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The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms / edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland.

Strand, Mark, 1934- (Added Author). Boland, Eavan. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780393049169
ISBN: 9780393321784 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0393049167
ISBN: 0393321789 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxxi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On Becoming a Poet / Mark Strand -- Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter / Eavan Boland -- I. Verse Forms. The Villanelle. Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures / Ernest Downson. The House on the Hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson. Missing Dates / William Empson. The Waking / Theodore Roethke. One Art / Elizabeth Bishop. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas. The World and the Child / James Merrill. Condemned Site / Mona Van Duyn. By the Sound / John Hollander. Saturday at the Border / Hayden Carruth. Under the Hill / Daryl Hine. Villanelle / Marilyn Hacker. Reading Scheme / Wendy Cope. Villanelle for the Middle of the Night / Jacqueline Osherow -- Close-Up of a Villanelle: "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. The Sestina. Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe / Edmund Spenser. from Old Arcadia / Philip Sidney.

Sestine 4 from Parthenophil and Parthenophe / Barnabe Barnes. Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni / Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Sestina / Algernon Charles Swinburne. Sestina / Edmund Gosse. Sestina of the Tramp-Royal / Rudyard Kipling. Sestina: Altaforte / Ezra Pound. After the Trial / Weldon Kees. The Book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht. The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina / Miller Williams. Nani / Alberto Rios -- Close-Up of a Sestina: "Sestina: Altaforte" by Ezra Pound. The Pantoum. In Town / Austin Dobson. Pantoum of the Great Depression / Donald Justice. Parents' Pantoum / Carolyn Kizer. Pantoum / John Ashbery. Grandmothers's Song / Nellie Wong. The Method / J. D. McClatchy -- Close-Up of a Pantoum: "Pantoum of the Great Depression" by Donald Justice. The Sonnet. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare. Farewell to Love / Michael Drayton. from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Mary Wroth.

Sonnet XXIII: Methought I saw my late espoused saint / John Milton. Holy Sonnet: At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth. Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley. Bright Star / John Keats. from Monna Innominata / Christina Rossetti. from Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Carrion Comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay. From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen. Epic / Patrick Kavanagh. from "Tulips and Chimneys" / E. E. Cummings. To My Mother / George Barker. After the Bomb Tests / Jane Cooper. A Game of Chess / Gwen Harwood. The Haw Lantern / Seamus Heaney. Heat / Denis Johnson. The Roman Baths at Nimes / Henri Cole. Half a Double Sonnet / Mary Jo Salter. Sonnet / Michael Palmer --

Close-Up of a Sonnet: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The Ballad. The Cherry-tree Carol / Anonymous. Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous. The Wife of Usher's Well / Anonymous. My Boy Willie / Anonymous. The Changeling / John Greenleaf Whittier. from The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde. Peter and John / Elinor Wylie. Bagpipe Music / Louis MacNeice. Death in Leamington / John Betjeman. The Tale of Custard the Dragon / Ogden Nash. We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks. Riverbank Blues / Sterling A. Brown. Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen / W. S. Merwin -- Close-Up of a Ballad: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. Blank Verse. from his translation of The Aeneid / Henry Howard. from Tamburlaine the Great / Christopher Marlowe. from Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare. from Paradise Lost / John Milton. from Beachy Head / Charlotte Smith. from The Prelude / William Wordsworth.

Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Rain / Edward Thomas. Directive / Robert Frost. Lying / Richard Wilbur. Stanzas in Bloomsbury / Richard Howard -- Close-Up of Blank Verse: "Directive" by Robert Frost. The Heroic Couplet. from The Description of Cooke-ham / Aemilia Lanyer. The Author to Her Book / Anne Bradstreet. A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685 / Anne Finch. from Absalom and Achitophel / John Dryden. from The Vanity of Human Wishes / Samuel Johnson. To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works / Phillis Wheatley. from The Deserted Village / Oliver Goldsmith. from An Essay on Criticism / Alexander Pope. My Last Duchess / Robert Browning. Strange Meeting / Wilfred Owen. The J Car / Thom Gunn -- Close-Up of the Heroic Couplet: "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. The Stanza. from Troilus and Criseyde / Geoffrey Chaucer.

from The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser. They Flee from Me / Thomas Wyatt. Easter Wings / George Herbert. The Tyger / William Blake. So We'll Go No More A-Roving / George Gordon and Lord Byron. I died for Beauty - but was scarce / Emily Dickinson. The Convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy. The Song of the Mad Prince / Walter de la Mare. A Quoi Bon Dire / Charlotte Mew. Song of the Son / Jean Toomer. The Tropics in New York / Claude McKay. Night Song at Amalfi / Sara Teasdale. Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith. On Teaching the Young / Yvor Winters. Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden. Yes / Muriel Rukeyser. Warming Her Pearls / Carol Ann Duffy. Epith / Carol Muske -- Close-Up of a Stanza: "I died for Beauty - but was scarce" by Emily Dickinson -- II. Meter -- III. Shaping Forms. The Elegy. Lament for the Makaris / William Dunbar. If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause / Mary Sidney Herbert. On My First Son / Ben Jonson.

Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred / Katherine Philips. Lycidas / John Milton. Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper / Anne Bradstreet. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray. R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida / Emily Bronte. O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman. Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold. To His Love / Ivor Gurney. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter / John Crowe Ransom. Tears in Sleep / Louise Bogan. In Memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden. from The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell. Dream Song 324 / John Berryman. To the Dead / Frank Bidart. In Memoriam Paul Celan / Edward Hirsch. The Legend / Garrett Hongo. The Elegy for New York / Douglas Carse. Tiara / Mark Doty. Supernatural Love / Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Mirror in February / Thomas Kinsella. Iris / David St. John. Child Burial / Paula Meehan.

Song / Rosanna Warren. The Pastoral. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love / Christopher Marlowe. from Love's Labor's Lost / William Shakespeare. The Garden / Andrew Marvell. To My Sister / William Wordsworth. Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats. Loveliest of Trees / A. E. Housman. The Wife of Llew / Francis Ledwidge. Urban Pastoral / Babette Deutsch. Remembered Morning / Janet Lewis. The Thought-Fox / Ted Hughes. The Explosion / Philip Larkin. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright. Midsummer, Tobago / Derek Walcott. The Bear / Galway Kinnell. Fog / Amy Clampitt. Let Evening Come / Jane Kenyon. Smoke / Philip Levine. Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass. From the Porch / John Koethe. A Walrus Tusk from Alaska / Alfred Corn. Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night / Charles Wright.

The Broad Bean Sermon / Les Murray. Of the Finished World / Lucie Brock-Broido. Tornados / Thylias Moss. Loss / C. K. Williams. Waiting for the Storm / Timothy Steele. An Engraving of Blake / Mary Kinzie. Pygmalion's Image / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain. Mock Orange / Louise Gluck. The Black Walnut Tree / Mary Oliver. Gateposts / Medbh McGuckian. Heart of the Matter / Susan Prospere. Shoeing the Currach / Mary O'Malley. The Ode. Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley. To Autumn / John Keats. Ode / Henry Timrod. The Fire of Driftwood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. from The Bridge / Hart Crane. The Paper Nautilus / Marianne Moore. Australia 1970 / Judith Wright. Miracle Glass Co. / Charles Simic. The Blue Swallows / Howard Nemerov. America / Robert Creeley.

Ode to Meaning / Robert Pinsky. Perhaps the World Ends Here / Joy Harjo -- IV. Open Forms. The Circus Animals' Desertion / W. B. Yeats. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot. I, Too / Langston Hughes. The Idea of Order at Key West / Wallace Stevens. Spring and All / William Carlos Williams. America / Allen Ginsberg. Ave Maria / Frank O'Hara. Uncertain Oneiromancy / Denise Levertov. Daddy / Sylvia Plath. Diving into the Wreck / Adrienne Rich. move / Lucille Clifton. The Language of the Brag / Sharon Olds. The Colonel / Carolyn Forche. The German Army, Russia, 1943 / Ai. Starlight Scope Myopia / Yusef Komunyakaa. Reading Plato / Jorie Graham -- Close-Up of Open Forms: "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich.