| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xx, 515 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-503) and index. |
| Contents |
Letter to Alex Comfort / Dannie Abse -- Prelude XIV -- Prelude LVI / Conrad Aiken -- Visit -- The wide land / A.R. Ammons -- Civilization and its discontents -- Faust / John Ashbery -- Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day -- Musée des Beaux Arts -- As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden -- To my mother -- from To my son / George Barker -- The European shoe -- Some Litanies / Michael Benedikt -- Winter landscape -- Dream song 14 -- Dream Song 62 -- Dream song 76: Henry's confession -- Dream Song 77 / John Berryman -- A subaltern's love song -- Youth and age on Beaulieu River, Hants / John Betjeman -- Letter to N.Y. -- A cold spring -- Florida -- The prodigal / Elizbeth Bishop -- Women -- evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan -- Ego -- First lesson / Phillip Booth -- Hotal Paradiso e Commerciale -- Nuns at eve / John Malcolm Brinnin -- Elegy just in case / John Ciardi -- Miss Rosie -- For deLawd -- Good times / Lucille Clifton -- Ars poetica about ultimates -- Aware aware -- Just after noon with fierce shears / Tram Combs -- nobody loses all the time -- anyone lived in a pretty how town -- somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond -- when serpents bargain for the right to squirm / E.E. Cummings -- Lunch at the Coq D'or -- The star watcher / Peter Davison -- For the nightly ascent of the hunter Orion over aforest clearing -- Cherrylog road / James Dickey -- Memorial service for the invsion beach where the vacation in the flesh is over -- The mirror perilous / Alan Dugan -- New Hampshire: February -- The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart -- Preludes -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- The laughing hyena, by Hokusai -- University examinations in Egypt / D.J. Enright -- The death of Vitellozzo Vitelli -- The old men / Irving Feldman -- The imprisoned -- Cobb would have caught it -- Souls lake / Robert Fitzgerald -- The cell of himself / Arthur Freeman -- Acquainted with the night -- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening -- The road not taken -- The runaway -- Provide, provide -- The silken tent / Robert Frost -- The mouse -- The stranger / Jean Garrigue -- An elegy / David Gascoyne -- A supermarket in California -- Uptown / Allen Ginsberg -- Flying crooked -- To Juan at the winter solstice -- In procession / Robert Graves -- On the move -- Black jackets -- From the highest camp -- Considering the snail / Thom Gunn -- The sleeping giant -- The body politic / Donald Hall -- "Summertime and the living ..." / Robert Hayden -- Digging -- Twice shy / Seamus Heaney -- A charm against the tooth-ache -- The lady's complaint / John Heath-Stubbs -- Samuel Sewall -- "More light! More light!" -- Lizards and snakes / Anthony Hecht -- The survivors -- Untitled / Daryl Hine -- The seals in Penobscot Bay / Daniel Hoffman -- The lady's maid song -- The great bear / John Hollander -- Crepuscular / RIchard Howard -- Cimera -- Home leave / Barbara Howes -- Hawk roosting -- View of a pig / Ted Hughes -- Simultaneously -- New report -- The bagel / David Ignatow -- Nestus Gurley -- The woman at the Washington zoo -- The snow leopard / Randall Jarrell -- Memo from the desk of X -- The tourist from Syracuse / Donald Justice -- Afterwards. they shall dance -- To my son Parker, asleep in the next rom / Bob Kaufman -- Artificer -- Driving cross country / X.J. Kennedy -- First song -- Duck chasing -- To Christ our Lord / Galway Kinnell -- The secret garden -- Folk wisdom / Thomas Kinsella -- The science of the night -- Father and son / Stanley Kunitz -- Poetry of departures -- Church going / Phillip Larkin -- Bedtime -- Psalm concerning the castle / Denise Levertov -- Departure in the dark -- Reconciliation -- The dead / Cecil Day Lewis -- Ford Madox Ford -- Death from cancer -- For the union dead -- Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell -- The lesson -- Poet in winter / Edward Lucie-Smith -- You, Andrew Marvell -- "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" / Archibald MacLeish -- The sunlight on the garden -- Morning sun -- Prayer before birth / Louis MacNiece -- Kite poem -- Laboratory poem -- Voices from the other world / James Merrill -- Thorn leaves in March -- The drunk in the furnace / W.S. Merwin -- In some seer's cloud car -- Edward Lear in February / Christopher Middleton -- A carriage from Sweden -- The student -- Four quartz crystal clocks / Marianne Moore -- The gift to be simple -- Underwood -- Great spaces / Howard Moss -- Learning by doing -- Mousemeal / Howard Nemerov -- The peaceable kingdom / Marge Piercy -- The applicant -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- Further instructions -- Commission -- The garden -- Portrait d'une femme -- The river merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- Survey of literature -- Dead boy -- Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom -- Pigeons / Alastair Reid -- I knew a woman -- Prayer -- A field of light -- Elegy for Jane -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- Boy with his hair cut short -- Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser -- The ballet of the fifth year -- The heavy bear who goes with me -- Baudelaire / Delmore Schwartz -- Midsummer -- The glass blower / James Scully -- Letter written on a ferry crossing Long Island Sound -- Her kind / Anne Sexton -- Nostalgia -- Haircut -- Drug store / Karl Shapiro -- Death of a son / Jon Silkin -- Hot night on Water Street -- My father in the night commanding no / Louis Simpson -- A disappearance in West Cedar Street -- In and out: severance of connections / L.E. Sissman -- Heart and mind -- Still falls the rain -- Scotch rhapsody / Edith Sitwell -- American primitive -- Independence Day -- The closing of the rodeo / William Jay Smith -- The campus on the hill -- April inventory / W.D. Snodgrass -- The express -- An elementary school class room in a slum -- Port Bou / Stephen Spender -- Bone thoughts on a dry day -- New strain / George Starbuck -- The poems of our climate -- The sense of the sleight of hand man -- Mrs. Alfred Uruguay -- Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens -- The tunnel -- The last bus / Mark Strand -- The centaur / May Swenson -- Mr. Pope -- Death of little boys / Allen Tate -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- The hunchback in the park -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Las trampas U.S.A. -- At Barstow / Charles Tomlinson -- Ruins of a great house / Derek Walcott -- Bearded oaks -- Pursuit / Robert Penn Warren -- The heron -- The lady with the unicorn / Vernon Watkins -- The last day and the first / Theodore Weiss -- The birth of a shark / David Wevil -- Digging for China -- Beasts -- A baroque wall fountain in the Villa Sciarra -- Advice to a Prophet / Richard Wilbur -- Pastoral -- The lonely street -- Tract -- The bull / William Carlos Williams -- A blessing -- Inscription for the tank / James Wright. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998.
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Read, Bill, 1917-
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McKenna, Rosalie Thorne.
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Tate, James, 1943-2015.
Lost pilot.
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Tate, James, 1943-2015.
Notes of woe.
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Tate, James, 1943-2015.
Torches.
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| ISBN |
0070079099 |
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9780070079090 |
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