![]() She is the author of Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). Yale) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California–Davis. ![]() The Norton Anthology of Poetry PDF About the Author It will improve your life in ways that you do not expect. ![]() I take it on every business trip and just dig into it every night, for reading one poem, then it is light’s out…….I Love it, it’s the best.Īnd your know, every day I read a poem out of this book, I quietly thank that English Professor, who is not part of my life anymore, for connecting me with an important and necessary part of life. Not just full of poems, from throughout history, but also an excellent explanation, of what I have come to call the “architecture” of poetry. ![]() Then found this book, which has been a total feast of beautiful poetry. ![]() But I did not mind, as that was the exact instant in my entire life that I did finally “get” how to read poetry.īut you know, that education was exactly what I needed to fully join the western literature tradition. Will point out that one morning, the professor was so insistent that I “get” Keat’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” that I missed my Amtrak for work. ![]()
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