The premier book of major poets : an anthology

Dore, Anita (Author). MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 (Added Author). Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 (Added Author). Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Added Author). Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Added Author). Meredith, George, 1828-1909 (Added Author). Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 (Added Author). Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966 (Added Author). Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 (Added Author). Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 (Added Author). Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928 (Added Author). Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 (Added Author). Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (Added Author). Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (Added Author). Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (Added Author). Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 (Added Author). Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845 (Added Author). Keats, John, 1795-1821 (Added Author). Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017 (Added Author). Plath, Sylvia. (Added Author). Tablada, José Juan, 1871-1945 (Added Author). Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 (Added Author). Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 (Added Author). Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Added Author). Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 (Added Author). Nemerov, Howard. (Added Author). Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (Added Author). Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 (Added Author). Meredith, William, 1919-2007 (Added Author). Blake, William, 1757-1827 (Added Author). McGinley, Phyllis, 1905-1978 (Added Author). Hayden, Robert (Added Author). Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 (Added Author). Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (Added Author). Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 (Added Author). Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Added Author). Graves, Robert, 1763-1849 (Added Author). Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (Added Author). Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 (Added Author). Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 (Added Author). Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (Added Author). Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 (Added Author). Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Added Author). 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Record details

ISBN: 0449300048 (pbk) :
Physical Description: 336 pages ; 18 cm.
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Edition: First Ballantine Books edition.
Publisher: New York : Fawcett Premier, [1983]
Copyright: ©1983.

Content descriptions

General Note:

English and American poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon Byron -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- The little girl saw her first troop parade / Carl Sandburg -- Death be not proud / John Donne -- Last journey / Enrique Gonzalez Martinez -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson -- Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare -- Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom -- Death the leveller / James Shirley -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- When I am dead, my dearest / Christina Rossetti -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Interlude / Karl Shapiro -- To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman -- Stanzas / George Gordon Byron -- Requiescat / Matthew Arnold -- To die takes just a little while / Emily Dickinson -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Worsworth -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- Usless words / Carl Sandburg -- Written in Northampton County asylum / John Clare -- Alone, December, night / Victor Cruz -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- Self dependence / Matthew Arnold -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- The world is too much with us; late and soon / William Wordsworth -- Stanzas written in dejection near Naples / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The invention of comics / LeRoi Jones -- Psyche / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The sound of silence / Paul Simon -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Prayer before birth / Louis MacNeice -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- Lack of steadfastness / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The hollow men / T.S. Eliot -- England in 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- The preponderance / William Meredith -- In Goya's greatest scenes / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The inneer part / Louis Simpson -- Lines written in early spring / William Wordsworth -- Poem of solitude at Columbia University / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Brooding / David Ignatow -- Meditatio / Ezra Pound -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- The secret / Denise Levertov -- The fly / William Blake -- Responding voice / Francisco A. de Icaza -- The carpenter's son / A.E. Housman -- I saw a man / Stephen Crane -- Ecclesiastes 1: 2 - 11 -- Hap / Thomas Hardy -- Musee des beauz arts / W. H. Auden -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats -- There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman -- On his seventy fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor -- Ode / William Wordsworth -- If I should cast off this tattered coat / Stephen Crane -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- A life / Howard Nemerov