The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1: Middle Ages to the Restoration and the 18th Century

by Christopher Baswell, Clare Carroll, David Damrosch, et al.

Book Overview

KEY BENEFITS: Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, The Longman Anthology of British Literature was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321093887
• ISBN13: 9780321093882
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the better anthologies required

I was required to buy this for a British literature course. Usually books of this kind get resold since I'm not an English major, but this will be an exception. I enjoyed the collection of works they included and the introductions and footnotes included help with comprehension.

Nortons Schmortons

I've got nothing against the various Nortons anthologies. I was raised on them and have written more papers than I'm comfortable admitting based on the contents of many of them. That said, I think the Longman editions may contain more insightful information than the Nortons. This is merely based on my recent familiarity with the Longman edition, and doesn't take in to account any improvements in the most recent Norton.

Wonderful reading

I got this book for an English Romanticism class, and apart from assigned readings by the teacher, the book also has biographies of the poets and writers -- really interesting read!

I continue to use and enjoy

...this is an excellent anthology, packed with both canonical authors and new, more marginal, figures. Printed on thin "bible paper" but with very little bleed-through, its wide range and beautiful color plates make it ideal for survey courses and, with a few supplements, for upper level courses.

The best anthology out there!

This is a gorgeous anthology, with dazzling color plates (Martin, Gainsborough, Wright, Turnery, Blake, etc.) that are wonderful to look at and even better to teach with. The selections are all you could want for a survey of the romantics, and the organization of the materials--especially the cultural/contextual sections--is extremely helpful both for students of romantic literature and for the teacher designing a course. The notes are consistently illuminating without being obtrusive. This is an edition to trust. I'll never go Norton again!