Visions & Revisions

by Wallenstein, Barry; Burr, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781551113258
• ISBN10: 1551113252
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	xiii
William Blake 1757-1827	1	(22)
Introduction	5	(2)
The Lamb	7	(1)
The Tyger	7	(3)
Chimney Sweeper	10	(2)
The Little Boy Lost	12	(3)
Holy Thursday	15	(1)
Infant Joy	16	(1)
Infant Sorrow	17	(2)
London	19	(4)
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886	23	(26)
Heart! We will forget him!	26	(1)
Just lost, when I was saved!	27	(1)
I taste a liquor never brewed	28	(2)
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers	30	(2)
He put the Belt around my life	32	(2)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	34	(2)
There came a Day at Summer's full	36	(2)
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-	38	(1)
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?	39	(2)
Because I could not stop for Death-	41	(2)
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-	43	(1)
What mystery pervades a well!	44	(2)
As imperceptibly as Grief	46	(3)
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939	49	(16)
A Cradle Song	51	(1)
The Sorrow of Love	52	(2)
A Dream of Death	54	(2)
The Hosting of the Sidhe	56	(2)
The Two Trees	58	(3)
The Cap and Bells	61	(4)
Wilfred Owen 1893-1918	65	(22)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	68	(2)
The Send-Off	70	(2)
The Last Laugh	72	(2)
The Dead-Beat	74	(1)
S. I. W.	75	(3)
Smile, Smile, Smile	78	(2)
Inspection	80	(1)
Soldier's Dream	81	(1)
To My Friend	82	(2)
1914	84	(3)
W.H. Auden 1907-1973	87	(16)
Taller To-day	88	(1)
Consider	89	(3)
At the Grave of Henry James	92	(7)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	99	(4)
Dylan Thomas 1914-1953	103	(16)
The Hunchback in the Park	105	(3)
If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love	108	(5)
Especially When the October Wind	113	(3)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	116	(3)
P.K. Page 1916-	119	(18)
The Hidden Room	121	(3)
Single Traveller	124	(1)
The New Bicycle	125	(2)
Hologram	127	(3)
The Gold Sun	130	(3)
Lily on the Patio	133	(4)
Philip Larkin 1922-1985	137	(18)
At Grass	140	(4)
Deceptions	144	(2)
Coming	146	(2)
Reasons for Attendance	148	(2)
How	150	(2)
Days	152	(3)
Sylvia Plath 1932-1963	155	(16)
Burning the Letters	157	(4)
Lady Lazarus	161	(3)
Medusa	164	(2)
Ariel	166	(2)
Edge	168	(1)
Words	169	(2)
Stephen Watson 1954-	171	(38)
Rainmaking with a Bow-String	174	(3)
The Lost Tobacco Pouch: A Song	177	(3)
Sorcerers Are Like Lions	180	(3)
Presentiments	183	(2)
The Rain That is Male	185	(3)
The Abandoned Old Woman	188	(5)
Three Poets
Robert Frost 1874-1963	193	(4)
In White	195	(1)
Design	195	(2)
William Carlos Williams 1883-1963	197	(4)
The Locust Tree in Flower	199	(1)
Young Woman at a Window	199	(2)
Robert Lowell 1917-1977	201	(8)
Water	204	(5)
John Keats 1795-1821	209	(68)
The Eve of St. Agnes	211	(24)
Miscellany of Poets
William Shakespeare 1564-1616	235	(2)
Sonnet 129	236	(1)
Matthew Arnold 1822-1888	237	(5)
Quiet Work	237	(1)
Philomela	238	(2)
Dover Beach	240	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889	242	(2)
The Windhover	242	(2)
D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930	244	(12)
Renascence	244	(2)
Violets	246	(4)
The Piano	250	(1)
Man's Image	251	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	252	(4)
Marianne Moore 1887-1972	256	(2)
Poetry	256	(2)
James Emanuel 1921-	258	(5)
Bill Clinton	261	(1)
Tina Turner	261	(2)
Alicia Ostriker 1937-	263	(5)
The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz	263	(1)
The Kiss of Judas	264	(4)
Stan Rogal 1950-	268	(4)
Sub Rosa Transformation: 4	269	(3)
Jill Battson 1958-	272	(5)
Parasites of Age and History	273	(1)
Desert Woman	274	(3)
APPENDIX: Translations	277	(8)
The Holy Bible
Psalm 15 (1611)	277	(1)
Psalm 15: A Psalm of David (1917)	278	(1)
A Psalm of David: 15 (1952)	278	(1)
Homer
Odyssey XI (1616)	279	(1)
Odyssey XI (1673)	279	(1)
Odyssey XI (c. 1673-1677)	280	(1)
Odyssey XI (1897)	280	(1)
Catullus
Caeli, Lesbia nostra (1931)	281	(1)
Caeli, Lesbia nostra (c. 1949)	281	(1)
Lesbia me dicit (c. 1735)	281	(1)
Lesbia me dicit (1931)	282	(1)
Petrarch
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557)	282	(1)
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557)	282	(1)
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1892)	283	(2)
Acknowledgments	285	(3)
About the Editors	288