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The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms Cover Image Book Book

The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms

Strand, Mark, 1934- (Added Author). Boland, Eavan. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780393049169
  • ISBN: 9780393321784 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0393049167
  • ISBN: 0393321789 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: On Becoming a Poet / Mark Strand -- Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter / Eavan Boland -- I. Verse Forms. The Villanelle. Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures / Ernest Downson. The House on the Hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson. Missing Dates / William Empson. The Waking / Theodore Roethke. One Art / Elizabeth Bishop. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas. The World and the Child / James Merrill. Condemned Site / Mona Van Duyn. By the Sound / John Hollander. Saturday at the Border / Hayden Carruth. Under the Hill / Daryl Hine. Villanelle / Marilyn Hacker. Reading Scheme / Wendy Cope. Villanelle for the Middle of the Night / Jacqueline Osherow -- Close-Up of a Villanelle: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. The Sestina. Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe / Edmund Spenser. from Old Arcadia / Philip Sidney.

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► Summaries & More
▼ Additional Content
Introductory Statement xiii
On Becoming a Poet xvii
Mark Strand
Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter xxv
Eavan Boland
Acknowledgments xxxi
I Verse Forms
Overview
3(2)
The Villanelle
The Villanelle at a Glance
5(1)
The History of the Form
6(2)
The Contemporary Context
8(11)
Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures
9(1)
Ernest Downson
The House on the Hill
9(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Missing Dates
10(1)
William Empson
The Waking
11(1)
Theodore Roethke
One Art
11(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
12(1)
Dylan Thomas
The World and the Child
13(1)
James Merrill
Condemned Site
13(1)
Mona Van Duyn
By the Sound
14(1)
John Hollander
Saturday at the Border
15(1)
Hayden Carruth
Under the Hill
16(1)
Daryl Hine
Villanelle
16(1)
Marilyn Hacker
Reading Scheme
17(1)
WendyCope
Villanelle for the Middle of the Night
18(1)
Jacqueline Osherow
Close-Up of a Villanelle: ``OneArt''
19(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Sestina
The Sestina at a Glance
21(1)
The History of the Form
22(2)
The Contemporary Context
24(17)
Ye wastefullwoodes, bear witness of mywoe
25(1)
Edmund Spenser
Old Arcadia
26(1)
Philip Sidney
Sestine 4 from Parthenophil and Parthenophe
27(2)
Barnabe Barnes
Sestina: Of the Lady Pietradegli Scrovigni
29(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sestina
30(2)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sestina
32(1)
Sir Edmund Gosse
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
33(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Sestina: Altaforte
34(2)
Ezra Pound
After the Trial
36(1)
Weldon Kees
The Book of Yolek
37(1)
Anthony Hecht
The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina
38(1)
Miller Williams
Nani
39(2)
Alberto Rios
Close-Up of a Sestina: ``Sestina: Altaforte''
41(2)
Ezra Pound
The Pantoum
The Pantoum at a Glance
43(1)
The History of the Form
44(1)
The Contemporary Context
45(8)
In Town
45(2)
Austin Dobson
Pantoum of the Great Depression
47(1)
Donald Justice
Parents' Pantoum
48(1)
Carolyn Kizer
Pantoum
49(1)
John Ashbery
Grandmother's Song
50(1)
Nellie Wong
The Method
51(2)
J.D.McClatchy
Close-Up of a Pantoum: ``Pantoum of the Great Depression''
53(2)
Donald Justice
The Sonnet
The Sonnet at a Glance
55(1)
The History of the Form
56(2)
The Contemporary Context
58(13)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
59(1)
William Shakespeare
Farewell to Love
59(1)
Michael Drayton
from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
60(1)
Mary Wroth
Sonnet XXIII: Me thought I saw my late espoused saint
60(1)
John Milton
Holy Sonnet: At the round earth's imagined corners
61(1)
John Donne
Composed upon Westminister Bridge, September 3, 1802
61(1)
William Wordsworth
Ozymandias
62(1)
Percy Bys she Shelley
Bright Star
62(1)
John Keats
Monna Innominata
63(1)
Christina Rossetti
Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII)
63(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Carrion Comfort
64(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
64(1)
Edna St.Vincent Millay
From the Dark Tower
65(1)
Countee Cullen
Epic
65(1)
Patrick Kavanagh
``Tulips and Chimneys''
66(1)
E.E.Cummings
To My Mother
66(1)
George Barker
After the Bomb Tests
67(1)
Jane Cooper
A Game of Chess
67(1)
Gwen Harwood
The Haw Lantern
68(1)
Seamus Heaney
Heat
68(1)
Denis Johnson
The Roman Baths at Nimes
69(1)
Henri Cole
Half a Double Sonnet
69(1)
Mary Jo Salter
Sonnet
70(1)
Michael Palmer
Close-Up of a Sonnet:``What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why''
71(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Ballad
The Ballad at a Glance
73(1)
The History of the Form
74(3)
The Contemporary Context
77(22)
The Cherry-tree Carol
78(1)
Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens
79(2)
Anonymous
The Wife of Usher's Well
81(1)
Anonymous
My Boy Willie
82(1)
Anonymous
The Changeling
83(3)
John Greenleaf Whittier
from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
86(2)
Oscar Wilde
Peter and John
88(2)
Elinor Wylie
Bagpipe Music
90(1)
Louis Mac Neice
Death in Leamington
91(1)
John Betjeman
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
92(2)
Ogden Nash
We Real Cool
94(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Riverbank Blues
94(1)
Sterling A. Brown
Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
95(4)
W. S. Merwin
Close-Up of a Ballad: ``We Real Cool''
99(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Blank Verse
Blank Verse at a Glance
101(1)
The History of the Form
102(2)
The Contemporary Context
104(15)
Earl of Surrey: from his translation of The Aeneid
105(1)
Henry Howard
Tamburlaine the Great
105(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Julius Caesar
106(1)
William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
107(1)
John Milton
Beachy Head
108(1)
Charlotte Smith
from The Prelude
109(1)
William Wordsworth
Ulysses
110(2)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Rain
112(1)
Edward Thomas
Directive
113(1)
Robert Frost
Lying
114(3)
Richard Wilbur
Stanzas in Bloomsbury
117(2)
Richard Howard
Close-Up of BlankVerse:``Directive''
119(2)
Robert Frost
The Heroic Couplet
The Heroic Couplet at a Glance
121(1)
The History of the Form
122(13)
The Description of Cooke-ham
123(1)
Aemilia Lanyer
The Author to Her Book
123(1)
Anne Bradstreet
A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685
124(1)
Anne Finch
from Absalom and Achitophel
125(1)
John Dryden
from The Vanity of Human Wishes
126(1)
Samuel Johnson
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
127(1)
Phillis Wheatley
The Deserted Village
128(1)
Oliver Goldsmith
An Essay on Criticism
129(1)
Alexander Pope
My Last Duchess
130(2)
Robert Browning
Strange Meeting
132(1)
Wilfred Owen
The J Car
133(2)
Thom Gunn
Close-Up of the Heroic Couplet:``My Last Duchess''
135(1)
Robert Browning
The Stanza
The Stanza at a Glance
136(1)
The History of the Form
137(2)
The Contemporary Context
139(15)
Troilus and Criseyde
140(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Faerie Queene
141(1)
Edmund Spenser
They Flee from Me
142(1)
Thomas Wyatt
Easter Wings
143(1)
George Herbert
The Tyger
143(1)
William Blake
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
144(1)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
I died for Beauty---but was scarce
145(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Convergence of the Twain
145(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Song of the Mad Prince
146(1)
Walter de la Mare
A Quoi Bon Dire
147(1)
Charlotte Mew
Song of the Son
147(1)
Jean Toomer
The Tropics in New York
148(1)
Claude McKay
Night Song at Amalfi
149(1)
Sara Teasdale
Not Waving but Drowning
149(1)
Stevie Smith
On Teaching the Young
149(1)
Yvor Winters
Those Winter Sundays
150(1)
Robert Hayden
Yes
150(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Warming Her Pearls
151(1)
Carol Ann Duffy
Epith
152(2)
Carol Muske
Close-Up of a Stanza:``I died for Beauty---but was scarce''
154(5)
Emily Dickinson
II Meter
Meter at a Glance
159(2)
A Brief Check list of Further Reading on Meter
161(4)
III Shaping Forms
Overview
165(2)
The Elegy
Overview
167(40)
Lament for the Makaris
168(3)
William Dunbar
Countess of Pembroke: If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause
171(1)
Mary Sidney Herbert
On My First Son
172(1)
Ben Jonson
Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St.Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred
172(1)
Katherine Philips
Lycidas
173(5)
John Milton
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
178(2)
Anne Bradstreet
Elegy Written in a Country Church yard
180(4)
Thomas Gray
R.Alconato J.Brenzaida
184(1)
Emily Bronte.
O Captain! My Captain!
185(1)
Walt Whitman
Dover Beach
185(2)
Matthew Arnold
To His Love
187(1)
Ivor Gurney
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
187(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Tearsin Sleep
188(1)
Louise Bogan
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
188(3)
W. H. Auden
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
191(3)
Robert Lowell
Dream Song 324
194(1)
John Berryman
To the Dead
194(2)
Frank Bidart
In Memoriam Paul Celan
196(1)
Edward Hirsch
The Legend
197(1)
Garrett Hongo
The Elegy for New York
198(1)
Douglas Crase
Tiara
199(1)
Mark Doty
Super natural Love
200(2)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Mirror in February
202(1)
Thomas Kinsella
Iris
203(1)
David St. John
Child Burial
204(1)
Paula Meehan
Song
205(2)
Rosanna Warren
The Pastoral
Overview
207(33)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
209(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Love's Labor's Lost
210(1)
William Shakespeare
The Garden
210(3)
Andrew Marvell
To My Sister
213(1)
William Wordsworth
Odeon a Grecian Urn
214(1)
John Keats
Loveliest of Trees
215(1)
A. E. Housman
The Wife of Llew
216(1)
Francis Ledwidge
Urban Pastoral
216(1)
Babette Deutsch
Remembered Morning
217(1)
Janet Lewis
The Thought-Fox
217(1)
Ted Hughes
The Explosion
218(1)
Philip Larkin
Lyingina Hammockat William Duffy's Farmin Pine Island, Minnesota
219(1)
James Wright
Midsummer, Tobago
220(1)
Derek Walcott
The Bear
220(3)
Galway Kinnell
Fog
223(1)
Amy Clampitt
Let Evening Come
224(1)
Jane Kenyon
Smoke
224(2)
Philip Levine
Meditation at Lagunitas
226(1)
Robert Hass
From the Porch
227(1)
John Koethe
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
227(1)
Alfred Corn
Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night
228(1)
Charles Wright
The Broad Bean Sermon
229(1)
Les Murray
Of the Finished World
230(1)
Lucie Brock-Broido
Tornados
231(1)
Thylias Moss
Loss
232(1)
C .K. Williams
Waiting for the Storm
233(1)
Timothy Steele
An Engraving of Blake
233(1)
Mary Kinzie
Pygmalion's Image
233(1)
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Mock Orange
234(1)
Louise Gluck
The Black Walnut Tree
235(1)
Mary Oliver
Gateposts
236(1)
Medbh McGuckian
Heart of the Matter
236(2)
Susan Prospere
Shoeing the Currach
238(2)
Mary O'Malley
The Ode
Overview
240(19)
Ode to the West Wind
241(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Autumn
243(1)
John Keats
Ode
244(1)
Henry Timrod
The Fire of Driftwood
245(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bridge
247(1)
Hart Crane
The Paper Nautilus
248(1)
Marianne Moore
Australia 1970
249(1)
Judith Wright
Miracle Glass Co.
250(1)
Charles Simic
The Blue Swallows
250(2)
Howard Nemerov
America
252(1)
Robert Creeley
Ode to Meaning
252(2)
Robert Pinsky
Perhaps the World Ends Here
254(5)
Joy Harjo
IV Open Forms
Overview
259(30)
The Circus Animals' Desertion
260(2)
W .B. Yeats
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
262(4)
T. S. Eliot
I, Too
266(1)
Langston Hughes
The Idea of Order at Key West
266(2)
Wallace Stevens
Spring and All
268(1)
William Carlos Williams
America
269(3)
Allen Ginsberg
Ave Maria
272(1)
Frank O'Hara
Uncertain Oneiromancy
273(1)
Denise Levertov
Daddy
274(2)
Sylvia Plath
Diving into the Wreck
276(3)
Adrienne Rich
move
279(1)
Lucille Clifton
The Language of the Brag
280(1)
Sharon Olds
The Colonel
281(1)
Carolyn Forche
The German Army, Russia, 1943
282(1)
Ai
Starlight Scope Myopia
282(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Reading Plato
284(3)
Jorie Graham
Close-Up of Open Forms:``Diving into the Wreck''
287(2)
Adrienne Rich
A Brief Glossary 289(4)
Biographies and Further Reading 293(42)
Suggested Reading 335(2)
Credits 337(12)
General Index 349(8)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines 357

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