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

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