The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry V1

by Ramazani, Jahan; Ellmann, Richard; O'Clair, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393977912
• ISBN10: 0393977919
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-02
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry '”now available in two paperback volumes'”includes 1,596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem, eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	xxvii
Acknowledgments	xxxiii
Introduction	xxxvii
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	1	(29)
One's-Self I Sing	3	(1)
Song of Myself	4	(14)
1--14	4	(9)
46--52	13	(5)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	18	(4)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	22	(1)
A Hand-Mirror	22	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	23	(1)
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame	23	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	23	(7)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	30	(11)
49 (``I never lost as much but twice'')	32	(1)
214 (``I taste a liquor never brewed---'')	33	(1)
249 (``Wild Nights---Wild Nights!'')	33	(1)
258 (``There's a certain Slant of light'')	34	(1)
280 (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'')	34	(1)
303 (``The Soul selects her own Society---'')	35	(1)
328 (``A Bird came down the Walk---'')	35	(1)
341 (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes---'')	36	(1)
435 (``Much Madness is divinest Sense---'')	36	(1)
465 (``I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---'')	36	(1)
585 (``I like to see it lap the Miles---'')	37	(1)
632 (``The Brain---is wider than the Sky---'')	38	(1)
657 (``I dwell in Possibility---'')	38	(1)
712 (``Because I could not stop for Death---'')	38	(1)
754 (``My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---'')	39	(1)
986 (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'')	40	(1)
1129 (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant'')	40	(1)
1732 (``My life closed twice before its close---'')	41	(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)	41	(22)
Hap	44	(1)
Neutral Tones	44	(1)
I Look into My Glass	45	(1)
In Tenebris	45	(2)
(``Wintertime nighs;'')	45	(1)
(``When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong'')	46	(1)
Drummer Hodge	47	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	48	(1)
A Broken Appointment	48	(1)
The Self-Unseeing	49	(1)
Bereft	49	(1)
Shut Out That Moon	50	(1)
New Year's Eve	51	(1)
Channel Firing	51	(2)
The Convergence of the Twain	53	(1)
Poems of 1912--13	54	(3)
The Going	54	(1)
Your Last Drive	55	(1)
I Found Her Out There	56	(1)
The Voice	57	(1)
A Poet	57	(1)
In the Moonlight	58	(1)
The Oxen	58	(1)
In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'	59	(1)
For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly	59	(1)
I Looked Up from My Writing	60	(1)
Afterwards	61	(1)
Going and Staying	62	(1)
Nobody Comes	62	(1)
He Never Expected Much	63	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)	63	(19)
The Habit of Perfection	66	(1)
The Wreck of the Deutschland	67	(9)
God's Grandeur	76	(1)
[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]	76	(1)
Spring	77	(1)
The Windhover	77	(1)
Pied Beauty	78	(1)
Binsey Poplars	78	(1)
Felix Randal	79	(1)
[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]	79	(1)
[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]	80	(1)
Spring and Fall	80	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	81	(1)
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves	81	(1)
[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend]	82	(1)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)	82	(8)
[Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now]	84	(1)
[When I Was One-and Twenty]	84	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	85	(1)
[Is My Team Ploughing]	86	(1)
[On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble]	87	(1)
[With Rue My Heart Is Laden]	87	(1)
[Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff]	88	(1)
Eight O'Clock	89	(1)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	90	(1)
[They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder]	90	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)	90	(54)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time	94	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	94	(1)
The Sorrow of Love	95	(1)
When You Are Old	95	(1)
[Who Goes with Fergus?]	96	(1)
To Ireland in the Coming Times	96	(1)
The Hosting of the Sidhe	97	(1)
The Song of the Wandering Aengus	98	(1)
The Cap and Bells	99	(1)
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	100	(1)
Adam's Curse	100	(1)
No Second Troy	101	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	101	(1)
The Cold Heaven	102	(1)
A Coat	102	(1)
September 1913	102	(1)
The Magi	103	(1)
The Fisherman	104	(1)
Easter, 1916	105	(2)
The Wild Swans at Coole	107	(1)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	108	(2)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	110	(1)
The Second Coming	111	(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter	112	(2)
To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee	114	(1)
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	114	(4)
Leda and the Swan	118	(1)
The Tower	118	(5)
Sailing to Byzantium	123	(1)
Among School Children	124	(2)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz	126	(1)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul	127	(2)
Byzantium	129	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	130	(1)
Vacillation	131	(2)
Meru	133	(1)
The Gyres	134	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	135	(1)
An Acre of Grass	136	(1)
The Spur	137	(1)
Long-Legged Fly	137	(1)
Under Ben Bulben	138	(3)
Man and the Echo	141	(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	142	(1)
Politics	143	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1930)	144	(13)
Danny Deever	145	(1)
Shillin' a Day	146	(1)
Recessional	147	(1)
Harp Song of the Dane Women	148	(1)
A Pict Song	148	(1)
The Way through the Woods	149	(1)
Epitaphs of the War	150	(6)
We and They	156	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868--1950)	157	(5)
Spoon River Anthology	158	(4)
The Hill	158	(1)
Amanda Barker	159	(1)
Fiddler Jones	159	(1)
Petit, the Poet	160	(1)
Elsa Wertman	160	(1)
Hamilton Greene	161	(1)
Anne Rutledge	161	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)	162	(9)
Luke Havergal	163	(1)
Richard Cory	163	(1)
Reuben Bright	164	(1)
Calverly's	164	(1)
How Annandale Went Out	165	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	166	(1)
For a Dead Lady	167	(1)
Eros Turannos	167	(1)
The Mill	168	(1)
The Dark Hills	169	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	169	(2)
The Sheaves	171	(1)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)	171	(5)
O Black and Unknown Bards	172	(1)
Down by the Carib Sea	173	(1)
Sunset in the Tropics	173	(1)
The Creation	174	(2)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	176	(22)
Picasso	178	(2)
Tender Buttons	180	(5)
Objects	180	(1)
A carafe, that is a blind glass	180	(1)
A piece of coffee	180	(1)
A waist	181	(1)
A little bit of a tumbler	181	(1)
A brown	181	(1)
A little called Pauline	181	(1)
A dog	181	(1)
A white hunter	182	(1)
Peeled pencil, choke	182	(1)
Food	182	(1)
Mutton	182	(1)
Sugar	183	(1)
Eggs	184	(1)
Chicken	184	(1)
Chicken	184	(1)
Chicken	184	(1)
Chicken	184	(1)
A centre in a table	184	(1)
From Rooms	184	(1)
Susie Asado	185	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire	186	(1)
Preciosilla	186	(1)
Sacred Emily	186	(8)
Idem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson	194	(3)
George Hugnet	197	(1)
Stanzas in Meditation	197	(1)
Stanza LXXXIII	197	(1)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)	198	(3)
The Pike	198	(1)
Venus Transiens	199	(1)
A Decade	200	(1)
Shore Grass	200	(1)
New Heavens for Old	200	(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)	201	(25)
Mending Wall	203	(1)
Home Burial	204	(3)
After Apple-Picking	207	(1)
The Wood-Pile	208	(1)
The Road Not Taken	209	(1)
An Old Man's Winter Night	210	(1)
Hyla Brook	210	(1)
The Oven Bird	211	(1)
Birches	211	(2)
Putting in the Seed	213	(1)
``Out, Out---''	213	(1)
Fire and Ice	214	(1)
Dust of Snow	214	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	214	(1)
For Once, Then, Something	215	(1)
To Earthward	215	(1)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	216	(1)
Tree at My Window	217	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	217	(1)
Two Tramps in Mud Time	218	(2)
Desert Places	220	(1)
Neither Out Far nor In Deep	220	(1)
Design	221	(1)
Unharvested	221	(1)
Provide, Provide	222	(1)
The Silken Tent	222	(1)
The Most of It	223	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	223	(1)
The Gift Outright	224	(1)
Directive	224	(2)
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)	226	(4)
Chicago	227	(1)
The Harbor	228	(1)
Subway	228	(1)
Cool Tombs	228	(1)
Grass	229	(1)
Gargoyle	229	(1)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	230	(5)
Adlestrop	231	(1)
The Gypsy	231	(1)
The Owl	232	(1)
Rain	232	(1)
February Afternoon	233	(1)
The Green Roads	233	(1)
The Gallows	234	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)	235	(33)
Sunday Morning	237	(3)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	240	(2)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	242	(1)
Domination of Black	243	(1)
The Worms at Heaven's Gate	244	(1)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	244	(2)
The Death of a Soldier	246	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	246	(1)
The Snow Man	247	(1)
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	247	(1)
Bantams in Pine-Woods	248	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	248	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	249	(1)
A Postcard from the Volcano	250	(1)
The Man with the Blue Guitar	251	(1)
(``The man bent over his guitar'')	251	(1)
(``Poetry is the subject of the poem'')	251	(1)
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts	252	(1)
The Poems of Our Climate	252	(1)
Study of Two Pears	253	(1)
The Man on the Dump	254	(1)
Of Modern Poetry	255	(1)
Notes toward a Supreme Fiction	256	(2)
(``Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea'')	256	(1)
(``On a blue island in a sky-wide water'')	256	(1)
(``A lasting visage in a lasting bush'')	257	(1)
The Motive for Metaphor	258	(1)
The Auroras of Autumn	258	(2)
(``This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.'')	258	(1)
(``Farewell to an idea . . . A cabin stands'')	259	(1)
(``Farewell to an idea . . . The mother's face'')	260	(1)
Large Red Man Reading	260	(1)
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven	261	(1)
(``The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen.'')	261	(1)
The Rock	261	(1)
I. Seventy Years Later	261	(1)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome	262	(2)
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain	264	(1)
The Planet on the Table	265	(1)
The River of Rivers in Connecticut	265	(1)
The Plain Sense of Things	266	(1)
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination	267	(1)
Of Mere Being	267	(1)
Mina Loy (1882--1966)	268	(15)
Songs to Joannes	269	(4)
(``Spawn of Fantasies'')	269	(1)
(``The skin-sack'')	270	(1)
(``We might have coupled'')	270	(1)
(``Come to me There is something'')	270	(1)
(``Today'')	271	(1)
(``Shedding our petty pruderies'')	271	(1)
(``Evolution fall foul of'')	272	(1)
Brancusi's Golden Bird	273	(1)
Der Blinde Junge	274	(1)
Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose	275	(6)
English Rose	275	(6)
Gertrude Stein	281	(1)
The Widow's Jazz	282	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)	283	(35)
The Young Housewife	286	(1)
Tract	286	(2)
Danse Russe	288	(1)
Sympathetic Portrait of a Child	288	(1)
Portrait of a Lady	289	(1)
Queen-Ann's-Lace	290	(1)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	290	(1)
The Great Figure	291	(1)
Spring and All	291	(1)
The Farmer	292	(1)
To Elsie	293	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	294	(1)
This Is Just to Say	295	(1)
Death	295	(1)
Flowers by the Sea	296	(1)
The Botticellian Trees	297	(1)
The Yachts	298	(1)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	299	(1)
The Dance	300	(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens	300	(2)
Paterson	302	(5)
Preface	302	(2)
Book I. The Delineaments of the Giants	304	(1)
From I (``Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls'')	304	(3)
From III (``Thought clambers up'')	307	(1)
The Ivy Crown	307	(3)
Pictures from Bruegel	310	(1)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	310	(1)
Haymaking	310	(1)
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower	311	(7)
Book I	311	(7)
Elinor Wylie (1885--1928)	318	(3)
Wild Peaches	318	(2)
Incantation	320	(1)
Let No Charitable Hope	320	(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)	321	(24)
The Wild Common	323	(1)
Love on the Farm	324	(2)
Aware	326	(1)
The Bride	326	(1)
Sorrow	327	(1)
The Enkindled Spring	327	(1)
Gloire de Dijon	328	(1)
A Youth Mowing	328	(1)
Piano	329	(1)
Medlars and Sorb-Apples	329	(2)
Southern Night	331	(1)
Sicilian Cyclamens	331	(2)
Snake	333	(2)
Lui et Elle	335	(3)
Humming-Bird	338	(1)
You	338	(1)
The English Are So Nice!	339	(1)
Andraitx---Pomegranate Flowers	339	(1)
Whales Weep Not!	340	(1)
Butterfly	341	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	341	(1)
The Ship of Death	342	(3)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	345	(42)
Portrait d'une Femme	349	(1)
The Return	350	(1)
A Pact	350	(1)
The Rest	351	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	351	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	352	(1)
Lament of the Frontier Guard	353	(1)
The Temperaments	353	(1)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	354	(12)
(Life and Contacts)	354	(8)
1920 (Mauberley)	362	(4)
The Cantos	366	(21)
I (``And then went down to the ship'')	368	(2)
II (``Hang it all, Robert Browning'')	370	(4)
VII (``Eleanor [she spoiled in a British climate]'')	374	(4)
From XIV (``The slough of unamiable liars'')	378	(1)
XLV (``With Usura)	378	(2)
LXXXI (``Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom'')	380	(5)
(``Came Neptunus'')	385	(2)
(``I have tried to write Paradise'')	387	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)	387	(6)
To His Dead Body	388	(1)
`Blighters'	389	(1)
The Rear-Guard	389	(1)
Dreamers	390	(1)
The General	390	(1)
Repression of War Experience	391	(1)
Everyone Sang	392	(1)
On Passing the New Menin Gate	392	(1)
H. D. (1886--1961)	393	(21)
Oread	395	(1)
The Pool	395	(1)
Sea Rose	395	(1)
Mid-Day	396	(1)
Garden	396	(1)
Sea Violet	397	(1)
Helen	398	(1)
Fragment Sixty-Eight	398	(2)
Epitaph	400	(1)
The Walls Do Not Fall	401	(4)
[1] (``An incident here and there'')	401	(1)
[4] (``There is a spell, for instance'')	402	(2)
[6] (``In me [the worm] clearly'')	404	(1)
[39] (``We have had too much consecration'')	405	(1)
Tribute to the Angels	405	(9)
[24] (``Every hour, every moment'')	405	(1)
[25] (``. . . of the no need'')	406	(1)
[26] (``One of us said, how odd'')	406	(1)
[27] (``And yet in some very subtle way'')	407	(1)
[28] (``I had been thinking of Gabriel'')	407	(1)
[29] (``We have seen her'')	408	(1)
[30] (``We see her hand in her lap'')	409	(1)
[31] (``But none of these, none of these'')	410	(1)
[36] (``Ah [you say], this is Holy Wisdom'')	410	(1)
[37] (``This is a symbol of beauty [you continue]'')	411	(1)
[38] (``O yes---you understand, I say'')	411	(1)
[39] (``But nearer than Guardian Angel'')	412	(1)
[40] (``This is no rune nor symbol'')	413	(1)
[41] (``She carried a book, either to imply'')	413	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)	414	(6)
Shine, Perishing Republic	415	(1)
Fawn's Foster-Mother	416	(1)
Hurt Hawks	416	(1)
Rock and Hawk	417	(1)
Ave Caesar	418	(1)
The Purse-Seine	418	(1)
Carmel Point	419	(1)
Vulture	420	(1)
Edwin Muir (1887--1959)	420	(5)
Ballad of Hector in Hades	421	(1)
The Wheel	422	(1)
The Absent	423	(1)
The Horses	424	(1)
Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)	425	(5)
Facade	426	(2)
Aubade	426	(1)
Country Dance	427	(1)
Still Falls the Rain	428	(1)
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age	429	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)	430	(25)
To a Steam Roller	433	(1)
Critics and Connoisseurs	433	(1)
Black Earth	434	(2)
The Fish	436	(1)
In the Days of Prismatic Colour	437	(1)
Poetry	438	(1)
England	439	(1)
A Grave	440	(1)
An Octopus	441	(5)
To a Snail	446	(1)
The Steeple-Jack	446	(2)
The Pangolin	448	(3)
The Paper Nautilus	451	(1)
What Are Years?	452	(1)
He ``Digesteth Harde Yron''	453	(2)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)	455	(5)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	456	(1)
Here Lies a Lady	457	(1)
Piazza Piece	457	(1)
Dead Boy	458	(1)
Painted Head	459	(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	460	(35)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	463	(3)
Preludes	466	(2)
Whispers of Immortality	468	(1)
Sweeney among the Nightingales	469	(1)
Gerontion	470	(2)
The Waste Land	472	(15)
Journey of the Magi	487	(1)
Little Gidding	488	(7)
Ivor Gurney (1890--1937)	495	(3)
To His Love	496	(1)
First Time In	496	(1)
Laventie	497	(1)
The Silent One	498	(1)
Claude McKay (1890--1948)	498	(6)
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby	500	(1)
The Harlem Dancer	501	(1)
If We Must Die	501	(1)
The Lynching	502	(1)
The Tropics in New York	502	(1)
America	503	(1)
The White City	503	(1)
Outcast	503	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)	504	(5)
The Mirror	505	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	505	(1)
Louse Hunting	506	(1)
Returning, We Hear the Larks	506	(1)
Dead Man's Dump	507	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	509	(5)
First Fig	510	(1)
Recuerdo	510	(1)
Grown-Up	511	(1)
Spring	511	(1)
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]	512	(1)
[Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead]	512	(1)
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]	512	(1)
The Return	513	(1)
To a Calvinist in Bali	513	(1)
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)	514	(3)
Ars Poetica	515	(1)
The End of the World	516	(1)
You, Andrew Marvell	516	(1)
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892--1978)	517	(6)
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch	519	(1)
In the Pantry	520	(1)
Cloudburst and Soaring Moon	520	(1)
Parley of Beasts	521	(1)
O What's the Bride?	521	(1)
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	522	(1)
British Leftish Poetry, 1930--40	522	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	523	(12)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	525	(1)
Apologia pro Poemate Meo	525	(1)
Miners	526	(1)
Dulce et Decorum Est	527	(1)
Strange Meeting	528	(1)
Futility	529	(1)
S.I.W.	530	(1)
Greater Love	531	(1)
Mental Cases	532	(1)
Disabled	532	(2)
Exposure	534	(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893--1967)	535	(2)
Resume	536	(1)
One Perfect Rose	536	(1)
Observation	536	(1)
Oscar Wilde	537	(1)
George Sand	537	(1)
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)	537	(8)
[On Brooklyn Bridge I Saw a Man Drop Dead.]	538	(1)
[The Shopgirls Leave Their Work]	538	(1)
[I Walked through the Lonely Marsh]	538	(1)
[It Had Long Been Dark, though Still an Hour Before Supper-Time.]	539	(1)
[Walk about the Subway Station]	539	(1)
[About an Excavation]	540	(1)
Heart and Clock	540	(1)
Epitaphs	540	(2)
Te Deum	542	(1)
From Early History of a Writer	542	(1)
Holocaust	543	(2)
IX. Entertainment	543	(2)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	545	(11)
[in Just-]	546	(1)
[Buffalo Bill's]	547	(1)
[O sweet spontaneous]	547	(1)
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]	548	(1)
[i was sitting in mcsorley's]	549	(1)
[``next to of course god america i]	550	(1)
[my sweet old etcetera]	550	(1)
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]	551	(1)
[r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]	552	(1)
[may i feel said he]	552	(1)
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]	553	(1)
[my father moved through dooms of love]	554	(2)
[pity this busy monster,manunkind]	556	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)	556	(6)
Her Lips Are Copper Wire	558	(1)
Gum	558	(1)
Reapers	559	(1)
November Cotton Flower	559	(1)
Portrait in Georgia	560	(1)
Song of the Son	560	(1)
Georgia Dusk	561	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	562	(7)
The Cool Web	563	(1)
Ogres and Pygmies	563	(1)
Down, Wanton, Down!	564	(1)
Recalling War	565	(1)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice	566	(1)
The Persian Version	567	(1)
The Blue-Fly	568	(1)
David Jones (1895--1974)	569	(11)
In Parenthesis	570	(5)
Part 4. King Pellam's Launde (lines 1--41)	570	(2)
Part 7. The Five Unmistakable Marks (lines 283--422)	572	(3)
The Anathemata	575	(5)
Part III. Angle-Land	575	(5)
Austin Clarke (1896--1974)	580	(7)
The Planter's Daughter	581	(1)
The Young Woman of Beare	582	(5)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)	587	(3)
Medusa	587	(1)
Knowledge	588	(1)
Women	588	(1)
The Alchemist	589	(1)
Cassandra	589	(1)
Night	590	(1)
Melvin Tolson (1898--1966)	590	(14)
Harlem Gallery	592	(12)
Lambda	592	(2)
Mu	594	(4)
Nu	598	(2)
From Xi	600	(4)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)	604	(45)
Black Tambourine	607	(1)
Chaplinesque	607	(1)
Repose of Rivers	608	(1)
At Melville's Tomb	609	(1)
Voyages	609	(4)
The Bridge	613	(34)
Royal Palm	647	(1)
The Broken Tower	647	(2)
Allen Tate (1899--1979)	649	(6)
Mr. Pope	649	(1)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	650	(2)
The Swimmers	652	(3)
Basil Bunting (1900--1985)	655	(6)
On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos	656	(1)
Briggflatts	656	(4)
I (``Brag, sweet tenor bull'')	656	(4)
What the Chairman Told Tom	660	(1)
Yvor Winters (1900--1968)	661	(4)
The Slow Pacific Swell	662	(1)
By the Road to the Air-Base	663	(1)
John Sutter	663	(2)
Laura Riding (1901--1991)	665	(4)
The Map of Places	666	(1)
Footfalling	666	(1)
Death as Death	667	(1)
The Troubles of a Book	667	(1)
Ding-Donging	668	(1)
With the Face	669	(1)
Sterling Brown (1901--1989)	669	(15)
Odyssey of Big Boy	671	(2)
Southern Road	673	(1)
Ma Rainey	674	(1)
Strong Men	675	(2)
Memphis Blues	677	(2)
Slim Greer	679	(1)
Slim in Atlanta	680	(2)
Sporting Beasley	682	(1)
Old Lem	683	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	684	(21)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	687	(1)
When Sue Wears Red	688	(1)
The Weary Blues	688	(1)
Suicide's Note	689	(1)
Cross	689	(1)
Lament over Love	690	(1)
Po' Boy Blues	690	(1)
Song for a Dark Girl	691	(1)
Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover	691	(1)
Bad Man	692	(1)
Hard Daddy	692	(1)
Drum	693	(1)
Sylvester's Dying Bed	693	(1)
The Bitter River	694	(2)
Morning After	696	(1)
Madam's Past History	697	(1)
Madam and Her Madam	697	(1)
Blue Bayou	698	(1)
Silhouette	699	(1)
Life Is Fine	699	(1)
Montage of a Dream Deferred	700	(5)
Dream Boogie	700	(1)
Motto	701	(1)
Dead in There	701	(1)
125th Street	702	(1)
Theme for English B	702	(1)
Boogie: 1 A.M.	703	(1)
Nightmare Boogie	703	(1)
Dream Boogie: Variation	704	(1)
Harlem	704	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)	705	(11)
Sunt Leones	706	(1)
This Englishwoman	707	(1)
Souvenir de Monsieur Poop	707	(1)
Our Bog Is Dood	708	(1)
God the Eater	709	(1)
Not Waving but Drowning	710	(1)
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock	711	(1)
A House of Mercy	712	(1)
Exeat	713	(1)
To Carry the Child	714	(1)
Pretty	715	(1)
Lorine Niedecker (1903--1970)	716	(10)
[Well, Spring Overflows the Land]	717	(1)
[Swept Snow, Li Po]	717	(1)
[What Horror to Awake at Night]	717	(1)
[New-Sawed]	718	(1)
Poet's Work	718	(1)
[Something in the Water]	719	(1)
[Popcorn-Can Cover]	719	(1)
My Life by Water	719	(1)
Thomas Jefferson	720	(6)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)	726	(6)
Yet Do I Marvel	727	(1)
Atlantic City Waiter	727	(1)
Incident	728	(1)
For a Lady I Know	728	(1)
Heritage	729	(3)
Louis Zukofsky (1904--1978)	732	(8)
Poem Beginning ``The''	733	(5)
[Dedication]	733	(1)
First Movement: ``And out of olde bokes, in good feith''	734	(2)
Fifth Movement: Autobiography	736	(2)
To My Wash-Stand	738	(2)
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)	740	(2)
The Groundhog	740	(1)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	741	(1)
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972)	742	(3)
Two Songs	743	(1)
Where Are the War Poets?	744	(1)
Almost Human	744	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)	745	(6)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening	746	(1)
The Great Hunger	746	(3)
I (``Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'')	746	(3)
Epic	749	(1)
Canal Bank Walk	749	(1)
Come Dance with Kitty Stobling	749	(1)
In Memory of My Mother	750	(1)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)	751	(7)
Bearded Oaks	752	(1)
Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth	753	(1)
Audubon: A Vision	754	(1)
Was Not the Lost Dauphin	754	(1)
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall	755	(1)
Evening Hawk	756	(1)
Fear and Trembling	757	(1)
Muted Music	757	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)	758	(7)
The War against the Trees	759	(1)
The Portrait	760	(1)
The Magic Curtain	760	(3)
The Catch	763	(1)
Day of Foreboding	763	(1)
The Round	763	(1)
Touch Me	764	(1)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905--1982)	765	(9)
Delia Rexroth	766	(1)
Andree Rexroth	767	(1)
Blues	767	(1)
Homer in Basic	768	(1)
Proust's Madeleine	769	(1)
The Wheel Revolves	770	(1)
The Love Poems of Marichiko	771	(3)
IV (``You ask me what I thought about'')	771	(1)
VII (``Making love with you'')	772	(1)
IX (``You wake me'')	772	(1)
XXV (``Your tongue thrums and moves'')	772	(1)
XXVII (``As I came from the'')	772	(1)
XXXI (``Some day in six inches of'')	772	(1)
XXXII (``I hold your head tight between'')	773	(1)
XXXIII (``I cannot forget'')	773	(1)
XXXIV (``Every morning, I'')	773	(1)
LVIII (``Half in a dream'')	773	(1)
LIX (``I hate this shadow of a ghost'')	773	(1)
LX (``Chilled through, I wake up'')	774	(1)
John Betjeman (1906--1984)	774	(7)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel	775	(1)
Slough	776	(1)
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828	777	(2)
In Westminster Abbey	779	(1)
The Cottage Hospital	780	(1)
William Empson (1906--1984)	781	(2)
Villanelle	781	(1)
Ignorance of Death	782	(1)
Missing Dates	783	(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)	783	(34)
The Secret Agent	787	(1)
This Lunar Beauty	787	(1)
The Wanderer	788	(1)
Who's Who	789	(1)
On This Island	789	(1)
Lullaby	790	(1)
Spain	791	(2)
As I Walked Out One Evening	793	(2)
In Time of War	795	(1)
XIV (``Yes, we are going to suffer, now; the sky'')	795	(1)
XVII (``They are and suffer; that is all they do:'')	795	(1)
XVIII (``Far from the heart of culture he was used:'')	796	(1)
The Capital	796	(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts	797	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	798	(2)
The Unknown Citizen	800	(1)
September 1, 1939	801	(2)
In Memory of Sigmund Freud	803	(3)
In Praise of Limestone	806	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	808	(2)
Horae Canonicae	810	(1)
I. Prime	810	(1)
Prologue at Sixty	811	(3)
A New Year Greeting	814	(1)
A Lullaby	815	(2)
A. D. Hope (1907--2000)	817	(5)
Australia	817	(1)
Observation Car	818	(1)
Advice to Young Ladies	819	(2)
Beware of Ruins	821	(1)
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)	822	(11)
Nature Morte	823	(1)
An Eclogue for Christmas	823	(4)
Snow	827	(1)
Bagpipe Music	827	(1)
The Sunlight on the Garden	828	(1)
Carrickfergus	829	(1)
Brother Fire	830	(1)
The Libertine	831	(1)
Variation on Heraclitus	832	(1)
Charon	832	(1)
George Oppen (1908--1984)	833	(8)
Solution	834	(1)
From Disaster	835	(1)
Survival: Infantry	835	(1)
Pedestrian	835	(1)
Psalm	836	(1)
Of Being Numerous	836	(5)
1--9	836	(4)
18--19	840	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)	841	(14)
Cuttings	842	(1)
Cuttings (later)	842	(1)
Weed Puller	843	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	843	(1)
Dolor	844	(1)
The Minimal	844	(1)
The Lost Son	844	(5)
Elegy for Jane	849	(1)
The Waking	849	(1)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze	850	(1)
I Knew a Woman	851	(1)
Wish for a Young Wife	851	(1)
The Far Field	852	(2)
In a Dark Time	854	(1)
Stephen Spender (1909--1995)	855	(5)
The Funeral	856	(1)
What I Expected	857	(1)
The Truly Great	858	(1)
The Express	858	(1)
The Landscape near an Aerodrome	859	(1)
The Pylons	860	(1)
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)	860	(151)
Soissons	861	(1)
Simplify Me When I'm Dead	862	(1)
Gallantry	862	(1)
Vergissmeinnicht	863	(1)
Aristocrats	864	(1)
POETICS
Walt Whitman
From Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)	865	(5)
Emily Dickinson
Letters	870	(3)
[Letter 261: Thank You for the Surgery] 25 April 1862	870	(1)
[Letter 265: Will You Be My Preceptor?] 7 June 1862	871	(1)
[Letter 268: My Business Is Circumference] July 1862	872	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Letters	873	(4)
[Sprung Rhythm] August 21, 1877	874	(1)
[Sprung Rhythm] October 5, 1878	874	(2)
[My Poetry Errs on the Side of Oddness] February 15, 1879	876	(1)
[The Current Language Heightened] August 14, 1879	876	(1)
W. B. Yeats
The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)	877	(6)
From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] (w. 1937)	883	(6)
T. E. Hulme
From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911--12)	889	(8)
Blast (1914)
Long Live the Vortex!	897	(2)
Manifesto---1	899	(13)
Manifesto---2	912	(9)
Mina Loy
Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914)	921	(5)
Amy Lowell, ed.
Preface to Some Imagist Poets (1915)	926	(2)
Wilfred Owen
Preface (w. 1918)	928	(1)
Ezra Pound
A Retrospect (1918)	928	(11)
From How to Read (1929, 1931)	939	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)	941	(6)
From Hamlet (1919)	947	(2)
From The Metaphysical Poets (1921)	949	(5)
William Carlos Williams
From Prologue to Kora in Hell (1919)	954	(6)
D. H. Lawrence
The Poetry of the Present [Preface to the American Edition of New Poems] (1919)	960	(4)
Langston Hughes
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)	964	(4)
Hart Crane
A Letter to Harriet Monroe (1926)	968	(3)
Wallace Stevens
Aphorisms	971	(5)
From Adagia (w. 1934--40?)	972	(3)
From Miscellaneous Notebooks (w. 1948--55?)	975	(1)
From The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942)	976	(8)
Robert Frost
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)	984	(2)
Gertrude Stein
From A Transatlantic Interview (w. 1946)	986	(8)
Marianne Moore
Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (1949)	994	(6)
W. H. Auden
Writing (1962)	1000	(11)
Selected Bibliographies	1011	(30)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1041	(8)
Index	1049