The Longman Anthology Of Poetry

by McMahon, Lynne; Curdy, Averill

• ISBN13: 9780321117250
• ISBN10: 0321117255
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This major new poetry anthology blends the best selections from the poetic tradition with a wide range of contemporary works, thematic casebooks, and engaging essays that contextualize poetry century by century. Featuring a breathtaking scope of poetry from the English-speaking world, this diverse collection brings unparalleled historical and cultural background to the study of poetry including discussions of the poetic conventions of the time and the poetic "fingerprints" of particular poets. Introductions by respected scholars provide historical context and thematic casebooks provide insight into key literary movements.

Table of Contents

Preface	xlix
Versification	1	(8)
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD	9	(80)
Introduction by Candace Barrington	9	(13)
Old English Verse (AD 650-1100)	9	(6)
The Warrior Culture	10	(1)
The Influence of Christianity	11	(1)
The Oral Tradition	11	(2)
Caedmon's Hymn and Old English Elegies	13	(1)
The Epic of Beowulf	14	(1)
Middle English Verse (1100-1500)	15	(6)
The Norman Invasion	15	(1)
French Court Culture and the Code of Chivalry	16	(1)
The Influence of Christianity	17	(1)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	17	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer	18	(2)
English Poetry After Chaucer	20	(1)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	21	(1)
THE LORD'S PRAYER IN OLD ENGLISH	22	(1)
CAEDMON	22	(1)
Hymn (two versions)	22	(1)
FROM BEOWULF	23	(6)
Opening	23	(5)
Lament of the Last Survivor	28	(1)
ANONYMOUS	29	(2)
Riddles	29	(2)
1 "Storm"	29	(1)
5 "Shield"	29	(1)
26 "Gospel Book"	30	(1)
45 "Dough"	31	(1)
ANONYMOUS	31	(2)
The Wife's Complaint	31	(2)
ANONYMOUS	33	(3)
The Wanderer	33	(3)
FROM SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT	36	(4)
The Green Knight's Entry into Camelot	36	(4)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)	40	(35)
The Miller's Tale	40	(17)
The Parliament of Fowles	57	(18)
To Adam, His Scribe	75	(1)
ANONYMOUS LYRICS	75	(8)
Earth Upon Earth	75	(1)
Now Goeth Sun Under Wood	75	(1)
The Cuckoo's Song	75	(1)
All Too Late	76	(1)
The Song of Lewes	76	(2)
Jesus, My Sweet Lover	78	(1)
Spring	78	(1)
Jesus Comforts His Mother	79	(1)
I Have a Young Sister	80	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	81	(1)
Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt	81	(2)
CHARLES D'ORLÉANS (1391-1465)	83	(1)
Confession of a Stolen Kiss	83	(1)
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (1320-1370)	83	(3)
Aubade	83	(1)
The Winter	84	(2)
WILLIAM DUNBAR (ca. 1460—ca. 1525)	86	(3)
Lament for the Makars	86	(3)
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY	89	(116)
Introduction by Linda Gregerson	89	(14)
History and Culture of the Sixteenth Century	89	(6)
The Early Tudors	89	(1)
The English Reformation	90	(2)
Economic and Cultural Overview	92	(1)
The Female Prince	93	(2)
Poetry and Public Life	95	(6)
The Sonnet	97	(2)
Poetry and National Identity	99	(1)
Female Authorship	100	(1)
The Final Decade	101	(1)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	101	(2)
JOHN SKELTON (1460-1529)	103	(2)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale	103	(1)
from Cohn Clout	104	(1)
ANONYMOUS BALLADS	105	(3)
Sir Patrick Spens	105	(2)
The Unquiet Grave	107	(1)
ANONYMOUS LYRICS	108	(1)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains	108	(1)
The Silver Swan	108	(1)
THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542)	109	(7)
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor	109	(1)
Petrarch, Sonnet 140	109	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	110	(1)
Petrach, Sonnet 190	110	(1)
My Galley	111	(1)
They Flee from Me	112	(1)
My Lute, Awake!	112	(1)
Stand Whoso List	113	(1)
Mine Own John Poyns	114	(2)
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547)	116	(4)
Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought	116	(1)
The Soote Season	117	(1)
So Cruel Prison	117	(2)
Wyatt Resteth Here	119	(1)
QUEEN ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)	120	(1)
The Doubt of Future Foes	120	(1)
On Monsieur's Departure	120	(1)
GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1535-1577)	121	(1)
For That He Looked Not upon Her	121	(1)
ISABELLA WHITNEY (fl. 1567-1573)	122	(8)
The Manner of Her Will	122	(8)
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (d. 1586)	130	(1)
Tichborne's Elegy	130	(1)
SIR WALTER RALEGH (ca. 1552-1618)	131	(4)
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen	131	(1)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	131	(1)
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage	132	(2)
Fortune hath taken thee away, my love	134	(1)
EDMUND SPENSER (ca. 1552-1599)	135	(31)
from Amoretti	135	(3)
1 "Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands"	135	(1)
4 "New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate"	135	(1)
13 "In that proud port, which licr so goodly graceth"	136	(1)
22 "This holy season fit to fast and pray"	136	(1)
62 "The weary yeare his race now having run"	136	(1)
66 "To all those happy blessings which ye have"	137	(1)
68 "Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day"	137	(1)
75 "One day I wrote her name upon the strand"	138	(1)
Epithalamion	138	(10)
Prothalamion	148	(5)
from The Faerie Queene	153	(13)
Book III, Canto II	153	(13)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)	166	(9)
Ye Goat-herd Gods	166	(2)
Ring Out Your Bells	168	(1)
from Astrophil and Stella	169	(1)
1 "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show"	169	(1)
2 "Not at first sight; nor with a dribbed shot"	170	(1)
5 "It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve"	170	(1)
14 "Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend"	170	(1)
25 "The wisest scholar of the wight most wise"	171	(1)
31 "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies"	171	(1)
39 "Come sleep, O sleep, the certain rent of peace"	172	(1)
47 "What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?"	172	(1)
49 "I on my horse, and love on me, doth try"	172	(1)
63 "O grammar rules, O now your virtues show"	173	(1)
71 "Who will in fairest book of nature know"	173	(1)
90 "Stella, think that not I by verse seek fame"	173	(1)
101 "Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies"	174	(1)
102 "Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?"	174	(1)
106 "O absent presence, Stella is not here"	174	(1)
107 "Stella, since thou so right a princess art"	175	(1)
SAMUEL DANIEL (ca. 1562-1619)	175	(3)
from Delia	175	(3)
1 "Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty"	175	(1)
6 "Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair"	176	(1)
31 "Look, Delia, how we steem the half-blown rose"	176	(1)
32 "But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again"	176	(1)
33 "When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass"	177	(1)
50 "Let others sing of knights and paladins"	177	(1)
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)	178	(1)
from Idea	178	(1)
6 "How many paltry, foolish, painted things"	178	(1)
61 "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part"	178	(1)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)	179	(1)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	179	(1)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)	180	(8)
Sonnets	180	(1)
2 "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow"	180	(1)
12 "When I do count the clock that tells the time"	180	(1)
18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"	180	(1)
20 "A woman's face with nature's own hand painted"	181	(1)
29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"	181	(1)
30 "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"	182	(1)
40 "Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all"	182	(1)
53 "What is your substance, whereof are you made"	183	(1)
55 "Not marble nor the gilded monuments"	183	(1)
71 "No longer mourn for me when I am dead"	183	(1)
73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"	184	(1)
94 "They that have power to hurt and will do none"	184	(1)
116 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"	184	(1)
129 "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"	185	(1)
130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"	185	(1)
146 "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth"	186	(1)
Songs from the Plays	186	(2)
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy	186	(1)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	187	(1)
Full Fathom Five	187	(1)
THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)	188	(1)
My Sweetest Lesbia	188	(1)
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings	188	(1)
There Is a Garden in Her Face	189	(1)
MARY SIDNEY (1561-1621)	189	(4)
Psalm 45: Eructavit Cor Meum	189	(2)
Psalm 148: Laudate Dominum	191	(2)
AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645)	193	(2)
from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum [Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve]	193	(2)
RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1620)	195	(2)
from Cynthia: With Certaine Sonnets	195	(10)
16 "Long have I long'd to see my Love againe"	195	(1)
17 "Cherry-lipt Adonis in his snowie shape"	196	(1)
CASEBOOK The Need to Please: Poetry and Patronage at the Court of Queen Elizabeth	197	(8)
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	205	(178)
Introduction by David Mikics	205	(15)
Political Turmoil: Puritans and Monarchs	205	(2)
James I: 1603-1625	205	(1)
Charles I: 1625-1649	206	(1)
Literary and Intellectual Society	207	(11)
The Poetry of Retirement	208	(1)
Donne and the Conceit	208	(3)
Jonson's Craftmanship	211	(1)
The Sons of Ben: Cavalier Poetry	212	(1)
Seduction and Contemplation	212	(2)
Religious Lyric	214	(1)
Miltonic Epic	215	(2)
America, the New Land	217	(1)
Dryden and Satire	218	(1)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	218	(2)
ANONYMOUS	220	(2)
Tom o'Bedlams Song	220	(2)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)	222	(16)
The Good-Morrow	222	(1)
Song (Go and catch a falling star)	223	(1)
The Sun Rising	223	(1)
The Canonization	224	(1)
The Flea	225	(1)
Air and Angels	226	(1)
The Apparition	227	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	227	(2)
A Valediction: Of Weeping	229	(1)
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed	229	(2)
Satire 3, Religion	231	(2)
from Holy Sonnets	233	(2)
1 "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"	233	(1)
7 "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"	234	(1)
10 "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"	234	(1)
14 "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you"	235	(1)
The Relic	235	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	236	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	237	(1)
BEN JONSON (1572-1637)	238	(15)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	238	(1)
On Something, That Walks Somewhere	238	(1)
On My First Daughter	239	(1)
On My First Son	239	(1)
My Picture Left in Scotland	239	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	240	(1)
To Penshurst	241	(3)
Song to Celia	244	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us	244	(2)
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison	246	(4)
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme	250	(1)
Ode to Himself	251	(2)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)	253	(4)
The Argument of His Book	253	(1)
The Vine	253	(1)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	254	(1)
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home	254	(2)
Delight in Disorder	256	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	256	(1)
GEORGE HERBET (1593-1633)	257	(9)
The Altar	257	(1)
Redemption	257	(1)
Easter Wings	258	(1)
Affliction (I)	258	(2)
Jordan (I)	260	(1)
Jordan (II)	260	(1)
Church Monuments	261	(1)
The Windows	262	(1)
The Collar	262	(1)
The Forerunners	263	(1)
Death	264	(1)
The Pulley	265	(1)
Love (III)	265	(1)
THOMAS CAREW (ca. 1598–ca. 1639)	266	(4)
A Rapture	266	(4)
LADY KATHERINE DYER (ca. 1600-1654)	270	(1)
Epitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641	270	(1)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)	271	(51)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	271	(7)
L'Allegro	278	(3)
Il Penseroso	281	(5)
Lycidas	286	(5)
How Soon Hath Time	291	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	291	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	291	(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint	292	(1)
from Paradise Lost	292	(30)
Book I	292	(8)
Book III	300	(3)
Book IV	303	(17)
Book IX	320	(2)
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)	322	(1)
Song (Why so pale and wan, fond lover?)	322	(1)
ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)	322	(3)
The Author to Her Book	322	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	323	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666	323	(2)
RICHARD CRASHAW (1613-1649)	325	(4)
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa	325	(4)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)	329	(2)
The Grasshopper	329	(2)
LUCY HUTCHINSON (1620—ca. 1675)	331	(2)
Translation from "On the Nature of the Universe" (De rerum natura) by Lucretius	331	(2)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)	333	(15)
The Coronet	333	(1)
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body	333	(2)
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn	335	(2)
Damon the Mower	337	(3)
The Mower's Song	340	(1)
The Garden	340	(2)
An Horation Ode	342	(4)
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers	346	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	347	(1)
HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)	348	(3)
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!	348	(1)
The Night	349	(2)
MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE (1623-1673)	351	(1)
Of Many Worlds in This World	351	(1)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)	352	(23)
from Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem	352	(15)
Mac Flecknoe	367	(6)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	373	(2)
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664)	375	(2)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	375	(1)
To the Truly Noble Mr. Henry Lawes	376	(1)
THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-1674)	377	(4)
My Spirit	377	(3)
Love	380	(1)
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)	381	(2)
Against Constancy	381	(2)
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	383	(238)
Introduction by Susan Stewart	383	(15)
A Poetry in Transition	383	(7)
The Political Frame of Writers' Allegiances	384	(1)
A Changing Native Landscape and an Expanding Empire	384	(3)
The Eighteenth-Century Reader	387	(2)
The Milieu of Emerging Women Writers	389	(1)
Poetic Theory and Practice	390	(6)
The Influence of Science, Philosophy, and Religion	392	(1)
The Sister Arts	393	(1)
Measures and Forms	394	(2)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	396	(2)
EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1642-1729)	398	(3)
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children	398	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	399	(2)
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA (1661-1720)	401	(4)
from The Spleen: A Pindarick	401	(1)
The Lion and the Gnat	402	(2)
A Nocturnal Reverie	404	(1)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)	405	(9)
A Description of the Morning	405	(1)
A Description of a City Shower	406	(1)
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General	407	(1)
Stella's Birthday, March 13, 1726/27	408	(2)
The Lady's Dressing Room	410	(4)
ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)	414	(2)
Against Idleness and Mischief	414	(1)
Man Frail, and God Eternal	415	(1)
THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)	416	(2)
A Night-Piece on Death	416	(2)
EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)	418	(11)
Night the First from The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality	418	(11)
JOHN GAY (1685-1732)	429	(2)
The Goat Without a Beard	429	(1)
Airs from The Beggar's Opera	430	(1)
I A Fox may steal your hens, sir	430	(1)
II Were I laid on Greenland's coast	431	(1)
III Since laws were made for ev'ry degree	431	(1)
HENRY CAREY (1687-1.743)	431	(2)
The Ballad of Sally in Our Alley	431	(2)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)	433	(30)
Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato	433	(1)
Windsor Forest	434	(11)
The Rape of the Lock	445	(18)
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)	463	(10)
The Reasons That Induced Dr. S to Write a Poem Called The Lady's Dressing Room	463	(3)
The Lover: A Ballad	466	(1)
Saturday from Six Town Eclogues	467	(2)
Epistle [to Lord Bathurst]	469	(2)
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband	471	(2)
MARY COLLIER (ca. 1690–ca. 1762)	473	(2)
from The Woman's Labour. An Epistle of Mr. Stephen Duck	473	(2)
JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)	475	(43)
Rule, Britannia	475	(1)
Summer from The Seasons	476	(42)
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)	518	(11)
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theater in Drury Lane, 1747	518	(1)
The Vanity of Human Wishes	519	(9)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	528	(1)
JUPITER HAMMON (ca. 1711–ca. 1806)	529	(4)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	529	(4)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)	533	(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes	533	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	534	(3)
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West	537	(1)
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)	538	(10)
Eclogue in the Second: Hassan; or, the Camel-driver	538	(2)
Ode to Evening	540	(1)
Ode on the Poetical Character	541	(2)
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry	543	(5)
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)	548	(3)
from Jubilate Agno	548	(3)
THOMAS PERCY (1729-1811) AND ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758), EDS.	551	(2)
Sweet William's Ghost	551	(2)
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)	553	(1)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly	553	(1)
WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)	553	(23)
Walking with God	553	(1)
Light Shining Out of Darkness	554	(1)
from The Task	555	(19)
Book III: The Garden	555	(19)
The Castaway	574	(1)
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion	575	(1)
WARREN HASTINGS (1732-1818)	576	(2)
Ode to His Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)	576	(2)
THOMAS MORRIS (1732-1806?)	578	(1)
Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery	578	(1)
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)	579	(2)
from The Emigrants	579	(1)
A Poem [Disillusion with the French Revolution]	579	(1)
Sonnet: On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic	580	(1)
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)	581	(3)
The Indian Burying Ground	581	(1)
To Sir Toby	582	(2)
THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)	584	(3)
An Excelente Balade of Charitie	584	(3)
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753-1784)	587	(1)
A Hymn to Humanity	587	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	588	(1)
GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)	588	(8)
from The Village	588	(8)
Book I	588	(8)
MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800)	596	(1)
London's Summer Morning	596	(1)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)	597	(11)
To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church	597	(1)
John Anderson, My Jo	598	(1)
Tam O'Shanter	599	(5)
Afton Water	604	(1)
To a Mouse	604	(2)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)	606	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)	606	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	607	(1)
Auld Lang Syne	607	(1)
MARY JONES (d. 1778)	608	(2)
Soliloquy on an Empty Purse	608	(2)
ELIZABETH HANDS (fl. 1789)	610	(2)
A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid	610	(2)
CASEBOOK Eighteenth-Century London: Poetry and the City	612	(9)
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	621	(316)
Introduction by Howard Fulweiler	621	(20)
Romanticism in England: 1798-1830	622	(6)
Nature	623	(1)
The French Revolution	624	(1)
The Industrial Revolution and Laissez-Faire	625	(1)
The Imagination	626	(1)
Platonic Idealism	627	(1)
Poetic Defenses, Poetic Forms	627	(1)
The Victorian Age in England: 1837-1900	628	(4)
Poetry as a "Criticism of Life"	629	(1)
Later Victorian Poetry	630	(2)
American Romanticism: 1820-1865	632	(4)
Transcendentalism	633	(1)
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman	633	(3)
Women and Minorities	636	(3)
On Both Sides of the Atlantic, the "Woman Question"	636	(1)
Women's Poetry	637	(1)
Slavery and the Black Aesthetic	638	(1)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	639	(2)
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)	641	(3)
To the Poor	641	(1)
Washing-Day	641	(3)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	644	(12)
from Songs of Innocence	644	(4)
Introduction	644	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	644	(1)
The Lamb	645	(1)
The Little Black Boy	646	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	646	(1)
The Divine Image	647	(1)
Holy Thursday	648	(1)
from Songs of Experience	648	(4)
Introduction	648	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	649	(1)
Holy Thursday	649	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	649	(1)
The Sick Rose	650	(1)
The Tyger	650	(1)
The Garden of Love	651	(1)
London	651	(1)
A Divine Image	652	(1)
The Book of Thel	652	(4)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)	656	(25)
We Are Seven	656	(1)
Lines Written in Early Spring	657	(1)
Expostulation and Reply	658	(1)
The Tables Turned	659	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	660	(4)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways	664	(1)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	664	(1)
Nutting	664	(2)
Resolution and Independence	666	(4)
My Heart Leaps Up	670	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	670	(5)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	675	(1)
The World Is Too Much With Us	676	(1)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	676	(1)
London, 1802	676	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	677	(1)
Surprised by Joy	677	(1)
from The Prelude	678	(1)
from Book Fourteenth, Conclusion	678	(3)
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)	681	(2)
Lochinvar	681	(1)
Proud Maisie	682	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	683	(22)
The Eolian Harp	683	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	685	(16)
Frost at Midnight	701	(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	702	(2)
Epitaph	704	(1)
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)	705	(1)
Rose Aylmer	705	(1)
Past Ruined Ilion	705	(1)
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher	706	(1)
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low	706	(1)
Death of the Day	706	(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)	706	(28)
She Walks in Beauty	706	(1)
Stanzas for Music	707	(1)
Darkness	707	(2)
January 22nd Missolonghi	709	(2)
Don Juan (from Canto 1)	711	(23)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)	734	(22)
Mutability	734	(1)
To Wordsworth	734	(1)
Ozymandias	735	(1)
Mont Blanc	735	(4)
England in 1819	739	(1)
A Song: "Men of England"	739	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	740	(2)
Adonais	742	(14)
FELICIA HEMANS (1793-1835)	756	(1)
Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School	756	(1)
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)	757	(2)
Badger	757	(1)
Gypsies	758	(1)
I Am	758	(1)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)	759	(2)
Thanatopsis	759	(2)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	761	(20)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	761	(1)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	762	(1)
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be	762	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	763	(10)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	773	(1)
Ode to Psyche	774	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	776	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	778	(2)
To Autumn	780	(1)
GEORGE MOSES HORTON (1798?-1883?)	781	(1)
On Liberty and Slavery	781	(1)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)	782	(5)
Concord Hymn	782	(1)
The Rhodora	783	(1)
The Snow-Storm	783	(1)
Hamatreya	784	(1)
Brahma	785	(1)
Days	786	(1)
Terminus	786	(1)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)	787	(3)
from Sonnets from the Portuguese	787	(2)
1 "I thought once how Theocritus had sung"	787	(1)
22 "When our two souls stand up erect and strong"	788	(1)
28 "My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!"	788	(1)
43 "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"	788	(1)
A Musical Instrument	789	(1)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)	790	(3)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	790	(2)
Snow-Flakes	792	(1)
Aftermath	792	(1)
EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)	793	(3)
from The Rubaiytit of Omar Khayyam, 1-24	793	(3)
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)	796	(2)
The Chambered Nautilus	796	(2)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1848)	798	(5)
Sonnet—To Science	798	(1)
To Helen	798	(1)
Annabel Lee	799	(1)
The Raven	800	(3)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)	803	(20)
Mariana	803	(2)
The Kraken	805	(1)
The Lotos-Eaters	805	(5)
Ulysses	810	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	811	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	812	(1)
from In Memoriam A.H.H.	812	(1)
1 "I held it truth, with him who sings"	812	(1)
2 "Old yew, which graspest at the stones"	813	(1)
7 "Dark house, by which once more I stand"	813	(1)
11 "Calm is the morn without a sound"	814	(1)
19 "The Danube to the Severn gave"	814	(1)
50 "Be near me when my light is low"	815	(1)
54 "o, yet we trust that somehow good"	815	(1)
56 "So careful of the type?' but no"	816	(1)
67 "When on my bed the moonlight falls"	816	(1)
88 "Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet"	817	(1)
95 "By night we lingered on the lawn"	817	(2)
119 "Doors, where my heart was used to beat"	819	(1)
121 "Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun"	819	(1)
130 "Thy voice is on the rolling air"	820	(1)
from Epilogue	820	(1)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	821	(2)
Crossing the Bar	823	(1)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)	823	(24)
My Last Duchess	823	(2)
Home-Thoughts, From Abroad	825	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church	825	(3)
Love Among the Ruins	828	(3)
Fra Lippo Lippi	831	(9)
Caliban upon Setehos: Or Natural Theology in the Island	840	(7)
To Edward FitzGerald	847	(1)
EMILY BRONTË (1818-1848)	847	(2)
I Am the Only Being Whose Doom	847	(1)
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun	848	(1)
JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)	849	(1)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic	849	(1)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)	850	(2)
The Portent	850	(1)
Shiloh	851	(1)
The March into Virginia	851	(1)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)	852	(24)
from Song of Myself	852	(8)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	860	(4)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	864	(5)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	869	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	869	(6)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	875	(1)
FRANCES JANE CROSBY VAN ALSTYNE (1820-1915)	876	(1)
Blessed Assurance	876	(1)
ALICE CARY (1820-1871)	877	(1)
The West Country	877	(1)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)	878	(7)
To Marguerite—Continued	878	(1)
Memorial Verses	879	(1)
The Buried Life	880	(3)
Dover Beach	883	(1)
Growing Old	884	(1)
JAMES MONROE WIIITFIELD (1822-1871)	885	(3)
America	885	(3)
PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)	888	(1)
Jacob	888	(1)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)	889	(2)
The Slave Mother	889	(1)
Bible Defence of Slavery	890	(1)
The Slave Auction	890	(1)
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)	891	(3)
from Modern Love	891	(1)
1 "By this he knew she wept with waking eyes"	891	(1)
17 "At dinner, she is hostess, I am host"	892	(1)
48 "Their sense is with their senses all mixed in"	892	(1)
49 "He found her by the ocean's moaning verge"	893	(1)
50 "Thus piteously Love closed what he begat"	893	(1)
Lucifer in Starlight	893	(1)
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)	894	(2)
from The House of Life	894	(2)
The Sonnet	894	(1)
Nuptial Sleep	894	(2)
63 Inclusiveness	895	(1)
97 A Superscription	895	(1)
101 The One Hope	896	(1)
HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885)	896	(1)
Poppies on the Wheat	896	(1)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)	897	(1)
39 "I never lost as much but twice"	897	(1)
122 "These are the days when Birds come back—"	897	(1)
124 "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—"	898	(1)
194 "Title divine—is mine!"	898	(1)
195 "Victory comes late—"	899	(1)
207 "I taste a liquor never brewed—"	899	(1)
269 "Wild Nights Wild Nights!"	900	(1)
314 "'Hope' is the thing with feathers—"	900	(1)
320 "There's a certain Slant of light"	900	(1)
336 "Before I got my eye put out"	901	(1)
339 "I like a look of Agony"	901	(1)
340 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"	902	(1)
355 "It was not Death, for I stood up"	902	(1)
372 "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—"	903	(1)
409 "The Soul selects her own Society—"	903	(1)
445 "They shut me up in Prose—"	904	(1)
448 "I died for Beauty—but was scarce"	904	(1)
479 "Because I could not stop for Death—"	904	(1)
519 "This is my letter to the World"	905	(1)
533 "I reckon—when I count at all—"	905	(1)
591 "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—"	906	(1)
598 "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—"	906	(1)
620 "Much Madness is divinest Sense—"	907	(1)
706 "I cannot live with You—"	907	(1)
764 "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—"	908	(1)
1096 "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"	909	(1)
1108 "The Bustle in a House"	909	(1)
1196 "Safe Despair it is that raves—"	910	(1)
1263 "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—"	910	(1)
1668 "Apparently with no surprise"	910	(1)
1760 "Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it"	911	(1)
1773 "My life closed twice before its close—"	911	(1)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)	911	(2)
Song	911	(1)
After Death	912	(1)
Up-Hill	912	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	913	(1)
LEWIS CARROLL [CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON] (1832-1898)	913	(2)
Jabberwocky	913	(2)
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)	915	(4)
The Haystack in the Floods	915	(4)
SARAH M.B. PIATT (1836-1919)	919	(1)
The Palace-Burner	919	(1)
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)	920	(5)
When the Hounds of Spring	920	(2)
The Garden of Proserpine	922	(2)
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell	924	(1)
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840-1894)	925	(1)
The Florida Beach	925	(1)
SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)	926	(3)
The Marshes of Glynn	926	(3)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)	929	(5)
God's Grandeur	929	(1)
The Windhover	930	(1)
Pied Beauty	930	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	930	(1)
Spring and Fall	931	(1)
Binsey Poplars	931	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	932	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	932	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	933	(1)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	933	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	934	(1)
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850-1919)	934	(1)
Friendship After Love	934	(1)
LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856-1935)	935	(1)
April in Town	935	(1)
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-4920)	936	(1)
Fog	936	(1)
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY	937	(270)
Introduction by Adam Parkes	937	(12)
Modernism's Antipoetic Aesthetic	937	(2)
Modernism, Romanticism, and Plain Language	937	(2)
Small Worlds: Symbolism and Imagism	939	(3)
Wider Worlds: War, Epic, and Mythic Methods	942	(3)
Postwar Poetic Methods	942	(3)
The Thirties and Beyond: Poetry, Politics, and Ideas of Order	945	(2)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	947	(2)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)	949	(7)
Hap	949	(1)
Neutral Tones	949	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	950	(1)
The Self-Unseeing	951	(1)
The Ruined Maid	951	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	952	(1)
The Workbox	953	(1)
The Voice	954	(1)
Channel Firing	955	(1)
During Wind and Rain	956	(1)
A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)	956	(3)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	956	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	957	(1)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	958	(1)
They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder	958	(1)
Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose	958	(1)
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)	959	(7)
Recessional	959	(1)
The Hyenas	960	(1)
from Epitaphs of the War	960	(6)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)	966	(17)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	966	(1)
When You Are Old	966	(1)
Adam's Curse	967	(1)
September 1913	968	(1)
Easter 1916	969	(2)
The Wild Swans at Coole	971	(1)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	972	(1)
The Second Coming	972	(1)
Leda and the Swan	973	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	973	(1)
Among School Children	974	(2)
Byzantium	976	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	977	(2)
Under Ben Bulben	979	(2)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	981	(2)
ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)	983	(1)
Vitae summa brevis spent nos vetat incohare longam	983	(1)
Non sum qualis era in bonne sub regno Cynarae	983	(1)
CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928)	984	(2)
On the Road to the Sea	984	(2)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)	986	(1)
Richard Cory	986	(1)
Walt Whitman	986	(1)
The Pity of the Leaves	987	(1)
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)	987	(4)
We Wear the Mask	987	(1)
Little Brown Baby	988	(1)
Sympathy	989	(1)
The Colored Soldiers	989	(2)
JOHN MCCRAE (1872-1918)	991	(1)
In Flanders Fields	991	(1)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)	992	(14)
Mending Wall	992	(1)
Home Burial	993	(3)
After Apple-Picking	996	(1)
The Road Not Taken	997	(1)
The Oven Bird	997	(1)
Birches	998	(1)
Putting in the Seed	999	(1)
"Out, Out-"	1000	(1)
To E.T.	1000	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	1001	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1001	(1)
Fm Once, Then, Something	1002	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	1002	(1)
Desert Places	1003	(1)
The Silken Tent	1003	(1)
The Most of It	1003	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	1004	(1)
Directive	1004	(2)
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)	1006	(1)
Venus Transiens	1006	(1)
A Decade	1007	(1)
Shore Grass	1007	(1)
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)	1007	(2)
from Tender Buttons	1007	(1)
from Objects	1007	(1)
A carafe, that is a blind glass.	1007	(1)
A waist.	1007	(1)
A little bit of a tumbler	1008	(1)
A dog.	1008	(1)
Peeled pencil, choke.	1008	(1)
from Stanzas in. Meditation: LXXXIII	1008	(1)
CARL SANDBUR(1878-1967)	1009	(1)
Chicago	1009	(1)
Grass	1010	(1)
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)	1010	(2)
Adlestrop	1010	(1)
The Gypsy	1011	(1)
In Memoriam [Easter 1915]	1012	(1)
Rain	1012	(1)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)	1012	(12)
Sunday Morning	1012	(3)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	1015	(2)
Anecdote of the Jar	1017	(1)
The Snow Man	1018	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	1018	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	1018	(2)
The Man on the Dump	1020	(1)
from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction	1021	(1)
I.I (Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea)	1021	(1)
II.IV (Two things of opposite natures)	1022	(1)
from The Auroras of Autumn	1022	(2)
I (This is where the serpent lives the bodiless)	1022	(1)
II (Farewell to an idea...A cabin stands)	1023	(1)
Of Mere Being	1024	(1)
MINA LOY (1882-1966)	1024	(2)
Gertrude Stein	1024	(1)
The Widow's Jazz	1025	(1)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)	1026	(14)
Danse Russe	1026	(1)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	1027	(1)
Spring and All	1028	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	1028	(1)
This Is Just to Say	1029	(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens	1029	(2)
These	1031	(1)
from Pictures from Brueghel	1032	(1)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	1032	(1)
from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower	1033	(7)
Book I	1033	(7)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)	1040	(7)
Portrait d'Une Femme	1040	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	1041	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	1041	(1)
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	1042	(1)
from Life and Contacts	1042	(2)
I (For three years, out of key with his time)	1042	(1)
V (There died a myriad)	1042	(1)
XII (Daphne with her thighs in bark)	1043	(1)
from The Cantos	1044	(3)
I (And then went down to the ship)	1044	(2)
XLV (With Usura)	1046	(1)
CXX (I have tried to write Paradise)	1047	(1)
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)	1047	(5)
Love on the Farm	1047	(2)
Piano	1049	(1)
Snake	1049	(3)
H.D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961)	1052	(1)
Sea Rose	1052	(1)
Garden	1052	(1)
Helen	1053	(1)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)	1053	(2)
"They"	1053	(1)
Glory of Women	1054	(1)
On Passing the New Menin Gate	1054	(1)
RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915)	1055	(1)
The Soldier	1055	(1)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1915)	1055	(2)
Shine, Perishing Republic	1055	(1)
Hurt Hawks	1056	(1)
Carmel Point	1057	(1)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)	1057	(8)
The Fish	1057	(1)
Poetry	1058	(1)
England	1059	(2)
A Grave	1061	(1)
The Steeple Jack	1061	(2)
The Paper Nautilus	1063	(1)
What Are Years?	1064	(1)
EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)	1065	(2)
The Absent	1065	(1)
The Horses	1066	(1)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)	1067	(28)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1067	(4)
Preludes	1071	(1)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	1072	(1)
Gerontion	1073	(2)
The Waste Land	1075	(14)
Little Gidding	1089	(6)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)	1095	(1)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	1095	(1)
Dead Boy	1096	(1)
IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937)	1096	(1)
The Silent One	1096	(1)
CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948)	1097	(1)
If We Must Die	1097	(1)
The Lynching	1097	(1)
Outcast	1098	(1)
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)	1098	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	1098	(1)
HUGH MACDIARMID [C.M. GRIEVE] (1892-1978)	1099	(1)
Parley of Beasts	1099	(1)
British Leftish Poetry, 1930-40	1100	(1)
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982)	1100	(1)
Ars Poetica	1100	(1)
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)	1101	(2)
First Fig	1101	(1)
Grown-Up	1101	(1)
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed	1102	(1)
Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead	1102	(1)
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink	1102	(1)
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)	1103	(6)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	1103	(1)
Miners	1103	(1)
Dulce et Decorum Est	1104	(1)
Strange Meeting	1105	(1)
Futility	1106	(1)
Disabled	1107	(1)
Spring Offensive	1108	(1)
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)	1109	(1)
Résumé	1109	(1)
Oscar Wilde	1109	(1)
e.e. Cummings (1894-1962)	1110	(3)
in Just-	1110	(1)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	1110	(1)
next to of course god america i	1111	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	1111	(1)
pity this busy monster, manunkind	1112	(1)
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)	1113	(2)
Gum	1113	(1)
from Cane	1114	(1)
Reapers	1114	(1)
Georgia Dusk	1114	(1)
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)	1115	(2)
Love Without Hope	1115	(1)
Recalling War	1115	(1)
The White Goddess	1116	(1)
EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974)	1117	(1)
1916 seen from 1921	1117	(1)
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)	1118	(2)
Medusa	1118	(1)
Women	1118	(1)
Roman Fountain	1119	(1)
Song for the Last Act	1119	(1)
MELVIN B. TOLSON (1898-1966)	1120	(3)
Dark Symphony	1120	(3)
HART CRANE (1899-1932)	1123	(8)
At Melville's Tomb	1123	(1)
Voyages	1124	(4)
from The Bridge	1128	(1)
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge	1128	(1)
The Broken Tower	1129	(1)
To Emily Dickinson	1130	(1)
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)	1131	(2)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	1131	(2)
BASIL BUNTING (1900-1985)	1133	(4)
from Briggflatts	1133	(4)
from I (Brag, sweet tenor bull)	1133	(4)
STERLING BROWN (1901-1989)	1137	(6)
Ma Rainey	1137	(2)
Slim Greer	1139	(1)
Slim in Hell	1140	(3)
LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON (1901-1991)	1143	(2)
The Map of Places	1143	(1)
With the Face	1144	(1)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)	1145	(6)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	1145	(1)
When Sue Wears Red	1145	(1)
The Weary Blues	1146	(1)
Lament over Love	1146	(1)
from Montage of a Dream Deferred	1147	(2)
Dream Boogie	1147	(1)
Theme for English B	1148	(1)
Dream Boogie: Variation	1149	(1)
Harlem	1149	(1)
One More "S" in the USA	1149	(2)
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)	1151	(3)
No Categories!	1151	(1)
Mr. Over	1151	(1)
The Death Sentence	1152	(1)
Not Waving but Drowing	1152	(1)
A House of Mercy	1153	(1)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)	1154	(3)
Yet Do I Marvel	1154	(1)
Heritage	1154	(3)
RICHARD EBERHART (1904-2005)	1157	(2)
The Groundhog	1157	(1)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	1158	(1)
PATRICK KAVANAGH (1904-1967)	1159	(4)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening	1159	(1)
Spraying the Potatoes	1160	(1)
Stony Grey Soil	1161	(1)
from The Great Hunger	1162	(1)
II (Maguire was faithful to death)	1162	(1)
C. DAY LEWIS (1904-1972)	1163	(2)
Two Songs	1163	(1)
Almost Human	1164	(1)
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978)	1165	(3)
from Poem Beginning "The"	1165	(3)
[Dedication]	1165	(1)
Fifth Movement: Autobiography	1165	(3)
STANLEY KUNITZ (b. 1905)	1168	(1)
The War against the Trees	1165	(3)
Touch Me	1168	(1)
KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)	1169	(2)
Delia Rexroth	1169	(1)
The Bad Old Days	1170	(1)
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)	1171	(4)
Patriotic Tour and Postulate of Joy	1171	(1)
from Audubon: A Vision	1172	(1)
I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin	1172	(1)
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall	1173	(1)
Muted Music	1174	(1)
JOHN BETJEMAN (1906-1984)	1175	(2)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel	1175	(1)
Slough	1176	(1)
WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984)	1177	(1)
Villanelle	1177	(1)
Ignorance of Death	1178	(1)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)	1178	(13)
Lullaby	1178	(1)
As I Walked Out One Evening	1179	(2)
from Twelve Songs	1181	(1)
IX. [Funeral Blues]	1181	(1)
Musée des Beaux Arts	1181	(1)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	1182	(2)
September 1, 1939	1184	(3)
In Praise of Limestone	1187	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	1189	(2)
A.D. HOPE (1907-2000)	1191	(2)
Observation Car	1191	(2)
Advice to Young Ladies	1193	(1)
LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963)	1193	(4)
Snow	1193	(1)
Bagpipe Music	1194	(1)
The Sunlight on the Garden	1195	(1)
Carrickfergus	1196	(1)
GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)	1197	(2)
Survival: Infantry	1197	(1)
from Of Being Numerous	1197	(2)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)	1199	(3)
Root Cellar	1199	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	1199	(1)
Elegy for Jane	1200	(1)
The Waking	1200	(1)
I Knew a Woman	1201	(1)
In a Dark Time	1201	(1)
A.M. KLEIN (1909-1972)	1202	(1)
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga	1202	(1)
STEPHEN SPENDER (1909-1995)	1203	(4)
What I Expected	1203	(1)
The Landscape near an Aerodrome	1204	(1)
The Pylons	1205	(2)
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: POST—WORLD WAR II	1207	(517)
Introduction by Willard Spiegelman	1207	(16)
The Legacy of Modernism	1207	(1)
World War II and Its Aftermath	1208	(5)
The New Criticism and Postwar Poets	1208	(1)
The Confessional School	1209	(1)
Experimental Poetry	1210	(1)
The Beats	1210	(1)
Black Mountain	1211	(1)
The New York School	1212	(1)
Nationalism and Internationalism	1213	(1)
Opening the Canon to New Voices	1214	(4)
Civil Rights, Vietnam, Feminism	1214	(1)
Black Arts Movement	1214	(2)
Vietnam and the Poetry of Protest	1216	(1)
Feminism and Poetry	1217	(1)
The End of the Century: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill	1218	(3)
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	1221	(2)
CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)	1223	(3)
Pacific Lament	1223	(1)
from The Maximus Poems	1224	(1)
Maximus, To Himself	1224	(1)
Sun/Right in My Eye	1225	(1)
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)	1226	(15)
The Fish	1226	(2)
Roosters	1228	(4)
At the Fishhouses	1232	(2)
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance	1234	(2)
Sestina	1236	(1)
The Armadillo	1237	(1)
In the Waiting Room	1238	(2)
One Art	1240	(1)
MAY SWENSON (1913-1989)	1241	(1)
Question	1241	(1)
In Love Made Visible	1241	(1)
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)	1242	(3)
Those Winter Sundays	1242	(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday	1243	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar	1244	(1)
Bone-Flower Elegy	1244	(1)
Monet's "Waterlilies"	1245	(1)
MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)	1245	(3)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short	1245	(1)
Ballad of Orange and Grape	1246	(2)
DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913-1966)	1248	(1)
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me	1248	(1)
KARL SHAPIRO (1913-2000)	1249	(1)
The First Time	1249	(1)
R.S. THOMAS (1913-2000)	1250	(1)
Welsh Landscape	1250	(1)
Lore	1250	(1)
JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)	1251	(4)
from The Dream Songs	1251	(1)
1 "Huffy Henry hid the day"	1251	(1)
14 "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."	1252	(1)
29 "There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart"	1252	(1)
37 "His malice was a pimple down his good"	1253	(1)
40 "I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son"	1253	(1)
155 "I can't get him out of my mind, out of my mind"	1254	(1)
384 "The marker slants, flowerless,"	1254	(1)
Henry's Understanding	1255	(1)
OWEN DODSON (1914-1983)	1255	(2)
Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One	1255	(1)
Open Letter	1256	(1)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)	1257	(4)
90 North	1257	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	1258	(1)
A Front	1258	(1)
Next Day	1258	(2)
The Truth	1260	(1)
WELDON KEES (1914-1955)	1261	(2)
For My Daughter	1261	(1)
Robinson	1262	(1)
The Upstairs Room	1262	(1)
HENRY REED (1914-1986)	1263	(1)
from Lessons of the War	1263	(1)
Naming of Parts	1263	(1)
WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)	1264	(1)
Traveling Through the Dark	1264	(1)
At the Bomb Testing Site	1264	(1)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)	1265	(6)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	1265	(1)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion	1265	(1)
Poem in October	1266	(2)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	1268	(1)
Fern Hill	1269	(1)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	1270	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	1270	(1)
ALUN LEWIS (1915-1944)	1271	(1)
All Day It Has Rained	1271	(1)
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998)	1272	(1)
Childhood	1272	(1)
DAVID GASCOYNE (1916-2001)	1273	(2)
Ecce Homo 12	73	(1202)
P.K. PAGE (b. 1916)	1275	(1)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree	1275	(1)
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)	1276	(4)
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell	1276	(1)
Langston Hughes	1276	(1)
kitchenette building	1277	(1)
The Bean Eaters	1277	(1)
We Real Cool	1277	(1)
Medgar Evers	1278	(1)
the children of the poor	1278	(2)
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917-2003)	1280	(1)
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux	1280	(1)
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)	1281	(11)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	1281	(4)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	1285	(1)
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"	1286	(1)
Skunk Hour	1287	(1)
For the Union Dead	1288	(2)
Reading Myself	1290	(1)
Two walls	1290	(1)
Epilogue	1291	(1)
LOUISE BENNETT (b. 1919)	1292	(1)
Colonization in Reverse	1292	(1)
ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)	1293	(1)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	1293	(1)
Passage over Water	1294	(1)
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (b. 1919)	1294	(2)
Dog	1294	(2)
WILLIAM MEREDITH (b. 1919)	1296	(1)
The Illiterate	1296	(1)
AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994)	1297	(5)
On the Disadvantages n f Central Heating	1297	(1)
What the Light Was Like	1298	(11813)
Real Estate	13111
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)	1302	(1)
Simplify Me When I'm Dead	1302	(1)
Vergissmeinnicht	1303	(1)
BARBARA GUEST (b. 1920)	1303	(1)
Leica	1303	(1)
HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)	1304	(5)
Dandelions	1304	(1)
The Goose Fish	1305	(1)
Storm Windows	1306	(1)
Brainstorm	1307	(1)
The Blue Swallows	1308	(1)
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN (1921-1996)	1309	(2)
The Old Women	1309	(1)
Haddock Fishermen	1310	(1)
Shroud	1310	(1)
MONA VAN DUYN (1921-2004)	1311	(1)
Falling in Love at Sixty-Five	1311	(1)
RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)	1312	(6)
Praise in Summer	1312	(1)
First Snow in Alsace	1313	(1)
Boy at the Window	1313	(1)
Beasts	1314	(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	1315	(1)
Advice to a Prophet	1316	(1)
The Writer	1317	(1)
DONALD DAVIE (1922-1995)	1318	(1)
Time Passing, Beloved	1318	(1)
SIDNEY KEYES (1922-1943)	1318	(1)
War Poet	1318	(1)
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)	1319	(8)
The Whitsun Weddings	1319	(2)
Talking in Bed	1321	(1)
Here	1321	(1)
High Windows	1322	(1)
Sad Steps	1323	(1)
The Explosion	1323	(1)
This Be The Verse	1324	(1)
Going, Going	1324	(2)
Aubade	1326	(1)
HOWARD MOSS (1922-1987)	1327	(4)
Elegy for My Sister	1327	(3)
Impatiens	1330	(1)
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)	1331	(4)
Hospital 1Vindow	1331	(1)
True Heat en of Animals	1332	(1)
The Slurp child	1333	(2)
ALAN DUCAN (1923-2003)	1335	(2)
Love Song: 1 (10(1 Thou	1335	(1)
Poem ("The person who can do")	1336	(1)
For Euthanasia and Pain-Killing Drugs	1336	(1)
ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004)	1337	(7)
A Hill	1337	(1)
"More Light! More Light!"	1338	(1)
The Odds	1339	(1)
The Deodand	1340	(2)
Application for a Grant	1342	(1)
The Book of Yolek	1343	(1)
RICHARD HUGO (1923-1982)	1344	(3)
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir	1344	(2)
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg	1346	(1)
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field	1347	(1)
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)	1347	(5)
Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees	1347	(2)
Pleasures	1349	(1)
September 1961	1349	(2)
Caedmon	1351	(1)
Celebration	1351	(1)
JAMES SCHUYLER (1923-1991)	1352	(4)
A Grave	1352	(1)
from The Payne Whitney Poems	1353	(3)
Trip	1353	(1)
Arches	1353	(1)
Linen	1353	(1)
Heather and Calendulas	1354	(1)
Blizzard	1354	(1)
Sleep	1355	(1)
Pastime	1355	(1)
What	1355	(1)
LOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)	1356	(2)
The Man Who Married Magdalene	1356	(1)
The Window	1357	(1)
In California	1357	(1)
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY (b. 1925)	1358	(1)
Orkney Interior	1358	(1)
DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004)	1359	(2)
After a Phrase Abandoned by Wallace Sierras	1359	(1)
Variations on a Text by Vallejo	1360	(1)
Dance Lessons of the Thirties	1360	(1)
KENNETH KOCH (1925-2002)	1361	(6)
The Circus	1361	(3)
The Railway Stationery	1364	(2)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams	1366	(1)
To the Roman Forum	1366	(1)
MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925)	1367	(1)
How It Is	1367	(1)
A.R. AMMONS (1926-2001)	1368	(9)
Corson's Inlet	1368	(3)
The City Limits	1371	(1)
Easter Morning	1371	(3)
from Garbage 2 "garbage has to be the poem of our time because"	1374	(3)
ROBERT BLY (b. 1926)	1377	(1)
Waking from Sleep	1377	(1)
Snowbanks North of the House	1378	(1)
ROBERT CREELEY (1926-2005)	1378	(3)
I Know a Man	1378	(1)
Love Comes Quietly	1379	(1)
The World	1379	(1)
Kitchen	1380	(1)
from Life Death	1380	(1)
When It Comes	1380	(1)
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)	1381	(11)
from Howl: Part I	1381	(6)
A Supermarket in California	1387	(1)
America	1388	(3)
Last Night in Calcutta	1391	(1)
ELIZABETH JENNINGS (1926-2001)	1392	(1)
One Flesh	1392	(1)
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)	1392	(11)
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace	1392	(1)
After Greece	1393	(2)
Lost in Translation	1395	(5)
from The Changing Light at Sandover	1400	(2)
from The Book of Ephraim: Z	1400	(2)
An Upward Look	1402	(1)
body	1403	(1)
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)	1403	(5)
A Step Away from Them	1403	(2)
The Day Lady Died	1405	(1)
Memorial Day 1950	1406	(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter	1407	(1)
W.D. SNODGRASS (b. 1926)	1408	(4)
April Inventory	1408	(2)
from Heart's Needle	1410	(2)
2 "Late April and you are three; today"	1410	(1)
8 "I thumped on you the best I could"	1410	(2)
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)	1412	(19)
The Instruction Manual	1412	(3)
Soonest Mended	1415	(1)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror	1416	(13)
Melodic Trains	1429	(1)
Of the Light	1430	(1)
GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927)	1431	(2)
First Song	1431	(1)
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students	1432	(1)
Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West	1433	(1)
W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927)	1433	(3)
The Drunk in the Furnace	1433	(1)
Departure's Girl-Friend	1434	(1)
Some Last Questions	1435	(1)
When the War Is Over	1436	(1)
A Given Day	1436	(1)
CHARLES TOMLINSON (b. 1927)	1436	(3)
Swimming Chenango Lake	1436	(2)
Ararat	1438	(1)
Snapshot	1438	(1)
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)	1439	(3)
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack	1439	(1)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	1440	(1)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	1440	(1)
The Minneapolis Poem	1440	(2)
PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)	1442	(3)
They Feed They Lion	1442	(1)
Belle Isle, 1949	1443	(1)
Drum	1444	(1)
THOMAS KINSELLA (b. 1928)	1445	(3)
Mirror in February	1445	(1)
Tear	1446	(2)
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)	1448	(1)
Her Kind	1448	(1)
The Truth the Dead Know	1449	(1)
L.E. SISSMAN (1928-1976)	1449	(2)
Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the Spring	1449	(2)
ED DORN (1929-1999)	1451	(3)
from Gunslinger: Book I	1451	(3)
THOM GUNN (1929-2004)	1454	(4)
From the Wave	1454	(1)
A Blank	1455	(1)
The Man with Night Sweats	1456	(1)
The Dump	1456	(2)
JOHN HOLLANDER (b. 1929)	1458	(2)
Swan and Shadow	1458	(1)
Adam's Task	1459	(1)
RICHARD HOWARD (b. 1929)	1460	(5)
Nikolaus Mardruz to His Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565	1460	(5)
JOHN MONTAGUE (b. 1929)	1465	(3)
Soliloquy on a Southern Strand	1465	(2)
There are Days	1467	(1)
PETER PORTER (b. 1929)	1468	(2)
The Delegate	1468	(2)
A.K. RAMANUJAN (1929-1993)	1470	(2)
Self-Portrait	1470	(1)
Chicago Zen	1471	(1)
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)	1472	(11)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	1472	(1)
Living in Sin	1473	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	1473	(4)
Face to Face	1477	(1)
Orion	1478	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	1479	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	1479	(3)
from Eastern War Time	1482	(1)
1 "Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943"	1482	(1)
8 "A woman wired in memories"	1482	(1)
Fox	1483	(1)
EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE (b. 1930)	1483	(3)
from The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy:	1483	(2)
Calypso	1483	(2)
Trane	1485	(1)
GREGORY CORSO (19:30-2001)	1486	(3)
Marriage	1486	(3)
TED HUGHES (1930-1998)	1489	(3)
The Thought-Fox	1489	(1)
Pike	1489	(2)
Thistles	1491	(1)
Crow's First Lesson	1491	(1)
Examination at the Womb-Door	1492	(1)
GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)	1492	(4)
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout	1492	(1)
The Bath	1493	(2)
Axe Handles	1495	(1)
DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)	1496	(15)
The Gulf	1496	(3)
Sea Grapes	1499	(1)
The Sea Is History	1499	(3)
The Season of Phantasmal Peace	1502	(1)
from The Schooner Flight: Part I. Adios, Carenage	1502	(2)
from Omeros	1504	(7)
1.1.1 This is how one sunrise, we cut down them canoes	1504	(2)
3.25.2-3 He remembered this sunburnt river with its spindly	1506	(3)
6.49.1-2 She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin	1509	(2)
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1991)	1511	(1)
The Idea of Ancestry	1511	(1)
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide	1512	(1)
OKOT P'BITEK (1931-1982)	1512	(3)
from Song of Lawino	1512	(3)
1 My Husband's Tongue Is Bitter	1512	(3)
CARTER REVARD (b. 1931)	1515	(2)
October, Isle of Skye	1515	(2)
RHINA P. ESPAILLAT (b. 1932)	1517	(1)
Weighing In	1517	(1)
GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932)	1517	(5)
The Guardians	1517	(1)
Ovid in the Third Reich	1518	(1)
September Song	1518	(1)
from Funeral Music	1519	(1)
6 "My little son, when you could command marvels"	1519	(1)
8 "Not as we are but as we must appear"	1519	(1)
from Mercian Hymns	1520	(1)
VI The princes (f Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall	1520	(1)
VII Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools	1520	(1)
XXV Brooding on the eightieth letter of Fors Clavigera	1521	(1)
XXX And it seemed, while we waited, lie began to walk	1521	(1)
To the High Court of Parliament	1521	(1)
CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO (1932-1967)	1522	(1)
I am Standing above the Noon Tide	1522	(1)
Come Thunder	1522	(1)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)	1523	(9)
Tulips	1523	(2)
Morning Song	1525	(1)
Blackberrying	1525	(1)
Daddy	1526	(2)
Ariel	1528	(1)
Edge	1529	(1)
Lady Lazarus	1530	(2)
FLEUR ADCOCK (b. 1934)	1532	(2)
Against Coupling	1532	(1)
For a Five-Year-Old	1533	(1)
AMIRI BARAKA [LEROI JONES] (b. 1934)	1534	(3)
A Poem for Black Hearts	1534	(1)
The New World	1535	(1)
Monk's World	1536	(1)
AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)	1537	(3)
Now that I Am Forever with Child	1537	(1)
Love Poem	1538	(1)
Coal	1538	(1)
The Electric Slide Boogie	1539	(1)
N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)	1540	(1)
Headwaters	1540	(1)
The Gift	1540	(1)
Two Figures	1541	(1)
SONIA SANCHEZ (b. 1934)	1541	(4)
right on: wite america	1541	(2)
A Poem for My Brother	1543	(2)
WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934)	1545	(1)
Dragonfly at My Windowpane	1545	(1)
MARK STRAND (b. 1934)	1545	(4)
Keeping Things Whole	1545	(1)
The Prediction	1546	(1)
Chekhov: A Sestina	1546	(1)
The Idea	1547	(1)
Orpheus Alone	1548	(1)
MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)	1549	(1)
Hawk	1549	(1)
CHARLES WRIGHT (11. 19:35)	1550	(2)
Stone Canyon Nocturne	1550	(1)
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat	1551	(1)
LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)	1552	(1)
miss rosie	1552	(1)
poem to my uterus	1552	(1)
JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002)	1553	(1)
July 4, 1984: For Buck	1553	(1)
C.K. WILLIAMS (b. 1936)	1554	(3)
Tar	1554	(1)
Snow: II	1555	(1)
Harm	1556	(1)
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937)	1557	(2)
Them & [Uz]	1557	(1)
Marked with D.	1558	(1)
SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)	1559	(2)
from Thorow	1559	(2)
Elegiac Western Imagination	1559	(1)
Cannot Be	1560	(1)
ELEANOR WILNER (b. 1937)	1561	(1)
High Noon at Los Alamos	1561	(1)
MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)	1562	(2)
Deathwatch	1562	(2)
LES MURRAY (b. 1938)	1564	(2)
The Quality of Sprawl	1564	(1)
The Milk Lorry	1565	(1)
ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)	1566	(1)
Oakland Blues	1566	(1)
CHARLES SIMIC (b. 1938)	1567	(2)
Watch Repair	1567	(1)
Charon's Cosmology	1568	(1)
Prodigy	1568	(1)
FRANK BIDART (b. 1939)	1569	(4)
A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350-325 BC	1569	(1)
Another Life	1570	(3)
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)	1573	(7)
Digging	1573	(1)
Bogland	1574	(1)
The Forge	1574	(1)
The Skunk	1575	(1)
Dream of Jealousy	1576	(1)
Casualty	1576	(3)
A Ship of Death	1579	(1)
MICHAEL LONGLEY (b. 1939)	1580	(1)
Gorse Fires	1580	(1)
The Beech Tree	1580	(1)
ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940)	1581	(4)
from Essay on Psychiatrists	1581	(1)
IV A Lakeside Identification	1581	(1)
V Physical Comparison with Professors and Others	1581	(1)
Poem About People	1581	(2)
Shirt	1583	(1)
ABC	1584	(1)
EUNICE DE SOUZA (b. 1940)	1585	(1)
Landscape	1585	(1)
BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941)	1586	(1)
Osso Buco	1586	(1)
ROBERT HASS (b. 1941)	1587	(2)
Meditation at Lagunitas	1587	(1)
A Story about the Body	1588	(1)
LYN HEJINIAN (h. 1941)	1589	(1)
A Mask of Anger	1589	(1)
Elegy	1589	(1)
DEREK MAHON (b. 1941)	1590	(3)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	1590	(2)
The Globe in Carolina	1592	(1)
DOUGLAS DUNN (b. 1942)	1593	(2)
from Elegies	1593	(2)
Thirteen Steps and the Thirteenth of March	1593	(2)
EILÉAN NI CHUILLEANÁIN (b. 1942)	1595	(1)
Studying the Language	1595	(1)
MARILYN HACKER (b. 1942)	1595	(1)
Rondeau after a Transatlantic Telephone Call	1595	(1)
SHARON OLDS (b. 1942)	1596	(1)
My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead	1596	(1)
NIKKI GIOVANNI [YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI, JR.] (b. 1943)	1597	(2)
Adulthood	1597	(2)
LOUISE GLÜCK (b. 1943)	1599	(3)
Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket	1599	(1)
Gretel in Darkness	1600	(1)
Mock Orange	1601	(1)
The Garden	1601	(1)
MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943)	1602	(3)
This Time	1602	(1)
Sun	1603	(2)
JAMES TATE (b. 1943)	1605	(2)
The Lost Pilot	1605	(1)
Land of Little Sticks, 1945	1606	(1)
EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944)	1607	(3)
Anorexic	1607	(1)
Fever	1608	(1)
Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark	1609	(1)
MARY KINZIE (b. 1944)	1610	(3)
Strawberry Pipe	1610	(3)
CRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)	1613	(3)
The Onion, Memory	1613	(2)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	1615	(1)
WENDY COPE (b. 1945)	1616	(1)
Bloody Men	1616	(1)
Waste Land Limericks	1616	(1)
JOHN KOETHE (b. 1945)	1617	(1)
A Refrain	1617	(1)
J.D. MCCLATCHY (b. 1945)	1618	(8)
An Essay on Friendship	1618	(8)
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE (b. 1945)	1626	(1)
The Weakness	1626	(1)
THOMAS LUX (b. 1946)	1626	(1)
Can Tie Shoes but Won't	1626	(1)
KAY RYAN (b. 1946)	1627	(2)
That Vase of Lilacs	1627	(1)
Blandeur	1628	(1)
AI [FLORENCE ANTHONY] (b. 1947)	1629	(1)
Sleeping Beauty	1629	(1)
LORNA GOODISON (b. 1947)	1630	(2)
Jamaica 1980	1630	(1)
On Becoming a Mermaid	1631	(1)
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)	1632	(3)
Facing It	1632	(1)
Hanoi Hannah	1633	(1)
My Father's Love Letters	1634	(1)
RICHARD KENNEY (b. 1948)	1635	(1)
Driving Sleeping People	1635	(1)
HEATHER MCHUGH (b. 1948)	1636	(2)
Spot in Space and Time	1636	(2)
SHEROD SANTOS (b. 1948)	1638	(3)
The Art of the Landscape	1638	(3)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)	1641	(3)
Indian Song: Survival	1641	(1)
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story	1642	(2)
AGHA SHAHID ALI (1949-2001)	1644	(4)
The Dacca Gauzes	1644	(1)
Ghazal	1645	(1)
Lenox Hill	1646	(2)
JAMES FENTON (b. 1949)	1648	(4)
A German Requiem	1648	(2)
God, A Poem	1650	(1)
For Andrew Wood	1651	(1)
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER (b. 1949)	1652	(1)
Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46	1652	(1)
JULIA ALVAREZ (b. 1950)	1653	(1)
Bilingual Sestina	1653	(1)
CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)	1654	(1)
Autonomy Is Jeopardy	1654	(1)
an affirmation	1654	(1)
ANNE CARSON (b. 1950)	1655	(2)
Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script	1655	(2)
CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)	1657	(1)
The Colonel	1657	(1)
DANA GIOIA (b. 1950)	1658	(1)
California Hills in August	1658	(1)
JORIE GRAHAM (b. 1950)	1659	(3)
Reading Plato	1659	(2)
The Swarm	1661	(1)
LINDA GREGERSON (b. 1950)	1662	(2)
Noah's Wife	1662	(2)
EDWARD HIRSCH (b. 1950)	1664	(2)
Fast Break	1664	(1)
Orpheus Ascending	1665	(1)
MEDBH MCGUCKIAN (b. 1950)	1666	(1)
The War Ending	1666	(1)
GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950)	1667	(1)
Wherever I Hang	1667	(1)
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER (b. 1951)	1668	(1)
Lake Como	1668	(1)
JOY HARJO (b. 1951)	1669	(1)
The Creation Story	1669	(1)
Mourning Song	1670	(1)
PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951)	1670	(5)
Hedgehog	1670	(1)
Why Brownlee Left	1671	(1)
Gathering Mushrooms	1671	(2)
Cauliflowers	1673	(1)
The Sonogram	1674	(1)
RITA DOVE (b. 1952)	1675	(4)
The House Slave	1675	(1)
Parsley	1675	(2)
from Thomas and Beulah	1677	(2)
Dusting	1677	(1)
Weathering Out	1678	(1)
History	1679	(1)
ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)	1679	(3)
Mi Abuelo	1679	(1)
Madre Sofia	1680	(2)
GARY SOTO (b. 1952)	1682	(2)
Oranges	1682	(1)
Practicing Eulogies	1683	(1)
SUSAN STEWART (b. 1952)	1684	(2)
The Forest	1684	(2)
MARK DOTY (b. 1953)	1686	(4)
Demolition	1686	(2)
Homo Will Not Inherit	1688	(2)
GJERTRUD SCHNACKEN BERG (b. 1953)	1690	(5)
The Paperweight	1690	(1)
Angels Grieving Over the Dead Christ	1691	(4)
ROSANNA WARREN (b. 1953)	1695	(1)
Hellenistic Head	1695	(1)
DAVID BAKER (b. 1954)	1696	(1)
Snow Figure	1696	(1)
LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)	1697	(1)
Cannery Town in August	1697	(1)
LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)	1697	(2)
Captivity	1697	(2)
THYLIAS MOSS (b. 1954)	1699	(1)
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	1699	(1)
MARY JO SALTER (b. 1954)	1700	(3)
Reading Room	1700	(2)
A Dissertation	1702	(1)
CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955)	1703	(2)
Warming Her Pearls	1703	(1)
Medusa	1704	(1)
CATHY SONG (b. 1955)	1705	(2)
Ghost	1705	(2)
HENRI COLE (b. 1956)	1707	(1)
Harvard Classics	1707	(1)
MARTIN ESPADA (b. 1957)	1708	(1)
Sleeping on the Bus	1708	(1)
LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)	1709	(3)
The Gift	1709	(1)
Persimmons	1710	(2)
LAVINIA GREENLAW (b. 1962)	1712	(2)
A World Where News Traveled Slowly	1712	(1)
The Spirit of the Staircase	1713	(1)
GLYN MAXWELL (b. 1962)	1714	(2)
from Letters to Edward Thomas	1714	(2)
"Dear Edward, just a note to say we're here"	1714	(1)
"Dear Edward, just a note to say today"	1714	(1)
"Poem to Mr Thomas and Mr Frost"	1715	(1)
"Dear Edward, now there's no one at the end"	1715	(1)
SIMON ARMITAGE (b. 1963)	1716	(3)
from Killing Time	1716	(2)
The Stone Beach	1718	(1)
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)	1719	(1)
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel	1719	(1)
CHRISTIAN WIMAN (b. 1966)	1720	(4)
The Funeral	1720	(2)
Reading Herodotus	1722	(2)
CASEBOOK Criticism, the Canon, and the Case for Emily Dickinson	1724	(13)
Appendix A: Poet Biographies	1737	(56)
Appendix B: Why Pegasus Has Wings: Writing About Poetry	1793	(10)
Appendix C: Glossary of Poetry Terms	1803	(8)
Credits	1811	(14)
Index	1825