Modern Poems: An Introduction to Poetry - Softcover

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9780393959079: Modern Poems: An Introduction to Poetry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393959074 ISBN 13: 9780393959079

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

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This Second Edition is a thorough, thoughtful revision of the acclaimed Modern Poems.

The editors have undertaken two major changes to the text, making the anthology a more useful resource in teaching the work of individual poets. Whereas the previous edition sometimes offered only a single poem by a given poet, the Second Edition presents at least three poems by each poet, with the few exceptions being poets with significantly long poems. The editors have also expanded the author headnotes to set forth one or two critical points that invite students into the poems.

Other noteworthy changes include the addition of 38 new poets representing a diversity of traditions, from canonical poets like Lewis Carroll to contemporary ones like Rita Dove, and more careful attention paid to ethnic poetry and poetry by women.

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About the Author:

Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths’ Professor at Oxford University and Woodruff Professor at Emory University. He achieved world fame for his biography of Joyce and wrote many scholarly and critical works, including two on Yeats.

Robert O’Clair was professor of English at Manhattanville College.

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The City Limits by Archie Randolph Ammons
Corsons Inlet by Archie Randolph Ammons
Easter Morning by Archie Randolph Ammons
Motion's Holdings by Archie Randolph Ammons
Singling & Doubling Together by Archie Randolph Ammons
Hard Times by John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Knocking Around by John Ashbery
Paradoxes And Oxymorons by John Ashbery
The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
The Animals In That Country by Margaret Atwood
Daguerreotype Taken In Old Age by Margaret Atwood
Footnote To The Amnesty Report On Torture by Margaret Atwood
Spelling by Margaret Atwood
This Is A Photograph Of Me by Margaret Atwood
Variations On The Word Love by Margaret Atwood
Adolescence by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Cutty Wren by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of Sigmund Freud by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Letter by Wystan Hugh Auden
Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
Mundus Et Infans by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Our Hunting Fathers Told The Story by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Shield Of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
Song by Wystan Hugh Auden
Their Lonely Betters by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Wanderer by Wystan Hugh Auden
Babylon Revisited by Amiri Baraka
Legacy (for Blues People) by Amiri Baraka
A New Reality Is Better Than A New Movie! by Amiri Baraka
Political Poem by Amiri Baraka
The Dream Songs: 14 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 149 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 312 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 75 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 76. Henry's Confession by John Berryman
The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel by John Betjeman
The Cottage Hospital by John Betjeman
False Security by John Betjeman
An Incident In The Early Life Of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 by John Betjeman
A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman
The Bear On The Delhi Road by Earl (earle) Birney
The Gray Woods Exploding by Earl (earle) Birney
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Over 2000 Illustrations And A Complete Concordance by Elizabeth Bishop
Poem by Elizabeth Bishop
Abandoning Your Car In A Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia by Michael Blumenthal
Back From Word-processing Course, I Say To My Old Typewriter by Michael Blumenthal
Inventors by Michael Blumenthal
Evolution From The Fish by Robert Bly
Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants by Robert Bly
My Father's Wedding: 1924 by Robert Bly
The Dream by Louise Bogan
Medusa by Louise Bogan
The Meeting by Louise Bogan
Women by Louise Bogan
The Blackstone Rangers: 1. As Seen By Disciplines by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers: 2. The Leaders by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers: 3. Gang Girls; A Rangerette by Gwendolyn Brooks
Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Boy Died In My Alley by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Lovers Of The Poor Arrive by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sadie And Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song In The Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
Young Africans by Gwendolyn Brooks
Beach Glass by Amy Clampitt
A Cure At Porlock by Amy Clampitt
Gooseberry Fool by Amy Clampitt
At Melville's Tomb by Harold Hart Crane
The Broken Tower by Harold Hart Crane
Chaplinesque by Harold Hart Crane
Royal Palm; For Grace Hart Crane by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 1 by Harold Hart Crane
The Faces by Robert Creeley
I Keep To Myself Such Measures by Robert Creeley
Self-portrait by Robert Creeley
A Wicker Basket by Robert Creeley
The Window by Robert Creeley
Heritage by Countee Cullen
Incident by Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen
1x1 (one Times One): 13 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 46 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 82 by Edward Estlin Cummings
La Guerre: 2 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Song: 4 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet - Realities: 1 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 30 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
The Hospital Window by James Dickey
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
The Brain - Is Wider Than The Sky by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
I Never Lost As Much But Twice by Emily Dickinson
In Winter, In My Room by Emily Dickinson
Parting by Emily Dickinson
The Snake by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
This Is My Letter To The World by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Long Tale by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The White Knight's Song by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Fragment Sixty-eight by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Sea Rose by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 36 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 40 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 41 by Hilda Doolittle
Aristocrats by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Banneker by Rita Dove
The Event by Rita Dove
The Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
The House Slave by Rita Dove
Parsley by Rita Dove
Weathering Out by Rita Dove
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn In The Urals by Norman Dubie
Elegy For Wright & Hugo by Norman Dubie
Elizabeth's War With The Christmas Bear: 1601 by Norman Dubie
Lamentations by Norman Dubie
Childhood's Retreat by Robert Duncan
A Little Language by Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing by Robert Duncan
Cape Ann by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1-5 Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
New Hampshire by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sweeney Among The Nightingales by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land (1-5, Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Whispers Of Immortality by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ignorance Of Death by William Empson
Legal Fiction by William Empson
Missing Dates by William Empson
Villanelle by William Empson
Francine's Room by Louise Erdrich
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich
That Pull From The Left by Louise Erdrich
Windigo by Louise Erdrich
The Poet Is Dead by William Everson
Runoff by William Everson
Tendril In The Mesh, Sels. by William Everson
Year's End by William Everson
Dead Soldiers by James Fenton
A German Requiem by James Fenton
God, A Poem by James Fenton
Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
The Bearer Of Evil Tidings by Robert Frost
Birches by Robert Frost
Desert Places by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Directive by Robert Frost
Fire And Ice by Robert Frost
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
Range-finding by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The Subverted Flower by Robert Frost
To Earthward by Robert Frost
Two Tramps In Mud Time by Robert Frost
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
America by Allen Ginsberg
Mugging by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
To Aunt Rose by Allen Ginsberg
The Blue-fly by Robert Ranke Graves
The Cool Web by Robert Ranke Graves
Devil's Advice To Story-tellers by Robert Ranke Graves
Down, Wanton, Down! by Robert Ranke Graves
Ogres And Pygmies by Robert Ranke Graves
The Persian Version by Robert Ranke Graves
To Juan At The Winter Solstice by Robert Ranke Graves
Ulysses by Robert Ranke Graves
Autobiography by Thomson William Gunn
The Byrnies by Thomson William Gunn
Donahue's Sister by Thomson William Gunn
Moly by Thomson William Gunn
My Sad Captains by Thomson William Gunn
Canzone by Marilyn Hacker
Coda, Sels. by Marilyn Hacker
Mythology by Marilyn Hacker
Runaways Cafe: 2 by Marilyn Hacker
Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
The Convergence Of The Twain; Lines On Loss Of The Titanic by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
Hap by Thomas Hardy
The Harbour Bridge by Thomas Hardy
He Never Expected Much by Thomas Hardy
I Found Her Out There by Thomas Hardy
In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
Lines To A Movement In Mozart's E-flat Symphony by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
American History by Michael S. Harper
Debridement by Michael S. Harper
Book Ends by Tony Harrison
Heredity by Tony Harrison
Lines To My Grandfather by Tony Harrison
Marked With D. by Tony Harrison
Me Tarzan by Tony Harrison
On Not Being Milton by Tony Harrison
Self Justification by Tony Harrison
Turns by Tony Harrison
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Bone-flower Elegy by Robert Earl Hayden
A Letter From Phillis Wheatley by Robert Earl Hayden
Mourning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday by Robert Earl Hayden
'mystery Boy' Looks For Kin In Nashville by Robert Earl Hayden
A Plague Of Starlings (fisk Campus) by Robert Earl Hayden
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Earl Hayden
12 by Seamus Heaney
Alphabets by Seamus Heaney
Bogland; For T.p. Flanagan by Seamus Heaney
The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
The Otter by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
Requiem For The Croppies by Seamus Heaney
The Strand At Lough Beg by Seamus Heaney
The Deodand by Anthony Hecht
'more Light! More Light!' by Anthony Hecht
Sestina D'inverno by Anthony Hecht
Apology For The Revival Of Christian Architecture In England by Geoffrey Hill
The Imaginative Life by Geoffrey Hill
In Memory Of Jane Fraser; An Attempted Reparation by Geoffrey Hill
Requiem Of The Plantagenet Kings by Geoffrey Hill
September Song by Geoffrey Hill
Advice To Young Ladies by Alec Derwent Hope
Australia by Alec Derwent Hope
Imperial Adam by Alec Derwent Hope
The Lingam And The Yoni by Alec Derwent Hope
Observation Car by Alec Derwent Hope
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Habit Of Perfection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Terrible Sonnets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux, And The Flowers by Alfred Edward Housman
Eight O'clock by Alfred Edward Housman
Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries by Alfred Edward Housman
Hell Gate by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 62 by Alfred Edward Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by Alfred Edward Housman
Crow's First Lesson by Edward James Hughes
Orf by Edward James Hughes
An Otter by Edward James Hughes
Roe Deer by Edward James Hughes
The Thought-fox by Edward James Hughes
Wodwo by Edward James Hughes
Brass Spittoons by James Langston Hughes
Madam's Past History by James Langston Hughes
Morning After by James Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by James Langston Hughes
Theme For English B by James Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues by James Langston Hughes
Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg by Richard Hugo
The Freaks At Spurgin Road Field by Richard Hugo
The Lady In Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo
Salt Water Story by Richard Hugo
The Way A Ghost Dissolves by Richard Hugo
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell
A Girl In A Library by Randall Jarrell
Next Day by Randall Jarrell
Ave Caesar by Robinson Jeffers
The Deer Lay Down Their B...

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