Research Catalog

Title

De/Compositions : 101 good poems gone wrong / W. D. Snodgrass.

Author

Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001.

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Details

Description

xx, 285 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently, or even badly, the author rewrites poems by authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Shakespeare, and displays the reworked version side-by-side with the original, so one can gain a better understanding of the original work's merits.

Alternative Title

• De compositions
• Decompositions

Subject

• Poetry > Study and teaching
• Poetry > History and criticism
• Parodies
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• parody.
• Parodies (Literature)
• Parodies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: The De/Composer / Donald Hall -- Abstract and General vs. Concrete and Specific -- "Leda and the Swan" / William Butler Yeats -- "Dream Song #22, 'Of 1826'" / John Berryman -- "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" / Wallace Stevens -- "Globe" / Elizabeth Spires -- "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" / Richard Eberhart -- "The Groundhog" / Richard Eberhart -- "Still to Be Neat" / Ben Jonson -- "Sonnet #129, 'The expense of spirit ... '" / William Shakespeare -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider" / Walt Whitman -- "The Man in the Dead Machine" / Donald Hall -- "I Know a Man" / Robert Creeley -- "Eros Turannos" / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Undercurrents -- "The Miller's Wife" / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- "Egyptian Dancer at Shubra" / Bernard Spencer -- "A Late Aubade" / Richard Wilbur -- "Janet Waking" / John Crowe Ransom -- "Piazza Piece" / John Crowe Ransom -- "Sonnet #73, 'That time of year thou mayst ... '" / William Shakespeare -- "Sailing to Byzantium" / William Butler Yeats -- "A Supermarket in California" / Allen Ginsberg -- "Nantucket" / William Carlos Williams -- "Transformations" / Thomas Hardy -- "Afterwards" / Thomas Hardy -- "The Man He Killed" / Thomas Hardy -- "Traveling through the Dark" / William Stafford -- "Piano" / D.H. Lawrence -- The Singular Voice -- "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" / Emily Dickinson -- "If I Shouldn't Be Alive" / Emily Dickinson -- "I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died" / Emily Dickinson -- "The Oxen" / Thomas Hardy -- "Drummer Hodge" / Thomas Hardy.

ISBN

1555973175

OCLC

47264428

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library