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Longman Anthology of Poetry, The
ISBN-10: 0321117255
ISBN-13: 9780321117250
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 1904 pp
Published: 12/30/2005
Status: Instock
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This major new poetry anthology blends the best selections from the poetic tradition with a wide range of contemporary works, thematic casebooks, and engaging essays that contextualize poetry century by century.
Featuring a breathtaking scope of poetry from the English-speaking world, this diverse collection brings unparalleled historical and cultural background to the study of poetry, including discussions of the poetic conventions of the time and the poetic “fingerprints” of particular poets. Introductions by respected scholars provide historical context and thematic casebooks provide insight into key literary movements and demonstrate to students how to write effectively about poetry.
- Student-friendly introductions to each century (two for the 20th Century) discuss crucial historical and sociocultural factors to help students see how culture, politics, economics, and historical events interact with the poems.
- Numerous multi-national and multi-cultural selections feature Commonwealth and post-colonial writers, including poets from India, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the Caribbean.
- A broad range of poetic styles—including more 20th Century poems than any other major poetry compilation–show students what contemporary critics and audiences value in more recent works.
- Three thematic casebooks focus on specific poems, themes, and approaches, serving as role models for student essays. Casebooks include "The Need to Please: Poetry and Patronage at the Court of Queen Elizabeth," "Eighteenth-Century London: Poetry and the City," "The Poetics of Power."
- Judicious footnoting allows students to interpret the poems without imposing an editorial bias.
- An essay on versification provides fundamental information on poetic forms, with references to poems in the anthology that illustrate the forms.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Versification
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Introduction to Poetry of the Medieval Period
Old English Verse (650-1100 A.D.)
The Warrior Culture
The Influence of Christianity
The Oral Tradition
Caedmon’s Hymn and Old English Elegies
The Epic of Beowulf
Middle English Verse (1100-1500 A.D.)
The Norman Invasion
French Court Culture and the Code of Chivalry
The Influence of Christianity
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer
English Poetry After Chaucer
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
The Lord’s Prayer in Old EnglishCaedmon’s Hymn (two versions)
from Beowulf
Opening
Lament of the Last Survivor
Anonymous
Riddles
1,”Storm”
5, “Shield”
26,”Gospel Book”
45, “Dough”
Anonymous
The Wife’s LamentAnonymous
The Wanderer
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Knight’s Entry into Camelot
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
The Miller’s Tale
The Parliament of Fowles
To Adam, His ScribeAnonymous Lyrics
Earth Upon Earth
Now Goeth Sun Under Wood
The Cuckoo’s Song
All Too Late
The Song of Lewes
Jesus, My sweet Lover SpringJesus Comforts His Mother
I Have a Young Sister
I Sing of a Maiden
Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt
Charles of Orleans (mid 15th c.)
Confession of a Stolen Kiss
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320-1370)
Aubade
The Winter
William Dunbar (ca. 1460-ca.1525)
Lament for the Makars
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Poetry
History and Culture of the Sixteenth Century
The Early Tudors
The English Reformation
Economic and Cultural Overview
The Female Prince
Poetry and Public Life
The Sonnet
Poetry and National Identity
Female Authorship
The Final Decade
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
John Skelton (1460-1529)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
From Colin Clout
Anonymous Ballads
Sir Patrick Spens
The Unquiet Grave
Anonymous Lyrics
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
The Silver Swan
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor
Petrarch, Sonnet 140
Whoso List to Hunt
Petrarch, Sonnet 190
My Galley
They Flee From Me
My Lute, Awake!
Stand Whoso List
Mine Own John Poyns
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
The Soote Season
So Cruel Prison
Wyatt Resteth Here
Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
The Doubt of Future Foes
On Monsieur’s Departure
George Gascoigne (1535-1573)
For That He Looked Not upon Her
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573)
The Manner of Her Will
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)
Tichborne’s Elegy
Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552-1618)
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
[Fortune has taken thee away, my love]
Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599)
from Amoretti:
1 Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands
4 New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate
13 In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth
22 This holy season fit to fast and pray
62 The weary yeare his race now having run
66 To all those happy blessings which ye have
68 Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day
75 One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Epithalamion
Prothalamion
from The Faerie Queene
Book III, Canto II
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Ye Goat-herd Gods
Ring Out Your Bells
from Astrophil and Stella
1 Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show
2 Not at first sight; nor with a dribbed shot
5 It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve
14 Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend
25 The wisest scholar of the wight most wise
31 With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies
39 Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace
47 What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?
49 I on my horse, and love on me, doth try
63 O grammar rules, O now your virtues show
71 Who will in fairest book of nature know
90 Stella, think that not I by verse seek fame
101 Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies
102 Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?
106 O absent presence, Stella is not here
107 Stella, since thou so right a princess art
Samuel Daniel (ca. 1562-1619)
from Delia
1 Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty
6 Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair
31 Look, Delia, how we ‘steem the half-blown rose
32 But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again
33 When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass
50 Let others sing of knights and paladins
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
from Idea
6 How many paltry, foolish, painted things
61 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
2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
12 When I do count the clock that tells the time
18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
20 A woman’s face, with nature’s own hand painted
29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
40 Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
53 What is your substance, whereof are you made
55 Not marble nor the gilded monuments
71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead
73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
94 They that have power to hurt and will do none
116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
129 Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame
130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
146 Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
Songs from the Plays
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
Full Fathom Five
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
My Sweetest Lesbia
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
There Is a Garden in Her Face
Mary Sidney (1568-1621)
Psalm 45: Eructavit Cor Meum
Psalm 148: Laudate Dominum
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum [Pilate’s Wife Apologizes for Eve]
Richard Barnfield (1574-1620)
from “Cynthia: With Certaine Sonnets”
16 Long have I long’d to see my Love againe
17 Cherry-lipt Adonis in his snowie shape
Casebook: The Need to Please: Poetry and Patronage at the Court of Queen Elizabeth
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Political Turmoil: Puritans and Monarchs
James I: 1603-1625
Charles I: 1625-1649
Literary and Intellectual Society
The Poetry of Retirement
Donne and the Conceit
Jonson’s Craftmanship
The Sons of Ben: Cavalier Poetry
Seduction and Contemplation
Religious Lyric
Miltonic Epic
America, the New Land
Dryden and Satire
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
Anonymous
Tom o’Bedlam’s Song
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Good-Morrow
Song (Go and catch a falling star)
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
The Flea
Air and Angels
The Apparition A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction: Of Weeping
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
Satire 3, Religion
from Holy Sonnets
1 Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
7 At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow
10 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
14 Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You
The Relic
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
On Something That Walks Somewhere
On My First Daughter
On My First Son
My Picture Left in Scotland
Inviting a Friend to Supper
To Penshurst
Song to Celia
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us
Ode to Himself
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
The Argument of His Book
The Vine
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home
Delight in Disorder
Upon Julia’s Clothes
George Herbert (1593-1633)
The Altar
Redemption
Easter Wings
Affliction (I)
Jordan (I)
Jordan (II)
Church Monuments
The Windows
The Collar
The Forerunners
Death
The Pulley
Love (III)
Thomas Carew (ca. 1598- ca. 1639)
A Rapture
Lady Katherine Dyer (ca. 1600-1654)
Epitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641
John Milton (1608-1674)
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
How Soon Hath Time
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Methought I saw My Late Espousèd Saint
from Paradise Lost
Book One, lines 1-334
Book Three, lines 1-99
Book Four, lines 1-775
Book Nine, lines 1-47
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Song (Why so pale and wan, fond lover?)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
The Author to Her Book
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
The Grasshopper
Lucy Hutchinson (b. 1620)
Translation from “On the Nature of the Universe” (De rerum natura) by Lucretius
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
The Coronet
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
The Nymph Complaining for The Death of Her Fawn
Damon the Mower
The Mower’s Song
The Garden
An Horatian Ode
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
To His Coy Mistress
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
They Are All Gone Into the World of Light!
The Night
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
Of Many Worlds in This World
John Dryden (1631-1700)
from Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
Mac Flecknoe
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
To the truly noble Mr. Henry Lawes
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)
My Spirit
Love
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Against Constancy
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
A Poetry in Transition
The Political Frame of Writers’ Allegiances
A Changing Native Landscape and an Expanding Empire
The Eighteenth-Century Reader
The Milieu of Emerging Women Writers
Poetic Theory and Practice
The Influence of Science, Philosophy, and Religion
The Sister Arts
Measures and Forms
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea (1661-1720)
from The Spleen
A Pindarick
The Lion and the Gnat
A Nocturnal Reverie
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Description of the Morning
A Description of a City Shower
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1726-27
The Lady’s Dressing Room
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Against Idleness and Mischief
Man Frail, and God Eternal
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
A Night-Piece on Death
Edward Young (1683-1765)
Night the First from The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
John Gay (1685-1732)
The Goat without a Beard
Airs from The Beggar’s Opera
A Fox may steal your hens, sir
Were I laid on Greenland’s coat
Since laws were made for ev’ry degree
Henry Carey (1687?-1743)
The Ballad of Sally in our Alley
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Prologue to Mr. Addison’s Tragedy of Cato
Windsor Forest
The Rape of the Lock
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. To write a Poem
The Lover: A Ballad
Saturday from Six Town Eclogues
Epistle [to Lord Bathurst]
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
Mary Collier (1690?-c. 1762)
From The Woman’s Labour. An Epistle of Mr. Stephen Duck
James Thomson (1700-1748)
Rule, Britannia
Summer from The Seasons
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theater in Drury Lane, 1747
The Vanity of Human Wishes
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
William Collins (1721-1759)
Eclogue the Second: Hassan; or, the Camel-driver.
Ode to Evening
Ode on the Poetical Character
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
from Jubilate Agno, lines 697-770
Thomas Percy (1729-1811) and Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), eds.
Sweet William’s ghost
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Walking with God
Light Shining out of Darkness
From The Task: Book III: The Garden
The Castaway
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
Ode to His Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
Thomas Morris (1732-1806?)
Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
From The Emigrants: A Poem [Disillusion with the French Revolution]
Sonnet: On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it Was Frequented by a Lunatic
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Indian Burying Ground
To Sir Toby
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
A Hymn to Humanity
On Being Brought from Africa to America
George Crabbe (1754-1796)
Book I, from The Village
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
London’s Summer Morning
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church
John Anderson, My Jo
Tam O’Shanter
Afton Water
To a Mouse
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (1)
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (2)
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
Mary Jones (d. 1778)
Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
Elizabeth Hands (fl. 1789)
A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the
Publication of a Volume of Poems by a Servant-Maid Casebook: Eighteenth-Century London: Poetry and the City
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Romanticism in England: 1798-1830
Nature
The French Revolution
The Industrial Revolution and Laissez-Faire
The Imagination
Platonic Idealism
Poetic Defenses, Poetic Forms
The Victorian Age in England: 1837-1900
Poetry as a “Criticism of Life”
Later Victorian Poetry
American Romanticism: 1820-1865
Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
Women and Minorities
On Both Sides of the Atlantic, the “Woman Question”
Women’s Poetry
Slavery and the Black Aesthetic
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
To the Poor
Washing-Day
William Blake (1757-1827)
From Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
FromSongs of Experience
Introduction
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
The Garden of Love
London
A Divine Image
The Book of Thel
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
Nutting
Resolution and Independence
My Heart Leaps Up
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
It Is a Beauteous Evening
The world Is Too Much With us
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
London, 1802
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Surprised by Joy
FromThe Prelude, Book Fourteenth, from Conclusion: lines 1-129
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Lochinvar
Proud Maisie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Eolian Harp
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Frost at Midnight
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
Epitaph
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Rose Aylmer
Past Ruined Ilion
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low
Death of the Day
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Stanzas for Music
Darkness
January 22nd. Missolonghi
Don Juan (from Canto I)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Ozymandias
Mont Blanc
England in 1819
A Song: “Men of England”
Ode to the West Wind
Adonais
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
Evening Prayer, at a Girls’ School
John Clare (1793-1864)
Badger
Gypsies
I Am
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
The Eve of St. Agnes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
George Moses Horton (1798?-1883?)
On Liberty and Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
The Snow-Storm
Hamatreya
Brahma
Days
Terminus
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
FromSonnets from the Portugese
1 “I thought once how Theocritus had sung”
22 “When our two souls stand up erect and strong”
28 “My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”
43 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
A Musical Instrument
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Snow-Flakes
Aftermath
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1848)
FromThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1-24
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Chambered Nautilus
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1848)
Sonnet--To Science
To Helen
Annabel Lee
The Raven
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Mariana
The Kraken
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
Tears, Idle Tears
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
1 (“I held it truth, with him who sings”)
2 (“Old yew, which graspest at the stones”)
7 (“Dark house, by which once more I stand”)
11 (“Calm is the morn without a sound”)
19 (“The Danube to the Severn gave”)
50 (“Be near me when my light is low”)
54 (“O, yet we trust that somehow good”)
56 (“’So careful of the type?’ but no”)
67 (“When on my bed the moonlight falls”)
88 (“Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet”)
95 (“By night we lingered on the lawn”)
119 (“Doors, where my heart was used to beat”)
121 (“Sad Hesper o’er the buried sun”)
130 (“Thy voice is on the rolling air”)
From Epilogue
The Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church
Love Among the Ruins
Fra Lippo Lippi
Caliban upon Setebos
To Edward FitzGerald
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
I Am the Only Being Whose Doom
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
The Portent
Shiloh
The March into Virginia
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
From Song of Myself: 1,3,6,11,24,31,32,45,52
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne (1820-1915)
Blessed Assurance
Alice Cary (1820-1871)
The West Country
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
To Marguerite--Continued
Memorial Verses
The Buried Life
Dover Beach
Growing Old
James M. Whitfield (1822-1871)
America
Phoebe Cary (1825-1871)
Jacob
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
The Slave Mother
Bible Defence of Slavery
The Slave Auction
George Meredith (1828-1909)
FromModern Love
1 (“By this he knew she wept with waking eyes”)
17 (“At dinner, she is hostess, I am host”)
48 (“Their sense is with their senses all mixed in”)
49 (“He found her by the ocean’s moaning verge”)
50 (“Thus piteously Love closed what he begat”)
Lucifer in Starlight
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
FromThe House of Life
The Sonnet
Nuptial Sleep
63. Inclusiveness
97. A Superscription
101. The One Hope
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
Poppies on the Wheat
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
49 I never lost as much but twice
130 These are the days when Birds come back
214 I taste a liquor never brewed
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
241 I like a look of Agony
249 Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
254 “Hope” is the thing with feathers
258 There’s a certain Slant of light
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
303 The Soul selects her own Society
327 Before I got my eye put out
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes
435 Much Madness is divinest Sense
441 This is my letter to the World
449 I died for Beauty--but was scarce
465 I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
510 It was not Death, for I stood up
569 I reckon—when I count at all—
613 They shut me up in Prose—
632 The Brain—is wider than the sky--
640 I cannot live with You--
690 Victory comes late--
712 Because I could not stop for Death--
754 My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--
986 A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
1072 Title divine—is mine!
1078 The Bustle in the House
1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
1243 Safe Despair it is that raves--
1624 Apparently with no surprise
1732 My life closed twice before its close--
1736 Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Song
After Death
Up-Hill
In an Artist’s Studio
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
William Morris (1834-1894)
The Haystack in the Floods
Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1919)
The Palace-Burner
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
When the Hounds of Spring
The Garden of Proserpine
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
The Florida Beach
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
The Marshes of Glynn
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
God’s Grandeur
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
Spring and Fall
Binsey Poplars
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
[Carrion Comfort]
No Worst, There is None
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Friendship After Love
Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
April in Town
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
Fog
Casebook: Criticism, the Canon, and the Case for Emily Dickinson.
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Introduction to Early Twentieth-Century Poetry
Modernism, Romanticism, and Plain Language
Small Worlds: Symbolism and Imagism
Wider Worlds: War, Epic, and Mythic Methods
The Thirties and Beyond: Poetry, Politics, and Ideas of Order
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Ruined Maid*
Hap* Neutral Tones
The Darkling Thrush*
The Self-Unseeing*
The Convergence of the Twain
The Workbox*
The Voice
Channel Firing
During Wind and Rain
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
To an Athlete Dying Young
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder
Here Dead We Lie Because We Did Not Choose
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1930)
Recessional
The Hyenas*
from Epitaphs of the War
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
Adam’s Curse
September 1913
Easter, 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
Among School Children
Byzantium
Lapis Lazuli
Under Ben Bulben*
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
Non sum quails eram bonae sub regno Cynarae*
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
On the Road to the Sea
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory
Walt Whitman*
The Pity of the Leaves*
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
Little Brown Baby
Sympathy
The Colored Soldiers*
John McCrae (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
The Oven Bird
Birches
Putting in the Seed
“Out, Out—“
To E.T. *
Nothing Gold Can Stay*
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
For Once, Then, Something*
Acquainted with the Night
Desert Places*
The Silken Tent
The Most of It
Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same*
Directive
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Venus Transiens*
A Decade
Shore Grass
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
fromTENDER BUTTONS
Objects
A carafe, that is a blind glass.
A waist.
A little bit of a tumbler.
A dog.
Peeled pencil, choke.
from Stanzas in Meditation: LXXXIII*
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Chicago
Grass*
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Adlestrop*
The Gypsy
In Memoriam [Easter 1915]
Rain
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Sunday Morning
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Anecdote of the Jar*
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Snow Man
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Man on the Dump
from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction*
I.I (“Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea”) *
II.IV (“Two things of opposite natures”) *
From The Auroras of Autumn
I (“This is where the serpent lives . . .”)
II (“Farewell to an idea . . .A cabin stands”)
Of Mere Being*
Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Gertrude Stein*
The Widow’s Jazz
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Danse Russe*
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime*
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just To Say
Burning the Christmas Greens
These
fromPICTURES FROM BRUEGEL
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus*
fromAsphodel, That Greeny Flower
Book I
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Portrait d’une Femme
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter*
from HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY
(Life and Contacts)
I (“For three years, out of key with his time”) *
V (“There died a myriad”) *
XII (“Daphne with her thighs in bark”) *
fromTHE CANTOS
I (“And then went down to the ship”)
XLV (“With Usura”)
CXX (“I have tried to write Paradise”) *
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Love on the Farm
Piano
Snake
H.D. (1886-1961)
Sea Rose
Garden
Helen
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
“They”
Glory of Women*
On Passing the New Menin Gate*
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
The Soldier*
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Shine, Perishing Republic
Hurt Hawks
Carmel Point
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
The Fish
Poetry
England*
A Grave
The Steeple-Jack
The Paper Nautilus
What Are Years? *
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
The Absent
The Horses*
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes*
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Gerontion
The Waste Land
fromFOUR QUARTETS
Little Gidding*
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
Dead Boy
Ivor Gurney(1890-1937)
The Silent One
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
If We Must Die*
The Lynching*
Outcast*
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
Parley of Beasts
British Leftist Poetry, 1930-40
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
First Fig
Grown-Up
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]
[Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead]
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink] *
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Miners*
Dulce et Decorum Est
Strange Meeting
Futility
Disabled*
Spring Offensive*
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Résumé
Oscar Wilde*
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
[in Just-]
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] *
[next to of course god america ]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Gum
fromCANE
Reapers
Georgia Dusk
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Love Without Hope
Recalling War
The White Goddess*
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
1916 seen from 1921
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Medusa
Women
Roman Fountain
Song for the Last Act
Melvin Tolson (1898-1966)
Dark Symphony
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
At Melville’s Tomb*
Voyages
from THE BRIDGE
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
The Broken Tower
To Emily Dickinson
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Basil Bunting (1900-1985)
fromBRIGGFLATTS
I (“Brag, sweet tenor bull”)
Sterling Brown (1901-1989)
Ma Rainey
Slim Greer
Slim in Hell*
Laura Riding (1901-1991)
The Map of Places
With the Face*
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
When Sue Wears Red
The Weary Blues
Lament over Love
fromMONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED
Dream Boogie
Theme for English B
Dream Boogie: Variation
Harlem
Put One More S in the USA*
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
No Categories!
Mr. Over
The Death Sentence
Not Waving but Drowning
A House of Mercy
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Heritage
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
The Groundhog
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Spraying the Potatoes*
Stony Grey Soil
fromTHE GREAT HUNGER
II (“Maguire was faithful to death”) *
C. Day Lewis (1904-1972)
Two Songs
Almost Human
Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
from POEM BEGINNING “The”
[Dedication]
Fifth Movement: Autobiography
Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)
The War against the Trees
Touch Me
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
The Bad Old Days*
Delia Rexroth*
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
fromAUDUBON: A VISION
I.Was Not the Lost Dauphin
There’s a Grandfather’s Clock in the Hall
Muted Music
Patriotic Tour and Postulate of Joy*
John Betjeman (1906-1984)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
Slough*
William Empson (1906-1984)
Villanelle
Ignorance of Death
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Lullaby As I Walked Out One Evening
FromTWELVE SONGS
IX. [Funeral Blues]
Musee des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
September 1, 1939*
In Praise of Limestone*
The Shield of Achilles
A.D. Hope (1907-2000)
Observation Car
Advice to Young Ladies*
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Snow
Bagpipe Music
The Sunlight on the Garden
Carrickfergus
George Oppen (1908-1984)
Survival: Infantry*
from OF BEING NUMEROUS
7,8,18,19****
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Root Cellar
My Papa’s Waltz
Elegy for Jane
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
The Far Field*
In a Dark Time
A.M. Klein (1909-1972)
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga
Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
What I Expected
The Landscape near an Aerodrome
The Pylons
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: POST-WORLD WAR II
Introduction to Post-World War II Poetry
Nationalism and Internationalism
Opening the Canon to New Voices
Old and New Poetic Practices and Styles
The New Criticism and its Effects on Post-War Poets
Experimental Poetry
The Beats
Black Mountain
The “New York School”
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Pacific Lament*
fromTHE MAXIMUS POEMS
Maximus, To Himself*
[Sun / Right in My Eye] *
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish
Roosters
At the Fishhouses
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
Sestina
The Armadillo*
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Middle Passage
Those Winter Sundays
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Bone-Flower Elegy
Monet’s “Waterlilies” *
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short
Ballad of Orange and Grape
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
The First Time*
May Swenson (1913-1989)
Question
In Love Made Visible*
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)
Welsh Landscape*
Lore
John Berryman (1914-1972)
from THE DREAM SONGS
1 (“Huffy Henry hid the day”)
14 (“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.”)
29 (“There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart”) *
37 Three around the Old Gentleman
40 (“I’m scared a lonely. Never see my son”)
155(“I can’t get him out of my mind, out of my mind)
384 (“The marker slants, flowerless, )
Henry’s Understanding
Owen Dodson (1914-1983) *
Sorrow is the Only Faithful One*
Open Letter*
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
90 North
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
A Front
Next Day
The Truth*
Weldon Kees (1914-1955) *
For My Daughter*
Robinson*
The Upstairs Room*
Henry Reed (1914-1986) *
from LESSONS OF THE WAR
1. Naming of Parts*
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling through the Dark
At the Bomb Testing Site
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower*
And Death Shall Have No Dominion*
Poem in October
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Fern Hill
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Alun Lewis (1915-1944)
All Day It Has Rained
Margaret Walker (1915-2000)
Childhood*
Judith Wright (1915-2000)
Eve to Her Daughters*
David Gascoyne (1916-2001)
Ecce Homo
P.K. Page (b. 1916)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Langston Hughes
kitchenette building
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell*
The Bean Eaters
We Real Cool
The Lovers of the Poor
Medgar Evers
Charles Causley (1917-2003)
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux*
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Memories of West Street and Lepke
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage”
Skunk Hour
For the Union Dead
Reading Myself
Epilogue
Two Walls*
Patricia Beer (1919-1999)
Noises from the School
Louise Bennett (b. 1919)
Colonization in Reverse*
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow*
Passage over Water*
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
Dog
William Meredith (b. 1919)
The Illiterate*
Amy Clampitt (1920-1994)
What The Light Was Like*
Real Estate*
On the Disadvantages of Central Heating*
Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
Simplify Me When I’m Dead
Vergissmeinnicht
Barbara Guest (b. 1920)
Leica
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
Dandelions*
The Goose Fish
Storm Windows*
Brainstorm*
The Blue Swallows*
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)
The Old Woman
Haddock Fishermen
Shroud
Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004)
Falling in Love at Sixty-Five
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Praise in Summer*
First Snow in Alsace
Boy at the Window*
Beasts*
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World*
Advice to a Prophet*
The Writer*
Donald Davie (1922-1995)
Time Passing, Beloved
Sidney Keyes (1922-1943)
War Poet
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
The Whitsun Weddings*
Talking in Bed
Here
High Windows*
Sad Steps
The Explosion*
This Be The Verse*
Going, Going
Aubade
Howard Moss (1922-1987)
Elegy for My Sister*
Impatiens*
James Dickey (1923-1997)
The Hospital Window*
The Heaven of Animals
The Sheep Child*
Alan Dugan (1923-2003)
Love Song: I and Thou*
Poem (“The person who can do”) *
For Euthanasia and Pain-Killing Drugs
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004)
A Hill*
The Man Who Married Magdalene (Variations on a Theme By Louis Simpson) *
“More Light! More Light!”
The Odds*
The Deodand
Application for a Grant*
The Book of Yolek
Richard Hugo (1923-1982)
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg*
The Freaks at Spurgin Fields Road*
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees
Pleasures
September 1961
Caedmon
Celebration
James Schuyler (1923-1991)
A Grave*
fromThe Payne Whitney Poems
Trip*
Arches*
Linen*
Heather and Calendulas*
Blizzard*
Sleep*
Pastime*
What*
Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
The Man Who Married Magdalene*
The Window*
In California*
Ian Hamilton Finlay (b. 1925)
Orkney Interior
Donald Justice (1925-2004)
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
After a Phrase Abandoned by Wallace Stevens
Dance Lessons of the 30s
Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
The Circus
The Railway Stationery
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
To the Roman Forum
Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)
How It Is
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief*
A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)
Corson’s Inlet
The City Limits
Easter Morning
from GARBAGE [garbage has to be the poem of our time because]
Robert Bly (b. 1926)
Waking from Sleep
Snowbanks North of the House
Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
I Know a Man
Love Comes Quietly
The World
Kitchen
from LIFE & DEATH: [When It Comes]
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
from Howl: Part I
A Supermarket in California
America
Last Night in Calcutta
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)
One Flesh
James Merrill (1926-1995)
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace
After Greece
Lost in Translation
from THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER
from The Book of Ephraim: Z
An Upward Look
b o d y
Frank O’Hara (1926-1966)
The Day Lady Died
Memorial Day 1950
A Step Away from Them
Why I Am Not a Painter
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)
April Inventory
from HEART’S NEEDLE
2. (“Late April and you are three: today”)
8. (“I thumped on you the best I could”)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
The Instruction Manual
Soonest Mended
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Melodic Trains
Of the Light
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
First Song
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
The Drunk in the Furnace
Departure’s Girl-Friend
Some Last Questions
When the War Is Over
A Given Day
Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)
Swimming Chenango Lake*
Ararat
Snapshot
James Wright (1927-1980)
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
The Minneapolis Poem
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
They Feed They Lion
Belle Island, 1949
Drum*
Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)
Mirror in February
Tear*
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Her Kind
The Truth the Dead Know
L. E. Sissman (1928-1976)
Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the Spring
Ed Dorn (1929-1999)
from Gunslinger: Book I
Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
From the Wave
A Blank
The Dump
The Man with Night Sweats
John Hollander (b. 1929)
Swan and Shadow
Adam’s Task
Richard Howard (b. 1929)
Nicholas Mardruz to His Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565
Peter Porter (b. 1929)
The Delegate
John Montague (b. 1929)
Soliloquy on a Southern Strand
There are Days
A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993)
Self-Portrait
Chicago Zen*
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers*
Living in Sin
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Face to Face
Orion
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Diving into the Wreck
from Eastern War Time:
1 (“Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943")
8 (“A woman wired in memories”)
Fox
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930)
from The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy:
Calypso
Trane
Gregory Corso (1930-2001)
Marriage
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
The Thought-Fox
Pike
Thistles
Crow’s First Lesson
Examination at the Womb-Door
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
The Bath
Axe Handles
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
The Gulf
The Sea Is History
The Season of Phantasmal Peace
Sea Grapes
Midsummer
from Omeros:
1.1.1 (“’This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.’”)
3.25.2-3 (“He remembered this sunburnt river with its spindly”)
6.49.1-2 (“She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin”)
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
The Idea of Ancestry
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
Okot p’Bitek (1931-1982)
from Song of Lawino
1. My Husband’s Tongue Is Bitter
Carter Revard (b. 1931)
October, Isle of Skye
Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932)
Weighing In
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)
The Guardians
Ovid in the Third Reich
September Song*
from Funeral Music:
6 (“My little son, when you could command marvels”)
8 (“Not as we are but as we must appear,”)
from Mercian Hymns:
VI (“The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall”)
VII (“Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools”)
XXV (“Brooding on the eightieth letter of Fors Clavigera,”)
XXX (“And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk”)
To the High Court of Parliament
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967)
I am standing above the Noon Tide*
Come Thunder
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Tulips
Morning Song
Blackberrying
Daddy
Poppies in October
Ariel
Edge
Lady Lazarus
Fleur Adcock (b.1934)
Against Coupling
For a Five-Year-Old
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (b.1934)
A Poem for Black Hearts
The New World
Monk’s World*
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Now that I Am Forever with Child
Love Poem
Coal
The Electric Slide Boogie
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
Headwaters
The Gift
Two Figures
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
right on: white america*
A Poem for my Brother
Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)
Dragonfly at my Windowpane
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
Keeping Things Whole
The Prediction
Chekhov: A Sestina
The Idea
Orpheus Alone
Mary Oliver (b.1935)
Hawk
Charles Wright (b. 1935)
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
miss rosie
poem to my uterus
June Jordan (1936-2002)
July 4, 1984: For Buck
C. K. Williams (b. 1936)
Tar*
Snow: II
Harm*
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)
Them & [uz]
Marked with D.
Susan Howe (b. 1937)
from Thorow:
[Elegiac Western Imagination] *
[Cannot Be]
Eleanor Wilner (b. 1937)
High Noon at Los Alamos
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
Deathwatch
Les Murray (b. 1938)
The Quality of Sprawl*
The Milk Lorry
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
Oakland Blues
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
Watch Repair
Charon’s Cosmology
Prodigy
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)
A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350-325 BC*
Another Life
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Digging
Bogland
The Forge
The Skunk
Casualty*
A Ship of Death
A Dream of Jealousy
Michael Longley (b. 1939)
Gorse Fires*
The Beech Tree
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)
From Essay on Psychiatrists:
IV. A Lakeside Identification
V. Physical Comparison With Professors and Others
Poem About People
Shirt*
ABC
Eunice de Souza (b.1940) *
Landscape*
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Osso Buco
Robert Hass (b. 1941)
Meditation at Lagunitas
A Story about the Body*
Sonnet (A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone)
Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) *
Elegy*
A Mask of Anger*
Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford*
The Globe in North Carolina
Douglas Dunn (b. 1942)
from Elegies:
Thirteen Steps and the Thirteenth of March
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b. 1942)
Studying the Language
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)
Rondeau after a Transatlantic Telephone Call
Ann Lauterbach (b. 1942)
Prom in Toledo Night
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead
Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.) (b. 1943)
Adulthood
Louise Glück (b. 1943)
Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket
Gretel in Darkness
The Garden
Mock Orange*
Michael Palmer (b. 1943)
This Time
Sun
James Tate (b. 1943)
The Lost Pilot
Land of Little Sticks, 1945
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
Anorexic
Fever
Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark*
Mary Kinzie (b. 1944)
Strawberry Pipe
Craig Raine (b. 1944)
The Onion, Memory*
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Wendy Cope (b. 1945)
Bloody Men
Waste Land Limericks*
John Koethe (b. 1945)
A Refrain
J. D. McClatchy (b. 1945)
An Essay on Friendship
Bernard O’Donoghue (b. 1945)
The Weakness
Thomas Lux (b. 1946)
Can Tie Shoes but Won’t
Kay Ryan (b. 1946)
That Vase of Lilacs*
Blandeur*
Ai (Florence Anthony) (b. 1947)
Sleeping Beauty
Lorna Goodison (b. 1947)
Jamaica 1980
On Becoming a Mermaid
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Facing It
Hanoi Hannah
My Father’s Love Letters
Richard Kenney (b. 1948)
Driving Sleeping People
Heather McHugh (b. 1948)
Spot in Space and Time
Sherod Santos (b. 1948) *
The Art of the Landscape*
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
Indian Song: Survival*
Toe’osh: A Laguna Coyote Story
Agha Shahid Ali (b. 1949-2001)
The Dacca Gauzes
Ghazal: Where are you now? *
Lenox Hill
James Fenton (b. 1949)
A German Requiem
God, A Poem
For Andrew Wood
August Kleinzhaler (b. 1949)
Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46*
Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) *
Bilingual Sestina*
Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)
anaffirmation
Anne Carson (b. 1950)
Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script
Nicholas Christopher (b. 1950)
Lake Como*
Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
The Colonel
Dana Gioia (b. 1950)
California Hills in August*
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
Reading Plato
What the End Is For*
The Swarm
Linda Gregerson (b. 1950)
Noah’s Wife
Edward Hirsch (b. 1950)
Fast Break
Orpheus Ascending
Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950)
The War Ending
Grace Nichols (b. 1950)
Wherever I Hang
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
The Creation Song*
Mourning Song
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)
Hedgehog*
Why Brownlee Left
Gathering Mushrooms
Cauliflowers
The Sonogram
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
The House Slave*
Parsley
from THOMAS AND BEULAH
Dusting
Weathering Out*
History
Alberto Ríos (b. 1952)
Mi Abuelo
Madre Sofia*
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
Oranges
Practicing Eulogies
Susan Stewart (b. 1952)
The Forest*
Mark Doty (b. 1953)
Demolition
Homo Will Not Inherit
Jane Hirshfield (b. 1953)
The Envoy
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953)
The Paperweight
Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ*
Rosanna Warren (b. 1953) *
Hellenistic Head*
David Baker (b. 1954)
Snow Figure
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Cannery Town in August
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
The Fence
Captivity
Thylias Moss (b. 1954)
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost
Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954)
Reading Room
Carol Ann Duffy (b.1955)
Medusa
Warming Her Pearls*
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
Ghost
Henri Cole (b. 1956)
Harvard Classics
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Sleeping on the Bus
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
The Gift
Persimmons*
Lavinia Greenlaw (b. 1962)
A World Where News Traveled Slowly
Heliotropic
Glyn Maxwell (b. 1962) *
from Letters to Edward Thomas*
Simon Armitage (b. 1963)
from Killing Time
The Stone Beach
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
Christian Wiman (b. 1966)
The Funeral
Reading Herodotus
Appendices
Appendix A: Author Biographies
Appendix B: Why Pegasus Has Wings: Writing About Poetry
Appendix C: Glossary of Poetry Terms
List of Credits
Index
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