The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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Ferguson is coeditor of Feminism in Time; Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law; Literacies in Early Modern England ; and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam. A vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she has also served as poetry editor of The New Republic.

Certain concrete poems are X-rated, but if acrobatic acrostics and saucy experiments with form tickle your fancy, this is just the book for a weekend of Latin love. J. PRATT EDWARD EDWIN Elegy ELIZABETH Emily Dickinson Epitaph Fall Farewell Fish Flowers Fragment Funeral Garden George Crabbe Hawk Heart Helen HENRY Henry’s Hill HUGH Hymn Jabberwocky JAMES JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Kingfisher Lady Lear Lives Looking Lost Love Memoriam Memory Morning Music Nunhead Cemetery PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Poets Portrait Prayer Rain RICHARD ROBERT BROWNING Rose ROSSETTI SIDNEY Sleep Snow Song Sonnet Soul Spider Spring Stanza Summer’s Swan There’s THOMAS thou Tomb Tree TRUMBULL STICKNEY Truth Valediction Verse W. Over the years, the much imitated initiative has saved tens of thousands of frazzled travellers from seething fury. He is author of The Art of Robert Frost (2012) and has edited The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), and Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (2013), among other works. Stallworthy has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.The idea of a poem’s therapeutic power is at the heart of The Poetry Pharmacy, an anthology I put together last year after touring the country prescribing poems for ailments of the human spirit. Seeing the difference the right poem can make has given me confidence in poetry’s power to change lives. I take it on every business trip and just dig into it every night, for reading one poem, then it is light’s out…….

Shenandoah, Frère Jacques, Pop Goes the Weasel, Rock a Bye Baby, Home on the Range: even the ones in languages I don’t know work like spells.

A. Cambridge University) is Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches poetry and poetry-writing. She is author of Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). He is also the author of Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. He is also the author of Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Professor Ferguson has served as president of the Modern Language Association and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.