| Description |
128 pages illustrations 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in England in 1964 under title: Rising early. |
| Contents |
A frosty night / Robert Graves -- Love and a question / Robert Frost -- Bleeberrying / Jonathan Denwood -- The evil eye / John Ciardi -- By the Exeter River / Donald Hall -- Burial / Mark Van Doren -- The sun came out in April / C. Day Lewis -- The griesly wife / John Manifold -- Burkett's eagle / Dorothy S. Howard -- The young cordwainer / Robert Graves -- Europa / William Plomer -- Ballad of the Flood / Edwin Muir -- The history of the Flood / John Heath-Stubbs. |
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The visitation / Elizabeth Jennings -- Peter and John / Elinor Wylie -- Ballad of the Goodly Fere / Ezra Pound -- St. Martin and the beggar / Thom Gunn -- The ghostly father / Peter Redgrove -- Evening / Edith Sitwell -- Ganga / Thomas Blackburn -- The rise of Shivaji / Zulfikar Ghose -- Three jovial gentlemen / Daniel Hoffman -- Hunting song / Donald Finkel -- The Tantanoola tiger / Max Harris -- A Shropshire lad / John Betjeman -- Ula Masondo's dream / William Plomer -- A ballad of a mine / Robin Skelton. |
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Rousecastle / David Wright -- The ballad of Billy Rose / Leslie Norris -- A rope for Harry Fat / James K. Baxter -- Death on a live wire / Michael Baldwin -- At Dunwich / Anthony Thwaite -- Ballad of the two tapsters / Vernon Watkins -- The parklands / Stevie Smith -- The ballad of banners (1944) / John Lehmann -- Two wise generals / Ted ʹughes -- A stopwatch and an ordnance map / Stephen Spender -- James Honeyman / W. H. Auden -- Children's crusade 1939 / Bertold Brecht -- The streets of Laredo / Louis MacNeice -- Green, green is El Aghir / Norman Cameron -- Death of an aircraft -- Charles Causley / Carentan o Carentan / Louis Simpson -- The fifth sense / Patricia Beer. |
| Subject |
Narrative poetry.
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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Narrative poetry. (OCoLC)fst01032986
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Poesía -- Colecciones.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Causley, Charles, 1917-2003. Modern ballads and story poems. New York, F. Watts [1965, ©1964] (OCoLC)654783431 |
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