Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

by Lowell, Amy; Bradshaw, Melissa; Munich, Adrienne

• ISBN13: 9780813531274
• ISBN10: 0813531276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Permissions	xiii
A Note on the Text	xiii
Introductions ``Let Us Shout It Lustily'': Amy Lowell's Career in Context	xv
Melissa Bradshaw
Amy Lowell, New American Poet	xxvii
Adrienne Munich
Chronology	xxxix
I. Traditional Forms and Variations
Sonnets, Rhymed Stanzas, and Blank Verse
A Fixed Idea	3	(1)
On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula	4	(1)
The Starling	4	(1)
Mirage	5	(1)
A Petition	5	(1)
In Answer to a Request	6	(1)
Eleonora Duse	6	(3)
To a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised Charm	9	(1)
Before the Altar	10	(2)
Apology	12	(1)
After Writing ``The Bronze Horses''	13	(1)
Merely Statement	14	(1)
Gavotte in D Minor	15	(2)
Song for a Viola D'Amore	17	(1)
Nuit Blanche	18	(1)
On Looking at a Copy of Alice Meynell's Poems, Given Me, Years Ago, by a Friend	19	(2)
The Sisters	21	(6)
Adapted Asian Forms and Translations from the Chinese
Aliens	27	(1)
The Pond	27	(1)
A Lover	28	(1)
To a Husband	28	(1)
A Year Passes	28	(1)
Ephemera	28	(1)
Autumn	28	(1)
One of the ``Hundred Views of Fuji''	29	(1)
Hokusai
The Fisherman's Wife	29	(1)
Outside a Gate	29	(1)
In Time of War	29	(1)
Li T'ai-po	29	(2)
Frosty Evening	31	(1)
A Poet's Wife	31	(1)
The Return	32	(1)
Nuance	32	(1)
Autumn Haze	32	(1)
Nuit Blanche	32	(1)
Again the New Year's Festival	33	(1)
Time	33	(1)
Nostalgia	33	(1)
Afterglow	34	(1)
Vespers	34	(1)
The Battle to the South of the City	34	(1)
Li T'ai-po
The Retreat of Hsieh Kung	35	(1)
Li T'ai-po
The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains	35	(1)
Li T'ai-po
Looking at the Moon after Rain	36	(1)
Li T'ai-po
The Lonely Wife	37	(1)
Li T'ai-po
On Hearing the Buddhist Priest of Shu Play His Table-Lute	38	(1)
Li T'ai-po
Parrot Island	38	(1)
Li T'ai-po
Reply to an Unrefined Person Encountered in the Hills	39	(1)
Li T'ai-po
Night Thoughts	39	(1)
Li T'ai-po
In the Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu	39	(1)
Li T'ai-po
A Poem Sent to Tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng	40	(1)
Li T'ai-po
The River Village	40	(1)
Tu Fu
The Sorceress Gorge	41	(1)
Tu Fu
At the Edge of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po	41	(1)
Tu Fu
Sent to Li Po as a Gift	42	(1)
Tu Fu
A Toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing	42	(1)
Tu Fu
The Blue-Green Stream	43	(1)
Wang Wei
Together We Know Happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang Dynasty	44	(3)
II. Cadenced Verse
In a Garden	47	(1)
Absence	48	(1)
Aubade	48	(1)
White and Green	48	(1)
The Captured Goddess	49	(1)
The Taxi	50	(1)
The Blue Scarf	51	(1)
The Letter	52	(1)
Pine, Beech, and Sunlight	52	(1)
Astigmatism	53	(2)
The Giver of Stars	55	(1)
Bright Sunlight	56	(1)
Venus Transiens	56	(1)
A Rainy Night	57	(1)
Patterns	58	(3)
Strain	61	(1)
from Stravinsky's Three Pieces ``Grotesques,'' for String Quartet, Second Movement	61	(1)
Summer Rain	62	(1)
A Decade	62	(1)
An Aquarium	63	(1)
Thompson's Lunch Room---Grand Central Station	64	(2)
Opal	66	(1)
Mise en Scene	66	(1)
Wakefulness	67	(1)
A Bather	67	(1)
Madonna of the Evening Flowers	68	(1)
from Dreams in War Time	69	(2)
A Sprig of Rosemary	71	(1)
The Broken Fountain	71	(1)
The Weathervane Points South	72	(1)
The Artist	73	(1)
Vernal Equinox	73	(1)
Penumbra	74	(1)
September. 1918	75	(1)
Granadilla	76	(1)
Carrefour	76	(1)
Lilacs	77	(3)
Meeting-House Hill	80	(1)
Footing Up a Total	81	(1)
Paradox	82	(1)
Purple Grackles	83	(3)
In Excelsis	86	(1)
On Reading a Line Underscored	87	(1)
Keats
Dissonance	88	(1)
Heraldic	88	(1)
Attitude under an Elm Tree	89	(1)
Sultry	89	(2)
The On-looker	91	(1)
Poetic Justice	91	(1)
Mid-adventure	92	(1)
Anecdote	93	(2)
Still Life	95	(4)
III. Polyphonic Prose
Spring Day	99	(4)
from Malmaison	103	(4)
from Sea-Blue and Blood-Red	107	(8)
from Guns As Keys: And the Great Gate Swings	115	(8)
Notes to the Poems	123	(6)
Index of Titles	129	(4)
Index of First Lines	133