The Norton Anthology Of Poetry - 5th Edition

Tne Norton Anthology or Poetry FIFTH EDITION Editors Emeriti Alexander Allison LATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Herbert Barrows PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Caesar R. Blake UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Arthur J. Carr LATE OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE Arthur M. Eastman LATE OF VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY Hubert M. English, Jr. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN T h e N o r t o n Anthology o»r Poetry FIFTH EDITION Margaret Ferguson UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS Mary Jo Salter M O U N T HOLYOKE C O L L E G E Jon Stallworthy OXFORD UNIVERSITY W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • New York • London W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William Warder Norton and Mary D. Herter Norton first published lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult education division of New York City's Cooper Union. The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from America and abroad. By mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton's publishing program— trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of four hundred and a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W. Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its employees. Copyright © 2005, 1996, 1983, 1975, 1970 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all of the copyright notices, pp. 2140—50 constitute an extension of the copyright page. The text of this book is composed in Fairfield Medium with the display set in Bernhard Modern. Composition by Binghamton Valley Composition. Manufacturing by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Inc. Editor: Julia Reidhead Developmental Editor: Kurt Wildermuth Electronic Media and Ancillaries Editor: Eileen Connell Assistant Editor: Erin Dye Permissions Manager and Associate: Nancy Rodwan, Margaret Gorenstein Book Designer: Antonina Krass Production Manager: Diane O'Connor Managing Editor, College: Marian Johnson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Norton anthology of poetry / [edited by] Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy.—5th ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-393-97920-2 (pbk.) 1. English poetry. 2. American poetry. I. Ferguson, Margaret, W., 1948— II. Salter, Mary Jo. III. Stallworthy, Jon. PR1174.N6 2004b 821.008—dc22 2004058100 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London WIT 3QT 1234567890 Contents PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION Editorial Procedures lix lxi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Ixiii C ^ D M O N ' S HYMN (translated by John Pope) 1 From BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) 2 RIDDLES (TRANSLATED BY RICHARD HAMER) 10 1 ("I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") 2 ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") 3 ("A moth ate words; a marvellous event") 11 10 THE WIFE'S LAMENT (translated by Richard Hamer) 11 THE SEAFARER (trans