An Introduction to Poetry |
Contents
Contents | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
William Carlos Williams THE RED WHEELBARROW | 25 |
Richard Lovelace TO LUCASTA | 32 |
Words | 38 |
THE VALUE OF A DICTIONARY | 45 |
Josephine Miles REASON | 51 |
Symbol | 205 |
Myth | 217 |
Alternatives | 231 |
Horace ODES I 38 | 237 |
George Starbuck MARGARET ARE YOU DRUG | 243 |
What Is Poetry? | 273 |
Anonymous THE THREE RAVENS | 279 |
W H Auden AS I WALKED OUT ONE EVENING | 285 |
Wole Soyinka LOST TRIBE | 57 |
Saying and Suggesting | 64 |
Imagery | 73 |
ABOUT HAIKU | 81 |
Gary Snyder Penny Harter Paul Goodman Virgil Hutton | 87 |
Figures of Speech | 88 |
William Blake To SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND | 94 |
George Herbert THE PULLEY | 101 |
Song | 108 |
BALLADS | 115 |
Anonymous FA MI FA RE LA MI | 122 |
William Cole ON MY BOAT ON LAKE CAYUGA | 134 |
James Whitehead THE COUNTRY MUSIC STAR BEGINS | 140 |
Thomas Campion ROSECHEEKED Laura come | 157 |
Closed Form Open Form | 164 |
OPEN FORM | 179 |
William Carlos Williams THE DANCE | 185 |
FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY | 191 |
Poems for the Eye | 198 |
Elizabeth Bishop ONE ART | 291 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins THE WINDHOVER | 334 |
Ben Jonson ON MY FIRST SON | 340 |
Denise Levertov DIVORCING | 346 |
George Meredith LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT | 352 |
Sharon Olds THE ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY | 358 |
CONTENTS | 360 |
Sylvia Plath MORNING SONG | 364 |
Adrienne Rich THE NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN UNDERSTOOD | 369 |
IN ME BEHOLD | 375 |
STAND | 388 |
Elinor Wylie THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE | 403 |
Plato INSPIRATION | 441 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge IMAGINATION | 447 |
Randall Jarrell ON THE CHARGE THAT MODERN POETRY | 453 |
CONTENTS | 461 |
DRAFTING AND REVISING | 467 |
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