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 to demonstrate to students how to write effectively about poetry.
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
Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer
English Poetry After Chaucer
-Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
The Lord’s Prayer in Old English
Caedmon’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 Lament
Anonymous
-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 Scribe
Anonymous Lyrics
-Earth Upon Earth
-Now Goeth Sun Under Wood
-The Cuckoo’s Song
-All Too Late
-The Song of Lewes
-Jesus, My sweet Lover Spring
-Jesus 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)
-From Modern 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”)
(“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
-from PICTURES 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
-from CANE
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
-from MONTAGE 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
-from THE 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)
-from AUDUBON: 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
-From TWELVE 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*
-from THE 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*
-from The 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