Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (Paperback)

by Richard Ellmann (Editor), Robert O'Clair (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review
In The Theatre by Dannie Abse
A New Diary by Dannie Abse
Not Adlestrop by Dannie Abse
Pathology Of Colours by Dannie Abse
Snake by Dannie Abse
A Winter Visit by Dannie Abse
2. by Conrad Aiken
54 by Conrad Aiken
Dear Uncle Stranger by Conrad Aiken
Herman Melville by Conrad Aiken
Priapus And The Pool: 3 by Conrad Aiken
Summer by Conrad Aiken
Aberdarcy: The Main Square by Kingsley Amis
Against Romanticism by Kingsley Amis
Dream Of Fair Women by Kingsley Amis
A Ever-fixed Mark by Kingsley Amis
New Approach Needed by Kingsley Amis
Science Fiction by Kingsley Amis
Sight Unseen by Kingsley Amis
The City Limits by Archie Randolph Ammons
Conserving The Magnitude Of Uselessness by Archie Randolph Ammons
Corsons Inlet by Archie Randolph Ammons
Easter Morning by Archie Randolph Ammons
Gravelly Run by Archie Randolph Ammons
Laser by Archie Randolph Ammons
Motion's Holdings by Archie Randolph Ammons
Parting by Archie Randolph Ammons
Singling & Doubling Together by Archie Randolph Ammons
Small Song by Archie Randolph Ammons
So I Said I Am Ezra by Archie Randolph Ammons
There Is A Faculty Or Knack, Smallish, In The Mind That Can Turn by Archie Randolph Ammons
1. by Michael Anania
The Edge Of Autumn by Michael Anania
Memorial Day by Michael Anania
Disregard by Florence Anthony
The Kid by Florence Anthony
Killing Floor by Florence Anthony
Salome by Florence Anthony
Twenty-year Marriage by Florence Anthony
Woman To Man by Florence Anthony
Forties Flick by John Ashbery
Hard Times by John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Knocking Around by John Ashbery
The One Thing That Can Save America by John Ashbery
Paradoxes And Oxymorons by John Ashbery
Rivers And Mountains by John Ashbery
Statuary by John Ashbery
Syringa by John Ashbery
The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
The Animals In That Country by Margaret Atwood
Daguerreotype Taken In Old Age by Margaret Atwood
Footnote To The Amnesty Report On Torture by Margaret Atwood
Men With The Heads Of Eagles by Margaret Atwood
Postcard by Margaret Atwood
The Puppet Of The Wolf by Margaret Atwood
Spelling by Margaret Atwood
They Eat Out by Margaret Atwood
This Is A Photograph Of Me by Margaret Atwood
Variations On The Word Love by Margaret Atwood
You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood
Adolescence by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Cutty Wren by Wystan Hugh Auden
Epitaph On A Tyrant by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of Sigmund Freud by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by Wystan Hugh Auden
Leap Before You Look by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Letter by Wystan Hugh Auden
Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
Mundus Et Infans by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Our Hunting Fathers Told The Story by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Shield Of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
Song by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnets From China: 13 by Wystan Hugh Auden
Supporting Cast, Sotto Voce: Miranda by Wystan Hugh Auden
Their Lonely Betters by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Wanderer by Wystan Hugh Auden
Who's Who by Wystan Hugh Auden
Babylon Revisited by Amiri Baraka
Balboa, The Entertainer by Amiri Baraka
Incident by Amiri Baraka
Legacy (for Blues People) by Amiri Baraka
A New Reality Is Better Than A New Movie! by Amiri Baraka
The New World by Amiri Baraka
A Poem For Speculative Hipsters by Amiri Baraka
Political Poem by Amiri Baraka
Dragging His Hunger Through The Sky by Samuel Beckett
Enueg Ii by Samuel Beckett
Ooftish by Samuel Beckett
Song by Samuel Beckett
What Would I Do Without This World Faceless Incurious by Samuel Beckett
The Bison by Hilaire Belloc
Charles Augustus Fortescue by Hilaire Belloc
Child, Do Not Throw This Book About by Hilaire Belloc
Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, And Was Eaten By A Lion by Hilaire Belloc
Lord Finchley by Hilaire Belloc
Lord Hippo by Hilaire Belloc
Sarah Byng by Hilaire Belloc
A Stands For Archibald Who Told No Lies by Hilaire Belloc
The Viper by Hilaire Belloc
The Yak by Hilaire Belloc
The Ball Poem by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 14 by John Berryman
Henry's Understanding by John Berryman
Of Suicide by John Berryman
A Professor's Song by John Berryman
Sonnet: 25 by John Berryman
The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel by John Betjeman
The Cottage Hospital by John Betjeman
False Security by John Betjeman
In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman
An Incident In The Early Life Of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 by John Betjeman
Slough by John Betjeman
A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman
Golden State by Frank Bidart
The Bear On The Delhi Road by Earl (earle) Birney
Bushed by Earl (earle) Birney
The Gray Woods Exploding by Earl (earle) Birney
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
Brazil, January 1, 1502 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Over 2000 Illustrations And A Complete Concordance by Elizabeth Bishop
Poem by Elizabeth Bishop
Some Dreams They Forgot by Elizabeth Bishop
The Unbeliever by Elizabeth Bishop
Abandoning Your Car In A Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia by Michael Blumenthal
Back From Word-processing Course, I Say To My Old Typewriter by Michael Blumenthal
The Elephants Dying by Michael Blumenthal
Inventors by Michael Blumenthal
The Litrajure Of Everyday Life by Michael Blumenthal
Who Will Live In Our Houses When We Die? by Michael Blumenthal
At Barstow by Robert Bly
Come With Me by Robert Bly
Evolution From The Fish by Robert Bly
Fiascherino by Robert Bly
The Great Society by Robert Bly
Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants by Robert Bly
Kneeling Down To Peer Into A Culvert by Robert Bly
My Father's Wedding: 1924 by Robert Bly
Swimming Chenango Lake by Robert Bly
Two Views Of Two Ghost Towns by Robert Bly
Didactic Piece by Louise Bogan
The Dream by Louise Bogan
M., Singing by Louise Bogan
Medusa by Louise Bogan
The Meeting by Louise Bogan
Women by Louise Bogan
Goose by Richard Emil Braun
The Lilies by Richard Emil Braun
Seeking An Explanation by Richard Emil Braun
London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges
Low Barometer by Robert Seymour Bridges
On A Dead Child by Robert Seymour Bridges
The Blackstone Rangers: 1. As Seen By Disciplines by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers: 2. The Leaders by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers: 3. Gang Girls; A Rangerette by Gwendolyn Brooks
Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Boy Died In My Alley by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Life Of Lincoln West by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Lovers Of The Poor Arrive by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Robert Frost by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Penitent Considers Another Coming Of Mary by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sadie And Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song In The Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
Young Africans by Gwendolyn Brooks
Briggflatts: 1 by Basil Bunting
First Book Of Odes: 30. The Orotava Road by Basil Bunting
On The Fly-leaf Of Pound's Cantos by Basil Bunting
Cannery Town In August by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Como Lo Siento by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Uncle's First Rabbit by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Visions Of Mexico While ... In Port Townsend, Washington by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Beach Glass by Amy Clampitt
A Cure At Porlock by Amy Clampitt
Dancers Exercising by Amy Clampitt
Gooseberry Fool by Amy Clampitt
A Hairline Fracture by Amy Clampitt
The Young Woman Of Beare by Austin Clarke
At Melville's Tomb by Harold Hart Crane
Ave Maria by Harold Hart Crane
Black Tambourine 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
My Grandmother's Love Letters by Harold Hart Crane
O Carib Isle! by Harold Hart Crane
Praise For An Urn; In Memoriam: Ernest Nelson by Harold Hart Crane
The River by Harold Hart Crane
Royal Palm; For Grace Hart Crane 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 Door; For Robert Duncan by Robert Creeley
The Faces by Robert Creeley
I Keep To Myself Such Measures by Robert Creeley
Naughty Boy by Robert Creeley
Self-portrait by Robert Creeley
Somewhere by Robert Creeley
A Wicker Basket by Robert Creeley
The Window by Robert Creeley
Heritage by Countee Cullen
Incident by Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen
1x1 (one Times One): 13 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 9 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 46 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 78 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 82 by Edward Estlin Cummings
La Guerre: 2 by Edward Estlin Cummings
New Poems: 22 by Edward Estlin Cummings
No Thanks: 27 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Post Impressions: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Song: 4 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet - Realities: 1 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Two: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 30 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 7 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Across The Bay by Donald Davie
Barnsley And District by Donald Davie
Devil On Ice by Donald Davie
In California by Donald Davie
With The Grain by Donald Davie
Dogs In The Morning Light by Bruce Dawe
Drifters by Bruce Dawe
First Corinthians At The Crossroads by Bruce Dawe
Gorilla Gorilla by Bruce Dawe
Happiness Is The Art Of Being Broken by Bruce Dawe
A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love by Bruce Dawe
Almost Human by Cecil Day Lewis
Do Not Expect Again A Phoenix Hour by Cecil Day Lewis
Sheepdog Trials In Hyde Park; For Robert Frost by Cecil Day Lewis
Two Songs: 1 by Cecil Day Lewis
Two Songs: 2 by Cecil Day Lewis
Two Songs: 2 by Cecil Day Lewis
The Listeners by Walter John De La Mare
A Portrait (1) by Walter John De La Mare
Scholars by Walter John De La Mare
The Song Of The Mad Prince by Walter John De La Mare
Thomas Hardy by Walter John De La Mare
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
Falling by James Dickey
The Heaven Of Animals by James Dickey
The Hospital Window by James Dickey
The Sheep Child by James Dickey
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Lobster Quadrille, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
A Long Tale by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The White Knight's Song by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lakes by David Donnell
Sandwiches by David Donnell
Fragment Sixty-eight by Hilda Doolittle
Garden: 1 by Hilda Doolittle
Garden: 2 by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Sea Rose by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 24 by Hilda Doolittle
Aristocrats by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Gallantry by Keith Castellaine Douglas
The Knife by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Soissons by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Adolescence: 1 by Rita Dove
Adolescence: 2 by Rita Dove
Adolescence: 3 by Rita Dove
Banneker by Rita Dove
Beauty And The Beast by Rita Dove
The Event by Rita Dove
The Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
The House Slave by Rita Dove
Parsley by Rita Dove
The Secret Garden by Rita Dove
'teach Us To Number Our Days' by Rita Dove
Weathering Out by Rita Dove
At Midsummer by Norman Dubie
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn In The Urals by Norman Dubie
Elegy For Wright & Hugo by Norman Dubie
Elizabeth's War With The Christmas Bear: 1601 by Norman Dubie
The Funeral by Norman Dubie
Lamentations by Norman Dubie
The Obscure by Norman Dubie
Against A Sickness: To The Female Double Principle God by Alan Dugan
Fabrication Of Ancestors by Alan Dugan
Glad At The Cold (1955) by Alan Dugan
How We Heard The Name by Alan Dugan
Internal Migration: On Being On Tour by Alan Dugan
Last Statement For A Last Oracle by Alan Dugan
Let Heroes Account To Love by Alan Dugan
Love Song: I And Thou by Alan Dugan
On Being A Householder by Alan Dugan
On Trees by Alan Dugan
Plague Of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan
Prayer by Alan Dugan
An African Elegy by Robert Duncan
Childhood's Retreat by Robert Duncan
A Little Language by Robert Duncan
Passage Over Water by Robert Duncan
Passages: 3. What I Saw by Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing by Robert Duncan
Rites Of Passage, Sels. by Robert Duncan
The Fury Of Aerial Bombardment by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
The Groundhog by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
The Hard Structure Of The World by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
A New England Bachelor by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
The Spider by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Cape Ann 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
New Hampshire 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
Ignorance Of Death by William Empson
Legal Fiction by William Empson
Missing Dates by William Empson
This Last Pain by William Empson
To An Old Lady by William Empson
Villanelle by William Empson
Captivity by Louise Erdrich
Family Reunion by Louise Erdrich
Francine's Room by Louise Erdrich
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich
The King Of Owls by Louise Erdrich
That Pull From The Left by Louise Erdrich
Windigo by Louise Erdrich
Daughter Of Earth And Child Of The Wave Be Appeased by William Everson
The Man-fate by William Everson
The Poet Is Dead by William Everson
The Raid by William Everson
Runoff by William Everson
Year's End by William Everson
Ella Mi Fu Rapita! by Gavin Ewart
The Larkin Automatic Car Wash by Gavin Ewart
An Old Husband Suspects Adultery by Gavin Ewart
Robert Graves by Gavin Ewart
Short Time by Gavin Ewart
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) by Gavin Ewart
Dead Soldiers by James Fenton
A German Requiem by James Fenton
God, A Poem by James Fenton
The Kingfisher's Boxing Gloves by James Fenton
This Octopus Exploits Women by James Fenton
A Coney Island Of The Mind: 1 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
People Getting Divorced by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
As Children Together by Carolyn Forche
Kalaloch by Carolyn Forche
The Memory Of Elena by Carolyn Forche
Reunion by Carolyn Forche
Taking Off My Clothes by Carolyn Forche
Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
The Bear by Robert Frost
The Bearer Of Evil Tidings by Robert Frost
Birches 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
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things by Robert Frost
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
Putting In The Seed by Robert Frost
Range-finding by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Sound Of The Trees 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
Tree At My Window, Window Tree by Robert Frost
Two Tramps In Mud Time by Robert Frost
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
The Wood-pile by Robert Frost
Autobiography Of A Lungworm by Roy Fuller
Crustaceans by Roy Fuller
Death by Roy Fuller
America by Allen Ginsberg
Homework by Allen Ginsberg
Last Night In Calcutta by Allen Ginsberg
Mugging by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
To Aunt Rose by Allen Ginsberg
Elms by Louise Gluck
Gretel In Darkness by Louise Gluck
Hyacinth by Louise Gluck
Labor Day by Louise Gluck
Mock Orange by Louise Gluck
The Mountain by Louise Gluck
Mythic Fragment by Louise Gluck
The Wound by Louise Gluck
The Blue-fly by Robert Ranke Graves
The Cool Web by Robert Ranke Graves
Devil's Advice To Story-tellers by Robert Ranke Graves
Down, Wanton, Down! by Robert Ranke Graves
Lost Acres by Robert Ranke Graves
My Name And I by Robert Ranke Graves
Ogres And Pygmies by Robert Ranke Graves
The Persian Version by Robert Ranke Graves
The Pier-glass by Robert Ranke Graves
Recalling War by Robert Ranke Graves
Rocky Acres by Robert Ranke Graves
To Juan At The Winter Solstice by Robert Ranke Graves
Ulysses by Robert Ranke Graves
Another Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries; Reply To Housman by Christopher Murray Grieve
British Leftish Poetry, 1930-40 by Christopher Murray Grieve
Cloudburst And Soaring Moon by Christopher Murray Grieve
In The Pantry by Christopher Murray Grieve
O Wha's The Bride? by Christopher Murray Grieve
Parley Of Beasts by Christopher Murray Grieve
The Sauchs In The Reuch Heuch Hauch by Christopher Murray Grieve
The Byrnies by Thomson William Gunn
Donahue's Sister by Thomson William Gunn
In The Tank by Thomson William Gunn
Misanthropos: Elegy On The Dust by Thomson William Gunn
Moly by Thomson William Gunn
My Sad Captains by Thomson William Gunn
Yoko by Thomson William Gunn
Almost Aubade by Marilyn Hacker
Canzone by Marilyn Hacker
Coda, Sels. by Marilyn Hacker
Feeling And Form by Marilyn Hacker
Mythology by Marilyn Hacker
Rondeau After A Transatlantic Telephone Call by Marilyn Hacker
Runaways Cafe: 2 by Marilyn Hacker
Taking Notice: 13. by Marilyn Hacker
At Casterbridge Fair: 2. Former Beauties by Thomas Hardy
Bereft by Thomas Hardy
A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
Channel Firing 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
For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly by Thomas Hardy
Going And Staying by Thomas Hardy
Hap by Thomas Hardy
The Harbour Bridge by Thomas Hardy
He Never Expected Much by Thomas Hardy
I Found Her Out There by Thomas Hardy
I Looked Up From My Writing by Thomas Hardy
In Tenebris: 1 by Thomas Hardy
In The Moonlight by Thomas Hardy
In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
Lines To A Movement In Mozart's E-flat Symphony by Thomas Hardy
Near Lanivet, 1872 by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
New Year's Eve by Thomas Hardy
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
A Poet by Thomas Hardy
The Respectable Burgher, On 'the Higher Criticism' by Thomas Hardy
Shut Out That Moon by Thomas Hardy
The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
American History by Michael S. Harper
Clan Meeting: Birth And Nations: A Blood Song by Michael S. Harper
Debridement by Michael S. Harper
Double Elegy by Michael S. Harper
Jazz Station by Michael S. Harper
Sandra: At The Beaver Trap by Michael S. Harper
Book Ends by Tony Harrison
The Call Of Nature by Tony Harrison
Durham by Tony Harrison
Heredity by Tony Harrison
History Classes by Tony Harrison
Lines To My Grandfather by Tony Harrison
Marked With D. by Tony Harrison
Me Tarzan by Tony Harrison
On Not Being Milton by Tony Harrison
Self Justification by Tony Harrison
Timer by Tony Harrison
Turns by Tony Harrison
The Ballad Of Sue Ellen Westerfield by Robert Earl Hayden
Bone-flower Elegy by Robert Earl Hayden
Double Feature by Robert Earl Hayden
For A Young Artist by Robert Earl Hayden
A Letter From Phillis Wheatley by Robert Earl Hayden
Mourning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday by Robert Earl Hayden
'mystery Boy' Looks For Kin In Nashville by Robert Earl Hayden
Perseus by Robert Earl Hayden
A Plague Of Starlings (fisk Campus) by Robert Earl Hayden
The Tattooed Man by Robert Earl Hayden
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Earl Hayden
Witch Doctor by Robert Earl Hayden
Alphabets by Seamus Heaney
Black Water. White Waves. Furrows Snowcapped by Seamus Heaney
Bog Queen by Seamus Heaney
Bogland; For T.p. Flanagan by Seamus Heaney
Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
A Hazel Stick For Catherine Ann by Seamus Heaney
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge by Seamus Heaney
Limbo by Seamus Heaney
Mossbawn: Two Poems In Dedication. 1. Sunlight by Seamus Heaney
The Otter by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
Requiem For The Croppies by Seamus Heaney
The Strand At Lough Beg by Seamus Heaney
Sweeney Redivivus by Seamus Heaney
Birdwatchers Of America by Anthony Hecht
The Deodand by Anthony Hecht
The Feast Of Stephen by Anthony Hecht
'it Out-herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It' by Anthony Hecht
'more Light! More Light!' by Anthony Hecht
Sestina D'inverno by Anthony Hecht
Apology For The Revival Of Christian Architecture In England by Geoffrey Hill
The Imaginative Life by Geoffrey Hill
In Memory Of Jane Fraser; An Attempted Reparation by Geoffrey Hill
Lachrimae; Or Seven Tears Figured In Seven Passionate Pavans by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 1 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 10 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 11 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 16 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 2 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 29 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 30 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 4 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 5 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 6 by Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns: 7 by Geoffrey Hill
Ovid In The Third Reich by Geoffrey Hill
Picture Of A Nativity by Geoffrey Hill
A Pre-raphaelite Notebook by Geoffrey Hill
Requiem Of The Plantagenet Kings by Geoffrey Hill
September Song by Geoffrey Hill
Back To Town by John Hollander
The Great Bear by John Hollander
A Lion Named Passion by John Hollander
Some Walks With You by John Hollander
Spectral Emanations: The Lady Of The Castle by John Hollander
Bodega, Goodbye by Edwin Honig
November Through A Giant Copper Beech by Edwin Honig
Now, My Usefulness Over by Edwin Honig
Sometimes While I Sleep by Edwin Honig
Tete-a-tete by Edwin Honig
Advice To Young Ladies by Alec Derwent Hope
Australia by Alec Derwent Hope
The Bed by Alec Derwent Hope
Beware Of Ruins by Alec Derwent Hope
Hay Fever by Alec Derwent Hope
Imperial Adam by Alec Derwent Hope
The Lingam And The Yoni by Alec Derwent Hope
Meditation On A Bone (a Piece Of Bone Found At Trondhjem) by Alec Derwent Hope
Observation Car by Alec Derwent Hope
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Bugler's First Communion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Duns Scotus's Oxford by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Habit Of Perfection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Terrible Sonnets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Winter With The Gulf Stream by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Wreck Of The Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux, And The Flowers by Alfred Edward Housman
The Cost Of Love by Alfred Edward Housman
Eight O'clock by Alfred Edward Housman
Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries by Alfred Edward Housman
Hell Gate by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 27 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 40 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 54 by Alfred Edward Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by Alfred Edward Housman
They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder by Alfred Edward Housman
Wake Not For The World-heard Thunder by Alfred Edward Housman
You Eat Your Victuals Fast Enough by Alfred Edward Housman
Oystering by Richard Howard
Wildflowers by Richard Howard
Crow's First Lesson by Edward James Hughes
The Horses by Edward James Hughes
Old Age Gets Up by Edward James Hughes
Orf by Edward James Hughes
Orts, Sels. by Edward James Hughes
An Otter by Edward James Hughes
Roe Deer by Edward James Hughes
Second Glance At A Jaguar by Edward James Hughes
Stations by Edward James Hughes
Theology by Edward James Hughes
Thistles by Edward James Hughes
The Thought-fox by Edward James Hughes
Wodwo by Edward James Hughes
50-50 by James Langston Hughes
Brass Spittoons by James Langston Hughes
Catch by James Langston Hughes
Madam's Past History by James Langston Hughes
Morning After by James Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by James Langston Hughes
Sylvester's Dying Bed by James Langston Hughes
Theme For English B by James Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues by James Langston Hughes
Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg by Richard Hugo
Ferniehirst Castle by Richard Hugo
The Freaks At Spurgin Road Field by Richard Hugo
The Lady In Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo
The Milltown Union Bar by Richard Hugo
Salt Water Story by Richard Hugo
The Way A Ghost Dissolves by Richard Hugo
White Center by Richard Hugo
90 North by Randall Jarrell
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell
A Game At Salzburg by Randall Jarrell
A Girl In A Library by Randall Jarrell
Next Day by Randall Jarrell
Thinking Of The Lost World by Randall Jarrell
Ave Caesar by Robinson Jeffers
Carmel Point by Robinson Jeffers
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones by Robinson Jeffers
Evening Ebb by Robinson Jeffers
The Eye by Robinson Jeffers
Fawn's Foster-mother by Robinson Jeffers
Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers
Love The Wild Swan by Robinson Jeffers
New Mexican Mountain 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
Vulture by Robinson Jeffers
Angle-land by David Jones
The Five Unmistakable Marks by David Jones
King Pellam's Launde by David Jones
Deliza Spend The Day In The City by June Jordan
July 4, 1984: For Buck by June Jordan
Nobody Riding The Roads Today by June Jordan
Notes On The Peanut by June Jordan
Onesided Dialog by June Jordan
Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
Second Poem From Nicaragua Libre: War Zone by June Jordan
You Came With Shells by June Jordan
Chamber Music: 27 by James Joyce
Ecce Puer by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake: Part 1, Sels. by James Joyce
The Holy Office by James Joyce
In Memory Of The Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn by Donald Justice
Men At Forty by Donald Justice
Nostalgia And Complaint Of The Grandparents by Donald Justice
Ode To A Dressmaker's Dummy by Donald Justice
On A Painting By Patient B Of Independence State Hospital by Donald Justice
The Tourist From Syracuse by Donald Justice
Variations On A Text By Vallejo by Donald Justice
1. by Patrick Kavanagh
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Come Dance With Kitty Stobling by Patrick Kavanagh
I Had A Future by Patrick Kavanagh
In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh
Tinker's Wife by Patrick Kavanagh
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell
The Angel by Galway Kinnell
Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye ... Students by Galway Kinnell
Flower Herding On Mount Monadnock by Galway Kinnell
For William Carlos Williams by Galway Kinnell
On The Oregon Coast by Galway Kinnell
The Seekonk Woods by Galway Kinnell
At The Crossroads by Thomas Kinsella
Baggot Street Deserta by Thomas Kinsella
A Character, Indistinct, Entered by Thomas Kinsella
Thinking Of Mr. D. by Thomas Kinsella
Wormwood: Je T'adore by Thomas Kinsella
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
Man Made Me, And My Will by Rudyard Kipling
Morning Song In The Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
The Nurses by Rudyard Kipling
A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
The Runes On Weland's Sword by Rudyard Kipling
Shillin' A Day by Rudyard Kipling
A Song To Mithras by Rudyard Kipling
The Storm Cone by Rudyard Kipling
The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
We And They by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow At Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
Autobiographical by Abraham Moses Klein
Portrait Of The Poet As Landscape by Abraham Moses Klein
Winter Night: Mount Royal by Abraham Moses Klein
The Bathtub Is White And Full Of Strips by Kenneth Koch
Geography by Kenneth Koch
Mending Sump by Kenneth Koch
To Marina by Kenneth Koch
Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch
How It Is by Maxine W. Kumin
In The Absence Of Bliss by Maxine W. Kumin
Seeing The Bones by Maxine W. Kumin
Spree by Maxine W. Kumin
Video Cuisine by Maxine W. Kumin
River Road by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
The War Against The Trees by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
The Wellfleet Whale by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Church Going by Philip Larkin
Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
The Explosion by Philip Larkin
Faith Healing by Philip Larkin
Forget What Did by Philip Larkin
Going, Going by Philip Larkin
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
Mcmxiv [1914] by Philip Larkin
Myxomatosis by Philip Larkin
Sad Steps by Philip Larkin
So Through That Unripe Day You Bore Your Head by Philip Larkin
Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
Toads by Philip Larkin
The Trees by Philip Larkin
Waiting For Breakfast, While She Brushed Her Hair by Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
The Argonauts by David Herbert Lawrence
Aware by David Herbert Lawrence
Bavarian Gentians by David Herbert Lawrence
The Bride by David Herbert Lawrence
Butterfly by David Herbert Lawrence
The Enkindled Spring by David Herbert Lawrence
Gloire De Dijon by David Herbert Lawrence
Humming-bird by David Herbert Lawrence
Last Lesson Of The Afternoon by David Herbert Lawrence
Love On The Farm by David Herbert Lawrence
Lui Et Elle by David Herbert Lawrence
Medlars And Sorb-apples by David Herbert Lawrence
Middle Of The World by David Herbert Lawrence
Piano by David Herbert Lawrence
Red Geranium And Godly Mignonette by David Herbert Lawrence
The Ship Of Death by David Herbert Lawrence
Sicilian Cyclamens by David Herbert Lawrence
Snake by David Herbert Lawrence
Whales Weep Not by David Herbert Lawrence
When I Read Shakespeare by David Herbert Lawrence
The Wild Common by David Herbert Lawrence
Worm Either Way by David Herbert Lawrence
You by David Herbert Lawrence
A Youth Mowing by David Herbert Lawrence
The Birth Of Tragedy by Irving Layton
Butterfly On Rock by Irving Layton
The Fertile Muck by Irving Layton
A Tall Man Executes A Jig by Irving Layton
The Ache Of Marriage by Denise Levertov
Caedmon by Denise Levertov
The Dog Of Art by Denise Levertov
Everything That Acts Is Actual by Denise Levertov
February Evenining In New York by Denise Levertov
Goodbye To Tolerance by Denise Levertov
Last Night's Dream by Denise Levertov
Matins: 1 by Denise Levertov
Pleasures by Denise Levertov
Prisoners by Denise Levertov
Song For Ishtar by Denise Levertov
A Time Past by Denise Levertov
Genius by Philip Levine
The Life Ahead by Philip Levine
Red Dust by Philip Levine
They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
To A Child Trapped In A Barber Shop by Philip Levine
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
Graceland Cemetery by Lyn Diane Lifshin
Beams by Audre Lorde
Coal by Audre Lorde
From The House Of Yemanja by Audre Lorde
Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde
Love Poem by Audre Lorde
Power by Audre Lorde
A Question Of Climate by Audre Lorde
The Women Of Dan Dance With Swords In Their Hands ... by Audre Lorde
After The Convention by Robert Lowell
After The Surprising Conversions by Robert Lowell
Dolphin by Robert Lowell
Epilogue by Robert Lowell
Ezra Pound by Robert Lowell
For The Union Dead by Robert Lowell
It Did by Robert Lowell
Memories Of West Street And Lepke by Robert Lowell
Notice by Robert Lowell
The Old Flame by Robert Lowell
The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket by Robert Lowell
Robert Frost by Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
T.s. Eliot by Robert Lowell
'to Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage' by Robert Lowell
Violence by Robert Lowell
Conquistador by Archibald Macleish
The End Of The World by Archibald Macleish
You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus by Archibald Macleish
You, Andrew Marvell by Archibald Macleish
Bad Dream by Frederick Louis Macneice
Bagpipe Music by Frederick Louis Macneice
Brother Fire by Frederick Louis Macneice
Carrickfergus by Frederick Louis Macneice
An Eclogue For Christmas by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Libertine by Frederick Louis Macneice
Nature Morte by Frederick Louis Macneice
Snow by Frederick Louis Macneice
This Is The Life by Frederick Louis Macneice
Variation On Heraclitus by Frederick Louis Macneice
Wolves by Frederick Louis Macneice
Marx The Sign Painter by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Amanda Barker by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Elsa Wertman by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Hamilton Greene 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
America by Claude Mckay
The Harlem Dancer by Claude Mckay
If We Must Die by Claude Mckay
The Tropics In New York by Claude Mckay
The White City by Claude Mckay
Bachelor by William Meredith
Crossing Over by William Meredith
Dying Away by William Meredith
Last Things by William Meredith
On Falling Asleep By Firelight by William Meredith
To The Thoughtful Reader by William Meredith
The Book Of Ephraim, Selection by James Ingram Merrill
The Broken Home by James Ingram Merrill
Interlude by James Ingram Merrill
Lost In Translation; For Richard Howard by James Ingram Merrill
The Pier: Under Pisces by James Ingram Merrill
The Victor Dog by James Ingram Merrill
The Burnt Child by William Stanley Merwin
The Drunk In The Furnace by William Stanley Merwin
Footprints On The Glacier by William Stanley Merwin
Hearing by William Stanley Merwin
Home For Thanksgiving by William Stanley Merwin
The Last One by William Stanley Merwin
Leviathan by William Stanley Merwin
Plea For A Captive by William Stanley Merwin
Belief by Josephine Miles
Bounty by Josephine Miles
The Entrepreneur Chicken Shed His Tail Feathers, Surplus by Josephine Miles
Fields Of Learning by Josephine Miles
Forecast by Josephine Miles
In Identity by Josephine Miles
Made Shine by Josephine Miles
On Inhabiting An Orange by Josephine Miles
Preliminary To Classroom Lecture by Josephine Miles
Reason by Josephine Miles
So Graven by Josephine Miles
Tally by Josephine Miles
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Grown-up by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Return by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 105. Fatal Interview: 36 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 121. Fatal Interview: 52 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 98. Fatal Interview: 30 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
To A Calvinist In Bali by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Critics And Connoisseurs by Marianne Moore
The Fish by Marianne Moore
A Grave by Marianne Moore
He Digesteth Harde Yron by Marianne Moore
The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
Poetry (further Revised) by Marianne Moore
Spenser's Ireland by Marianne Moore
The Steeple-jack by Marianne Moore
What Are Years? by Marianne Moore
The Absent by Edwin Muir
Ballad Of Hector In Hades by Edwin Muir
The Horses by Edwin Muir
The Mythical Journey by Edwin Muir
One Foot In Eden by Edwin Muir
The Refugees by Edwin Muir
The Three Mirrors by Edwin Muir
The Wheel by Edwin Muir
The Big House by Paul Muldoon
Brock by Paul Muldoon
The Glad Eye by Paul Muldoon
Hedgehog by Paul Muldoon
The Lass Of Aughrim by Paul Muldoon
Making The Move by Paul Muldoon
Meeting The British by Paul Muldoon
The Right Arm by Paul Muldoon
The Weepies by Paul Muldoon
Burial Of The Dog by Susan Musgrave
I Am Not A Conspiracy Everything ... Not Everywhere by Susan Musgrave
Salad Days by Susan Musgrave
The Author To His Body On Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 Ii 80 by Howard Nemerov
The Brief Journey West by Howard Nemerov
The Goose Fish by Howard Nemerov
Gyroscope by Howard Nemerov
I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee by Howard Nemerov
The Icehouse In Summer (see Amos, 3:15) by Howard Nemerov
More Joy In Heaven by Howard Nemerov
Reading Pornography In Old Age by Howard Nemerov
Style by Howard Nemerov
Wolves In The Zoo by Howard Nemerov
Chez Jane by Frank O'hara
The Day Lady Died by Frank O'hara
Les Luths by Frank O'hara
Poem by Frank O'hara
Poem (at Night Chinamen Jump) by Frank O'hara
Rhapsody by Frank O'hara
A Newly Discovered 'homeric' Hymn (for Jane Harrison) by Charles Olson
Off-shore, By Islands Hidden In The Blood by Charles Olson
The Songs Of Maximus: Song 1 by Charles Olson
Biography by Michael Ondaatje
Burning Hills by Michael Ondaatje
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
Inner Tube by Michael Ondaatje
Letters & Other Worlds by Michael Ondaatje
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen
Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
Deaf-mute In The Pear Tree by Patricia Kathleen Page
Images Of Angels by Patricia Kathleen Page
Kaleidoscope by Patricia Kathleen Page
Photos Of A Salt Mine by Patricia Kathleen Page
The Stenographers by Patricia Kathleen Page
Suffering by Patricia Kathleen Page
T-bar by Patricia Kathleen Page
War Lord In The Early Evenings by Patricia Kathleen Page
The Cast Off by Marge Piercy
The Cyclist by Marge Piercy
Last Scene In The First Act by Marge Piercy
Leaning Experience by Marge Piercy
The Moon Is Always Female by Marge Piercy
Postcard From The Garden by Marge Piercy
Doctor Frolic by Robert Pinsky
The Figured Wheel by Robert Pinsky
It's Crazy To Think One Could Describe Them by Robert Pinsky
The Living by Robert Pinsky
The Questions by Robert Pinsky
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Elm; For Ruth Fainlight by Sylvia Plath
Father, Son, And Holy Ghost by Sylvia Plath
Fever 103 Degrees by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Poppies In October by Sylvia Plath
The Cost Of Seriousness by Peter Porter
An Exequy by Peter Porter
Happening At Sordid Creek by Peter Porter
The King Of The Cats Is Dead by Peter Porter
Sydney Cove, 1788 by Peter Porter
Canto 1 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 1. E.p. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre by Ezra Pound
Mauberley: 1 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
The Temperaments by Ezra Pound
Lament For The Dorsets by Alfred Wellington Purdy
The Madwoman On The Train by Alfred Wellington Purdy
Spinning by Alfred Wellington Purdy
Winter Walking by Alfred Wellington Purdy
An Old Malediction by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Simplicity by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
An Attempt At Jealousy by Craig Raine
City Gent by Craig Raine
Dandelions by Craig Raine
In Modern Dress by Craig Raine
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home by Craig Raine
Nature Study by Craig Raine
The Onion, Memory by Craig Raine
Bag Woman by Dudley Randall
Ballad Of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
Booker T. And W.e.b. by Dudley Randall
George by Dudley Randall
Old Witherington by Dudley Randall
A Poet Is Not A Jukebox by Dudley Randall
Vacant Lot by Dudley Randall
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter by John Crowe Ransom
Blue Girls by John Crowe Ransom
Dead Boy by John Crowe Ransom
The Equilibrists by John Crowe Ransom
Here Lies A Lady by John Crowe Ransom
Janet Waking by John Crowe Ransom
Judith Of Bethulia by John Crowe Ransom
Painted Head by John Crowe Ransom
Philomela by John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece by John Crowe Ransom
The Bad Old Days by Kenneth Rexroth
Proust's Madeleine by Kenneth Rexroth
Vitamins And Roughage by Kenneth Rexroth
The Wheel Rovolves by Kenneth Rexroth
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Face To Face by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Grandmothers: 1. Mary Gravely Jones by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Grandmothers: 2. Hattie Rice Rich by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Orion by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Planetarium by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Snapshots Of A Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Yom Kippur 1984 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
At Kino Viejo, Mexico by Alberto Alvaro Rios
A Dream Of Husbands by Alberto Alvaro Rios
I Held His Name by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Island Of The Three Marias by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Madre Sofia by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Man Who Became Old by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Calverly's by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Cassandra by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Companion by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Dark Hills by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Firelight by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Flammonde by Edwin Arlington Robinson
For A Dead Lady by Edwin Arlington Robinson
How Annandale Went Out by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Mill by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The New Tenants by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Sheaves by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Souvenir by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Supremacy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Tact by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Cuttings by Theodore Roethke
Dolor 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
Long Live The Weeds That Overwhelm by Theodore Roethke
The Minimal by Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
North American Sequence: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
Open House by Theodore Roethke
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Wish For A Young Wife by Theodore Roethke
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
Louse Hunting by Isaac Rosenberg
The Mirror by Isaac Rosenberg
Returning, We Hear The Larks by Isaac Rosenberg
Ballad Of Orange And Grape by Muriel Rukeyser
The Book Of The Dead: Alloy by Muriel Rukeyser
Boy With His Hair Cut Short by Muriel Rukeyser
Paper Anniversary by Muriel Rukeyser
Seventh Avenue by Muriel Rukeyser
Woman As Market by Muriel Rukeyser
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Cool Tombs by Carl Sandburg
Grass by Carl Sandburg
Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
The Rear-guard by Siegfried Sassoon
Repression Of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon
Darwin In 1881 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Two Tales Of Clumsy, Sels. by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers by Delmore Schwartz
In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave by Delmore Schwartz
The Mind Is An Ancient And Famous Capital by Delmore Schwartz
The Repetitive Heart: 9 by Delmore Schwartz
The Winter Twilight, Glowing Black And Gold by Delmore Schwartz
All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton
Crossing The Atlantic by Anne Sexton
The Starry Night by Anne Sexton
The Truth The Dead Know by Anne Sexton
Unknown Girl In The Maternity Ward by Anne Sexton
Wanting To Die by Anne Sexton
The Alphabet by Karl Shapiro
The Dome Of Sunday by Karl Shapiro
Lower The Standard: That's My Motto by Karl Shapiro
Manhole Covers by Karl Shapiro
The Piano Tuner's Wife by Karl Shapiro
In Cold Storm Light by Leslie Marmon Silko
It Was A Long Time Before by Leslie Marmon Silko
Long Time Ago by Leslie Marmon Silko
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story; For Simon Ortiz, July 1973 by Leslie Marmon Silko
After Midnight by Louis Simpson
American Poetry by Louis Simpson
The Man Who Married Magdalene by Louis Simpson
My Father In The Night Commanding No by Louis Simpson
Sway by Louis Simpson
White Oxen by Louis Simpson
Aubade by Edith Sitwell
Country Dance by Edith Sitwell
The Poet Laments The Coming Of Old Age by Edith Sitwell
Still Falls The Rain; The Raids, 1940. Night And Dawn by Edith Sitwell
Bats by Dave Smith
Cleaning A Fish by Dave Smith
Hole, Where Once In Passion We Swam by Dave Smith
Pink Slip At Tool And Dye by Dave Smith
The Roundhouse Voices by Dave Smith
Snapshot Of A Crab-picker Among Barrels Spilling Over by Dave Smith
Admire Cranmer! by Florence Margaret Smith
Exeat by Florence Margaret Smith
Great Unaffected Vampires And The Moon by Florence Margaret Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Pretty by Florence Margaret Smith
Sunt Leones by Florence Margaret Smith
Thoughts About The Person From Porlock by Florence Margaret Smith
To Carry The Child by Florence Margaret Smith
Was He Married? by Florence Margaret Smith
Albert Speer by William Dewitt Snodgrass
April Inventory by William Dewitt Snodgrass
The Campus On The Hill by William Dewitt Snodgrass
I Thumped On You The Best I Could by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Axe Handles by Gary Snyder
The Elwha River by Gary Snyder
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
Geese Gone Beyond by Gary Snyder
Getting In The Wood by Gary Snyder
The Grand Entry by Gary Snyder
How Do You Shape An Axe Handle? by Gary Snyder
Meeting The Mountains by Gary Snyder
Old Woman Nature by Gary Snyder
Riprap by Gary Snyder
The Snow On Saddle Mountain by Gary Snyder
Beauty And Sadness by Cathy Song
Heaven by Cathy Song
Leaving by Cathy Song
Lost Sister by Cathy Song
The Vegetable Air by Cathy Song
Waterwings by Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter by Cathy Song
After Tonight by Gary Soto
Chiapas by Gary Soto
Craciela by Gary Soto
The Drought by Gary Soto
The Elements Of San Joaquin: Wind (2) by Gary Soto
How Things Work by Gary Soto
The Jungle Cafe by Gary Soto
Making Money: Drought Year In Minkler, California by Gary Soto
The Map by Gary Soto
Oranges by Gary Soto
The Tale Of Sunlight by Gary Soto
Blue Arm by Bernard Spencer
Delos by Bernard Spencer
Egyptian Dancer At Shubra by Bernard Spencer
Olive Trees by Bernard Spencer
Yachts On The Nile by Bernard Spencer
The Express by Stephen Spender
The Funeral by Stephen Spender
The Landscape Near An Aerodrome by Stephen Spender
Not Palaces, An Era's Crown by Stephen Spender
One More New Botched Beginning by Stephen Spender
Polar Exploration by Stephen Spender
The Pylons by Stephen Spender
What I Expected Was by Stephen Spender
After Arguing Against The Contention ... From Discontent by William Edgar Stafford
At The Bomb Testing Site by William Edgar Stafford
Christianite by William Edgar Stafford
Humanities Lecture by William Edgar Stafford
The Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey Found by William Edgar Stafford
Monuments For A Friendly Girl At A Tenth Grade Party by William Edgar Stafford
Report To Crazy Horse by William Edgar Stafford
Tourist Country by William Edgar Stafford
Traveling Through The Dark by William Edgar Stafford
Visions by William Edgar Stafford
The Almond Tree by Jon Stallworthy
A Letter From Berlin by Jon Stallworthy
Letter To A Friend by Jon Stallworthy
Mother Tongue by Jon Stallworthy
A Poem About Poems About Vietnam by Jon Stallworthy
Pour Commencer by Jon Stallworthy
George Hugnet by Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado by Gertrude Stein
A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson by Gertrude Stein
1. by Wallace Stevens
Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
Bantams In Pine-woods by Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment Of Ten O'clock by Wallace Stevens
The Emperor Of Ice-cream by Wallace Stevens
Farewell To Florida by Wallace Stevens
A High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
The Idea Of Order At Key West by Wallace Stevens
The Man On The Dump by Wallace Stevens
Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: Conclusion by Wallace Stevens
Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens
The Old Lutheran Bells At Home by Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince At The Clavier by Wallace Stevens
The Plain Sense Of Things by Wallace Stevens
A Postcard From The Volcano by Wallace Stevens
A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
Reality Is An Activity Of The Most August Imagination by Wallace Stevens
The Sense Of The Sleight-of-hand Man by Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
Study Of Two Pears 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
The Worms At Heaven's Gate by Wallace Stevens
'the Dreadful Has Already Happened' by Mark Strand
Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
The Garden by Mark Strand
In Celebration by Mark Strand
Letter by Mark Strand
The Marriage by Mark Strand
My Life by Mark Strand
The Blue Booby by James Tate
The Chaste Stranger by James Tate
Intimidations Of An Autobiography by James Tate
The Lost Pilot by James Tate
The Motorcyclists by James Tate
Poem To Some Of My Recent Poems by James Tate
Stray Animals by James Tate
A Vagabond by James Tate
A Wedding by James Tate
The Wheelchair Butterfly by James Tate
Aeneas At Washington by John Orley Allen Tate
Mr. Pope by John Orley Allen Tate
Ode To The Confederate Dead by John Orley Allen Tate
The Swimmers by John Orley Allen Tate
To The Lacedemonians by John Orley Allen Tate
And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower by Dylan Thomas
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City by Dylan Thomas
The Hunchback In The Park by Dylan Thomas
In My Craft Or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
Poem In October by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
Twenty-four Years Remind The Tears Of My Eyes by Dylan Thomas
When All My Five And Country Senses See by Dylan Thomas
The Gallows by Philip Edward Thomas
The Green Roads by Philip Edward Thomas
The Gypsy by Philip Edward Thomas
October by Philip Edward Thomas
The Owl by Philip Edward Thomas
Some Eyes Condemn by Philip Edward Thomas
Sonnet: 2. February Afternoon by Philip Edward Thomas
When First by Philip Edward Thomas
Mr. Brodsky by Charles Tomlinson
On A Pig's Head by Charles Tomlinson
Snow Signs by Charles Tomlinson
Cane: Her Lips Are Copper Wire by Jean Toomer
Cane: November Cotton Flower by Jean Toomer
Georgia Dusk by Jean Toomer
Reapers by Jean Toomer
Crying In Early Infancy by John Tranter
The Great Artist Reconsiders The Homeric Simile by John Tranter
Mark by John Tranter
At The Movie: Virginia, 1956 by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Blue Ridge by Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Spire by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Year's End by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Advice To The Orchestra by David Wagoner
The Best Slow Dancer by David Wagoner
Elegy For A Forest Clear-cut By The Weyerhaeuser Company by David Wagoner
The Man Of The House by David Wagoner
Poem About Breath by David Wagoner
The Singing Lesson by David Wagoner
To A Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks On His Barbed Wire by David Wagoner
A Victorian Idyll by David Wagoner
A Young Girl With A Pitcher Full Of Water by David Wagoner
Belly Dancer by Diane Wakoski
The Father Of My Country by Diane Wakoski
The Hitchhikers by Diane Wakoski
Thanking My Mother For Piano Lessons by Diane Wakoski
A Valentine For Ben Franklin Who Drives A Truck In C.a. by Diane Wakoski
Codicil by Derek Walcott
A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
Frederiksted, Dusk by Derek Walcott
Gaugin by Derek Walcott
The Man Who Loved Islands; A Two Page Outline by Derek Walcott
Midsummer: 36 by Derek Walcott
Port Of Spain by Derek Walcott
Winding Up by Derek Walcott
Bearded Oaks by Robert Penn Warren
Island Of Summer: 4. Riddle In The Garden by Robert Penn Warren
Or Else: 12. Flaubert In Egypt by Robert Penn Warren
Or Else: 19. There's A Grandfather's Clock In The Hall by Robert Penn Warren
Penological Study: 3. Wet Hair: If Now His Mother Should Come by Robert Penn Warren
Promises: 8. Founding Fathers, Nineteenth-century Style, Southeast U.s by Robert Penn Warren
Revelation by Robert Penn Warren
Daylights by Rosanna Warren
Funerary Portraits by Rosanna Warren
Interior At Petworth: From Turner by Rosanna Warren
Clothes Maketh The Man (to Be Read Aloud Awkwardly) by Theodore Russell Weiss
The Fire At Alexandria by Theodore Russell Weiss
A Pair Of Shoes by Theodore Russell Weiss
Ten Little Rembrandts by Theodore Russell Weiss
The Ultimate Antientropy by Theodore Russell Weiss
Arizona Highways by James Welch
Christmas Comes To Moccasin Flat by James Welch
Day After Chasing Porcupines by James Welch
Grandma's Man by James Welch
Magic Fox by James Welch
The Man From Washington by James Welch
Never Give A Bum An Even Break by James Welch
For Heather, Entering Kindergarten by Roberta Hill Whiteman
Horses In Snow by Roberta Hill Whiteman
In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum by Roberta Hill Whiteman
Star Quilt by Roberta Hill Whiteman
By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame by Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing A Ford by Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
I Saw In Louisiana A Live-oak Growing by Walt Whitman
Respondez! by Walt Whitman
A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 1 by Walt Whitman
To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman
When I Heard At The Close Of The Day by Walt Whitman
Ceremony by Richard Wilbur
The Death Of A Toad by Richard Wilbur
Grasse: The Olive Trees by Richard Wilbur
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World by Richard Wilbur
The Mind-reader by Richard Wilbur
Pangloss's Song: A Comic-opera Lyric by Richard Wilbur
The Pardon by Richard Wilbur
Playboy by Richard Wilbur
Teresa by Richard Wilbur
A World Without Objects Is A Sensible Emptiness by Richard Wilbur
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde
He Did Not Wear His Scarlet Coat by Oscar Wilde
Impression Du Matin by Oscar Wilde
Symphony In Yellow by Oscar Wilde
At The Ball Game by William Carlos Williams
Best Minds Destroyed by William Carlos Williams
Burning The Christmas Greens by William Carlos Williams
The Dance (1) by William Carlos Williams
The Delineaments Of The Giants by William Carlos Williams
Edward %paterson Has Grown Older by William Carlos Williams
Flowers By The Sea by William Carlos Williams
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
The Ivy Crown by William Carlos Williams
Pictures From Brueghel: 2. Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus 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
Raleigh Was Right (first Version) by William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Spring And All by William Carlos Williams
Sunday In The Park With Soutien-george by William Carlos Williams
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
Tract by William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament In Springtime by William Carlos Williams
The Yachts by William Carlos Williams
The Young Housewife by William Carlos Williams
John Sutter by Yvor Winters
On Teaching The Young by Yvor Winters
Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight by Yvor Winters
The Slow Pacific Swell by Yvor Winters
Time And The Garden by Yvor Winters
A Blessing by James Wright
In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse..condemned by James Wright
The Journey by James Wright
A Mad Fight Song For William S. Carpenter, 1966 by James Wright
Minneapolis Poem by James Wright
Sappho by James Wright
A Secret Gratitude by James Wright
Small Frogs Killed On The Highway by James Wright
Snowfall: A Poem About Spring by James Wright
You And I Saw Hawks Exchanging The Prey by James Wright
Australia 1970 by Judith Wright
The Beanstalk, Meditated Later by Judith Wright
Bora Ring by Judith Wright
'dove-love' by Judith Wright
Drought Year by Judith Wright
Flood Year by Judith Wright
Ishtar by Judith Wright
Remittance Man by Judith Wright
Request To A Year by Judith Wright
An Acre Of Grass by William Butler Yeats
Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats
Aedh Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
Beggar To Beggar Cried by William Butler Yeats
Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Cap And Bells by William Butler Yeats
The Choice by William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion by William Butler Yeats
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
The Cold Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 by William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul by William Butler Yeats
The Dolls by William Butler Yeats
Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
Fragment by William Butler Yeats
Friends by William Butler Yeats
The Gyres by William Butler Yeats
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats
In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner (2) by William Butler Yeats
Lapis Lazuli (for Henry Clifton) by William Butler Yeats
Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
Long-legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
The Magi by William Butler Yeats
The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
News For The Delphic Oracle by William Butler Yeats
No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Joined Agitation .. by William Butler Yeats
A Prayer For My Daughter by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
September 1913 by William Butler Yeats
Solomon And The Witch by William Butler Yeats
The Song Of The Happy Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
The Sorrow Of Love (1) by William Butler Yeats
The Statues by William Butler Yeats
Supernatural Songs: 12. Meru by William Butler Yeats
To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee (1) by William Butler Yeats
To Ireland In The Coming Times by William Butler Yeats
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time by William Butler Yeats
The Tower by William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats
Vacillation by William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
Who Goes With Fergus? by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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• Paperback: 1865 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 Sub edition (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393956369
• ISBN-13: 978-0393956368
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.6 x 2.4 inches
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Anthology, Excellent Intros..., March 26, 2002

By	"encolp1850" (Tenn.-- Pittsfield; Pfaff's; and Petitpas'...) - See all my reviews

If you access the reviews of this work at this site,
then you had better be prepared to try to figure out
why the other reviewers have written what they have written.
The collections of poems for each poet, and the
essay introductions are both excellent. People who
don't know poetry or poets might not find them
helpful, but for knowledgable readers of poetry,
this Norton Anthology is of high quality, indeed.
I especially like the Norton editions' excellent
footnotes. Here is a footnote to Yeats's poem
"To the Rose upon the Rood of Time." "The rose, as
an image of transfiguration and fulfillment, is a
frequent symbol in Yeats's poetry of this period
[1892]. In a note dated 1925, he remarks of it
'that the quality symbolised as The Rose differs
from the Intellectual Beauty of Shelley and of
Spenser in that I have imagined it as suffering
with man and not as something pursued and seen
from afar.' The title indicates, and line 12
confirms, that the rose is here eternal beauty,
which flowers from the cross of time and sacrifice."
(p. 113) I think that note is extremely insightful
and helpful. Of course, it also helps greatly if
you know who Shelley and Spenser are (and were),
what types of works they wrote, and what their
most famous works and themes are. If you have
not had that intellectual and educational background,
then, of course, the note will seem meaningless.
This is an anthology which can be read by scholars
and enthusiasts. Read the poems for their wealth
of value and tones and visions -- read the notes
and the introductory essays for insightful,
meaningful information about the poets, their lives,
their struggles, and their accomplishments.
My own favorites in the anthology are: Emily
Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, some of
W.B. Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Ezra Pound, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon,
Robinson Jeffers, T.S. Eliot, and Wilfred Owen.
Of course, there are many more poets and poems
than these that appeal to me personally.
Here is a brief excerpt from the beginning of
the essay on "Emily Dickinson": "Modern American
poetry [in this anthlogy there are both American
and British poets arranged chronologically according
to their birth dates] -- an expression meaning almost
the same thing as 'American poetry' -- has for one
of its founders and ancestral presences a woman.
Emily Dickinson wrote poems which are not only
excellent but lend a standard of excellence. She is
bracketed with Walt Whitman because, unknown to each
other and almost simultaneously, they all but invented
American poetry."
I cannot understand why anyone could not find that
helpful as the beginning of an insightful analysis
of the poet, her poetry, and her influence.

43 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good single source for modern poetry, but poorly edited., August 3, 1999

By A Customer

Having been weaned as an English major on the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.'s 1 & 2, (Abrams), I expected this anthology to lead me through modern poetry with the same sure hand as the previous Norton anthologies had. At first glance, this tome would appear to be superbly equipped to do just that; containing an overwhelming 1580 poems, at over 1800 pages, spanning a time period from Whitman (b. 1819) to Cathy Song (b. 1955), and featuring scores of poets I have never even heard of, it offers, if nothing else, the convenience of finding in one place a huge variety and depth of modern poetry.

I do not fault the poetry itself (though they harbor a healthy number of typographical errors). It is in the editing that this book falls down. The Abrams editions I knew and trusted in college embodied a severe utilitarian scholarliness; no superfluity or self-indulgence is to be found anywhere within their thousands and thousands of pages. The introductions and footnotes are above all useful and necessary.

Not so with Ellmann's tome. The introductions all too often are marred by verbosity, self-indulgence, impressionism, a distinct paucity of hard data, of biographical and historical fact, and, worst of all, offer no real insight into the poems at hand as much as distract from them. In too many instances the commentary contains more words than the work commented upon, which makes one suspicious that the academics who wrote them were trying to steal the show, were in fact, er, full of themselves.

The contrast in treatment between poets included previously in Abrams's Anthology of English Literature and those found only in this one is telling. The former benefit from conciseness and informativeness obviously borrowed, often actually word for word, from the Abrams volumes. The latter fare much worse. In other words, this work does a much better job of treading well-worn paths than striking out on its own into new territory.

I fault the font used, as well. It is too small and makes for eye strain. There is more empty space on the pages than print, again in contrast to the Anthology of English Lit. I suspect this may be the result of the aseptic minimalism of modernism, which often strikes me as a transmuted death wish, a wish to disappear. The chatter of the contributing editors,however, where this modern asceticism might have produced happier results, seems immune.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Book, August 4, 2005

By	Joshua Miller (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It encompasses a staggering amount of poetry out there, and is the perfect introduction to poetry.