M. H. Abrams

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1. M. H. Abrams

   Author of The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism

2. Stephen Greenblatt

   Author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth Century and After

3. Nina Baym

   Author of The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Version, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume D: Between the Wars 1914-1945, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume A: Literature to 1820

4. Harold Bloom

   Author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism

5. Geoffrey Chaucer

   Author of The Canterbury Tales, The Riverside Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

6. William Shakespeare

   Author of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale

7. George M. Logan

   Author of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1B

8. Northrop Frye

   Author of Anatomy of Criticism, Fearful Symmetry, Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology

9. Henry Fielding

   Author of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Joseph Andrews and Shamela

10. Maynard Mack

    Author of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition (Seventh Edition / Volume 2), Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaiss

11. Richard Ellmann

    Author of Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

12. Joseph Gibaldi

    Author of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

13. Terry Eagleton

    Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, William Shakespeare (Rereading Literature)

14. Vincent B. Leitch

    Author of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

15. John Milton

    Author of The Complete Poetry of John Milton, Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition), Paradise Lost and Other Poems

16. Frank Lentricchia

    Author of Critical Terms for Literary Study, After the New Criticism, Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens

17. C. Hugh Holman

    Author of A handbook to literature

18. Edmund Spenser

    Author of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)

19. R. V. Cassill

    Author of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

20. Margaret Ferguson

    Author of The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Longer Edition