100 Poems By 100 Poets - Hardcover

Pinter, Harold (1930-2008); Godbert, Geoffrey (1937-); Astbury, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0413143007 ISBN 13: 9780413143006

Publisher: London : Methuen Paperback, 1986

Synopsis

To pass the time on a long train ride from London to Cromwell, playwright Harold Pinter and his two companions, Geoffrey Godbert and Anthony Astbury, set up a challenge: Choose 100 poems by 100 poets — living poets excluded — to represent the finest poetry ever written in English. The three agreed to organize this collection unconventionally, alphabetically by author rather than chronologically. The resulting anthology is challenging, eclectic, very personal, and great fun. With its surprising juxtapositions and gargantuan range of voice and style, 100 Poems by 100 Poets brings old favorites into a new light and less well-known poems out of the shadows.

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With its surprising juxtapositions and gargantuan range of voice and style, '100 Poems by 100 Poets' brings old favorites into a new light and less well-known poems out of the shadows.

Review

So It Begins. Adam Is In His Earth by James Agee
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
Song by Aphra Behn
The Dream Songs: 4 by John Berryman
Parliament Hill Fields by John Betjeman
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
The Unpredictable by Thomas Blackburn
The Mental Traveller by William Blake
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida by Emily Jane Bronte
Meeting At Night by Robert Browning
For A' That And A' That; Song by Robert Burns
Darkness by George Gordon Byron
Cherry Ripe by Thomas Campion
The Second Rapture by Thomas Carew
A Vision by John Clare
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An Epitaph On M.h. by Charles Cotton
The Innocent Ill by Abraham Cowley
Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity by William Cowper
Two: 3 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Love by Samuel Daniel
Her Triumph by J. Kitchener Davies
On A Pair Of Garters by John (1569-1626) Davies
The Storm by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Twicknam Garden by John Donne
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Idea: 61 by Michael Drayton
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden
A Modest Love by Edward Dyer
La Figlia Che Piange by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let It Go by William Empson
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
The Green Knight's Farewell To Fancy by George Gascoigne
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind by Barnaby (barnabe) Googe
I Leave This At Your Ear For When You Wake by William Sydney Graham
The White Goddess by Robert Ranke Graves
On Lord Holland's Seat Near Margat, Kent by Thomas Gray
Caelica: 1 by Fulke Greville
On An Hour-glass by John (1627-1656) Hall
An Upbraiding by Thomas Hardy
Echoes: 9 by William Ernest Henley
A Description by Edward Herbert
Love (3) by George Herbert
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Absence by John Hoskins
Her Strong Enchantments Failing by Alfred Edward Housman
A Celebration Of Charis: 4. Her Triumph by Ben Jonson
Ecce Puer by James Joyce
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Cupid Far Gone by Richard Lovelace
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
Snow by Frederick Louis Macneice
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Dirge In Woods by George Meredith
Sonnet: 41 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Earthly Paradise by William (1834-1896) Morris
One Foot In Eden by Edwin Muir
Summer's Last Will And Testament: A Litany In Time Of Plague by Thomas Nashe
The Parable Of The Old Men And The Young by Wilfred Owen
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town by Alexander Pope
Far As Creations Ample Range Extends by Alexander Pope
Commission by Ezra Pound
The Lie by Walter Raleigh
Piazza Piece by John Crowe Ransom
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
What Would I Give by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Repetitive Heart: 4. For Rhoda by Delmore Schwartz
On A Cock At Rochester by Charles Sedley
All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton
Sonnet: 29 by William Shakespeare
To - (2) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Astrophel And Stella: 1 by Philip Sidney
Facade: 18 by Edith Sitwell
To Mistress Margaret Hussey by John Skelton
To The Tune Of The Coventry Carol by Florence Margaret Smith
Iambicum Trimetrum, Fr. Letter To Harvey by Edmund Spenser
The Emperor Of Ice-cream by Wallace Stevens
Song [or, Orsames' Song] by John Suckling
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed by Jonathan Swift
A Leave-taking by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Vastness by Alfred Tennyson
Lament by Dylan Thomas
Tichborne's Elegy, Written In The Tower Before His Execution by Chidiock Tichborne
Song by Edmund Waller
Native Moments by Walt Whitman
A Song Of A Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot
Ecclesiastical Sonnets: Part 3: 34. Mutability by William Wordsworth
Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Thomas Wyatt
Full Moon by Elinor Wylie
Long-legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: London : Methuen Paperback
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0413143007
• ISBN 13: 9780413143006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160