| Description |
xlii, 135 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
"Let us shout it lustily": Amy Lowell's career in context / Melissa Bradshaw -- Amy Lowell, new American poet / Adrienne Munich -- Sonnets, rhymed stanzas, and blank verse: A fixed idea -- On Carpaccio's picture: the dream of St. Ursula -- The starling -- Mirage -- A petition -- In answer to a request -- Eleonora Duse -- To a lady of undeniable beauty and practised charm -- Before the altar -- Apology -- After writing "The bronze horses" -- Merely statement -- Gavotte in D minor -- Song for a Viola d'amore -- Nuit Blanche -- On looking at a copy of Alice Meynell's poems, given me, years ago, by a friend -- The sisters -- Adapted Asian forms and translations from the Chinese: Aliens -- The pond -- A lover -- To a husband -- A year passes -- Ephemera -- Autumn -- One of the "Hundred views of Fuji" / Hokusai -- The fisherman's wife -- Outside a gate -- In time of war -- Li T'ai-po -- Frosty evening -- A poet's wife -- The return -- Nuance -- Autumn haze -- Nuit Blanche -- Again the New Year's festival -- Time -- Nostalgia -- Afterglow -- Vespers -- The battle to the south of the city / Li T'ai-po -- The retreat of Hsieh Kung / Li T'ai-po -- The terraced road of the two-edged sword mountains / Li T'ai-po -- Looking at the moon after rain / Li T'ai-po -- The lonely wife / Li T'ai-po -- On hearing the Buddhist priest of Shu play his table-lute / Li T'ai-po -- Parrot island / Li T'ai-po -- Reply to an unrefined person encountered in the hills / Li T'ai-po -- Night thoughts / Li T'ai-po -- In the province of Lu, to the east of the stone gate mountain, taking leave of Tu Fu / Li T'ai-po -- A poem sent to tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng / Li T'ai-po -- The river village / Tu Fu -- The sorceress gorge / Tu Fu -- At the edge of heaven, thinking of Li Pu / Tu Fu -- Sent to Li Po as a gift / Tu Fu -- A toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing / Tu Fu -- The blue-green stream / Wang Wei -- Together we know happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang Dynasty. |
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Cadenced verse: In a garden -- Absence -- Aubade -- White and green -- The captured goddess -- The taxi -- The blue scarf -- The letter -- Pine, beech, and sunlight -- Astigmatism -- The giver of stars -- Bright sunlight -- Venus transiens -- A rainy night -- Patterns -- Strain -- from Stravinsky's three pieces "Grotesques," for string quartet, second movement -- Summer rain -- A decade -- An aquarium -- Thompson's lunch room-Grand Central Station -- Opal -- Mise en scene -- Wakefulness -- A bather -- Madonna of the evening flowers -- from Dreams in war time -- A sprig of rosemary -- The broken fountain -- The weathervane points south -- The artist -- Vernal equinox -- Penumbra -- September. 1918 -- Granadilla -- Carrefour -- Lilacs -- Meeting-house hill -- Footing up a total -- Paradox -- Purple grackles -- In excelsis -- On reading a line underscored by Keats -- Dissonance -- Heraldic -- Attitude under an elm tree -- Sultry -- The on-looker -- Poetic justice -- Mid-adventure -- Anecdote -- Still life -- Polyphonic prose: Spring day -- from Malmaison -- from Sea-blue and blood-red -- from Guns as keys and the great gate swings. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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New Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Bradshaw, Melissa, 1969-
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Munich, Adrienne.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
0813531276 |
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9780813531274 |
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0813531284 (pbk.) |
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9780813531281 (pbk.) |
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