Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

100 essential modern poems / selected and introduced by Joseph Parisi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005.Description: xiv, 305 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1566636124 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 9781566636124 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Other title:
  • One hundred essential modern poems
Subject(s):
Contents:
The second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Mending wall ; The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- The emperor if ice-cream ; Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- The red wheelbarrow ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- The river-merchant's wife: a letter ; The study in anesthetics / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Helen / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) -- Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- The fish / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- from Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- [anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- The Persian version / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- from The bridge / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Columbus / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) -- from The great Hunger: I / Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) -- Lullaby ; from Twelve songs: IX ; Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Manners ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The alphabet / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) -- from The dream songs / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- The death of the ball turrett gunner / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- How to regain your soul / William Staf
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 821.9 O58 Available 33111005159369
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny--here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy. Selected and introduced by Joseph Parisi, former longtime editor of Poetry magazine, this brilliant collection brings together the greatest poems by all the classic authors, along with the choicest works by today's most accomplished artists in America and abroad. From W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot to John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons; Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore to Sylvia Plath and Mary Oliver; Robert Frost and W. B. Yeats to Allen Ginsberg and Thom Gunn, this comprehensive anthology features the poems that have best expressed the spirit of our times and helped create modern culture. In addition to such ground-breaking works as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Howl," Mr. Parisi has included the incisive social satire and whimsical wordplay of such wits as Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, and Frank O'Hara. Among contemporary poets in the book are Seamus Heaney, Jane Kenyon, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon, Adrienne Rich, and the redoubtable Billy Collins, all of whom have already achieved wide popular acclaim for poems that speak compellingly about modern life and the perennial concerns of the human heart. Mr. Parisi provides a general introduction to the book and introduces each poem with a brief biographical and critical note. For anyone who wishes to discover or to re-experience the most important and vital poems of our time, 100 Essential Modern Poems is, quite simply, indispensable.

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The second coming ; Leda and the swan ; Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Mending wall ; The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- The emperor if ice-cream ; Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- The red wheelbarrow ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- The river-merchant's wife: a letter ; The study in anesthetics / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Helen / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) -- Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- The fish / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- from Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- [anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- The Persian version / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- from The bridge / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Columbus / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) -- from The great Hunger: I / Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) -- Lullaby ; from Twelve songs: IX ; Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Manners ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The alphabet / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) -- from The dream songs / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- The death of the ball turrett gunner / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- How to regain your soul / William Staf

Powered by Koha