Poetry as Experience

Front Cover
American Book Company, 1952 - American poetry - 518 pages

Contents

THE NATURE OF A POEM
5
Buffalo Bill
12
THE POEM AS RESPONSE
21
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
28
Nature HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
33
Binsey Poplars GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
34
CONNOTATION
40
IMAGERY
54
POEMS WITH VARIANTS
238
102
259
LIST OF POEMS
269
Fearewell Love and All Thy Lawes for Ever
271
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
280
The Canonization JOHN DONNE
286
The Pulley GEORGE HERBERT
292
Penseroso JOHN MILTON
298

RedRock the MooseHunter LEW SARETT
62
Prayers of Steel CARL SANDBURG
85
Bombing Casualties in Spain HERBERT READ
92
Onomatopoeia95 Ease of Articulation98 Phonetic
100
Pied Beauty GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
106
ALLITERATION AND ASSONANCE
112
Love in the Valley First Stanza
122
Lepanto GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
131
RHYTHM
137
Intelligence Test CEDRIC ADAMS
143
The Wayfarer STEPHEN CRANE
149
RIME AND STANZA
158
Autumn ROY CAMPBELL
164
Whos Who W H AUDEN
170
Like to See It Lap the Miles
176
INDIRECTION
184
The Golf Links SARAH N CLEGHORN
197
Passage to India Excerpt WALT WHITMAN
222
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
228
Consider How My Light Is Spent JOHN MILTON
308
A Song for St Cecilias Day JOHN DRYDEN
316
On the Death of Mr Robert Levet SAMUEL JOHNSON
324
The Echoing Green WILLIAM BLAKE
327
Intimations of Immortality WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
336
The World Is Too Much with Us WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
342
Ode on a Grecian Urn JOHN KEATS
349
Ulysses ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
357
Ah Yet Consider it Again ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
363
To a Locomotive in Winter WALT WHITMAN
377
Some Sweet Day LEWIS J BATES
383
Gloucester Moors WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
389
After ApplePicking ROBERT FROST
395
The Hollow Men T S ELIOT
408
Precursors LOUIS MACNEICE
422
PHONETIC SYMBOLS
454
NOTES TO PART II
470
INDEX OF AUTHORS TITLES AND FIRST LINES
503
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