20th Century Poetry and Poetics PDF
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THIRD CDITION Edited by Gary Geddes — ccntury POGTRY& POGTICS GDITGDBVGdRYGGDDGS TH-IRD GDITIOM Toronto Oxford UniversityPress 1985 CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Main entry under title: 20th-century poetry & poetics Includes bibliographies and index. ISBN 0-19-540488-2 — — 1. English poetry 20th century. 2—. American Poetry 20th century. 3. Canadian poetry (English) 20th century.* 4. Poetics. I. Geddes, Gary, 1940- PN6101.T93 1985 821'.9108 C85-098998-1 © Oxford University Press Canada 1985 OXFORD is a trademark—of Oxford University Press 1234 8765 Printed inCanadaby John Deyell Company CONTENTS PREFACE XV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix UTLER YEATS 1 When You Are Old 1 Who Goes with Fergus? 2 The Folly of Being Comforted 2 The Wild Swans at Coole The Fisherman 3 4 Easter 1916 The Second Coming 7 7 A Prayer for my Daughter lO Sailing to Byzantium n Leda and the Swan 12 Among School Children 14 For Anne Gregory 14 Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 15 News for the Delphic Oracle 16 Long-Legged Fly 17 The Circus Animals' Desertion 19 Politics EZRA POUND 20 Portrait d'une Femme 21 The Garden 21 Commission 22 Dance Figure 23 In a Station of the Metro 23 Alba 24 L'Art, 1910 24 The Tea Shop 24 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter IV CONTENTS 25 Exile's Letter 28 From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley E.P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre 3° Mr Nixon 31 Canto I 33 Canto XIII Canto XLV 35 LLOS WILLIAMS 37 Aux Imagistes 37 Danse Russe 38 This is Just to Say 38 To Waken an Old Lady 39 Tract 4i Spring and All 42 The Red Wheelbarrow 42 Nantucket 43 The Yachts The Dance 44 The Rewaking 43 46 To a Dog Injured in the Street 48 The Host ROBERT FROST 51 Mending Wall 52 After Apple-Picking 53 Birches 55 The Witch of Coos 60 Fire and Ice 60 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 61 Acquainted with the Night 61 Departmental 62 Desert Places 63 Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 64 Design 64 Provide, Provide 65 One Step Backward Taken 66 Directive CONTENTS ROBERT GRAVES 68 Rocky Acres 69 The Pier-Glass 70 Warning to Children 71 The Cool Web 71 Pure Death 72 In Broken Images Down, Wanton, Down! 73 73 With Her Lips Only 74 The Terraced Valley 75 To Juan at the Winter Solstice t. s. eliot yy The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 81 Preludes 83 The Hollow Men 86 Journey of the Magi 88 Burnt Norton wilfred owen 94 Strange Meeting 95 Greater Love 96 Arms and the Boy 96 Anthem for Doomed Youth 97 Dulce Et Decorum Est 98 Futility 98 Mental Cases e. e. cummings 100 Chansons Innocentes 102 my sweet old etcetera 103 i sing of Olaf 104 somewhere have never i travelled, gladly beyond 105 may i feel said he 106 anyone lived in a pretty how town 107 my father moved through dooms of love 110 love is more thicker than forget VI CONTENTS no true lovers in each happening of their hearts 111 dying is fine)but Death 112 i thank You God for most this amazing WALLACE STEVENS 113 The Emperor of Ice-Cream 113 Sunday Morning 117 The Idea of Order at Key West 119 The Man on the Dump 120 The Motive for Metaphor 121 Credences of Summer 126 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain w. H. AUDEN 127 As I Walked Out One Evening 129 Lullaby 130 Musee des Beaux Arts 131 In Memory of W.B. Yeats 133 The Unknown Citizen 134 In Praise of Limestone 137 The Shield of Achilles DYLAN THOMAS 140 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 141 If I were tickled by the rub of love 142 And death shall have no dominion 143 After the Funeral 144 Twenty-Four Years 145 A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 145 Do not go gentle into that good night my 146 In craft or sullen art 147 Fern Hill CONTENTS Vll A. M. KLEIN 149 Heirloom Autobiographical 152 In re Solomon Warshawer Political Meeting l6o Lone Bather l62 Portrait of the Poet as Landscape THEODORE ROETHKE 168 Prayer 168 Big Wind 169 Dolor I7O Praise to the End! 173 Old Lady's Winter Words 175 The Waking I76 I Knew a Woman 177 The Far Field l8o In a Dark Time EARLE BIRNEY 182 Vancouver Lights 183 Anglosaxon Street 184 From the Hazel Bough 185 Bushed 186 A Walk in Kyoto 188 The Bear on the Delhi Road 189 Twenty-Third Flight I90 Haiku for a Young Waitress I90 Cartagena de Indias ALFRED PURDY I96 The Cariboo Horses 197 Song of the Impermanent Husband 199 Eskimo Graveyard 201 Arctic Rhododendrons 202 The Wine-Maker's Beat-Etude 204 Lament for the Dorsets 207 The Runners 209 Poem 209 Alive or Not 211 Spinning Vlll CONTENTS LOWELL 212 The Holy Innocents 212 Christmas in Black Rock 213 After the Surprising Conversions "5 New Year's Day 216 The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 220 Memories of West Street and Lepke 222 Skunk Hour 223 For the Union Dead 226 Mr Edwards and the Spider PHILIP LARKIN 228 Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album 229 Wants 230 Church Going 232 Toads 233 Poetry of Departures My 234 If, Darling 235 Faith Healing * 236 An Arundel Tomb ELIZABETH BISHOP 238 The Map 239 The Imaginary Iceberg 240 At the Fishhouses 242 Cape Breton 244 Arrival at Santos 246 Questions of Travel 248 Squatter's Children 249 12 O'clock News 251 Santarem p. k. page 254 Young Girls 255 T-Bar 256 The Stenographers 257 The Landlady 259 Stories of Snow
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