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Book SynopsisPoetry in its many guises is at the center of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's multifarious interests. This edition contains his complete poetical works. It opens with an introduction and chronological tables. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote and commentary that together provide its historical-biographical context and offer key textual variants.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers "A landmark in Anglo-American scholarship."--Jim McCue, The Times (London) "There is something to celebrate in the fact that J. C. C. Mays has added these final volumes ... to the monumental Princeton University Press Coleridge. Coleridge's verse can now be read in full, and in a form worthy of his best writing. The poems are beautifully presented... In general, this Collected Poems serves its editor's wish: we see a fuller Coleridge ... [with] his exceptional intelligence and sensibility and breadth of information, his exquisite eye and ear."--Barbara Everett, London Review of BooksTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxxix FOREWORD xli EDITORIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLS, AND ABBREVIATIONS xlix CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES lxiii EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION lxxix Poetical Works PART 1 1782-1790 1"First attempt at making a verse" 3 2Fragments of an Ode on Punning 3 3Dura Navis 5 4Greek Epigram on Aphrodite and Athena 8 5Easter Holidays 8 6Nil Pejus Est Caelibe Vita 10 7De Medio Fonte Leporum Surgit Aliquid Amari 11 8Oh! Mihi Prxteritos Referat si Jupiter Annos! 12 9Sonnet: To my Muse 13 10Sonnet: "As late I journey'd o'er th' extensive plain" 14 11The Nose: An Odaic Rhapsody 15 12Conclusion to a Youthful Poem 18 13An Ode on the Destruction of the Bastile 18 14Sonnet: To the Evening Star 21 15Sonnet: Composed in Sickness 22 16A Few Lines Written by Lee when Mad 23 17Sonnet: Genevieve 25 18Nemo Repente Turpissimus 26 19Sonnet: Anna and Harland 27 20The Abode of Love 28 21Monody on a Tea Kettle 29 22An Invocation 31 1791 23Honos Alit Artes 31 24Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid 33 25Sonnet: On Receiving an Account that my Sister's Death was Inevitable 38 26Sonnet: On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by his Sister 39 27Ardua Prima Via Est 40 28Greek Imitation of A Winter Piece 43 29O Curas Hominum! O Quantum Est in Rebus Inane! 45 30Happiness: A Poem 48 31An Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital 51 32Sonnet: Sent to Mrs with Fielding's Ameba 53 33Sonnet: On Quitting Christ's Hospital 54 34Ode to Sleep 55 35Plymtree Road 56 36Ode on the Ottery and Tiverton Church Music 57 37Epigram on my Godmother's Beard 59 38On Imitation 60 39Absence: An Ode 60 40Greek Epitaph on an Infant 62 1792 41An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon 63 42A Wish Written in Jesus Wood 64 43A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress 66 44To Disappointment 66 45Fragment Found in a Mathematical Lecture Room 68 46On a Lady Weeping 69 47Greek Epitaph for Howard's Tomb 71 48Sors Misera Servorum in Insulis Indiae Occidentalis 72 49A Simile; Written after a Walk before Supper 84 50Latin Lines on Ottery's Inhabitants 85 1793 51The Complaint of Ninathoma 87 52Two Lines on the Poet Laureate 89 53O Turtle-eyed Affection! 89 54Latin Verses, Sent to George Coleridge 90 55Imitated from Ossian 91 56On Presenting a Moss Rose to Miss F. Nesbitt 92 57Cupid Turn'd Chymist 94 58An Extempore 96 59Elegy 97 60Absence: A Poem 99 61Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon 103 62To a Painter 104 63To Miss Dashwood Bacon of Devonshire 106 64Songs of the Pixies 107 65To Fortune, on Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery 112 1794 66Domestic Peace 114 67Song: Imitated from Casimir 115 68To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter 117 69From Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue 120 70Lines on the "Man of Ross" 121 71Latin Lines on Mary Evans 122 72Stanzas from an Elegy on a Lady 123 73Imitated from the Welsh 124 74Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village 125 75The Sigh 127 76The Kiss 128 77Two Versions of an Epitaph on an Infant 129 78Sonnet on Pantisocracy (with Samuel Favell) 131 79To Ann Brunton: Imitated from the Latin of Francis Wrangham 132 80To Eliza Brunton, on Behalf of Francis Wrangham 134 81To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 135 82 Monody on the Death of Chatterton 139 83Sonnet: To my Own Heart 145 84To a Young Ass, its Mother Being Tethered near It 146 85Lines on a Friend, Who Died of a Frenzy Fever, Induced by Calumnious Reports 148 86Sonnet: To the Author of The Robbers 151 87Sonnet: On Hope (with Charles Lamb) 153 88Sonnet: To an Old Man in the Snow (with Samuel Favell) 154 89Sonnet: To the Hon Mr Erskine 155 90Sonnet: To Burke 156 91Sonnet: To Priestley 157 92Sonnet: To Fayette 158 93Sonnet: To Kosciusko 159 94Sonnet: To Pitt 160 95Sonnet: To Bowles 161 96Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons (with Charles Lamb) 164 97Sonnet: To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice 165 98Sonnet: To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems 167 99Sonnet: To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. 167 100 To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem 169 101Religious Musings 171 1795 102Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 191 103Adaptation of Robert Southey's Sonnet "Pale Roamer thro' the Night!" 192 104Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet Written at Midnight, by the Sea-side 194 105To an Infant 195 106Contribution to The Soldier's Wife, by Robert Southey 196 107Allegoric Vision 197 108Composed While Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, in the County of Somerset 203 109To the Rev W.J.H. While Teaching a Young Lady Some Song-tunes on his Flute 204 110Contributions to Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey 205 111In the Manner of Spenser 225 112To the Nightingale 227 113Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Was it some sweet device of faery land ...?" 228 114Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Methinks, how dainty sweet it were" 229 115The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire 231 116Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 235 117Lines to Joseph Cottle 240 118Translations of Homer Iliad 1.34, 49 242 119The Silver Thimble (with Sara Fricker Coleridge) 243 120Fragments of an Epistle to Thomas Poole 246 121Summary Version of Horace 248 122Fragments from the Gutch Notebook 248 1796 123The Hour When We Shall Meet Again 254 124Lines on Observing a Blossom 256 125Verse Motto to Poetical Epistles 257 126Lines on the Portrait of a Lady 258 127From an Unpublished Poem 258 128Recollection 259 129Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 260 130Irregular Sonnet: To John Thelwall 264 131To the Princess of Wales: Written during her Separation from the Prince 265 132Poetical Address for Home Tooke 266 133To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry 269 134Sonnet: Written on Receiving Letters Informing Me of the Birth of a Son, I Being at Birmingham 272 135Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son 273 136Sonnet: To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented my Infant to Me 275 137Sonnet: Introducing Charles Lloyd's Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer 276 138To Charles Lloyd, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author 276 139The Destiny of Nations: A Vision 279 140Sonnet: To the River Otter 299 141Adaptation of Thomas Dermody 300 142Ode on the Departing Year 302 143Lines to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy 312 1797 144On Quitting Oxford Street, Bristol, for Nether Stowey, New Year's Day 1797 313 145The Raven 316 146To Thomas Poole: Invitation to Dine 320 147On the Christening of a Friend's Child 321 148To an Unfortunate Woman, Whom I Knew in the Days of her Innocence: Composed at the Theatre 323 149Allegorical Lines on the Same Subject 325 150To the Rev George Coleridge of Ottery St Mary, Devon, with Some Poems 326 151Song from Osorio/Remorse 328 152The Foster-mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment 329 153The Dungeon 333 154Melancholy: A Fragment 334 155Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth 336 156This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 349 157Sonnet: To William Linley, Esq., While He Sang a Song to Purcell's Music 354 158Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of "Contemporary Writers" 355 159Sonnet: To a Lady 357 160The Wanderings of Cain 358 161The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 365 162Parliamentary Oscillators 420 163Studies in Cloud Effects 422 164On Deputy 423 165The Apotheosis; or, The Snow-drop 424 166To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro' his Hair 427 167Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue, with an Apologetic Preface 428 168The Old Man of the Alps 444 1798 169Modification of Translation of a Celebrated Greek Sonk. by William Wordsworth 449 170De Papa: Vaticinium Haud Valde Obscurum_ Nee Incredibile, 1798 451 171Frost at Midnight 452 172Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant 457 173Welcoming Lines to Lavinia Poole 461 174France: An Ode 462 175Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, durine the Alarm of an Invasion 468 176Christabel 477 177The Story of the Mad Ox 504 178Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream 509 179Contribution to We Are Seven, by William Wordsworth 515 180The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem 516 181To William Wordsworth, with The Nightingale 521 182The Ballad of the Dark Ladie: A Fragment 522 183Translation of an Inscription in Stowey Church 525 184Lines Describing "The silence of a City" 526 185English Hexameters 527 186English Duodecasyllables, Adapted from Matthisson 530 187The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified, Adapted from Schiller 532 188The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified, from Schiller 532 189Something Childish but Very Natural, from the German 533 190The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller 515 1799 191Translation of Otfrid 537 192Alcaeus to Sappho (revising William Wordsworth) 539 193On an Infant Who Died before its Christening, Perhaps Inspired by Lessing 541 194Metrical Adaptation of Gessner 542 195Lines in a German Student's Album 543 196Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Biirde 543 197Adapted Lines on Fleas 545 198Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods 546 199The Virgin's Cradle-hymn, Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in Germany 546 200 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest 547 201Epigram on Goslar Ale, from the German 549 202Epitaph on Johann Reimbold of Catlenburg, from the German 550 203Epigram on Kepler, from Kastner 551 204Epigram: "Jack drinks fine wines", from Kastner 551 205Epigram on Mr Ross, Usually Cognominated "Nosy" 552 206Epigram: "O would the Baptist come again", from Logau 552 207On the United Irishmen 553 208Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wernicke 554 209Epigram on Neaera's Portrait, Inspired by Lessing 555 210Epigram on Exchanging Friends, from Logau 556 211Epigram on a Slanderer, from Lessing 556 212The British Stripling's War-song, from Stolberg 557 213Epigram on Hippona, from Lessing 559 214The Devil's Thoughts 560 215Before Gleim's Cottage: Elegiacs from Voss 567 216Mahomet: A Fragment 568 217Specimen Elegiacs, Adapting Ossian 572 218Epigram on a Report of a Minister's Death, from Lessing 572 219Epigram to a Proud Parent, from Lessing 573 220Epigram on a Notorious Liar, from Lessing 574 PART 2 221Epitaph on a Bad Man, Perhaps after Vicesimus Knox 575 222Two Versions of an Epigram on Lying, from Lessing 576 223Epigram on an Oxford Brothelhouse, Adapted from Lessing 579 224Epigram on a Lady's Too Great Fondness for her Dog, rom Lessing 578 225Epigram on Mimulus, from Lessing 579 226Epigram on Paviun, from Lessing 580 227Epitaph on an Insignificant, Adapted from Lessing 580 228Epigram on Marriage, from Lessing 581 229Epigram on Maids and Angels, from Lessing 582 230Epigram to a Virtuous (Economist, from Wemicke 582 231Epigram on Gripus, from Lessing 583 232On the Sickness of a Great Minister, from Lessing 583 233Epigram to an Author, from Lessing 584 234The Lethargist and Madman: A Political Fable, after the Greek Anthology 585 235Epigram to a Critic, Who Extracted a Passage from a Poem 588 236Names, from Lessing 588 237Epigram: Always Audible, from Kiistner 590 238Over the Door of a Cottage, after Logau 590 239The Devil Outwitted; or, Job's Luck, after Logau and John Owen 591 240Epigram on the Speed with Which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem 592 241Epigram on a Bad Singer, after Pfeffel and Martial 593 242Epigram on a Joke without a Sting 594 243To a Living Ninon d'Enclos 594 244Epigram on a Maiden More Sentimental than Chaste 595 245The Exchange of Hearts 596 246Epigram on a Supposed Son 597 247Pondere, Non Numero, from Logau 597 248Lines Composed in a Concert-room 598 249Hexametrical Translation of Psalm 46 600 250Epigram on Sir Rubicund Naso 602 251To Delia 602 252Couplet on Grosvenor Bedford 603 253Love 604 254Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the 24th Stanza in her Passage over Mount Gothard 610 255The Song of Deborah Translated 613 256Hexametrical Version of Isaiah 615 257Hymn to the Earth, from Stolberg 617 258To a Cataract, from a Cavern near the Sununit of a Mountain Precipice, from Stolberg 620 259Tell's Birth-place, Imitated from Stolberg 624 260A Christmas Carol 626 261Impromptu: On Candles Being Introduced While a Young Lady was Singing 628 BOOKID1800 262Tafleyrand to Lord Grenville: A Metrical Epistle 629 263A Couplet on Tanning 638 264Lines for Hartley Coleridge 638 265Two Lines on the Stars and the Mountains 639 266On the Poet's Eye 639 267The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone: A Skeltoniad (to be Read in the Recitative Lilt) 640 268Six Lines on a Keswick Holiday 643 269The Mad Monk 643 270Inscription for a Seat by a Road Side, Half-way up a Steep Hill, Facing the South 647 271A Stranger Minstrel 650 272The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment 653 273Two Lines on Remorse 656 1801 274Two Lines on the Cur, Arthritis 657 275After Bathing in the Sea at Scarborough in Company with T. Hutchinson, August 1801 657 276Verse Letter to Miss Isabella Addison and Miss Joanna Hutchinson 659 277Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 662 278Song to be Sung by the Lovers of All the Noble Liquors Comprised under the Name of Ale 664 279Drinking versus Thinking; or, A Song against the New Philosophy 665 280Lines Written in Bed at Grasmere 666 281The Wills of the Wisp: A Sapphic, from Stolberg 669 282Lines Translated from Barbarous Latin 670 283Ode to Tranquillity 671 284To a Certain Modem Narcissus, from Hagedom 673 285Pastoral from Gessner 673 286Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Poetaster 675 1802 287Fragment on Time, from Schiller 675 288Lines on the Breeze and Hope 677 289A Letter to 677 290A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion 691 291Answer to a Child's Question 694 292Epitaph on Lord Lonsdale 695 293Dejection: An Ode 695 294The Day Dream 702 295Sonnet to Asra 704 296Lines Composed during a Night Ramble behind Skiddaw, at the Foot of Mount Blencarthur, in 1802 705 297Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch 706 298A Version of a Nursery Rhyme 708 299The Keepsake 709 300 The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 711 301Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 717 302Dialogue concerning a Good Great Man 723 303The Knight's Tomb 725 304To Matilda Betham, from a Stranger 726 305Epigram on Epigrams, from Wemicke 728 306Epigram on a Congenital Liar, from Wemicke 729 307Epigram on the Devil, from a German Original? 729 308Epigram Addressed to One Who Published in Print What Had Been Entrusted to Him by my Fire-side, from Wemicke 730 309On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German Language the Sun is Feminine, and the Moon Masculine, after Wemicke 731 310Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 732 311Epigram on Surface, from Wemicke 733 312A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend, after Wemicke 734 313Epigram on Possession, from a German Original 735 314Epigram on Castles in the Air, from Wernicke 736 315To a Vain Lady, from the German and from Martial 737 316Epigram to my Candle, after Wernicke 739 317From an Old German Poet (after Wemicke) 739 318Epigram on Bond Street Bucks, Adapted from Wernicke 740 319Epigram on Virgil's "Obscuri sub luce maligna", after Wemicke 740 320Mopooopia or, Wisdom in Folly, from a German Original? 741 321Westphalian Song 742 322A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls 743 323Latin Lines to William Sotheby 744 324Epigram on Aurelia, from Gryphius 744 325For a House-dog's Collar, from Opitz 745 326Epigram on Zoilus, from Opitz 746 327Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser, from Opitz 746 328Latin Lines on a Former Friendship 748 1803 329Greek Lines on Achilles' Meal of Yesterday 748 330The Kiss and the Blush 749 331Grasmere in Sunshine 750 332Fragments of an Unwritten Poem 751 333Three Lines on Loch Lomond 751 334Lines on "Such love as mouming Husbands have" 752 335The Pains of Sleep 753 336Epitaph on Poor Col, by Himself 755 337Brevity of the Greek and English Compared 755 338Lines after Hearing William Wordsworth's Michael 756 1804 339Lines Written at Dove Cottage 757 340Patriotic Stanzas 758 341A Triplet on Triplets 759 342Hexameter Lines to Mrs Coleridge 759 343Cartwright Modified 760 344Epigram on "Dear Anne" 761 345Balsamum in Vitro 762 346Tears and Sympathy 762 347Phantom 763 348To Captain Findlay 764 349Mercury Descending: A Metrical Experiment 765 350Description of the Sun Setting in a Mountainous Country: A Fragment 766 351What is Life? A Metrical Experiment 767 352Adaptation of Hagedom 768 353Metrical Experiments from Notebook 22 768 354Recollections of Love 774 355Fragment: "And laurel Crown" 776 356Fragment: "What never is, but only is to be" 776 357Constancy to an Ideal Object 777 1805 358"This yearning Heart" 779 359Love-Why Blind? 779 360Closing Lines in Notebook 21 780 361Couplet Written in February 1805 780 362Verses on Love and Moral Being 780 363Doleful Dialogue 781 364Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 782 365A Metaphor 782 366Apostrophe to Beauty in Malta 783 367To God 783 368Irregular Lines on the Sick Man's Comforter 784 369Lines Connected with the Grasmere Circle 784 370Lines on Hearing a Tale 784 371Lines Rewritten from Sannazaro 785 372On the Names in a Malta Notebook 786 373Perhaps a Translation of Some Comically Bad Verses 787 374Latin Lines to William Wordsworth as Judge 787 375Epitaph on Major Dieman, with Comment 788 376On the Name "Chastenut Grove", Derived from Ariosto 789 377On Fetid, Who Died of a Catarrh 790 378On the Family Vault of the Burrs 790 1806 379Lines Written in a Dream 791 380A Single Line on Revenge 792 381Lines on a Death 792 382Written at Ossaia 793 383On Death at Pisa 793 384The Taste of the Times 794 385Lines Rewritten from Spenser's Epithalamium 794 386Lines on a King-and-Emperor-Making Emperor and King, Altered from Fulke Greville 796 387Farewell to Love 797 388Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory 798 389Two Epigrams on Pitt and Fox 800 390Adapted from Fulke Greville's Alaham 802 391More Lines Inspired by Fulke Greville 804 392Inspired by Fulke Greville's Alaham 804 393A Greek Song Set to Music and Sung by Hartley Coleridge, Esq., Grecologian, Philometrist, and Philomelist 805 394Verses to Derwent Coleridge, Accompanying Greek Lessons 806 395To Derwent Coleridge: The Chief and Most Common Metrical Feet Expressed in Corresponding Metre 807 396The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 808 397Lines Written in November-December 1806 813 398Written at Coleorton 814 399"Those eyes of deep & most expressive blue" 814 400 A Line Written at Coleorton 815 1807 401To William Wordsworth, Composed on the Night after his Recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind 815 402Psyche; or, The Butterfly 820 403A Metrical Conclusion? 821 404Lines on the Yellowhammer 822 405Parody Epitaph on Tom Navel 822 406Fragments Written in February 1807 822 407Allegorical Description 823 408Three Lines on Penitence 824 409Fate and Conscience 824 410Birds in May 825 411Epigram on Confessions Auricular 825 412The Pang More Sharp than All: An Allegory 825 413On the Roots of a Tree 829 414An Image Compressed from Crashaw 829 415Between Concurrences of Fate 830 416Imitations of Du Bartas etc 830 417Translation of a Distich by Schiller 832 418Translation of a Distich by Goethe and Schiller 832 419On Tom Poole's Meanderings 833 420Lines on Wordsworth and Coleridge 834 421Versified from Bacon 834 422Adapted from a Shakespeare Sonnet 835 423To Two Sisters: A Wanderer's Farewell 835 424Thinking Merrily Alone 838 425Lines Prompted by Chapman 838 426A Line from a Lost Poem? 839 1808 427Two Lines: "Or like the Swallow..." 840 428Prayer for Night: For Hartley and Derwent 840 429Ad Vilmum Axiologum 841 430Ad Vilmum Axiologum: Latin Version 842 431An Anagram of Mary Morgan's Face 844 432To Charlotte Brent 844 433Extremes Meet: A Fill-A-Sopha-Col Note 845 433A Lines to Charlotte Brent 1363 434On a Happy Household 846 435Latin Lines to Accompany a Personal Emblem 846 436Latin Lines to Accompany a Second Emblem 847 437A Motto to Accompany a Third Emblem 848 438An Exemplary Description 848 439Latin Elegiacs on Guy Fawkes 849 440Sonnet Translated from Marino 850 441Alternative Stanzas in the Manner of Marino 852 442The Happy Husband: A Fragment 853 443Lines on the Moon 854 444Couplet on Singing in Church 855 1809 445To Mr Amphlett 855 446Adelphan Greek Riddle 856 447Verse Letter to Mrs Coleridge 857 448Another Epitaph on an Infant 859 449A Motto Adapted from Love's Labour's Lost 859 450Three-line Fragment 860 451Contribution to To my Thrushes, by Thomas Wilkinson 860 452For a Clock in a Market-place 862 453On Mr Baker's Marriage: A Fragment 862 454Verses Based on Paracelsus 863 455A Tombless Epitaph 863 456Couplet Written in Autumn 1809 865 457Lines Written in Late Autumn 1809 865 458Verse Line, Late Autumn 1809 866 459Adaptation of Lines from Daniel's Civil Wars 866 460Cartwright Modified Again 868 1810 461Separation, after Charles Cotton 868 462Lines Altered from Fulke Greville's A Treatise of Humane Leaming 870 463Fulke Greville Modified 871 464Further Lines on Tranquillity 872 465Lines on the Body and the Soul 873 466Written in Dejection, May 1810 873 467The Visionary Hope 874 468Fragment in Blank Verse 875 469Humorous Lines, Spring 1810 876 470Voltaire Versified 877 471Gilbert White Versified, on the Owl 877 472Observation on Colour and Light 878 473Burlesque in the Manner of Walter Scott 878 474Translation of a Goethe Epigram 879 1811 475The Moon on the Pacific Main 880 476On the First Poem in Donne's Book 880 477Moles 881 478Limbo: A Fragment 881 479Ne Plus Ultra 884 480Adaptation of Milton's Lines on Shakespeare 885 481Lines Inscribed in Benedetto Menzini 886 482Human Life, on the Denial of Immortality 886 483Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Euterpe: Abandoned Stanzas 888 484Fragmentary Lines on Change 889 485Lines Inspired by Jean Paul 889 486Adaptation of Ben Jonson's A Nymph's Passion 890 487Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Hour-glass 892 488Lavatorial Lines 893 489Latin Lines Perhaps Connected with John Morgan 894 490The Suicide's Argument, with Nature's Answer 895 491Sir John Davies on the Soul, Adapted to the Imagination 896 492To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation that Women Have No Souls 897 493Latin Distich on Giving and Receiving 898 494A Half-attempt at Verse 899 495A Droll Formulary to Raise Devils 899 1812 496Versified Note to J. J. Morgan 901 497Epigram on Maule and Mather 902 498On the Naming of Bombay 902 499Faith, Hope, Charity, Translated from Guarini 903 500 Metrical Experiment in May 1812 906 501The King of the North Countrie 907 502Epitaph on the Learned Robert Whitmore, E Who Died of a Diarrhcea, 4 August 1812, A~tatis Sux 57 908 1813-1814 503Couplet on Lesbian Lovers 909 504On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady 909 505Maevius-Bavius Exemplum 910 506Lines on Looking Seaward 911 507Lines on Zephyrs 911 508National Independence: A Latin Fragment 912 509To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 913 510God's Omnipresence: A Hymn 914 511A Couplet to Illustrate Paeon and Epitrite 915 512A Plaintive Movement, after Phineas Fletcher 916 513Motto for a Transparency 916 514On the Condition of Ireland, in the Manner of Daniel's Civil Wars 917 515Written in Richard Field's Of the Church 918 516Revisions of the Opening of Southey's Roderick 919 1815 517Glycine's Song from Zapolya 922 518A Metrical Line in Notebook 22 924 519Metrical Version of Job, from Jacobi 924 520Specimen Translation of Pindar, "Word for Word" 926 521Contemporary Critics 927 522Translation of Dante 928 523Lines on Aurelia Coates 929 524Lines in Praise of Rabelais 930 525EFQENKAIFIAN: A Dithyrambic Ode 931 526To the Morgans 933 527Lines on Superstition 934 528Lines Headed "Orpheus" 935 529Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 935 530Further Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 936 531Epigram on Money 937 532Lines on Crimes and Virtues 937 533Elevated Diarrhoea 937 1816-1818 534Verse Lines from A Lay Sermon 938 535Alternative Translation of Virgil's Bucolics 939 536Motto for Memoranda in Notebook 25 940 537Lines after Punch 940 538Lines for an Autograph Hunter 941 539To a Young Lady Complaining of a Com 941 540Fancy in Nubibus 942 541Imitated from Aristophanes 943 542Part of a Sonnet to Miss Bullock 944 543Israel's Lament on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Translated from the Hebrew of Hyman Hurwitz 945 544Rewriting of Lines by Beaumont and Fletcher 952 545A Description of a Nightingale 953 546Lines Suggested by Sir Thomas Browne 954 547Couplet on the Heart Deaf and Blind 954 548Adaptation of Daniel's Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton 955 549Adaptation of Donne's To Sir Henry Goodyere 957 550Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 958 551Adaptation of Donne's Eclogue 1613, December 26 959 552A Further Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 959 553Epigraph Verses for The Friend 961 554Adaptation of Lines from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays 961 555Draft Fragment, Perhaps Describing Sara Coleridge 963 1819-1821 556Lines on the Usury of Pain 964 557Distich, Written in February 1819 965 558The Proper Unmodified Dochmius, i.e., Antispastus Hypercatalecticus 965 559"Beareth all things" 966 560To a Coniic Author, on an Abusive Review 967 561A Character 969 562Extempore Specimen of the Pun Polysyllabic 973 563Riddle for Materialists 973 564Extempore, to Charles Mathews 974 565The Tears of a Grateful People 975 566Couplet on Anticipation and Theory, Genius and Cleverness 989 567Couplet on Man as Solar Animal 989 568Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 989 569On Footnotes, in a Letter 990 570A Practical Problem concerning Flies 991 571Music 992 572Sonnet: To Nature 992 573A Couplet Addressed to the Mind's Ear 993 574First Advent of Love 994 575Where is Reason? 994 576Adapted from H61ty 995 577Lines from the Bhagavad-Gita, from Creuzer 997 578Fireside Anacreontic 998 579Mock Epitaph on Sir William Curtis 999 580Lines Recorded by Thomas Allsop 999 1822-1824 581Fickle Flowers: A Madrigal 1000 582To a Lady: A Poem upon Nothing 1001 583The Good, the True, the Fair 1001 584Nonsense Sapphics, Written for James Gillman Jr 1002 585The Reproof and Reply; or, The Flower-thief's Apology 1003 586The Battle of the Bridge Rewritten 1006 587Latin Couplet Adapted from John Swan 1007 588Lines on Moonwort, with Du Bartas 1008 589The Bridge Street Committee 1008 590Parody Couplet on Wordsworth 1010 591Lines on the Time, 10 September 1823 1011 592Youth and Age 1011 593Album Verses: "Dewdrops are the Gems of Morning" 1013 594Translation of Goethe: "One friendly word ..." 1015 595"Know'st thou the Land ?", from Goethe 1017 596Heraclitus on the Sibyl's Utterance 1019 597Extempore Lines in Notebook 28 1020 598Alternative Lines for Christopher Harvey's The Synagogue 1021 599The Delinquent Travellers 1022 600 To Miss Jones (or Miss A- T.) 1026 601Adaptation of Daniel's To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland 1027 602Lines on Edward Irving 1027 603Epigram: "Such as it is" 1028 604Album Verses on Original Sin 1029 1825-1826 605Lines on J. F. Meckel's System der vergleichenden Anatomie 1030 606Work without Hope 1031 607The Three Sorts of Friends 1034 608Lines on the Moss Bee, Bombyx Muscorum 1034 609Captain Parry 1035 610Lines on Ramsgate Weather 1038 611The Booksellers 1039 612"He Gave them but One Heart between them" 1039 613Lines to Eliza 1040 614Adaptation of Herbert's The Dialogue 1042 615Verses in the Margin of Martin Luther 1042 616Adaptation of Lines from Paradise Lost Book X 1043 617Adaptation of Marston 1043 618The Two Founts: Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on her Recovery with Unblemished Looks, from a Severe Attack of Pain 1044 619Virgil Applied to the Hon Mr B and Richard Heber 1047 620Sancti Doniinici Pallium: A Dialogue between Poet and Friend 1048 621Metre and Rhyme in The Life of Jerome of Prague 1054 622The Alternative 1055 623The Improvisatore; or, "John Anderson, my Jo, John" 1055 624The Alienated Mistress (Love's Burial Place) 1062 625The Last Words of Berengarius and Related Poems 1063 626Thou and 1 1066 627Duty, Surviving Self-love, the Only Sure Friend of Declining Life: A Soliloquy 1067 628An Impromptu on Christmas-day 1069 629A Day Dream 1069 1827-1829 630Epigram on a Bitch and a Mare 1071 631"Ewc aei nann0poc etaipoc 1072 632Bo-Peep and I Spy 1073 633Song: "Tho' hid in spiral myrtle Wreath" 1073 634Lines for Mrs Smudger's Album; and Sequel 1074 635Song: Tis not the lily brow I prize" 1075 636Profuse Kindness 1075 637Written in William Upcott's Album 1076 638To Mary S. Pridham 1076 639Lines on Tears, as the Language of the Eye 1077 640Romance; or, Tale of the Dark Age 1078 641Verses Trivocular 1079 642Couplet on Joseph Cottle 1079 643Extempore on Three Surgeons 1080 644On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, and Small-talk Man, Thomas Hill, Esq. 1081 645Lines Based on Exodus 17 1082 646Impromptu Lines at Namur 1082 647Water Ballad, from Planard 1083 648Two Expectorations from Cologne 1086 649Impromptu on Hock Heimar 1087 650Absurd German Rhymes 1088 651The Netherlands 1088 652The Garden of Boccaccio 1089 653To Baby Bates 1096 654Exemplary Epitaph on a Black Cat 1097 655Alice du C16s; or, The Forked Tongue: A Ballad 1098 656Reply to a Lady's Question respecting the Accomplishments Most Desirable in an Instructress 1106 657The Teacher's Office 1107 658Lines Written in the Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the United States Minister to England 1109 659Doggerel on Sir Charles Scudamore 1111 660Extempore on George Dawe 1112 661To Susan Steele, on Receiving the Purse: Extrumpery Lines 1113 662Epigraph Derived from Troilus and Cressida 1114 1830-1832 663Donne by the Filter 1114 664"King Solomon knew all things" 1116 665Love and Friendship Opposite 1117 666Not at Home 1118 667Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse 1118 668Charity in Thought 1120 669Humility the Mother of Charity 1120 670Association of Ideas 1120 671The Tooth in a Wine-glass: A Sudden Exclamation 1122 672In a Lady's Album 1122 673Inscription on a Time-piece 1123 674An Extempore Couplet in Table Talk 1123

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Book SynopsisPoetry in its many guises is at the center of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's multifarious interests. This edition contains his complete poetical works. It is intended for historians, editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. The textual information also reveals changes in such areas as linguistic and grammatical usage.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American PublishersTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxxvii EDITORIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLS, AND ABBREVIATIONS xli Poetical Works PART 1 1782-1790 1"First attempt at making a verse" 3 2Fragments of an Ode on Punning 3 3Dura Navis 4 4Greek Epigram on Aphrodite and Athena 5 4.X I Translations of Synesius 5 5Easter Holidays 6 6Nil Pejus Est Caelibe Vitd 7 7De Medio Fonte Lepor-um Surgit Aliquid Amari 8 8Oh! Mihi Prxteritos Referat si Jupiter Annos! 8 9Sonnet: To my Muse 0 10Sonnet: "As late I joumey'd o'er th' extensive plain 11 10 11The Nose: An Odaic Rhapsody 11 12Conclusion to a Youthful Poem 14 13An Ode on the Destruction of the Bastile 14 14Sonnet: To the Evening Star 16 15Sonnet: Composed in Sickness 17 16A Few Lines Written by Lee when Mad 19 17Sonnet: Genevieve 20 18Nemo Repente Turpissimus 22 19Sonnet: Anna and Harland 24 20The Abode of Love 25 21Monody on a Tea Kettle 26 22An Invocation 28 1791 22.Xl Epitaph: By a Son on his Deceased Father 29 22.X2 Schoolboy Poem Sent to George Coleridge 29 23Honos Alit Artes 30 24Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid 30 25Sonnet: On Receiving an Account that my Sister's Death was Inevitable 34 26Sonnet: On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by his Sister 36 26.Xl Version of an Epitaph on a Young Lady 37 27Ardua Prima Via Est 38 28Greek Imitation of A Winter Piece 39 290 Curas Hominum! 0 Quantum Est in Rebus Inane! 40 30Happiness: A Poem 42 31An Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital 48 32Sonnet: Sent to Mrs - with Fielding's Amelia 49 33Sonnet: On Quitting Christ's Hospital 50 34Ode to Sleep 51 35Plymtree Road 53 36Ode on the Ottery and Tiverton Church Music 54 37Epigram on my Godmother's Beard 56 38On Imitation 57 39Absence: An Ode 58 40Greek Epitaph on an Infant 60 40.Xl Translations of Anacreon 61 1792 41An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon 61 42A Wish Written in Jesus Wood 62 43A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress 62 44To Disappointment 63 45Fragment Found in a Mathematical Lecture Room 63 46On a Lady Weeping 64 47Greek Epitaph for Howard's Tomb 66 48Sors Misera Servorum in Insulis Indix Occidentalis 66 48.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1792 72 49A Siniile; Written after a Walk before Supper 73 50Latin Lines on Ottery's Inhabitants 75 1793 50.Xl Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets 75 50.X2 Sonnet to the Earl of Lauderdale 76 51The Complaint of Ninathoma 76 52Two Lines on the Poet Laureate 79 530 Turtle-eyed Affection! 80 54Latin Verses, Sent to George Coleridge 80 55Imitated from Ossian 81 55.Xl Laus Astrononiiae 83 55.X2 Cambridge Prize Poems, 1793 88 56On Presenting a Moss Rose to Miss F. Nesbitt 89 57Cupid Tum'd Chymist 92 58An Extempore 95 58.Xl Adaptation of John Bampfylde's To Evening 96 59Elegy 98 60Absence: A Poem 100 61Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon 111 61.Xl Est Quxdam Flere Voluptas 113 62To a Painter 113 63To Miss Dashwood Bacon of Devonshire 114 64Songs of the Pixies 114 64.Xl To the Rt Hon C. J. Fox 123 65To Fortune, on Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery 123 1794 65.Xl A Soliloquy of Roberspierre 124 66Domestic Peace 124 66.Xl Sonnet: On Reading Miranda's Sonnet to a Sigh 126 67Song: Imitated from Casimir 128 67.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1794 128 68To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter 129 68.Xl Lines Written in a Prayer Book: After Bowles 130 69From Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue 132 70Lines on the "Man of Ross" 132 70.Xl Adaptation of Bowles's "I shall behold far off hy barren crest" 138 70.X2 Fragmentary Adaptation of a Welsh Sonnet 139 71Latin Lines on Mary Evans 141 72Stanzas from an Elegy on a Lady 141 73Imitated from the Welsh 143 73.Xl The Faded Flower 144 73.X2 Sonnet: To an Infant at the Breast 144 74Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village 145 75The Sigh 147 76The Kiss 150 77Two Versions of an Epitaph on an Infant 153 77.Xl The Triumphs of the New Cabinet 155 78Sonnet on Pantisocracy (with Samuel Favell) 155 78.Xl Sonnet: On Establishing Pantisocracy in America 157 78.X2 Revisions to Various Early Poems by Robert outhey 157 78.X3 On Bala Hill 159 79To Ann Brunton: Iniitated from the Latin of Francis Wrangham 159 80To Eliza Brunton, on Behalf of Francis Wrangham 160 81To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 161 82Monody on the Death of Chatterton 166 83Sonnet: To my Own Heart 188 84To a Young Ass, its Mother Being Tethered near It 189 85Lines on a Friend, Who Died of a Frenzy Fever, Induced by Calumnious Reports 193 86Sonnet: To the Author of The Robbers 197 87Sonnet: On Hope (with Charles Lamb) 199 88Sonnet: To an Old Man in the Snow (with Samuel Favell) 201 89Sonnet: To the Hon Mr Erskine 203 90Sonnet: To Burke 204 91Sonnet: To Priestley 208 92Sonnet: To Fayette 209 93Sonnet: To Kosciusko 211 94Sonnet: To Pitt 212 95Sonnet: To Bowles 213 96Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons (with Charles Lamb) 216 97Sonnet: To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice 218 98Sonnet: To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems 218 99Sonnet: To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. 219 100 To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem 222 101Religious Musings 224 1795 101.XL Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons 263 101.X2 Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 263 101.X3 Sonnet: To Gilbert Wakefield 263 101.X4 Sonnet: Written on Contemplating a Very Fine Setting Sun. To Lord Stanhope 264 102Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 264 102.Xl Translation of Four Lines in French 265 103Adaptation of Robert Southey's Sonnet "Pale Roamer thro' the Night!" 266 104Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet Written at Midnight, by the Sea-side 268 105To an Infant 269 105.Xl Lines Probably Borrowed from John Gaunt 272 106Contribution to The Soldier's Wife, by Robert Southey 274 107Allegoric Vision 275 108Composed While Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, in the County of Somerset 287 109To the Rev W.J.H. While Teaching a Young Lady Some Song-tunes on his Flute 288 110Contributions to Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey 288 110.Xl Untitled Stanzas on Grace 309 11O.X2 Report on Mr Cottel 310 111In the Manner of Spenser 310 112To the Nightingale 313 113Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Was it some sweet device of faery land ?" 313 114Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Methinks, how dainty sweet it were" 315 115The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire 316 116Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 328 117Lines to Joseph Cottle 334 118Translations of Homer Iliad 1.34, 49 337 119The Silver Thimble (with Sara Fricker Coleridge) 337 120Fragments of an Epistle to Thomas Poole 341 121Summary Version of Horace 344 122Fragments from the Gutch Notebook 344 1796 122.X I Habent sua Fata-Poetae 345 123The Hour When We Shall Meet Again 346 124Lines on Observing a Blossom 347 125Verse Motto to Poetical Epistles 349 126Lines on the Portrait of a Lady 350 126.Xl Lines Combined from Bowles 350 127From an Unpublished Poem 351 127.Xl Epigram: "Said William to Edmund. 351 127.X2 To the Rev W. L. Bowles 351 128Recollection 352 129Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 352 130Irregular Sonnet: To John Tbelwall 357 130.Xl Epigram: On a Late Marriage 360 130.X2 Epigram: On an Amorous Doctor 360 130.X3 Epigram: "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers" 360 130.X4 To a Primrose 361 130.X5 Haleswood Poem 361 130.X6 Hymns to the Elements 362 131To the Princess of Wales: Written during her Separation from the Prince 362 132Poetical Address for Home Tooke 365 132.Xi Sonnet: To Poverty 368 133To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry 368 134Sonnet: Written on Receiving Letters Informing Me of the Birth of a Son, I Being at Birmingham 371, 1374 135Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son 372 136Sonnet: To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented my Infant to Me 374, 1374 137Sonnet: Introducing Charles Lloyd's Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer 376 138To Charles Lloyd, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author 377 138.Xl Nursery Song 381 139The Destiny of Nations: A Vision 381 140Sonnet: To the River Otter 408 141Adaptation of Thomas Derinody 411 142Ode on the Departing Year 411 143Lines to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy 429 143.Xl Prospect of Peace 432 1797 144On Quitting Oxford Street, Bristol, for Nether Stowey, New Year's Day 1797 432 145The Raven 433 146To Thomas Poole: Invitation to Dine 438 147On the Christening of a Friend's Child 439 148To an Unfortunate Woman, Whom I Knew in the Days of her Innocence: Composed at the Theatre 439 149Allegorical Lines on the Same Subject 442 150To the Rev George Coleridge of Ottery St Mary, Devon, with Some Poems 445 151Song from OsoriolRemorse 448 152The Foster-mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment 451 153The Dungeon 458 153.Xl The Brook 459 154Melancholy: A Fragment 460 155Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth 462 156This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 480 157Sonnet: To William Linley, Esq., While He Sang a Song to Purcell's Music 487 158Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of "Contemporary Writers" 489 159Sonnet: To a Lady 491 160The Wanderings of Cain 492 161The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 504 161.Xl Translation from Wieland's Oberon 540 162Parliamentary Oscillators 540 163Studies in Cloud Effects 542 164On Deputy - - 543 165The Apotheosis; or, The Snow-drop 543 166To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro' his Hair 548 167Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue, with an Apologetic Preface 548 167.Xl Ideas or Lines for a Poem 565 168The Old Man of the Alps 566 1798 169Modification of Translation of a Celebrated Greek Song, by William Wordsworth 566 170De Papa: Vaticinium Haud Valde Obscurum, Nec 38 Incredibile, 1798 568 171Frost at Midnight 569 172Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant 574 173Welcoming Lines to Lavinia Poole 583 174France: An Ode 585 174.X 1 To - - ("I niix in life, and labour to 45 seem free") 593 175Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, during 51 the Alarm of an Invasion 593 176Christabel 606 177The Story of the Mad Ox 662 177.Xl To Lesbia 668 177.X2 The Death of the Starling 669 177.X3 Moriens Superstiti 669 177.X4 Morienti Superstes 669 178Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream 669 179Contribution to We Are Seven, by William Wordsworth 678 180The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem 679 181To William Wordsworth, with The Nightingale 684 182The Ballad of the Dark Ladi6: A Fragment 684 183Translation of an Inscription in Stowey Church 691 183.Xl Epigram: "To be ruled like a Frenchman the 10 Briton is loth" 691 ~183.X2 Contributions to The Morning Post 692 ~184 Lines Describing "Tbe silence of a City" 692 185English Hexameters 693 186English Duodecasyllables, Adapted from 18 Matthisson 695 187The Homeric Hexameter Described and 18 Exemplified, Adapted from Schiller 696 188The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and 56 Exemplified, from Schiller 697 189Something Childish but Very Natural, from the German 698 190The Visit of the Gods, Iniitated from Schiller 699 1799 191Translation of Otfrid 702 192Alcaeus to Sappho (revising William Wordsworth) 702 193On an Infant Who Died before its Christening, Perhaps Inspired by Lessing 703 194Metrical Adaptation of Gessner 704 195Lines in a German Student's Album 704 196Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Biirde 705 197Adapted Lines on Fleas 707 198Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods 707 199The Virgin's Cradle-hymn, Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Villaize in Germany 708 200 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest 710 BOOKID200.Xl German Album Verses 713 201Epigram on Goslar Ale, from the German 714 202Epitaph on Johann Reimbold of Catlenburg, from the German 715 203Epigram on Kepler, from Kdstner 715 204Epigram: "Jack drinks fine wines", from Kiistner 716 205Epigram on Mr Ross, Usualy "Nosy" 717 206Epigram: "0 would the Baptist come again", from Logau 717 207On the United Irishmen 718 208Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wemicke 719 209Epigram on Neaera's Portrait, Inspired by Lessing 721 210Epigram on Exchanging Friends, from Logau 721 211Epigram on a Slanderer, from Lessing 721 212The British Stripling's War-song, from Stolberg 723 213Epigram on Hippona, from Lessing 726 214The Devil's Thoughts 726 215Before Gleim's Cottage: Elegiacs from Voss 751 216Mahomet: A Fragment 752 217Specimen Elegiacs, Adapting Ossian 753 217.Xl Rigmarole Verses about Samuel Jackson Pratt 754 218Epigram on a Report of a Minister's Death, from Lessing 754 219Epigram to a Proud Parent, from Lessing 755 220Epigram on a Notorious Liar, from Lessing 756 PART 2 221Epitaph on a Bad Man, Perhaps after Vicesimus Knox 759 222Two Versions of an Epigram on Lying, from Lessing 760 223Epigram on an Oxford Brothelhouse, Adapted from Lessing 761 224Epigram on a Lady's Too Great Fondness for her Dog, from Lessing 762 225Epigram on Mimulus, from Lessing 764 226Epigram on Paviun, from Lessing 764 227Epitaph on an Insignificant, Adapted from Lessing 765 228Epigram on Marriage, from Lessing 766 229Epigram on Maids and Angels, from Lessing 767 230Epigram to a Virtuous CEconornist, from Wemicke 767 231Epigram on Gripus, from Lessing 768 232On the Sickness of a Great Minister, from Lessing 769 233Epigram to an Author, from Lessing 770 234The Lethargist and Madman: A Political Fable, after the Greek Anthology 771 235Epigram to a Critic, Who Extracted a Passage from a Poem 773 236Names, from Lessing 774 237Epigram: Always Audible, from Kdstner 776 238Over the Door of a Cottage, after Logau 777 239The Devil Outwitted; or, Job's Luck, after Logau and John Owen 778 240Epigram on the Speed with Which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem 780 241Epigram on a Bad Singer, after Pfeffel and Martial 781 242Epigram on a Joke without a Sting 782 243To a Living Ninon d'Enclos 783 244Epigram on a Maiden More Sentimental than Chaste 784 245The Exchange of Hearts 784 246Epigram on a Supposed Son 786 247Pondere, Non Numero, from Logau 786 248Lines Composed in a Concert-room 787 249Hexametrical Translation of Psalm 46 790 250Epigram on Sir Rubicund Naso 790 251To Delia 791 251.Xl Epigrams from Lessing 792 251.X2 Epigram: "Doris can find no taste in Tea" 792 252Couplet on Grosvenor Bedford 792 253Love 793 254Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the 24th Stanza in her Passage over Mount Gothard 807 265Two Lines on the Stars and the Mountains 823 266On the Poet's Eye 823 267The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone: A Skeltoniad (to be Read in the Recitative Lilt) 824 268Six Lines on a Keswick Holiday 832 269The Mad Monk 833 270Inscription for a Seat by a Road Side, Half-way up a Steep Hill, Facing the South 835 271A Stranger Minstrel 836 272The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment 838 273Two Lines on Remorse 839 1801 273.Xl lambics: "No cold shall thee benumb" 839 273.X2 The Second Birth 839 274Two Lines on the Cur, Arthritis 839 274.Xl An Expostulatory and Panegyrical Ode 840 274.X2 A Philosophical Apology for the Ladies 840 275After Bathing in the Sea at Scarborough in Company with T. Hutchinson, August 1801 841,1374 276Verse Letter to Miss Isabella Addison and Miss Joanna Hutchinson 844 277Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 845 278Song to be Sung by the Lovers of All the Nobic Liquors Comprised under the Name of Ale 847 279Drinking versus Thinking; or, A Song against the New Philosophy 847 280Lines Written in Bed at Grasmere 848 281The Wills of the Wisp: A Sapphic, from Stolberg 853 282Lines Translated from Barbarous Latin 853 283Ode to Tranquillity 854 284To a Certain Modem Narcissus, from Hagedom 858 285Pastoral from Gessner 858 286Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Poetaster 859 286.Xl The Complaint Qualified 859 1802 287Fragment on Time, from Schiller 860 287.Xl Experiment for a Metre (1) 860 288Lines on the Breeze and Hope 861 288.Xl Experiment for a Metre (2) 861 289A Letter to - 861 289.Xl Verses Sent to Dorothy Wordsworth 876 290A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion 876 290.Xl "Dear Messieurs Trippeaux" 880 291Answer to a Child's Question 880 291.Xl The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 882 292Epitaph on Lord Lonsdale 883 293Dejection: An Ode 884 294The Day Dream 897 294.Xl The Soother of Absence 899 295Sonnett o Asra 900 295.X1 Translation into Blank Verse of Salomon Gessner's Der erste Schiffer 900 296Lines Composed during a Night Rarnble behind Skiddaw, at the Foot of Mount Blencarthur, in 1802 901 297Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch 904 298A Version of a Nursery Rhyme 905 299The Keepsake 906 300 The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 909 301Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 922 302Dialogue concerning a Good Great Man 933 302.Xl Effusion, after Reading the Interesting Account of the Young Savage of Aveyron 935 303The Knight's Tomb 935 304To Matilda Betham, from a Stranger 938 305EDiizram on Eiigrams, from Wemicke 940 306Epigram on a Congenital Liar, from Wemicke 941 307Epigram on the Devil, from a German Original? 942 308Epigram Addressed to One Who Published in Print What Had Been Entrusted to Him by my Fire-side, from Wemicke 942 309On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German Language the Sun is Feminine, and the Moon Masculine, after Wernicke 943 310Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 944 311Epigram on Surface, from Wernicke 945 312A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend, after Wemicke 946 313Epigram on Possession, from a German Original 947 314Epigram on Castles in the Air, from Wernicke 948 315To a Vain Lady, from the German and from Martial 949 316Epigram to my Candle, after Wemicke 950 317From an Old German Poet (after Wernicke) 951 318Epigram on Bond Street Bucks, Adapted from Wemicke 952 319Epigram on Virgil's "Obscuri sub luce maligna", after Wemicke 952 320M(opocFo(piu.; or, Wisdom in Folly, from a German Original? 953 321Westphalian Song 954 322A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls 954 323Latin Lines to William Sotheby 955 324Epigram on Aurelia, from Gryphius 955 325For a House-dog's Collar, from Opitz 955 326Epigram on Zoilus, from Opitz 956 327Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser, from Opitz 956 327.Xl Stanzas Written after a Long Absence 958 328Latin Lines on a Former Friendship 958 1803 329Greek Lines on Achilles' Meal of Yesterday 959 330The Kiss and the Blush 960 331Grasmere in Sunshine 961 331.Xl Three Lines from the Bristol Notebook 962 332Fragments of an Unwritten Poem 962 333Three Lines on Loch Lomond 963 334Lines on "Such love as mouming Husbands have" 963 335The Pains of Sleep 963 336Epitaph on Poor Col, by Himself 967 337Brevity of the Greek and English Compared 968 338Lines after Hearing William Wordsworth's Michael 969 1804 339Lines Written at Dove Cottage 970 3413PatiiDtic Stm7,as 970 340.Xl Lines Written at either Ottery or Walthamstow 971 341A Triplet on Triplets 971 342Hexameter Lines to Mrs Coleridge 971 343Cartwright Modified 972 343.Xl "Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond" 972 343.X2 "I from the influence of thy looks receive" 973 343.X3 Verse Trifles Sent to Sir George Beaumont 973 344Epigram on "Dear Anne" 973 345Balsamum in Vitro 974 346Tears and Sympathy 974 347Phantom 974 348To Captain Findlay 975 349Mercury Descending: A Metrical Experiment 976 350Description of the Sun Setting in a Mountainous Country: A Fragment 977 351What is Life? A Metrical Experiment 978 352Adaptation of Hagedorn 979 353Metrical Experiments from Notebook 22 980 354Recollections of Love 982 354.Xl Further Lines on The Soother of Absence 986 355Fragment: "And laurel Crown..." 986 356Fragment: "What never is, but only is to be" 987 357Constancy to an Ideal Object 987 1805 358"This yearning Heart ..." 990 359Love-Why Blind? 990 360Closing Lines in Notebook 21 992 361Couplet Written in February 1805 992 361.Xl Twenty Lines Inscribed in The Poems of Ossian 993 362Verses on Love and Moral Being 993 363Doleful Dialogue 994 364Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 995 365A Metaphor 995 366Apostrophe to Beauty in Malta 996 367To God 996 368Irregular Lines on the Sick Man's Comforter 997 369Lines Connected with the Grasmere Circle 997 370Lines on Hearing a Tale 998 371Lines Rewritten from Sannazaro 998 371.Xl Lines on Leaving the Mediterranean 999 372On the Nairnes in a Malta Notebook 1001 373Perhaps a Translation of Some Comically Bad Verses 1001 374Latin Lines to William Wordsworth as Judge 1002 375Epitaph on Major Dieman, with Comment 1002 376On the Name "Chastenut Grove", Derived from Ariosto 1003 377On Fetid, Who Died of a Catarrh 1004 378On the Family Vault of the Burrs 1005 1806 379Lines Written in a Dream 1007 380A Single Line on Revenge 1007 381Lines on a Death 1007 382Written at Ossaia 1008 383On Death at Pisa 1008 384The Taste of the Times 1008 385Lines Rewritten from Spenser's Epithalamium 1009 386Lines on a King-and-Emperor-Making Emperor and King, Altered from Fulke Greville 1009 387Farewell to Love 1010 388Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory 1011 389Two Epigrams on Pitt and Fox 1014 390Adapted from Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 391More Lines Inspired by Fulke Greville 1016 392Inspired by Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 393A Greek Song Set to Music and Sung by Hartley Coleridge, Esq"., Grecologian, Philometrist, and Philomelist 1017 394Verses to Derwent Coleridge, Accompanying Greek Lessons 1019 395To Derwent Coleridge: The Chief and Most Common Metrical Feet Expressed in Corresponding Metre 1019 396The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 1021 397Lines Written in November-December 1806 1026 398Written at Coleorton 1027 399"Those eyes of deep & most expressive blue" 1027 400 A Line Written at Coleorton 1028 1807 401To Williairn Wordsworth, Composed on the Night after his Recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind 1028 402Psyche; or, The Butterfly 1036 403A Metrical Conclusion? 1038 404Lines on the Yellowhammer 1039 405Parody Epitaph on Tom Navel 1039 406Fragments Written in February 1807 1039 407Allegorical Description 1040 408Three Lines on Penitence 1041 409Fate and Conscience 1041 410Birds in May 1042 411Epigram on Confessions Auricular 1042 412The Pang More Sharp than All: An Allegory 1042 413On the Roots of a Tree 1046 413.Xl Poems Suggested by Richard Heme Shepherd, from The Courier 1047 413.X2 Epigram: "Ned calls his wife his counter-part" 1048 413.X3 "A wind that with Aurora hath abiding" 1048 414An Image Compressed from Crashaw 1048 415Between Concurrences of Fate 1049 416Imitations of Du Bartas etc 1049 417Translation of a Distich by Schiller 1050 418Translation of A Distich by Goethe and Schiller 1050 419On Tom Poole's Meanderings 1051 420Lines on Wordsworth and Coleridge 1051 420.Xl The Barberry-tree 1052 421Versified from Bacon 1053 422Adapted from a Shakespeare Sonnet 1053 423To Two Sisters: A Wanderer's Farewell 1054 424Thinking Merrily Alone 1055 425Lines Prompted by Chapman 1055 426A Line from a Lost Poem? 1056 1808 427Two Lines: "Or like the Swallow. 1056 428Prayer for Night: For Hartley and Derwent 1057 429Ad Vilmum Axiologum 1058 430Ad Vilmum Axiologum: Latin Version 1059 431An Anagram of Mary Morgan's Face 1061 432To Charlotte Brent 1061 433Extremes Meet: A Fill-A-Sopha-Col Note 1062 433A Lines to Charlotte Brent 1375 434On a Happy Household 1063 435Latin Lines to Accompany a Personal Emblem 1063 436Latin Lines to Accompany a Second Emblem 1064 437A Motto to Accompany a Third Emblem 1064 438An Exemplary Description 1064 439Latin Elegiacs on Guy Fawkes 1065 440Sonnet Translated from Marino 1066 441Alternative Stanzas in the Manner of Marino 1066 441.Xl Fragmentary Lines in Pencil 1066 441.X2 Twenty-six-line Poem 1067 442The Happy Husband: A Fragment 1068 443Lines on the Moon 1070 444Couplet on Singing in Church 1071 444.Xl Seven Cancelled Lines 1071 1809 445To Mr Amphlett 1072 446Adelphan Greek Riddle 1072 447Verse Letter to Mrs Coleridge 1072 448Another Epitaph on an Infant 1073 449A Motto Adapted from Love's Labour's Lost 1074 450Three-line Fragment 1075 451Contribution to To my Thrushes, by Thomas Wilkinson 1075 452For a Clock in a Market-place 1076 453On Mr Baker's Marriage: A Fragment 1076 454Verses Based on Paracelsus 1077 455A Tombless Epitaph 1077 455.Xl The Good Old Customs 1079 456Couplet Written in Autumn 1809 1080 457Lines Written in Late Autumn 1809 1080 458Verse Line, Late Autumn 1809 1080 459Adaptation of Lines from Daniel's Civil Wars 1081 460Cartwright Modified Again 1081 1810 461Separation, after Charles Cotton 1082 462Lines Altered from Fulke Greville's A Treatise of Humane Learning 1083 463Futke Greville Modified 1084 464Further Lines on Tranquillity 1085 465Lines on the Body and the Soul 1085 466Written in Dejection, May 1810 1085 467The Visionary Hope 1086 468Fragment in Blank Verse 1087 469Humorous Lines, Spring 1810 1087 470Voltaire Versified 1087 471Gilbert White Versified, on the Owl 1088 472Observation on Colour and Light 1088 473Burlesque in the Manner of Walter Scott 1088 474Translation of a Goethe Epigram 1089 1811 474.Xl Revisions of Mary Russell Mitford's Christina and Blanch 1089 4758 The Moon on the Pacific Main 1090 475.Xl Lovers' Quarrels 1090 475.X2 Epigram on Damus 1090 476On the First Poem in Donne's Book 1091 477Moles 1098 478Limbo: A Fragment 1098 479Ne Plus Ultra 1098 480Adaptation of Milton's Lines on Shakespeare 1099 481Lines Inscribed in Benedetto Menzini 1099 482Human Life, on the Denial of Immortality 1100 483Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Euterpe: Abandoned Stanzas 1102 484Fragmentary Lines on Change 1103 485Lines Inspired by Jean Paul 1103 485.Xl Epigram on Samuel Whitbread 1103 486Adaptation of Ben Jonson's A Nymph's Passion 1104 487Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Hour-glass 1105 488Lavatorial Lines 1105 489Latin Lines Perhaps Connected with John Morgan 1105 490The Suicide's Argument, with Nature's Answer 1106 491Sir John Davies on the Soul, Adapted to the Imagination 1109 492To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation that Women Have No Souls 1110 492.Xl The Comet, 1811 1111 493Latin Distich on Giving and Receiving 1112 494A Half-attempt at Verse 1113 495A Droll Formulary to Raise Devils 1113 1812 496Versified Note to J. J. Morgan 1115 497Epigram on Maule and Mather 1116 498On the Narning of Bombay 1116 498.Xl Love's Response 1117 498.X2 Epigram on Sir Humphry Davy's Marriage 1117 499Faith, Hope, Charity, Translated from Guarini 1118 500 Metrical Experiment in May 1812 1118 BOOKID500.Xl Lines Sent with a Collection of Manuscripts to John May 1119 501The King of the North Countrie 1119 502Epitaph on the Learned Robert Whitmore, E Who Died of a Diarrho~a, 4 August 1812,~ Etatis Sux 57 1120 502.Xl A Tear 1120 1813-1814 502.X4 Shakespeare Read Creatively 1121 503Couplet on Lesbian Lovers 1122 504On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady 1122 505Maevius-Bavius Exemplum 1123 506Lines on Looking Seaward 1123 507Lines on Zephyrs 1123 508National Independence: A Latin Fragment 1124 508.Xl Doggerel Rhymes 1125 509To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 1126 510God's Omnipresence: A Hymn 1128 511A Couplet to Illustrate Paeon and Epitrite 1130 512A Plaintive Movement, after Phineas Fletcher 1130 513Motto for a Transparency 1131 514On the Condition of Ireland, in the Manner of Daniel's Civil Wars 1132 515Written in Richard Field's Of the Church 1132 515.Xl Puff and Slander 1133 516Revisions of the Opening of Southey's Roderick 1133 516.Xl Improvements for Charles Bowker Ash 1134 1815 517Glycine's Song from Zapolya 1134 517.X2 Napoleon 1139 517.X3 Lines in Walker's Dictionary, Largely Erased 1139 518A Metrical Line in Notebook 22 1140 519Metrical Version of Job, from Jacobi 1140 520Specimen Translation of Pindar, "Word for Word" 1140 521Contemporary Critics 1141 522Translation of Dante 1141 523Lines on Aurelia Coates 1141 524Lines in Praise of Rabelais 1142 525EFUENKAIRIAN: A Dithyrambic Ode 1143 526To the Morgans 1143 527Lines on Superstition 1144 528Lines Headed "Orpheus" 1145 529Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1145 530Further Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1146 531Epigram on Money 1146 532Lines on Crimes and Virtues 1146 533Elevated Diarrhoea 1147 533.Xl The Cherub 1147 1816-1818 534Verse Lines from A Lay Sermon 1147 535Alternative Translation of Virgil's Bucolics 1148 536Motto for Memoranda in Notebook 25 1148 537Lines after Punch 1149 538Lines for an Autograph Hunter 1149 539To a Young Lady Complaining of a Com 1151 540Fancy in Nubibus 1152 541Imitated from Aristophanes 1154 542Part of a Sonnet to Miss Bullock 1155 543Israel's Lament on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Translated from the Hebrew of Hyman Hurwitz 1155 544Rewriting of Lines by Beaumont and Fletcher 1158 545A Description of a Nightingale 1159 546Lines Suggested by Sir Thomas Browne 1159 546.Xl Three Epigrams on Bishop Watson 1160 546.X2 Translations from the Old Testament 1160 547Couplet on the Heart Deaf and Blind 1161 548Adaptation of Daniel's Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton 1161 549Adaptation of Donne's To Sir Henry Goodyere 1161 550Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1162 551Adaptation of Donne's Eclogue 1613, December 26 1162 552A Further Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1163 553Epigraph Verses for The Friend 1163 554Adaptation of Lines from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays 1163 555Draft Fragment, Perhaps Describing Sara Coleridge 1164 1819-1821 556Lines on the Usury of Pain 1165 557Distich, Written in February 1819 1166 558The Proper Unmodified Dochmius, i.e., Antispastus Hypercatalecticus 1166 559"Beareth all things" 1167 560To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review 1167 561A Character 1170 562Extempore Specimen of the Pun Polysyllabic 1175 563Riddle for Materialists 1175 564Extempore, to Charles Mathews 1176 565The Tears of a Grateful People 1176 566Couplet on Anticipation and Theory, Genius and Cleverness 1177 567Couplet on Man as Solar Animal 1177 568Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 1178 569On Footnotes, in a Letter 1178 570A Practical Problem concerning Flies 1179 571Music 1179 572Sonnet: To Nature 1179 573A Couplet Addressed to the Mind's Ear 1180 574First Advent of Love 1180

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Book SynopsisDuring the winter of 1818-1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave 14 lectures on the history of philosophy. This edition presents an indexed text of the lecture series and provides, in addition, the complete texts of the shorthand reports and of Coleridge's own notes, along with newspaper and manuscript reports by people who attended the lectures.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

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Book SynopsisJaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, and brilliant. This title offers a translation of Saenz's work, "The Night", in English, which is the last he wrote before his death in 1986.Trade Review"Published as a part of the excellent Facing Pages series of translations, major Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz's death-obsessed masterwork, The Night, is now available in English for the first time. Veteran translators Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson of Saenz (1921-1986) seem to understand the haunting beauty of these lines as though they had written them."--Publishers Weekly "This bilingual edition of Saenz's The Night brings to English-speaking readers the anguished, hallucinogenic world of this morbid Bolivian poet...The translators' introduction sets the tone and scene, and their inspired translation communicates the terrible intensity of Saenz's images and his fascinating with death."--D.L. Heyck, Choice "Published two years before the Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz's death in 1984, The Night redefines what it means to be illuminated by anatomizing the experience of being enveloped in darkness...Exquisitely produced, this edition advances Saenz's ultimate mission for The Night: to reveal a vision of the body connected with its soul, 'inhabiting' it, passing through a life full of danger, fear, and humiliation, constructing a holistic view of existence, a unified conception of life and death."--Aaron Belz, Boston Review "American readers will find that The Night diverges from much contemporary American poetry, particularly in its elaborate symbolism and ethereal atmosphere. The Night is best read as a complete piece, preferably in one sitting, and probably more than once. Readers will find their time well spent."--Lisa Butts, PleiadesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Notes from Bolivia 1 Part 1: La Noche / The Night 28 Part 2: El Guardian / The Gatekeeper 66 Part 3: Intermedio / Interval 96 Part 4: La Noche / The Night 112 Afterword: Journey to the Center of The Night by Luis H. Antezana 130

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Book SynopsisOne of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is approachable yet complex, distinctively and artfully combining traditional and informal means in his lyrics. This edition contains the comprehensive and representative selection of Erba's poetry. With a preface, introduction, and notes, it serves as an introduction to a modern Italian poet.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 John Florio Prize for Italian TranslationTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface ix Acknowledgments xii The Poetry of Luciano Erba 1 from Il nastro di Moebius / The Moebius Strip (1980) 7 Mi sento le guance di cartone / I feel my cheeks as pasteboard 8 from Gradus ad (Early Poems) 11 Piovera / It Will Rain 12 La giacca a quadri / The Checked Jacket 14 Lontananza da mia madre / Distance from My Mother 16 Unaltra citta / Another City 18 from Il male minore / The Lesser Evil (1960) 21 Il cavaliere del garbo / The Gallant Gent 22 Nel parco di Versailles / In the Park at Versailles 24 Sentimento del tempo / Feeling of Time 26 Una stazione climatica / A Health Resort 28 I globuli rossi / The Red Globules 30 Sul Tamigi / On the Thames 32 Gli ireos gialli / The Yellow Orris 34 Il bel paese / The Beautiful Country 36 Lombardo-Veneto / Lombard-Veneto 38 Dal dottor K / With Doctor K 40 Undecided / Undecided 42 Senza risposta / Without Reply 44 La Grande Jeanne / La Grande Jeanne 46 Don Giovanni / Don Juan 48 Un'equazione di primo grado / A First-Degree Equation 50 Terra e mare / Land and Sea 52 Qualcosa / Something 54 Tabula rasa? / Tabula Rasa? 56 Il miraggio / The Mirage 58 Libro d'ore / Book of Hours 60 Caino e le spine / Cain and the Thorns 62 Dignus est intrare / Dignus Est Intrare 64 Ippogrammi & metaippogrammi del pittore Giovanola / Hippograms & Metahippograms of the Painter Giovanola 66 Nella torre d'avorio / In the Ivory Tower 70 Vanitas varietatum / Vanitas Varietatum 72 Molto di la dagli agghiacciati mari / Far beyond the Frozen Seas 74 Lo svagato / The Inattentive 76 Incompatibilita / Incompatibility 80 Super flumina / Super Flumina 82 Aerostatica / Aerostatics 86 Dopo le vacanze / After the Holidays 88 from Il prato piu verde /The Greener Meadow (1977) 91 Gli anni quaranta / My Forties 92 Tra spazio e tempo / Between Space and Time 94 Halloween / Halloween 96 Epifania / Epiphany 98 Trasferimento / Relocation 100 Barcellona Baltimora ... / Barcelona Baltimore ... 102 Pastello / Pastel 104 Perche non io / Why Not Me 106 Festa delle nazioni / Festival of Nations 108 Le giovani coppie / The Young Couples 110 Nuovi metodi del dottor K / New Methods of Doctor K 112 Mailand / Mailand 114 Idea fissa / Idee Fixe 116 Gli addii / The Goodbyes 118 Sette e mezzo / Seven and a Half 120 from L'ippopotamo / The Hippopotamus (1989) 123 Nel bosco / In the Wood 124 Grafologia di un addio / Graphology of a Goodbye 126 Istria / Istria 128 Il pubblico e il privato / The Public and the Private 130 Il roccolo / The Bird Trap 132 Richiudendo un baule / Closing a Trunk Once More 134 Suite americana / Suite Americana 136 Quartiere Solari / Quartiere Solari 138 Fine delle vacanze / End of the Holidays 140 Abito a trenta metri dal suolo / I Live Thirty Meters from the Ground 142 Se non fosse / If It Weren't 144 Se e tutto qui ... / If This Is All ... 146 L'io e il non io / The I and Not-I 148 Quando penso a mia madre / When I Think of My Mother 150 Una visita a Caleppio / A Visit to Caleppio 152 Implosion / Implosion 154 Ponte e citta / Bridge and City 156 Filo di ferro / Iron Wire 158 Seguivo il tuo viaggio / I Was Following Your Journey 160 Il tranviere metafisico / The Metaphysical Tramdriver 162 L'ippopotamo / The Hippopotamus 164 La vida es ... / La Vida Es ... 166 Irreversibilita / Irreversibility 168 Quale Milano? / Which Milan? 170 Autoritratto / Self-Portrait 172 Motus in fine velocior / Motus in Fine Velocior 174 from L'ipotesi circense / The Circus Hypothesis (1995) 177 Un cosmo qualunque / Any Old Cosmos 178 Autunnale / Autumnal 180 Senza bussola / Without a Compass 182 Genius loci / Genius Loci 184 Off limits for doctor K / Off Limits for Doctor K 186 Questi ultimi anni / These Last Years 188 Soltanto segni? / Only Signs? 190 Dasein / Dasein 192 A scuola di sguardo / Ecole du regard 194 L'ipotesi circense / The Circus Hypothesis 196 Suite ferroviaria / Railway Suite 198 Rincorrendo Vittorio S sulla strada di Zenna / Chasing Vittorio S on the Zenna Road 200 Altrove padano / Po Plain Elsewhere 202 Il circo / The Circus 204 Questo e tempo di haiku / This Is Haiku Time 206 Resta ancora qualcosa / Something Remains Still 208 Scale / Stairs 210 from Nella terra di mezzo / In the Middle Ground (2000) 213 Capodanno a Milano / New Year in Milan 214 Angeli neri / Black Angels 216 Gli incaricati / The Entrusted Ones 218 Vi era quasi una voce / There Was Almost a Voice 220 Il formaggio / The Cheese 222 Quando ce ne andiamo / When We Go Away 224 Linea lombarda / Lombard Line 226 Il dottor K raddoppia / Doctor K Redoubles 228 Dalla terrazza / From the Balcony 230 Vi sono giornate di vento / There Are Windy Days 232 Mani / Hands 234 Vorrei passare alla storia / I Would Like to Enter History 236 from Poesie 1951-2001 / Poems 1951-2001 (2002) 239 Una delle cose / One of the Things 240 from Laltra meta / The Other Half (2004) 243 E pur mi giova la ricordanza / And Yet the Memory Cheers Me 244 Altra seduta dal dottor K / Other Session with Doctor K 246 Quartine del tempo libero / Free-Time Quatrains 248 Homo viator / Homo Viator 250 Uomo pensoso con gatto / Pensive Man with Cat 252 Laltra meta / The Other Half 254 "On Tradition and Discovery" by Luciano Erba 257 Notes 263

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Book SynopsisOffers poems that attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. This title asserts that the poet's materials - words, objects, phenomena - are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed.Trade ReviewWinner of a 2015 Whiting Award, Whiting Foundation Finalist for the 2012 Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University "There is no poem entitled Carnations in Carelli's first collection. But affection is its master mood, the affection of a vital young man for the world of his experience... They're real experiences, conducive to mixed feelings, yet Carelli writes of them in language so enlivening and fresh that they become blessings, which may be why most of the poems have churchly and theological titles."--Ray Olson, Booklist "Carnations pays homage to the poet's masters and ushers in an exciting new talent... [T]his wonderful collection is as good a guide as they get."--Piotr Florczyk, On the Seawall blog "Readers may fervently wish that this promisingly talented writer never quits his day job, as warming student egos in classrooms might possibly prove less inspirational than pies in Brooklyn."--Benjamin Ivry, Newark Star-Ledger "I picked up Anthony Carelli's Carnations, a first collection, not expecting to linger but curious, not least because Princeton's outstanding contemporary poets series, edited by Paul Muldoon, is reliably unpredictable. And as soon as I had started, I was charmed... He is able to write in a way that allows for the sublime and the absurd to come together. But Carelli's free-flowering humour never distracts from his purpose and the ending is masterly."--The Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) "This is a magnificent book... Ooh! God bless these poems!"--Raphael Allison, Rain Taxi Review of Books "[W]arm, conversational and colloquial."--Keith Richmond, TribuneTable of ContentsThe Sabbath 1 Glass Work Song 3 The Prophets 6 The Muse 7 The Crusades 10 The Builder 12 The Collar 13 The Apostles 16 Discernment 18 The Chance 19 In Ordinary Time 20 October Advent 21 The Begats 23 The Shepherd 27 Lectio Divina 28 The Hours 30 Agnus Dei 32 The Brooklyn Heavens 35 Evangelical 36 Birthday 38 Sermon 40 Original Sin 41 Faith 42 Incarnation 43 No, Euripides 46 Yahweh 47 Apples for Thoreau 48 Jerusalem 50 The Crucifixion 51 The Lord's Prayer 52 The Disciples 54 Sure 55 Amen 57

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Book SynopsisSze-Lorrain offers a ... vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a 'ruined elegance.' Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences--Dust jacket flap.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry One of Library Journal's Best Books 2015: Poetry "The poems in Fiona Sze-Lorrain's The Ruined Elegance resonate with a voice that is both fragile and strong, physical and metaphysical, ancient and contemporary. As such, the collection serves as a sounding board for the powerful silence that echoes through language over the ages and across the continents. A master of musicality and enlightening allusions, Sze-Lorrain has written an English-language collection that is both accessible to a wide audience and rewarding to the closest of readers."--Christina Cook, The Rumpus "Highly crafted and interesting... Sze-Lorrain does a compelling job of touching on new topics on each page. There is a lot of variation in style and the poems are relatively short with concise language, which makes this a fluid, informative, albeit sometimes difficult, read."--Brenna Marcuccilli, Pamplemousse "[Fiona Sze-Lorrain], who has lived in Europe, America and Asia, draws from every aspect of her broad perspective in this poetry collection. Lyricism and wisdom intertwine as she urges acute observation rather than an impossible search for exact truth: 'Believe me, / answers are small.'"--Aiyanna K. White, Columbia College Today "Sze-Lorrain's new book, a sharp requiem of buried emotionalism, fuses her serious imagination with an especially musically charged mind."--David Biespiel, American Poetry Review "Sze-Lorrain's new book of poems marks a fresh refinement in her art."--Michael Oliver, Antigonish ReviewTable of ContentsI WRONG EPIC Given Silence 3 Towering 4 I Wait for the Ruined Elegance 5 Back from the Aegean Sea 6 In the Thick of It 7 Ionian Supper 9 Partita, but Nothing to Do with Bach 10 Few Days before Christmas 13 II IN A GODLESS TIME Beginning 17 Spring Massacre 18 Mausoleum 19 Backstage 20 Day Seven 21 Center of a Journey 22 Am I What the Lake Gave Me 23 Meditation 24 Dusty Citadel 25 III THE BOOK, A SIMPLER GRAVE To Whom It May Concern 29 Granted Asylum 31 Against Prologue 32 To Survive When It Must 33 Midnight Almanac 34 Yield, Please 36 Anna Akhmatova, or the Thoughts She Didn't Write 37 An Uprising Committed to Longhand 38 Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz took more than fifty years before writing Ravensbruck down in La Traversee de la nuit 39 Chosen by the Narrator 40 Cantabile (ma stonato) 41 IV CAUGHT IN DEFIANCE Transparent 45 Ink Painting from the Joseon Dynasty 46 What's Left of a Sijo 47 Chiaroscuro, 2 a.m. 48 Bonnard's Naked Wife Leaving the Bathtub 49 La Chambre d'ecoute 51 Three Moves, Clockwise 52 Om dhrung svaha 54 My Hiroshige 55 Peintre 56 Jardins sous la pluie 57 Notes 59 Acknowledgments 61

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These poems do have a strong center, which springs from the speaker's intelligence, his measured rhythms and use of rhyme, and his sometimes detached outlook as he examines the world around him... Feinman's work deserves a broader audience."--Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post "A riveting collection by a poet who deserves to be better known."-- Carol Rumens, The GuardianTable of ContentsForeword by Harold Bloom ix The Constant Crime of Speech: The Life and Work of Alvin Feinman, by James Geary 1 PREAMBLES I Preambles 23 Old World Travelogue 26 Landscape (Sicily) 27 II Pilgrim Heights 31 The Sun Goes Blind 32 Scene Recalled 33 Solstice 34 Snow 35 Waters 36 Waters (2) 37 Earth and Sorrows 38 III Relic 41 Three Elementary Prophecies 42 1. For Departure 42 2. For Passage 43 3. For Return 44 What Speaking Silent Enough? 45 That Ground 46 This Face of Love 47 For the Child Unanswered in Her 48 Relic (2) 49 Relic (3) 50 Responsibilities and Farewell 51 The End of the Private Mind 52 This Tree 53 Death of the Poet 54 IV Statuary six poems 57 1. Tags, or Stations 57 2. All of This 58 3. Portrait 59 4. Sentinel 60 5. L'Impasse des Deux Anges 61 6. Covenant 62 Noon 63 True Night 64 Annus Mirabilis 65 Mythos 66 Mythos (2) 67 Visitations, Habitats 68 V November Sunday Morning 71 Stare at the Sea 72 Swathes of March 73 Stills: From a 30th Summer 74 Late Light 75 Day, Daylong 76 Double Poem of Night and Snow 77 Circumferences 78 LISTENING I Summer, Afternoon 83 At Sunset 84 Cancellations 85 1. Graffiti 85 2. Hiatus: Between Waking and Waking 86 Nightfall 87 II Listening FOUR POEMS 91 1. Morning, Arraignment with Image 91 2. The Listening Beasts, the Creatures 92 3. Then Leda 93 4. False Night, or Another 94 Wet Pavement 95 Second Marriage Song 96 THE UNPUBLISHED POEMS I The Way to Remember Her 101 For Lucina 102 Letter to Jane 103 For Enid and Jerry 104 Soliloquy of the Lover out of Season 105 The Reading 106 Sunset with Male Figure 108 [ untitled ] 109 [ untitled ] 110 [ untitled ] 111 A Farewell to the Grammarian of the Heart 112 In Praise of Space and Time 113 II Intruder 117 Lament for the Coming of Spring 118 Backyard, Hoboken, Summer 119 Evening in the Gentile Town 120 The Islander 121 Matinal 122 III Socratic Adieu 125 Neither/Nor 126 Song 127 Song for Evening 128 Postlude for the Metaphysician 129 [ untitled ] 130 Epilogue: Zone and Invocation 131 The Innocents 132 [ untitled ] 133 [ untitled ] 134 Preamble for a Stone Age 135 Stanzas for W. B. Yeats 136 IV Song of the Dusting Woman in the Library 139 Natura Naturans 140 An Heretic to Heretics 141 A Motive for the Fallacy of Imitative Form 142 Fragment for the Necessary Angel 143 The True Spain 144 Moon 145 War Dance of the Apocalyptic Pagan 146 Stone Anatomies 147

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These poems do have a strong center, which springs from the speaker's intelligence, his measured rhythms and use of rhyme, and his sometimes detached outlook as he examines the world around him... Feinman's work deserves a broader audience."--Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post "A riveting collection by a poet who deserves to be better known."-- Carol Rumens, The GuardianTable of ContentsForeword by Harold Bloom ix The Constant Crime of Speech: The Life and Work of Alvin Feinman, by James Geary 1 PREAMBLES I Preambles 23 Old World Travelogue 26 Landscape (Sicily) 27 II Pilgrim Heights 31 The Sun Goes Blind 32 Scene Recalled 33 Solstice 34 Snow 35 Waters 36 Waters (2) 37 Earth and Sorrows 38 III Relic 41 Three Elementary Prophecies 42 1. For Departure 42 2. For Passage 43 3. For Return 44 What Speaking Silent Enough? 45 That Ground 46 This Face of Love 47 For the Child Unanswered in Her 48 Relic (2) 49 Relic (3) 50 Responsibilities and Farewell 51 The End of the Private Mind 52 This Tree 53 Death of the Poet 54 IV Statuary six poems 57 1. Tags, or Stations 57 2. All of This 58 3. Portrait 59 4. Sentinel 60 5. L'Impasse des Deux Anges 61 6. Covenant 62 Noon 63 True Night 64 Annus Mirabilis 65 Mythos 66 Mythos (2) 67 Visitations, Habitats 68 V November Sunday Morning 71 Stare at the Sea 72 Swathes of March 73 Stills: From a 30th Summer 74 Late Light 75 Day, Daylong 76 Double Poem of Night and Snow 77 Circumferences 78 LISTENING I Summer, Afternoon 83 At Sunset 84 Cancellations 85 1. Graffiti 85 2. Hiatus: Between Waking and Waking 86 Nightfall 87 II Listening FOUR POEMS 91 1. Morning, Arraignment with Image 91 2. The Listening Beasts, the Creatures 92 3. Then Leda 93 4. False Night, or Another 94 Wet Pavement 95 Second Marriage Song 96 THE UNPUBLISHED POEMS I The Way to Remember Her 101 For Lucina 102 Letter to Jane 103 For Enid and Jerry 104 Soliloquy of the Lover out of Season 105 The Reading 106 Sunset with Male Figure 108 [ untitled ] 109 [ untitled ] 110 [ untitled ] 111 A Farewell to the Grammarian of the Heart 112 In Praise of Space and Time 113 II Intruder 117 Lament for the Coming of Spring 118 Backyard, Hoboken, Summer 119 Evening in the Gentile Town 120 The Islander 121 Matinal 122 III Socratic Adieu 125 Neither/Nor 126 Song 127 Song for Evening 128 Postlude for the Metaphysician 129 [ untitled ] 130 Epilogue: Zone and Invocation 131 The Innocents 132 [ untitled ] 133 [ untitled ] 134 Preamble for a Stone Age 135 Stanzas for W. B. Yeats 136 IV Song of the Dusting Woman in the Library 139 Natura Naturans 140 An Heretic to Heretics 141 A Motive for the Fallacy of Imitative Form 142 Fragment for the Necessary Angel 143 The True Spain 144 Moon 145 War Dance of the Apocalyptic Pagan 146 Stone Anatomies 147

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Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning poet, a collection that explores the complexities of transformation, cultures, and politics In Radioactive Starlings, award-winning poet Myronn Hardy explores the divergences between the natural world and technology, asking what progress means when it destroys the places that sustain us. Primarily set in North Africa and theTrade Review"[Radioactive Starlings] is an illuminating, if occasionally difficult, collection."---Publishers Weekly"What Myronn Hardy attempts in Radioactive Starlings, few dare to dream of doing, and rightly so, for rare is the poet that is capable of the breadth, depth, and density that characterize his exploration. I know this, because, reading it, I am overrun."---Ciahnan Darrell, Marginalia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essay on Man . . . was one of the most widely disseminated and well-known publications of the 18th century, notably impacting Enlightenment writers Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jones provides a reliable modern version." * Library Journal *"The book is exemplary in its scholarship. [Jones] has unearthed a multiplicity of references and illuminates the antecedents of Pope's ideas with authority. This is an edition which should be recommended to every student and teacher of the poem…. There is no sensible criticism that could be levelled at his work in this volume." * Penniless Press *"Jones's edition makes the energetically paradoxical Essay on Man accessible…. The introduction is extensive and excellent."---Robert Phiddian, Australian Book Review

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Book Synopsis"A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--Trade Review"Michael Sells, a highly regarded expert on the history and literature of Islam, and translator of this splendid book, provides all we might need to understand the poems in their broader historical context. . . . It is the clarity of his translations that bring these poems back for us, their marvels intact."---Allan Graubard, American Book Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A deeply informed, academic work, but highly readable."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"The Man of the Crowd, by Scott Peeples, has something for everyone. It should be equally attractive to Edgar Allan Poe scholars, aficionados, and those who simply want to read more of Poe’s stories, poems, and essays."---Henry T. Edmonson III, Law & Liberty"Engaging. . . . [The Man of the Crowd] succeeds admirably in bringing us closer to a man we can now better appreciate as part of the crowd rather than a remote and inexplicable monad."---Ian Finseth, Edgar Allan Poe Review"Peeples convincingly demonstrates that Poe remained “in transit” throughout his life, despite his literary successes, and was never in full control of his career. This accessible book will interest casual readers and Poe scholars alike." * Choice *"What sets Scott Peeples’s ‘compact biography’ apart from other recent work is that it also concerns cities, specifically Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, where Poe spent much of his life and which stirred his imagination. Peeples’s aim is to re-contextualize the image of Poe as a campy ‘nowhere man,’. . . . In detailing Poe’s moves from city to city, Peeples presents an ambitious young man seeking to support his family and to establish himself as a writer, critic, and editor."---Katherine J. Kim, The Metropole"[A] superb new biograph[y] of Poe. . . . The Man of the Crowd . . . give[s] us a clearer view of Poe as a man and an artist, while at the same time showing how the myth mill about him was busy from the start, forming and deforming his choices, and creating the brand of Poe we know today."---Jonathan Elmer, Public Books"A welcome, engaging introduction to Poe’s life. . . . This compact biography is an affable ramble, a genial journey, with Poe through the years. It knowledgeably and accessibly recounts Poe’s urban contexts and relates his relevant texts. . . . The whole is interestingly complemented by archival images of contemporary maps and periodicals and by archival photographs, blended photographs, and recent photographs by Michelle Van Parys of various Poe sites and locales. This volume is a useful vade mecum for our armchair Poe peregrinations."---Richard Kopley, Poe Studies"Well-researched . . . [and] deeply informed. . . . Scott Peeples's streamlined account of Poe's journeys . . . grounds itself determinedly in the arc of his life's movement through various urban social realities. . . . This biography achieves its freshness through framing Poe's life as a series of chapters related to the cities in which he took up primary residence."---Stephen Rachman, Poe Studies"A highly absorbing, important, and superbly crafted study that deserves a place on the top shelf of Poe biographies."---Jason Richards, American Literary History

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Book SynopsisA major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, this volume gathers more than 30 new poems by Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work.Trade Review"The book is a feast. And if you flip to the back, where her earliest poems are, you can see Wilner, right from the beginning, working with the question of a new mythmaking."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors""A welcome addition to Princeton University Press’s excellent series, the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation."---David Cooke, Modern Poetry in Translation

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nate Klug’s Hosts and Guests examines the sometimes uneasy, shifting economies between what serves as host and what is hosted in an array of contexts, from the Anthropocene to mother and fetus. . . . But it is perhaps in his delicate, intricate syntactical suspensions and arrangements, as much as in his arresting image systems, that Klug conveys the beautiful struggle of risking love and belief in bodies seemingly made to be lost to us."---Lisa Russ Spaar, Los Angeles Review of Books"Klug is writing some of the strongest poetry you can find in American letters these days. Stoically fierce and vividly alert. The signature surfaces of a Nate Klug poem . . . are often somehow simultaneously beautifully smooth and a little edgy. But they are also chiseled and efficient, and these qualities together are a sign of the richness in the depths they signify."---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's"Intelligent, wry, learned, and at times witty . . . Klug bears witness to the fruitful cross-pollinations of contemporary poetry and contemporary religious faith…he is worth watching. - Library Journal""Klug is a poet of attention for whom metre is a slow-mo technology that lets you notice what’s in front of you. But he also finds words for interiority, helping you notice emotions that get lost in the rush of the everyday. - James K.A. Smith, Image Journal newsletter""Klug, at his best, can marry image, movement, and melody into precise order… I find myself…so refreshed by the poems of Hosts and Guests. - Christian Detisch, 32poems.com""Quirky and philosophical. . . . the poems in Hosts and Guests are . . . both exploratory and concise; they wander without filler or clutter. Klug’s descriptions are sharp, subtle, perceptive. . . . Here is the startling opposite of dogma’s violence: a free thinker who keeps running into God despite his disavowals."---Caroline Pittman, Threepenny Review

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Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press""A splendid follow-up to the LJ best-booked The Ruined Elegance with broader appeal." * Library Journal, starred review *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth book of original poems, Rain in Plural . . . uses language to uncover questions of citizenship, memory, and image. We love Sze-Lorrain’s lush, musical sensibilities. . . . If you’ve enjoyed her work in the past, you’re sure to enjoy Rain in Plural, too!" * Lantern Review *"The poetry in her newest collection, Rain in Plural, is neither a mélange nor a mosaic of cultural, intellectual and linguistic referents, but a deeply intertwined layering . . . Sze-Lorrain seems at home and a visitor everywhere, connecting dots across cultures and continents, dipping into languages and cuisines. If there is a globalized future for English-language literature, this is perhaps an early glance at it."---Asian Review of Books, Peter Gordon"Provocative . . . lyrical. . . . These lovely poems slide between equally compelling realities that don’t seem to belong together but ultimately unify and bring sense, compassion, and beauty."---Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"The collection reveals the inner-life of a truly remarkable poet. Radiantly intelligent, Sze-Lorrain’s work is as musically intoxicating as the zheng she plays with precision . . . Rain in Plural is a collection of poetry deserving of multiple reads in the quietude of soft light over one’s left shoulder."---Michael Escoubas, Quill & Parchment"Rain in Plural is a collection that quietly insists on your attention."---Lisa Higgs, The Adroit Journal"There is something for every reader in Rain in Plural . . . Rain in Plural is an invitation to a myriad of entanglements with the inner life, and what grows from the seeds planted there."---Hannah VanderHart, EcoTheo Review"Rain in Plural is a lush and intimate study of the porous boundaries of personal life. Inflected with quietude and hardened by rigorous examination, Sze-Lorrain’s careful eye ranges over landscapes both within and outside the self, mining language for new entry points." * Yaddo News *"Fiona Sze-Lorrain's much-awaited fourth poetry collection, Rain in Plural, is a polyphonic gathering of wide-ranging themes. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s work allows us to grasp, for a moment, the points of contact that translation perpetually seeks. Therein lies the philosophical importance of Rain in Plural: eschewing equivalence, Sze-Lorrain crafts a poetics of border spaces and contact zones."---Lara Norgaard, Singapore Unbound"Such unexpected juxtapositions lend the collection a quirky vividness. Though consecutive lines and stanzas often touch on drastically different subjects, the poems still offer a sense of wholeness. . . . Regardless of her subject, Sze-Lorrain manages to be inventive and original without sacrificing authenticity and musical balance."---Maggie Wang, Harvard Review"The poems in this very good collection, even those that are slight on the page, have an epic, Yeatsian sweep to them, a grandeur of statement found in a lightness of touch."---Dominic Leonard, Poetry London

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, Colorado Review""The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year""A New Statesman Book of the Year""A Daily Telegraph Best Poetry Book of the Year""A Tablet Book of the Year""A dazzling, scholarly triumph."---Michael Dirda, Washington Post"Mendelson has championed a reassessment of the poet’s later work. He has not achieved this through polemic, but rather through a patient and careful effort. . . . I have been reading and teaching and writing about Auden’s poetry for many years, but I have taken the opportunity offered by these two volumes to try, as best I can, to encounter it all anew."---Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine"Glorious."---Bel Mooney, Daily Mail"Exhilaratingly prospective. . . . some of the most vivid poems ever committed to English . . . these two books are a monument to the acumen, scholarship, and perseverance of Edward Mendelson."---Ron Horning, Brooklyn Rail"Magnificent. . . . Mendelson’s Auden has long been regarded as a monument of literary scholarship, and these two heavy poetry volumes complete the grounds for that acclaim. . . . An amazing thicket of scholarship and commentary draped around some of the most-studied and most-quoted poetry of the 20th century."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review"To read Auden’s Complete Works therefore is not just to encounter the inventions of a polymathic, often ingenious writer and poet, but to enter into a ‘whole climate of opinion,’ to explore an age by way of one of its representative figures. . . . Edifying."---James Matthew Wilson, National Review"The new two-volume set of W. H. Auden's complete poems, meticulously assembled and presented by Edward Mendelson, is highly recommended."---David Lehman, Best American Poetry Blog"[Auden’s] oeuvre has been given a new life. . . . [in these] two new and heavily annotated volumes. . . . [Mendelson’s] mastery of this sprawling material is legendary."---Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal"As authoritative a presentation as we are likely ever to get. . . . Wonderful books."---David Mason, Hudson Review"In a remarkable work of scholarship, editor Edward Mendelson has assembled every poem and every revision—and explains every reference. . . . For the budding or mature poet, it’s indispensable." * Mosaic *"A remarkable editorial enterprise."---David Bromwich, Times Literary Supplement"These volumes show the poetic beauty and intellectual audacity of Auden’s work with a power that left me exultant."---Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement"Auden can be magically conversational, charming and sophisticated, vivid, lyrical and amusing. A master of rhyme and metre, he has a brilliant range of allusions and important ideas, wisdom and moral force."---Jeffrey Meyers, PN Review"A grand thing."---Tristram Fane Saunders, Daily Telegraph"Mendelson could not have conceived a more fitting tribute to this poet than doing for Auden’s work what Auden was always attempting to do for his own life: organize it intellectually into a grand system that takes in every detail and provides aesthetic satisfaction to the soul. . . . The definitive edition of Auden’s poetry."---Stephen J. Schuler, Ad Fontes"[These two volumes] compiled and magisterially edited by Edward Mendelson, a leading Auden authority, should show readers what a versatile and commanding voice the poet possessed."---Andrew Rosenheim, The Tablet"Edward Mendelson’s two-volume collection of Auden’s poems, spanning 1927 to 1973, is a welcome arrival, compiled by sage hands. . . . [Mendelson] is perhaps the poet’s best reader."---Nick Ripatrazone, National Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize, Arrowsmith Press""Incredible. . . .A stunningly good book of poems."---Elisa Gabbert, New York Times"Tawanda Mulalu's first book is an energetic and energizing assemblage of restlessly shifting modes, juggling forms and shuffling styles. The linguistic playfulness that animates his poems conceals neither their serious intent nor their underlying melancholy."---Troy Jollimore, Washington Post"A sensory and exciting debut. . . . These inventive, lyrical, and well-crafted poems offer memorable insights at every turn." * Publishers Weekly *"The collection’s energy is constant, and some of the poems’ most straightforward moments are the most affecting. . . . A sharp, playful, and thoughtful work for poetry lovers." * Library Journal *"These fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. . . . [Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die] presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring-one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image." * The Rumpus *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize, Arrowsmith Press""Incredible. . . .A stunningly good book of poems."---Elisa Gabbert, New York Times"Tawanda Mulalu's first book is an energetic and energizing assemblage of restlessly shifting modes, juggling forms and shuffling styles. The linguistic playfulness that animates his poems conceals neither their serious intent nor their underlying melancholy."---Troy Jollimore, Washington Post"A sensory and exciting debut. . . . These inventive, lyrical, and well-crafted poems offer memorable insights at every turn." * Publishers Weekly *"The collection’s energy is constant, and some of the poems’ most straightforward moments are the most affecting. . . . A sharp, playful, and thoughtful work for poetry lovers." * Library Journal *"These fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. . . . [Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die] presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring-one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image." * The Rumpus *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The skillfully translated first English-language edition of Pusterla’s work spans landscapes, memories, dreams, wars, and the ordinariness of daily life, energetically rendering a voice of striking attention, one willing to notice near-constant juxtaposition. . . . Pusterla’s voice is a kindly light in the midst of darkness." * Publishers Weekly *"As with Leopardi, in spite of the poet’s despair, it is the poetry that brings its own consolation. No doubt Pusterla would agree with W.H. Auden that, as a poet, all he has is a voice or, to quote his own beautifully cadenced and defiant words at the end of ‘Landscape’: ‘E le parole: nessuno adesso me le ruberà,’/ ‘And words: now no one will rob me of them.'"---David Cooke, The High Window

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An incredibly beautiful volume."---Matthew Goulish, EcoTheo Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A clear-eyed vantage of America. . . . [Aurora Americana] is in itself the record of a complicated parting triggered by being an expatriate, and the necessity of returning home."---Rebecca Morgan Frank, Poetry Foundation

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Book SynopsisMost of these poems first appeared in Poetry magazine in the decade from 1967-76 and quickly became underground classics. Brought together here--with more recent work--they reveal their coherence and their urgency. From "Blake's Seasons": "To Spring" My God! The morning buttonholed me and you, Young Spring, slid down the facets from its crystal-LiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*April Divinail, pg. ix*Recipe, pg. 3*Cooked Goose, pg. 4*Temperatures, pg. 5*La Cuisine Francaise, pg. 6*Conserves, pg. 7*"Rain ... ", pg. 8*"To Spring", pg. 15*"To Summer", pg. 16*"To Autumn", pg. 17*"To Winter", pg. 18*Nightingale, After Keats, pg. 19*Journey Of The Magi, pg. 22*Four Last Poems, pg. 25*Wall, pg. 29*The Window, pg. 36*An Evening Walk, Some Years Later, pg. 44*Alfoxton Park, pg. 54*Crust And Key, pg. 60*December, pg. 68*Hillside, pg. 77*The Chevrefoil Of Marie de France, pg. 83*Terrain, pg. 90*Tree, pg. 103

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Book SynopsisThese translations are a book length selection in English of the poetry of Robert Marteau, a distinguished contemporary French poet, novelist, and art critic. His poems have been admired in France for their richness of language and imagery, and for their densely particular rendering of the actual world. Reflecting M. Marteau's deep preoccupation wiTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*TABLE OF CONTENTS, pg. v*WORKS BY ROBERT MARTEAU, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*I. FROM Royaumes (1962), pg. 15*II. FROM Travaux sur la terre (1966), pg. 49*III. FROM Sibylles (1971), pg. 85*IV. FROM Traite du blanc et des teintures (1978), pg. 99*NOTES, pg. 111

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Book SynopsisThe poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permaneTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*The Fields of Sleep (Summer, pg. 5*Earth and Air (Fall), pg. 12*Fix It (Winter), pg. 15*Hortus Conclusus (Spring, pg. 22*Over the Edge, pg. 26*Pass It On) I, pg. 33*Pass It On, II, pg. 34*The Blind Gates, pg. 36*Teaching Emily Dickinson, pg. 37*The Lost Filling, pg. 38*Mortalities, pg. 39*Pass It On) III, pg. 41*Teaching the Iliad, pg. 43*Philoctetes, pg. 44*Pass It On, W, pg. 45*Teacher between Terms, pg. 47*Generations, pg. 49*Summer in White, Green, and Black, pg. 55*First Hight Back, pg. 56*Odds Against, pg. 59*The Writing on the Wall, pg. 61*The Burial of Jonathan Brown 1983-1985, pg. 62*Three Silences, pg. 64*Four Angers, pg. 66*Five Botched Goodbyes, pg. 68*The End of Summer, pg. 71*Nourishment, pg. 72

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Book Synopsis"The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem," writes Richard Pevear, "is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement. Once I hear it, I can find words for it. But the essential thing, finally, is simultaneity--the completion of a shape, a thought, an emotion, a figure, all at the same time. The Trojan War, the figures of GreekTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*To Autumn, pg. 3*Double Labor, pg. 4*Energy, pg. 5*Speech, pg. 6*Lykaon, pg. 7*For a Political Prisoner, pg. 8*The Gardener, pg. 9*Summer and the Sorgue, pg. 10*Wild Asters, pg. 11*Return of the Light, pg. 12*Summer Storm, pg. 13*The Beautiful Acceptance, pg. 15*Mnemosyne, pg. 17*Motion and Rest, pg. 18*Little Acmeist Elegy, pg. 20*Waiting, pg. 21*Offering, pg. 22*Les Illumines, pg. 23*The City, pg. 24*Talisman, pg. 25*Prehistory, pg. 26*Two Russian Goat Songs, pg. 29*Epilogue, pg. 32*Provisional Ode, pg. 33*In Exile, pg. 35*Building as Farming, pg. 36*Auberge de Peyrebeilhe, pg. 37*Balin le Savage, pg. 38*A Romanesque Carving, pg. 40*"You lie back ... ", pg. 43*"A harvest of our days ...", pg. 44*Still Life, pg. 45*"Quiet night...", pg. 46*For You, from Elsewhere, pg. 47*"I remember ... ", pg. 48*"Not the long winters ...", pg. 49*"Dazed from too much ...", pg. 50*"A domed hive ... ", pg. 51*"Midsummer night...", pg. 52*In a Country House, pg. 53*"Almond eyes ... ", pg. 54*"Time has been rich ... ", pg. 55*"I looked in your eyes ... ", pg. 56*You, Here?, pg. 57*From the Old Welsh, pg. 58*La Beale Isode, pg. 59*The Stars Again, pg. 60*"The change I had foreseen ...", pg. 61*December 24, 1976, pg. 62*The Visit, pg. 63*Night Talk, pg. 64

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Book SynopsisThis book has much of the modern sense of the individual being at a loss, but a partial answer comes from the inexhaustible freshness and splendor of the environment, a possession that can come back to us equally from some idea of Petra or Nineveh or from a roadside ditch by a mill." Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library usesTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*THE TRADITION, pg. 3*CHILDHOOD OF A SCIENTIST, pg. 5*THE EXPLORER, pg. 7*THE BONE HUNTER, pg. 9*ARCHAEOLOGIST OBSERVING AN EXCAVATION, pg. 11*THE PAINTER, pg. 13*A MAN OF POOR ORIGINS, pg. 16*LAMENT OF A HUNTER, pg. 19*THE LIST, pg. 23*THE DIFFERENCE, pg. 24*NOON, AUGUST FIELDS, pg. 25*TO SET LOVE IN ORDER, pg. 26*ALIVE IN THE DAWN, pg. 27*DEAF PRESENCE, pg. 28*HAMMER STROKES, pg. 29*CIRCUS FOR THE DEAF, pg. 31*AGAIN, pg. 33*THE SIGNS, pg. 35*THE WIDOW QUEEN, pg. 37*THE WEDDING FEAST, pg. 40*THE BOY, pg. 45*GODS THOUGH DOOMED TO DIE, pg. 46*DAYS ALONG THE BANKS, pg. 48*ARE YOU AWAKE, CHILD, pg. 50*MEMORY, pg. 52*THE GRAIL, pg. 53*REFLECTION, pg. 54*DWARF WORLD, pg. 55*DERELICTS, pg. 56*THE WANDERERS, pg. 57*PUTTING UP FOR THE NIGHT, pg. 58*THE CHINESE WRITING ACADEMY, pg. 63*THEY STILL KEPT SCRIBBLING, pg. 65*STRAND, pg. 67*THE SECRET MAKER, pg. 69*THE AGE OF THE PROPHETS, pg. 70*WE DECIDED THIS WAS ALL, pg. 71*CIRCE, pg. 75*DON JUAN, pg. 77*PANDORA'S BOX, pg. 79*MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 4 ON THE RECORD PLAYER, pg. 81*OEDIPUS, pg. 83*STILL ANOTHER FAUST, pg. 85*ORPHEUS IN ONTARIO, pg. 87*XERXES CHASTISES OCEAN, pg. 89*AHASUERUS READS LUCRETIUS, pg. 91*THE ANTI-LUCRETIUS OF CARDINAL POLIGNAC, pg. 93*THE BOY CAESAR, pg. 95*KINGDOM AND EMPIRE, pg. 96*PETRA, pg. 97*AENEAS, pg. 101*THE HELMSMAN PALINURUS, pg. 104*THE LAND OF COLCHIS, pg. 105*TITHONUS, pg. 107*PROMETHEUS, pg. 109*JONAH TRIES TO REMEMBER, pg. 111*DANTE'S VERGIL, pg. 113*AFTER KONG, pg. 115*MEMNON, pg. 116*THE FOUR HUNDRED, pg. 117*TIRESIAS, pg. 123*THE SPHINX, pg. 127*LETTER FROM THE VERGE OF YIN PROVINCE, pg. 130*LUCRETIUS IN THE NEW WORLD, pg. 133

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Book SynopsisThis new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week,' " Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that were not collected by the poet himself but whose English translation he authorized during hisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface to the Third Edition, pg. v*Foreword, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. xviii*Contents, pg. xix*Mythistorema, pg. 1*Gymnopaidia, pg. 61*Book of Exercises, pg. 71*Logbook I, pg. 203*Logbook II, pg. 273*"Thrush", pg. 317*Logbook III, pg. 341*Three Secret Poems, pg. 397*From Books of Exercises II, pg. 431*Turning Point, pg. 449*The Cistern, pg. 491*Bibliographical Note, pg. 531*Notes, pg. 537*Biographical Data, pg. 549

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Book SynopsisCollected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton UTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry, pg. 1*1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus' First Idyll, pg. 25*2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23), pg. 47*3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48, pg. 66*4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2), pg. 73*5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll, pg. 85*6. Theocritus' Seventh Idyll and Lycidas, pg. 110*7. Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44, pg. 167*8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls, pg. 176*9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry, pg. 210*10. Virgil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue, pg. 235*11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil's Third and Fourth Eclogues, pg. 265*12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9, pg. 271*13. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil, pg. 301*14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26), pg. 330*15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus, pg. 336*Index, pg. 341

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Book SynopsisIn spite of her renown in Germany :is a distinguished poet as well as a writer of fiction and essays, Marie Luisc Kaschnitz (190!-1974) is scarcely recognized in the United States. This first book-length translation into English of her work makes available a selection of poems that dale from the last two decades of her life and that articulate, inTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Introduction, pg. vii*From Neue Gedichte (1957), pg. 1*From Dein Schweigen - MUeine Stimme (1962), pg. 25*From Ein Wort Weiter (1965), pg. 63*From Kein Zauberspruch (1972), pg. 73*The Lockert Library Of Poetry In Translation, pg. 112

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Book Synopsis"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a littlTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vi*Contents, pg. vii*In Touch, pg. 1*The Tracks, pg. 5*Elegy for a Cousin, pg. 7*Writing to You after Sunset, pg. 8*The Vanished, pg. 9*A Season of Farewell, pg. 10*Lepidoptera, pg. 11*Settlements, pg. 12*The Encyclopedia of the Stones: A Pastoral for Samuel H. Monk, pg. 13*The Morning After, pg. 25*For Deucalion and Pyrrha, pg. 26*The Dead, pg. 27*Homing, pg. 28*For October, pg. 30*Set, pg. 32*Elegy for the Left Hand, pg. 33*Instructions for a Commando, pg. 34*Plowing Under, pg. 35*A Coast, pg. 36*A Few Things for the End, pg. 37*The Lake, pg. 38*A Ransom Note, pg. 39*An End of Ends, pg. 41*Somebody Else, pg. 45*Sieges, pg. 46*The Crime, pg. 47*Elegy for a Deaf Mute, pg. 48*Soutliern Railway Embankment, Charlottesville, Va., pg. 50*In the Museum of the River, pg. 52*Moving In, pg. 54*The Operations, pg. 55*Ashes, pg. 56*The Condemned, pg. 57*Close, pg. 58*The Family of Ties, pg. 59*Returns, pg. 60*Driver Education, pg. 61*Elegy for Ninety-Two and Two, pg. 63*The Will, pg. 65*Nine Thousand Days, pg. 66*Elegy for One Who Never Lived, pg. 67*A Little Answer, pg. 68*Onthe Anniversary of Your Death, pg. 69*Going North for the Winter, pg. 70*Coda for October in May they sing of October, pg. 71*The Abandoned Tracks, pg. 72*An Age, pg. 74

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Book SynopsisA noted historian of Renaissance English literature and scholar of comparative literature, Rosalie L. Colie was also a serious poet. This volume brings together 31 of her poems, illustrating the striking interplay between her scholarship and her personal response to the world. The title poem and the shorter poems that follow testify to Professor CoTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Atlantic Wall, pg. 3*Farmstead, pg. 41*A Divination in October for Spring, pg. 43*Meadow in Spring, pg. 44*Petrarch's Vaucluse, pg. 45*Homo Faber on His Birthday, pg. 46*Timepiece, pg. 48*Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, pg. 49*Cordelia, pg. 50*Views of Delft, pg. 51*Eve to Adam, pg. 54*The Shortest Distance, pg. 55*Leda, pg. 59*State of Nature, pg. 61*Earth's Sonnet, pg. 62*Eurydice, pg. 63*A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, pg. 64*A Valediction of the Imagination, pg. 66*I. Through Judgment's brazen bray, pg. 68*II. At that fanfaronade, pg. 69*III. Met at this instant, pg. 70*IV. Our shoulders sore from shoving up the earth, pg. 71*V. The untold time we line up for our turn, pg. 72*VI. The angel, poised with scales, pg. 73*VII. If Judgment were, pg. 74*VIII. What human dignity may be, pg. 75*The End, pg. 76*Night Animals, pg. 77*Amour Pro pre, pg. 78*Falling Out, pg. 79*My love is neat, pg. 80*Your hurt is only in my mind, pg. 81*Where I Lie, pg. 82*My peregrine slipped her jesses, pg. 83*Pastoral, pg. 84*Most memorable pains we manage to forget, pg. 85

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Book SynopsisDescribing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering, family, and survival. However, it is also about a world beyond such things, where identity burns by itself, where the self-changes but never dies. The booTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*ON THE ROOF, pg. 3*THE MEASURE OF A DACHSHUND'S JAW, pg. 4*HER REPERTORY, pg. 6*CREEDMOOR: THE LOCKED WARD, pg. 7*THE COLOR OF NEVILLE BRAND'S FRONT TEETH, pg. 10*WIVES OF GENIUSES, pg. 11*THE VISITORS, pg. 12*PUMAS, pg. 15*WIDOW, pg. 16*GIMPEL THE FOOL, pg. 17*FREUD'S LAST DREAM, pg. 21*THE ARTIFICE, pg. 23*LOSING, pg. 24*LATE MORNING, pg. 25*THE KNUCKLER, pg. 26*SIBLINGS, pg. 28*MIDDLE AGE, pg. 29*CAVE PAINTINGS, pg. 30*SURGERY, pg. 31*RELEASE, pg. 35*THE SOUL PLAYS YOU BET YOUR LIFE, pg. 43*THE SOUL GROWN LAZY, pg. 45*THE SOUL WALKS OUT, pg. 46*KINSHIP, pg. 47*THE MILD, pg. 49*A FORMER LIFE, pg. 52*A DEATH, pg. 53*FILLING THE STRAIGHT, pg. 55*DEPARTURE, pg. 56*INTO, pg. 57*AWAY & TOWARDS, pg. 58*V, pg. 59*NANA'S VISIT, pg. 63*WIDOWER, pg. 64*THE FIXER, pg. 66*THE LOST WIFE, pg. 67*RECONCILIATION, pg. 69*YOU OWE THEM EVERYTHING, pg. 70*FOR ONE WHO MOVED AWAY, pg. 71*GERIATRICS, pg. 72*THE WARD WIFE, pg. 73*HIS CREMATION, pg. 75*FINDING THEM, pg. 76*PERSONAL, pg. 78*THE WEEPER, pg. 79*BOY, pg. 80

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Book SynopsisTasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.Trade ReviewWhat a tale it is!... [Esolen's] notes are full of fascinating and comment and helpful information... These notes, a thoughtful introduction, and above all a winning translation that captures the charms of Tasso's verse should give Tasso the wide audience in the English-speaking world that he has so far never had, but richly deserves. -- Bernard Knox New York Review of Books This is the best way to read [Tasso] at the moment. Do it. -- Colin Burrow London Review of Books Now English readers have available to them Anthony Esolen's readable and accurate verse translation of Jerusalem Delivered. Esolen copes admirably with Tasso's octave stanza... It is not only beauty that Jerusalem Delivered still holds for us. In our time, when the future of the Holy City is contested once again, and sectarian conflicts are on the rise, and a Tridentine spirit, a fear of internal dissent, has returned to the Roman church, Tasso's magniloquent epic still has something to say. -- David Quint New Republic A solid verse translation... Esolen observes the basic shape, rhythm, and rhetorical movement of the original ottava rima but never sacrifices poetry or meaning to rigid form. The result is both highly readable and truer to the spirit of Tasso than [Edward] Fairfax's rendition... An important contribution. Library Journal [A] much-needed new translation... No one will fail to admire the careful enormity of the undertaking. Publishers Weekly This new translation of Gerusalemme liberata is a very fine, highly readable version of Tasso's epic about the First Crusade. The Gerusalemme is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature and a culmination of Italian Renaissance poetry. It is good to have a modern, affordable edition of Tasso in print again, in a fast-flowing English verse that is infinitely more accessible to the ordinary reader than the Elizabethan rendition of Edward Fairfax... Tasso's work is charged with the fiery passion of youth. Esolen's translation captures this fire... A very useful feature of Esolen's edition, besides the notes and index, is a 'Cast of Characters' at the end, where each personage is identified, with words and actions noted for each canto. -- Anne Barbeau Gardiner New Oxford Review Until now, the rollicking story of the heroes, villains, witches and lovers was available in only one modern English translation. Anthony M. Esolen has corrected this shortage in masterful style and his translation restores not only the epic grandeur of the original but also its excitement. -- Daniel Boice Catholic Library World [Esolen] executes verse with art that it rarely intrudes upon the reader's consciousness, and then only to invoke admiration at the accomplishment of both the poet-scholars involved in telling the tale... This edition is eminently satisfying. Because Esolen takes such care to make the text accessible, he offers an excellent introduction to Tasso for new generations of readers, and he succeeds in awakening an interest in the original Italian, as well as in all of Tasso's works, with this translation. -- Karen L. Nelson Sixteenth Century Journal We are fortunate to have Anthony Esolen's new verse Englishing of Torquato Tasso's masterpiece... Thanks to Esolen we now have an English Tasso worthy of use in our classrooms without the sort of fussy apologies that can undermine the experience we are trying to provide our students. In translating the Liberata Esolen has undertaken a daunting challenge and met it handsomely. -- Lawrence F. Rhu Spenser Review Jerusalem Delivered offers a thorough introduction tackling T.'s relationship to Ariosto, his struggle with the problems of truth, authority, and religion, and notes on the characters. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 2003Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on the TranslationIntroductionJerusalem DeliveredChapter 1. Canto OneChapter 2. Canto TwoChapter 3. Canto ThreeChapter 4. Canto FourChapter 5. Canto FiveChapter 6. Canto Six Chapter 7. Canto SevenChapter 8. Canto EightChapter 9. Canto NineChapter 10. Canto TenChapter 11. Canto ElevenChapter 12. Canto TwelveChapter 13. Canto ThirteenChapter 14. Canto FourteenChapter 15. Canto FifteenChapter 16. Canto SixteenChapter 17. Canto SeventeenChapter 18. Canto EighteenChapter 19. Canto NineteenChapter 20. Canto TwentyAllegory of the PoemCast of CharactersNotesBibliographical EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisRenowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.Trade Review"Charles Martin's new book, Signs & Wonders, is elegant and powerful. Past and present commingle as he writes poems of contemporary life in traditional form, and with a remarkable range: 'Poem for the Millennium' in accentual verse, and one of the best 9/11 poems we have in terza rima. Taking his cue from Catullus and Ovid, whose work he has brilliantly translated, Martin creates his own new vision of the world in language of praise with an underlying tone of combined horror and awe." (Grace Schulman) "As Signs & Wonders demonstrates so triumphantly, you'd have a hard time to find better contemporary poems than Charles Martin's. I can only be grateful for 'Ovid to His Book,' 'Support,' 'Poem for the Millennium,; 'Near Jeffrey's Hook,' 'After 9/11,' 'Poison,' and many more. Martin does not merely write well-made, shapely poems; he charges them with energy. I'm placing my bet that they will last." (X. J. Kennedy) "Like an expert cellist in full control of phrasing and intonation, he can make a line of metrical verse sonorous or playful, tenebrous or scintillating, elegiac or mercurial." (David Yezzi)"Table of ContentsDirections for AssemblyI. The Life in LettersThe Flower ThiefSouvenirSome Kind of HappinessThe Sacred MonstersWords to Utter at NightfallMind in the TreesAutopsychographySupportEast Side, West Side1. Vermeer at the Frick: His Mistress and Maid2. John Koch at the New-York Historical Society: The PartyTo HimselfBrooklyn in the SeventiesThis Organizing SolitudeThis Organizing SolitudeTheory VictoriousII. Some RomansOn a Roman Perfume BottleAva PacisOvid to His BookThree Sonnets from the Romanesco of G.G. Belli1. The Good Soldiers2. The Spaniard3. The Coffee House PhilosopherIII. Near Jeffrey's HookThe Twentieth Century in PhotographsPoem for the MillenniumWho Knows What's Best?Getting CardedFor the End of the Age of IronyNear Jeffrey's HookForebodingAfter 9/11After Wang WeiPoisonAcknowledgments

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Book Synopsis From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes’s collection sew together stories of dislocation and loss, of survival and hope, and of a world patched together by a family over five generations of diaspora. This is Menes’s tapestry of the Americas. From Miami to Cuba, Panama to Bolivia and Peru, through the textures, sounds, colors, shapes, and scents of exile and emigration, we find refuge at last in a sense of wholeness and belonging residing in this intensely felt, finely crafted poetry. Trade Review"Well versed in the uprooted life of an immigrant, Menes's profound references not only convey local color but also bring the essence of his family history eye level with the reader in these striking verses."—World Literature Today"The poems in the collection are powerful, yet engaging narratives crafted by a gifted poet and story-teller."—Mary Alexander, Caribbean Writer "With flowing language, vivid imagery, and brilliant word choices, Menes can tell a heart-wrenching story in four stanzas."—Mary Christy, Big Muddy“Drenched with the flavor and savor of the Caribbean, Orlando Ricardo Menes’s Fetish is a treat for the mouth and the ear, as well as for the mind. Striking characters abound: Zvi Mendel, ‘retired tobacconist to Havana’s Ashkenazim’; an unnamed female survivor of a prison called ‘Den of the Lioness.’ Anger at injustice often surfaces. The beauty of the region springs up everywhere. But it is sound that powers these poems, a piquant blend of English spiced with Español. . . . These delectable poems beg to be tasted. To be spoken. To be sung.”—Charles Harper Webb, author of Shadow Ball “Open Orlando Ricardo Menes’s exquisite poetry collection Fetish, and you’ll quickly see a folk sculpture of Eleggua, though I should warn you. In the Cuban Santería religion, this deity has 101 manifestations, or roads, he may take you down. In this way, he is not unlike Menes’s poems, which may lead us, in a matter of pages, from suburban Indiana to Miami to Panamá to Kichwa-speaking villages in the Andes. Although the destinies of these roads offer vastly different insights, if we survive them, there is a sensibility that unifies the whole: Menes does not easily identify with grand ideologies and personal arrogance. Rather, he keeps his eye on those who go largely unrecorded by history: a poor great-uncle alienated from his own family by politics, a daughter with severe ADHD, a papá assiduously mending used furniture, a political prisoner who survives cruelty by caring for the earth’s smallest creatures—lame rat, pregnant mouse, chirping cricket.”—Maurice Kilwein Guevara, author of Poema and Postmortem“Orlando Ricardo Menes’s Fetish is a rare work of the American Creole Sublime, conjuring visions of his Cuban homeland as a sacred geography of vanquished mestizo dreams, his Florida boyhood a world of transmuting tropical wonder. At once mythic, syncretic, and autobiographical, transported on strains of epiphanic geomancy, Menes’s work subtly presents a new vision of América that Martí, Stevens and Walcott would all embrace. You want to whisper in a fever, ‘Adelante!’”—John Phillip Santos, University Distinguished Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 000 Part 1. Ars Poetica Courtyard of Clotheslines, Angel Hill 000 Golgotha 000 Fetish 000 Mambo 000 Maracas of Rain 000 Aubade: The Charcoal Makers 000 Zvi Mendel 000 The Maximum Leader Addresses His Island Nation 000 Spiderman in Havana 000 Den of the Lioness 000 Libros 000 Refrigeradores 000 Elegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter 000 Tía Gladys, Backroom Seamstress 000 Zafra 000 Ars Poetica 000 Part 2. El Cristo de Piedra Windfall Antiques 000 Horses 000 Lalo, Peddler 000 Television, a Patient Teacher 000 Sal 000 Village of the Water People 000 El Cristo de Piedra 000 Birthing Adrian 000 Tantrums 000 Braille 000 Pyx 000 Adderall 000 St. Joseph River 000 Ashes 000 Mole 000 Part 3. The Gringo Called Ñakak Soroche 000 The Gringo Called Ñakak 000 Altiplano 000 Panegyric for the Condor 000 The Devil's Miner 000 The Boy from Chimbote 000 Parable 000 Our Lord of Miracles 000 Top 000 Toro 000 Breakfast with Capitalists 000 Juancito's Wake 000 Source Acknowledgments 000 Notes for Poems 000 Glossary 000

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Book Synopsis Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion. Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own complicity in violence, “not confessing, but unearthing” former selves who were brutal and brutalized—and treating them with compassion. As the poems work through these seeming paradoxes, they also find joy, celebrating transformations and second chances, whether after the failure of a marriage, the return of a reluctant soldier from war, or the everyday passage of time. Through the play of language in received forms—abecedarian, sonnet, ballad, ghazaTrade Review“No Confession, No Mass is lyrical, inventive, and full of surprises, offering us fresh ways of seeing old stories. The music is a delight throughout—agile and apt—language enjoying itself! Jennifer Perrine writes: ‘and returned her whole, startled raw, launched her back into the world.’ This is what fine poetry can do—and No Confession, No Mass does it.”—Ellen Bass, author of Like a BeggarTable of Contents Acknowledgments I. Invocation: [Saint] Genevieve The Mother, the Girl, the Mirror That Speaks To Chant Back the Summer Humility | Pride For the Lone Man at the Violence Prevention Center Embarrassment: from baraço (halter) Envy | Kindness After My Mother’s Death, I Feel Nothing II. Invocation: [Saint] Euphrosyne A Theory of Violence The Divorcée’s Fable Song of the Bystander Piblokto A Theory of Violence ’Tis of Thee Greed | Charity Mobility Patience | Wrath A Theory of Violence III. Invocation: The Blessed Girl, after Her Visions and Vows Self-Portrait as Francis Bacon Letter to Half a Lifetime Ago Love Song with Condemned Building Lust Call Me Lust | Chastity Yoke Wild Child (Slight Return) I Would Rather Die a Thousand Deaths Ode to the Motorcycle Dead Letter IV. Invocation: [Saint] Pharaïldis Pastoral for Our Uncharted Territories Fishwife Temperance | Gluttony The Mystic Speaks of Attachment Confidence Game Wow and Flutter Diligence | Sloth Elegy for My Morbid Curiosity Happiness: from hap (fortune, luck) Coronal Seconds

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Book I. Coming Home So I Stand Here What Took Us to War Erecting Stones: January 2013 Looters of War 2011 Coming Home: A Poem for MT Send Me Some Black Clothes I Need Two Bodies The Creation And You Tell Me This Is a Funeral? Loss If You Have Never Been Married Becoming Ghost The Killed Ones The Cities We Lost A City of Ghosts July Rain I Go Home Song for Mariam Makeba When Monrovia Rises This Is the Real Leaving Book II. Colliding Worlds In My Dream Sometimes, I Close My Eyes Sandy: Love Song for the Hurricane Woman Tsunami: A Song for an Unknown Young Man For My Children, Growing Up in America You Wouldn’t Let Me Adopt My Dog: A Poem for Ade-Juah When I Grow Up The Inequality of Dogs Medellin from My Hotel Room Balcony Morocco, on the Way to London To Libya: February 2011 Sometimes I Wonder The Deer on My Lawn Leaves Are Leaving Us Again Book III. World (Un)/Breakable I Want to Be the Woman This Morning When I Was a Girl I’m Afraid of Emptiness Silence I Want Everything Finally, the Allergist I Dreamed On the Midnight Train First Class This Is Facebook A Room with a View Braiding Hair Losing Hair Hair 2014, My Mamma Never Knew You

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Book SynopsisIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.Trade Review“The texture of R. A. Villanueva’s words stay in the mouth, shards of what is sacred, still is sacred: linguistic memento mori, if you will, that preserve and keep alive. Take your time with this glorious collection. Breathe in: ‘black eggs,’ ‘pomade,’ ‘concertina wire,’ ‘wreathed in gauze,’ and ‘Nakalimutan mo na ako. You have already forgotten me.’ I dare say you will not forget these remains that Villanueva has saved for us.”—Kimiko Hahn, author of Toxic Flora “These vivid and deeply lived poems question ‘every delicate gift we have thrown away.’ Villanueva searches the world for the divine and—gorgeous poem by poem—he finds it.”—Idra Novey, author of Exit, Civilian“R. A. Villanueva reminds us that poetry is a space haunted by history, so we try ‘to name ghosts, to face them, dark as they are.’ He musters an impressive courage to take up the task. And we’re rewarded not just by Villanueva’s immense thrill for language but by his ability to fuse the body’s fact with the body’s mystery. This is a terrific debut.”—Patrick Rosal, author of Boneshepherds “Reliquaria convokes a public hymn that genuflects in the presence of the world’s lucent crumbs and fragments. Villanueva’s elegant argument with, within, and beyond Roman Catholicism infuses this collection with a classical urgency.”—G. C. Waldrep, author of Archicembalo “In precise yet lush language, these poems move so easily between the sacred and the quotidian, between past and present, and from lyric longing to physical satisfaction that it is startling to realize how much ground each poem covers, and how natural these transitions, at heart, truly are. . . . Reading his poems, I am delighted by the clarity and sinuousness of [Villanueva's] writing, by the force of his belief that the materiality of the world shares something with the beauty of words.”—Paisley Rekdal, author of Animal Eye “Villanueva’s poetry is unabashedly sinewy, and uncannily, the more sinewy, the more soulful. Indeed, somehow he seems to straddle the divide between the visceral and the ethereal, and up there, where the air is crisp and clean and bracing, he is sovereign. So, no need any longer to go asking what’s the matter, for the poems in this volume, quite simply, are.”—Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsSacrum1SwarmLife DrawingThese Bodies Lacking PartsTelemachyLike when passing graveyardsFish HeadsIn Memory of Xiong HuangAftermathsGod Particles2All Souls’ DayDespedidaSacramentalSocorroBlessing the AnimalsConfluencesTrapsOn TransfigurationDivination3AntipodalIn the dead of winter weBallastAs the river crests, mud-rich with forgotten thingsDrifting toward the bottom, Jacques Piccard recalls the skyCorpusVanitasWhat the bones tell usIconoclastsInvocation1. Davenport, Iowa2. Holofernes, to Judith at the strike3. Medusa, at first sight of her face4. On the sixth day, Ugolino thinks of his children5. Isaac speaks of fingers6. Feast of Three Kings, Jersey CityAfter this, Loving Kindness and Asanga flewMine will be a beautiful serviceNotes

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Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic storyline: they revolve around a man''s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of loneliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of the oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative. Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.

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