"The most acute rendering of an era’s sensibility is its poetry," wrote
the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later,
this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and
meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in
English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry—now available in two paperback volumes—includes
1,596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman
and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and
Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first. The Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of
twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major
figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries,
experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem,
eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance.
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