Review: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
by M.H. Abrams

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 / 0-393-95043-3

If you are looking at purchasing this book, you've either been required to purchase it for a college course, or you are considering investing in an English literature anthology for your own library and you want to know if this anthology is worth your money. If you are required to buy this book for a course, my review won't matter to you much one way or another, so this is slated towards the latter group.

This is an excellent resource for English literature selections and excerpts. A good deal of the selections are poetry or lyrical selections; most of the prose selections are small excerpts meant only to give you the "feel" of the author's writing style. Invest in a copy if you have any interest in English literature (particularly poetry) and you won't be sorry. The authors and contents represented include:

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- William Wordsworth
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Charles Lamb
- William Hazlitt
- Thomas de Quincey
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- William Lisle Bowles
- Sir Walter Scott
- Robert Southey
- Walter Savage Landor
- Thomas Moore
- Leigh Hunt
- Thomas Love Peacock
- John Clare
- George Darley
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

THE VICTORIAN AGE
- Thomas Carlyle
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
- John Stuart Mill
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Robert Browning
- Emily Bronte
- John Ruskin
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Matthew Arnold
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- George Meredith
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Christina Rossetti
- William Morris
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Walter Pater
- Edward Lear
- Lewis Carroll
- W. S. Gilbert
- Charles Darwin
- John Tyndall
- Leonard Huxley
- Sir Edmund Gosse
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Friedrich Engels
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Dickens
- Herbert Spencer
- Sarah Stickney Ellis
- George Eliot
- Dinah Maria Mulock
- Florence Nightingale
- Walter Besant
- William Ernest Henley
- Oscar Wilde
- Francis Thompson
- Rudyard Kipling
- Ernest Dowson

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Thomas Hardy
- Gerald Manley Hopkins
- Bernard Shaw
- Joseph Conrad
- A. E. Housman
- Rupert Brooke
- Edward Thomas
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Ivor Gurney
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Wilfred Owen
- David Jones
- William Butler Yeats
- Virginia Woolf
- James Joyce
- D. H. Lawrence
- Edwin Muir
- Edith Sitwell
- T. S. Eliot
- Katherine Mansfield
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Robert Graves
- F. R. Leavis
- Stevie Smith
- George Orwell
- Samuel Beckett
- W. H. Auden
- Louis MacNeice
- Dylan Thomas
- Doris Lessing
- Harold Pinter
- Donald Dave
- Philip Larkin
- Molly Holden
- Thom Gunn
- Ted Hughes
- Jon Silkin
- Elaine Feinstein
- Geoffrey Hill
- Seamus Heaney

~ Ana Mardoll
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