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This is, perhaps, the widest ranging, most comprehensive poetry collection available, and it is useful for poetry courses at all levels. It contains an excellent introduction to reading poetry and understanding the elements, as well as sections on poems and paintings, poems and music, and poems from other languages. Sections on featured poets are integrated with the chronological anthology which gives students a perspective on the variety and range of a large group of poets. This multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-genre and multi-lingual collection gives students a view and instructors an opportunity to teach the universality of poetry. Includes a superb historical range of poetry, from its recorded beginnings to most contemporary.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION.
THE PLEASURES OF POETRY
Robert Frost, Dust of Snow
THE ACT OF READING
Raymond Carter, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year
Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer¿s Tigers
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY
SPEAKER AND SITUATION
Langston Hughes, Mother to Son
Walt Whitman, When I heard the Learn¿d Astronomer
DICTION
Robert Francis, Pitcher
Robert Fitzgerald, Cobb Would Have Caught It
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud
IMAGERY
Robert Browning, Meeting at Night
Lutz Rathenow, For Uwe Gressmann (translated by Boria Sax)
Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Gertrude Stein, A Petticoat
N. Scott Momday, A Simile
Sylvia Path, Metaphors
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may¿st in me behold
William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees
SYMBOL
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
ALLUSION
William Blake, Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
TONE
C.P. Cavafy, As Much As You Can (translated by Rae Dalven)
Alexander Pushkin, Old Man (translated by Babette Deutsch
Theodore Roethke, My Pap¿s Waltz
Stephen Crane, War Is Kind
A.E. Housman, Is my team plowing?
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
SYNTAX
Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man
e.e. cummings, Me up at does
SOUNDS
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Helen Chasin, The Word Plum
Gerald Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy
RHYTHM AND METER
Robert Frost, The Span of Life
Louis Simpson, The Heroes
STRUCTURE: CLOSED FORM AND OPEN FORM
Langston Hughes, My People and I, too, sing America
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink and What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
THEME
Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant¿s Act
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
VISUAL POETRY
Francis Quarles, Emblem III
George Herbert, The Altar
e.e. cummings 1(a
Reinhold Dohl, Pattern Poem with an Elusive Intruder
Guillaume Apollinaire, La Tour Eiffel/The Eifell Tower (translated by Adelia Willimas)
Mirror/Mirror (translated by Adelia Williams)
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
May Swenson, How Everything Happens
POETRY AND ART
William Blake, The Sick Rose
Henri Matisse, The Dance
Natalie Safir, Matisse¿s Dance
Anne Sexton, The Starry Night
Robert Fagles, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night
X.J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a Staircase
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
Jan Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Jug
Stephen Mitchell, Vermeer
William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Pieter Breughel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
Anne Sexton, To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
Ovid, the Story of Daedalus and Icarus (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Vinnie-Marie D¿Ambrosio, The Painter Yearning for her Lake
Suzanne Gilliard, Still Life with Tiger Lillies
Rainer Maria Rilke, Archais Torso of Apollo (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Since there¿s no help, come let us kiss and part
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnets: Shall I compare thee to a summer¿s day?, When in disgrace with Fortune and men¿s eye, Not marble, nor the gilded monuments, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, No longer mourn for me when I am dead, They that have pow¿r to hurt and will do none, Th¿ expense of spirit in a waste of shame, My Mistress¿ eyes are nothing like the sun, Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth
Songs: When daisies pied (Love¿s Labour¿s Lost), Under the greenwood (As You Like It), Blow, blow, thou winter wind (As You Like It), It was a lover and his lass (As You Like It), Oh mistress mine! (Twelfth Night), When that I was and a little tiny boy (Twelfth Night), Fear no more the heat o¿ the sun (Cymbeline) Full fathom five (The Tempest)
Soliloquies: All the world¿s a stage (As You Like It), Now is the winter of our discontent (Richard III), O mighty Caesar! (Julius Casesar), Friends, Romans, countrymen (Julius Caeser), Once more unto the breach (Henry V), If we are marked to die (Henry V), Is this a dagger which I see before me (Macbeth), It is the cause, it is the cause (Othello), O that this too too sullied flesh would melt (Hamlet), To be, or not to be (Hamlet), O reason not the need! (King Lear), Our revels now are ended (The Tempest)
Thomas Campion, I care not for these ladies, My Sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) A Litany in Time of Plague
John Donne (1572-1631) Song (Go, and catch a falling star), The Indifferent, The Sun Rising, The Anniversary, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy¿s Day¿Being the Shortest Day, The Canonization, Lover¿s Infiniteness, The Flea, The Ecstasy, Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed, Batter my heart, three-personed God, Death, be not proud, Hymn to God the Father, Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
Ben Johnson (1572-1637) Still to be neat, still to be dressed, Come, me Celia, On My First Daughter, On My First Son, To Penshurst
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Delight in Disorder, Upon Julia¿s Clothes, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Henry King (1592-1669) The Exequy
George Herbert (1593-1633) The Pulley, The Collar, Denial, Virtue
James Shirley (1596-1666) Th glories of our blood and state
Thomas Carew (c. 1596-1640) Song (Ask me no more where Jove bestows)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Song (Go, lovely rose!)
John Milton (1608-1674) Lycidas, L¿Allegro, Il Penseroso, When I consider how my light is spent, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, Methought I saw my late espoused saint, from Paradise Lost, Books I, III, IV
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) Out upon It!
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Abraham Cowley (1618-1657) To Althea, from Prison
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body, The Definition of Love, To His Coy Mistress, The Garden
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) They are all gone into the world of light!
John Dryden (1631-1700) A Song for St. Cecilia¿s Day
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) A Nocturnal Reverie
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Description of the Morning, The Lady¿s Dressing Room
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ode on Solitude, from An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Epistle to Miss Blount, from An Essay on Man
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) When lovely woman stoops to folly
William Blake (1757-1827) The Echoing Green, The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence), The Chimney Sweeper (Experience), The Tyger, The Clod & the Pebble, The Garden of Love, A Poison Tree, London, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Proverbs of Hell, from Milton: And did those feet, Auguries of Innocence
Robert Burns (1759-1796) A Red, Red Rose
William Wordworth (1770-1850) Lines, To My Sister, She dwelt among the untrodden ways, A slumber did my spirit seal, My heart leaps up, The Solitary Reaper. The world is too much with us, It is a beauteous evening, She was a Phantom of delight, Ode: Intimations of Immorality, from The Prelude, Books I,V,XII
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) She walks in beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias, To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind
John Keats (1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman¿s Horner, On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again, Why did I Laugh tonight?, Bright Star, When I have fears that I may cease to be, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Brahma
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Edward FitzGerald from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) The Chambered Nautilus
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) To Helen, The Raven, Annabel Lee
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Mariana, The Lotus-Eaters, Break, break, break, Ulysses, Tithonus, Tears, idle tears, Now sleeps the crimson petal, Come down, O maid, from In Memoriam A.H.H., The Eagle: A Fragment, Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning (1812-1889) My Last Duchess, Porphryia¿s Lover, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed¿s Church, Andrea del Sarto
Edward Lear (1812-1888) The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Remembrance
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) One¿s Self I Sing, There was a child went forth every day, from Song of Myself, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Calvary Crossing a Ford, Bivouac on a Mountain Side, Vigil strange I kept on the field one night, A sight in camp in thje daybreak gray and dim, The Wound-Dresser, The Dalliance of the Eagles, A noiseless patient spider, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom¿d, Good-bye Fancy!
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Dover Beach
George Meredith (1828-1909) Lucifer in Starlight
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Barren Spring
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) Remember
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 326. I cannot dance upon my Toes, 303. The Soul selects her own Society, 199. I¿m ¿wife¿ ¿ I¿ve finished that, 241. I like a look of Agony, 249. Wild Nights¿Wild Nights!, 258. There¿s a certain Slant of light, 280. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 341. After great pain, a formal feeling comes, 419. We grow accustomed to the Dark, 449. I died for Beauty¿but was scarce, 465. I heard a Fly Buzz¿when I died, 536. The Heart asks Pleasure¿first, 599. There is a pain¿so utter, 650. Pain¿has an element of Blank, 712. Because I could not stop for Death, 744. Remorse¿is Memory¿awake, 754. My Life had stood¿a Loaded Gun, 986. A narrow Fellow in the Grass, 1078. The Bustle in a House, 1100. The last Night that She lived, 1129. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant, 1624. Apparently with no surprise, 1732. My life closed twice before its close
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Jabberwocky
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Neutral Tones, Channel Firing, The Man He Killed, The Oxen, During Wind and Rain
Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God¿s Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Spring, The Wreck of the Deutschland, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, Binsey Poplars, Inversnaid, As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame, I wake and feel the fell of dark, not fay, Carrion Comfort, No worst, there is none, Thou art indeed just, Lord
A.E.Housman (1859-1963) To an Athlete Dying Young, With rue my heart is laden
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Lake Isle of Innisfree, When you are old, The Song of Wandering Aengus, Adam¿s Curse, No Second Troy, A Coat, The Scholars, The Wild Swans at Coole, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Easter, The Second Coming, A Prayer for My Daughter, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, Among School Children, Byzantium, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop, Lapis Lazuli, The Circus Animals¿ Desertion, Long-legged Fly, Politics
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) Non sum qualis bonae sub regno Cynarae
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mowing, The Tuft of Flowers, Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, The Road Not Taken, Birches, Hyla Brook, The Oven Bird, ¿Out, Out¿¿, Putting in the Seed, Fire and Ice, For Once, Then, Something, To Earthward, The Need of Being Versed in Country Things, Two Look at Two, Once by the Pacific, On Looking up by Chance at the Constellations, Acquainted with the night, Tree at my window, Departmental, Desert Places, Design, Neither Out For Nor In Deep, Provide, Provide, The Silken Tent, The Most of It
John Masefield (1878-1967) Cargoes
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Chicago
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Poems of Our Climate, Peter Quince at the Clavier, Sunday Morning, The Snow Man, Anecdote of the Jar, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Bantams in Pine-Woods, The Idea of Order at Key West, from The Man with the Blue Guitar, of Modern Poetry, The house was quiet and the world was calm
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Red Wheelbarrow, January Morning, The Last Words of My English Grandmother, Queen Anne¿s Lace, To Elsie, Spring and All, At the Ball Game, This Is Just to Say, To a Poor Old Woman, Nantucket, The Young Housewife, The Dance, A Sort of a Song, The Sparrow, from Paterson, Book II: Sunday in the Park
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Love on the Farm, Piano, Snake, The Elephant Is Slow to Mate, Humming-bird, When I read Shakespeare
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) In a Station of the Metro, The White Stag, Sestina: Altaforte, Portrait d¿une Femme, The Return, Epitaphs, The River-Merchant¿s Wife: A Letter, The Garden, A Pact, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts), Canto I: And then went down to the ship, Canto XIII: Kung walked, from Canto XLV: With usura, from Canto LXXXI: Yet/Ere the season died a-cold
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Heat, Helen
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) The Fish, Poetry, Critics and Connisseurs, The Steeple-Jack, To a Snail, The Past Is the Present, The Monkeys, The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing, Nevertheless, Propriety
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Waste Land, from Four Quarters: Little Gidding
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) Bells for John Whiteside¿s Daughter, Piazza Piece
Claude McKay (1890-1948) The Tropics in New York
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Ars Poetica
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Recuerdo
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Dulce et Decorum Est
e.e. cummings (1894-1962) Buffalo Bill¿s, may i feel said he, anyone lived in a pretty how town, my father moved through dooms of love, i thank You God for most this amazing
Charles Reznikoff (b. 1894) Kaddish
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Reapers
Robert Graves (1895-1985) Down, wanton, down!, Symptoms of Love
Louise Bogan (1897-1970) Women
Hart Crane (1899-1932) from The Bridge
Robert Francis (1901-1987) Cadence
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) The Negro Speaks of River, The Weary Blues, Mulatto, Trumpet Player, Ballad of the Landlord, Madam and the Rent Man, Dream Deferred, Theme for English B
Stevie Smith (1902-1971) Not Waving but Drowning
Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Incident
Richard Eberhart (b. 1905) Love and Knowledge
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) The Unknown Citizen, In Memory of W. B Yeats, The Shield of Achilles
A.D. Hope (b. 1907) Imperial Adams
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) The Waking, Elegy for Jane
Charles Olson (1910-1970) Maximus, to Gloucester, Sunday, July 19
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Sandpiper, The Fish, The Monument, The Unbeliever, Seascape, The Armadillo, Questions of Travel, Sestina, In the Waiting Room
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) Those Winter Sundays
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) Myth
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Henry Reed (b. 1914) Chard Whitlow, Naming of Parts
William Stafford (b. 1914) Traveling through the dark
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) The force that through the green fuse drives the flower, I see the boys of summer, And death shall have no dominion, The hunchback in th epark, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London, Poem in October, Fern Hill, In my craft or sullen art, Do not go gentle into that good night
Judith Wright (b. 1915) Eve to Her Daughters
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Skunk Hour, For the Union Dead
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) The Mother
Robert Duncan (1919-1988) The Dance
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b.1919) Constantly risking absurdity
May Swenson (b. 1919) Women, The Centaur
Charles Bukowski (b. 1920) My Father
Amy Clampitt (b. 1920) Beach Glass
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) The War in the Air
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) Mind
Marie Ponsot (b. 1922) Summer Sestina
Philip Larkin )1922-1985) Church Going,A Study of Reading Habits
James Dickey (b. 1923) The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life, ¿More Light! More Light!¿
Denise Levertov (b. 1923) O Taste and See
Lois Simpson (b. 1923) America Poetry, My father in the night commanding No
Donald Justice (b. 1925) In Bertram¿s Garden, Men at FortyKenneth Koch (b. 1925) Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, You were wearing
A.R. Ammons (b. 1926) Reflective, Bonus
Robert Bly (b. 1926) Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Robert Creeley (b. 1926) After Lorca, I Know a Man
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926) A Supermarket in California
James Merrill (b. 1926) The Pier: Under Pisces
Frank O¿Hara (1926-1966) Autobiographia Literaria
David Wagoner (b. 1926) Walking in the Snow
W.S. Merwin (b. 1926) Separation, When you go away, Elegy
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) Saint Francis and the Snow, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Ruth F. Eisenberg (b. 1927) Jocasta
John Ashbery (b. 1927) The Painter
James Wright (1927-1980) Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy¿s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, A Blessing
Donald Hall (b. 1928) My son, my executioner
Philip Levine (b. 1928) Starlight
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Us
John Hollander (b. 1929) Adam¿s Task
X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929) Fist Confession, In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Storm Warnings, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Knight, Orion, Planetarium, Trying to Talk with a Man, Diving into the Wreck, Rape, For an Album, from An Atlas of the Difficult World
Bruce Dawe (b. 1930) A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love