Contemporary poetry. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate But the book that is displayed, shows it is the third edition text desc says 2nd Ed. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. Delaware County District Library Ohio. Scanned in China. American Libraries. This un-ness of discernation is the beauty of course!
Many so many PhDs can have dissertations piled higher and deeper explicating this dross. PS Sex needs to be here somewhere so here it is.
Anyway, I found it enjoyable in the train wreck sense and I did appreciate the mini-biographies of the alleged poets. Plonked down a quarter a year or two later to get it at a library sale. I do wonder what my reaction would be today. Lewis, who didn't like modern poetry, nevertheless made a rather profound defense of it, even as he sketched out a possible future where poetry itself would wither away from everywhere but the curriculum. This future seems even closer today.
Sep 12, Shawn Thrasher added it. Slow and steady does win the race indeed. My favorite poems from here are too many to list; my favorite poets are still the same poets I liked when I started this back in January , plus a few more.
I came away with a new appreciate for Robert Frost and Allen Ginsberg. I wonder who made it into the next editions, and who was removed Rudyard Kipling, I hope.
This must be what the finish line of a marathon feels like. Sep 11, Gary McDowell rated it liked it. Soon it'll be Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Williams, etc. Oh boy. Jul 09, Amanda added it Shelves: poetry. Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet tea, Susie Assado Dec 09, J. Alfred rated it liked it. Can we all just agree that anthologies are helpful things to have on one's shelf, but ultimately unsatisfying? They never go in-depth enough on the authors one likes, and seem to stretch out forever on authors one wants nothing to do with.
Oh well: they're also great introducers of authors one didn't know or know well enough before. Also, e Can we all just agree that anthologies are helpful things to have on one's shelf, but ultimately unsatisfying? In that order. Had to purchase for, what else? Modern poetry class, and glad I did, kept after college. Have read through this and that passage many times, a great book to keep at the bedside, pick a poet fer an eve, after dark and before the dawn surprises you.
Feb 26, Philip rated it really liked it Shelves: anthology , reading-list. I may never actually finish this book as it's an anthology, I pick it up every once in a while to re-read favorite poems that are included and new ones I haven't encountered yet. This is an outstanding collection. May 07, Sana rated it it was amazing. Love the Walt Whitman poems. Nov 27, Kate rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry.
This is a bookshelf basic as far as I'm concerned. Awesome awesome selection. Cannot rate it highly enough. Aug 23, Ian rated it it was amazing. Just open anywhere and learn something! Sep 20, Foxygiraffe rated it really liked it. Sep 14, Erin Riggio rated it really liked it. Oh, Norton, how I love thee. These anthologies are awesome--both for the great works they include and for the interesting information about authors.
Jan 29, Dave H rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. Norton, Norton, pudding and pie. Jan 18, Chris is currently reading it. Sep 22, Spike Gomes rated it liked it. It is a two volume set, with one volume of modern poetry from late 's to 's and one volume of contemporary poetry from 's to present. I know the dates overlap, but 'modern' and 'contemporary' are two different poetic idioms that overlapped quite a bit in transition.
Modern poetry-- think Ezra Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Butler Yeats. Contemporary-- think Gwend This is a truly wonderful anthology-- Nortons are the best. Contemporary-- think Gwendolyn Brooks, W. Merwin, Sylvia Plath. Some especially good things about this anthology are the sheer number of poets represented, the section of poetics writings about poetry by poets , and the thoughtful and enlightening biographical material much better than in most anthologies.
View 2 comments. Mar 07, Aimee rated it it was amazing Shelves: I'm not actually "finished" with this, but I keep it handy and flip through it regularly and I love it. May 21, Matthew rated it liked it Shelves: textbooks. Anthologies are mostly worthless unless edited by Rothenberg and in a few other cases. I chose this one for my poetry lit course mostly for the price of a new edition and availability of used editions, but also because it includes decent selections of Loy, Riding, Zukofsky, Oppen, Olson, Duncan, Brathwaite, Lorde, Hejinian, and Susan Howe, to go along with the predictable standards.
Also, I like the prose excerpts at the back. I'd like to use something more daring, such as Revolution of the Wo Anthologies are mostly worthless unless edited by Rothenberg and in a few other cases. I'd like to use something more daring, such as Revolution of the Word or volume one of Poems for the Millennium, but for an intro class I'm going to ease in with this one.
I tried the Oxford and other anthologies in my intro to creative writing classes, but they all seem more politically-motivated than this one--as far as the less daring, large-print run anthologies go. Feb 27, Victoria rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. I'd recommend it as a must for any poetry lover's bookshelf. It starts with a selection of Walt Whitman and traverses through many greats of English and American modern literature and is nicely balanced with postcolonial and feminist contributions as well.
There are odd pages across two volumes and it's only about I'd recommend it as a must for any poetry lover's bookshelf. Definitely worth the investment! My favourite book purchase I've made in ages.
Aug 31, Lindsay rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: modern and contemporary poetry lovers. Shelves: history , poetry. I'm not usually taken with Norton anthologies. They have too many footnotes and the biographical information they provide tends to be on the boring side. But I love this anthology. My only qualm with it is that it features William Carlos Williams, but does not include his poem "This is Just to Say.
View 1 comment. Oct 17, Kate rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry. Read this in English 50 taught by Professor Bill Cook. A good selection as far as I could tell.
The footnotes are unobtrusive yet informative. I found the author biographies and introductory essays I read to be well-written and much more interesting than I'm accustomed to finding in these anthologies. May 09, Xio rated it liked it Shelves: poetry. I haven't looked that hard but the contempory poetry hasn't interested me at all. But the modern collection is good for those who are trying to travel light while retaining access to a variety of poetic voices.
Jun 09, Timothy rated it it was amazing. Volume Two wasn't discussed until the last week or two of class but I've read a number of these poets, as suggested by Tomaz. Trying to devour it during this summer. May 15, Janaree Nore rated it really liked it Recommends it for: people who loved college. I still have my college copy given to me by my great friend, Pam Lah.
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