The Norton Anthology of English Literature

The product was great, much easier to cart around campus with me. I just didn't realize that it was a portion of the larger/full volume I already had.

Volume 1B of the Norton Anthology of English Literature covers much of the Sixteenth Century and the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. Included in this book are works from:John SkeltonSir Thomas MoreSir Thomas Wyatt the ElderWilliam TyndaleJohn CalvinAnne AskewJohn FoxeRichard HookerRoger AschamHenrey Howard, Earl of SurreySir Thomas HobyQueen ElizabethArthur GoldingGeorge GascoigneIsabella WhitneyEdmund Spenser - The Faerie Queen and the AmorettiSir Walter RaleghJohn LylySir Philip SidneyFulke Greville, Lord Baron BrookeRobert SouthwelleMary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of PembrokeSamuel DanielMichael DraytonChristopher Marlowe - Hero and Leander, The Passionate Sheperd to his Love, and Doctor FaustusWilliam Shakespeare - Twelth Night, King Lear, and selected sonnetsThomas CampionThomas NasheJohn DonneAemilia LanyerBen Johnson - The Masque of Blackness, Volpone or the Fox, and selected poems and proseMary WrothJohn WebsterElizabeth CaryFrancis BaconMartha MoulsworthRachel SpeghtRobert BurtonSir Thomas BrowneIzaak WaltonThomas Hobbes - Including LeviathanGeorge HerbertHenrey VaughanRichard CrashawRobert HerrickThomas CarewSir John SucklingRichard LovelaceEdmund WallerAbraham CowleyKatherine PhilipsAndrew MarvellLucy HutchinsonLady Anne HalkettJohn LilburneGerrard WinstanleyAnna TrapnelAbiezer CoppeEdward Hyde, Earl of ClarendonThomas TraherneMargaret CavendishJohn Milton - Paradise Lost, selected Poems and SonnetsAlexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock and An Essay on ManSamuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human WishesThomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardIt is an adequate anthology, with good bindings for a softcover book. The text is small and somewhat cramped and the paper is thin and light, as is the standard for anthologies of this size. If you are looking for a specific work or works, it is probabably more rewarding and convenient to get an individual volume for the specified work. If, however, you need a decent survey of the period's literature (without too much depth concerning any one author) this is a fine, inexpensive volume.