Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) (4th Edition) [Paperback]

R. S. Gwynn (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0321244966 | ISBN-13: 978-0321244963 | Publication Date: August 5, 2004 | Edition: 4

Key Benefit: This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology of poetry features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich. Key Topics: Selection of poems along with guidance on how to write about poetry. Index of critical terms included. Market: This interested in a concise introduction to poetry.

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The ideal alternative to longer anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of more than 250 poems covers the full scope of the poetic tradition.  Chronologically organized, this anthology includes master poets from Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare to contemporary artists of the 21^st century, reflecting the work of the genre’s most distinguished writers as well as a wide array of diverse voices.

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Denotes new selection to this edition. This tentative table of contents is for early review purposes; the final contents may not include all of the selections listed here.Preface. Introduction. An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts.Speaker, Listener, and Context."The Star-Spangled Banner."Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic.The Language of Poetry.Figurative Language.Allegory and Symbol.Tone of Voice.Repetition: Sounds and Schemes.Meter and Rhythm.Free Verse and Open Form.Stanza Forms.Fixed Forms.A Brief Note: Literary History, Poetic Conventions, and Theory.Writing About Poetry. Poetry. Anonymous.Western Wind.Bonny Barbara Allan.Sir Patrick Spens.Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542).They Flee from Me.*Whoso List to Hunt.Edmund Spenser (1552-1599).Amoretti: Sonnet 75.Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1.Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).The Burning Babe.Michael Drayton (1563-1631).Idea: Sonnet 61.William Shakespeare (1564-1616).Sonnet 18.Sonnet 20.Sonnet 29.Sonnet 73.Sonnet 116.*Sonnet 129.Sonnet 130.When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter).Thomas Campion (1567-1620).There Is a Garden in Her Face.John Donne (1572-1631).The Canonization.The Flea.Holy Sonnet 10.Holy Sonnet 14.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.Ben Jonson (1573-1637).On My First Son.Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount.Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?).In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn.Robert Herrick (1591-1674).To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.George Herbert (1593-1633).Easter Wings.Love (III).The Pulley.Redemption.Edmund Waller (1606-1687).Song.John Milton (1608-1674).How Soon Hath Time.On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.When I Consider How My Light Is Spent.Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).The Author to Her Book.Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).To Lucasta, Going to the Wars.Andrew Marvell (1621-1678).To His Coy Mistress.John Dryden (1631-1700).To the Memory of Mr. Oldham.Edward Taylor (1642-1729).Huswifery.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).A Description of a City Shower.Alexander Pope (1688-1744).from An Essay on Criticism. Ode on Solitude.Thomas Gray (1716-1771).Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.Christopher Smart (1722-1771).from Jubilate Agno. William Blake (1757-1827).The Chimney Sweeper.The Little Black Boy.A Poison Tree.The Tyger.Robert Burns (1759-1796).A Red, Red Rose.John Barleycorn.William Wordsworth (1770-1850).I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.It Is a Beauteous Evening.Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room.Ode: Intimations of Immortality.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).Frost at Midnight.Kubla Khan.Work Without Hope.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824).*She Walks in Beauty.Stanzas.When We Two Parted.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).Ode to the West Wind.Ozymandias.William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).To the Fringed Gentian.John Keats (1795-1821).La Belle Dame sans Merci.Ode on a Grecian Urn.Ode to a Nightingale.On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.When I Have Fears.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).*Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18. Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).The Arsenal at Springfield.The Cross of Snow.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).*Israfel. The Haunted Palace. The Raven.To Helen.Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).The Eagle.*The Lady of Shalott.Tears, Idle Tears.Ulysses.Robert Browning (1812-1889).My Last Duchess.Porphyria's Lover.Walt Whitman (1819-1892).Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.A Noiseless Patient Spider.*O Captain, My Captain.Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.Song of Myself, 6.*Song of Myself, 11. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.Matthew Arnold (1822-1888).Dover Beach.Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).*After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes.Because I Could Not Stop for Death.*I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.*Much Madness is Divinest Sense.A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.*Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church.The Soul Selects Her Own Society.*There's a Certain Slant of Light.*Wild Nights-Wild Nights.Christina Rossetti (1830-1894).Up-Hill.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?The Convergence of the Twain.Neutral Tones.The Ruined Maid.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).God's Grandeur.Pied Beauty.*Spring and Fall: To a Young Child.*The Windhover.*Emma Lazarus (1849-1887).*The New Colossus.A. E. Housman (1859-1936).Eight O'Clock.Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now.Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall."Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff..."William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).The Lake Isle of Innisfree.Leda and the Swan.Sailing to Byzantium.The Second Coming.The Song of Wandering Aengus.Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935).Firelight.Eros Turannos.The Mill.Richard Cory.Stephen Crane (1871-1900).*The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers.*The Wayfarer.Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).We Wear the Mask.Robert Frost (1874-1963).Acquainted with the Night.After Apple-Picking.Design.Home Burial.The Need of Being Versed in Country Things.*The Road Not Taken.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.*Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1034).*Amaze.*Languor after Pain.*Trapped.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).Anecdote of the Jar.Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.*The Emperor of Ice-Cream.The Snow Man.Sunday Morning.William Carlos Williams (1883-1963).The Last Words of My English Grandmother.The Red Wheelbarrow.Spring and All.*This Is Just to Say.Ezra Pound (1885-1972).In a Station of the Metro.Portrait d'une Femme.The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter.Elinor Wylie (1885-1928).Let No Charitable Hope.*Ophelia.H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961).Pear Tree.Sea Rose.Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).Dreamers.Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962).The Purse-Seine.Marianne Moore (1887-1972).The Fish.Silence.T. S. Eliot (1888-1965).Journey of the Magi.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.*Preludes.John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974).*The Equilibrists.Piazza Piece.Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way.Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word.*Recuerdo.What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why.Wilfred Owen (1893-1918).Dulce et Decorum Est.e. e. cummings (1894-1962).In Just-.nobody loses all the time.pity this busy monster,manunkind.r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r.Jean Toomer (1894-1967).*Georgia Dusk.Louise Bogan (1897-1970).Women.Hart Crane (1899-1933).Chaplinesque.Langston Hughes (1902-1967).Dream Boogie.Theme for English B.*The Weary Blues.Countee Cullen (1903-1946).Incident.Yet Do I Marvel.A. D. Hope (1907-2000).Imperial Adam.W. H. Auden (1907-1973).As I Walked Out One Evening.Musee des Beaux Arts.The Unknown Citizen.Theodore Roethke (1908-1963).Dolor.My Papa's Waltz.Root Cellar.Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).The Fish.One Art.*Sestina.Robert Hayden (1913-1980).Those Winter Sundays.Dudley Randall (B. 1914).Ballad of Birmingham.William Stafford (1914-1993).Traveling through the Dark.Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.Fern Hill.Weldon Kees (1914-1955).For My Daughter.Randall Jarrell (1914-1965).*90 North. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.Margaret Walker (B. 1915).For Malcolm X.Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000).*The Ballad of Chocolate Mabbie.the mother.We Real Cool.Robert Lowell (1917-1977).For the Union Dead.Lawrence Ferlinghetti (B. 1919).A Coney Island of the Mind, #15.May Swenson (1919-1989).How Everything Happens.Howard Nemerov (1920-1991).A Primer of the Daily Round.Richard Wilbur (B. 1921).Junk.Playboy.The Writer.Year's End.Philip Larkin (1922-1985).Next, Please.Aubade.This Be the Verse.James Dickey (1923-1997).The Heaven of Animals.Alan Dugan (B. 1923).Love Song: I and Thou.Anthony Hecht (B. 1923).*The Book of Yolek.*Third Avenue in Sunlight.*Daniel Hoffman.*As I Was Going to Saint-Ives.Denise Levertov (1923-1999).The Ache of Marriage.Louis Simpson (B. 1923).American Classic.My Father in the Night Commanding No.Vassar Miller (1924-1997).Subterfuge.Donald Justice (B. 1925).Counting the Mad.Carolyn Kizer (B. 1925).The Ungrateful Garden.*From "Pro Femina" Three.Maxine Kumin (B. 1925).Noted in the New York Times.Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997).A Supermarket in California.James Merrill (1926-1995).Casual Wear.Charles on Fire.W. D. Snodgrass (B. 1926).Mementos, I.Frank O'Hara (1926-1966).The Day Lady Died.John Ashbery (B. 1927).Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape.Paradoxes and Oxymorons.W. S. Merwin (B. 1927).For the Anniversary of My Death.The Last One.James Wright (1927-1980).A Blessing.Saint Judas.Philip Levine (B. 1928).*Animals Are Passing from Our Lives.*You Can Have It.Anne Sexton (1928-1974).Cinderella.The Truth the Dead Know.Thom Gunn (B. 1929).From the Wave.Terminal.X. J. Kennedy (B. 1929).In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day.*September Twelfth, 2001.Adrienne Rich (B. 1929).Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.Diving into the Wreck.Rape.Ted Hughes (B. 1930).Pike.Gary Snyder (B. 1930).A Walk.Derek Walcott (B. 1930).Central America.Miller Williams (B. 1930).The Book.Linda Pastan (B. 1932).*1932-.Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).Daddy.Edge.Metaphors.Gerald Barrax (B. 1933).Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985.Mark Strand (B. 1934).The Tunnel.*Russel Edson (B. 1935).*Ape.Mary Oliver (B. 1935).The Black Walnut Tree.Fred Chappell (B. 1936).Narcissus and Echo.Lucille Clifton (B. 1936).*homage to my hips.*wishes for sons.Marge Piercy (B. 1936).*What's That Smell in the Kitchen!Betty Adcock (B. 1938).Digression on the Nuclear Age.Gary Gildner (B. 1938).First Practice.Robert Phillips (B. 1938).Compartments.Dabney Stuart (B. 1938).Discovering My Daughter.Margaret Atwood (B. 1939).Siren Song.Stephen Dunn (B. 1939).The Sacred.Seamus Heaney (B. 1939).Digging.Punishment.*Al Young (B. 1939).*Sundays in Democracies.Tom Disch (B. 1940).Ballade of the New God.Florence Cassen Mayers (B. 1940).All-American Sestina.Pattiann Rogers (B. 1940).Foreplay.*Billy Collins (B. 1941).*Paradelle for Susan.*Schoolsville.Robert Hass (B. 1941).Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan.Simon J. Ortiz (B. 1941).The Serenity in Stones.*James Reiss (B. 1941).*Arigato Means Thank You.Gibbons Ruark (B. 1941).The Visitor.Gladys Cardiff (B. 1942).Combing.Charles Martin (B. 1942).E.S.L.Sharon Olds (B. 1942).The One Girl at the Boys Party.*Henry Taylor (B. 1942).*From Brief Candles. *Diane Lockward (B. 1942).*My Husband Discovers Poetry.Ellen Bryant Voigt (B. 1943).Daughter.Wendy Cope (B. 1944).Rondeau Redouble.*Triolet.*Dick Davis (B. 1945).*A Monorhyme for the Shower.*K...

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• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 4 edition (August 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321244966
• ISBN-13: 978-0321244963
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great anthology, February 27, 2004

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This review is from: Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics) (Paperback)

This is a great anthology. The best you are going to find unless you go with one of the giant anthologies. This one is cheaper and definitely less heavy than, lets say Norton's anthology. And because it is a 'pocket anthology' it cuts out the weaker poems making this a strong group of poems.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Useful, December 25, 2008

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This review is from: Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics) (Paperback)

I purchased this anthology for my poetry class. It provides all the information that you need for poetry reading, writing and analysis (poetry elements, structure...etc).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of poetry, August 31, 2010

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This review is from: Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics) (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I bought this book for a college poetry class and it is great. There is a whole range of poets from classical (e.g. William Blake, Edmund Spenser) to modern (e.g. Sylvia Plath, Julia Alvarez). No one poet has too many works, and they are mostly represented by their more famous works, but it is a great buy.