Third Edition THE AMERICAN TRADITION LITERATURE This is the anthology with which all others must be compared. Its first edition set standards of scholarship, selection, design - and success. The second edition was even more widely accepted. In this third edition, the standards are higher than ever. It contains more than 400 pages of new selections - from Edward Taylor to Adrienne Rich. It vastly increases the scope of the modern period, treating our century as much more than a mere glamorous appendage. It so enlarges representation of major authors that it can be favorably compared to any "major authors" anthology. It continues to emphasize literature. Big in content, practical and compact in format, high in quality, low in price The American Tradition in Literature has been flatteringly imitated, but there is only one. The painting Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) is reproduced through the courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933. » W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. is also the publisher of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by M. H. Abrams, Robert M. Adams, David Daiches, E. Talbot Donaldson, George H. Ford, Samuel Holt Monk, and Hallett Smith; World Masterpieces, edited by Maynard Mack, Kenneth Douglas, Howard E. Hugo, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, P. M. Pasinetti, and René Wellek; and The Norton Reader, edited by Arthur M. Eastman, Caesar R. Blake, Hubert M. English, Jr., Alan B. Howes, Robert T. Lenaghan, Leo F. McNamara, and James Rosier. |