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Title The New Oxford book of American verse / chosen and edited by Richard Ellmann.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  811.008 NEW    Storage
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  811.08 NEW    Check Shelf
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.08 NEW OXFORD BOOK . . .    Check Shelf
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  811.08 NE    Check Shelf
Description liv, 1076 pages ; 23 cm
Note Includes index.
Form Also issued online.
Summary An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries.
Contents The prologue / The flesh and the spirit / The author to her book / Before the birth of one of her children / To my dear and loving husband / Some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet -- Meditation 8 / Meditation 9 / Meditation 10 / Meditation 29 / Meditation 62 / Philip Pain -- 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the living bread / 38. Meditation. 1 Joh. 2.1. An advocate with the father / 112. Meditation. 2 Cor. 5.14. If one died for all then are all dead / The preface [to God's Determinations] / Upon a spider catching a fly / Huswifery / Let by rain / Upon a wasp child with cold / Edward Taylor -- George the Third's soliloquy / The wild honey suckle / To an author / The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau -- On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley / The Hasty-Pudding: Canto I / Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow -- Thanatopsis / To a waterfowl / Green River / The prairies / William Cullen Bryant -- Each and all / The problem / The visit / Uriel / The sphinx / Alphonso of Castile / Mithridates / Guy / Hamatreya / The rhodora / The humble-bee / The snow-storm / Woodnotes I / Woodnotes II / Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing / Give all to love / Thine eyes still shined / Merlin I / Merlin II / Bacchus / Xenophanes / Blight / Concord hymn / Brahma / Nemesis / Two Rivers / Waldeinsamkeit / Terminus / Compensation / Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan / Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hymn to the night / The day is done / The fire of drift-wood / from the Song of Hiawatha: introduction / The Jewish Cemetery at Newport / My lost youth / Snow-flakes / Aftermath / Chaucer / The tide rises, the tide falls / The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Ichabod / To my old schoolmaster / Skipper Ireson's ride / Telling the bees / My playmate / Barbara Frietchie / Snow-bound / What the birds said / My triumph / The lost occasion / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The deacon's masterpiece / The chambered nautilus / Dorothy Q., 140 / Oliver Wendell Holmes
A dream within a dream / Song from Al Aaraaf / Introduction [to Poems, 1831] / To Helen / Israfel / The city in the sea / The sleeper / The haunted palace / The Coliseum / Sonnet-Silence / The conqueror worm / Dream-land / The raven / Ulalume-A ballad / Eldorado / For Annie / Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The columbine / The new birth / The dead / The grave-yard / Thy brother's blood / The new man / The clouded morning / The trees of life / I was sick and in prison / Yourself / The lost / The fair morning / The day of denial / The lament of the flowers / The sumach leaves/ Jones Very -- I am a parcel of vain strivings tied / Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird / Inspiration / Within the circuit of this plodding life / The river swelleth more and more / Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf / Henry David Thoreau -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- from A fable for critics / Emerson / Bryant/ Whittier / Hawthorne / Cooper / Poe and Longfellow / Holmes / Lowell / from The biglow Papers: the courtin' / Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration / James Russell Lowell -- Come, said my soul / Song of myself / A woman waits for me / Song of the open road / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / On the beach at night / Me imperturbe / From pent-up aching rivers / In paths untrodden / I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / As I ebb'd with the ocean of life / Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice / O living alwasy, always dying / Shut not your doors / Vigil strange I kept on the field one night / The wound-dresser / Give me the splendid silent sun / When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / One's self I sing / To a stranger / Aboard at a ship's helm / A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- The portent / Misgivings / The conflict of convictions / Shiloh / The house-top / The maldive shark / To Ned / The berg / The ravaged villa / Art / Fragments of a lost gnostic poem of the 12th century / The attic landscape / Herman Melville
The blue-bird / Pontoosuce / Billy in the Darbies / Herman Melville -- An upper chamber in a darkened house / Still pressing through these weeping solitudes / And change with hurried hand has swept these scenes / Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips / Here, where the red man swept the leaves away / Hast thou seen reversed the prophet's miracle / November / Under the Locust blossoms / The cricket / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Charleston / Ethnogenesis / Ode / Henry Timrod -- I never lost as much but twice / Success is counted sweetest / "Arcturus" is his other name / I never hear the word "escape" / Our lives are Swiss / Just lost, when I was saved / Ah, Necromancy Sweet / "Faith" is a fine invention / I taste a liquor never brewed / Safe in their Alabaster Chambers / Wild nights - wild nights / I can wade grief / "Hope" is the thing with feathers / There's a certain slant of light / I felt a funeral, in my brain / I'm Nobody! Who are you? / The soul selects her own society / There came a day at summer's full / A bird came down the walk / After great pain, a normal feeling comes / Did our best moment last / Much madness is divinest sense / This is my letter to the world / This was a poet - it is that / I died for beauty - but was scarce / I heard a fly buzz - when I died / I am alive - I guess / I would not paint - a picture / It was not Death, for I stood up / If you were coming in the fall / The heart asks pleasure - first / I've seen a dying eye / The brain, within it's groove / I like to see it lap the miles / There is a pain - so utter / I years had been from home / They shut me up in prose / I asked no other thing / I cannot live with you / I dwell in possibility / Because I could not stop for death / Drama's vitallest expression is the common day / Remorse - is memory - awake / A light exists in spring / Finding is the first act / I stepped from plank to plank / We outgrow love, like other things / I felt a cleaving in my mind / A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
Crumbling is not an instant's act / Satisfaction - is the agent / Reportless subjects, to the quick / Further in summer than the birds / Perception of an object costs / Title divine - is mine / Tell all the truth but tell it slant / So proud she was to die / Until the deseet knows / A bee his burnished carriage / As imperceptible as grief / There came a wind like a bugle / There are two Mays / The pedigree of honey / In winter in my room / God is indeed a jealous God / My life closed twice before its close / Softened by time's consummate plush / That it will never come again / That love is all there is / Too happy time dissolves itself / Emily Dickinson -- From the flats / The marshes of Glynn / Marsh song - at sunset / A ballad of trees and the master / That's more in the man than thar is in the land / Sidney Lanier -- The hill / Petit, the poet / Editor Whedon / Anne Rutledge / Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters -- Gloucester Moors / On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughan Moody -- Luke Havergal / Richard Cory / Reuben Bright / George Crabbe / How Annadale went out / Miniver Cheevy / For a dead lady / Eros Turannos / Veteran sirens / Mr. Flood's party / The sheaves / Why he was there / New England / Reunion / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- In the desert / I saw a man pursuing the horizon / Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane -- In the past / Mnemosyne / Trumbull Stickney -- The pasture / Mowing / Reluctance / Mending wall / After apple-picking / The oven bird / Two witches: the Witch of Coos / Fire and ice / Nothing gold can stay / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / For once, then, something / To earthward / The lockless door / The need of being versed in country things / Spring pools / Once by the Pacific / Acquainted with the night / The lovely shall be choosers / West-running brook / A drumlin woodchuck / Departmental / Desert places / Leaves compared with flowers / Neither out far nor in deep / Design / Provide, provide / The silken tent / Come in / Robert Frost
The subverted flower / The gift outright / Directive / The middleness of the road / Away! / Robert Frost -- Chicago / Gone / Cool tombs / Grass / Gargoyle / They all want to play Hamlet / Soup / Aprons of silence / Four preludes on playthings of the wind / from The people, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- General William Booth enters into heaven / The eagle that is forgotten / The Congo / Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- Peter Quince at the Clavier / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Sunday morning / A high-toned old Christian woman / The emperor of ice-cream / Bantams in pine-woods / Anecdote of the jar / Dance of the macabre mice / The idea of order at Key West / Dry loaf / The sense of the sleight-of-hand man / from Notes toward a supreme fiction / from Esthetique du mal / So-and-so reclining on her couch / Men made out of words / A primitive like an orb / The river of rivers in Connecticut / The Irish cliffs of Moher / To an old philospher in Rome / Wallace Stevens -- Tract / Danse Russe / Queen-Ann's-Lace / The widow's lament in springtime / Spring and all / The red wheelbarrow / To Elsie / At the ball game / To Mark Anthony in heaven / Portrait of a lady / This is just to say / The yachts / The Catholic bells / These / The dance / Burning the Christmas greens / To Ford Madox Ford in heaven / The rose / The semblables / from Paterson: Book I / Ol' Bunk's Band / Lear / William Carlos Williams
Subject American poetry.
Added Author Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.
Other Form: Online version: New Oxford book of American verse. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976 (OCoLC)557685535
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