Did you mean Tony Harrison, Doug?
It's an odd enterprise altogether, but it sells. There is a companion
anthology of American literature (for author list, visit
<http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/authors.asp> -- Any
Canadians or Mexicans among them?) and they should probably by now be
collecting the English Language Literatures That Are Not Either American Or
British in another volume.
Anthologies always get people going, don't they?
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 16 October 2007 15:58
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> Subject: Re: The modern canon (US excluded)-Norton Anthology of English
Lit
> revised
>
> Ha: two Canucks,. one Aussie.
>
> Will anyone tell me why Tony Richardson is taken so seriously? Boy, can
> I think of other Brits who should be there, beginning with Bunting....
>
> Doug
> On 16-Oct-07, at 3:07 AM, Max Richards wrote:
>
> > I suppose the below has few surprises.
> > Powerful things, these widely-used anthologies.
> > Canada and Australia scarcely figure...
> Douglas Barbour
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> and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
> contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
> to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
>
> Phyllis Webb
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