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Leah Price

The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume One edited by M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume Two edited by M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume One edited by David Damrosch
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume Two edited by David Damrosch
Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature edited by Robert Irwin
News that Stays News: The 20th Century in Poems edited by Simon Rae
Time’s Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century by Carol Ann Duffy
Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the 20th Century in Poetry edited by Peter Forbes

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From the LRB letters page: [ 13 April 2000 ] Barry Fox.

Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.