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Title

Touchstones : American poets on a favorite poem / edited by Robert Pack, Jay Parini.

Publication

Hanover, NH : Middlebury College Press : University Press of New England, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Pack, Robert, 1929-
• Parini, Jay.

Description

xv, 328 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• English poetry > History and criticism
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Books and reading
• American poetry
• English poetry

Note

• "Bread Loaf anthology."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Robert Pack and Jay Parini -- on "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop / Julia Alvarez -- on "Space being... Curved" by e. e. cummings / David Baker -- on "Wulf and Eadwacer" by Anonymous, Anglo-Saxon / John Balaban -- on The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser / Ann Barker -- on "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed / Marvin Bell -- on "Silence" by Marianne Moore / Rosellen Brown -- on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer / Teresa D. Cader -- on "Astrophil and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney / Michael Collier -- on "Painting" by Langston Hughes / William C. Cook -- on "Caelica" by Fulke Greville / Steven Cramer -- on "Mithridates" by Ralph Waldo Emerson / Thomas M. Disch -- on "Mr. Flood's Party" by Edwin Arlington Robinson / Stephen Dunn -- on "Frau Baumann, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartz" by Theodore Roethke / John Engels -- on "The Wife of Usher's Well" by Anonymous / Donald Finkel -- on "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson / Carol Frost --
• on "Gaze Not on Swans" attributed to William Strode / Anthony Hecht -- on "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden / David Huddle -- on "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake / Richard Jackson -- on "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns / Mark Jarman -- on The Sonnets of William Shakespeare / Erica Jong -- on "Coming" by Philip Larkin / Donald Justice -- on "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell / X. J. Kennedy -- on "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Housman / Maxine Kumin -- on "To Autumn" by John Keats / Sydney Lea -- on "The Send-Off" by Wilfred Owen / Gary Margolis -- on "O Carib Isle!" by Hart Crane / Paul Mariani -- on "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" by Jonathan Swift / Charles Martin -- on Don Juan by Lord Byron / William Matthews -- on "Episitle to Miss Blount" by Alexander Pope / J. D. McClatchy -- on "Sonnet 72" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Sheila McGrory-Klyza -- on "They Flee from Me" by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder / Christopher Merrill --
• on "The Pearl" by George Herbert / John Frederick Nims -- on "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay / Carole Oles -- on "Channel Firing" by Thomas Hardy / Robert Pack -- on "Love in a Life" by Robert Browning / Jay Parini -- on "The World as Meditation" by Wallace Stevens / Linda Pastan -- on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne / Robert Pinsky -- on "Elegiac Stanzas" by William Wordsworth / Stanley Plumly -- on "In Praise of Limestone" by W. H. Auden / Wyatt Prunty -- on "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost / Lawrence Raab -- on "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson / Hilda Raz -- on "The Circus Animals' Desertion" by William Butler Yeats / Peter Sacks -- on "The Sleepers" by Walt Whitman / Ira Sadoff -- on "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley / Sherod Santos -- on "Next Day" by Randall Jarrell / Peter Schmitt -- on "Walsinghame" by Sir Walter Raleigh / Tom Sleigh -- on "Captain Carpenter" by John Crowe Ransom / Dave Smith --
• on "House on a Cliff" by Louis MacNeice / Anne Stevenson -- on "The Salutation" by Thomas Traherne / Dabney Stuart -- on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot / Robert Sward -- on "A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge" by John Skelton / Thomas Swiss -- on "The Cricket" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman / Stephen Tapscott -- on "Rain" by Edward Thomas / Sue Ellen Thompson -- on "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold / Eric Trethewey -- on "In the White Giant's Thigh" by Dylan Thomas / Chase Twichell -- on "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Richard Wilbur -- on "Ariel['s] Song" from The Tempest by William Shakespeare / Nancy Willard -- on "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" by John Milton / Miller Williams -- on "For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further" by Anne Sexton / Clara Yu -- on "I Am" by John Clare / Paul Zimmer.

ISBN

• 0874517222 (alk. paper)
• 0874517230 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95032557

OCLC

• 32778935
• ocm32778935

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries