The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry is an anthology of two volumes edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann (1918-1987), and Robert O’Clair.

Contents

• Volume I Modern Poetry
• Volume II Contemporary Poetry
• Additional information
• References

The anthology is large, with 1,100 pages in each of the two volumes. Volume I, about modern poetry, and Volume II, contemporary poetry. Essays on poetics are included in each volume.

Published by W.W. Norton & Co., the anthology has gone through three editions, the latest published in 2003.

The three editors are academics or former academics: Jahan Ramazani is at the University of Virginia; Richard Ellmann, late of Oxford University and Emory University; Robert O’Clair, late of Manhattanville College.