The Norton Anthology of Poetry By Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fifth Edition Softcover Copy)
The Definitive Classroom Standard for Over One Thousand Years of Verse in English
The Definitive Classroom Standard for Over One Thousand Years of Verse in English
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fifth Edition)
- Author: Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy (Editors)
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York / London
- Publication Date: 2005
- ISBN-10: 0393979202
- ISBN-13: 9780393979206
- Edition Details: Fifth Edition, Standard Softcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge illustrated flexible card wrappers (trade paperback style).
- Physical Format: Thick octavo (8vo), 2,320 pages. Printed on ultra-thin, high-grade lightweight Bible paper to accommodate the extensive text block, complete with comprehensive biographical headnotes, extensive scholarly annotations, and a multi-tiered index of authors, titles, and first lines.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Wraps: The flexible card wrappers are flat, vibrant, and square, displaying only slight, limited signs of handling wear and minor shelf friction along the corner tips and edges. The exceptionally thick spine remains completely unbroken, flat, and undamaged, showing no deep reading creases or structural lean.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, perfectly intact, and clean. The thin, specialized internal pages are crisp and completely free of standard student highlighting, ink underlines, dealer pencil marks, or dog-ears—an exceptionally rare state for a major academic textbook.
- Provenance: A highly clean, well-maintained academic copy free of university bookstore stickers, institutional stamps, or messy previous owner names.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2005, the Fifth Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry stands as the undisputed global classroom standard for the academic study of verse in English. Spanning over one thousand years of poetic evolution, this monumental collection tracks the history of the art form from the medieval period directly to the contemporary era. Under the elite editorial guidance of Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, this edition retains the remarkable breadth and structural flexibility that defined its predecessors. It expands its reach with updated translations of Old and Middle English masterpieces, a broader selection of global Anglophone voices, and a refined, highly accessible editorial apparatus designed to enhance classroom teaching and independent literary analysis.
Author Profile: The Editors
- Margaret Ferguson is a highly distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis, specializing in Renaissance literature and feminist literary theory.
- Mary Jo Salter is a celebrated American poet, lyricist, and the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Eminence at Johns Hopkins University, known for her numerous critically acclaimed poetry collections.
- Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014) was an eminent British poet, literary critic, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, widely regarded as a leading authority on 20th-century war poetry.
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