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Title

20th-century poetry & poetics / edited by Gary Geddes.

Publication

Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Geddes, Gary, 1940-

Description

xx, 954 p.; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

• 20th century poetry & poetics
• 20th-century poetry and poetics
• 20th century poetry and poetics
• Twentieth century poetry and poetics
• Twentieth-century poetry and poetics
• Twentieth-century poetry & poetics
• Twentieth century poetry & poetics

Subjects

• Poetics
• Canadian poetry > 20th century
• American poetry > 20th century
• English poetry > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: When You Are Old; Who Goes with Fergus?; The Folly of Being Comforted; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Fisherman; Easter 1916; The Second Coming; A Prayer for my Daughter; Leda and the Swan; Among School Children; For Anne Gregory; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop; Long-Legged Fly; The Circus Animals' Desertion; Politics.
• EZRA POUND: Portrait d'une Femme; The Garden; Commission; dance Figure; In a Station of the Metro; Alba; L'Art; The Tea Shop; The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre; Mr. Nixon; Canto I; Canto XIII.
• WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Aux Imagistes; Dance Russe; This is Just to Say; To Waken an Old Lady; Tract; Spring and All; The Red Wheelbarrow; Nantucket; The Yachts; The Dance; The Rewaking; To a Dog Injured in the Street.
• ROBERT FROST: Mending Wall; After Apple-Picking; Birches; Fire and Ice; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Acquainted with the Night; Departmental; Desert Places; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; Design; Provide, provide; One Step Backward Taken; Directive.
• T.S. ELIOT: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Preludes; The Hollow Men; Journey of the Magi; Burnt Norton.
• WILFRED OWEN: Strange Meeting; Greater Love; Arms and the Boy; Anthem for Doomed Youth; Dulce Et Decorum Est.
• E.e. cummings: Chansons Innocentes; my sweet old etcetera; I sing of Olaf; somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond; anyone lived in a pretty how town; my father moved through dooms of love; love is more thicker than forget; dying is fine) but Death; I thank You God for most this amazing.
• WALLACE STEVENS: The Emperor of Ice-Cream; Sunday Morning; The Idea of Order at Key west; The Man on the Dump; The Motive for Metaphor; Credences of Summer; The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain.
• W.H. AUDEN: As I Walked Out One Evening; Lullaby; Musee des Beaux Arts; In Memory of W.B. Yeats; The Unknown Citizen; The Shield of Achilles.
• DYLAN THOMAS: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower; If I were tickled by the rubber of love; And death shall have no dominion; A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London; Do not go gentle into that good night; In my craft or sullen art; Fern Hill.
• A.M. KLEIN: HEIRLOOM; Autobiographical; political Meeting; Lone Bather; Portrait of the Poet as Landscape.
• THEODORE ROETHKE: Prayer; Big Wind; Dolor; Praise to the End!; The Waking; I Knew a Woman; The Far Field; In a Dark Time.
• EARLE BIRNEY: Vancouver Lights; Anglosaxon Street; From the Hazel Bough; David; Bushed; A Walk in Kyoto; The Bear on the Delhi Road; Haiku for a Young Waitress.
• AL PURDY: The caribou Horses; Song of the Impermanent Husband; Eskimo Graveyard; Arctic Rhododendrons; lament for the Dorsets; Poem; Grosse Isle.
• ROBERT LOWELL: The Holy Innocents; Christmas in Black Rock; After the Surprising Conversations; The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket; Memories of West Street and Lepke; Skunk Hour; For the Union Dead; Mr Edwards and the Spider.
• PHILIP LARKIN: Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album; Wants; Church Going; Toads; Poetry of Departments; If, My Darling; Faith Healing.
• IRVING LAYTON: The Birth of Tragedy; Look, the Lambs Are All Around Us!; The Cold Green Element; The Bull Calf; Sacrament by the Water; Whatever Else Poetry is Freedom; Berry Picking; Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959; A Tall Man Executes a Jig.
• ELIZABETH BISHOP: The Map; The Imaginary Iceberg; At the Fishhouses; Cape Breton; Arrival at Santos; Questions of Travel; Squatter's Children; 12 O'Clock News; Santarem.
• P.K. PAGE: Young Girls; T-Bar; The Stenographers; The Landlady; Stories of Snow; Photos of a Salt Mine; The Permanent Tourists; The Glass Air; Deaf Mute in a Pear Tree.
• DENISE LEVERTOV: A Map of the Western Part of the County in England; Come into Animal Presence; The Ache of Marriage; Hypocrite Women; Second Didactic Poem; An Interim; He-Who-Came-Forth; 'The Poem Rising By Its Own Weight'; She and the Muse; Brother Ivy.
• CHARLES OLSON: The Kingfishers; As the Dead Prey upon Us; Maximus, to Himself JOHN BERRYMAN: The Dispossessed; A Professor's Song from 77 Dream Songs.
• ADRIENNE RICH: At a Bach Concert; Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law; The Burning of paper Instead of Children; Diving into the Wreck; The Phenomenology of Anger; Frame; North American Time.
• ROBERT CREELEY: Je vois dans le hazard tous les biens que j'espere; After Lorca; The Awakening; The rain; The Pool; 'I keep to myself such measures'; For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley; Self Portrait; Bresson's Movies; Echoes; Epic.
• LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see; Don't let that horse eat that violin; Constantly risking absurdity and death; The pennycandystore beyond the El; Junkman's Obbligato; Modern Poetry Is Prose (But It IS Saying Plenty).
• ALLEN GINSBERG: Howl (I & II); A Supermarket in California; America. PHYLLIS WEBB: A tall Tale; Love Story; To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide; Poetics Against the Angel of Death; Occasions of Desire; For Fyodor; Treblinka Gas Chamber; Prison Report; from Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti Ghazals.
• JOHN ASHBERY: The Orioles; Our Youth; Forties Flick; A Man of Words; And Ut Pictura Poesis is her Name; The Absence of a Noble Presence; On the Empress's Mind; The Old Complex.
• GARY SNYDER: Piute Creek; Riprap; Journeys (section six); Song of the taste; Kai, Today; Front Lines. TED HUGHES: The Thought-Fox; Invitation to the Dance; Six Young Men; Hawk Roosting; Pike; from Crow A Childish Prank; Crow's First Lesson; A Disaster; Dehorning.
• MARGARET AVISON: To World Still Needs; To Professor X, Year Y; The Swimmer's Moment; Voluptuaries and Others; pace; Black-White Under Green: May 18, 1965; July Man; In a Season of Unemployment; Oughtiness Ousted; We the Poor Who Are Always With Us.
• SYLVIA PLATH: Two Views of a Cadaver Room; The Colossus; Black Rook in rainy Weather; Blue Moles; The Disquieting Muses; Lady Lazarus; Tulips; Ariel; Daddy; Two Campers in Cloud Country.
• LEONARD COHEN: Elegy; Story; You have the lovers; As the mists leaves no scar; Now of Sleeping; The Genius; Style; The Music Crept by Us; Disguises; How to Speak Poetry.
• GWENDOLYN MACEWEN: Poems in Braille; Manzini: Escape Artist; Poem Improvised Around a First Line; The Red Bird You Wait For; The Discovery; Dark Pines Under Water; Memoirs of a Mad Cook; The Child dancing; from The T.E. Lawrence Poems Apologies; Nitroglycerine Tulips; Deraa; Ghazala's Foal; Tall Tales; Notes from dead Land; The Transparent Womb; The Loneliness of the Long Distance; You Can Study If You Want.
• EAVAN BOLAND: Ode to Suburbia; Anorexic; Mastectomy; Mise Eire; The Black lace Fan My Mother Gave Me; Midnight Flowers; Lava Cameo; Time and Violence. ROBERT BLY: Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River; Counting Small-Boned Bodies; Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombing; The Dead Seal; Finding the father; Fifty Males Sitting Together; Snowbanks North of the House; In rainy September; Winter Poem; What We Provide; The Horse of Desire; The Mushrooms.
• DEREK WALCOTT: A Far Cry from Africa; Orient and Immortal Wheat; Islands; The castaway; A map of Europe; Crusoe's Island; Sea Grapes; North and South; Early Pompeian; XV.
• PHILIP LEVINE: For Fran; Coming Home, Detroit, 1968; Late Moon; Starlight; Lost and Found; Let Me begin Again; The Fox; The voice; A Theory of Prosody; What Work Is; Gin; The Simple Truth.
• MARGARET ATWOOD: It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers; Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer; Backdrop Addresses Cowboy; Death of a Young Son by Drowning; You Take My Hand; Marrying the Hangman; Notes Towards a Poem That can Never Be Written; Morning in the Burned House.
• GALWAY KINNELL; First Song; The Bear; Under the Maud Moon; After Making Love We Hear Footsteps; When One Has Lived a Long Time. PATRICK LANE: Ten Miles in from Horsefly; Elephants; Passing Into Storm; Mountain Oysters; Stigmata; Albino Pheasants; The Carpenter; A Murder of Crows; There is a Time; Fathers and Sons.
• SEAMUS HEANEY: Digging; Death of a Naturalist; Mid-term Break; Personal Helicon; Requiem for the Croppies; Bogland; Summer Home; Bog Queen; From the Frontier of Writing
• MICHAEL ONDAATJE: Elizabeth; Red Accordion: an immigrant song; A Gentleman Compares his Virtue to a Jade; Letters Other Worlds; White Dwarfs; Bearhug; Light; from Billy the Kid; In a Yellow Room. bp NICHOL: Blues; from 'The Captain Poetry Poems'; What is Can Lit?; Allegory # 6; Landscape: I; The Mouth; continental stance.
• DAPHNE MARLATT: Alcazar, Cecil, Belmont, New Fountain, names; Imagine: a town; A by-channel: a small back-water; Vacant, Lots; Listen; yes; healing; The difference three makes: a narrative; Seeing it go up in smoke.
• LOUISE GLUCK: For My Mother; Epithalamium; Dedication to Hunger; Mock Orange; Legend; Horse; Brown Circle; The Wild iris; Trillium; End of Winter; Witchgrass; Retreating Light. GARY GEDDES: Sandra Lee Scheurer; Human Rights Commission; Arpilleras; Jimmy's Place; from Hong Kong Henderson; Sullivan; Donnelly; The Quality of Light.
• ROBERT HASS: Song; Meditation at Lagunitas; A Story About the Body; Human Wishes; Natural Theology; My Mother's Nipples. DON MCKAY: The Great Blue Heron; Fridge Nocturne; Adagio for a Fallen Sparrow; Esthetique du Chien; The Poem, to be Slow as Evening; Listen at the Edge; VIA, Eastbound; Waking at the Mouth of the Willow River; Meditation on Snow Clouds Approaching the University from the North-West; Song for the Restless Wind.
• CAROL ANN DUFFY: Standing Female Nude; War Photographer; A Healthy Meal; Model Village; Psychopath; Foreign; Warming Her Pearls; Girlfriends; The Kissing Gate; prayer. ROBERT KROETSCH: Seed catalogue.
• LORNA CROZIER: Forms of Innocence; The Child Who Walks Backwards; Onion; Peas; Fathers. Uncles, Old friends of the Family; Angel of Infinity; Mother and I, Walking; variation on the Origin of Flight; Living Day By Day; Inventing the Hawk; Last Testaments; Skunks; The Game.
• ROO BORSON: Abundance; Talk; Waterfront; October, Hanson's Field; Flowers; A Sad Device; July; Spring; The Garden; Beauty; Intermittent Rain; Snowlight on the Northwood Path; City Lights; Rubber Boots; Grove.
• ERIN MOURE :empire, york street; Post-Modern Literature; Divergences; Being Carpenter; Public Health; Tropic Line; Toxicity; Hooked; Miss Chatelaine; Betty; Gorgeous; The Cooking.
• SHARON OLDS: Indictment of Senior Officers; First Night; Station; Fishing Off Nova Scotia; The Death Marilyn Monroe; Miscarriage; The Connoisseuse of Slugs; Summer. Solstice, New York City; Still Life; The Green Shirt; The Glass; The Lifting; The Exact Moment of His Death; The Swimmer; I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died; My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead.
• SHARON THESEN: Loose Women Poem; Discourse; The Landlord's Tiger Lilies; Women Like Me; Doubletalk; Skip to My Lou; Elegy, the Fertility Specialist; September, Turning, the Log Road Down to Love; Chicken in a Pensive Shell; Animals.
• BRONWEN WALLACE: The Woman In This Poem; All That Uneasy Spring; A Simple Poem for Virginian Woolf; Common Magic; Thinking With the Heart; Particulars. RITA DOVE: Nigger Song: An Odyssey; The Secret garden; The House Slave; Adolescence II; Boccaccio: The Plague Years; from Thomas and Beulah: The Event; Variation on Pain; The Stroke; Thomas at the Wheel; Taking in the Wash; Daystar; The Great Palaces of Versailles; Pastoral; After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Timer Before Bed.
• TIM LILBURN: Names of God; Pumpkins; Touching An Elephant In A Dark Room; In the Hills, Watching; Discipline of Secrecy; How To Be Here?; Restoration.
• POETICS: MARGARET ATWOOD: Conversations. W.H. AUDEN: FROM The Poet and the City; from The Virgin and the Dynamo. ROBERT BLY: Looking for Dragon Smoke. EAVAN BOLAND: The Politics of Eroticism.
• ROBERT CREELEY: A Sense of Measure; LORNA CROZIER: from 'Who's Listening?'; e.e. cummings: Three Statements. T.S. ELIOT: Tradition and the Individual Talent; from The Music of Poetry; from hamlet and his Problems. ROBERT FROST: The Figure a Poem Makes. ALLEN GINSBERG: Notes for Howl and Other Poems. SEAMUS HEANEY: Feeling into Words TED HUGHES: On Poetry DENISE LEVERTOV: Some Notes on Organic Form (1965).
• PHILIP LEVINE: The Poet in New York in Detroit. ROBERT LOWELL: from An interview. DON MCKAY: Some Remarks on Poetry and Poetic Attention. DAPHNE MARLETT: musing with mothertongue. bpNICHOL: some thots on THE MARTYOLOGY BOOK VI; 'After Reading the Chorology'; Narrative in Language: The Long Poem.
• THEODORE ROETHKE: from Some remarks on Rhythm; from Open latter. GARY SYNDER: Poetry and the Primitive; Some Yips & barks in the Dark. WALLACE STEVENS: Selections from Adagia.
• DYLAN THOMAS: Notes on the Art of Poetry. PHYLLIS WEBB: On The Line. Letter from Gary Geddes to Phyllis Webb. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: A New Measure. On Measure: Statement for Cid Corman. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: from Magic; from The Symbolism of Poetry; from A General Introduction to My Work.

ISBN

0195410157

LCCN

cn^95933330^

OCLC

• 36159127
• SCSB-12886421

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library