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London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.Description: xxvii, 745 p. cmISBN:
  • 0674065689 (alk. paper)
  • 9780674065680 (alk. paper)
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Contents:
Anne Ridler Wentworth place : Keats grove -- George Barker Kew gardens -- Alun Lewis Westminster abbey -- Robert Lowell Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London -- Nicholas Moore Monmouth street -- John Heath-Stubbs Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate -- W. S. Graham The night city -- Muriel Spark A tour of London -- Keith Douglas The "bête noire" fragments -- D. J. Enright The stations of King's cross -- Philip Larkin Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- Donald Davie To Londoners -- Dannie Abse Street scene Soho : Saturday night -- James Berry Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 -- John Ashbery The tower of London -- Thom Gunn Autobiography Talbot road -- Connie Bensley Vauxhall Bottleneck -- Peter Porter Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas -- U. A. Fanthorpe Rising damp Widening the Westway -- Ted Hughes Fate playing Epiphany -- Derek Walcott Omeros -- Alan Brownjohn A202 -- Ruth Fainlight The same power -- Geoffrey Hill Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament -- Sylvia Plath Parliament hill fields --
Anne Stevenson Cashpoint Charlie -- Fleur Adcock Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London -- John Fuller London songs ; from The shires -- Ken Smith The London poems -- Seamus Heaney The underground District and circle -- Lee Harwood Rain journal : London : June 65 -- Grey Gowrie Outside Biba's -- Joseph Brodsky In England -- Derek Mahon Sunday Morning -- Hugo Williams Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill -- Iain Sinclair Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston -- Mimi Khalvati Earls court -- Carol Rumens Pleasure island, marble arch -- Wendy Cope Lonely hearts After the lunch -- Peter Reading Perduta gente -- Christopher Reid North London sonnet Exasperated piety -- Gillian Allnutt Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields -- John Agard Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames -- Grace Nichols Island man -- Charles Boyle The miracle at Shepherd's bush -- Andrew Motion London plane -- Linton Kwesi Johnson Sonny's Lettah -- Jo Shapcott St. Bride's -- Michael Donaghy The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --
Anon. (19th century) The cries of London -- George Eliot In a London drawingroom -- Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen -- Frederick Locker-Lampson St. James's street -- Matthew Arnold Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London -- Dante Gabriel Rosetti Tiber, Nile, and Thames -- Coventry Patmore A London fête -- James Thomson Sunday at Hampstead -- Henry S. Leigh A Cockney's evening song -- Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury -- Austin Dobson A new song of the spring garden -- Thomas Hardy Beyond the last lamp ; The coronation ; In the British museum In St. Paul's a while ago Coming up Oxford street : evening A refusal To a tree in London Christmas in the Elgin room -- W. H. Hudson To a London sparrow -- Robert Bridges London snow Trafalgar square -- W. E. Henley London voluntaries ; from London types -- Oscar Wilde Impression du matin -- John Davidson London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment -- A. E. Housman "From the wash the laundress sends" -- Mary E. Coleridge In London town -- Amy Levy A March day in London Straw in the street -- Rudyard Kipling In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war -- Arthur Symons London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London -- W. B. Yeats Vacillation -- Lionel Johnson London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross -- Charlotte Mew In Nunhead cemetery -- Laurence Binyon As I walked through London -- T. E. Hulme The embankment -- Ezra Pound Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- D. H. Lawrence Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 -- Frances Cornford London streets Parting in wartime --
Jeremy Reed Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman -- John Stammers John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke -- Carol Ann Duffy Woman seated in the underground, 1941 -- Alan Jenkins The London dissector -- Jamie McKendrick Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse -- Mick Imlah Cockney -- Sarah Maguire Almost the equinox -- Michael Hofmann kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road -- Maura Dooley Smash the windows -- David Kennedy The bombs, July 2005 -- Fred d'Aguiar Home -- Lavinia Greenlaw River history -- Glyn Maxwell The fires by the river -- Simon Armitage KX -- Alice Oswald Another Westminster bridge -- Daljit Nagra Yobbos! -- Nick Laird The tip -- Heather Phillipson German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London -- Ben Borek Donjong heights -- Tom Chivers Big skies over docklands -- Ahren Warner "Girl with ridiculous earrings"
John Gower Confessio amantis -- William Langland The vision of piers plowman -- Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury tales -- Thomas Hoccleve La male regle de T Hoccleue -- John Lydgate King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London -- Anon. (15th century) London lickpenny -- John Skelton Collyn Clout -- Anon. (1500?) "London, thou art of townes A perse" -- Sir Thomas Wyatt "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "London, hast thou accusèd me" -- Anne Askew The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- George Turberville The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- Isabella Whitney The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Edmund Spenser Prothalamion -- George Peele King Edward the first -- Chidiock Tichborne Tichborne's elegy -- Michael Drayton Poly-olbion -- William Shakespeare Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII -- Thomas Nashe Summer's last will and testament -- Everard Guilpin Skialetheia -- Ben Jonson The devil in an ass On the famous voyage -- John Donne Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --
John Oldham A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal -- Anon. (1684) A winter wonder: or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there -- Anon. (1684) The wonders of the deep -- Pierre Antoine Motteux A song -- Jonathan Swift A description of the morning A description of a city shower Clever Tom Clinch A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; from On poetry : a rhapsody -- John Gay Trivia : or, The art of walking the streets of London ; from The beggar's opera -- Anon. (pub. 1719) The fair lass of Islington -- Alexander Pope The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Six town eclogues -- Elizabeth Tollet On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 -- John Bancks A description of London -- Anon. (1739) Hail, London! -- Samuel Johnson London -- Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th-19th centuries) London bridge Oranges and lemons "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" "Poussie, poussie, baudrons" "Up at Piccadilly oh!" "See-saw, sacradown" "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" "As I was going o'er London bridge" "As I was going o'er London bridge" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel -- William Whitehead The sweepers -- Oliver Goldsmith Description of an author's bedchamber -- William Cowper The task -- Charles Jenner Twon eclogues -- Anna Letitia Barbauld Song for the London volunteers West End fair -- Charles Dibdin The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping -- Hannah More The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --
John Taylor The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place -- Philip Massinger The city madam -- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The knight of the burning pestle -- Francis Beaumont Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey -- Thomas Freeman London's progress -- W. Turner Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry -- Abraham Holland London, look back -- Robert Herrick An ode for him [Ben Jonson] His return to London His tears to Thamasis -- Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London sad London : an echo -- Edmund Waller On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty -- John Milton When the assault was intended to the city -- Thomas Jordan The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company -- Sir John Denham Cooper's hill -- Abraham Cowley The civil war -- Richard Lovelace To Althea, from prison : song -- Simon Ford London's resurrection -- Henry Vaughan A rhapsody -- Anon. (17th century) The cries of London -- Andrew Marvell An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland -- John Dryden Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe -- Anon. (pub. 1680) In the fields of Lincoln's inn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") A ramble in St. James's park --
Mary Robinson London's summer morning -- William Blake Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem -- Joanna Baillie London -- William Wordsworth The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude -- James Smith and Horace Smith Horace in London -- Leigh Hunt To Hampstead Description of Hampstead -- Lord Byron Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third -- John Hamilton Reynolds Sonnet -- John Keats "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern -- Thomas Hood Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon Scenes in London : Piccadilly-- Winthrop Mackworth Praed Goodnight to the season -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle -- Anon. (1851) Have you been to the crystal palace? -- Robert Browning Waring -- Edward Lear There was an old person of Putney ; There was an old man of Blackheath ; There was a young person of Kew ; There was an old person of Bow ; There was a young lady of Greenwich ; There was an old person of Ealing ; There was an old person of Bromley ; There was an old person of Sheen ; There was an old man of Thames Ditton -- Arthur Hugh Clogh To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --
Siegfried Sassoon Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house -- T. S. Eliot The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets -- Isaac Rosenberg Fleet street -- Richard Aldington St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche -- Wilfred Owen "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" -- Sylvia Townsend Warner Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery -- John Rodker The shop The searchlight -- Robert Graves Armistice Day, 1918 -- A. S. J. Tessimond Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne -- Stevie Smith Suburb -- William Empson Homage to the British museum -- John Betjeman The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells -- Louis MacNeice Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon -- Stephen Spender Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama -- Bernard Spencer Regent's park terrace Train to work -- Mervyn Peake London buses -- Kenneth Allott Memento mori -- Roy Fuller First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --
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Called the flour of Cities all, London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature.

Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London s population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city s history the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries.

Ford s selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the capital s history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and vibrant and diverse as London itself."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 727-734) and index.

Anne Ridler Wentworth place : Keats grove -- George Barker Kew gardens -- Alun Lewis Westminster abbey -- Robert Lowell Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London -- Nicholas Moore Monmouth street -- John Heath-Stubbs Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate -- W. S. Graham The night city -- Muriel Spark A tour of London -- Keith Douglas The "bête noire" fragments -- D. J. Enright The stations of King's cross -- Philip Larkin Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- Donald Davie To Londoners -- Dannie Abse Street scene Soho : Saturday night -- James Berry Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 -- John Ashbery The tower of London -- Thom Gunn Autobiography Talbot road -- Connie Bensley Vauxhall Bottleneck -- Peter Porter Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas -- U. A. Fanthorpe Rising damp Widening the Westway -- Ted Hughes Fate playing Epiphany -- Derek Walcott Omeros -- Alan Brownjohn A202 -- Ruth Fainlight The same power -- Geoffrey Hill Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament -- Sylvia Plath Parliament hill fields --

Anne Stevenson Cashpoint Charlie -- Fleur Adcock Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London -- John Fuller London songs ; from The shires -- Ken Smith The London poems -- Seamus Heaney The underground District and circle -- Lee Harwood Rain journal : London : June 65 -- Grey Gowrie Outside Biba's -- Joseph Brodsky In England -- Derek Mahon Sunday Morning -- Hugo Williams Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill -- Iain Sinclair Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston -- Mimi Khalvati Earls court -- Carol Rumens Pleasure island, marble arch -- Wendy Cope Lonely hearts After the lunch -- Peter Reading Perduta gente -- Christopher Reid North London sonnet Exasperated piety -- Gillian Allnutt Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields -- John Agard Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames -- Grace Nichols Island man -- Charles Boyle The miracle at Shepherd's bush -- Andrew Motion London plane -- Linton Kwesi Johnson Sonny's Lettah -- Jo Shapcott St. Bride's -- Michael Donaghy The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --

Anon. (19th century) The cries of London -- George Eliot In a London drawingroom -- Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen -- Frederick Locker-Lampson St. James's street -- Matthew Arnold Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London -- Dante Gabriel Rosetti Tiber, Nile, and Thames -- Coventry Patmore A London fête -- James Thomson Sunday at Hampstead -- Henry S. Leigh A Cockney's evening song -- Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury -- Austin Dobson A new song of the spring garden -- Thomas Hardy Beyond the last lamp ; The coronation ; In the British museum In St. Paul's a while ago Coming up Oxford street : evening A refusal To a tree in London Christmas in the Elgin room -- W. H. Hudson To a London sparrow -- Robert Bridges London snow Trafalgar square -- W. E. Henley London voluntaries ; from London types -- Oscar Wilde Impression du matin -- John Davidson London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment -- A. E. Housman "From the wash the laundress sends" -- Mary E. Coleridge In London town -- Amy Levy A March day in London Straw in the street -- Rudyard Kipling In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war -- Arthur Symons London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London -- W. B. Yeats Vacillation -- Lionel Johnson London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross -- Charlotte Mew In Nunhead cemetery -- Laurence Binyon As I walked through London -- T. E. Hulme The embankment -- Ezra Pound Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- D. H. Lawrence Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 -- Frances Cornford London streets Parting in wartime --

Jeremy Reed Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman -- John Stammers John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke -- Carol Ann Duffy Woman seated in the underground, 1941 -- Alan Jenkins The London dissector -- Jamie McKendrick Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse -- Mick Imlah Cockney -- Sarah Maguire Almost the equinox -- Michael Hofmann kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road -- Maura Dooley Smash the windows -- David Kennedy The bombs, July 2005 -- Fred d'Aguiar Home -- Lavinia Greenlaw River history -- Glyn Maxwell The fires by the river -- Simon Armitage KX -- Alice Oswald Another Westminster bridge -- Daljit Nagra Yobbos! -- Nick Laird The tip -- Heather Phillipson German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London -- Ben Borek Donjong heights -- Tom Chivers Big skies over docklands -- Ahren Warner "Girl with ridiculous earrings"

John Gower Confessio amantis -- William Langland The vision of piers plowman -- Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury tales -- Thomas Hoccleve La male regle de T Hoccleue -- John Lydgate King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London -- Anon. (15th century) London lickpenny -- John Skelton Collyn Clout -- Anon. (1500?) "London, thou art of townes A perse" -- Sir Thomas Wyatt "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "London, hast thou accusèd me" -- Anne Askew The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- George Turberville The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- Isabella Whitney The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Edmund Spenser Prothalamion -- George Peele King Edward the first -- Chidiock Tichborne Tichborne's elegy -- Michael Drayton Poly-olbion -- William Shakespeare Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII -- Thomas Nashe Summer's last will and testament -- Everard Guilpin Skialetheia -- Ben Jonson The devil in an ass On the famous voyage -- John Donne Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --

John Oldham A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal -- Anon. (1684) A winter wonder: or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there -- Anon. (1684) The wonders of the deep -- Pierre Antoine Motteux A song -- Jonathan Swift A description of the morning A description of a city shower Clever Tom Clinch A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; from On poetry : a rhapsody -- John Gay Trivia : or, The art of walking the streets of London ; from The beggar's opera -- Anon. (pub. 1719) The fair lass of Islington -- Alexander Pope The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Six town eclogues -- Elizabeth Tollet On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 -- John Bancks A description of London -- Anon. (1739) Hail, London! -- Samuel Johnson London -- Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th-19th centuries) London bridge Oranges and lemons "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" "Poussie, poussie, baudrons" "Up at Piccadilly oh!" "See-saw, sacradown" "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" "As I was going o'er London bridge" "As I was going o'er London bridge" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel -- William Whitehead The sweepers -- Oliver Goldsmith Description of an author's bedchamber -- William Cowper The task -- Charles Jenner Twon eclogues -- Anna Letitia Barbauld Song for the London volunteers West End fair -- Charles Dibdin The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping -- Hannah More The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --

John Taylor The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place -- Philip Massinger The city madam -- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The knight of the burning pestle -- Francis Beaumont Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey -- Thomas Freeman London's progress -- W. Turner Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry -- Abraham Holland London, look back -- Robert Herrick An ode for him [Ben Jonson] His return to London His tears to Thamasis -- Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London sad London : an echo -- Edmund Waller On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty -- John Milton When the assault was intended to the city -- Thomas Jordan The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company -- Sir John Denham Cooper's hill -- Abraham Cowley The civil war -- Richard Lovelace To Althea, from prison : song -- Simon Ford London's resurrection -- Henry Vaughan A rhapsody -- Anon. (17th century) The cries of London -- Andrew Marvell An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland -- John Dryden Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe -- Anon. (pub. 1680) In the fields of Lincoln's inn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") A ramble in St. James's park --

Mary Robinson London's summer morning -- William Blake Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem -- Joanna Baillie London -- William Wordsworth The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude -- James Smith and Horace Smith Horace in London -- Leigh Hunt To Hampstead Description of Hampstead -- Lord Byron Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third -- John Hamilton Reynolds Sonnet -- John Keats "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern -- Thomas Hood Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon Scenes in London : Piccadilly-- Winthrop Mackworth Praed Goodnight to the season -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle -- Anon. (1851) Have you been to the crystal palace? -- Robert Browning Waring -- Edward Lear There was an old person of Putney ; There was an old man of Blackheath ; There was a young person of Kew ; There was an old person of Bow ; There was a young lady of Greenwich ; There was an old person of Ealing ; There was an old person of Bromley ; There was an old person of Sheen ; There was an old man of Thames Ditton -- Arthur Hugh Clogh To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --

Siegfried Sassoon Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house -- T. S. Eliot The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets -- Isaac Rosenberg Fleet street -- Richard Aldington St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche -- Wilfred Owen "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" -- Sylvia Townsend Warner Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery -- John Rodker The shop The searchlight -- Robert Graves Armistice Day, 1918 -- A. S. J. Tessimond Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne -- Stevie Smith Suburb -- William Empson Homage to the British museum -- John Betjeman The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells -- Louis MacNeice Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon -- Stephen Spender Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama -- Bernard Spencer Regent's park terrace Train to work -- Mervyn Peake London buses -- Kenneth Allott Memento mori -- Roy Fuller First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --

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