Research Catalog

Title

Collected poems / James Schuyler.

Author

Schuyler, James

Publication

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

429 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The definitive edition of an outstanding contemporary poet's work, the Collected Poems gathers together all of James Schuyler's published collections, including the long-out-of-print Freely Espousing (1969), The Crystal Lithium (1972), and Hymn to Life (1974), as well as poems from The Home Book (1977) and other small-press editions. It closes with a substantial group of previously uncollected poems. This compendium allows us to see the full range of Schuyler's achievement, confirming the widely held view that his is among this century's most vital and distinctive poetic careers.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Schuyler, James
• 1900-2000
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poems (texts)
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Freely Espousing -- February -- With Frank and George at Lexington -- A Reunion -- Quick, Henry, the Flit! -- A New Yorker -- Walter Scott -- Greetings from the Chateau -- Royals -- "The Elizabethans Called It Dying" -- March Here -- Faberge -- A White City -- December -- Ilford Rose Book -- Rachmaninoff's Third -- Money Musk -- A Man in Blue -- Sestina -- An Almanac -- Thinness -- Hudson Ferry -- Flashes -- April and Its Forsythia -- Roof Garden -- May 24th or So -- Penobscot -- Today -- Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing -- Seeking -- Crocus Night -- Milk -- Going -- The Master of the Golden Glow -- Stun -- "Earth's Holocaust" -- Poem -- 3/23/66 -- Industrial Archaeology -- Now and then -- Buried at Springs -- Salute -- A Grave -- Poem -- At the Beach -- Self-Pity Is a Kind of Lying, Too -- A Picnic Cantata -- Grand Duo -- Things to Do -- Dreams -- Joint -- Jelly Jelly -- Sonnet -- Voyage autour de mes cartes postales -- "It's 4:30 in Cambridge."

ISBN

0374126186 :

LCCN

^^^92040977^

OCLC

27012932

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library