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Overview
The poets represented have been chosen both on the basis of the aesthetic strength of their work and on the grounds of the availability of previous versions of their work. The inclusion of a number of selections by poets ranging from Dickinson and Yeats to Larkin, Plath, and P.K. Page allows readers to focus in some depth on the work of these poets. Though the anthology makes no claim to present a selection fully representative of different eras, regions, or poetic styles, the inclusion of a miscellany as a final chapter adds a substantial measure of breadth to the anthology.
Each chapter includes brief commentary by the editors, and questions follow each set of poems.
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This anthology seeks to reveal some of the earlier stages in the process of writing poetry. Each of the poems by authors such as William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins is followed by one or more earlier drafts or versions. Variant translations of sections of several poems, including Homer's , are found in the appendix. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
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Table of Contents
Introduction
William Blake
Introduction
The Lamb
The Tyger
Chimney Sweeper
The Little Boy Lost
Holy Thursday
Infant Joy
Infant Sorrow
London
Emily Dickinson
Heart! We will forget him!
Just lost, when I was saved!
I taste a liquor never brewed--
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
He put the Belt around my life
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
There came a Day at Summer's full
I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Because I could not stop for Death
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind--
What mystery pervades a well!
As Imperceptibly as Grief
William Butler Yeats
A Cradle Song
The Sorrow of Love
A Dream of Death
The Hosting of the Sidhe
The Two Trees
The Cap and Bells
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth
The Send-Off
The Last Laugh
The Dead-Beat
S.I.W.
Smile, Smile, Smile
Inspection
Soldier's Dream
To My Friend
1914
W.H. Auden
Taller To-Day
Consider
At the Grave of Henry James
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas
The Hunchback in the Park
If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
Especially When the October Wind
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
P.K. Page
The Hidden Room
Single Traveller
The New Bicycle
Hologram
The Gold Sun
Lily on the Patio
Philip Larkin
At Grass
Deceptions
Coming
Reasons for Attendance
How
Days
Sylvia Plath
Burning the Letters
Lady Lazarus
Medusa
Ariel
Edge
Words
Stephen Watson
Rainmaking with a Bow-String
The Lost Tobacco Pouch: A Song
Sorcerers Are like Lions
Presentiments
The Rain That is Male
The Abandoned Old Woman
Three Poets
Robert Frost
In White
Design
William Carlos Williams
The Locust Tree in Flower
Young Woman at a Window
Robert Lowell
Water
John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes
Miscellany of Poets
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 129
Mathew Arnold
Quiet Work
Philomela
Dover Beach
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover
D.H. Lawrence
Renascence
Violets
The Piano
Man's Image
Bavarian Gentians
Marianne Moore
Poetry
James Emanuel
Bill Clinton
Tina Turner
Alicia Osteriker
The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
The Kiss of Judas
Stan Rogal
Sub Rosa Transformation
Jill Battson
Parasites of Age and History
Desert Woman
Appendix: Translations
The Holy Bible
Psalm 15 (1611)
Psalm 15: A Psalm of David (1917)
A Psalm of David: 15 (1952)
Homer
Odyssey XI (1616)
Odyssey XI (1673)
Odyssey XI (c. 1673-1677)
Odyssey XI (1897)
Catullus
Caeli, Lesbia nostra (1931)
Caeli, Lesbia nostra (c. 1949)
Lesbia me dicit (c. 1735)
Lesbia me dicit (1931)
Petrarch
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557)
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557)
Sonetto in Vita 91 (1892)
Acknowledgments About the Editors