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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 Co
Table 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
