| Edition |
3d ed. |
| Description |
629-812 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
In Just-Spring / E.E.Cummings -- Eleven / Archibald MacLeish -- A Prayer for My Daughter / William Butler Yeats -- A father sees a son nearing manhood / Carl Sandburg -- Any Man's Advice to His Son / Kenneth Fearing -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Years of the Modern / Walt Whitman -- Part V: Poetry -- Prefatory Note -- Picture: Lake Through the Locusts / Luigi Lucioni -- The Rhodora; Ode...to Channing; Give all to love; Days; Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Picture: Chinese vase -- This is my letter; I never saw; Elysium is as far; Much madness; There's a certain slant; Success is counted; The Soul Selects; To Fight Aloud; Although I put away; My Life Closed Twice; Just Lost / Emily Dickinson -- One's-Self I Sing; Song of Myself; When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd -- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer / Walt Whitman -- From Preface to Late Lyrics and Earlier; Hap; The Impercipient; Ah, are you diggings on my grave; In Tenebris, II; To an Unborn Pauper Child; The Oxen; Afterwards / Thomas Hardy -- From The Name and Nature of Poetry; Soldier from the wars returning; The half-moon westers low, my love; Think no more,lad; The Laws of God, the Laws of Man; The Chestnut casts his Flambeaux; terence, this is Stupid Stuff; When I was one-and twenty; Reveille; Loveliest of trees / A.E.Housman -- From Selected Letters; Credo; Mr. Flood's Party; Sonnet: Never Until Our Souls; The Mill; Richard Cory; Flammonde; The Master / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Picture: Marsden Hartley, "Weary of the Truth" -- Form "The Figure a Poem Makes; Two Tramps in Mud Time; The Lockless Door; The Star-Splitter; Departmental; To a Thinker; The Vantage Point; A Drumlin Woodchuck; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; West-running Brook; Fire and Ice; Mending Wall; There Are Roughly Zones; Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost -- Picture: Edward Hopper, "Nighthawks" -- The People, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- The Rose of the World; The Second Coming; Leda and the Swan; Note on "Byzantium" from A Vision; Sailing to Byzantium; Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Kimon Friar: A Note on "Byzantium" -- From Selected Essays; Animula; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S.Eliot -- Picture: Mary Petty, "Promise you'll wait for me"; Portrait of a Lady; The Hollow Men; Journey of the Magi; Triumphal March; East Coker; Macavity: The Mystery Cat -- Picture: James Thurber, "The Bloodhound and the Bug -- From "Foreward" to The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers; hurt Hawks; To the Stone-Cutters; Shine, Perishing Republic; The Purse-Seine; The Answer; The Inquisitors / Robinson Jeffers -- You, Andrew Marvell; From The Hamlet of A. MacLeish; American Letters; Men; Speech to Those Who Say Comrade; America Was Promises; Memorial Rain; Epistle to be Left in the Earth; Geography of This time / Archibald MacLeish -- Space being; O Sweet Spontaneous Earth / E.E.Cummings -- Well, it Look like a buttercup to me; Nobody Loses all the time; If You can't eat you got to; Since Feeling is First; Anyone Lived in a Pretty how town; Love is more Thicker; When Serpents Bargain / Robert Day -- Travelogue in a Shooting-Gallery / Kenneth Fearing -- Return to Normal; Reception Good; No Credit; Portrait; American Rhapsody; Readings, Forecasts, Personal Guidance, Devil's Dream / Abner Dean -- From "Forward" to The Still Centre; The Express; Not Palaces, an Era's Crown; The Landscape Near an Aerodrome; Ultima Ratio Regum; From Spiritual Explorations; I think Continually / Stephen Spender -- From "Squares and Oblongs" in Poets at Work; Now through night's Caressing Grip; from "Letter to Lord Byron," Part IV; Musee des Beaux Arts; Law Like Love; Casino; Prime; Nones; Under Which Lyre / W.H.Auden -- From Selected Writings; In my Craft or Sullen Art; The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City; Poem in October; In the White Giant's Thigh; On No Work of Words; Poem on His Birthday; A Winter's Tale; Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas -- Guided Missiles Experimental Range; A Girl in the Snow; A Level of Abstraction; Epistemology of Poetry; Humanities / Robert Conquest -- Child Waking / E.J. Scovell -- Picure: Eugene Harris, "The Piper" -- Genesis / Geoffrey Hill -- Time and Motion Study / Iain Fletcher -- Masters; the Sources of the Past; A Dream of Fair Women / Kingsley Amis -- The World, the Times / Donald Hall -- Love Calls One to the Things of This World; Looking into History / Richard Wilbur -- Recordings of Poems; Some Books on Modern Poetry |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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English poetry.
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English poetry. |
| Added Author |
Atkinson, Benjamin P.
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