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Title London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2012]
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Description xxvii, 745 pages cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-734) and index.
Contents John Gower Confessio amantis -- William Langland The vision of piers plowman -- Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury tales -- Thomas Hoccleve La male regle de T Hoccleue -- John Lydgate King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London -- Anon. (15th century) London lickpenny -- John Skelton Collyn Clout -- Anon. (1500?) "London, thou art of townes A perse" -- Sir Thomas Wyatt "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "London, hast thou accusèd me" -- Anne Askew The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- George Turberville The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- Isabella Whitney The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Edmund Spenser Prothalamion -- George Peele King Edward the first -- Chidiock Tichborne Tichborne's elegy -- Michael Drayton Poly-olbion -- William Shakespeare Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII -- Thomas Nashe Summer's last will and testament -- Everard Guilpin Skialetheia -- Ben Jonson The devil in an ass On the famous voyage -- John Donne Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --
John Taylor The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place -- Philip Massinger The city madam -- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The knight of the burning pestle -- Francis Beaumont Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey -- Thomas Freeman London's progress -- W. Turner Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry -- Abraham Holland London, look back -- Robert Herrick An ode for him [Ben Jonson] His return to London His tears to Thamasis -- Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London sad London : an echo -- Edmund Waller On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty -- John Milton When the assault was intended to the city -- Thomas Jordan The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company -- Sir John Denham Cooper's hill -- Abraham Cowley The civil war -- Richard Lovelace To Althea, from prison : song -- Simon Ford London's resurrection -- Henry Vaughan A rhapsody -- Anon. (17th century) The cries of London -- Andrew Marvell An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland -- John Dryden Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe -- Anon. (pub. 1680) In the fields of Lincoln's inn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") A ramble in St. James's park --
John Oldham A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal -- Anon. (1684) A winter wonder: or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there -- Anon. (1684) The wonders of the deep -- Pierre Antoine Motteux A song -- Jonathan Swift A description of the morning A description of a city shower Clever Tom Clinch A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; from On poetry : a rhapsody -- John Gay Trivia : or, The art of walking the streets of London ; from The beggar's opera -- Anon. (pub. 1719) The fair lass of Islington -- Alexander Pope The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Six town eclogues -- Elizabeth Tollet On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 -- John Bancks A description of London -- Anon. (1739) Hail, London! -- Samuel Johnson London -- Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th-19th centuries) London bridge Oranges and lemons "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" "Poussie, poussie, baudrons" "Up at Piccadilly oh!" "See-saw, sacradown" "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" "As I was going o'er London bridge" "As I was going o'er London bridge" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel -- William Whitehead The sweepers -- Oliver Goldsmith Description of an author's bedchamber -- William Cowper The task -- Charles Jenner Twon eclogues -- Anna Letitia Barbauld Song for the London volunteers West End fair -- Charles Dibdin The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping -- Hannah More The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --
Mary Robinson London's summer morning -- William Blake Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem -- Joanna Baillie London -- William Wordsworth The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude -- James Smith and Horace Smith Horace in London -- Leigh Hunt To Hampstead Description of Hampstead -- Lord Byron Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third -- John Hamilton Reynolds Sonnet -- John Keats "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern -- Thomas Hood Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon Scenes in London : Piccadilly-- Winthrop Mackworth Praed Goodnight to the season -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle -- Anon. (1851) Have you been to the crystal palace? -- Robert Browning Waring -- Edward Lear There was an old person of Putney ; There was an old man of Blackheath ; There was a young person of Kew ; There was an old person of Bow ; There was a young lady of Greenwich ; There was an old person of Ealing ; There was an old person of Bromley ; There was an old person of Sheen ; There was an old man of Thames Ditton -- Arthur Hugh Clogh To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --
Anon. (19th century) The cries of London -- George Eliot In a London drawingroom -- Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen -- Frederick Locker-Lampson St. James's street -- Matthew Arnold Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London -- Dante Gabriel Rosetti Tiber, Nile, and Thames -- Coventry Patmore A London fête -- James Thomson Sunday at Hampstead -- Henry S. Leigh A Cockney's evening song -- Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury -- Austin Dobson A new song of the spring garden -- Thomas Hardy Beyond the last lamp ; The coronation ; In the British museum In St. Paul's a while ago Coming up Oxford street : evening A refusal To a tree in London Christmas in the Elgin room -- W. H. Hudson To a London sparrow -- Robert Bridges London snow Trafalgar square -- W. E. Henley London voluntaries ; from London types -- Oscar Wilde Impression du matin -- John Davidson London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment -- A. E. Housman "From the wash the laundress sends" -- Mary E. Coleridge In London town -- Amy Levy A March day in London Straw in the street -- Rudyard Kipling In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war -- Arthur Symons London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London -- W. B. Yeats Vacillation -- Lionel Johnson London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross -- Charlotte Mew In Nunhead cemetery -- Laurence Binyon As I walked through London -- T. E. Hulme The embankment -- Ezra Pound Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- D. H. Lawrence Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 -- Frances Cornford London streets Parting in wartime --
Siegfried Sassoon Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house -- T. S. Eliot The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets -- Isaac Rosenberg Fleet street -- Richard Aldington St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche -- Wilfred Owen "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" -- Sylvia Townsend Warner Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery -- John Rodker The shop The searchlight -- Robert Graves Armistice Day, 1918 -- A. S. J. Tessimond Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne -- Stevie Smith Suburb -- William Empson Homage to the British museum -- John Betjeman The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells -- Louis MacNeice Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon -- Stephen Spender Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama -- Bernard Spencer Regent's park terrace Train to work -- Mervyn Peake London buses -- Kenneth Allott Memento mori -- Roy Fuller First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --
Anne Ridler Wentworth place : Keats grove -- George Barker Kew gardens -- Alun Lewis Westminster abbey -- Robert Lowell Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London -- Nicholas Moore Monmouth street -- John Heath-Stubbs Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate -- W. S. Graham The night city -- Muriel Spark A tour of London -- Keith Douglas The "bête noire" fragments -- D. J. Enright The stations of King's cross -- Philip Larkin Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- Donald Davie To Londoners -- Dannie Abse Street scene Soho : Saturday night -- James Berry Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 -- John Ashbery The tower of London -- Thom Gunn Autobiography Talbot road -- Connie Bensley Vauxhall Bottleneck -- Peter Porter Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas -- U. A. Fanthorpe Rising damp Widening the Westway -- Ted Hughes Fate playing Epiphany -- Derek Walcott Omeros -- Alan Brownjohn A202 -- Ruth Fainlight The same power -- Geoffrey Hill Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament -- Sylvia Plath Parliament hill fields --
Anne Stevenson Cashpoint Charlie -- Fleur Adcock Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London -- John Fuller London songs ; from The shires -- Ken Smith The London poems -- Seamus Heaney The underground District and circle -- Lee Harwood Rain journal : London : June 65 -- Grey Gowrie Outside Biba's -- Joseph Brodsky In England -- Derek Mahon Sunday Morning -- Hugo Williams Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill -- Iain Sinclair Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston -- Mimi Khalvati Earls court -- Carol Rumens Pleasure island, marble arch -- Wendy Cope Lonely hearts After the lunch -- Peter Reading Perduta gente -- Christopher Reid North London sonnet Exasperated piety -- Gillian Allnutt Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields -- John Agard Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames -- Grace Nichols Island man -- Charles Boyle The miracle at Shepherd's bush -- Andrew Motion London plane -- Linton Kwesi Johnson Sonny's Lettah -- Jo Shapcott St. Bride's -- Michael Donaghy The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --
Jeremy Reed Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman -- John Stammers John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke -- Carol Ann Duffy Woman seated in the underground, 1941 -- Alan Jenkins The London dissector -- Jamie McKendrick Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse -- Mick Imlah Cockney -- Sarah Maguire Almost the equinox -- Michael Hofmann kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road -- Maura Dooley Smash the windows -- David Kennedy The bombs, July 2005 -- Fred d'Aguiar Home -- Lavinia Greenlaw River history -- Glyn Maxwell The fires by the river -- Simon Armitage KX -- Alice Oswald Another Westminster bridge -- Daljit Nagra Yobbos! -- Nick Laird The tip -- Heather Phillipson German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London -- Ben Borek Donjong heights -- Tom Chivers Big skies over docklands -- Ahren Warner "Girl with ridiculous earrings"
Subject London (England) -- Poetry.
English poetry.
Added Author Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-
ISBN 9780674065680 alkaline paper
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