The Classic Hundred Poems

by Harmon, William

• ISBN13: 9780231112598
• ISBN10: 0231112599
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- New York Times Book Review (of the 1st edition)

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi
ANONYMOUS	1	(8)
Sir Patrick Spens	1	(4)
Edward, Edward	5	(3)
Western Wind	8	(1)
SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542)	9	(3)
They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek	10	(2)
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1554?-1618)	12	(3)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	13	(2)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)	15	(3)
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Skies!	16	(2)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)	18	(3)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	19	(2)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)	21	(10)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	23	(2)
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought	25	(1)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds	26	(1)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	27	(1)
The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame	28	(1)
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold	29	(1)
When Icicles Hang by the Wall	30	(1)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)	31	(12)
Death, Be Not Proud	32	(1)
Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God	33	(1)
At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners	34	(1)
The Good Morrow	35	(2)
The Sun Rising	37	(2)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	39	(2)
Go and Catch a Falling Star	41	(2)
BEN JONSON (1572-1637)	43	(4)
On My First Son	44	(1)
Song: To Celia	45	(1)
Still to Be Neat	46	(1)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)	47	(4)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	48	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	49	(1)
Delight in Disorder	50	(1)
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)	51	(5)
Love III	52	(2)
The Pulley	54	(1)
Virtue	55	(1)
THOMAS CAREW (1595-1639?)	56	(3)
Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows	57	(2)
EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687)	59	(3)
Go, Lovely Rose	60	(2)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)	62	(10)
Lycidas	64	(8)
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)	72	(2)
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?	72	(2)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)	74	(4)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	75	(1)
To Althea, from Prison	76	(2)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)	78	(6)
To His Coy Mistress	79	(2)
The Garden	81	(3)
HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)	84	(3)
The Retreat	85	(2)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)	87	(8)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	88	(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	93	(2)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	95	(12)
The Tyger	96	(2)
London	98	(2)
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time	100	(2)
The Lamb	102	(1)
Auguries of Innocence	103	(4)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)	107	(3)
A Red, Red Rose	108	(2)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)	110	(8)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways	112	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	113	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	114	(2)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	116	(1)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	117	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	118	(5)
Kubla Khan	120	(2)
GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON BYRON (1788-1824)	123	(4)
So, We'll Go No More a-Roving	125	(1)
She Walks in Beauty	126	(1)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)	127	(12)
Ode to the West Wind	129	(4)
Ozymandias	133	(1)
To a Skylark	134	(5)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	139	(13)
To Autumn	141	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	143	(3)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	146	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	148	(4)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)	152	(3)
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	154	(1)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)	155	(6)
To Helen	156	(2)
Annabel Lee	158	(3)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)	161	(8)
Break, Break, Break	162	(2)
The Eagle	164	(1)
Ulysses	165	(4)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)	169	(9)
My Last Duchess	170	(4)
Meeting at Night	174	(2)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	176	(2)
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861)	178	(3)
The Latest Decalogue	179	(2)
JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)	181	(3)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	182	(2)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)	184	(3)
Dover Beach	185	(2)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)	187	(6)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	188	(2)
I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died	190	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	191	(2)
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898)	193	(3)
Jabberwocky	194	(2)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)	196	(4)
The Darkling Thrush	198	(2)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)	200	(6)
Pied Beauty	201	(2)
Spring and Fall	203	(1)
The Windhover	204	(2)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)	206	(8)
The Second Coming	207	(2)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	209	(1)
Leda and the Swan	210	(2)
Sailing to Byzantium	212	(2)
ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)	214	(3)
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae	215	(2)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)	217	(6)
Miniver Cheevy	218	(2)
Mr. Flood's Party	220	(3)
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)	223	(4)
The Listeners	225	(2)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)	227	(5)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	228	(2)
Mending Wall	230	(2)
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)	232	(7)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	233	(6)
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)	239	(3)
Strange Meeting	240	(2)
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)	242	(3)
Musee des Beaux Arts	243	(2)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)	245	(3)
My Papa's Waltz	246	(2)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)	248	(2)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	249	(1)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)	250	(7)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	251	(1)
Fern Hill	252	(3)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	255	(2)
NOTES ON THE POEMS	257	(54)
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS	311	(14)
FURTHER READING	325	(22)
THE POEMS IN ORDER OF POPULARITY	347	(4)
INDEX OF POETS	351	(4)
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES	355	(4)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	359