The Norton anthology of poetry

Caedmon's hymn From Beowulf The seafarer Anonymous lyrics of the 12th and 14th centuries Chaucer William Langland Pearl William Dunbar John Skelton Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Anne Askew Queen Elizabeth I George Gasciogne Isabella Whitney Chdiock Tichborne Sir Walter Raleigh Edmund Spenser John Lyly Sir Philip Sidney Robert Southwell Mary Sidney Samuel Daniel Michael Drayton Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare (Sonnets and songs from the plays, and The phoenix and the turtle) Thomas Campion Thomas Nashe Aemilia Lanyer John Donne Ben Jonson Mary Wroth Robert Herrick Henry King George Herbert Thomas Carew Edmund Waller John Milton Sir John Suckling Anne Bradstreet Richard Crashaw Richard Lovelace Andrew Marvell Henry Vaughan Margaret Cavendish John Dryden Katherine Philips Thomas Traherne Edward Taylor Aphra Behn John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Jonathan Swift Isaac Watts John Gay Alexander Pope Lady Mary Wortley Montagu James Thomson Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray William Collins Christopher Smart Jean Elliot Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Anna Laetitia Barbauld Charlotte Smith Phillis Wheatley Robert Burns William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter Savage Landor George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Clare Felicia Dorothea Hemans Ralph Waldo Emerson Elizabeth Barrett Browning Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edward Fitzgerald Oliver Wendell Holmes Edgar Allan Poe Alfred, Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Emily Bronte Arthur Hugh Clough Julia Ward Howe Herman Melville Walt Whitman Matthew Arnold

Dante Gabriel Rossetti George Meredith Emily Dickinson Christina Rosetti Lewis Carroll W.S. Gilbert Algernon Charles Swinburne Thomas Hardy Sidney Lanier Gerard Manley Hopkins A.E. Housman Rudyard Kipling William Butler Yeats Edwin Arlington Robinson Charlotte Mew Stephen Crane Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Frost Amy Lowell Gertrude Stein Edward Thomas Wallace Stevens E.J. Pratt William Carlos Williams D.H. Lawrence Ezra Pound H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Siegfried Sassoon Robinson Jeffers Marianne Moore T.S. Eliot o John Crowe Ransom Isaac Rosenberg Hugh MacDiarmid Archibald MacLeish Edna St. Vincent Millay Wilfred Owen E.E. Cummings Jean Toomer Robert Graves Louise Bogan Hart Crane Laura (Riding) Jackson Sterling A. Brown Langston Hughes Roy Campbell Stevie Smith Countee Cullen Earle Birney C. Day Lewis Patrick Kavanagh Stanley Kunitz Robert Penn Warren William Empson W.H. Auden A.D. Hope Louis MacNeice Theodore Roethke Richard Wright Malcolm Lowry Elizabeth Bishop Irving Layton Robert Hayden Muriel Rukeyser May Swenson R.S. Thomas John Berryman Randall Jarrell Weldon Kees Henry Reed Dylan Thomas Judith Wright

David Gascoyne

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Lowell

Amy Clampitt

Keith Douglas

Howard Nemerov

Mona Van Duyn

Richard Wilbur

Philip Larkin

James Dickey

Anthony Hecht

Denise Levertov

Donald Justice

Carolyn Kizer

Kenneth Koch

A.R. Ammons

James K. Baxter

Robert Creeley

Allen Ginsberg

James Merrill

Frank O'Hara

W.D. Snodgrass

John Ashbery

Galway Kinnell

W.S. Merwin

Charles Tomlinson

James Wright

Donald Hall

Philip Levine

Anne Sexton o

L.E. Sissman

Thom Gunn

John Hollander

Richard Howard

Peter Porter

Adrienne Rich

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Ted Hughes

Gary Snyder

Derek Walcott

Alan Brownjohn

Jay MacPherson o

Geoffrey Hill

Sylvia Plath

Anne Stevenson

Amiri Baraka

Audre Lorde

N. Scott Momaday

Wole Soyinka

Mark Strand

Charles Wright

Daryl Hine

C.K. Williams

Tony Harrison

Les Murray

Charles Smic

Margaret Atwood

Seamus Heaney

Robert Pinsky

Billy Collins

Robert Hass

Derek Mahon

Eric Ormsby

Alfred Corn

Louise Gluck

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Palmer

Eavan Boland

Craig Raine

Yusef Komunyakaa

Robyn Sarah

Agha Shahid Ali

James Fenton o

Charles Bernstein

Dana Gioia

Jorie Graham

Paul Muldoon

Rita Dove

Daniel Hall

Vikram Seth

Gary Soto

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Louise Erdrich

Carol Ann Duffy

Li-Young Lee

Cynthia Zarin

Simon Armitage

Greg Wiliamson

Versification: rhythm, meter, rhyme, forms (composite, irregular, free verse)

Poetic syntax.