Studies in Poetry Book

Studies in Poetry For My Father Contents Foreword xix i. On Getting Started i WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, On His Seventy-fifth Birthday 7 RICHARD LOVELACE, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 8 n. The Poem as a Way of Seeing 1 1 ROBERT BROWNING, from Fra Lippo Lippi 1 1 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Com posed upon Westminster Bridge 1 3 SAMUEL YELLEN, Wanted 15 m. The Poem as It Speaks for Us 18 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When in disgrace 18 ROBERT HERRICK, To Blossoms 2,1 A. E. HOUSMAN, Loveliest of trees 2,3 iv. The Poem as It Unites Us 2,5 Fourteen Epigrams from The Greek Anthology 2,6 v. The Poem as Statement 32, EDWARD FITZGERALD, from The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayydm 34 vii Viil CONTENTS WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, The Battle-Field 36 vi. Prose Accounts of Poems 39 EMILY DICKINSON, To hear an oriole sing 39 GEORGE MEREDITH, Appreciation 41 JOHN DONNE, A Lecture upon the Shadow 42 vii. Poet and Reader 45 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Solitary Reaper 45 JOHN KEATS, To Autumn 50 vm. The Poem as Record 54 MORRIS BISHOP, E MC 2 55 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, from In Memoriam 56 RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Con cord Hymn 59 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, Ichabod 60 ix. Imagery 64 CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTT, A Birthday 64 JOHN MILTON, from Paradise Lost 70 WILLIAM BLAKE, To the Eve ning Star 70 x. Allusion 73 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, It is a beauteous evening 73 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, Laus Deo 78 CONTENTS ix xi. Metaphor 83 EMILY DICKINSON, What soft, cherubic creatures 89 RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Snow-Storm 91 xn. Irony and Paradox 94 A. E. HOUSMAN, When I watch the living meet 94 EDWARD FITZGERALD, from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 98 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory 98 WILLIAM BLAKE, Holy Thursday 101 xni. Rhythm and Meter 104 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Pas sionate Shepherd to His Love 106 ROBERT HERRICK, Delight in Dis order 107 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Song from Cymbeline 1 1 o WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, I wan dered lonely as a cloud 1 1 1 xiv. Rhythm and Meter continued 114 ALEXANDER POPE, from An Essay on Criticism 114 JOHN KEATS, from Endymion 115 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, from The Merchant of Venice 117 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, from The Tempest 118 CONTENTS xv. By Way of Review 123 JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Rochester, from A Satyr Against Mankind 123 EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently with no surprise 125 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFEL LOW, The Bells of Lynn 126 CHARLES COTTON, Evening Quat rains 128 xvi. By Way of Review continued 132 i. ANNA ULEN ENGLEMAN, Five Poems 132 n. HENRY WADSWORTH LONG FELLOW, from The Build ing of the Ship 1 34 WALT WHITMAN, O Captain My Captain 135 in. A. E. HOUSMAN, To an Ath lete Dying Young 138 xvii. Narrative Poems. The Folk Ballad 143 The Song of Deborah 143 Sir Patrick Spence 146 John Henry 150 xviii. The Folk Ballad and the Lit erary Ballad 155 The Daemon Lover 155 Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland 1 59 JOHN KEATS, La Belle Dame sans Merci i 63 CONTENTS Xi xix. Character in Poems 169 i. JOHN FLETCHER, from King Henry the Eighth 169 SAMUEL JOHNSON, from The Vanity of Human Wishes 170 ii. DANTE ALIGHIERI, from The Inferno XXVI 173 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses 174 xx. A Browning Group 179 i. ROBERT BROWNING, Meeting at Night and Parting at Morning 179 ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess 1 80 ii. ROBERT BROWNING, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxeds Church 183 xxi. Lyrics 1 89 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Song from Twelfth Night 190 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Song from Two Gentlemen of Ve rona 190 BEN JONSON, Song Still to be neat 191 BEN JONSON, Hymn to Diana 192, JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Roches ter, Song Absent from thee 193 WILLIAM COLLINS, Ode How sleep the Brave 194 CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI, In the bleak mid-winter 195 Xll CONTENTS ROBERT Louis STEVENSON, Where Go the Boats 197 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Song When lovely woman stoops to folly 198 ROBERT BURNS, The Banks o Doon 1 98 xxn. Lyrics continued 200 i. Psalm 19 1-6 200 Davids Elegy over Saul and Jonathan 202 ii...Read More