An introduction to poetry - Softcover

Louis Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333007557 ISBN 13: 9780333007556

Publisher: Macmillan, 1969

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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name by John Ashbery
Around The Rough And Rugged Rocks The Ragged Rascal by John Ashbery
But What Is The Reader To Make Of This by John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Never Seek To Tell Thy Love by John Ashbery
Get There If You Can And See The Land by Wystan Hugh Auden
In This Island by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Twelve Songs: 8 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Cloudy Day by Jimmy Santiago Baca
There Are Black by Jimmy Santiago Baca
The Burglar Of Babylon by Elizabeth Bishop
Cape Breton by Elizabeth Bishop
Cirque D'hiver by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Clod And The Pebble, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Earth's Answer, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
Infant Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Love's Secret, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The New [or, Building Of] Jerusalem [or, To The Christians] by William Blake
The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Songs Of Experience: Introduction by William Blake
Songs Of Innocence: Introduction by William Blake
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old by Robert Bly
Hearing Men Shout At Night On Macdougal Street by Robert Bly
Late At Night During A Visit Of Friends by Robert Bly
My Father's Wedding: 1924 by Robert Bly
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 14 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Meeting At Night by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Parting At Morning by Robert Browning
Up At A Villa - Down In The City by Robert Browning
Holy Willie's Prayer by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert Burns
Whistle, And I'll Come To You My Lad by Robert Burns
The Acropolis by George Gordon Byron
The Destruction Of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron
Prometheus by George Gordon Byron
She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Stanza: 17. The Field Of Waterloo by George Gordon Byron
Laura by Thomas Campion
Song by Thomas Carew
To Lesbia by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Badger by John Clare
The 1st by Lucille Clifton
Good Times by Lucille Clifton
Jonah by Lucille Clifton
Still by Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Black Tambourine by Harold Hart Crane
Cape Hatteras by Harold Hart Crane
Legend by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
Kore by Robert Creeley
95 Poems: 31 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 57 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal by Edward Estlin Cummings
Portraits: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Two: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 52 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet On Sleep by Samuel Daniel
Her Triumph by J. Kitchener Davies
The Happy Heart [or, The Basket-maker's Song] by Thomas Dekker
Fears Of The Eighth Grade by Toi Derricotte
The Good Old Dog by Toi Derricotte
Hamtramck: The Polish Women by Toi Derricotte
On Stopping Late In The Afternoon For Steamed Dumplings by Toi Derricotte
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
Ah, Teneriffe by Emily Dickinson
A Drunkard Cannot Meet A Cork by Emily Dickinson
Exclusion by Emily Dickinson
I Like A Look Of Agony by Emily Dickinson
The Name - Of It - Is 'autumn' by Emily Dickinson
Success by Emily Dickinson
There's Been A Death In The Opposite House by Emily Dickinson
They Shut Me Up In Prose by Emily Dickinson
The Way I Read A Letter's - This by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The White Knight's Song by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Bait by John Donne
The Canonization by John Donne
The Ecstasy [extasie] by John Donne
Elegy: 9. The Autumnal [beauty] by John Donne
The Flea by John Donne
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward by John Donne
The Good-morrow by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 10 by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 14 by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 7 by John Donne
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness by John Donne
Song by John Donne
Song by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
A Valediction: Of Weeping by John Donne
Heat by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 40 by Hilda Doolittle
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Idea: 61 by Michael Drayton
Chorus On The New Years [or, Chorus To The Gods, Or, Song] by John Dryden
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden
To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham by John Dryden
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Hollow Men by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Macavity: The Mystery Cat by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Rhapsody On A Windy Night by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Colonel by Carolyn Forche
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Directive by Robert Frost
The Hill Wife: Loneliness by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
America by Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind by Barnaby (barnabe) Googe
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub by Thomas Gray
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Christopher Murray Grieve
Crowdieknowe by Christopher Murray Grieve
In The Fall by Christopher Murray Grieve
Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall
Afterwards 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
The Eve Of Waterloo by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy
Middle Passage by Robert Earl Hayden
Runagate Runagate by Robert Earl Hayden
Digging by Seamus Heaney
Girls Bathing, Galway 1965 by Seamus Heaney
Mid-term Break by Seamus Heaney
North by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
Singing School: 1. The Ministry Of Fear by Seamus Heaney
The Altar by George Herbert
Artillerie by George Herbert
The Collar by George Herbert
Easter Wings by George Herbert
Jordan (1) by George Herbert
Love (3) by George Herbert
Prayer (1) by George Herbert
The Pulley by George Herbert
Redemption by George Herbert
Virtue [or, Vertue] by George Herbert
Another Grace For A Child by Robert Herrick
Corinna's Going A-maying by Robert Herrick
Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
Something Whispered In The Shakuhachi by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Who Among You Knows The Essence Of Garlic? by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Yellow Light by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On; Let by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Starlight Night by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lancer by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by Alfred Edward Housman
Heptonstall Old Church by Edward James Hughes
A Motorbike by Edward James Hughes
Pike by Edward James Hughes
Ravens by Edward James Hughes
The Thought-fox by Edward James Hughes
Children's Hymns by James Langston Hughes
Harlem by James Langston Hughes
Night Funeral In Harlem by James Langston Hughes
Same In Blues by James Langston Hughes
Birds by Robinson Jeffers
Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers
New Mexican Mountain by Robinson Jeffers
On The Death Of Dr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
A Short Song Of Congratulation by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
A Celebration Of Charis: 4. Her Triumph by Ben Jonson
Cynthia's Revels, Sels. by Ben Jonson
Echo's Lament For [of] Narcissus [or, Song Of Echo] by Ben Jonson
Hymn To Cynthia [or, To Cynthia] by Ben Jonson
On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson
Volpone: Act 1, Lines 1-29 by Ben Jonson
Volpone: To Celia by Ben Jonson
Gold Watch by Patrick Kavanagh
If Ever You Go To Dublin Town by Patrick Kavanagh
Lines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin by Patrick Kavanagh
Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
Tinker's Wife by Patrick Kavanagh
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Last Sonnet (revised Version) by John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
Ode To Psyche by John Keats
Sonnet by John Keats
To Autumn by John Keats
To Fanny Brawne by John Keats
November Calf by Jane Kenyon
The Exequy [on His Wife] by Henry (1592-1669) King
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell
The Bear by Galway Kinnell
Little Sleep's-head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight by Galway Kinnell
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Semele Recycled by Carolyn Kizer
Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane by Etheridge Knight
Mr. Bleaney by Philip Larkin
Night-music by Philip Larkin
Wild Oats by Philip Larkin
Within The Dream You Said by Philip Larkin
Bavarian Gentians by David Herbert Lawrence
Energetic Women by David Herbert Lawrence
Humming-bird by David Herbert Lawrence
It's No Good by David Herbert Lawrence
Kangaroo by David Herbert Lawrence
Song Of A Man Who Has Come Through by David Herbert Lawrence
Volcanic Venus by David Herbert Lawrence
By Way Of Preface by Edward Lear
The Dragonfly-mother by Denise Levertov
The Pilots by Denise Levertov
Williams: An Essay by Denise Levertov
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
For The Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Memories Of West Street And Lepke by Robert Lowell
Mr. Edwards And The Spider by Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
The Sunlight On The Garden by Frederick Louis Macneice
Fife Tune by John Streeter Manifold
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Definition Of Love by Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body by Andrew Marvell
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland by Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Sonnet: 98. Fatal Interview: 30 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Il Penseroso by John Milton
L'allegro by John Milton
Lycidas by John Milton
On His Being [or, Having] Arrived At The Age Of Twenty-three by John Milton
Sonnet On His Blindness by John Milton
Animals Sick Of The Plague (fables, La Fontaine, Book 7, 1) by Marianne Moore
Silence by Marianne Moore
The Steeple-jack by Marianne Moore
Old Men by Ogden Nash
Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man by Ogden Nash
The Purist by Ogden Nash
Very Like A Whale by Ogden Nash
Sleeping On The Wing by Frank O'hara
A Step Away From Them by Frank O'hara
Armor by Sharon Olds
The Sign Of Saturn by Sharon Olds
The Victims by Sharon Olds
Poem For My Father's Ghost by Mary Oliver
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
Strawberry Moon by Mary Oliver
The Kingfishers by Charles Olson
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
Farewell To Arms by George Peele
Song For The Head by George Peele
The Long Love by Petrarch
Sonnets To Laura In Life: 156 by Petrarch
The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
To Helen (1) by Edgar Allan Poe
Of The Scythians by Katha Pollitt
Turning Thirty by Katha Pollitt
Woman Asleep On A Banana Leaf by Katha Pollitt
Canto 17 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 1. E.p. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre by Ezra Pound
Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound
Americana Ix by Carl Rakosi
The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd by Walter Raleigh
To His Son by Walter Raleigh
Walsingham by Walter Raleigh
Blackberry Sweet by Dudley Randall
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter by John Crowe Ransom
Dog by John Crowe Ransom
Lessons Of The War: 1. Naming Of Parts by Henry Reed
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Upper Broadway by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Elegy For Jane by Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
Praise To The End by Theodore Roethke
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
A Christmas Carol (1...

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0333007557
• ISBN 13: 9780333007556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420