Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems : 1955-1997 / Charles Tomlinson.

Author

Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-2015.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Frezzolini, Sylvia
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Courier Westfor Printing, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xiv, 226 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Presenting Charles Tomlinson's finest poems, this edition of Selected Poems provides perfect entry into the work of one of England's contemporary masters. Rendering with remarkable precision the response of the poet to the surfaces and depths of things as well as the world of historical necessity, Tomlinson's poems embody aspects of both tragedy and possibility.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP855

Subject

English poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1997.

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook original, NDP855"--Page 4 of cover.
• Includes index.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini.

Contents

• The necklace (1955). Aesthetic -- Venice -- Nine variations in a Chinese winter setting -- Fiascherino -- Seeing is believing (1958, 1960). The Atlantic -- Winter encounters -- The Mediterranean -- How still the hawk -- Glass grain -- Northern spring -- The crane -- Paring the apple -- A meditation on John Constable -- Frondes agrestes -- Farewell to Van Gogh -- At Holwell Farm -- On the hall at Stowey -- Civilities of lamplight -- The churchyard wall -- A peopled landscape (1963). Winter-piece -- Canal -- The hand at Callow Hill Farm -- The picture of J.T. in a prospect of stone -- Up at La Serra -- Head hewn with an axe -- Over Brooklyn Bridge -- Ode to Arnold Schoenberg -- American scenes and other poems (1966). The door -- The weathercocks -- A given grace -- Arizona desert -- A death in the desert -- Las Trampas USA -- Ute mountain -- A garland for Thomas Eakins -- The well -- Idyll -- The way of a world (1969). Swimming Chenango Lake -- Prometheus -- Adam -- Assassin -- Against extremity
• (Cont.) The way of a world -- Descartes and the stove -- On the principle of blowcocks -- The fox gallery -- To be engraved on the skull of a cormorant -- The chances of rhyme -- Written on water (1972). The lighthouse -- Stone speech -- The compact : at Volterra -- Ariadne and the minotaur -- Hawks -- Of beginning light -- Event -- During rain -- The way in and other poems (1974). The way in -- At Stoke -- Gladstone Street -- After a death -- Hill walk -- How far -- The shaft (1978). Charlotte Corday -- For Danton -- Casarola -- Images of perfection -- The faring -- The metamorphosis -- Sky writing -- In Arden -- The shaft -- The flood (1981). Snow signs -- Their voices rang -- For Miriam -- Under the bridge -- San Fruttuoso : the divers -- Above Carrara -- Thunder in Tuscany -- The Littleton whale -- The flood -- Notes from New York and other poems (1984). Above Manhattan -- All afternoon -- To Ivor Gurney -- Poem for my father -- Night fishers -- The moment -- Valle de Oaxaca
• (Cont.) The return (1987). In the Borghese Gardens -- Revolution -- Fountain -- Catacomb -- The miracle of the bottle and the fishes -- In memory of George Oppen -- A rose for Janet -- The well -- The Hawthorn in Trent Vale -- Annunciations (1989). Annunciation -- The blade -- Above the Rio Grande -- Far point -- Carrara revisited -- The house in the quarry -- The butterflies -- Harvest -- Letter to Uehata -- Chance -- The headland -- For a godchild -- The door in the wall (1992). Siena in sixty-eight -- Paris in sixty-nine -- Blaubeuren -- Geese going south -- The stair -- Hacienda -- Song -- Second song -- Before the concert -- Jubilation (1995). Against travel -- To Vasko Popa in Rome -- Valestrieri -- A retrospect : 1951-91 -- Zipangu -- Snapshot -- The track of the deer -- The shadow -- Walks -- Epilogue (1997). A doggerel for my seventieth birthday -- A backward glance.

Call Number

JFD 98-2163

ISBN

• 0811213692
• 9780811213691

LCCN

97025373

OCLC

37109266

Author

Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-2015.

Title

Selected poems : 1955-1997 / Charles Tomlinson.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1997.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP855

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 150

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1870 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1870 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Frezzolini, Sylvia, cover designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Courier Westfor Printing, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1870

JFD 98-2163