Poetry (3° ed )

This brief, affordable poetry collection features over 250 poems, and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich. KEY TOPICS: Wide range of selections (arranged chronologically) from the popular ballads to poets born in the 60s. "Writing About Poetry" section offers readers the most basic tips on organization, style, and MLA style citation. "An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts" is a narrative account of a campus poetry reading with a discussion of poetry as oral performance art. "A Brief Note: Literary History and Poetic Conventions" a discussion of how schools of poetry have dominated during certain historical periods. Index of critical terms provides a cross-referenced list of terms covered. MARKET: For anyone interested in poetry.

Introduction to Poetry. Writing About Poetry. Anonymous (1500?) Bonny Barbara Allan. Anonymous (1500?) Sir Patrick Spens. Wyatt, Thomas (1503-1542) They Flee from Me. Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) When I Was Fair and Young. Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) Amoretti: Sonnet 75. Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1584) Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1. Southwell, Robert (1561-1595) Burning Babe, The. Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) Idea: Sonnet 61. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 18. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 20. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 29. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 30. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 73. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 116. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Sonnet 130. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter). Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) There Is a Garden in Her Face. Donne, John (1572-1631) Canonization, The. Donne, John (1572-1631) Flea, The. Donne, John (1572-1631) Holy Sonnet 10. Donne, John (1572-1631) Holy Sonnet 14. Donne, John (1572-1631) Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A. Wroth, Mary (1587?-1651?) In this Strange Labyrinth How Small I Turn? Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) On My First Son. Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount. Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Herbert, George (1593-1633) Easter Wings. Herbert, George (1593-1633) Love Part 3: Herbert., George (1593-1633) Pulley, The. Herbert, George (1593-1633) Redemption. Waller, Edmund (1607-1687) Song. Milton, John (1608-1674) How Soon Hath Time. Milton, John (1608-1674) On the Late Massacre in Piemont. Milton, John (1608-1674) When I Consider How My Light Is Spent. Milton, John (1608-1674) Lycidas. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) Author to Her Book, The. Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars. Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) To His Coy Mistress. Dryden, John (1631-1700) Epigram on Milton. Dryden, John (1631-1700) To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Taylor, Edward (1642-1729) Housewifery. Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Description of a City Shower, A. Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) From an Essay on Criticism (selection). Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Ode on Solitude. Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) Jubilate Agno (selection). Freneau, Philip (1752-1832) Wild Honey Suckle, The. Blake, William (1757-1827) Chimney Sweeper, The. Blake, William (1757-1827) Poison Tree, A. Blake, William (1757-1827) Tyger, The. Blake, William (1757-1827) Little Black Boy, The. Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Red, Red Rose, A. Burns, Robert (1759-1796) John Barleycorn. Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud. Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) It Is a Beauteous Evening. Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Lines (Composes a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.... Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Nuns Fret Not at Their Narrow Convent Room". Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Frost at Midnight. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Kubla Khan. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Work Without Hope. Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Stanzas. Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) When We Two Parted. Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Ode to the West Wind. Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Ozymandias. Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) To the Fringed Gentian. Keats, John (1795-1821) La Belle Dame sans Merci. Keats, John (1795-1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats, John (1795-1821) Ode to a Nightingale. Keats, John (1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Keats, John (1795-1821) When I Have Fears. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) Arsenal at Springfield, The. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) Cross of Snow, The. Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Raven, The. Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) The Haunted Palace. Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) To Helen. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) Eagle, The. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) In Memoriam A.H.H., 54. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) Tears, Idle Tears. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) Ulysses. Browning, Robert (1812-1889) My Last Duchess. Browning, Robert (1812-1889) Porphyria's Lover. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Noiseless Patient Spider, A. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Song of Myself, 6. Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) Dover Beach. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) I Died for Beauty -- But Was Scarce. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) I Heard a Fly Buzz -- When I Died. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A. Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Soul Selects Her Own Society, The. Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) Up-Hill. Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?. Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Neutral Tones. Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) The Convergence of the Twain. Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Ruined Maid, The. Hopkins, Gerard Manley (