Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems

by Burgess, Anthony; Jackson, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781857546163
• ISBN10: 1857546164
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

"Demonstrating the full range and achievement of Anthony BurgessÆs poetry and verse, this collection contains extracts from his translations of the librettos of Carmen, Oberon, and others; of verse dramas including Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Chatsky; and his original musicals TrotskyÆs in New York!, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, and A Clockwork Orange 2004. Also included are his translations of the Roman dialect poet Giuseppi Belli, extracts from his verse epic Moses, the complete poems of F. X. Enderby, and Burgess's autobiographical poem ôThe Sword.ö"

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Revolutionary Sonnets and other short poems	1	(105)
John Burgess Wilson
Anthony Burgess
F.X. Enderby
Longer Poems
O Lord, O Ford, God Help Us, Also You	36	(6)
Verses for the Seventieth Birthday of Vladimir Nabokov	42	(2)
Homage to Ogden Nash	44	(2)
Five Extracts from Moses	46	(7)
Translations and Adaptations
The Eve of Saint Venus: from the Pervigilium Veneris	53	(2)
Ten Sonnets from the Roman dialect of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli	55	(6)
Dramatic Verse, Libretti and Lyrics for Musicals
From Bizet's Carmen	61	(8)
From Weber's Oberon	69	(3)
From Blooms of Dublin	72	(7)
From Will!	79	(5)
From Trotsky's in New York!	84	(5)
From A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music	89	(4)
From Mozart and the Wolf Gang	93	(5)
From Sophocles, Oedipus the King	98	(3)
From Griboyedov, Chatsky	101	(5)
From Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac	106