Catching Life By The Throat Cl

by Hart,Josephine

• ISBN13: 9780393066074
• ISBN10: 039306607X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life. Catching Life by the Throatunites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the British Library: Ralph Fiennes reading Auden, Edward Fox reading Eliot, Roger Moore reading Kipling, Harold Pinter reading Larkin, and more. Whether you believe (like Robert Frost, who inspired the title) that poetry is a way of "taking life by the throat" or (like T. S. Eliot) that it "is one person talking to another," nobody does it better than the poets featured in this book. For a novice discovering the rich heritage of English-language verse or a seasoned poetry reader,Catching Life by the Throatis an extraordinary introduction to eight iconic poets. 8 illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
W. H. Auden: Truth Out of Time	p. 7
Musee des Beaux Arts	p. 15
As I Walked Out One Evening	p. 16
September 1, 1939	p. 19
Song of the Devil	p. 23
O Tell Me the Truth About Love	p. 25
The Love Feast	p. 27
If I Could Tell You	p. 29
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	p. 30
Emily Dickinson: Heavenly Hurt	p. 33
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -	p. 41
The Soul selects her own Society -	p. 42
Success is counted sweetest	p. 43
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -	p. 44
There's a certain Slant of Light	p. 45
Because I could not stop for Death -	p. 46
After greater pain, a formal feeling comes -	p. 47
My life closed twice before its close -	p. 48
T. S. Eliot: I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to you	p. 49
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 61
Portrait of a Lady	p. 66
The Hollow Men	p. 71
The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess	p. 75
Rudyard Kipling: Word Warrior	p. 79
The Female Of The Species	p. 87
The 'Mary Gloster'	p. 90
Recessional	p. 97
The Gods of the Copybook Headings	p. 99
Danny Deever	p. 102
Tommy	p. 104
The Children	p. 106
Epitaphs of the War	p. 108
Philip Larkin: Too Clever to Live?	p. 117
Poetry of Departures	p. 125
I Remember, I Remember	p. 127
This Be The Verse	p. 129
Vers de Societe	p. 130
Mr Bleaney	p. 132
Church Going	p. 134
The Whitsun Weddings	p. 137
Dockery and Son	p. 140
Marianne Moore: Poetry ... I, Too, Dislike It	p. 143
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	p. 151
We All Know It	p. 153
Silence	p. 154
To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity	p. 155
Roses Only	p. 156
'I Like a Horse but I Have a Fellow Feeling for a Mule'	p. 157
Spenser's Ireland	p. 158
We Call Them the Brave	p. 161
Sylvia Plath: The Woman is Perfected	p. 163
Mushrooms	p. 171
The Colossus	p. 173
Two Views of a Cadaver Room	p. 175
The Applicant	p. 176
Death and Co.	p. 178
Daddy	p. 180
Lady Lazarus	p. 183
Edge	p. 187
William Butler Yeats: A Pity Beyond All Telling	p. 189
The Pity of Love	p. 197
The Folly of Being Comforted	p. 198
Friends	p. 199
Before the World was made	p. 200
Easter, 1916	p. 201
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited	p. 204
Adam's Curse	p. 207
The Circus Animals' Desertion	p. 209
Actors' Notes	p. 213
Copyright Acknowledgements	p. 217
Source Notes	p. 221
Index of First Lines	p. 237
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