When it comes to defining the canon of English literary greats, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the world's big gun. Since 1962, in eight million copies lugged across campus by ...

has played a major role in the sweeping revisions made recently to “The Norton Anthology of English Literature,” a multi-volume collection of canonical literary works traditionally used in college ...

To give an idea of the breadth of this sampling from children's literature through the ages, consider that the volume's "timeline" begins in the Eighth Century—B.C. The bulk of the material in ...

But they conceded that his most famous accomplishment was as editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, a first-year university textbook that has almost singlehandedly kept the word ...

M.H. Abrams, an esteemed critic, teacher and tastemaker who helped shape the modern literary canon as founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and joined the elite himself by ...