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Summary: An insightful collection
Review: Though other reviewers might take issue with the removal of certain poems or certain authors from Norton's Poetic Anthology, to give the book any less than a five star rating is to desecrate the widespread genius shown by the authors and works it contains. The collection is a must-order for one who would have his life sculpted by the poet's pen.
Rating:
Summary: The best poetry anthology I have ever encountered
Review: When I saw some of the bad reviews this incredible volume received, I decided to add my opinion! I've carried this book across 3 continents and loved it above all others. I've also bought it as gifts for all my closest friends in the hope of enriching their lives as this volume has enriched mine. In its 3rd edition, in 1985, it was prescribed as a set work in the 1st year of my English Degree at University. I've discovered many of the most beautiful poems in English literature and almost all of the famous poets within these pages. I keep discovering new poems, new favourites. I meet people who tell me their own favourite poets and poems and 99% of the time they are in this volume (and if the poem isn't, the poet is). Here you'll find so many treasures; the Romantics (Yeats, Tennyson, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge), more feminist poetry (Adrienne Riche, A.D. Hope, Atwood), the modern poets (Cummings, Larkin, Meredith, Plath), other American poets (Longfellow, Whitman) ... even some of the ancients (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson). If you love the art of poetry and appreciate the different styles and techniques over the centuries, buy this book. If you love poetry and want to find it all in one complete volume, this is the book for you! It's been MY close and constant companion for 18 years.
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