Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisThe purpose of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is to present a wide range of poetry written in English. [Though the poems are arranged chronologically], we have compiled not a historical survey, but rather a collection of poems that represent a variety of times, places and English-speaking cultures. Our selection process was guided by a wish to combine works long accepted as part of the English-language ‘canon’ with material not always well represented in anthologies—such as, most notably, the poetry of women since the seventeenth century..."Another notion implicit in the framing of this anthology is that English-language poetry has dramatically expanded within the last century. Writers in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, India, Africa and the Caribbean all hold in common with writers in Britain and the United States an English-Language tradition that helped to shape their history and their institutions, and that laid the groundwork for new writings..."In trying to include as wide a selection as possible of representative work…we have had to leave out several well-known long poems. In almost all cases, however, we have chosen to represent a poet by several poems, inviting readers to take a broader view of a given writer’s work and ways of thinking." - from the PrefaceTrade ReviewIn reconsidering the canon of English language poetry, the editors have been as creative as they are generous. This is a lively anthology—it shows views where previous anthologies hadn't planned for windows." - David Shevin, Tiffin UniversityTable of Contents GEOFFREY CHAUCER from: The Canterbury Tales (1387?) ENGLISH BALLADS Lord Rendal (c.1400-1500) Sir Patrick Spens (c.1400-1500) Barbara Allan (c.1400-1500) SIR THOMAS WYATT The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar (1557) Who so list to hounte I knoiv where is an hynde (1557) Ffarewell, love, and all thy lawes for ever; (1557) They fie from me that sometyme did me seke (1557) Blame not my lute, for he must sownd (1557) HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY The Soote Season (1557) Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought (1557) SIR WATER RALEGH The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (c.1600) Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace (c.1610) EDMUND SPENSER from: Amoretti Sonnet XXXVII (1595) Sonnet LXXV (1595) Sonnet LXXIX (1595) Sonnet LXXXI (1595) Prothalamion (1595) LADY MARY WROTH from: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus When Night’s Black Mantle Could Most Darkness Prove (1621) Faulce hope which feeds butt to destroy, and spill (1621) Love a child is ever criing (1621) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY from: Astrophil and Stella (1598) Leave me 6 Love, which reachest but to dust (1598) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love (1600) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 18 (1609) Sonnet 29 (1609) Sonnet 30 (1609) Sonnet 55 (1609) Sonnet 73 (1609) Sonnet 106 (1609) Sonnet 116 (1609) Sonnet 129 (1609) Sonnet 130 (1609) Sonnet 146 (1609) Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun, (1609) O mistress mine, where are you roaming? (1599?-1600) THOMAS CAMPION My Sweetest Lesbia (1601) When Thou Must Home (1601) There is a Garden in her face. (1617) JOHN DONNE The Good-Morrow (1633) The Sunne Rising (1633) The Canonization (1633) The Flea (1633) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633) The Extasie (1633) Holy Sonnets (1633) Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (1633) BEN JONSON On my first Sonne (1616) Inviting a friend to supper (1616) Song. To Celia (1616) A Hymne to God the Father (1640) To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. ’William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us (1623) ROBERT HERRICK Corinna’s going a Maying (1648) Delight in Disorder (1648) Upon Julia’s Clothes (1648) To the Virgins, to make much of Time. (1648) To Blossoms (1648) GEORGE HERBERT Easter Wings (1633) Prayer (I) (1633) Jordan (1) (1633) The Flower (1633) The Collar (1633) The Pulley (1633) JOHN MILTON Lycidas (1638) On Shakespeare (1632) How Soon Hath Time (1645) On the Late Massacre in Piemont (1673) When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (1673) Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint (1673) from: Paradise Lost: Book I (1667) ANNE BRADSTREET The Prologue (1650) The Author to Her Book (1678) Before the Birth of One of Her Children (1678) To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678) A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Enployment (1678) Upon the Burning of Our House July Wth, 1666. (1867?) ANDREW MARVELL The Coronet (1681) A Dialogue between the Soul and Body (1681) To his Coy Mistress (1681) The Definition of Love (1681) The Garden (1681) MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The Poetresses Petition (1653) Natures Cook (1653) A Woman drest by Age (1653) KATHERINE PHILIPS A marryd state affords but little Ease (c.1667) L’Amitie: To Mrs M. Awbrey (1664) Friendship’s Mysterys: to my dearest Lucasia (1667?) JOHN DRYDEN To the Memory of Mr. Oldbam (1684) To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting. An ODE (1686) from: Absalom and Achitophel (1681) APHRA BEHN Love in fantastick Triumph sat (1684) To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against fruition. Ode. (1688) The Disappointment (1684) LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH To the Ladies (1703) The Resolve (1703) ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA The Introduction (1689?) A Nocturnal Reverie (1713) The Unequal Fetters (1713) JONATHAN SWIFT A Description of the Morning (1710?) A Description of a City Shower (1710) ALEXANDER POPE from: An Essay on Criticism (1711) from: The Rape of the Lock (1714) LADY WORTLEY MONTAGU The Resolve (1747?) from: Six Town Eclogues (1747) from: Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (1733) THOMAS GRAY Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (1748) Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (1751) Sonnet on the Death of Richard West (1775) CHRISTOPHER SMART from: Jubilate Agno (fragment B) (1759-63, 1939) MARY LEAPOR Strephon to Celia. A Modern Love-Letter (1748) An Essay on Woman (1748) The Epistle of Deborah Dough (1748) WILLIAM COWPER On The Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch (1788) The Poplar-Field (1785) from: The Task: Book II (1785) The Cast-Away (1.803) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley (1825?) The Rights of Woman (1825) Washing-Day (1825) WILLIAM BLAKE How sweet I roam’d from field to field (1783) from: Songs of Innocence The Lamb (1789) The Chimney Sweeper (1789) Holy Thursday (1789) from: Songs of Experience London (1794) The Tyger (1794) The Sick Rose (1794) The Chimney-Sweeper (1794) Holy Thursday (1794) from: Milton (1804-10) ROBERT BURNS To a Louse (1786) Holy Willie’s Prayer (1785) The Banks O Doon (1792) A Red, Red Rose (1796) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798) Strange fits of passion have 1 known (1800) She dwelt among the untrodden ways (1800) I travelled among unknown men (1807) Three years she grew in sun and shower (1800) A slumber did my spirit seal (1800) Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1807) It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (1807) London, 1802 (1807) Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room (1807) Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan (1816) Frost At Midnight (1798) Dejection: An Ode (1817) GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON She Walks In Beauty (1815) So We’ll Go No More A-Roving (1836) Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa (1830) from: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1816) The Prisoner of Chilian (1816) On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year (1824) from: Don Juan (1824) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Mont Blanc (1816) Ozymandias (1816) Sonnet: England in 1819 (1839) Ode to the West Wind (1820) The Cloud (1820) To a Skylark (1820) JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816) When I have fears that I may cease to be (1848) If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d (1836) La Belle Dame sans Merci (1820) Ode to a Nightingale (1820) Ode to a Grecian Urn (1820) Ode on Melancholy (1820) To Autumn (1820) RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Snow-Storm (1847) Blight (1847) Terminus (1867) ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING from: Sonnets from the Portuguese Sonnet XXII (1850) Sonnet XLIII (1850) A Musical Instrument (1862) from: Aurora Leigh: Book I (1857) from: Aurora Leigh: Book V (1857) HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls (1880) Snow-Flakes (1863) In the Churchyard at Cambridge (1858) My Lost Youth (1858) Divina Commedia (1867) EDGAR ALLAN POE The City in the Sea (1831) Dream-Land (1845) The Sleeper (1831) The Haunted Palace (1845) To Helen (1845) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Lady of Shalott (1842) The Lotos-Eaters (1842) Ulysses (1842) Break, Break, Break (1842) from: In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) Crossing the Bar (1889) ROBERT BROWNING Porphyria’s Lover (1842) Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (1842) My Last Duchess (1842) The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church (1845) Fra Lippo Lippi (1855) EMILY BRONTË The Old Stoic (1841) Shall Earth no more inspire thee (1841?) Remembrance (1846) No Coward Soul (1846) Often rebuked, yet always back returning (1850) ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH The Latest Decalogue (1862) Say not the struggle nought availeth (1862) from: Dipsychus (1865) WALT WHITMAN from: Song of Myself (1881) When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865) Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (1867) Cavalry Crossing a Ford (1871) A Noiseless Patient Spider (1881) To a Locomotive in Winter (1881) HERMAN MELVILLE The House-top (1866) The Maldive Shark (1888) Art (1891) MATTHEW ARNOLD Shakespeare (1849) Isolation. To Marguerite (1857) To Marguerite - Continued (1852) Dover Beach (1867) The Buried Life (1867) DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Blessed Damozel (1870?) The Card-dealer from: The House of Life Sonnet (1881) Silent Noon (1881) A Superscription (1881) The One Hope (1881) EMILY DICKINSON 214:1 taste a liquor never brewed (1861) 241:1 like a look of Agony (c.1861) 258: There’s a certain Slant of light (1890) 303: The Soul selects her own Society (1890) 341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes (1929) 449:1 died for Beauty (1890) 465:1 heard a Fly buzz- when I died (1896) 5S5:1 like to see it lap the Miles (1891) 712: Because 1 could not stop for Death (1890) 986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1866) 1227: My triumph lasted till the Drums (1935) CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market (1862) LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky (1871) The White Knight’s Song (1871) THOMAS HARDY Hap (1898) Nature’s Questioning (1898) Drummer Hodge (1902) The Darkling Thrush (1901) The Converge of the Twain (1914) Channel Firing (1914) In Time of ’The Breaking of Nations’ (1917) Transformations (1917) GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS God’s Grandeur (1918) Spring (1918) The Windhover (1918) Pied Beauty (1918) Spring and Fall (1918) I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. (1918) No worst, there is none (1918) Carrion Comfort (1918) Thou art indeed just, Lord (1918) ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD The Camp of Souls (1905) The Dark Stag (1883) The City Tree (1880) A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (1896) To an Athlete Dying Young (1896) Is my team ploughing (1896) On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble (1896) Terence, this is stupid stuff (1896) The chestnut casts his flambeaux (1922) The night is freezing fast (1922) CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS Tantramar Revisited (1883) The Potato Harvest (1886) The Solitary Woodsman (1897) The Sower (1884) The Winter Fields (1890) The Skater (1901) BLISS CARMAN Vestigia (1923?) Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893) A Northern Vigil (1905) The Eavesdropper (1905) The World Voice (1921) ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN The Frogs (1925) Heat (1888) Morning on the Lièvre (1925) The City of the End of Things (1899) Winter Evening (1899) DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT The Onondaga Madonna (1898) Watkwenies (1898) On The Way To The Mission (1905) The Forsaken (1905) At Gull Lake: August, 1810 (1935) RUDYARD KIPLING Cities and Thrones and Powers (1906) The Way through the Woods (1910) Recessional (1899) The Hyaenas (1919) WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Sorrow of Love (1892) When You Are Old (1892) Easter 1916 (1920) An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919) The Second Coming (1921) A Prayer For My Daughter (1921) Leda and the Swan (1928) Sailing to Byzantium (1927) Among School Children (1927) Lapis Lazuli (1.938) The Circus Animals’ Desertion (1939) ROBERT FROST Mending Wall (1914) After Apple-Picking (1914) The Road Not Taken (1916) Birches (1916) Fire and Ice (1923) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) Acquainted with the Night (1928) Desert Places (1936) Neither Out Par Nor In Deep (1936) Design (1936) The Silken Tent (1942) ROBERT SERVICE The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew (1907) Only a Boche (1916) WALLACE STEVENS The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1931) Anecdote of the Jar (1931) Thirteen ’Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1931) The Idea of Order at Key West (1936) The Motive for Metaphor (1947) E. J. PRATT The Shark (1923) From Stone to Steel (1932) The Prize Cat (1937) The Highway (1932) from: Towards the Last Spike (1952) WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Red Wheelbarrow (1923) Queen-Anne’s-Lace (1921) This Is Just To Say (1934) At the Ball Game (1923) The Yachts (1935) The Dance (1944) Landscape With The Fall of Icarus (1962) D. H. LAWRENCE Piano (1918) Snake (1923) How Beastly the Bourgeois Is (1.929) Bavarian Gentians (1923) After The Opera (1919) The Ship of Death (1932) EZRA POUND Portrait d’une Femme (1912) The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (1915) In a Station of the Metro (1916) Commission (1916) The Garden (1916) Canto I (1925) SIEGFRIED SASSOON A Night Attack (1918) Conscripts (1917) Base Details (1919) H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) Oread (1924) Leda (1921) Helen (1924) Fragment Thirty-six (1924) Fragment Forty (1924) MARIANNE MOORE Poetry (1921) Poetry (Revised version) (1967) The Fish (1921) Critics and Connoisseurs (1924) No Swan So Fine (1932) EDITH SITWELL The Swans (1942) Still Falls the Rain (1942) Two Songs of Queen Anne Boleyn (1945?) The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age (1945) JOHN CROWE RANSOM Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (1924) Blue Girls (1927) Jack’s Letter (1927) T. S. ELIOT The Love Song of ]. Alfred Prufrock (1917) Preludes (1917) Sweeney Among the Nightingales (1919) The Hollow Men (1925) Journey of the Magi (1927) EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music (1928) Journey (1917) Elegy Before Death (1921) Love is Not All (1931) Menses (1939) HUGH MACDIARMID In the Children’s Hospital (1935) We must look at the harebell (1955) In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1955) ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The Silent Slain (1926) The End of the World (1926) Ars Poetica (1926) You, Andrew Marvel (1930) “Dover Beach” — A Note to that Poem (1936) WILFRED OWEN Arms and the Boy (1920) Insensibility (1920) Dttlce et Decorum Est (1920) Anthem for Doomed Youth (1920) Strange Meeting (1920) DOROTHY PARKER Bohemia (1928) A Pigs-Eye View of Literature (1928) On Being a Woman (1928) Sonnet For the End of a Sequence (1931) E. E. CUMMINGS the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls (1923) goodby Betty, don’t remember me (1923) somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond (1931) anyone lived in a pretty how town (1940) i sing of Olaf glad and big (1931) i thank You God for most this amazing day (1950) ROBERT GRAVES Down (1947) The Cool Web (1947) Recalling War (1938) Down, Wanton, Down! (1933) A Slice of Wedding Cake (1958) F. R. SCOTT The Canadian Authors Meet (1945) Lakeshore (1954) Laurentian Shield (1954) Trans Canada (1945) Last Rites (1954) W L. M. K. (1954) BASIL BUNTING Personal Column (1930) What the Chairman Told Tom (1967) I am agog for foam (1930) Nothing (1950) KENNETH SLESSOR Wild Grapes (1932) Five Bells (1939) Beach Burial (1939) LANGSTON HUGHES The Weary Blues (1926) Trumpet Player (1947) Harlem (1951) A. J. M. SMITH The Lonely Land (1936) News of the Phoenix (1943) Prothalamium (1967?) The Archer (1967?) STEVIE SMITH The River God (1950) Away, Melancholy (1957) Mother, Among the Dustbins (1971?) The Blue from Heaven (1957) Not Waving but Drowning (1957) COUNTEE CULLEN Yet Do I Marvel (1925) To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time (1947) From the Dark Tower (1927) RICHARD EBERHART The Groundhog (.1936) The Fury of Aerial Bombardment (1944) EARLE BIRNEY Vancouver Lights (1948) Anglosaxon Street (1942) From the Hazel Bough (1948) Bushed (1952) The Bear on the Delhi Road (1962) El Greco: Espolio (1962) JOHN BETJEMAN The Cottage Hospital (1954) Late-Flowering Lust (1954) A Subaltern’s Love-song (1945) W. H. AUDEN Lay your sleeping head, my love, (1940) Musée des Beaux Arts (1940) In Memory of W. B. Yeats (1940) The Unknown Citizen (1940) Our Bias (1940) September!, 1939 (1940) Song (1940) LOUIS MACNEICE Bagpipe music (1937) The British Museum Reading Room (1939) Thalassa (1963?) THEODORE ROETHKE My Papa’s Waltz (1948) The Waking (1948) Elegy for Jane (1953) I Knew a Woman (1954) Dolor (1948) A. D. HOPE Imperial Adam (1955) Australia (1939) The Return of Persephone (1955) Parabola (1971) The Pleasure of Princes (1955) Meditation on a Bone (1956) STEPHEN SPENDER The Express (1933) The Pylons (1933) A. M. KLEIN Psalm VI: A Psalm of Abraham, Concerning That Which He Beheld Upon The Heavenly Scarp (1942) For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu (1947) Autobiographical (1943) Montreal (1944) The Rocking Chair (1945) Political Meeting (1946) DOROTHY LIVESAY The Difference (1929) Bartok and the Geranium (1955) The Three Emilys (1953) Lament (1955) On Looking into Henry Moore (1956) The Unquiet Bed (1967) ANNE WILKINSON Lens (1955) In June and Gentle Oven (1955) My Bones Predict Nature be damned (1957) On a Bench in a Park (1955) ELIZABETH BISHOP The Fish (1946) In the Waiting Room (1976) One Art (1976) The Armadillo (1965) Sestina (1965) ALLEN CURNOW House and Land (1941) The Unhistonc Story (1941) Out of Sleep (1943) The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (1943) IRVING LAYTON The Birth of Tragedy (1954) Butterfly on Rock (1963) The Bull Calf (1956) The Cold Green Element (1955) Cain (1958) From Colony to Nation (1956) KENNETH MACKENZIE Shall then another (1961) Caesura (1952) The Snake (1952) Two Trinities (1953) HENRY REED from: Lessons of the War I: Naming of Parts (1942) II: Judging Distances (1943) IV: Unarmed Combat (1945) RANDALL JARRELL Losses (1948?) The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945) The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1945) WILLIAM STAFFORD Traveling through the Dark (1962) A Message from the Wanderer (1977) At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border (1977) JOHN BERRYMAN A Professor’s Song (1948) Desires of Men and Women (1948) from: The Dream Songs (1959) DOUGLAS LEPAN Coureurs de Bois (1948) A Country Without A Mythology (1948) An Incident (1953) DYLAN THOMAS The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower (1933) And Death Shall Have No Dominion (1933) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1951) Fern Hill (1946) A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London (1946) In My Craft Or Sullen Art (1946) After the Funeral (1939) JUDITH WRIGHT Song (1955) The Bull (1949) Woman to Man (1946) Woman to Child (1946) Request to a Year (1953) At Cooloola (1954) P. K. PAGE The Stenographers (1946) Young Girls (1946?) The Landlady (1946) The Permanent Tourists (1954) T-bar (1967) Stones of Snow (1967) After Rain (1967) The Selves (1981) ROBERT LOWELL As a Plane Tree by the Water (1946) Skunk Hour (1956) For the Union Dead (1959) The Public Garden (1964) MIRIAM WADDINGTON Thou Didst Say Me (1955) Sea Bells (1966) Ten years and More (1976) MARGARET AVISON The Butterfly (1960) Voluptuaries and Others (1960) The Swimmer’s Moment (1965) Butterfly Bones or Sonnet Against Sonnets (1960) The Dumbfounding (1966) A Nameless One (1966) New Year’s Poem (1960) AL PURDY Remains of an Indian Village (1962) The Cariboo Horses (1965) The Country North of Belleville (1965) Wilderness Gothic (1968) Lament For the Dorsets (1968) On the Decipherment of "Linear B" (1959) RICHARD WILBUR Digging For China (1956) The Pardon (1957) The Death of a Toad (1957) Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (1956) Beasts (1956) A Late Aubade (1963?) RAYMOND SOUSTER Young Girls (1964) Memory of Bathurst Street (1965) Queen Anne’s Lace (1974) Words Before a Statue of Champlain (1975) Lagoons, Hanlan’s Point (1952) PHILIP LARKIN Poetry of Departures (1955) Church Going (1955) Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album (1955) Ambulances (1964) Sad Steps (1974) An Arundel Tomb (1964) The Explosion (1974) Aubade (1977) DEMISE LEVERTOV Laying the Dust (1956) The Jacob’s Ladder (1958) The Dog of Art (1959) Matins (1962) The Novel (1964) Caedmon (1987) The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why NISSIM EZEKIEL The Company I Keep Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher (1965) In India (1965) Night of the Scorpion (1965) In The Garden CAROLYN KIZER from: Pro Femina (1961) Three (1961) The Ungrateful Garden (1961) The Copulating Gods (1963) JAMES MERRILL Angel (1962) After Greece (1961) The Broken Home (1966) ROBERT CREELEY The Hill (1959) The Rain (1959) The Door (1959) W. D. SNODGRASS April Inventory (1959) The Mother Diplomacy: The Father The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics ALLEN GINSBERG A Supermarket in California (1956) My Sad Self (1963) JAMES K. BAXTER The Bay (1948) Elegy for an Unknown Soldier (1953) The Homecoming (1952) My love late walking (1958) PHYLLIS WEBB A Tall Tale (1962) Patience (1954) Marvell’s Garden (1956) Breaking (1962) ANNE SEXTON Her Kind (I960) In the Deep Museum (1962) Cinderella (1971) MAYA ANGELOU Caged Bird (1983) Our Grandmothers (1990) ADR1ENNE RICH Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (1951) Planetarium (1971) Orion (1969) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (1971) Final Notations (1991) PETER PORTER Sydney Cove, 1788 (1964) Annotations of Auschwitz, (1961) Soliloquy at Potsdam (1962) An Australian Garden (1975) DEREK WALCOTT A Far Cry from Africa (1962) Ruins of a Great House (1962) A Letter from Brooklyn (1962) Map of Europe (1965) The Sea Is History (1979) Menelaus TED HUGHES The Thought-Fox (1957) Hawk Roosting (1957) Pike (1960) The Jaguar (1954) Second Glance at a Jaguar (1967) Wodwo (1967) EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE Wings of a Dove (1967) Calypso (1967) JAY MACPHERSON The Boatman (1957) The Fisherman (1957) A Lost Soul (1974) The Well (1974) SYLVIA PLATH The Colossus (1960) Black Rook in Rainy Weather (1971) Crossing the Water (1962) Face Lift (1962) Last Words (1971) Ariel (1966) Daddy (1966) Edge (1965) ALDEN NOWLAN Warren Pryor (1961) The Bull Moose (1970) The Execution (1962) I, Icarus (1967) In Those Old Wars (1967) The Word (1967) LEONARD COHEN Elegy (1956) You Have the Lovers (1961) A Kite is a Victim (1961) I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries (1965) Suzanne Takes You Down (1968) IMAMU AMIRIBARAKA (LEROI JONES) Three Modes of History and Culture (1979?) I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer (1964) Ostriches & Grandmothers! (1979?) AUDRE LORDE Outside (1976) Stations The Art of Response Hanging Fire (1978) FLEUR ADCOCK Wife to Husband (1964) Unexpected Visit (1.964) Leaving the Tate Below Loughrigg (1979) KOFI AWOONOR On the Way to Durham, N.C. (1978) The First Circle (1978) I Rejoice (1987) GEORGE BOWERING Grandfather (1964) The Swing (1965) My Father in New Zealand (1987) Dancing Bones (1987) Leaves Flipping (1992) The Kingdome 1974 (1974?) MARGE PIERCY The secretary chant (1971?) I will not be your sickness (1969) The cat’s song (1989) Barbie Doll (1971) DARYL HINE Northwest Passages Tabula Rasas? Point Grey (1968) JUDTH RODRIGUEZ Eskimo occasion (1975) A lifetime devoted to literature (1975) Rebeca in a mirror (1975) SEAMUS HEANEY Personal Helicon (1966) Poor Women in a City Church Docker (1966) The Grauballe Man (1975) The Railway Children (1984) From the Frontier of Writing (1987) MARGARET ATWOOD This Is a Photograph of Me (1966) Journey to the Interior (1966) At the Tourist Centre in Boston (1968) Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer (1968) from: The journals of Susanna Moodie Further Arrivals (1970) Death of a Young Son by Drowning (1970) Dream 1: The Bush Garden (1970) Thoughts From Underground (1970) Tricks With Mirrors (1974) IS / NOT (1974) DENNIS LEE from: Civil Elegies (1972) PATRICK LANE Pissaro’s Tomb (1975) Winter 6 Winter 9 Winter 40 GWENDOLYN MACEWEN Eden, Eden (1961?) Inside the Great Pyramid (1969) The Discovery (1969) Dark Pines Under Water (1969) The Child Dancing (1972) Letter to a Future Generation (1969) JENI COUZYN House of Changes (1978) Spell for Jealousy (1978) Spell to Soften the Hard Heart of a Woman (1978) DAPHNE MARLATT from: Steveston Ghost (1974) from: Touch to My Tongue in the dark of the coast (1984) ARTHUR NORTJE Letter from Pretoria Central Prison (1973) Immigrant (1973) Native’s letter (1973) MICHAEL ONDAATJE Henri Rousseau and Friends (1967) Dates (1973) King Kong meets Wallace Stevens (1973) Letters & Other Worlds (1979) The Agatha Christie Books By The Window (1978?) from: Tin Roof (1982) TOM WAYMAN Long Beach Suite (1979) SHARON THESEN Mean Drunk Poem (1980) Hello Goodbye (1980) WANDA COLEMAN Coffee (1979) Three Trees (1979) Voices Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead MAXINE TYNES Womanskin (1987) SUSAN MUSGRAVE At Nootka Sound (1970) Equinox (1973) Lure (1976) DIONNE BRAND Canto I (1982) Canto II (1982) PATRICIA YOUNG Three Point Five Nine (1991) The Third Sex (1991) Photograph, 1958 (1991) READING POETRY GLOSSARY BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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Book SynopsisThe publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years.The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.)The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.Trade Review“There are many good things to be said about The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose—not least that it comes to help relieve a quarter-of-a-century’s dearth of decent anthologies, that it covers the whole century, and that it includes a number of women writers…This ambitious and thoughtful anthology deserves a large audience.” — Tom Clayton, Regents Professor of English, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsJOHN CHAMBERLAIN Letters The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613) LANCELOT ANDREWES A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Majesty at Whitehall (1609)NICHOLAS BRETON The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616) An Atheist or Most Bad ManA Wanton WomanA Quiet WomanAn Unworthy Lawyer MARY SIDNEY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE The Psalms of David Psalm 52 Quid Gloriaris?Psalm 58 Si Vere UtiquePsalm 74 Ut Quid, DeusPsalm 120 Ad Dominum FRANCIS BACON Essays (excerpts) Of TruthOf Simulation and DissimulationOf Marriage and Single LifeOf LoveOf Seditions and TroublesOf TravelOf EmpireOf the True Greatness of Kingdoms and EstatesOf PlantationsOf Masques and TriumphsOf Studies (1597)Of Studies (1625) Aphorisms (excerpts) The IdolsIdols of the TribeIdols of the CaveIdols of the Market-placeIdols of the TheatreApplication of the Method MICHAEL DRAYTONTo the Virginian VoyageTo the Cambro-Britons, and their Harp, his Ballad of AgincourtSonnet 61 Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and partKING JAMES VI/I A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)THOMAS CAMPIONfrom A Book of AirsLet him that will be free and keep his heart from careFollow your Saint, follow with accents sweetfrom Two Books of AirsSweet, exclude me not, nor be dividedAs by the streams of Babylonfrom The Third Book of AirsIf Love loves truth, then women do not lovefrom The Fourth Book of AirsThere is a garden in her faceHENRY WOTTONOn his Mistress, the Queen of BohemiaThe Character of a Happy LifeUpon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s WifeOn a Bank as I Sat a-Fishing: A Description of the SpringDe MorteAEMILIA LANYER Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts) To All Virtuous Ladies in GeneralThe Author’s Dream to the Lady MarySalve Deus Rex Judaorum (excerpts)The Description of Cooke-ham LADY MARGARET HOBY The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)JOHN DONNE Songs and Sonnets The ApparitionThe FleaThe Good-MorrowLove’s Alchemy The IndifferentThe AnniversaryThe Sun RisingThe CanonizationConfined LoveAir and AngelsTwicknam GardenA Valediction: of WeepingThe EcstasyFarewell to LoveA Valediction: forbidding MourningA Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day being the shortest dayThe Relic Elegies Elegy VIElegy VIIElegy VIII The ComparisonElegy IX The AutumnalElegy XIX To His Mistress Going to BedElegy [XVIII] Love’s Progress Satires Satire III Divine PoemsHoly Sonnets VIVIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXV Holy Sonnets from the Westmoreland MS XVIIXVIIIXIXGood Friday, 1613. Riding WestwardA Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into GermanyA Hymn to God my God, in my sicknessA Hymn to God the Father Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts) IV. ExpostulationV. MeditationXVII. MeditationXXL Meditation The Second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626) BEN JONSONTo the ReaderTo AlchemistsOn Something that Walks SomewhereTo William CamdenOn My First DaughterOn My First SonOn Lucy, Countess of BedfordTo Sir Henry SavileTo Sir Thomas RoeTo the SameInviting a Friend to SupperTo PenshurstTo HeavenSong To CeliaHer TriumphAn Epistle to Master John SeldenAn Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of BenAn Ode. To HimselfTo the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Gary and Sir H. MorisonThe Praises of a Country LifeOn The New Inn Ode. To HimselfTo the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William ShakespeareClerimont’s SongA Vision of BeautyWILLIAM LAUD Diary (selections)ELIZABETH CLINTON, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery (excerpts)ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)Democritus Junior To the ReaderLove of Learning, or Overmuch StudyTHE OVERBURIAN CHARACTERA Good WomanA Fair and Happy MilkmaidA WatermanA PrisonerRICHARD CORBETTUpon an Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto himThe Fairies Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy WillThe Distracted PuritanEDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURYAn Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever?LADY MARY WROTH Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove8 Love, leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand13 Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night15 Dear famish not what you yourself gave food16 Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers22 Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best25 Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun26 When everyone to pleasing pastime hies39 Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast40 False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill48 If ever Love had force in human breast?Song 74 Love, a child, is ever crying,A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 77 In this strange labyrinth, how shall I turn?78 Is to leave all, and take the thread of Love79 His flames are joys, his bands true lovers’ might80 And be in his brave court a glorious light81 And burn, yet burning you will love the smart82 He may our prophet, and our tutor prove83 How blest be they then, who his favours prove84 He that shuns love doth love himself the less85 But where they may return with honour’s grace86 Be from the Court of Love, and Reason torn87 Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound88 Be given to him who triumphs in his right89 Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear90 Except my heart which you bestowed before103 My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest THOMAS HOBBES Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts) The IntroductionChapter XIIIChapter XVIIChapter XVIIIChapter XIXChapter XXChapter XXIChapter XLVIIA Review, and Conclusion WILLIAM BROWNEOn the Countess Dowager of PembrokeLADY ELEANOR DAVIES The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)SIR ROBERT FILMER Patriarcha (excerpts)Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times WILLIAM BRADFORD History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)Book I, Chapter 9Book II, Chapter 19ANNE CLIFFORD The Knole Diary (1603-1619) (excerpts) 160316161617 ROBERT HERRICKTo the Most Illustrious, and Most Hopeful Prince, Charles, Prince of WalesThe Argument of his BookWhen he would have his Verses ReadThe Difference Betwixt Kings and SubjectsUpon the Loss of His MistressesCherry-RipeTo the King and Queen, Upon Their Unhappy DistancesDelight in DisorderDuty to TyrantsTo DianemeCorinna’s Going a MayingTo live Merrily, and to Trust to Good VersesTo the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeThe Hock-cart, or Harvest HomeTo Anthea, who may Command him AnythingTo MeadowsUpon Prudence Baldwin her SicknessOn himselfCasualtiesTo DaffodilsMatins, or Morning PrayerEvensongThe Bracelet to JuliaThe Departure of the Good DaemonThe Power in the PeopleTo his BookShame, no StatistFresh Cheese and CreamHis Winding-SheetHis Prayer to Ben. JonsonAn Ode for himThe Bad Season Makes the Poet SadHis Return to LondonHis Grange, or Private WealthUpon Julia’s ClothesA Thanksgiving to God, for his HouseHis Litany, to the Holy SpiritBENJAMIN LANEY The Study of Quiet, in Two SermonsA Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall March 18, 1666 FRANCIS QUARLESEmblem III (from Book III)Emblem VII (from Book III)Epigram III (from Book IV)Eclogue VIIIHENRY KINGAn Exequy to his Matchless never to be forgotten FriendUpon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Dean of Paul’sSic VitaWILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Advice to Charles II (excerpts) For TradeFor Ceremony and OrderThe Errors of State and Their RemediesThe Recreations for Your Majesty’s People GEORGE HERBERTThe AltarRedemptionEaster WingsAffliction (I)Prayer (I)Jordan (I)The H. Scriptures IThe H. Scriptures IIChurch-monumentsThe WindowsDenialVanity (I)VirtueThe Pearl. Matth. 13:45ManLifeJordan (II)The QuipProvidenceParadiseThe PilgrimageThe CollarThe PulleyThe FlowerAaronThe ElixirLove (III)L’EnvoyTHOMAS CAREWA Deposition from LoveDisdain ReturnedTo SaxhamA RaptureTo Ben JonsonAn Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of Pauls, Dr. John DonneTo a Lady that desired I would love herA SongThe second RaptureIn praise of his MistressEDWARD WINSLOW Good News from New England (excerpt) The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth JAMES SHIRLEY“The glories of our blood and state”RACHEL SPEGHT A Muzzle for Melastomus To Joseph SwetnamOf Woman’s Excellency The Dream THOMAS EDWARDS Gangraena (1646) (excerpt) The Catalogue of Errors KING CHARLES I A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)BATHSUA MAKIN An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts) To her Highness the Lady MaryCare ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in LearningPostscript WILLIAM WALWYN The Bloody Project (1649)JOHN EARLE Microcosmography To the ReaderA ChildA SurgeonPaul’s Walk OWEN FELLTHAM Resolves Of PuritansOf PovertyOf WomanOf Poets and PoetryA Rule in Reading Authors THOMAS RANDOLPHThe Second Epode of Horace TranslatedAn Elegy upon the Lady Venetia DigbyUpon his PictureAn Ode to Master Anthony Stafford, to hasten him into the CountryAn Answer to Master Ben. Jonson’s OdeOn the Death of a NightingaleA Pastoral CourtshipWILLIAM HABINGTONNox nocti indicat ScientiamSIR THOMAS BROWNE Religio Medici To the ReaderThe First Part (excerpts)The Second Part (excerpts) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial Chapter 1 (excerpts)Chapter 2 (excerpts)Chapter 5 EDMUND WALLEROn a GirdleGo, Lovely Rose!Upon His Majesty’s Repairing of Paul’sOn St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His MajestyOf the Last Verses in the BookJOHN MILTONOn the Morning of Christ’s NativityL’AllegroII PenserosoLycidasSonnet 7Sonnet 12 On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatisesSonnet 18 On the Late Massacre in PiedmontSonnet 19On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long ParliamentSonnet 15 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of ColchesterSamson Agonistes JOHN MILTON (PROSE)from The Reason of Church Government (1641)Areopagitica (1644)Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)SIR JOHN SUCKLINGTo the ReaderSongA Ballad. Upon a WeddingThe Constant LoverA Barley-breakSonnet ISonnet IISonnet IIIThe WitsA CandleQUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA The Queen’s LetterThe Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s most excellent Majesty from Holland EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)The Character of William LaudThe Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6GERRARD WINSTANLEY A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)The Diggers’ SongANNE BRADSTREETThe PrologueA Dialogue between Old England and New concerning their Present TroublesThe Flesh and the SpiritThe Author to Her BookTo My Dear and Loving HusbandAnotherIn Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth BradstreetSome Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666To My Dear ChildrenRICHARD CRASHAWWishes. To his (supposed) MistressSaint Mary Magdalene or The WeeperA Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint TeresaJOHN CLEVELANDThe King’s DisguiseThe Rebel ScotEpitaph on the Earl of StraffordThe General EclipseJEREMY TAYLOR A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of CarberyThe Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpt)Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introductionThe Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole lifeOf daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bedReasons for a daily examinationSAMUEL BUTLER Hudibras (excerpts)A Romance-WriterA RabbleROWLAND WATKYNSTo the ReaderThe AnabaptistUpon the Mournful Death of our Late Soveraign Lord Charles the First, King of England, &cThe Common PeopleThe Holy SepulchreThe New Illiterate Lay-TeachersMARGARET FELLWomen’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the ScripturesLAWRENCE CLARKSON (CLAXTON) The Lost Sheep Found (1660)RICHARD OVERTON The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649SIR JOHN DENHAMCooper’s HillSIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)RICHARD LOVELACETo Lucasta, Going to the WarsThe GrasshopperTo Lucasta. From PrisonTo my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter LillyTo Althea, From PrisonThe AntTo a Lady with Child that Asked an Old ShirtABRAHAM COWLEYThe WishExtracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656The GrasshopperThe Innocent 111On the Death of Mr. CrashawTo Mr. HobbesBrutusTo the Royal SocietySors VirgilianaOf SolitudeOf ObscurityOf My SelfABIEZER COPPE A Fiery Flying Rolland A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)ALEXANDER BROMEThe Levellers RantThe New-CourtierThe Saints’ EncouragementA Satire on the RebellionJOHN EVELYN The Diary of John Evelyn (selections) The RestorationThe Fire of London LUCY HUTCHINSON“All Sorts of Men”The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A FragmentMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)ANDREW MARVELLFlecknoe, an English Priest at RomeThe CoronetThe GalleryThe Definition of LoveTo His Coy MistressAn Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From IrelandThe Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of FlowersThe Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her FawnUpon the Hill and Grove at BilbroughUpon Appleton HouseThe GardenOn a Drop of DewA Dialogue between the Soul and BodyThe Mower against GardensDamon the MowerThe Mower to the Glow-wormsThe Mower’s SongThe Character of HollandBermudasThe First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord ProtectorOn Mr. Milton’s “Paradise Lost”HENRY VAUGHANA RhapsodyUpon a Cloak Lent Him by Mr. J. RidsleyRegenerationThe Retreat“Joy of my life! while left me here”The Morning-Watch“And do they so?”“I walked the other day”“They are all gone into the world of light!”Cock-CrowingThe KnotThe NightThe BookTo His BooksMARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLEThe Poetress’s Hasty ResolutionA Discourse of BeastsThe Hunting of the HareThe Pastime of the Queen of the Fairies, when she comes upon earth out of the centerHer Descending Down“I Language want”The Philosophical and Physical OpinionsTo the Two UniversitiesNature’s Pictures Drawn by Fancy’s Pencil to the LifeThe Loving CuckoldOrations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse PlacesAn Oration for Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration against Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former OpinionsCCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)MARY HOWGILLA Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called ProtectorLADY ANNE HALKETT The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)KATHARINE EVANS AND SARAH CHEVERS This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth’s Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)JOHN AUBREY Brief Lives (selections) Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Venetia Digby (1600-33)Thomas Fairfax (1612-71)Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Robert Hooke (1635-1703)Andrew Marvell (1621-78)Sir Robert Moray (d.1673)John Milton (1608-74) DOROTHY OSBORNE The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Saturday, January 8, 1653Thursday-Saturday June 2-4, 1653October 1653October 1653Saturday, February 4, 1654Saturday, February 11, 1654March 18, 1654 JOHN BUNYAN Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)The Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt)Christian and Faithful visit Vanity FairKING CHARLES II The Declaration of Breda (1660)JOHN DRYDEN Annus MirabilisAbsalom and AchitophelMac FlecknoeReligio Laid or A Layman’s Faith (excerpt)A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, 1687To the Memory of Mr. OldhamJuvenal’s Sixth Satire (excerpts)The Empress MessalinaThe learned wifeThe gaudy gossipJuvenal’s Tenth Satire (excerpt)SejanusThe Secular Masque KATHERINE PHILIPSUpon the Double Murder of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libelous Copy of Rimes by Vavasour PowellOn the Numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in FlandersOn the 3 of September, 1651Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaA Retired Friendship, To Ardelia Wiston VaultTo My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship A Country LifeOrinda to Lucasia parting October 1661 at LondonOrinda Upon Little Hector PhilipsOrinda to LucasiaA Married StatePHILO-PHILIPPATo the Excellent OrindaANTHONY À WOOD The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (excerps) Notes on Oxford during the InterregnumThe Restoration Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts) Robert BurtonJeremy Taylor JOHN LOCKE An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt) Of Enthusiasm GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX A Character of King Charles II (excerpts) Of his ReligionHis Amours, Mistresses, &:cHis Conduct to his MinistersOf his Wit and ConversationHis Talents, Temper, Habits, &cConclusion SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt) The Fire of London ROBERT SOUTHEcclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of StateMARY ROWLANDSON The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts) The First RemoveThe Second RemoveThe Third RemoveThe Fourth RemoveThe Eighth RemoveThe Twentieth Remove THOMAS SPRAT The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts) A Proposal for Erecting an English AcademyTheir Manner of Discourse THOMAS TRAHERNE The Third Century (excerpt)WonderInnocenceThe PreparativeThe InstructionThe DemonstrationThe AnticipationCHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSETMy OpinionSIR CHARLES SEDLEYYoung Coridon and PhillisAPHRA BEHNSong “I Led my Silvia to a Grove”The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of FrenchSong “Love Armed”On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make BusksThe DisappointmentOn the Death of the late Earl of RochesterA Pindaric on the Death of our Late SovereignTo the fair ClarindaLove Letters by Mrs A. BehnThe Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of ImaginationPIERRE-ESPRIT RADISSON Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659-60 (excerpts)BISHOP GILBERT BURNET History of My Own TimeThe RestorationReign of King Charles IIJOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTERSongUpon His Leaving His MistressA Satire Against Reason and MankindThe Disabled DebaucheeSongThe Imperfect EnjoymentA Ramble in St. James’s ParkA Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient LoverSignior DildoImpromptu on Charles IIELINOR JAMES An Injured Prince Vindicated, or, A Scurrilous and Detracting Pamphlet AnsweredMrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled A New Test of the Church of England’s Loyalty (excerpts)THOMAS WHARTONLilli BurleroJANE BARKERAn Invitation to my Friends at CambridgeA Virgin LifeThe Prospect of a Landscape, Beginning with a GroveTo My Young LoverTo My Friends Against PoetryJOHN OLDHAMAn Imitation of HoraceUpon a BooksellerANNE KILLIGREWA Farewell to Worldly JoysThe Complaint of a LoverOn a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana’sThe DiscontentCloris’ Charms Dissolved by EudoraJOHN TUTCHINThe ForeignersCOTTON MATHER Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)ELIZABETH JOHNSONPreface to the Reader, Poems on Several OccasionsWritten by Philomela ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE “PHILOMELA”Platonic LoveA Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites, sent to the AtheniansThe Athenians’ AnswerA Pindaric, to the Athenian SocietyTo CelindaThe Reply to Mr.——A MISCELLANYLETTERSOliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine WaltonCharles I to Prince RupertEleanor Gwynne to Laurence HydeJohn Evelyn to Sir Christopher WrenBALLADSTom o’ BedlamA sweet and pleasant Sonnet, entitled:My mind to me a kingdom isDitties Lamentation for the cruelty of this ageThe King’s Last Farewell to the WorldThe Royal Health to the Rising SunA Looking-Glass for Men and MaidsNo Ring, no WeddingPOEMS ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMUpon the Duke of BuckinghamEpitaph on the Duke of BuckinghamEpitaphINFORMATION FROM THE SCOTTISH NATION to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)THE PUTNEY DEBATESThe Putney Debates: The Debate on the FranchiseTHE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I The Kings Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of JusticeThe Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King A TRUE RELATION, of the Inhumane and Unparallel’d Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)THE GENTLEWOMAN’S COMPANION (1673)The IntroductionWhat Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a GentlewomanOf the Government of the EyeOf Speech and ComplementOf Wanton Songs, and Idle BalladsWhat Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young GentlewomenCOURT SATIRE (1682)THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDPassed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society (1683)INDEXESINDEX OF FIRST LINESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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Book SynopsisAugusta Webster was very widely praised in her own time—Christina Rossetti thought her "by far the most formidable" woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that "there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets." This collection is the first edition of Webster's poems since 1895. It is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial number of her lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.Trade ReviewAugusta Webster's powerful and witty, disarmingly casual essays incisively explore such topics as the creation of selfhood, the social constraints that mar women's happiness, and the struggle for women's rights. Reintroducing Webster's writings after a century of neglect, Christine Sutphin provides generous, well-chosen selections of both poetry and prose as well as an informative introduction and useful supplementary materials. Anyone interested in Victorian poetry, women's writing, or nineteenth-century feminism will appreciate this extremely interesting volume by an important Victorian writer." - Dorothy Mermin, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWorks CitedAugusta Webster: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextWORKSFrom Dramatic Studies (1866) Jeanne D’ArcSister Annunciata— An Anniversary Abbess Ursula’s Lecture The Snow WasteWith the DeadBy the Looking-Glass From A Woman Sold and Other Poems (1867) A Woman Sold— Eleanor Vaughan Lady Boycott From Anno Domini 33 Pilate The Old Year Out and the New Year InToo FaithfulTo One of ManyTo and FroFrom Portraits (first edition 1870; enlarged edition, 1893):Medea in AthensCirceThe Happiest Girl in the WorldA CastawayFadedA Soul in PrisonTiredComing HomeIn an AlmshouseA PreacherA PainterAn InventorA DilettanteYu-Pe-Ya’s Lute. A Chinese Tale in English Verse (1874)From A Book of Rhyme (1881):Poulain the PrisonerNot LoveEnglish RispettiMother and Daughter. An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (1895)Appendix A: A Selection of Essays from A Housewife’s Opinions (1879):A Transcript and a TranscriptionPoets and Personal PronounsUniversity Degrees for WomenProtection for the Working WomanHusband-Hunting and Match-MakingThe Dearth of HusbandsAn Irrepressible ArmyParliamentary Franchise for WomenRatepayersAppendix B: Contemporary ReviewsReview of Dramatic Studiesfrom the Reader (June 2, 1866)from the Nonconformist (June 27, 1866)from the Athenaeum (August 11, 1866)from the Westminster Review (October 1866)from the Contemporary Review (December, 1866)Review of A Woman Sold from the Saturday Review (February 9, 1867)Review of Portraits from the Westminster Review (April 1, 1870)from the Nonconformist (May 11, 1870)from the Examiner and London Review (May 21, 1870)Review of Portraits (1893 edition) and Selections from the Verse of Augusta Webster from the Athenaeum (August 26, 1893)

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Book SynopsisNative Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.Trade Review“In one of her poems Rita Joe writes, ‘I lost my talk/The talk you took away.’ In another, she claims, ‘And I will relate wonders to my people.’ The first statement brings us face-to-face with the attempted destruction of Native People and their rich and varied cultures, including their mother tongues. The second affirms the blessings that poems can bring to a particular people and to others who want to listen. What the poets in this anthology bring to the page is, indeed, a series of wonders. Such a gathering of writers and words, to borrow a phrase from Wayne Keon, makes ‘all the stars/cooperate/and come out shining.’” — Lorna Crozier, University of Victoria, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry“This collection shows the breadth of contemporary Native poetry, from the resistance literature of the many poems remembering the murdered Helen Betty Osborne to the playful fishing game of Daniel David Moses; it is an excellent anthology.” — Terry Goldie, York University, co-editor of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English“Armstrong and Grauer have arranged a collection of works of extraordinary breadth in their thematic treatment of cultural, political, and spiritual subjects. Instructors will value the accompanying biographical information, the substantial selections from each poet’s work, and the authors’ prefatory comments, all of which situate this collection as an ideal text for the university classroom.” — Canadian LiteratureTable of ContentsFour Decades: An Anthology of Canadian Native Poetry from 1960 to 2000, Jeannette C. ArmstrongTuning Up, Tuning In, Lally GrauerA Note on the TextCHIEF DAN GEORGEA Lament for ConfederationWords to a GrandchildIf the legends fall silentKeep a few embers from the fireMy people’s memory reachesTo a Native TeenagerI have known youRITA JOEI am the IndianYour buildingsWen net ki’l/Who are you?When I was smallExpect nothing else from meShe spoke of paradiseI Lost My TalkDemasduitThe King and Queen Pass by on TrainIndian TalkMigration IndianThe Legend of Glooscap’s DoorSune’wit at Kelly’s MountainA Course of Study in SchoolFishing and Treaty RightsPETER BLUE CLOUD / ARIONWENRATEAlcatrazWhen’s the Last Boat to Alcatraz?Ochre IronBearDawnCrazy Horse MonumentYellowjacketSweet CornSandhills That None May VisitCrow’s FlightSearching for EaglesOld FriendsDUKE REDBIRDThe BeaverThe small drumMy moccasinsTobacco BurnsThe Ballad of Norval MorriseauBETH BRANTHer Name Is HelenTellingHonour SongStillborn NightMARIE ANNHARTE BAKERGranny GoingPenumbraMoon BearBird Clan MotherPretty Tough Skin WomanTrapper MotherBoobstretchRaced Out to Write This UpHis KitchenCoyote Columbus CafeTongue in Cheek, if not Tongue in CheckCoyote TrailBear Piss WaterI Want to Dance Wild Indian Black FaceSARAIN STUMPAnd there is my people sleepingIt’s with terror, sometimesLittle traces in my mindI was mixing stars and sandHe goes awaySeven men on the rock upon the houseLike little handsRound DanceWAYNE KEONHeritagenitean opun letr tu bill bissetta kind of majikthe eye of the ravenmoosonee in augustKirkland Lake, Sept. 21eight miles from Esten Lakein this villagefor donald marshallsmoke nd thymei’m not in charge of this ritualif i ever heardSpirit Warrior Raven: Dream Winterthe apocalypse will beginreplanting the heritage treeGORDON WILLIAMSThe Last CrackleLost ChildrenDark CornersThe Day RunsErnieCreased ClinicJustice in Williams LakeJEANNETTE ARMSTRONGIn-Tee-Teigh (King Salmon)Death MummerWind WomanHistory LessonDark ForestsGreenRocksWorld Renewal SongReclaiming EarthApplesRight ItBETH CUTHANDZen IndianSeven Songs for Uncle LouisWere You TherePost-Oka Kinda WomanFor All the Settlers Who Secretly SingThis Red MoonLENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS(a found poem)At SunriseNew ImageHe FightsIn Katherine’s HouseEMMA LaROCQUEIncongruenceCommitmentThe BeggarNostalgiaThe Red In Winter“Progress”The Uniform of the DispossessedMy Hometown Northern Canada South AfricaLong Way From HomeRASUNAH MARSDENFatherCondolences for MariusThree ObjectsKinanti: A FragmentValley of the BelieversWordmakerDancing the RoundsOnYour PassageTossing AroundYellow LeavesSKYROS BRUCE / MAHARA ALLBRETTwhen the outside is completely darkeelsin a letter frommy brother, atlantisin/dianthe mountains are realin memory of fred quilther husband is a film makerFor MenloLinda Louisein the bathFatherLEE MARACLEMy Box of LettersWarPerformingWomenMister MandelaLeonardRazzleberriesAutumn RoseTa’ahLightGEORGE KENNYRubbie at Central ParkPoor J.W.How He ServedDeath BirdI Don’t Know This October StrangerDUNCAN MERCREDImy red face hurtsMorning AwakeningBlues SingerBettyback roadsHe Likes to Dancesomething you saidborn again indiansearching for visionssearching for visions IIdreaming about the end of the worldracing across the landyesterday’s songthe duke of windsorDANIEL DAVID MOSESSong in the Light of DawnA Song of Early SummerOctoberThe Sunbather’s Fear of the MoonTwinkleBallad froma Burned-Out HouseOf Course the Sky Does not CloseCrow Out EarlyThe Persistence of SongsThe LetterThe LineOffhand SongCould Raven HaveWhite Feathers?Cowboy PicturesJOAN CRATEThe Poetry ReadingCan you hear me?GleichenStory tellerI am a ProphetBeaver WomanEmpty SeasDeparturesSentences: at the Culls’She is crying in a cornerUnmarked GraveLOUISE HALFEPahkahkosNohkom, Medicine BearShe Told MeUkrainian HourEatin’ CrittersPicking LeftoversI’m So SorryIn Da Name of Da FadderDer PoopThese are the Body’s Giftsfrom Blue MarrowMARILYN DUMONTThe White JudgesHelen Betty OsborneBlue Ribbon ChildrenLet the Ponies OutHorse-Fly BlueLetter to Sir John A. MacdonaldCircle the WagonsLeather and NaughahydeIt Crosses My MindInstructions to My MotherThe Sky Is PromisingARMAND GARNET RUFFOPoem for Duncan Campbell ScottSomePoetrySurely Not WarriorsGrey Owl, 1935MirrorI Heard Them, I Was ThereAt Geronimo’s GraveNo Man’s LandBearFish TaleRockin’ Chair LadyJOANNE ARNOTTWiles of GirlhoodThe ShardIn My Dance ClassManitoba PastoralProud BellySong AboutMy Grass CradleLike An Indian: Struggling With OgresMigrationProtectionMidLifeBeachhead DreamingCONNIE FIFERonnie, because they never told you whyCommunications classthe revolution of not vanishingThis is not a metaphorStones memoryWe rememberi have become so many mountainsdear waltthe namingJOSEPH DANDURANDThis was One of ThemI Touched the Coyote’s TongueSomeoneFort LangleyOne yearBefore meFeeding the hungryKATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMMstray bullets (oka re/vision)my grandmotherspoem without end #3my secret tongue and earsfrom turtle island to aotearoapartridge songfrozen breath and knife bladeshummingbirdsnight falling womanGREGORY SCOFIELDWhat a Way to GoGod of the Fiddle PlayersCycle (of the black lizard)UnhingedPawâcakinâsîs-pîsim, December • The Frost Exploding MoonPêyak-Nikamowin • One SongT. ForNot All Halfbreed MothersTrue North, Blue Compass HeartI’ve Been ToldRANDY LUNDYmy lodgeritualghost dancean answer to whya reed of red willowAyiki-pisim/the Frog Moon (April)Pawacakinasisi-pisim / The Frost-Exploding Moon (December)stone gatheringdeer-sleepAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Concise Edition is less than half the length of the full anthology, but preserves the main principles of the larger work. A number of longer poems (such as Tennyson's In Memoriam) are included in their entirety; there are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representative selection of other work; the work of Victorian women poets features very prominently; and a substantial selection of poetic theory is included to round out the volume.Trade Review“A long-overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of Delaware“What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University“A comprehensive and intelligent selection … fills a long-standing need.” — Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University“I’m excited about the appearance of this anthology—especially about its inclusion of so may full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsPOETRYFELICIA HEMANSThe Suliote MotherThe Lady of The CastleTo WordsworthCasabiancaThe Grave of a PoetessThe Image In LavaThe Indian With His Dead ChildThe Rock of Cader IdrisLETITIA E. LANDON from The Improvisatrice AdvertisementSappho’s Song “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other PoemsThe Nameless Grave The Factory Carthage Felicia Hemans Rydal Water and Grasmere LakeInfanticide in Madagascar ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Cry of the ChildrenSonnets From the PortugueseIIIXXIIXXIX XLIII The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s PointAurora Leigh First Book Second Book Fifth Book A Curse for a Nation A Musical Instrument CAROLINE NORTONFrom Voice From the Factories The Creole Girl The Poet’s ChoiceEDWARD FITZGERALDRubáiyát of Omar KhayyámALFRED TENNYSONMariana Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind The Poet The Poet’s Mind The Mystic The Kraken The Lady of Shalott To —. With the Following Poem [The Palace of Art] The Palace of Art The Hesperides The Lotos-Eaters The Two Voices St Simeon Stylites Ulysses Tiresias The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] Morte d’Arthur “Break, break, break” Locksley Hall The Vision of Sin In Memoriam A.H.H The Charge of the Light Brigade Maud Tithonus Crossing the BarROBERT BROWNINGMy Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Johannes Agrνcola in Meditation Porphyria’s Lover Pictor Ignotus The Lost Leader The Bishop Orders His Tom at Saint Praxed’s Church The Laboratory Love Among the Ruins Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi’s By the Fire-Side An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” The Statue and the Bust How It Strikes a Contemporary The Last Ride Together Bishop Blougram’s Apology Andrea del Sarto Saul Cleon Abt Vogler Rabbi Ben Ezra Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the IslandEDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Dong with a Luminous Nose How Pleasant to Know Mr. LearCHARLOTTE BRONTËThe Missionary Master and Pupil On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë On the Death of Anne BronteReason“The house was still—the room was still”The Lonely Lady“Is this my tomb, this humble stone”“Obscure and little seen my way”EMILY JANE BRONTË“Riches I hold in light esteem”To ImaginationPlead For MeRemembranceThe Prisoner“No coward soul is mine”Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”A Farewell to Alexandria“Long neglect has worn away”“The night is darkening round me”“What winter floods, what showers of spring”“She dried her tears, and diey did smile”ELIZA COOKThe WatersThe Ploughshare of Old EnglandSong of the Red IndianSong of the Ugly MaidenA Song For The WorkersARTHUR HUGH CLOUGHDuty—that’s to say complying Qui Laborat, OratThe Latest Decalogue“Say not the struggle nought availeth”SPERANZA (LADY WILDE)The Voice of the PoorA Lament For the PotatoTristan and IsoldeMATTHEW ARNOLDTo a Gipsy Child by the Sea-ShoreThe Strayed RevellerResignationThe Forsaken MermanTo Marguerite—ContinuedStanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”Empedocles on EtnaMemorial VersesDover BeachThe Buried LifeStanzas from the Grande ChartreuseThe Scholar-GipsyThyrsisDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Blessed Damozel My Sister’s SleepJenny“A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—” Nuptial SleepThe PortraitSilent NoonWillowwoodThe Soul’s SphereThe LandmarkAutumn IdlenessThe Hill SummitOld and New ArtSoul’s BeautyBody’s BeautyA SuperscriptionThe One Hope ARTHUR MUNBYThe Serving MaidWoman’s RightsELIZABETH SIDDALThe Lust of the EyesWorn OutAt LastLove and HateCHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin MarketA BirthdayAfter DeathAn Apple GatheringEcho“No, Thank you, John”SongUphillA Better Resurrection“The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”Monna Innominata 1 2 34567891011121314 “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”In an Artist’s Studio LEWIS CARROLLJabberwockyThe Walrus and the CarpenterWILLIAM MORRISThe Defence of GuenevereThe Haystack in the FloodsALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNEThe Triumph of TimeItylusAnactoriaHymn to ProserpineThe LeperThe Garden of Proserpine A Forsaken GardenAt A Month’s EndAve Atque ValeAUGUSTA WEBSTERCirce A CastawayMother and Daughter SonnetsVIVIIIXXIVXIIXIIIXIVXVXVIXVII THOMAS HARDYHap Neutral TonesA Broken AppointmentThe Darkling ThrushThe Self-UnseeingIn TenebrisThe Minute Before Meeting Night in the Old HomeThe Something that Saved HimAfterwardsA Young Man’s ExhortationSnow in the SuburbsIn a WoodGERARD MANLEY HOPKINSThe Wreck of the DeutschlandGod’s GrandeurThe WindhoverFelix Randal“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”The Leaden Echo and the Golden EchoCarrion Comfort“No worst, there is none”Tom’s GarlandHarry PloughmanMICHAEL FIELDPrefaceLa GiocondaThe Birth of Venus“Death, men say, is like a sea”“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”“Sometimes I do despatch my heart”“Solitary Death, make me thine own”Love’s Sour Leisure“It was deep April, and the morn”An Aeolian HarpALICE MEYNELLA Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old AgeIn FebruaryA Father of WomenThe Threshing MachineReflections(I) In Ireland (II) In “Othello”(III) In Two Poets OSCAR WILDE Requiescat Hélas! Impressionsle jardin la mer Symphony in Yellow RUDYARD KIPLINGGentlemen-Rankesr In the Neolithic Age RecessionalThe White Man’s BurdenIfLIONEL JOHNSONThe Dark Angel Summer StormDead The End Nihilism The Darkness In a Workhouse Bagley Wood The Destroyer of a Soul The Precept of Silence A ProselyteCHARLOTTE MEWThe Farmer’s BrideIn Nunhead Cemetery The Road To Kιrity I Have Been Through The Gates The Cenotaph V. R. Ii. January 22nd, 1901 ii. February^, 1901 POETIC THEORYWILLIAM JOHNSON FOXTennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical – 1830ARTHUR HENRY HALLAMOn Some of the Characteristics of Modern PoetryLETITIA E. LANDONOn the Ancient and Modern Influence of PoetryJOHN STUART MILL“What is Poetry?”ROBERT BROWNING“Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”]ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGHRecent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems byAlexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and OthersMATTHEW ARNOLDPreface to the First Edition of PoemsJOHN RUSKINOf the Pathetic FallacyMATTHEW ARNOLDThe Function of Criticism at the Present TimeWALTER BAGEHOTWordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English PoetryROBERT BUCHANAN The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. RossettiDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Stealthy School Of CriticismALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Under The MicroscopeWALTER PATER The Renaissance: Studies in Art and PoetryGERARD MANLEY HOPKINSAuthor’s PrefaceALICE MEYNELLTennysonRobert Browning The Rhythm of LifeINDEXESINDEX OF FIRST LINESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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Book SynopsisThe publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years.The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.)The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.Trade ReviewPraise for The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose:“There are many good things to be said about The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose—not least that it comes to help relieve a quarter-of-a-century’s dearth of decent anthologies, that it covers the whole century, and that it includes a number of women writers…This ambitious and thoughtful anthology deserves a large audience.” — Tom Clayton, Regents Professor of English, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsJOHN CHAMBERLAIN Letters The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613) LANCELOT ANDREWES A Sermon Preached Before the King’s Majesty at Whitehall (1609)NICHOLAS BRETON The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616) An Atheist or Most Bad ManA Wanton WomanA Quiet WomanAn Unworthy Lawyer FRANCIS BACON Essays (excerpts) Of TruthOf Simulation and DissimulationOf Marriage and Single LifeOf LoveOf Seditions and TroublesOf TravelOf EmpireOf the True Greatness of Kingdoms and EstatesOf PlantationsOf Masques and TriumphsOf StudiesOf Studies Aphorisms (excerpts) The IdolsIdols of the TribeIdols of the CaveIdols of the Market-placeIdols of the TheatreApplication of the Method KING JAMES VI/I A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)AEMILIA LANYERTo the Virtuous ReaderLADY MARGARET HOBY The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)JOHN DONNE Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts) IV. ExpostulationV. MeditationXVII. MeditationXXI. Meditation The second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626) WILLIAM LAUDDiary (excerpts)ELIZABETH CLINTON, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery (excerpts)ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts) Democritus Junior To the ReaderLove of Learning, or Overmuch Study THE OVERBURIAN CHARACTERA Good WomanA Fair and Happy MilkmaidA WatermanA PrisonerTHOMAS HOBBES Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)The IntroductionChapter XIIIChapter XVIIChapter XVIIIChapter XIXChapter XXChapter XXIChapter XLVIIA Review, and Conclusion LADY ELEANOR DAVIES The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)SIR ROBERT FILMER Patriarcha (excerpts)Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times WILLIAM BRADFORD History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) Book I, Chapter 9Book II, Chapter 19 ANNE CLIFFORD The Knole Diary (1603-1619) (excerpts) 160316161617 BENJAMIN LANEY The Study of Quiet, in Two SermonsA Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall, March 18, 1666 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Advice to Charles II (excerpts) For TradeFor Ceremony and OrderThe Errors of State and Their RemediesThe Recreations for Your Majesty’s People EDWARD WINSLOW Good News from New England (excerpt) The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth RACHEL SPEGHT A Muzzle for Melastomus To Joseph SwetnamOf Woman’s Excellency THOMAS EDWARDS Gangraena (1646) (excerpt) The Catalogue of Errors KING CHARLES I A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)BATHSUA MAKIN An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts) To her Highness the Lady MaryCare ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in LearningPostscript WILLIAM WALWYN The Bloody Project (1649)JOHN EARLE Microcosmography To the ReaderA ChildA SurgeonPaul’s Walk OWEN FELLTHAM Resolves Of PuritansOf PovertyOf WomanOf Poets and PoetryA Rule in Reading Authors SIR THOMAS BROWNE Religio Medici To the ReaderThe First Part (excerpts)The Second Part (excerpts) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial Chapter 1 (excerpts)Chapter 2 (excerpts)Chapter 5 JOHN MILTONfrom The Reason of Church Government (1641)Areopagitica (1644)Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA The Queen’s LetterThe Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s most excellent Majesty from Holland EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts) The Character of William LaudThe Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665—6 GERRARD WINSTANLEY A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)The Diggers’ SongANNE BRADSTREETTo My Dear ChildrenJEREMY TAYLOR A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpt) Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt) Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole lifeOf daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bedReasons for a daily examination SAMUEL BUTLERA Romance-WriterA RabbleMARGARET FELLWomen’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the ScripturesLAWRENCE CLARKSON (CLAXTON) The Lost Sheep Found (1660)RICHARD OVERTONThe Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649SIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)ABRAHAM COWLEYExtracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656Of SolitudeOf ObscurityOf My SelfABIEZER COPPE A Fiery Flying Roll and A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)JOHN EVELYN The Diary of John Evelyn (extracts) The RestorationThe Fire of London LUCY HUTCHINSON The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A FragmentMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The Philosophical and Physical Opinions To the Two Universities Nature’s Pictures Drawn by Fancy’s Pencil to the Life The Loving Cuckold Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places An Oration for Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration against Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts) MARY HOWGILLA Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called ProtectorLADY ANNE HALKETT The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)KATHARINE EVANS AND SARAH CHEVERSThis is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth’s Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)JOHN AUBREY Brief Lives (excerpts) Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Venetia Digby (1600-33)Thomas Fairfax (1612-71)Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Robert Hooke (1635-1703)Andrew Marvell (1621-78)Sir Robert Moray (d.1673)John Milton (1608-74) DOROTHY OSBORNE The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Saturday, January 8, 1653Thursday–Saturday, June 2–4, 1653October 1653October 1653Saturday, February 4, 1654Saturday, February 11, 1654March 18, 1654 JOHN BUNYAN Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)The Pilgrim’s Progress (excerpt) Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair KING CHARLES II The Declaration of Breda (1660)ANTHONY À WOOD The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (extracts) Notes on Oxford during the InterregnumThe Restoration Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)Robert BurtonJeremy Taylor JOHN LOCKE An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt) Of Enthusiasm GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX A Character of King Charles II (excerpts) Of his ReligionHis Amours, Mistresses, &cHis Conduct to his MinistersOf his Wit and ConversationHis Talents, Temper, Habits, &cConclusion SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt) The Fire of London ROBERT SOUTHEcclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of StateMARY ROWLANDSON The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts) The First RemoveThe Second RemoveThe Third RemoveThe Fourth RemoveThe Eighth RemoveThe Twentieth Remove THOMAS SPRAT The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts) A Proposal for Erecting an English AcademyTheir Manner of Discourse THOMAS TRAHERNE The Third Century (excerpt)APHRA BEHNLove Letters by Mrs A. BehnThe Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of ImaginationPIERRE-ESPRIT RADISSON Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659—60 (excerpts)BISHOP GILBERT BURNET History of My Own Time The Restoration Reign of King Charles II ELINOR JAMES Mrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled A New Test of the Church of England’s Loyalty (excerpts)COTTON MATHER Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)ELIZABETH JOHNSONPreface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions.Written by Philomela A MISCELLANYLETTERSOliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine WaltonCharles I to Prince RupertEleanor Gwynne to Laurence HydeJohn Evelyn to Sir Christopher WrenINFORMATION FROM THE SCOTTISH NATION to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)THE PUTNEY DEBATESThe Putney Debates: The Debate on the FranchiseTHE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I The King’s Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of JusticeThe Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King A TRUE RELATION, of the Inhumane and Unparallel’d Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)THE GENTLEWOMAN’S COMPANION (1673) The Introduction What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a GentlewomanOf the Government of the EyeOf Speech and ComplementOf Wanton Songs, and Idle BalladsWhat Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDPassed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to theSacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society (1683)INDEXESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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Book SynopsisA unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as to provide an interactive study of these issues, the collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion.Literary works by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Turner, and many others are juxtaposed with criticism and historical documents, many of which were previously out of print or unavailable. Selections include Marshall McLuhan's 1967 article "The Future of Sex" and excerpts from Stan Persky and John Dixon's Kiddie Porn, SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, and Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review“I read this brave book in a canoe. A tribute both to its Canadianness and to Cavell and Dickinson’s balancing act in assembling this rich stew of literary nuggets and historical analysis. Sexing the Maple will be an indispensable resource for any future exploration of sexuality and gender in English Canada whether through a cultural or a historical point of view. Indeed its provocative lesson is that the two cannot be separated in any serious excursion into sexuality in this country or any other. Canonical and non-canonical, queer, queering and beyond, here is a sturdy paddle for those upcoming rapids.” — Thomas Waugh, Concordia University“Sexing the Maple takes sex out of Canada’s cultural closet. Richard Cavell and Peter Dickinson have assembled an outstanding anthology with fiction and poetry by leading Canadian writers, rare and out-of-print material, and a superb selection of critical articles. The historical and cultural range of topics is impressive, covering the gamut of Canuck sex from anti-masturbation tracts and weird sex in Canadian film to reproductive laws and transgender surgery. This is the first book to theorize and document how stories about our sexualities articulate our sense of Canadian nationhood. The research is impeccable, the theorizing trailblazing, the writing compelling. This book is bold, ambitious, and provocative.” — Irene Gammel, Ryerson UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSex and Canada: A Theoretical IntroductionSex and the FamilyAlice Munro, “Family Furnishings,” Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)Ivan E. Coyote, “Just Like My Dad,” Boys Like Her (1998)Gertrude Pringle, from Etiquette in Canada (1949)Michael Bliss, “‘Pure Books on Avoided Subjects’: Pre-Freudian SexualIdeas in Canada,” Historical Papers (1970)Mariana Valverde, “Families, Private Property, and the State:The Dionnes and the Toronto Stork Derby,” Journal of CanadianStudies 29.4 (1994–95)Sex and MediaIrving Layton, “The Improved Binoculars,” Collected Poems (1971)Persimmon Blackridge, from Prozac Highway (1997)Nicole Markotic, from Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (1995)Marshall McLuhan and George B. Leonard, “The Future of Sex,”Look Magazine (1967)Katherine Monk, from Weird Sex and Snowshoes (2001)Sex and MedicineDerek McCormack, “Stargaze,” Dark Rides (1996)Trish Salah, “Surgical Diary,” Wanting in Arabic (2002)Patricia Baird, et al., Proceed with Care: Final Report of the Royal Commissionon New Reproductive Technologies: Summary and Highlights (1993)John Colapinto, from As Nature Made Him (2000)Sex and GenderDorothy Livesay, “On Looking into Henry Moore,” Collected Poems (1972)Jane Rule, “The Killer Dyke and the Lady,” Outlander (1981)Daphne Marlatt, from Ana Historic (1988)Lyndell Montgomery, “Border Crossing: On the Edge,” Boys Like Her (1998)Roberta Hamilton, “Representation and Subjectivity: Women as SexualObjects,” Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on CanadianSociety (2004)Sex and RaceSKY Lee, from Disappearing Moon Café (1990)Ian Iqbal Rashid, “An/other Country,” from Black Markets, White Boyfriendsand other acts of elision (1991)Gregory Scofield, from Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a MétisChildhood (1999)Martin Cannon, “The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality,” CanadianJournal of Native Studies 18.1 (1998)Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz, “‘It was Only a Matter of Passion’:Masculinity and Sexual Danger,” Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays inFemininity and Masculinity in Canada (1999)Sex and ReligionTimothy Findley, from Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)Leonard Cohen, from Beautiful Losers (1966)Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)Nancy Christie, “Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatizationof the Family in Post-War Canada,” Households of Faith (2002)Iain A.G. Barrie, “A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers,Pedophilia, and the Media,” Sex, Religion, Media (2002)Sex and the LawMichael Turner, from The Pornographer’s Poem (1999Lynn Crosbie, from Paul’s Case (1997)Jane Rule, Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial (1995)Gary Kinsman, “‘These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species’:The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexualityin Canada,” The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996)Stan Persky and John Dixon, from On Kiddie Porn (2001)Sources

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Book SynopsisQuestioning the assumption that few poems by working-class women had survived, Florence Boos set out to discover supposedly lost works in libraries, private collections, and archives. Her years of research resulted in this anthology. Trade Review“Florence Boos has produced a fascinating anthology and a learned interpretive study in one volume. Boos is passionate in her claims for the social life of poetry and careful in her presentation of individuality of each of these writing women. The poems include political ballads, personal lyrics, and selections of prose that often give insights into what poetic vocation meant to working women. Boos provides excellent introductions to each poet. This is a beautiful labor of love, and will delight scholars, general readers, and poets.” — Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary University of London“This anthology is essential reading for anyone concerned with women’s writing. The work of these indomitable women shows human determination at its strongest and most moving. These poets elegize the tragic deaths of their children, celebrate the beauties of the natural world, and deplore war and injustice. Hampered by neglected or interrupted education and often dogged by poverty, they overcome their disadvantages with great dignity. We should read them now and give them the praise they deserve.” — Dorothy McMillan, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJanet HamiltonIntroductionA Plea for the DoricA Wheen Aul’ MemoriesThe Feast of the “Mutches”Oor LocationRhymes for the Times IIRhymes for the Times IVRhymes for the Times VGrannie Visited at Blackhill, Shotts, July, 1805Auld Mither ScotlandGrannie’s Crack About the Famine in Auld Scotlan’, 1739-40Grannie’s Dream—A True IncidentEffie—A BalladPreface to Poems, Essays and SketchesPreface to Memorial Edition, James HamiltonJanet Hamilton at her “Ain Fireside,” Alexander WallaceJanet Hamilton on the Education of WomenScottish Peasant Life and Character in Days of Auld LangsyneSketch of a Scottish Out-door Communion Sabbath in TimesGone ByLocal ChangesSketch of a Scottish VillageFrom The Mental and Moral Dignity of Woman, by the Rev. BenjaminParsonsThe Rural PoetsAnonymous Celtic Songs Collected by Alexander CarmichaelIntroductionPeaceThe Apple TreeNew MoonMy Father and Mother Will Kill MeIsabella ChisholmIntroductionThe Wicked Who Would Do Me HarmExorcism of the EyeCounteracting the Evil EyeElizabeth Duncan CampbellIntroductionThe Death of Willie, My Second SonA Prison CellThe Crimean WarThe Summer NightThe Mother’s LamentThe Life of My ChildhoodMrs. Campbell: A Criticism, by George GilfillanJane StevensonIntroductionHomeThe Wandering DogThe Fairy DaleThe Prophetess, Or Seer of VisionsPreface from Homely Musings Elizabeth Horne SmithIntroductionThe Armenian AtrocitiesA Midnight Meeting with the Ghost of Burns, July, 1896My FriendLines to J —— B——, Dunfermline“In the Foremost Files. Elizabeth Horne Smith, Farmworker and Poetess.,” by the Rev. P[aul] AntonMary MacDonald MacPhersonIntroductionIncitement of the GaelsFarewell to the New ChristmasA Prose Translation: “Ivory and the Crofters,” Donald MeekThe Factory Poets“Marie”IntroductionThe Indomitable WillPosted BooksSibyl, the Far-SeerAn Autumn Evening, People’s and Howitt’s Journal, 1849Ellen JohnstonIntroductionLines to Isabel from the Factory GirlThe Factory Girl’s Reply to EdithThe Last SarkThe Maid of Dundee to Her Slumbering MuseThe Last Lay of “The Factory Girl”Edith, from Preface to Second Edition, Autobiography, Poems and SongsSelections from the “Autobiography of Ellen Johnston”Ruth WillsIntroductionA LamentThe Seen and the UnseenKoziellZenobia“The Factory Poetess,” from The Working ManApplication to the Royal Literary Fund, 1863Last Will and Testament of Ruth WillsFanny ForresterIntroductionDying in the CityThe Lowly BardThe Bitter TaskTo “Sabina”Application to the Royal Literary Fund from Mrs. Ellen Forrester“Fanny Forrester,” Ben Brierley’s Journal, 1875Ethel CarnieIntroductionA Marching TuneFaithAn Old Woman’s HandsA WasherwomanShameA LamentA Riding Song“A Lancashire Fairy. An Interview with Miss Ethel Carnie”“Paddling your Own Canoe,” Miss Nobody“Modern Womanhood,” The Woman Worker, 1909Letter from Ethel Carnie to Graham WallasLyricists and FeministsEliza CookIntroductionSong of the City ArtisanThe StreetsA Song:To “The People” of EnglandThey All Belong to MeSong of the Red ManLines Suggested by the Song of a NightingaleTo the Late William Jerdan“Advice to the Ladies,” from Eliza Cook’s Journal, 1850Letter from Eliza Cook, 1838Letter from Eliza Cook, 1864Mary SmithIntroduction“Women’s Claims”Our VillageLife SimilesThe Snow StormMy Mother-SisterSelections from “Progress”Selections from The Autobiography of Mary Smith Jessie RussellIntroductionPreface to The Blinkin’ O’ the FireThe Blinkin’ O’ the FireWomen’s Rights vs.Woman’s WrongsThe Mother’s StoryOor Flittin’Jeannie Graham PatersonIntroductionA Brighter DawnSpeak the WordsClass DistinctionA Song of LibertyA Freen’ly CrackTo One Who Believes that Women are SoullessMarion BernsteinIntroductionMirren’s AutobiographyWanted in GlasgowCome Back to Me,Ye Happy DreamsManly SportsWanted a HusbandA DreamApplication to the Royal Literary Fund, 1904Bibliography General Works Some Little-Educated or Working-Class Victorian Women Poets Who Published Books Not Included in this Anthology Comprehensive Bibliography Periodicals Index of TitlesIndex of First Lines

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Book SynopsisThis is a student edition with full Glossary of Old English poems, from manuscripts dated between A.D. 975 and 1060, which are based on liturgical materials used in the Anglo-Saxon Church. Each poem is presented with both a semi-diplomatic and a modern critical text on facing pages. Detailed explanatory notes accompany the text of each poem, and an introduction provides historical, cultural, and liturgical background for this sub-genre of vernacular English verse.Trade Review“In this book, Sarah Larratt Keefer intentionally breaks away from the modern Old English poetic canon, established in the nineteenth century, and successfully and engagingly presents a set of ten liturgical poems that demonstrably were part of the eleventh-century canon. Through these poems, Keefer allows us a more than generous look into personal and communal celebrations and what made Christian hearts beat in Anglo-Saxon England.” — Rolf Bremmer, Leiden University“Keefer’s edition is much overdue: it fills a lacuna in the study of the Old English verse canon … Keefer’s edition is both teacher and student friendly. Its facing-page layout of semi-diplomatic text and modern edition instantly demonstrates how powerful the hand of a modern editor can be in shaping and interpreting poetry. Thus it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the inseparable relationship between manuscript and edition in their study of poetry and courageously to respond critically and personally to each poem they address … Old English Liturgical Verse: A Student Edition is a valuable edition, and parts of it or its entirety should be used in the classroom; it promises to hold a permanent place in the libraries of both student and teacher.” — Helen Damico, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching“Old English Liturgical Verse has two unique advantages for the teacher of Old English. In a clear, accessible, and yet profoundly scholarly way, it presents the Anglo-Saxons’ engagement with some of the fundamentals of Christian belief, which are themselves carefully elucidated. At the same time, by presenting the semi-diplomatic text and the modern critical edition on facing pages, it vividly demonstrates how the printed edition transforms the original. This is a rich basis for class discussion and it will encourage the student to adopt a more questioning approach to the mediated form of the text that we invariably encounter across all periods of literature.” — Joyce Hill, University of LeedsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction and BackgroundLord’s Prayers Exeter Lord’s Prayer Corpus Lord’s Prayer Junius Lord’s Prayer Baptismal CreedDoxologies Old English Doxology Titus Alphabet Doxology Kentish Poems Kentish Hymn of Praise Kentish Great Miserere Ah, Beloved LordVision of the RoodBibliographyAppendix A: How Old English Poetry FunctionsGlossary

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of sex workers' poetry from around the world.

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Book SynopsisIntended for courses with a major focus on poetry during the Romantic period, this volume includes all the poetry selections from Volume 4 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, along with a number of works newly edited for this volume. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry maintains the Broadview Anthology of British Literature’s characteristic balance of canonical favorites and lesser-known gems, featuring a breadth of poetry from William Blake to Phillis Wheatley, from Ebenezer Elliott to Felicia Hemans. To give a sense of the full sweep of the Romantic period, the anthology incorporates important early figures from William Collins to Phillis Wheatley, as well as works by Victorians—such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson—for whom Romanticism was a formative force. “Contexts” sections provide valuable background on cultural matters such as “The Natural and the Sublime” and “The Abolition of Slavery,” while the companion website offers a wealth of additional resources and primary works. Longer works newly prepared for the bound book include Byron’s Manfred and The Giaour, Keats’s Hyperion, and substantial selections from Wordsworth’s fourteen-book Prelude; authors newly added for this volume include Hannah Cowley, Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Robert Southey, and Thomas Moore.Trade ReviewPraise for The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry:“At last, an anthology that lets us explore in detail the remarkable depth and breadth of British poetry during the long Romantic period, and to do so from a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective that embraces the range of social, political, economic, scientific and cultural developments of that protean era, including issues of gender, race, class and religion. The ample and judicious selections splendidly illustrate the rich diversity of Romantic poetry in all its forms, while the abundant contextual materials—including the lavish illustrations—situate that poetry within its contemporary intellectual, historical, artistic and cultural contexts. Concise editorial annotations deftly and unobtrusively guide readers through complex or unfamiliar territory and profitably supplement the excellent introductory and supplementary essays. Here is an anthology for all seasons of Romanticism studies, and for students at all levels.” — Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska“ … [A]n exciting moment for all teachers in the field of Romanticism and poetry. Broadview has led the way in the new generation of literature anthologies, and the Romantic Poetry volume offers a characteristic breadth of verse selections from the expanded canon, accompanied by contemporary treatises and commentaries on an array of topics vital to the twenty-first-century classroom: from debates on gender and slavery, to Britain’s imperial and colonial project, to revolutionary politics and the first stresses of industrialization. All this is enriched with illustrations evocative of the budding visual culture of the period, and contained in a single volume that is as thorough as any instructor could wish, while not intimidating to the student in its heft or price.” — Gillen Wood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry … offers a marvelously diverse body of material; it is much more comprehensive than any other available anthology of British Romantic writings … This is a fine anthology, imaginative and innovative in the way it is organized and rich in the options it offers for access to less anthologized, less generally available works by the British Romantic poets.” — Waqas Khwaja, Agnes Scott College“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is the most comprehensive collection of verse and prose from this period available today. Scrupulously and judiciously edited, it combines selections from a wide array of major and lesser-known Romantic poets and critics of both genders and from many regions with invaluable introductory essays and rich contextual materials … It is surely to become the standard anthology in the field. I know I will be using it from now on.” — Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia“The new Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is as thoughtfully assembled as any anthology I have seen. It presents a diverse chorus of voices from the period, representing both the traditional canon of romantic writers and also, exhilaratingly, extending beyond that canon, with selections from poets such as Wheatley, Barbauld, Burns, Clare, and Landon, among others. From the editors’ outstanding introductory essay—clear, original, vibrant—to its incredibly rich selection of writings, which are generously and gently annotated, to the enthralling and complex contextual materials covering subjects such as India and the Orient, non-human animals in nature, and steam power, this anthology explores and elaborates “the romantic” in a way that is sure to dazzle students, to enrich their experience of this period’s literature and to enhance classroom discussion of it. The Broadview will be the new gold standard for instructional texts in the field. — Christopher Rovee, Louisiana State University“I am so glad to find this anthology. The selections are outstanding, the illustrations excellent, and the contextual material is sound. This book will make my course much more powerful than it would have been had I used a standard anthology supplemented with e-texts.” — Gary Harrison, University of New MexicoPraise for The Age of Romanticism:“ … I am very impressed.… A wealth of cultural and historical information is provided.… The introductions show subtle expertise.… Here, as in the other volumes, the editors bring English literary tradition to life.” — Wendy Nielsen, Montclair State UniversityComments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY Buffalo“With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. … This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“ … an excellent anthology. Good selections for my purposes (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable—and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again.” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents William Collins Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Hannah Cowley Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hannah More Sir William Jones Charlotte Smith Phyllis Wheatley George Crabbe Ann Yearsley William Blake Mary Robinson Contexts: Women and Society Robert Burns Joanna Baillie William Taylor Ann Batten Cristall William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott Dorothy Wordsworth Contexts: The Natural and the Sublime Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Mary Tighe Contexts: The Abolition of Slavery Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Hemans John Clare John Keats Letitia Elizabeth Landon Thomas Beddoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred Tennyson

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Book SynopsisThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the sense of entitlement and self-importance that afflicts too many politicians. Fun to read, humorous, and laced with events of historical interest, each poem gives a dose of insight into the president’s life and his relationships with others, including his family, allies, and rivals. Where contemporary people or important references to American history—such as slavery and the Indian wars—occur, notes explain and contextualize them within the poem’s meaning. Published during an election year, this book offers a well-timed look at politicians, some much-needed laughs at leaders who take themselves too seriously, and a fun platform from which readers can start to explore the lives of those who, for better or worse, have led America.

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Book SynopsisCopper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”

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Book Synopsis Copper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years. Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”

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Book SynopsisNational Book Award-winner Arthur Sze presents a one-of-a-kind anthology that vividly traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions up to the present day.In The Silk Dragon II, National Book Award-winning poet Arthur Sze presents a sophisticated vision of the vitality, diversity, and power of the Chinese poetic tradition. Traveling over one and a half millennia, Sze guides readers through a luminous history of verse, from the contemplative insights of fifth century poet Tao Qian, through Tang dynasty poets such as Wang Wei and Du Fu, and into subsequent centuries in which lived such innovative artists as Li Qingzhao and Bada Shanren, among many others. Extending the work from the original 2001 volume, The Silk Dragon II then traces classical Chinese poetry’s eruption into the free verse of the modern and contem

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Book SynopsisIn a literature where recognition is hard earned, this anthology demonstrates what distinguishes contemporary Bolivian fiction and poetry from the rest of Latin American writing and shows clearly how Bolivian writers relate to that tradition.Bolivia is a landlocked nation of mountains and high, arid plains, a place native writer JesÚs Urzagasti calls the “Land of Silence.” This crucible of indigenous and European influences has contributed to the creation of a writing style that is always down-to-earth, often grittily realistic.From this fundamental base, Bolivian writers express provincial customs and values, decry political oppression, and sound universal themes of isolation, even resignation; but, more often, they show the will to move forward as a people. This rich thematic mix encourages what critic Edgar Lora has called the “dynamic and vigorous social dis course” and the resulting “subversive, militant, and revolutionary” qualities of Bolivian literature.Editor Sandra Reyes has gathered a panoramic sampling of twenty two poets and eighteen fiction writers. Focusing predominantly on living, practicing writers, this anthology defines the current literary voice of Bolivia and gives us a distillation of the contemporary Bolivian consciousness.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones, and others. Among the new additions are Mark Jarman, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Charlie Smith. Many teachers realize that the best way to get their students to relate to poetry is to show them poems that contain landscapes and subjects they understand and can identify with. Leon Stokesbury has put together a richly varied collection used in classrooms not only in the South but all over the country as a means of studying the important influence of southern poetry on American literature. With the publication of the second edition of The Made Thing, Stokesbury has marked the end of the twentieth century and the rise to prominence of southern writers. This collection serves as a substantial sampling of poets whose works span more than five decades and who explore the rich personal and cultural history that extends beyond the boundaries of the South.

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Book SynopsisA new movement is emerging in Egyptian literature—urban in its energies; cosmopolitan in its national, Arabic, and western influences; and independent and rowdy in its voice. For centuries, Arabic literature mandated traditional, unchanging, highly structured language and forms. In the 1960s and 1970s, writers rebelled to write in a variety of vernaculars. Now, young Egyptian poets are inventing new ways of writing. Rejecting both traditional Arabic formalism and the vernacular rebellion—and, contradictorily, drawing equally on these traditions and others—they radically combine and recombine influences and bring new experiences into their poetry. They embrace experimentation. Rejected at first by the literary establishment, these poets founded their own magazines, one of which appropriated a derisive term that had been used to dismiss them: Locusts. Now one of Egypt's most honored translators and writers has joined with one of those Locusts to gather a selection of this postmodern writing in one place for the first time. With its edginess and play of styles, this collection showcases a dynamic, emergent scene.

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Book SynopsisAt no other time in American history has our imagination been so engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, Inclined to Speak gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. Impressive in its scope, this book provides readers with an astonishing array of poetic sensibilities, touching on every aspect of the human condition. Whether about culture, politics, loss, art, or language itself, the poems here engage these themes with originality, dignity, and an unyielding need not only to speak, but also to be heard.Here are thirty-nine poets offering up 160 poems. Included in the anthology are Naomi Shihab Nye, Samuel Hazo, D. H. Melhem, Lawrence Joseph, Khaled Mattawa, Mohja Khaf, Matthew Shenoda, Kazim Ali, Nuar Alsadir, Fady Joudah, and Lisa Suhair Majaj. Charara has written a lengthy introduction about the state of Arab American poetry in the country today and short biographies of the poets and provided an extensive list of further readings.Trade ReviewInclined to Speak is one of the most fruitfully diverse anthologies I have read in years, as its wealth of origins might lead one to expect. Here are poets in the high tradition of international Modernism, inheritors of Neruda, Hikmet, Celan, Ritsos and Darwish, who also deploy American poetry's plural possibilities, drawing from the same sources as Stevens, Oppen, Rukeyser, Brooks, Ginsberg, Rich. Some of these poets can think and sing in more than one language; they all can think beyond monoglot frontiers." - Marilyn Hacker, author of Essays on Departures: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2005

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Book SynopsisThis is an anthology of work by Latino and Latina poets, which reveals a diversity of form and content. Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a physician, a chef and a Vietnam veteran. The variety of experience demonstrates that there is no single ""Latino/a outlook"".

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Book SynopsisRecaptures the astonishing outpouring of poetry in response to the Civil War ""Words for the Hour"" presents a readable and illuminating account of the Civil War, told through the words of poets North and South. From bathos to profound philosophical meditation and sorrow, the range of these poems illuminates the complexity of their era while also revealing the continuing power of this turning point in American history to speak to readers in the present day. The volume is divided into three parts, each offering a different perspective on the poetry generated by the war. Part I samples the extraordinary range of poems written immediately preceding and during the war and published in popular periodicals, providing a kind of poetic newspaper account as one might have read it then - from the early days of optimistically heralded victory on both sides, through the mounting casualties and brutal deaths of the long middle years, to the war's conclusion and President Lincoln's assassination. Viewing the struggle from many different vantage points gives the reader access to the ways that people from various backgrounds experienced the trajectory of the war. Civilians and soldiers, free blacks and proponents of slavery, women and men from Massachusetts and Virginia and from recently admitted states and barely developed territories, writers with their eyes on the national political stage and those focused on personal domestic issues: these are the multiple voices of America responding to the war. Part II includes substantial selections of poems by writers who published extensively in response to the conflict, providing more complex and comprehensive perceptions of the war. These poets include not just well-known figures such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and John Greenleaf Whittier, but also African American poets George Moses Horton and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Southern poets Henry Timrod and Sarah Piatt. Part III offers poems by two poets who did not publish during their lifetimes, but had strong imaginative responses to the conflict, thus giving a sense of the long reach of the war as a defining national experience. One of these two poets (Emily Dickinson) is now renowned while the other (Obadiah Ethelbert Baker) is first published in this volume. ""Words for the Hour"" is indeed ""new"" among anthologies of Civil War poetry not only in its wide range of poems by popular, anonymous, and now canonical poets but also in its informational apparatus. A historical timeline listing major battles and events of the war begins the volume, and historical photographs or lithographs introduce each section of poems. The book also includes a substantial introduction, a glossary of important names and terminology relevant to understanding the poems, and biographical sketches for all the poets whose work is included.Trade ReviewAn extremely interesting and well-conceived collection of Civil War poems.... I particularly like the way it combines popular poetry of the day with canonical poetry, so that - for the first time - students and readers may experience a broad spectrum of Civil War poetry without artificial distinctions between 'high' and 'low.' - Alice Fahs, author of The Imagined Civil War ""This is the anthology that those wanting to teach nineteenth-century poetry of the Civil War have been waiting for."" - Paula Bennett, author of Poets in the Public Sphere

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Book SynopsisThis unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women’s poetry available anywhere in the world.The poems in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present range from some of the earliest oral poetry, the first Buddhist spiritual poems written by women, and bold works by today''s youth. Whether it is the historical expulsion of the Chinese or the cultivation of silk worms, this volume speaks to the exceptional moments and everyday realities of women''s lives, of love and war, work in the fields and cities, life in their homeland and abroad.

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Book Synopsis“The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable,” wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine established its reputation immediately by printing T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago Poems,” Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning,” and the first important poems of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and many other then unknown, now classic authors. Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America’s most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades—an unprecedented record. Decade by decade, this bountiful ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents—along with several lesser known—in all their variety: William Butler Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Graves, May Sarton, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Robert Penn Warren, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Anne Sexton, Thom Gunn, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Maxine Kumin, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Galway Kinnell. In recent decades, Poetry has presented Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Eavan Boland, Stephen Dunn, Mary Oliver, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jane Kenyon, James Tate, Sharon Olds, Louise Glück, Marilyn Hacker, and many, many others. T. S. Eliot called Poetry “an American institution.” The Poetry Anthology is sure to be an American keepsake.Trade ReviewOne of the premier single-volume anthologies available. * Library Journal *This modest Chicago monthly has featured not only many of the 20th century's greatest poets, but also many of their famous poems. It is pleasant to think, given everything that Poetry has meant to literature in the last 100 years and everything it may yet mean to generations of readers that it will not have such troubles in the future. -- David Yezzi * The Philadelphia Inquirer *It is a fitting collection that not only features their work, but helped place them in the pantheon. -- Richard Wakefield * The Seattle Times *This anthology makes clear that American poetry is as powerful, diverse, and vibrant as ever. * The San Diego Union-Tribune *For the LOVER of poetry there is much to savor here... -- Ron Smith * Times-Dispatch *A Who's Who of American verse...a landmark collection.... Highly recommended. * Library Journal *Superb and invaluable...comprehensive and thrilling...a veritable history of twentieth-century poetry in English.... A tremendous resource. * Booklist, Starred Review *A great catch...I so thoroughly enjoyed this book that every time I lay eyes on it I can't help picking it up — even if it is for the hundredth time. * Kliatt *The two kinds of anthology—that of summary and that of advocacy—will suffice to define the type of Parisi's book. -- James Matthew Wilson * Contemporary Poetry Review *

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Book Synopsis"A mastery of abstraction in language, deploying an eclectic and playful vocabulary" --Newsweek.

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Book SynopsisThis edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances centre on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Select Bibliography Roland and Vernagu Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel a Knight Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel and Roland Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes The Anglo-French Otinel Introduction Select Bibliography Text and Translation Notes Glossary

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Book SynopsisA New York Review Books OriginalA master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in EnglishIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence “Twelve”; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life. It was a transforming moment—not just for Russian but for world poetry—and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret.

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Book SynopsisGilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.

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Book SynopsisIn The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in  a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.

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Book SynopsisAN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONERPoetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of poetic form and, especially, poetic voice—from the sublime to the scandalous and slangy—been so various and inviting. This is poetry that speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic exploration in our own time.John Williams’s celebrated anthology includes not only some of the most famous poems by some of the most famous poets of the English language (Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, and of course Shakespeare) but also-—-and this is what makes Williams’s book such a rare and rich resource—the strikingly original work of little-known masters like George Gascoigne and Fulke Greville.

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Book SynopsisTexas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From “Happy, Texas” to “Palestine, TX,” from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing.Selected by Jenny Browne, 2017 poet laureate of Texas, these poems draw a picture of one of America’s vastly sublime yet most audaciously independent corners. In these diverse voices, the state is a lovely and painful contradiction of space and meaning. Texas is a place “where blind catfish cruise” and wild asters grow. It’s a frame of mind where Jenn

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Book SynopsisAn acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American traditionWe live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what?s best in us.In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew?from Anne Bradstreet?s ?The Author to Her Book? and Phillis Wheatley?s ?To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works? to Garrett Hongo?s ?Ancestral Graves, Kahuku? and Joy Harjo?s ?Rabbit Is Up to Tricks??exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation.?This is a personal book about American poetry,? writes Hirsch, ?but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me,part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.?

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Book SynopsisWomen poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations and many were prominent in their lifetime, yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets in this anthology some were wealthy, others struggled in poverty; some were socially conventional, others were cynical or defiant. Their poems range widely in style and idea, from Romantic to Parnassian to symbolist.

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Book SynopsisWomen poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations and many were prominent in their lifetime, yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets in this anthology some were wealthy, others struggled in poverty; some were socially conventional, others were cynical or defiant. Their poems range widely in style and idea, from Romantic to Parnassian to symbolist.

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