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My Favorite Norton Critical Editions - Poetry
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Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition). Second Edition.Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition). Second Edition. by William Blake
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The absolute must-have. Includes color reproductions of Blake's illustrations.
John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by John Donne
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Got Metaphysical Poetry?
Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by Edmund Spenser
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Big fat selections. Well-edited. Quality job all 'round.
Byron's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)Byron's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) by Lord George Gordon Byron
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The absolute best Byron collection I've found. Perfect selections. Excellent essays.
Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)Leaves of Grass, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Walt Whitman
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Whitman gets the Norton treatment.
Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton
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Face it, this one needs annotation. Essays could be more comprehensive, but still a great Nort. Crit.
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot
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And you thought PARADISE LOST needed annotations. Norton's greatest achievement might be making sense of this classic mishmash.
Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) by Robert Browning
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Browning's dramatic monologues put in perfect context. Find out why Browning was incredibly popular -- and will be again.
Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by William Butler Yeats
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A comprehensive Yeats. Perhaps they should've stuck to either Poetry or Drama or Prose.
In Memoriam (Norton Critical Editions)In Memoriam (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Another strong long-poem entry.
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical Editions)Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets (Norton Critical Editions) by Ben Jonson
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The cavalier poets are great. Somewhere between Donne and Richard Wilbur.
Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition)Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nice companion to Nort. Crit. of Byron.
Tennyson's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)Tennyson's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Tennyson
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Haven't read this, but assume I'd like it.
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition)Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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See above.
Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by Adrienne Rich
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The most modern author to get the Norton treatment. Does she deserve it? You be the judge.
The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Editions)The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Editions) by William Wordsworth
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Can't get enough of Wordworth's Prelude? This is your book. It has the hat trick.