100 Poems by 100 Poets An Anthology

by Pinter, Harold; Godbert, Geoffrey; Astbury, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780802132796
• ISBN10: 0802132790
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-10
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

To pass the time on a long train ride from London to Cromwell, playwright Harold Pinter and his two companions, Geoffrey Godbert and Anthony Astbury, set up a challenge: Choose 100 poems by 100 poets — living poets excluded — to represent the finest poetry ever written in English. The three agreed to organize this collection unconventionally, alphabetically by author rather than chronologically. The resulting anthology is challenging, eclectic, very personal, and great fun. With its surprising juxtapositions and gargantuan range of voice and style, 100 Poems by 100 Poets brings old favorites into a new light and less well-known poems out of the shadows.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
So it begins. Adam is in his earth	p. 1
Dover Beach	p. 2
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	p. 4
A thousand martyrs I have made	p. 7
Dream Song 4	p. 8
Parliament Hill Fields	p. 9
The Fish	p. 11
The Unpredictable	p. 14
The Mental Traveller	p. 16
To my Dear and Loving Husband	p. 21
R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida	p. 22
Meeting At Night	p. 24
Song - For a' that and a' that -	p. 25
Darkness	p. 27
There is a garden in her face	p. 30
The Second Rapture	p. 31
Jabberwocky	p. 33
A Vision	p. 35
The Latest Decalogue	p. 36
Kubla Khan	p. 37
An Epitaph on M.H.	p. 39
The Innocent Ill	p. 41
Lines Written During a Period of Insanity	p. 43
next to of course god america i	p. 44
Love is a sickness full of woes	p. 45
On a Pair of Garters	p. 46
There came a Wind like a Bugle	p. 47
Twicknam Garden	p. 48
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae	p. 50
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part	p. 52
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	p. 53
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall	p. 56
La Figlia Che Piange	p. 57
Let it go	p. 59
Provide, Provide	p. 60
The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy	p. 62
The oftener seen, the more I lust	p. 65
I leave this at your ear	p. 66
The White Goddess	p. 67
On Lord Holland's Seat Near Margate, Kent	p. 68
Love, the delight of all well-thinking minds	p. 69
On an Hour-Glass	p. 70
An Upbraiding	p. 72
Madam Life's a piece in bloom	p. 73
A Description	p. 74
Love	p. 77
Whenas in silks my Julia goes	p. 78
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief	p. 79
Absence, hear my protestation	p. 80
Her strong enchantments failing	p. 82
Her Triumph	p. 83
Ecce Puer	p. 85
Ode to a Nightingale	p. 86
The Gods of the Copybook Headings	p. 89
Aubade	p. 92
Cupid Far Gone	p. 94
Skunk Hour	p. 96
Snow	p. 98
To His Coy Mistress	p. 99
Dirge in Woods	p. 101
I, being born a woman and distressed	p. 102
The Earthly Paradise	p. 103
One foot in Eden	p. 105
Adieu, farewell earth's bliss	p. 107
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	p. 109
Daddy	p. 110
Annabel Lee	p. 114
Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation	p. 116
Commission	p. 118
The Lie	p. 120
Piazza Piece	p. 124
A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover	p. 125
The Waking	p. 127
August 1914	p. 128
What Would I Give?	p. 129
Sudden Light	p. 130
Calmly we walk through this April's day	p. 131
On a Cock at Rochester	p. 133
All My Pretty Ones	p. 134
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes	p. 137
To ...	p. 138
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show	p. 139
Sir Beelzebub	p. 140
To Mistress Margaret Hussey	p. 141
To the Tune of the Coventry Carol	p. 143
Iambicum Trimetrum	p. 144
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	p. 146
Song	p. 147
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed	p. 148
A Leave-Taking	p. 151
Vastness	p. 153
Lament	p. 157
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares	p. 160
Go, lovely Rose	p. 161
Native Moments	p. 162
Mutability	p. 163
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	p. 164
They flee from me that sometime did me seek	p. 165
Full Moon	p. 166
Long-Legged Fly	p. 167
Chronological List of Poets	p. 169
Index of First Lines	p. 173
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