| Description |
xxxix, 197 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
American poets project ; 25 |
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American poets project ; 25.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index. |
| Performer |
John Quincy Adams, Washington Allston, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Jones Very, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emma Lazarus, Edwin Markham, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Louise Imogen Guiney, George Santayana, Richard Hovey, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Trumbull Stickney, Wallace Stevens, Elinor Wylie, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Samuel Greenberg, E.E. Cummings, H. Phelps Putnam, Louise Bogan, John Wheelwright, Leonie Adams, Hart Crane, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Eberhart, Robert Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bishop, J.V. Cunningham, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, John Berryman, Weldon Kees, Robert Lowell, William Meredith, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, James Merrill, James Wright, John Hollander, Adrienne Rich, Robert Mezey. |
| Contents |
To the sun-dial / John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) -- On the Luxembourg Gallery / Washington Allston (1779-1843) -- November / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- To an American painter departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Mezzo Cammin / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- From Divina Commedia I "Oft have I seen at some cathedral door" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Sound of the sea / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Nature / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Harvest moon / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- To science / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Columbine / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- New birth / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Garden / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Latter rain / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Dead / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Brother's blood / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Nature / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Children -- Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Autumn leaves / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Barberry bush / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Hand and foot / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Yourself / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- Lost / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- From The Origin of Man I "Man has forgot his origin; in vain" / Jones Very (1813-1880) -- From A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome" / Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Street / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- From Sonnets, first series VII "Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- X "An upper chamber in a darkened house" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XXVIII "Not the round natural world, not the deep mind" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- From Sonnets, second series VII "His heart was in his garden; but his brain" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XV "Gertrude and Gulielma, sister-twins" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XVI "Under the mountain, as when first I knew" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XVIII "And change with hurried hand has swept these scenes" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XXIX "How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school's sway" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XXX "Yet even mid merry boyhood's tricks and scapes" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XXXII "O for the face and footstep! woods and shore" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- From Sonnets, third series IV "Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- VI "I looked across the rollers of the deep" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- VII "O rest divine! O golden certainty" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- IX "But into order falls our life at last" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- X "Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- From Sonnets, fourth series I "Still, like a city, seated on a height" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- VIII "Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- From Sonnets, fifth series III "And yet tonight, when summer daylight dies" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- XVI "Let me give something!--as the years unfold" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) -- Crossed threads / Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) -- New Colossus / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- Long Island Sound / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- In Death Valley / Edwin Markham (1852-1940) -- April in Town / Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) -- Lights of London / Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) -- From Sonnets, 1883-1893 III "O world, thou choosest not the better part!" / George Santayana (1863-1952) -- XVI "Thousand beauties that have never been" / George Santayana (1863-1952) -- From To W.P. II "With you a part of me hath passed away" / George Santayana (1863-1952) -- From Sonnets, 1895 XXIX "What riches have you that you deem me poor" / George Santayana (1863-1952) -- Accident in art / Richard Hovey (1864-1900) -- Dear Friends / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Sonnet ("Oh for a poet--for a beacon bright") / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Clerks / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- George Crabbe / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- On the night of a friend's wedding / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Pity of the leaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- L'Envoi / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Lost anchors / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Many are called / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- From Not Always II "There were long days when there was nothing said" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- New England / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Reunion / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Into my own / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Mowing / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Meeting and passing / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Oven bird / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Putting in the seed / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Investment / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Master speed / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Design / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- On a bird singing in its sleep / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Unharvested / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Silken tent / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Never again would birds' song be the same / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- "Your image walks not in my common way" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- "Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- "Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- "Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- "The melancholy year is dead with rain" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- From Sonnets from Greece Near Helikon / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) -- Autumn refrain / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Wild peaches / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) -- Unfinished portrait / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) -- False Prophet / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) -- Good ships / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Parting at dawn / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- From And in the Human Heart X "If we must speak, then let us humbly speak" / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) -- XXXIX "Bird's eye or snake's eye, bright through leaves; the leaf" / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) -- Dawn in New York / Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Outcast / Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- "If I should learn, in some quite casual way" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- "I think I should have loved you presently" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- "I shall forget you presently, my dear" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- "Love is not blind. I see with single eye" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- "Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Sonnet to Gath / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- From Fatal Interview VII "Night is my sister, and how deep in love" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- XXXIII "Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- XXXV "Clearly my ruined garden as it stood / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- XLVI "Even in the moment of earliest kiss" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- From Sonnets of Apology XXVII Immortality / Samuel greenberg (1893-1917) -- "Wind has blown the rain away and blown" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "'Next to of course God America I'" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "If I have made, my lady, intricate" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "He does not have to feel because he thinks" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Pity this busy monster, manunkind" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "Why must itself up every of a park" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "From spiralling ecstatically this" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- "All worlds have halfsight, seeing either with" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- From On Drink II "Strong drink goes to the soul and sets it free" / Phelps Putnam (1894-1948) -- Sonnet ("Since you would claim the sources of my thought") / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Simple Autumnal / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Single Sonnet / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- From Mirrors of Venus VII Sanct / John Wheelright (1897-1940) -- XII Mother / John Wheelright (1897-1940) -- XIII Father / John Wheelright (1897-1940) -- XXIX Phallus / John Wheelright (1897-1940) -- Twilight of the Wood / Leonie Adams (1899-1988) -- Alas, Kind Element / Leonie Adams (1899-1988) -- To Emily Dickinson / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Subway / Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- From Sonnets at Christmas II "Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky" / Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- From More Sonnets at Christmas II "Day's at end and there's nowhere to go" / Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- Prince / Yvor Winters (1900-1965) -- Pasellus Ille / R.P. Blackmur (1904-1965) -- From Dedications II Wind and weather / R.P. Blackmur (1904-1965) -- Burden / Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) -- Petit Jour / Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) -- Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Aged lover discourses in the Flat Style / J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985) -- Beautiful American word, sure / Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) -- Christmas Eve: Australia / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) -- Full Moon: New Guinea / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) -- From Berryman's Sonnets XI "I expect you from the North. The path winds in" / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- To build a quiet city in his mind / Weldon Kees (1914-1955). |
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North Sea Undertaker's Complaint / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Inauguration Day: January 1953 / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Illiterate / William Meredith (1919-2007) -- This present past / Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) -- Miltonic Sonnet for Mr. Johnson on his refusal of Peter Hurd's official protrait / Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) -- Fifth Avenue Parade / Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) -- Summer storm / Louis Simpson (b. 1923) -- Virgin Mary / Edgar Bowers (1924-2000) -- Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers (1924-2000) -- Poet at seven / Donald Justice (1925-2004) -- Artist Orpheus / Donald Justice (1925-2004) -- Marsyas / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- Broken home / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- Saint Judas / James Wright (1927-1980) -- Jefferson Valley / John Hollander (b.1929) -- Insusceptibles / Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) -- Owl / Robert Mezey (b. 1935). |
| Summary |
An anthology of sonnets written by American poets over the course of two centuries, including selections by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Conrad Aiken, Richard Eberhart, and many others. |
| Subject |
Sonnets, American.
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American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Sonnets, American. (OCoLC)fst01126612
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Sonett.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Anthologie.
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Anthologie.
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| Added Author |
Bromwich, David, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: American sonnets. New York : Library of America, 2007 (OCoLC)607715457 |
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Online version: American sonnets. New York : Library of America, 2007 (OCoLC)608061959 |
| ISBN |
9781598530155 (alk. paper) |
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1598530151 (alk. paper) |
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