Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry (Paperback)

by Wolfgang Mieder (Editor)

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Pantomime Diseases by Dannie Abse
Cinderella by Feroz Ahmed-ud-din
The Princess Addresses The Frog Prince by Elizabeth Brewster
Cinderella by Olga Broumas
Little Red Riding Hood by Olga Broumas
Rapunzel by Olga Broumas
Snow White by Olga Broumas
Dornoschen by Hayden Carruth
Red Riding Hood by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Ripening by Noelle Caskey
Mythics by Helen Chasin
Snow White by Robert M. Chute
The Sleeping Beauty by Leonard Cohen
Rose Red To Snow White by Joan Colby
Dreambooks by Alfred Dewitt Corn
Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf by Roald Dahl
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs by Roald Dahl
The Princess In The Ivory Tower by Joy Davidman
The Sleeping Beauty by Walter John De La Mare
The Dolls Play At Hansel And Gretel by William Dickey
Epithalamium by John Ditsky
Coach by Eleanor Farjeon
Cinderella Grass by Aileen Fisher
Fairy Tales by Jane Flanders
The Sleeping Beauty by Sara De Ford
Beauty, Sleeping by Arthur Freeman
Ella Of The Cinders by Mary Blake French
Snow White by Robert Gillespie
Gretel In Darkness by Louise Gluck
The Frog And The Golden Ball by Robert Ranke Graves
Mirror by Donald Hall
Antistrophe by William Hathaway
The Gold Factory by William Hathaway
In Dead Air, Under Furious Sun by William Hathaway
Liar Rumplestiltskin Loves by William Hathaway
Rumplestiltskin's Plan by William Hathaway
The Benefactors by Sara Henderson Hay
Interview by Sara Henderson Hay
Juvenile Court by Sara Henderson Hay
The Marriage by Sara Henderson Hay
The Name by Sara Henderson Hay
One Of The Seven Has Something To Say by Sara Henderson Hay
The Princess by Sara Henderson Hay
Rapunzel by Sara Henderson Hay
The Sleeper by Sara Henderson Hay
Rebels From Fairy Tales by Hyacinthe Hill
And When The Prince Came by Robert Silliman Hillyer
Coup De Grace by Anthony D. Hope
Cinderella Liberated by Anne Hussey
The Sleeping Beauty by Mary Hutton
Cinderella by Randall Jarrell
The Marchen (grimm's Tales) by Randall Jarrell
The Sleeping Beauty: Variation Of The Prince by Randall Jarrell
Sleeping Beauty by Charles Johnson
Becoming A Frog by Paul R. Jones
Tellers Of Tales by Chester Simon Kallman
Kissing The Toad by Galway Kinnell
Sleeping Beauty: August by Douglas Knight
The Archaeology Of A Marriage by Maxine W. Kumin
An Embroidery by Denise Levertov
The Dwarf by Gerald Locklin
Rapunzel by Eli W. Mandel
The Sleeping Beauty by Edward Leslie Mayo
Rapunzel Song by Gerard Previn Meyer
Prince Charming by John R. Miller
Cinderella by Roger Mitchell
From The Journals Of The Frog Prince by Susan Mitchell
The Two Gretels by Robin Morgan
Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny by Lisel Mueller
Sleeping Beauty by Howard Nemerov
To A Child by Norreys Jephson O'conor
The Sleeping Beauty by Wilfred Owen
The Gingerbread House by John Ower
The Frog Prince by Robert Pack
Frog Prince by Phoebe Pettingell
Cinderella by Cynthia Pickard
Cinderella by Sylvia Plath
Coach Into Pumpkin by Dorothy E. Reid
Modern Grimm by Dorothy Lee Richardson
Maymie's Story Of Red Riding-hood by James Whitcomb Riley
A Sleeping Beauty by James Whitcomb Riley
Cinderella's Song by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton
Little Red Riding Hood by Anne Sexton
Rapunzel by Anne Sexton
Rumpelstiltskin by Anne Sexton
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs by Anne Sexton
Sleeping Beauty by Laurie Sheck
Sleeping Beauty by Jane Shore
Red Riding Hood At The Acropolis by Myra Sklarew
The Frog Prince by Florence Margaret Smith
Vancouver Island by Joan Swift
A Fairy Tale by Phyllis Hoge Thompson
Breasts by Barbara Unger
Rapunzel by Louis Untermeyer
A Sleeping Beauty by Evelyn M. Watson
Lost Cinderella by Edith Weaver
Happy Endings by Gail White
Sleeping Beauty by Elinor Wylie
A Fairy Tale by Vitomil Zupan
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 221 pages
• Publisher: Vermont (February 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874514401
• ISBN-13: 978-0874514407
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,627,523 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Collection of Fairy Tale Poetry, March 31, 2000

By	Heidi Anne Heiner (SurLaLune Fairy Tales.com) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Disenchantments (Paperback)

Mieder has gathered a large range of 20th century poetry that uses the themes from popular fairy tales. Many of the poems are obscure and would be nearly impossible to find while others are standard in the field, such as Anne Sexton, Sara Henderson Hay, and even Roald Dahl. The fairy tales explored are Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Snow White and Rose Red, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (which has the most), The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin. My only regret is that Beauty and the Beast is not included in the collection. Still, this is an excellent collection of poetry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life after the Glory, January 9, 2001

By	"jessicamarie917" (NY) - See all my reviews

I read a poem once by Louise Gluck, entitled "Gretel in Darkness." I thought it was a beautiful reflection on the life of Gretel after her childhood trauma. I looked further for poetry that views the lives of our favorite fairy tale characters AFTER "....and they lived Happily Ever After," and I found this book in my college library. It is a WONDERFUL collection of poems that show the stark reality of what the world of these characters might have been like. This book is a beautiful and diverse collection of fairy tale literature.

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare and fantastic collection of poetry!, December 12, 2008

By	Tracy Marks (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews

What a fabulous collection of poetry! These poems interpret well-known fairy tales - The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Snow White and Rose Red, and Rumpelstiltskin. A few address the world of fairy tales in general, and its influence on our psyches. Many are excellent poems, in their own right. Some of the poems have psychological depth; others are humorous. Most speak from the point of view of a fairy tale character (e.g. Cinderella, even the Frog). As a psychotherapist/writer who has led seminars in mythology and women's empowerment, I have shared many of these poems with hundreds of women, who inevitably find ones they can relate to, as most of us have life scripts that reflect in some way a fairy tale or myth that has influenced us. As for me, it's Rapunzel, and the Rapunzel poems are particularly good.......