Poems of Mourning - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857157362 ISBN 13: 9781857157369

Publisher: Everyman's Library Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems. Naturally, the pathos of death predominates, but its comedy has not been neglected, whether in the savage poems of World War I or the gentle teasing of seventeenth-century satire. Poets include: Akhmatova, Auden, Bishop, Brodsky, Browning, Carew, Cory, Cowley, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Dyer, Fletcher, Graves, Gurney, Hardy, Harrison, Herrick, Hopkins, Horace, King, Leopardi, Lowell, MacCaig, Mandelstam, Milosz, Philips, Propertius, Roethke, Smith, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Wordsworth.

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About the Author

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, andMisfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

Review

Partridge by Agathias Scholasticus
Needles Have Stitched A Death Shroud by Abu Al-'ala Ahmad Ibn 'abd Allah Al-ma'arri
The Soul Driven From The Body by Abu Al-'ala Ahmad Ibn 'abd Allah Al-ma'arri
Black Spring by Innokenti Fyodorovich Annensky
The Sufi Who Thought He Had Left The World by Farid-uddin Attar
An Island Cemetery by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Snow, Less Instranigent Than Their Marble by Wystan Hugh Auden
Twelve Songs: 9. Funeral Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden
Of My Dear Son [gervase Beaumont] by John Beaumont
Anaphora by Elizabeth Bishop
Cootchie by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
To A Friend: In Memoriam by Joseph Brodsky
Maria Wentworth by Thomas Carew
Carmen: 3 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
An Epitaph On M.h. by Charles Cotton
Epitaph On A Hare by William Cowper
At Melville's Tomb by Harold Hart Crane
The Ghost (1) by Walter John De La Mare
Poor Tom by Charles Dibdin
All But Death, Can Be Adjusted by Emily Dickinson
Because That You Are Going by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
That It Will Never Come Again by Emily Dickinson
'twas My One Glory by Emily Dickinson
Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Castellaine Douglas
To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham by John Dryden
I Travelled Among Unknown Men by William Dunbar
Lament For The Makaris [when He Was Seik] by William Dunbar
Epitaph On The Monument Of Sir William Dyer by Catherine Dyer
The Flowers Of The Forest by Jean (1727-1805) Elliot
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Gavin Ewart
Writing The Poems Of Loss by Gavin Ewart
Song by Thomas Flatman
Fletcher's Lament For His Friend by John Fletcher
In A Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray
The Silent One by Ivor Gurney
The Songs I Had by Ivor Gurney
To His Love by Ivor Gurney
The Choirmaster's Burial by Thomas Hardy
During Wind And Rain by Thomas Hardy
The Glimpse by Thomas Hardy
The Old Gown by Thomas Hardy
Rain On A Grave by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 14. Over The Coffin by Thomas Hardy
Satires Of Circumstance: 3. By Her Aunt's Grave by Thomas Hardy
To Lizbie Browne by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
Aqua Mortis by Tony Harrison
Flood by Tony Harrison
Long Distance by Tony Harrison
A Young Dead Woman by Jose-maria De Heredia
Epitaph Upon A Child That Died by Robert Herrick
To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick by Robert Herrick
On The Death Of A Monkey by Thomas Heyrick
The Odyssey: Book 17 by Homer
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Shropshire Lad: 32 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 40 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 54 by Alfred Edward Housman
Epitaph On Claude Phillips, A Musician by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Sonnet by John Keats
The Widower by Rudyard Kipling
An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
Epitaph by Primo Levi
The Survivor by Primo Levi
Troas: Act Ii. Latter End Of The Chorus by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Praise Of A Collie by Norman Maccaig
Selva Oscura by Frederick Louis Macneice
At Gautier's Grave by Stephane Mallarme
To Praise A Dead Woman by Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
Lament For Lu Yin by Meng Chiao
Dear To Me Is Sleep by Michelangelo Buonarroti
To Luigi Del Riccio After The Death Of Cecchino Bracci by Michelangelo Buonarroti
On Parting With My Wife, Janina by Czeslaw Milosz
With Her by Czeslaw Milosz
Lycidas by John Milton
Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton
The Child Dying by Edwin Muir
Summer's Last Will And Testament: A Litany In Time Of Plague by Thomas Nashe
The Meditation by John Norris
A Quiet Soul by John Oldham
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen
Elegies 2, 28 by Sextus Propertius
Tristia: To His Wife At Rome, When He Was Sick by Publius Ovidius Naso
David's Epitaph On Jonathan by Francis Quarles
Odes Ii, 14. His Age, Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend, John Wickes by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Odes Iii, 30: Exigi Monumentum by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
The Poet's Death by Rainer Maria Rilke
R.m.r. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Requiem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Roman Sarcophagi by Rainer Maria Rilke
What Survives by Rainer Maria Rilke
For A Dead Lady by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Uncle Ananias by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Field Day by William Robert Rodgers
Elegy by Theodore Roethke
She by Theodore Roethke
After Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti
One Of The Dead by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Died Of Wounds by Siegfried Sassoon
Memorial Tablet (great War, 1918) by Siegfried Sassoon
To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon
The Tombstone-maker by Siegfried Sassoon
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
To - (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Epitaph On The Duke Of Grafton by Fleetwood Shepherd
Farewell Without A Guitar by Wallace Stevens
At A Dog's Grave by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Selection by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Weeping For The Zen Master Po-yen by Tao-chi
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 11 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 67 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 7 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam: 2 by Alfred Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
Elegy For Himself by Chidiock Tichborne
Last Love by Feodor (fyodor) Ivanovich Tyutchev
Epitaph On A Dormouse, Really Written By A Little Boy by Anonymous
Epitaph On A Tomb Near Rome by Anonymous
An Exchange Of Feelings by Paul Verlaine
Ballade Of The Ladies Of Time Past by Francois Villon
A Ballade To End With by Francois Villon
A Dirge, Fr. The White Devil by John Webster
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn by Walt Whitman
The Pardon by Richard Wilbur
Then by Richard Wilbur
An Epitaph For A Godly Man's Tomb by Robert Wilde
Lucy (2) by William Wordsworth
Lucy (3) by William Wordsworth
In Memory Of Eva Gore-booth And Con Markiewicz by William Butler Yeats
A Dead Mole by Andrew (1885-1971) Young
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857157362
• ISBN 13: 9781857157369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Peter Washington