| Description |
xiii, 289 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Richard Cory; Miniver Cheevy; Mr. Flood's party; Isaac and Archibald; The dark hills / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening; The death of the hired man; Birches; The witch of Coos; A line-storm song; Design / Robert Frost -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- Chicago; Wind song / Carl Sandburg -- The congo; Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- Peter Quince at the Clavier; The sense of the sleight-of-hand man; A high-toned old Christian woman / Wallace Stevens -- The yachts; The gift; The horse show / William Carlos Williams -- Portrait d'une femme; From canto LXXXI / Ezra Pound -- Puritan sonnet / Elinor Wylie -- Ocean; Nova; The purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers -- A carriage from Sweden; Critics and connoisseurs; What are years? / Marianne Moore -- Preludes; The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The waste land; Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot -- The equilibrists; Blue girls; Parting, without a sequel / John Crow Ransom -- Morning song from "Senlin"; South end / Conrad Aiken -- The dream / Louise Bogan -- Jehovah buried, Satan dead; if up's the word;and a world grows greener; anyone lived in a pretty how town; the greedy the people / E.E. Cummings -- You, Andrew Marvell; Dr. Sigmund Freud discovers the sea shell; The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- What lips my lips have kissed; Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word; On hearing a symphony of Beethoven / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Polo grounds / Rolfe Humphries -- The long voyage / Malcolm Cowley -- The river (from "The bridge"); The harbor dawn / Hart Crane -- The swimmers / Allen Tate -- Portrait / Kenneth Fearing -- Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash -- The circus;or one view of it / Theodore Spencer -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- The groundhog; The horse chestnut tree; On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn in New England / Richard Eberhart -- Portrait of girl with comic book / Phyllis McGinley -- Dragon country: to Jacob Boehme / Robert Penn Warren -- Elegy for Jane; My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- The U.S. sailor with the Japanese skull / Winfield Townley Scott -- The fish; The man-moth / Elizabeth Bishop -- Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser -- The heavy bear / Delmore Schwartz -- The progress of Faust; Auto wreck; Drug store / Karl Shapiro -- A camp in the Prussian forest; Hope / Randall Jarrell -- Love poem / John Frederick Nims -- Summer remembered / Isabella Gardner -- Skin diving in the Virgins / John Malcolm Brinnin -- "Vale" from Carthage / Peter Viereck -- Mr. Edwards and the spider; For the Union dead; Water / Robert Lowell -- Lion / May Swenson -- Santa Claus / Howard Nemerov -- A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra; For the new railway station in Rome; The mill / Richard Wilbur -- Samel Sewall / Anthony Hecht -- The green shepherd / Louis Simpson -- Powwow / W.D. Snodgrass -- Midsummer / James Scully -- The body politic / Donald Hall -- The fortress / Anne Sexton -- The lifeguard / James Dickey -- Radar / Alan Ross -- Dandelions / Will Stanton -- The magpie / Jon Swan -- Dear God, the day is grey / Anne Halley. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Reid, James M., editor.
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