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Norton Anthology of English Literature

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ISBN-10: 0393974863

ISBN-13: 9780393974867

Edition: 7th 2000

Authors: M. H. Abrams

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This edition's revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney.
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Book details

Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 3038
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 2.75" tall
Weight: 4.136

Meyer Howard Abrams was born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1912. He studied English at Harvard University and attained his B.A. in 1934. He won a Henry fellowship to Cambridge University in 1935, where he was tutored by I. A. Richards. Abrams returned to Harvard for graduate school, and received his Masters' degree in 1937 and his PhD in 1940. Abrams set the standard of critical authority for American literary studies for the quarter century after World War II. He is the author of two syntheses of English Romantic thought, and has also been general and Romantic period editor of the most widely used college anthology of English literature; The Norton Anthology of English Literature, as well…