The Norton Anthology of English Literature 1st edition by Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt ISBN 0393974863 9780393974867

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ISBN 10:       0393974863
ISBN 13: 978-0393974867
Author:         M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt

The Norton Anthology of English Literature 1st  Table of contents:

Volume 1: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)

1. Introduction to the Middle Ages

   • Anglo-Saxon Literature (Beowulf, The Wanderer)
   • Religious Texts and Allegories (Dream of the Rood)
   • Middle English Lyrics

2. Medieval Romance and Allegory

   • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
   • Selections from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
   • William Langland: Piers Plowman

3. Mysticism and Devotion

   • Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
   • Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe

Volume 2: The Sixteenth Century (1485–1603)

1. Introduction to the English Renaissance

   • Humanism and Early Modern English
   • Wyatt and Surrey: Early Sonnets

2. Elizabethan Poetry and Drama

   • Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Selections)
   • Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
   • William Shakespeare: Sonnets and Excerpts from The Tempest

3. Prose and Religious Texts

   • Thomas More: Utopia
   • King James Bible (Selections)

Volume 3: The Early Seventeenth Century (1603–1660)

1. Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry

   • John Donne: Songs, Sonnets, and Holy Sonnets
   • Ben Jonson: Selected Poems

2. Prose and the Civil War

   • Francis Bacon: Essays
   • John Milton: Areopagitica

3. Milton’s Masterpieces

   • Paradise Lost (Selections)

Volume 4: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)

1. Restoration Comedy and Satire

   • John Dryden: Poems and Essays
   • Aphra Behn: Oroonoko

2. The Rise of the Novel

   • Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Excerpts)
   • Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Selections)

3. Eighteenth-Century Poetry

   • Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
   • Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Volume 5: The Romantic Period (1785–1830)

1. Introduction to Romanticism

   • Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge

2. Major Romantic Poets

   • William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
   • Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind

3. The Romantic Novel

   • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Volume 6: The Victorian Age (1830–1901)

1. The Rise of Realism

   • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (Selections)
   • George Eliot: Middlemarch (Excerpts)

2. Victorian Poetry

   • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam
   • Robert Browning: Dramatic Monologues

3. Social and Political Contexts

   • John Ruskin: The Stones of Venice (Selections)

Volume 7: The Twentieth Century and After (1901–Present)

1. Modernism

   • T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
   • Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (Excerpts)

2. Postcolonial Literature

   • W.B. Yeats: Later Poems
   • Seamus Heaney: Digging

3. Contemporary Voices

   • Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children (Excerpts)
   • Zadie Smith: Short Stories

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