The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) (Hardcover)

by Richard Ellmann (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review
The Accomplices by Conrad Aiken
Dear Uncle Stranger by Conrad Aiken
Discordants: 1 by Conrad Aiken
Hatteras Calling by Conrad Aiken
Herman Melville by Conrad Aiken
Priapus And The Pool: 3 by Conrad Aiken
Priapus And The Pool: 4 by Conrad Aiken
The Room by Conrad Aiken
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Archie Randolph Ammons
Cascadilla Falls by Archie Randolph Ammons
The City Limits by Archie Randolph Ammons
Classic by Archie Randolph Ammons
Coon Song by Archie Randolph Ammons
Corsons Inlet by Archie Randolph Ammons
Laser by Archie Randolph Ammons
Periphery by Archie Randolph Ammons
So I Said I Am Ezra by Archie Randolph Ammons
Triphammer Bridge by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Unifying Principle by Archie Randolph Ammons
Upland by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Yucca Moth by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Marchenbilder by John Ashbery
The One Thing That Can Save America by John Ashbery
The Painter by John Ashbery
Rivers And Mountains by John Ashbery
Spring Day by John Ashbery
Tenth Symphony by John Ashbery
Worsening Situation by John Ashbery
Years Of Indiscretion by John Ashbery
Evil Nigger Waits For Lightnin' by Amiri Baraka
For Hettie by Amiri Baraka
I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer by Amiri Baraka
Legacy (for Blues People) by Amiri Baraka
The Liar by Amiri Baraka
Numbers, Letters by Amiri Baraka
A Poem For Speculative Hipsters by Amiri Baraka
A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand by Amiri Baraka
W.w. by Amiri Baraka
Advice To A Raven In Russia by Joel Barlow
Canto: 1 by Joel Barlow
The Ball Poem by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 127 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 14 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 147 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 149 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 219. So Long? Stevens by John Berryman
Henry's Understanding by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 1 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 2 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 3 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 34 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 35 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 36 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 37 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 4 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 57 by John Berryman
A Professor's Song by John Berryman
A Strut For Roethke by John Berryman
A Thurn by John Berryman
A Winter-piece To A Friend Away by John Berryman
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
First Death In Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
The Map by Elizabeth Bishop
The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop
Questions Of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop
Come With Me by Robert Bly
Evolution From The Fish by Robert Bly
Looking At Some Flowers by Robert Bly
Looking Into A Face by Robert Bly
Poem Against The Rich by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 1 by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 2 by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 3 by Robert Bly
Romans Angry About The Inner World by Robert Bly
Sleet Storm On The Merritt Parkway by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 1 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 2 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 3 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 4 by Robert Bly
Waking From Sleep by Robert Bly
When The Dumb Speak by Robert Bly
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
The Flesh And The Spirit by Anne Bradstreet
Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse: The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
The Lovers Of The Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Robert Frost by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sadie And Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Second Sermon On The Warpland by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Sermon On The Warpland by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song In The Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Vacant Lot by Gwendolyn Brooks
Green River by William Cullen Bryant
The Prairies by William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
Ave Maria by Harold Hart Crane
The Broken Tower by Harold Hart Crane
Chaplinesque by Harold Hart Crane
For The Marriage Of Faustus And Helen by Harold Hart Crane
In Shadow by Harold Hart Crane
My Grandmother's Love Letters by Harold Hart Crane
Passage by Harold Hart Crane
Praise For An Urn; In Memoriam: Ernest Nelson by Harold Hart Crane
Repose Of Rivers by Harold Hart Crane
The River by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
To Emily Dickinson by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 1 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 2 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 3 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 4 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 5 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 6 by Harold Hart Crane
The Wine Menagerie by Harold Hart Crane
The Black Riders: 24 by Stephen Crane
The Black Riders: 3 by Stephen Crane
War Is Kind: 1 by Stephen Crane
The Death Of Venus by Robert Creeley
Fancy by Robert Creeley
The Fire by Robert Creeley
For Love by Robert Creeley
The Gift by Robert Creeley
Here by Robert Creeley
Heroes by Robert Creeley
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
If You by Robert Creeley
Naughty Boy by Robert Creeley
Wait For Me by Robert Creeley
The Window by Robert Creeley
1x1 (one Times One): 13 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 20 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 39 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 25 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 6 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 27 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
New Poems: 11 by Edward Estlin Cummings
New Poems: 22 by Edward Estlin Cummings
No Thanks: 16 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 19 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Portraits: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Songs: 6 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet - Realities: 1 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 30 by Edward Estlin Cummings
A Birth by James Dickey
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
The Heaven Of Animals by James Dickey
The Performance by James Dickey
The Sheep Child by James Dickey
The Underground Stream by James Dickey
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
Ah, Necromancy Sweet! by Emily Dickinson
Arcturus Is His Other Name by Emily Dickinson
As Imperceptibly As Grief by Emily Dickinson
A Bee His Burnished Carriage by Emily Dickinson
The Brain, Within Its Groove by Emily Dickinson
Called Back by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Colloquy by Emily Dickinson
Crumbling Is Not An Instant's Act by Emily Dickinson
Did Our Best Moment Last by Emily Dickinson
Drama's Vitallest Expression Is The Common Day by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
Escape by Emily Dickinson
Exclusion by Emily Dickinson
Experience by Emily Dickinson
'faith' Is A Fine Invention by Emily Dickinson
Finding Is The First Act by Emily Dickinson
Further In Summer Than The Birds by Emily Dickinson
God Is Indeed A Jealous God by Emily Dickinson
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Emily Dickinson
Hope (1) by Emily Dickinson
I Am Alive - I Guess by Emily Dickinson
I Can Wade Grief by Emily Dickinson
I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson
I Dwell In Possibility by Emily Dickinson
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain by Emily Dickinson
I Never Lost As Much But Twice by Emily Dickinson
I Would Not Paint - A Picture by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who Are You by Emily Dickinson
I've Seen A Dying Eye by Emily Dickinson
If You Were Coming In The Fall by Emily Dickinson
In The Garden (1) by Emily Dickinson
In Winter, In My Room by Emily Dickinson
Intoxication by Emily Dickinson
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up by Emily Dickinson
Life by Emily Dickinson
A Light Exists In Spring by Emily Dickinson
The Lost Thought by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson
Our Lives Are Swiss by Emily Dickinson
Parting by Emily Dickinson
The Pedigree Of Honey by Emily Dickinson
Perception Of An Object Costs by Emily Dickinson
The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson
Remorse Is Memory Awake by Emily Dickinson
Reportless Subjects, To The Quick by Emily Dickinson
Returning by Emily Dickinson
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson
Satisfaction - Is The Agent by Emily Dickinson
The Snake by Emily Dickinson
So Proud She Was To Die by Emily Dickinson
Softened By Time's Consummate Plush by Emily Dickinson
The Storm by Emily Dickinson
Success by Emily Dickinson
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant by Emily Dickinson
That It Will Never Come Again by Emily Dickinson
That Love Is All There Is by Emily Dickinson
There Are Two Mays by Emily Dickinson
There Came A Day At Summer's Full by Emily Dickinson
There Is A Pain - So Utter by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
They Shut Me Up In Prose by Emily Dickinson
This Is My Letter To The World by Emily Dickinson
This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson
Title Divine - Is Mine! by Emily Dickinson
Too Happy Time Dissolves Itself by Emily Dickinson
Until The Desert Knows by Emily Dickinson
We Outgrow Love Like Other Things by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Another Shout From The Wharves by Hilda Doolittle
At Baia by Hilda Doolittle
The Flowering Of The Rod: 4 by Hilda Doolittle
Good Frend: 6 by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Helen In Egypt: 1, 3 by Hilda Doolittle
Let Zeus Record: 6 by Hilda Doolittle
The Mysteries Remain by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Pear Tree by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 4 by Hilda Doolittle
From Gloucester Out by Edward Dorn
Oxford: 3. Comforted By Limestone by Edward Dorn
Thesis by Edward Dorn
The Ballad Of Mrs. Noah by Robert Duncan
Homage And Lament For Ezra Pound In Captivity, May 12, 1944 by Robert Duncan
Often I Am Permitted To Return To A Meadow by Robert Duncan
Passage Over Water by Robert Duncan
Passages: 1. Tribal Memories by Robert Duncan
Passages: 3. What I Saw by Robert Duncan
Persephone by Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing by Robert Duncan
The Temple Of The Animals by Robert Duncan
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom by Robert Duncan
3. 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
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
Alphonso Of Castille by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bacchus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blight by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation (1) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each And [or, In] All by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guy by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hamatreya by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Humble-bee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merlin: 1 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merlin: 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mithridates by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nemesis by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode Inscribed To W.h. Channing by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Snow-storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terminus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thine Eyes Still Shined For Me, Though Far by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two Rivers by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uriel by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Visit by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waldeinsamkeit by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 1 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 3 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 4 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Xenophanes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
George The Third's Soliloquy by Philip Freneau
The Indian Burying Ground by Philip Freneau
To An Author by Philip Freneau
The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau
Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
Away! by Robert Frost
Come In by Robert Frost
Departmental by Robert Frost
Desert Places by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Directive by Robert Frost
A Drumlin Woodchuck by Robert Frost
Fire And Ice by Robert Frost
For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
The Lockless Door by Robert Frost
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Middleness Of The Road by Robert Frost
Mowing by Robert Frost
The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things by Robert Frost
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Once By The Pacific by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
The Pasture by Robert Frost
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
Reluctance by Robert Frost
The Silken Tent by Robert Frost
Spring Pools 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 Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
West-running Brook by Robert Frost
Forest by Jean Garrigue
From Venice Was That Afternoon by Jean Garrigue
Primer Of Plato by Jean Garrigue
The Stranger by Jean Garrigue
Dream Record: June 8, 1955 by Allen Ginsberg
Hymmnn by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
My Alba by Allen Ginsberg
On Burroughs' Work by Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
Wales Visitation by Allen Ginsberg
Birdwatchers Of America by Anthony Hecht
The Dover Bitch; A Criticism Of Life by Anthony Hecht
'it Out-herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It' by Anthony Hecht
'more Light! More Light!' by Anthony Hecht
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Deacon's Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dorothy Q; A Family Portrait by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Julia Ward Howe
50-50 by James Langston Hughes
Ballad Of The Landlord by James Langston Hughes
Dream Variations [or, Variation] by James Langston Hughes
Fire by James Langston Hughes
Heaven by James Langston Hughes
Necessity by James Langston Hughes
Personal by James Langston Hughes
Preference by James Langston Hughes
Stony Lonesome by James Langston Hughes
Theme For English B by James Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues by James Langston Hughes
90 North by Randall Jarrell
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell
A Girl In A Library by Randall Jarrell
The Orient Express by Randall Jarrell
The Range In The Desert by Randall Jarrell
Thinking Of The Lost World by Randall Jarrell
Well Water by Randall Jarrell
Woman by Randall Jarrell
Antrim by Robinson Jeffers
Apology For Bad Dreams by Robinson Jeffers
Ave Caesar by Robinson Jeffers
The Beaks Of Eagles by Robinson Jeffers
But I Am Growing Old And Indolent by Robinson Jeffers
The Eye by Robinson Jeffers
Fawn's Foster-mother by Robinson Jeffers
Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers
Night by Robinson Jeffers
Phenomena by Robinson Jeffers
The Purse-seine by Robinson Jeffers
Rock And Hawk by Robinson Jeffers
Shane O'neill's Cairn by Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers
Shiva by Robinson Jeffers
To The Stone Cutters by Robinson Jeffers
Vulture by Robinson Jeffers
Watch The Lights Fade by Robinson Jeffers
Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye ... Students by Galway Kinnell
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible by Galway Kinnell
Flower Herding On Mount Monadnock by Galway Kinnell
For Robert Frost by Galway Kinnell
The Path Among The Stones by Galway Kinnell
The Porcupine by Galway Kinnell
The Supper After The Last by Galway Kinnell
A Ballad Of Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
From The Flats by Sidney Lanier
Hymns Of The Marshes: Marsh Song - At Sunset by Sidney Lanier
Hymns Of The Marshes: The Marshes Of Glynn by Sidney Lanier
The Ache Of Marriage by Denise Levertov
The Cat As Cat by Denise Levertov
The Earth Worm by Denise Levertov
The Goddess by Denise Levertov
Illustrious Ancestors by Denise Levertov
Losing Track by Denise Levertov
Matins: 1 by Denise Levertov
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
Pleasures by Denise Levertov
Relearning The Alphabet by Denise Levertov
What Wild Dawns There Were by Denise Levertov
Above It All by Philip Levine
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
The Lost Angel by Philip Levine
Salami by Philip Levine
They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
To A Child Trapped In A Barber Shop by Philip Levine
The Way Down by Philip Levine
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance by Li Po
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
The Congo by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
The Eagle That Is Forgotten by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
The Flower-fed Buffaloes Of The Spring by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
Aftermath by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Chaucer; Sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Cross Of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Fire Of Driftwood; Devereux Farm, Near Marblehead by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hymn To The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Jewish Cemetery At Newport by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Snowflakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song Of Hiawatha: Introduction by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Biglow Papers. 2d Series. The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
Bryant by James Russell Lowell
Cooper by James Russell Lowell
Emerson by James Russell Lowell
Hawthorne by James Russell Lowell
Holmes by James Russell Lowell
Lowell On Himself by James Russell Lowell
Poe And Longfellow by James Russell Lowell
Whittier by James Russell Lowell
As A Plane Tree By The Water by Robert Lowell
At The Indian Killer's Grave by Robert Lowell
Beyond The Alps (on The Train From Rome To Paris, 1950) by Robert Lowell
Dolphin by Robert Lowell
The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell
Ezra Pound by Robert Lowell
For John Berryman, 1 by Robert Lowell
For The Union Dead by Robert Lowell
In The Cage by Robert Lowell
Last Things, Black Pines At 4 A.m. by Robert Lowell
Memories Of West Street And Lepke by Robert Lowell
Mr. Edwards And The Spider by Robert Lowell
Near The Ocean by Robert Lowell
The Old Flame by Robert Lowell
The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket by Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
T.s. Eliot by Robert Lowell
Waking Early Sunday Morning by Robert Lowell
Water by Robert Lowell
Ars Poetica by Archibald Macleish
Brave New World by Archibald Macleish
The End Of The World by Archibald Macleish
Epistle To Be Left In The Earth by Archibald Macleish
Ezry by Archibald Macleish
L'an Trentiesme De Mon Eage by Archibald Macleish
Lines For An Interment by Archibald Macleish
You, Andrew Marvell by Archibald Macleish
Spoon River Anthology: Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Editor Whedon by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Petit The Poet by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: The Hill by Edgar Lee Masters
Art by Herman Melville
The Attic Landscape by Herman Melville
The Berg (a Dream) by Herman Melville
Billy In The Darbies, Fr. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Blue-bird by Herman Melville
The Conflict Of Convictions by Herman Melville
Fragments Of A Lost Gnostic Poem Of The 12th Century by Herman Melville
The House-top; A Night Piece by Herman Melville
L'envoi: The Return Of The Sire De Nesle, A.d. 16 - by Herman Melville
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
Misgivings by Herman Melville
Pontoosuce by Herman Melville
The Portent by Herman Melville
The Ravaged Villa by Herman Melville
Shiloh; A Requiem by Herman Melville
To Ned by Herman Melville
After Greece by James Ingram Merrill
The Broken Home by James Ingram Merrill
The Furnished Room by James Ingram Merrill
The Mad Scene by James Ingram Merrill
Matinees by James Ingram Merrill
The Parrot Fish by James Ingram Merrill
A Preface To The Memoirs by James Ingram Merrill
An Urban Convalescence by James Ingram Merrill
The Approaches by William Stanley Merwin
The Asians Dying by William Stanley Merwin
Ballad Of John Cable And Three Gentlemen by William Stanley Merwin
Birds Waking by William Stanley Merwin
The Distances by William Stanley Merwin
Exercise by William Stanley Merwin
For The Anniversary Of My Death by William Stanley Merwin
In The Winter Of My Thirty-eighth Year by William Stanley Merwin
Leviathan by William Stanley Merwin
Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise by William Stanley Merwin
Odysseus; For George Kirstein by William Stanley Merwin
The Old Roast by William Stanley Merwin
The Room by William Stanley Merwin
Song Of Three Smiles by William Stanley Merwin
Surf-casting by William Stanley Merwin
Gloucester Moors by William Vaughn Moody
On A Soldier Fallen In The Philippines by William Vaughn Moody
Critics And Connoisseurs by Marianne Moore
A Grave by Marianne Moore
The Hero by Marianne Moore
In The Public Garden by Marianne Moore
Marriage by Marianne Moore
The Monkeys by Marianne Moore
The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
Poetry (further Revised) by Marianne Moore
Silence by Marianne Moore
Spenser's Ireland by Marianne Moore
State For State, With All Attendants, Who Would Change? Not by Marianne Moore
The Steeple-jack by Marianne Moore
What Are Years? by Marianne Moore
Song by William (1834-1896) Morris
Autobiographia Literaria by Frank O'hara
Chez Jane by Frank O'hara
The Day Lady Died by Frank O'hara
Poem by Frank O'hara
Poem (at Night Chinamen Jump) by Frank O'hara
To The Film Industry In Crisis by Frank O'hara
Why I Am Not A Painter by Frank O'hara
The Kingfishers by Charles Olson
Maximus To Gloucester, Letter 27 (withheld) by Charles Olson
Maximus, To Himself by Charles Olson
The Ring Of by Charles Olson
Variations Done For Gerald Van De Wiele: 1. Le Bonheur by Charles Olson
Variations Done For Gerald Van De Wiele: 2. The Charge by Charles Olson
Variations Done For Gerald Van De Wiele: 3. Spring by Charles Olson
Meditation 10 by Philip Pain
Meditation 29 by Philip Pain
Meditation 62 by Philip Pain
Meditation 8 by Philip Pain
Meditation 9 by Philip Pain
The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Event by Sylvia Plath
Fever 103 Degrees by Sylvia Plath
Gulliver by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
A Life by Sylvia Plath
Love Letter by Sylvia Plath
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The City In The Sea by Edgar Allan Poe
The Coliseum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction To Poems (1831) by Edgar Allan Poe
Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe
Song by Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet: Silence by Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen (1) by Edgar Allan Poe
Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic by Ezra Pound
Canto 2 by Ezra Pound
Canto 45 by Ezra Pound
Canto 7 by Ezra Pound
Canto 81 (the Pisan Cantos) by Ezra Pound
Coda by Ezra Pound
Homage To Sextus Propertius: 1 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 1. E.p. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 10 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 11 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 12 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 13. Envoi, 1919 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 2 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 3 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 4 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 5 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 6. Yeux Glauques by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 7. 'siena Mi Fe' by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 8. Brennbaum by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 9. Mr. Nixon by Ezra Pound
An Immorality by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 1 by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 2 by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 3. 'the Age Demanded' by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 4 by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 5. Medallion by Ezra Pound
Monumentum Aere, Etc. by Ezra Pound
A Pact by Ezra Pound
Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound
The Rest by Ezra Pound
The Return by Ezra Pound
Salutation by Ezra Pound
Salutation The Second by Ezra Pound
Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound
The Study In Aesthetics by Ezra Pound
The Temperaments by Ezra Pound
A Virginal by Ezra Pound
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter by John Crowe Ransom
Captain Carpenter by John Crowe Ransom
The Equilibrists by John Crowe Ransom
Judith Of Bethulia by John Crowe Ransom
Old Mansion (after Henry James) by John Crowe Ransom
Painted Head by John Crowe Ransom
Philomela by John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece by John Crowe Ransom
Vision By Sweetwater by John Crowe Ransom
Winter Remembered by John Crowe Ransom
5:30 A.m. by Adrienne Cecile Rich
The Afterwake by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
'i Am In Danger - Sir - ' by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Merced by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Necessities Of Life by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Planetarium by Adrienne Cecile Rich
The Trees by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Two Songs by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Two Songs: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson
For A Dead Lady by Edwin Arlington Robinson
George Crabbe by Edwin Arlington Robinson
How Annandale Went Out by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
New England by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Reuben Bright by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Reunion by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Sheaves by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Veteran Sirens by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Why He Was There by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Cuttings by Theodore Roethke
Cuttings (later) by Theodore Roethke
First Meditation by Theodore Roethke
Four For Sir John Davies: 1. The Dance by Theodore Roethke
Four For Sir John Davies: 2. The Partner by Theodore Roethke
Four For Sir John Davies: 3. The Wraith by Theodore Roethke
Four For Sir John Davies: 4. The Vigil by Theodore Roethke
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, And Frau Schwartze by Theodore Roethke
I Knew A Woman by Theodore Roethke
In A Dark Time by Theodore Roethke
The Minimal by Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
North American Sequence: The Rose by Theodore Roethke
The Snake by Theodore Roethke
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
What Can I Tell My Bones? by Theodore Roethke
Words For The Wind by Theodore Roethke
Aprons Of Silence by Carl Sandburg
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Cool Tombs by Carl Sandburg
Four Preludes On Playthings Of The Wind by Carl Sandburg
Gargoyle by Carl Sandburg
Gone by Carl Sandburg
Grass by Carl Sandburg
The People, Yes: 107 by Carl Sandburg
Soup by Carl Sandburg
They All Want To Play Hamlet by Carl Sandburg
In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave by Delmore Schwartz
The Repetitive Heart: 9 by Delmore Schwartz
American Poetry by Louis Simpson
Carentan O Carentan by Louis Simpson
The Climate Of Paradise by Louis Simpson
The Country House by Louis Simpson
Dvonya by Louis Simpson
My Father In The Night Commanding No by Louis Simpson
To The Western World by Louis Simpson
The Troika by Louis Simpson
Four Poems For Robin: A Spring Night In Shokoku-ji by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: An Autumn Morning In Skokoku-ji by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: December At Yase by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: Siwashing It Out .. In Sisulaw Forest by Gary Snyder
A Heifer Clambers Up by Gary Snyder
Long Hair by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 1. Second Shaman Song by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 8. John Muir On Mt. Ritter by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Hunting: 1. First Shaman Song by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Hunting: 6. This Poem Is For Bear by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Hunting: 8. This Poem Is For Deer by Gary Snyder
Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder
Piute Creek by Gary Snyder
Riprap by Gary Snyder
The Snow On Saddle Mountain by Gary Snyder
A Walk by Gary Snyder
1. by Wallace Stevens
1. by Wallace Stevens
4. by Wallace Stevens
6. by Wallace Stevens
7. by Wallace Stevens
7. The Soldier's Wound by Wallace Stevens
Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
Bantams In Pine-woods by Wallace Stevens
Dance Of The Macabre Mice by Wallace Stevens
Dry Loaf by Wallace Stevens
The Emperor Of Ice-cream by Wallace Stevens
A High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
The Idea Of Order At Key West by Wallace Stevens
The Irish Cliffs Of Moher by Wallace Stevens
Men Made Out Of Words by Wallace Stevens
Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: Prelude by Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince At The Clavier by Wallace Stevens
A Primitive Like And Orb by Wallace Stevens
The River Of Rivers In Connecticut by Wallace Stevens
The Sense Of The Sleight-of-hand Man by Wallace Stevens
So-and-so Reclining On Her Couch by Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
To An Old Philosopher In Rome by Wallace Stevens
In The Past by Trumbull Stickney
Mnemosyne by Trumbull Stickney
Aeneas At Washington by John Orley Allen Tate
Last Days Of Alice by John Orley Allen Tate
Mr. Pope by John Orley Allen Tate
Ode To The Confederate Dead by John Orley Allen Tate
The Paradigm by John Orley Allen Tate
Sonnets At Christmas: 1 by John Orley Allen Tate
Sonnets At Christmas: 2 by John Orley Allen Tate
The Subway by John Orley Allen Tate
The Swimmers by John Orley Allen Tate
The Wolves by John Orley Allen Tate
God's Determinations: The Preface by Edward Taylor
Huswifery by Edward Taylor
Let By Rain by Edward Taylor
Preparatory Meditations, 1st Series: 38 by Edward Taylor
Preparatory Meditations, 1st Series: 8 by Edward Taylor
Preparatory Meditations, 2d Series: 112 by Edward Taylor
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor
Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold by Edward Taylor
Inspiration (2) by Henry David Thoreau
My Prayer by Henry David Thoreau
Sic Vita by Henry David Thoreau
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
Winter Memories by Henry David Thoreau
Charleston by Henry Timrod
Ethnogenesis by Henry Timrod
Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston by Henry Timrod
The Cricket by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
November by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 1, 10 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 2, 11 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 2, 18 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 3, 10 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 4, 10 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnet: 4, 9 by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Under The Locust Blossoms by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
The Big Rock Candy Mountains (2) by Anonymous
De Ballit Of De Boll Weevil (2) by Anonymous
Take A Whiff On Me by Anonymous
Thar's More In The Man Than Thar Is In The Land by Anonymous
Do Down, Moses by Anonymous - African American
Frankie And Johnny by Anonymous - African American
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jerico by Anonymous - African American
The Clouded Morning by Jones Very
The Columbine by Jones Very
The Day Of Denial by Jones Very
The Dead by Jones Very
The Fair Morning by Jones Very
The Grave-yard by Jones Very
I Was Sick And In Prison by Jones Very
The Lament Of The Flowers by Jones Very
The Lost by Jones Very
The New Birth by Jones Very
The New Man by Jones Very
The Sumach Leaves by Jones Very
Thy Brother's Blood by Jones Very
The Trees Of Life by Jones Very
Yourself by Jones Very
1. After Night Flight Son Reaches Beside Of Already Unconscious Father by Robert Penn Warren
The Ballad Of Billie Potts by Robert Penn Warren
Bearded Oaks by Robert Penn Warren
Two Pieces After Suetonius: 1. Apology For Domitian by Robert Penn Warren
Two Pieces After Suetonius: 2. Tiberius On Capri by Robert Penn Warren
On Being Brought From Africa To America by Phillis Wheatley
Aboard At A Ship's Helm by Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
Elemental Drifts: 1 by Walt Whitman
Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun by Walt Whitman
I Saw In Louisiana A Live-oak Growing by Walt Whitman
In Paths Untrodden by Walt Whitman
'leaves Of Grass': Title Page by Walt Whitman
Long I Thought That Knowledge Alone Would Suffice Me by Walt Whitman
Me Imperturbe by Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
O Living Always, Always Dying! by Walt Whitman
On The Beach At Night by Walt Whitman
One's-self I Sing by Walt Whitman
Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn by Walt Whitman
Shut Not Your Doors To Me Proud Libraries by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman
Song Of The Open Road by Walt Whitman
To A Stranger by Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night by Walt Whitman
The Wound-dresser by Walt Whitman
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Ichabod by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Lost Occasion by John Greenleaf Whittier
My Playmate by John Greenleaf Whittier
My Triumph by John Greenleaf Whittier
Skipper Ireson's Ride by John Greenleaf Whittier
Snowbound by John Greenleaf Whittier
Telling The Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier
To My Old Schoolmaster by John Greenleaf Whittier
What The Birds Said by John Greenleaf Whittier
All These Birds by Richard Wilbur
Cigales by Richard Wilbur
Epistemology by Richard Wilbur
Grasse: The Olive Trees by Richard Wilbur
A Hole In The Floor; For Rene Magritte by Richard Wilbur
My Father Paints The Summer by Richard Wilbur
On The Marginal Way by Richard Wilbur
The Pardon by Richard Wilbur
Playboy by Richard Wilbur
A Voice From Under The Table by Richard Wilbur
A World Without Objects Is A Sensible Emptiness by Richard Wilbur
At Kenneth Burke's Place by William Carlos Williams
At The Ball Game by William Carlos Williams
Burning The Christmas Greens by William Carlos Williams
The Catholic Bells by William Carlos Williams
Coda by William Carlos Williams
The Dance (1) by William Carlos Williams
Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
The Horse Show by William Carlos Williams
Lear by William Carlos Williams
Ol' Bunk's Band by William Carlos Williams
Portrait Of A Lady by William Carlos Williams
Preface by William Carlos Williams
Queen-anne's-lace by William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
The Rose (2) by William Carlos Williams
The Semblables by William Carlos Williams
Spring And All by William Carlos Williams
These by William Carlos Williams
To Elsie by William Carlos Williams
To Ford Madox Ford In Heaven by William Carlos Williams
To Mark Anthony In Heaven by William Carlos Williams
Tract by William Carlos Williams
Unison by William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament In Springtime by William Carlos Williams
The Yachts by William Carlos Williams
At The San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters
John Sutter by Yvor Winters
On Teaching The Young by Yvor Winters
Orpheus; In Memory Of Hart Crane by Yvor Winters
The Rows Of Cold Trees by Yvor Winters
The Slow Pacific Swell by Yvor Winters
Theseus: A Trilogy; For Henry Ramsey by Yvor Winters
A Blessing by James Wright
A Breath Of Air by James Wright
Complaint by James Wright
Evening by James Wright
Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
Milkweed by James Wright
Saint Judas by James Wright
Three Sentences For A Dead Swan by James Wright
To Flood Stage Again by James Wright
Written In A Copy Of Swift's Poems, For Wayne Burns by James Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author
Richard Ellmann is Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature, Oxford University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1136 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 21, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195020588
• ISBN-13: 978-0195020588
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 2.1 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest American Poets, February 14, 2002

By	D. Scharlach "wanderer, barista, musician" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Why has no one reviewed this? This book is an absolutely engaging collection of some of America's greatest poets, containing names like ee cummings, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Longfellow, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson,etc.
In this book you'll find some of the most celebratory poems of indivuality, the darkest and deepest exorcisms of the soul, and some of poetry's greatest and most unique voices. This book will give you a different idea on the experience of America in literature, and show you what all those old school books were talking about so plainly and unenthusiastically. It's truly a gift to find all of these poems in one place. Try it out. Check it out from the library if nothing else. It will give you a better appreciation for poetry.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The New Oxford Book of American Verse, July 27, 2002

By	Joe Zika "Khemprof" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

The New Oxford Book of American Verse chosen and edited by Richard Ellman is comprised of some of the most celebrated American poetry ever written all in one easy to reference volume.

There are poems, folksongs and ballads; statesments in verse, hymns making this a very persuasive volume to own. You'll find Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound and Elliot in these pages, but more than that the selections given here to read are excellent and reflect independent thinking minds.

This is a very well put together volume and you'll enjoy the selections as they cover the full spectrum of life with a sublety toward American thought.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The New Oxford Book of American Verse, January 28, 2004

By	David (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews

Although I've worn my copy through (and I think Ellman is a genius), I don't enjoy his selections here as much as in earlier editions, especially Matthiessen's. Comparing the two in "Stand Fast I Must", John Updike said he found the latter edition "ponderous and indiscriminate". In the new edition, Robinson, Frost and Stevens are parsed down to make way for new faces like Philip Pain, Phillis Wheatley, and Frederick Tuckerman - as well as to clear extra room for Edward Taylor (one poem added to Matthiessen's choices, making it eight in the new edition) and Emily Dickinson. I love Dickinson, but Ellman gives her an extra 23 poems (bringing it up to 70).

Wallace Stevens loses 5 and H.D. gains 5, Amy Lowell goes from 3 to none, Marriane Moore goes from 16 to 13, and T.S. Eliot's 8 page "Ash-Wednesday" has been brought down to a snippet less than a page long. One of the few modern poets to benefit from the changes is Ezra Pound, who had 18 poems in the old edition and 23 in the new. Meanwhile, Thoreau remains the same but is completely (and perhaps unnecessarily) revamped. Tennyson, too, appears in a nearly new suit. I thought these changes were refreshing, but not quite as encompassing. Overall, it seemed like a decisive turn in favor of older works, and I would have liked more emphasis on post-19th century poetry, especially in a newer edition.