The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393954722 (0393954722)
Publish date: March 1st 1986
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 578
Edition language: English
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The only university book I ever kept. It covers the Romantic Period (1785-1830; Burns, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Coleridge), which I so loved, through the Victorian (1830-1901; John Stuart Mill, Robert Browning, Wilde), and on on through the Twentieth Century (Housman, Auden, and...not much else. :)....
This was the text for my second semester senior English class in high school. I understand the teacher retired after that year to take a job driving buses or something. I wouldn't blame him, because I doubt if he got much out of the six of us. But he was the best literature professor I ever had.