The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1

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The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers a richer offering of contextual writings apparatus fully revised to reflect todays scholarship and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth depth and quality. The Editors M. H. Abrams General Editor Emeritus Cornell University E. Talbot Donaldson Late of Indiana University Alfred David Emeritus Indiana University Hallett Smith Formerly with The Huntington Library Barbara K. Lewalski Harvard University Robert M. Adams Late of University of California Los Angeles George M. Logan Queens University Samuel Holt Monk Late of the University of Minnesota Lawrence Lipking Northwestern University Jack Stillinger University of Illinois George H. Ford Late of the University of Rochester Carol T. Christ University of California at Berkeley David Daiches Emeritus University of Sussex Jon Stallworthy Oxford University