Aemilia Lanyer -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- John Fletcher -- Edward Herbert -- Mary Wroth -- Robert Herrick -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- Thomas Carew -- James Shirley -- Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Anne Bradstreet -- Richard Crashaw -- Abraham Cowley -- Richard Lovelace -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Dryden -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- Edward Taylor -- Aphra Behn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Anne Killigrew -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Matthew Prior -- Jonathan Swift -- Isaac Watts -- John Gay -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Matthew Green -- James Thomson -- Charles Wesley -- Samuel Johnson -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Jean Elliot -- Christopher Smart -- Oliver Goldsmith -- William Cowper -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Hannah More -- Charlotte Smith -- Philip Freneau -- Phillis Wheatley -- George Crabbe -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- Joanna Baillie -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- William Cullen Bryant -- John Keats -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

Robert Browning -- Edward Lear -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- Emily Bronte -- Arthur Hugh Clouh -- Julia Ward Howe -- Herman Melville -- Spirituals -- Walt Whitman -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Matthew Arnold -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- George Meredith --Emily Dickinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- William Morris -- W S Gilbert -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Thomas Hardy -- Sidney Lanier -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Emma Lazarus -- A E Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Ernest Dowson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Charlotte Mew -- Stephen Crane -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- John McCrae -- Walter de la Mare -- Robert Frost -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Trumbull Stickney -- Carl Sandburg -- Edward Thomas -- Wallace Stevens -- Witter Bynner -- E J Pratt -- William Carlos Williams -- D H Lawrence -- Ezra Pound -- Elinor Wylie -- H D (Hilda Doolittle) -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Robinson Jeffers -- Rupert Brooke -- Marianne Moore -- Edwin Muir -- T S Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- Ivor Gurney -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) -- Archibald MacLeish -- Edna St Vincent Millay -- Wilfred Owen -- Dorothy Parker -- E E Cummings -- Jean Toomer -- Robert Graves -- Edmund Blunden -- Louise Bogan -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Basil Bunting -- Laura (Riding) Jackson -- Sterling A Brown -- Langston Hughes -- Roy Campbell -- Odgen Nash -- Stevie Smith -- Countee Cullen -- Earle Birney -- C Day Lewis -- Richard Eberhart -- Patrick Kavanagh -- Stanley Kunitz -- Robert Penn Warren -- John Betjeman -- William Empson -- W H Auden -- A D Hope -- Louis MacNeice -- Josephine Jacobsen -- Theodroe Roethke -- Richard Wright -- Malcolm Lowry -- Stephen Spender -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Norman MacCaig -- Charles Olson -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Allen Curnow -- Irving Layton -- Robert Hayden -- Muriel Bukeyser -- May Swenson -- R S Thomas -- John Berryman -- Randall Jarrell -- Weldon Kees -- Norman Nicholson -- Henry Reed -- Dylan Thomas -- Alun Lewis -- Margaret Walker -- Judith Wright -- David Gascoyne -- P K Page -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Charles Causley -- Robert Lowell -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- William Meredith -- Amy Clampitt -- Barbara Guest -- Edwin Morgan -- Keith Douglas -- Howard Nemerov -- George MacKay Brown -- Mona Van Duyn -- Richard Wilbur -- Donald Davie -- Sidney Keyes -- Philip Larkin -- Howard Moss -- James Dickey -- Peter Kane Dufault -- Anthony Hecht -- Richard Hugo -- Denise Levertov -- John Ormond -- James Schuyler --

Donald Justice

Carolyn Kizer

Kenneth Koch

A R Ammons

James K Baxter

Robert Bly

Robert Creeley

Allen Ginsberg

James Merrill

Frank O'Hara

W D Snodgrass

Elizabeth Jennings

John Ashbery

Galway Kinnell

W S Merwin

Charles Tomlinson

James Wright

Peter Davison

Donald Hall

Thomas Kinsella

Philip Levine

Anne Sexton

L E Sissman

Thom Gunn

John Hollander

Richard Howard

John Montague

Peter Porter

Adrienne Rich

A K Ramanujan

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Gregory Corso

Ted Hughes

Gary Snyder

Derek Walcott

Alan Brownjohn

Jay MacPherson

Geoffrey Hill

Sylvia Plath

John Updike

Anne Stevenson

Fleur Adcock

Popular Ballads Of The Twentieth Century

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Audre Lorde

N Scott Momaday

Wole Soyinka

Mark Strand

Charles Wright

Daryl Hine

C K Williams

Tony Harrison

Eleanor Wilner

Dom Moraes

Les Murray

Charles Simic

Margaret Atwood

Seamus Heaney

Michael Longley

Robert Pinsky

Billy Collins

Robert Hass

Derek Mahon

Eric Ormsby

Douglas Dunn

Alfred Corn

Louise Gluck

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Palmer

Eavan Boland

Craig Raine

Kit Wright

Wendy Cope

Yusef Komunyakaa

Jane Shore

Richard Kenney

Robyn Sarah

Agha Shahid Ali

James Fenton

Charles Bernstein

Anne Carson

Dana Gioia

Nicholas Christopher

Jorie Graham

Paul Muldoon

Rita Dove

Daniel Hall

Sean O'Brien

Vikram Seth

Gary Soto

Brad Leithauser

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Louise Erdrich

Carol Ann Duffy

Dionisio D Martinez

Li-Young Lee

Cynthia Zarin

Lavinia Greenlaw

Glyn Maxwell

Simon Armitage

Greg Williamson

Versification:

Rhytm

Meter

Rhyme

Forms

Basic forms

Composite forms

Irregular forms

Open forms or free verse

Other forms of poetry

Suggestions for further reading

Poetic Syntax:

What is syntax?

Parts of syntax

Sentences and words

Clauses

Moves in the game

Nominal syntax

Double syntax

Word order inversions

Game of interpretation:

Emily Dickinson

John Keats

Thomas Gray

John Dryden

William Blake

Scorn not syntax

Suggestions for further reading

Biographical sketches

Permissions acknowledgments

Index.