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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977. 50 modern American & British poets, 1920-1970. New York, McKay [1973] (OCoLC)575659502 |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis Untermeyer |
| OCLC Number: | 600466 |
| Description: | xxv, 358 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Anna Wickham (1884-1947) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Conrad Aiken (1889- ) -- Archibald MacLeish (1892- ) -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Richard Eberhart (1904- ) -- Stanley Kunitz (1905- ) -- A.D. Hope (1907- ) -- W.H. Auden (1907- ) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Stephen Spender (1909- ) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911- ) -- Muriel Rukeyser (1913- ) -- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- John Berryman (1914-1972) -- Barbara Howes (1914- ) -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1955) -- John Malcolm Brinnin (1916- ) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) -- Robert Lowell (1917- ) -- William Jay Smith (1918- ) -- May Swenson (1919- ) -- Richard Wilbur (1921- ) -- Mona van Duyn (1921- ) -- James Dickey (1923- ) -- Louis Simpson (1923- ) -- Anthony Hecht (1923- ) -- W.D. Snodgrass (1926- ) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926- ) -- W.S. Merwin (1927- ) -- Galway Kinnell (1927- ) -- John Ashbery (1927- ) -- James Wright (1927- ) -- Anne Sexton(1928- ) -- Thom Gunn(1929- ) -- Adrienne Rich (1929- ) -- Derek Walcott (1930- ) -- Ted Hughes (1930- ) -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Wendell Berry (1934- ) -- Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka) (1934- ) -- Jim Harrison (1939- ) -- Erica Jong (1942- ). THE POETRY -- Mending Wall - Silken Tent - Directive / Robert Frost (1874-1963) - Peter Quince at the Clavier - Poems of Our Climate - Of Modern Poetry / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) - Tract 13 - Widow's Lament in Springtime - Yachts - These / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) - Fired Pot - Self-Analysis - Meditation at Kew - Love Letter / Anna Wickham (1884-1947) - Portrait d'une Femme - Rest - Lake Isle / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) - Nevertheless - Mind is an Enchanting thing - Wood-Weasel / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) - Hollow Men - Chorus from "The Rock" - Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) - Letter from the Grass - Census-Takers / Conrad Aiken (1889- ) - You, Andrew Marvell - End of the World - "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments," / Archibald MacLeish (1892- ) - My father moved through dooms of love - now that, more nearest even than your fate / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) - Voyages: II - Broken Tower / Hart Crane (1899-1932) - Young Gal's Blues - Madam and the Rent Man / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) - The Groundhog - If I Could Only Live at the Pitch That Is Near Madness - Man and Nature / Richard Eberhart (1904- ) - War Against the Trees - The Portrait / Stanley Kunitz (1905- ) - Imperial Adam - The Brides - Moschus Moschiferus / A.D. Hope (1907- ) --; Musee des Beaux Arts - Unknown Citizen - In Memory of W. B. Yeats / W.H. Auden (1907- ) - Cuttings - Cuttings (later) - Elegy for Jane - In a Dark Time / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) - Elementary School Classroom in a Slum - Truly Great / Stephen Spender (1909- ) - The Prodigal - Florida - The Armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop (1911- ) - Effort at Speech Between Two People - Boy With His Hair Cut Short - Bringing / Muriel Rukeyser (1913- ) - Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - 90 North - Woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) - Dream Song-14 -- Sonnet-60 / John Berryman (1914-1972) - The Gallery - Talking to Animals / Barbara Howes (1914- ) - Fern Hill - Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night / Dylan Thomas (1914-1955) - Nuns at Eve - The Ascension: 1925 - Grave Mind I Loved - Skin Diving in the Virgins / John Malcolm Brinnin (1916- ) - Rites for Cousin Vit - manicure - We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) - For the Union Dead - Skunk Hour - Man and Wife / Robert Lowell (1917- ) - Rear Vision - Hull Bay, St. Thomas / William Jay Smith (1918- ) - The Lightning - Trinity Churchyard, Spring - Sun - Thickening kMat / May Swenson (1919- ) - Advice to a Prophet - Digging for China - The Writer / Richard Wilbur (1921- ) - Sentimental Delusion - Annual and Perennial Problem - Homework / Mona van Duyn (1921- ) - The Firebombing / James Dickey (1923- ) - Things - After Midnight - Mashkin Hill / Louis Simpson (1923- ) - Samuel Sewall - It Out-Herods herod. Pray You, Avoid It, - More Light! More Light! / Anthony Hecht (1923- ) - April Inventory - Mementos, 1 - What We Said / W.D. Snodgrass (1926- ) - From Kaddish - Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg (1926- ) - Drunk in the Furnace - Small Woman on Swallow Street - Western Country / W.S. Merwin (1927- ) - The Bear - Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond / Galway Kinnell (1927- ) - Some Trees - The Painter / John Ashbery (1927- ) - A Blessing - Beginning - Mary Bly / James Wright (1927- ) - You, Doctor Martin - Her Kind - To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph - Angel of Clean Sheets / Anne Sexton(1928- ) - Black Jackets - The Monster / Thom Gunn(1929- ) - Living in Sin - Planetarium / Adrienne Rich (1929- ) - Letter from Brooklyn - Coral / Derek Walcott (1930- ) - Her Husband - Pibroch / Ted Hughes (1930- ) - The Applicant - Morning Song - Daddy / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) - My Great-Grandfather's Slaves - Dark With Power / Wendell Berry (1934- ) - Leroy - For Hettie / Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka) (1934- ) - Drinking Song - Awake / Jim Harrison (1939- ) - The Teacher - The Quarrel - Eggplant Epithalamion / Erica Jong (1942- ). |
| Responsibility: | Edited, with a biographical and critical commentary, by Louis Untermeyer. |
Abstract:
Selected works by such diverse poets as Frost, E. E. Cummings, Ginsberg, and Leroi Jones reflect the nature and variety of modern poetry.
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