Well that's interesting. Apparently they've dropped Stoppard's _The Real
Inspector Hound_, and substituted _Arcadia_. I wonder why? Like football
shirts, you have to go and buy the latest edition in order to conform.

P

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> Subject: The modern canon (US excluded)-Norton Anthology of English Lit
> revised
> 
> I suppose the below has few surprises.
> Powerful things, these widely-used anthologies.
> Canada and Australia scarcely figure...
> 
> Contents of the final volume in the new
> 
> Norton Anthology of English Literature
> 
> (pages numbered from 1827 to 2876)
> 
> The Twentieth Century and After 1827
> 
> Introduction 1827
> Timeline 1848
> 
> THOMAS HARDY (1840­1928) 1851
> On the Western Circuit 1852
> Hap 1868
> Neutral Tones 1869
> I Look into My Glass 1869
> A Broken Appointment 1870
> Drummer Hodge 1870
> The Darkling Thrush 1871
> The Ruined Maid 1872
> A Trampwoman¹s Tragedy 1872
> One We Knew 1875
> She Hears the Storm 1876
> Channel Firing 1877
> The Convergence of the Twain 1878
> Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 1879
> Under the Waterfall 1880
> The Walk 1881
> The Voice 1882
> The Workbox 1882
> During Wind and Rain 1883
> In Time of ŒThe Breaking of Nations¹ 1884
> He Never Expected Much 1884
> 
> JOSEPH CONRAD (1857­1924) 1885
> Preface to The Nigger of the ³Narcissus² 1887
> [The Task of the Artist] 1887
> Heart of Darkness 1890
> 
> A. E. HOUSMAN (1859­1936) 1948
> Loveliest of Trees 1948
> When I Was One-and-Twenty 1949
> To an Athlete Dying Young 1949
> Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 1950
> The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux 1952
> Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 1953
> 
> voices from world war i 1954
> 
> RUPERT BROOKE (1887­1915) 1955
> The Soldier 1955
> 
> EDWARD THOMAS (1878­1917) 1956
> Adlestrop 1956
> Tears 1957
> The Owl 1957
> Rain 1958
> The Cherry Trees 1958
> As the Team¹s Head Brass 1959
> 
> SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886­1967) 1960
> ŒThey¹ 1960
> The Rear-Guard 1961
> The General 1961
> Glory of Women 1962
> Everyone Sang 1962
> On Passing the New Menin Gate 1963
> Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 1963
> [The Opening of the Battle of the Somme] 1963
> 
> IVOR GURNEY (1890­1937) 1965
> To His Love 1965
> The Silent One 1966
> 
> ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890­1918) 1966
> Break of Day in the Trenches 1967
> Louse Hunting 1967
> Returning, We Hear the Larks 1968
> Dead Man¹s Dump 1969
> 
> WILFRED OWEN (1893­1918) 1971
> Anthem for Doomed Youth 1971
> Apologia Pro Poemate Meo 1972
> Miners 1973
> Dulce Et Decorum Est 1974
> Strange Meeting 1975
> Futility 1976
> S.I.W. 1976
> Disabled 1977
> From Owen¹s Letters to His Mother 1979
> Preface 1980
> 
> MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893­1973) 1981
> Rouen 1981
> From Grey Ghosts and Voices 1983
> 
> ROBERT GRAVES (1895­1985) 1984
> Goodbye to All That 1985
> [The Attack on High Wood] 1985
> The Dead Fox Hunter 1987
> Recalling War 1988
> 
> DAVID JONES (1895­1974) 1989
> in parenthesis 1990
> From Preface 1990
> From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks 1992
> 
> modernist manifestos 1996
> 
> T. E. HULME: From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911­12) 1998
> F. S. FLINT AND EZRA POUND: Imagisme; A Few Don¹ts by an Imagiste
> (1913) 2003
> 
> AN IMAGIST CLUSTER 2007
> 
> T. E. Hulme: Autumn 2008
> Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro 2008
> H. D. 2009
> Oread 2009
> Sea Rose 2009
> Blast (1914) 2009
> Long Live the Vortex! 2010
> Blast 6 2012
> 
> MINA LOY: Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914) 2015
> 
> WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865­1939) 2019
> The Stolen Child 2022
> Down by the Salley Gardens 2024
> The Rose of the World 2024
> The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2025
> The Sorrow of Love 2025
> When You Are Old 2026
> Who Goes with Fergus? 2026
> The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland 2026
> Adam¹s Curse 2028
> No Second Troy 2029
> The Fascination of What¹s Difficult 2029
> A Coat 2029
> September 1913 2030
> Easter, 1916 2031
> The Wild Swans at Coole 2033
> In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 2034
> The Second Coming 2036
> A Prayer for My Daughter 2037
> Leda and the Swan 2039
> Sailing to Byzantium 2046
> Among School Children 2041
> A Dialogue of Self and Soul 2042
> Byzantium 2044
> Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2045
> Lapis Lazuli 2046
> Under Ben Bulben 2047
> Man and the Echo 2050
> The Circus Animals¹ Desertion 2051
> From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] 2053
> 
> E. M. FORSTER (1879­1970) 2058
> The Other Boat 2059
> 
> VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882­1941) 2080
> The Mark on the Wall 2082
> Modern Fiction 2087
> A Room of One¹s Own 2092
> Professions for Women 2152
> A Sketch of the Past 2155
> [Moments of Being and Non-Being] 2155
> 
> JAMES JOYCE (1882­1941) 2163
> Araby 2168
> The Dead 2172
> Ulysses 2200
> [Proteus] 2200
> [Lestrygonians] 2213
> Finnegans Wake 2239
> From Anna Livia Plurabelle 2239
> 
> D. H. LAWRENCE (1885­1930) 2243
> Odour of Chrysanthemums 2245
> The Horse Dealer¹s Daughter 2258
> Why the Novel Matters 2269
> Love on the Farm 2273
> Piano 2275
> Tortoise Shout 2275
> Bavarian Gentians 2278
> Snake 2278
> Cypresses 2280
> How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 2282
> The Ship of Death 2283
> 
> T. S. ELIOT (1888­1965) 2286
> The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2289
> Sweeney among the Nightingales 2293
> The Waste Land 2295
> The Hollow Men 2309
> Journey of the Magi 2312
>   four quartets 2312
> Little Gidding 2313
> Tradition and the Individual Talent 2319
> The Metaphysical Poets 2325
> 
> KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888­1923) 2332
> The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2333
> The Garden Party 2346
> 
> JEAN RHYS (1890­1979) 2356
> The Day They Burned the Books 2357
> Let Them Call It Jazz 2361
> 
> STEVIE SMITH (1902­1971) 2372
> Sunt Leones 2373
> Our Bog Is Dood 2374
> Not Waving but Drowning 2374
> Thoughts About the Person from Porlock 2375
> Pretty 2377
> 
> GEORGE ORWELL (1903­1950) 2378
> Shooting an Elephant 2379
> Politics and the English Language 2384
> 
> SAMUEL BECKETT (1906­1989) 2393
> Endgame 2394
> 
> W. H. AUDEN (1907­1973) 2421
> Petition 2422
> On This Island 2422
> Lullaby 2423
> Spain 2424
> As I Walked Out One Evening 2427
> Musée des Beaux Arts 2428
> In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2429
> The Unknown Citizen 2431
> September 1, 1939 2432
> In Praise of Limestone 2435
> The Shield of Achilles 2437
> [Poetry as Memorable Speech] 2438
> 
> LOUIS MacNEICE (1907­1963) 2441
> Sunday Morning 2442
> The Sunlight on the Garden 2442
> Bagpipe Music 2443
> Star-Gazer 2444
> 
> DYLAN THOMAS (1914­1953) 2444
> The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 2445
> The Hunchback in the Park 2446
> Poem in October 2447
> Fern Hill 2448
> Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2450
> 
> voices from world war ii 2451
> 
> EDITH SITWELL (1887­1964) 2452
> Still Falls the Rain 2453
> HENRY REED (1914­1986) 2454
> Lessons of the War 2455
> 1. Naming of Parts 2455
> KEITH DOUGLAS (1920­1944) 2456
> Gallantry 2456
> Vergissmeinnicht 2457
> Aristocrats 2458
> CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917­2003) 2459
> At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux 2459
> Armistice Day 2460
> 
> nation and language 2461
> 
> CLAUDE McKAY (1890­1948) 2463
> Old England 2463
> If We Must Die 2464
> 
> HUGH MacDIARMID (1892­1978) 2464
> [The Splendid Variety of Languages and Dialects] 2465
> A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 2466
> 1. Farewell to Dostoevski 2466
> 2. Yet Ha¹e I Silence Left 2467
> In Memoriam James Joyce 2467
> We Must Look at the Harebell 2467
> Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2468
> 
> LOUISE BENNETT (b. 1919) 2469
> Jamaica Language 2469
> Dry-Foot Bwoy 2470
> Colonization in Reverse 2472
> Jamaica Oman 2473
> 
> BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929) 2475
> Translations 2477
> 
> KAMAU BRATHWAITE (b. 1930) 2523
> [Nation Language] 2523
> Calypso 2527
> 
> WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934) 2529
> Telephone Conversation 2529
> 
> TONY HARRISON (b. 1937) 2530
> Heredity 2531
> National Trust 2531
> Book Ends 2532
> Long Distance 2533
> Turns 2534
> Marked with D. 2534
> 
> NGUGI WA THIONG¹O (b. 1938) 2535
> Decolonising the Mind 2535
> From The Language of African Literature 2535
> 
> SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) 2539
> [English Is an Indian Literary Language] 2540
> 
> JOHN AGARD (b. 1949) 2542
> Listen Mr Oxford Don 2542
> 
> DORIS LESSING (b. 1919) 2543
> To Room Nineteen 2544
> 
> PHILIP LARKIN (1922­1985) 2565
> Church Going 2566
> MCMXIV 2568
> Talking in Bed 2569
> Ambulances 2569
> High Windows 2570
> Sad Steps 2571
> Homage to a Government 2571
> The Explosion 2572
> This Be The Verse 2572
> Aubade 2573
> 
> NADINE GORDIMER (b. 1923) 2574
> The Moment before the Gun Went Off 2575
> 
> A. K. RAMANUJAN (1929­1993) 2578
> Self-Portrait 2579
> Elements of Composition 2579
> Foundlings in the Yukon 2581
> 
> THOM GUNN (1929­2004) 2582
> Black Jackets 2583
> My Sad Captains 2583
> From the Wave 2584
> Still Life 2585
> The Missing 2585
> 
> DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930) 2586
> A Far Cry from Africa 2587
> The Schooner Flight 2588
> 1 Adios, Carenage 2588
> The Season of Phastasmal Peace 2590
> omeros 2591
> 1.3.3 [³ ŒMais qui c¸ a qui rivait-¹ous, Philoctete? ¹ ²] 2591
> 6.49.1­2 [³She bathed him in the brew of the root. The
> basin²] 2592
> 
> TED HUGHES (1930­1998) 2594
> Wind 2594
> Relic 2595
> Pike 2595
> Out 2597
> Theology 2598
> Crow¹s Last Stand 2599
> Daffodils 2599
> 
> HAROLD PINTER (b. 1930) 2601
> The Dumb Waiter 2601
> 
> CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930) 2622
> Things Fall Apart 2624
> From An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad¹s Heart of Darkness 2709
> 
> ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931) 2714
> Walker Brothers Cowboy 2715
> 
> GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932) 2725
> In Memory of Jane Fraser 2725
> Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings 2726
> September Song 2726
> Mercian Hymns 2727
> 6 (³The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall²) 2727
> 7 (³Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools²) 2727
> 28 (³Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The²) 2728
> 30 (³And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to-²) 2728
> An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 2728
> 9. The Laurel Axe 2728
> 
> V. S. NAIPAUL (b. 1932) 2729
> One Out of Many 2730
> 
> TOM STOPPARD (b. 1937) 2752
> Arcadia 2753
> 
> LES MURRAY (b. 1938) 2820
> Morse 2821
> On Removing Spiderweb 2821
> Corniche 2822
> 
> SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939) 2822
> Digging 2824
> The Forge 2825
> The Grauballe Man 2825
> Punishment 2826
> Casualty 2828
> The Skunk 2830
> Station Island 2831
> 12 (³Like a convalescent, I took the hand²) 2831
> Clearances 2833
> The Sharping Stone 2836
> 
> J. M. COETZEE (b. 1940) 2838
> From Waiting for the Barbarians 2839
> 
> EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944) 2848
> Fond Memory 2848
> That the Science of Cartography Is Limited 2849
> The Dolls Museum in Dublin 2850
> The Lost Land 2851
> 
> SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) 2852
> The Prophet¹s Hair 2854
> 
> ANNE CARSON (b. 1950) 2863
> The Glass Essay 2864
> Hero 2864
> Epitaph: Zion 2868
> 
> PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951) 2868
> Meeting the British 2869
> Gathering Mushrooms 2870
> Milkweed and Monarch 2871
> The Grand Conversation 2872
> 
> CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955) 2873
> Warming Her Pearls 2874
> Medusa 2875
> Mrs Lazarus 2876
> 
>