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Contents Preface to the Third Edition xxvii Acknowledgments xxxiii Introduction xxxvii Walt Whitman (1819–1892) One’s-Self I Sing Song of Myself 1–14 46–52 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing A Hand-Mirror Cavalry Crossing a Ford By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) 49 (“I never lost as much but twice”) 214 (“I taste a liquor never brewed—”) 249 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”) 258 (“There’s a certain Slant of light”) 280 (“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”) 303 (“The Soul selects her own Society—”) 328 (“A Bird came down the Walk—”) 341 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”) 435 (“Much Madness is divinest Sense—”) 465 (“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”) 585 (“I like to see it lap the Miles—”) 632 (“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—”) 657 (“I dwell in Possibility—”) 712 (“Because I could not stop for Death—”) 754 (“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”) 986 (“A narrow Fellow in the Grass”) v

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Contents

Preface to the Third Edition xxviiAcknowledgments xxxiiiIntroduction xxxvii

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

One’s-Self I SingSong of Myself

1–1446–52

Crossing Brooklyn FerryI Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak GrowingA Hand-MirrorCavalry Crossing a FordBy the Bivouac’s Fitful FlameWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

49 (“I never lost as much but twice”)214 (“I taste a liquor never

brewed—”)249 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”)258 (“There’s a certain Slant of light”)280 (“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”)303 (“The Soul selects her own Society—”)328 (“A Bird came down the

Walk—”)341 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”)435 (“Much Madness is divinest Sense—”)465 (“I heard a Fly buzz—when I

died—”)585 (“I like to see it lap the

Miles—”)632 (“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—”)657 (“I dwell in Possibility—”)712 (“Because I could not stop for Death—”)754 (“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”)986 (“A narrow Fellow in the Grass”)

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1129 (“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”)1732 (“My life closed twice before its close—”)

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

HapNeutral TonesI Look into My GlassIn Tenebris

I (“Wintertime nighs;”)II (“When the clouds’ swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and

strong”)Drummer HodgeThe Darkling ThrushA Broken AppointmentThe Self-UnseeingBereftShut Out That MoonNew Year’s EveChannel FiringThe Convergence of the TwainPoems of 1912–13

The GoingYour Last DriveI Found Her Out ThereThe Voice

A PoetIn the MoonlightThe OxenIn Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’For Life I Had Never Cared GreatlyI Looked Up from My WritingAfterwardsGoing and StayingNobody ComesHe Never Expected Much

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

The Habit of PerfectionThe Wreck of the DeutschlandGod’s Grandeur[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]SpringThe WindhoverPied BeautyBinsey PoplarsFelix Randal[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day][No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]Spring and Fall

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[Carrion Comfort]Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend]

A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

[Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now][When I Was One-and Twenty]To an Athlete Dying Young[Is My Team Ploughing][On Wenlock Edge the Wood’s in Trouble][With Rue My Heart Is Laden][Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff]Eight O’ClockEpitaph on an Army of Mercenaries[They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder]

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

To the Rose upon the Rood of TimeThe Lake Isle of InnisfreeThe Sorrow of LoveWhen You Are Old[Who Goes with Fergus?]To Ireland in the Coming TimesThe Hosting of the SidheThe Song of the Wandering AengusThe Cap and BellsHe Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenAdam’s CurseNo Second TroyThe Fascination of What’s DifficultThe Cold HeavenA CoatSeptember 1913The MagiThe FishermanEaster, 1916The Wild Swans at CooleIn Memory of Major Robert GregoryAn Irish Airman Foresees His DeathThe Second ComingA Prayer for My DaughterTo Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor BallyleeNineteen Hundred and NineteenLeda and the SwanThe TowerSailing to ByzantiumAmong School ChildrenIn Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con MarkieviczA Dialogue of Self and SoulByzantiumCrazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

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VacillationMeruThe GyresLapis LazuliAn Acre of GrassThe SpurLong-Legged FlyUnder Ben BulbenMan and the EchoThe Circus Animals’ DesertionPolitics

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1930)

Danny DeeverShillin’ a DayRecessionalHarp Song of the Dane WomenA Pict SongThe Way through the WoodsEpitaphs of the WarWe and They

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)

spoon river anthology

The HillAmanda BarkerFiddler JonesPetit, the PoetElsa WertmanHamilton GreeneAnne Rutledge

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

Luke HavergalRichard CoryReuben BrightCalverly’sHow Annandale Went OutMiniver CheevyFor a Dead LadyEros TurannosThe MillThe Dark HillsMr. Flood’s PartyThe SheavesJames Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)O Black and Unknown BardsDown by the Carib Sea

VI. Sunset in the TropicsThe Creation

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Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

Picassotender buttons

ObjectsA carafe, that is a blind glass.A piece of coffee.A waist.A little bit of a tumbler.A brown.A little called Pauline.A dog.A white hunter.Peeled pencil, choke.

FoodMutton.Sugar.Eggs.Chicken.Chicken.Chicken.Chicken.A centre in a table.

From RoomsSusie AsadoGuillaume ApollinairePreciosillaSacred EmilyIdem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood AndersonGeorge HugnetStanzas in Meditation

Stanza LXXXIII

Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

The PikeVenus TransiensA DecadeShore GrassNew Heavens for Old

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Mending WallHome BurialAfter Apple-PickingThe Wood-PileThe Road Not TakenAn Old Man’s Winter NightHyla BrookThe Oven BirdBirchesPutting in the Seed

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“Out, Out—”Fire and IceDust of SnowStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningFor Once, Then, SomethingTo EarthwardThe Need of Being Versed in Country ThingsTree at My WindowAcquainted with the NightTwo Tramps in Mud TimeDesert PlacesNeither Out Far nor In DeepDesignUnharvestedProvide, ProvideThe Silken TentThe Most of ItNever Again Would Birds’ Song Be the SameThe Gift OutrightDirective

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

ChicagoThe HarborSubwayCool TombsGrassGargoyle

Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

AdlestropThe GypsyThe OwlRainFebruary AfternoonThe Green RoadsThe Gallows

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

Sunday MorningPeter Quince at the ClavierDisillusionment of Ten O’ClockDomination of BlackThe Worms at Heaven’s GateThirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdThe Death of a SoldierAnecdote of the JarThe Snow ManTea at the Palaz of HoonBantams in Pine-WoodsThe Emperor of Ice-Cream

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The Idea of Order at Key WestA Postcard from the VolcanoThe Man with the Blue Guitar

I (“The man bent over his guitar”)

XXII (“Poetry is the subject of the poem”)A Rabbit as King of the GhostsThe Poems of Our ClimateStudy of Two PearsThe Man on the DumpOf Modern PoetryNotes toward a Supreme Fiction

I.I (“Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea”)II.V (“On a blue island in a sky-wide water”)III.III (“A lasting visage in a lasting bush”)

The Motive for MetaphorThe Auroras of Autumn

I (“This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.”)II (“Farewell to an idea . . . A cabin stands”)III (“Farewell to an idea . . . The mother’s face”)

Large Red Man ReadingAn Ordinary Evening in New Haven

XXX (“The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen.”)The Rock

I. Seventy Years LaterTo an Old Philosopher in RomeThe Poem That Took the Place of a MountainThe Planet on the TableThe River of Rivers in ConnecticutThe Plain Sense of ThingsReality Is an Activity of the Most August ImaginationOf Mere Being

Mina Loy (1882–1966)

Songs to JoannesI (“Spawn of Fantasies”)II (“The skin-sack”)III (“We might have coupled”)XIII (“Come to me There is something”)XIV (“Today”)XXVI (“Shedding our petty pruderies”)XXIX (“Evolution fall foul of”)

Brancusi’s Golden BirdDer Blinde Jungeanglo-mongrels and the rose

English RoseGertrude SteinThe Widow’s Jazz

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William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

The Young HousewifeTractDanse RusseSympathetic Portrait of a ChildPortrait of a LadyQueen-Ann’s-LaceThe Widow’s Lament in SpringtimeThe Great FigureSpring and AllThe FarmerTo ElsieThe Red WheelbarrowThis Is Just to SayDeathFlowers by the SeaThe Botticellian TreesThe YachtsThe Last Words of My English GrandmotherThe DanceBurning the Christmas Greenspaterson

PrefaceBook I. The Delineaments of the Giants

From I (“Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls”)From III (“Thought clambers up”)

The Ivy Crownpictures from bruegel

II. Landscape with the Fall of IcarusVI. Haymaking

Asphodel, That Greeny FlowerBook I

Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)

Wild PeachesIncantationLet No Charitable Hope

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

The Wild CommonLove on the FarmAwareThe BrideSorrowThe Enkindled SpringGloire de DijonA Youth MowingPianoMedlars and Sorb-ApplesSouthern NightSicilian CyclamensSnake

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Lui et ElleHumming-BirdYouThe English Are So Nice!Andraitx—Pomegranate FlowersWhales Weep Not!ButterflyBavarian GentiansThe Ship of Death

Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

Portrait d’une FemmeThe ReturnA PactThe RestIn a Station of the MetroThe River-Merchant’s Wife: A LetterLament of the Frontier GuardThe Temperamentshugh selwyn mauberley

(Life and Contacts)1920 (Mauberley)

the cantos

I (“And then went down to the ship”)II (“Hang it all, Robert Browning”)VII (“Eleanor [she spoiled in a British climate]”)From XIV (“The slough of unamiable liars”)XLV (“With Usura”)LXXXI (“Zeus lies in Ceres’ bosom”)CXVI (“Came Neptunus”)CXX (“I have tried to write Paradise”)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

To His Dead Body‘Blighters’The Rear-GuardDreamersThe GeneralRepression of War ExperienceEveryone SangOn Passing the New Menin Gate

H. D. (1886–1961)

OreadThe PoolSea RoseMid-DayGardenSea VioletHelenFragment Sixty-EightEpitaph▼

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the walls do not fall

[1] (“An incident here and there”)[4] (“There is a spell, for instance”)[6] (“In me [the worm] clearly”)[39] (“We have had too much consecration”)

tribute to the angels

[24] (“Every hour, every moment”)[25] (“. . . of the no need”)[26] (“One of us said, how odd”)[27] (“And yet in some very subtle way”)[28] (“I had been thinking of Gabriel”)[29] (“We have seen her”)[30] (“We see her hand in her lap”)[31] (“But none of these, none of these”)[36] (“Ah [you say], this is Holy Wisdom”)[37] (“This is a symbol of beauty [you continue]”)[38] (“O yes—you understand, I say”)[39] (“But nearer than Guardian Angel”)[40] (“This is no rune nor symbol”)[41] (“She carried a book, either to imply”)

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

Shine, Perishing RepublicFawn’s Foster-MotherHurt HawksRock and HawkAve CaesarThe Purse-SeineCarmel PointVulture

Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

Ballad of Hector in HadesThe WheelThe AbsentThe Horses

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

façade

AubadeCountry Dance

Still Falls the RainThe Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age

Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

To a Steam RollerCritics and ConnoisseursBlack EarthThe FishIn the Days of Prismatic ColourPoetry

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EnglandA GraveAn OctopusTo a SnailThe Steeple-JackThe PangolinThe Paper NautilusWhat Are Years?He “Digesteth Harde Yron”

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

Bells for John Whiteside’s DaughterHere Lies a LadyPiazza PieceDead BoyPainted Head

T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPreludesWhispers of ImmortalitySweeney among the NightingalesGerontionthe waste land

Journey of the MagiLittle Gidding

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)

To His LoveFirst Time InLaventieThe Silent One

Claude McKay (1890–1948)

A Midnight Woman to the BobbyThe Harlem DancerIf We Must DieThe LynchingThe Tropics in New YorkAmericaThe White CityOutcast

Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

The MirrorBreak of Day in the TrenchesLouse HuntingReturning, We Hear the LarksDead Man’s Dump

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

First FigRecuerdoGrown-UpSpring[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed][Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead][Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]The ReturnTo a Calvinist in Bali

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

Ars PoeticaThe End of the WorldYou, Andrew Marvell

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch HauchIn the PantryCloudburst and Soaring MoonParley of BeastsO Wha’s the Bride?Another Epitaph on an Army of MercenariesBritish Leftish Poetry, 1930–40

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

Anthem for Doomed YouthApologia pro Poemate MeoMinersDulce et Decorum EstStrange MeetingFutilityS.I.W.Greater LoveMental CasesDisabledExposure

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

RésuméOne Perfect RoseObservationOscar WildeGeorge Sand

Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)

[On Brooklyn Bridge I Saw a Man Drop Dead.][The Shopgirls Leave Their Work][I Walked through the Lonely Marsh][It Had Long Been Dark, though Still an Hour Before Supper-Time.]

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[Walk about the Subway Station][About an Excavation]Heart and ClockEpitaphsTe DeumFrom Early History of a Writerholocaust

IX. Entertainment

E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)

[in Just-][Buffalo Bill ’s][O sweet spontaneous][the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls][i was sitting in mcsorley’s][“next to of course god america i][my sweet old etcetera][i sing of Olaf glad and big][r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r][may i feel said he][anyone lived in a pretty how town][my father moved through dooms of love][pity this busy monster,manunkind]

Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

Her Lips Are Copper WireGumReapersNovember Cotton FlowerPortrait in GeorgiaSong of the SonGeorgia Dusk

Robert Graves (1895–1985)

The Cool WebOgres and PygmiesDown, Wanton, Down!Recalling WarTo Juan at the Winter SolsticeThe Persian VersionThe Blue-Fly

David Jones (1895–1974)

in parenthesis

Part 4. King Pellam’s Launde (lines 1–41)Part 7. The Five Unmistakable Marks (lines 283–422)

the anathémata

Part III. Angle-Land

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Austin Clarke (1896–1974)

The Planter’s DaughterThe Young Woman of Beare

Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

MedusaKnowledgeWomenThe AlchemistCassandraNight

Melvin Tolson (1898–1966)

harlem gallery

LambdaMuNuFrom Xi

Hart Crane (1899–1932)

Black TambourineChaplinesqueRepose of RiversAt Melville’s TombVoyagesthe bridge

Royal PalmThe Broken Tower

Allen Tate (1899–1979)

Mr. PopeOde to the Confederate DeadThe Swimmers

Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

On the Fly-Leaf of Pound’s Cantosbriggflatts

I (“Brag, sweet tenor bull”)What the Chairman Told Tom

Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

The Slow Pacific SwellBy the Road to the Air-BaseJohn Sutter

Laura Riding (1901–1991)

The Map of PlacesFootfallingDeath as DeathThe Troubles of a Book

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Ding-DongingWith the Face

Sterling Brown (1901–1989)

Odyssey of Big BoySouthern RoadMa RaineyStrong MenMemphis BluesSlim GreerSlim in AtlantaSporting BeasleyOld Lem

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

The Negro Speaks of RiversWhen Sue Wears RedThe Weary BluesSuicide’s NoteCrossLament over LovePo’ Boy BluesSong for a Dark GirlGal’s Cry for a Dying LoverBad ManHard DaddyDrumSylvester’s Dying BedThe Bitter RiverMorning AfterMadam’s Past HistoryMadam and Her MadamBlue BayouSilhouetteLife Is Finemontage of a dream deferred

Dream BoogieMottoDead in There125th StreetTheme for English BBoogie: 1 A.M.Nightmare BoogieDream Boogie: VariationHarlem

Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

Sunt LeonesThis EnglishwomanSouvenir de Monsieur PoopOur Bog Is DoodGod the Eater▼▼

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Not Waving but DrowningThoughts about the Person from PorlockA House of MercyExeatTo Carry the ChildPretty

Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)

[Well, Spring Overflows the Land][Swept Snow, Li Po][What Horror to Awake at Night][New-Sawed]Poet’s Work[Something in the Water][Popcorn-Can Cover]My Life by WaterThomas Jefferson

Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

Yet Do I MarvelAtlantic City WaiterIncidentFor a Lady I KnowHeritage

Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)

Poem Beginning “The”[Dedication]First Movement: “And out of olde bokes, in good feith”Fifth Movement: Autobiography

To My Wash-Stand

Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)

The GroundhogThe Fury of Aerial Bombardment

C. Day Lewis (1904–1972)

Two SongsWhere Are the War Poets?Almost Human

Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967)

Inniskeen Road: July Eveningthe great hunger

I (“Clay is the word and clay is the flesh”)EpicCanal Bank WalkCome Dance with Kitty StoblingIn Memory of My Mother

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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

Bearded OaksWhere the Slow Fig’s Purple Slothaudubon: a vision

I. Was Not the Lost DauphinThere’s a Grandfather’s Clock in the HallEvening HawkFear and TremblingMuted Music

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)

The War against the TreesThe PortraitThe Magic CurtainThe CatchDay of ForebodingThe RoundTouch Me

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)

Delia RexrothAndrée RexrothBluesHomer in BasicProust’s MadeleineThe Wheel Revolvesthe love poems of marichiko

IV (“You ask me what I thought about”)VII (“Making love with you”)IX (“You wake me”)XXV (“Your tongue thrums and moves”)XXVII (“As I came from the”)XXXI (“Some day in six inches

of”)XXXII (“I hold your head tight between”)XXXIII (“I cannot forget”)XXXIV (“Every morning, I”)LVIII (“Half in a dream”)LIX (“I hate this shadow of a ghost”)LX (“Chilled through, I wake up”)

John Betjeman (1906–1984)

The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan HotelSloughAn Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828In Westminster AbbeyThe Cottage Hospital

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William Empson (1906–1984)

VillanelleIgnorance of DeathMissing Dates

W. H. Auden (1907–1973)

The Secret AgentThis Lunar BeautyThe WandererWho’s WhoOn This IslandLullabySpainAs I Walked Out One EveningIn Time of War

XIV (“Yes, we are going to suffer, now; the sky”)XVII (“They are and suffer; that is all they do:”)XVIII (“Far from the heart of culture he was used:”)

The CapitalMuseé des Beaux ArtsIn Memory of W. B. YeatsThe Unknown CitizenSeptember 1, 1939In Memory of Sigmund FreudIn Praise of LimestoneThe Shield of AchillesHorae Canonicae

I. PrimePrologue at SixtyA New Year GreetingA Lullaby

A. D. Hope (1907–2000)

AustraliaObservation CarAdvice to Young LadiesBeware of Ruins

Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

Nature MorteAn Eclogue for ChristmasSnowBagpipe MusicThe Sunlight on the GardenCarrickfergusBrother FireThe LibertineVariation on HeraclitusCharon▼

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George Oppen (1908–1984)

SolutionFrom DisasterSurvival: InfantryPedestrianPsalmof being numerous

1–918–19

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

CuttingsCuttings (later)Weed PullerMy Papa’s WaltzDolorThe MinimalThe Lost SonElegy for JaneThe WakingFrau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau SchwartzeI Knew a WomanWish for a Young WifeThe Far FieldIn a Dark Time

Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

The FuneralWhat I ExpectedThe Truly GreatThe ExpressThe Landscape near an AerodromeThe Pylons

Keith Douglas (1920–1944)

SoissonsSimplify Me When I’m DeadGallantryVergissmeinnichtAristocrats

POETICS

Walt Whitman

From Preface to leaves of grass (1855)

Emily Dickinson

Letters[Letter 261: Thank You for the Surgery] 25 April 1862[Letter 265: Will You Be My Preceptor?] 7 June 1862[Letter 268: My Business Is Circumference] July 1862

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letters[Sprung Rhythm] August 21, 1877[Sprung Rhythm] October 5, 1878[My Poetry Errs on the Side of Oddness] February 15, 1879[The Current Language Heightened] August 14, 1879

W. B. Yeats

The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work]

(w. 1937)

T. E. Hulme

From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911–12)

Blast (1914)Long Live the Vortex!Manifesto—1Manifesto—2

Mina Loy

Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914)

Amy Lowell, ed.Preface to some imagist poets (1915)

Wilfred Owen

Preface (w. 1918)

Ezra Pound

A Retrospect (1918)From how to read (1929, 1931)

T. S. Eliot

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)From Hamlet (1919)From The Metaphysical Poets (1921)

William Carlos Williams

From Prologue to kora in hell (1919)

D. H. Lawrence

The Poetry of the Present [Preface to the American Edition of new poems] (1919)

Langston Hughes

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)

Hart Crane

A Letter to Harriet Monroe (1926)

Wallace Stevens

AphorismsFrom adagia (w. 1934–40?)From Miscellaneous Notebooks (w. 1948–55?)

From The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942)

Robert Frost

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)

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Gertrude Stein

From A Transatlantic Interview (w. 1946)

Marianne Moore

Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (1949)

W. H. Auden

Writing (1962)

Selected BibliographiesPermissions AcknowledgmentsIndex

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