Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three Vol. 3: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry

The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes. Now editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson bring a radically new interpretation to the poetry of the preceding century, viewing the work of the romantic and post-romantic poets as an international, collective, often utopian enterprise that became the foundation of experimental modernism. Global in its range, volume three gathers selections from the poetry and manifestos of canonical poets, as well as the work of lesser-known but equally radical poets. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, Rothenberg and Robinson feature prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry, along with more familiar forms seen here as if for the first time. The anthology also explores romanticism outside the European orbit and includes ethnopoetic and archaeological works outside the literary mainstream. The range of volume three and its skewing of the traditional canon illuminate the process by which romantics and post- romantics challenged nineteenth-century orthodoxies and propelled poetry to the experiments of a later modernism and avant-gardism. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PRELUDIUM THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THE SPIRITUAL DIARY RAMEAU’S NEPHEW: AN IMPROVISATION JUBILATE AGNO THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS OSSIAN: THE SONGS OF SELMA JULIETTE , OR VICE AMPLY REWARDED FOUR CAPRICHOS PROMETHEUS THE ROWLEY POEMS SEVEN ANCIENT MONUMENTS. Map of Rudhall and Redcliff Wall A LETTER TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND ON THE INJUSTICE OF MENTAL SUBORDINATION AMERICA A PROPHECY: PRELUDIUM A FIRST GALLERY. From Goethe & Blake to Solomos & Pushkin MIGNON’S SONG [Epigraph] Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience THE NOTEBOOKS: 1789–1794 A LONDON SUMMER MORNING A RED, RED ROSE FIRST FLOWER-PIECE CORINNE’S IMPROVISATION IN THE NAPLES COUNTRYSIDE I ONCE ASKED THE MUSE LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING THE GRASMERE JOURNALS Novalis [Epigraph] “The heart should have fed” THE THEORY OF THE FOUR MOVEMENTS DREAM-FUGUE: ON THE THEME OF SUDDEN DEATH DARKNESS ELEVEN ROMAN SONNETS: FOR THE POPE SONG FROM PROMETHEUS UNBOUND SOME ASIAN POETS Prologue FIFTEEN HAIKU AUTUMN LANDSCAPE FOR THE COURTESAN CH’ING LIN BEFORE THERE WAS A HINT OF CIVILIZATION I AM: A SONNET & A VARIATION BUTTERFLIES, LINEATED EZRA POUND, AFTER HEINE CRIMEAN SONNETS L’INFINITO THE DESTRUCTION OF PSARA THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I A BOOK OF ORIGINS PROLOGUE THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PISTIS SOPHIA: O LIGHT OF LIGHTS TWO FROM SANSKRIT THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM RIG VEDAAMERICANUS: TWO FOR THE GODDESS SONG OF THE OWL THE NIGHT CHANT SIR PATRICK SPENCE HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON A POEM FOR THE GODDESS HER CITY & THE MARRIAGE OF HER SON & DAUGHTER HANES TALIESIN / THE TALE OF TALIESIN FRITHIOF’S SAGA Christmas Gysarts [Mummers] Play from Bowden NEGRO SPIRITUALS SONG OF THE BALD MOUNTAIN WITCHES & MAGIC NYMPHS FIVE DREAM WORKS, FROM COLERIDGE TO FREUD The Notebooks The King of Cats, a Ghost Narrative Aurelia, or Dream and Life Lenz The Dream-Work THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES A SECOND GALLERY. From Hugo & Lönnrot to Swinburne & Mallarmé THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE KALEVALA DREAM OF DYING TWO SONNETS, FOR GEORGE SAND GASPARD DELA NUIT: PREFACE AND SIX POEMS PANORAMA DAYS SONNET—SILENCE “FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL” “HEAP CASSIA, SANDAL-BUDS AND STRIPES” EIGHT LIMERICKS THE ILLEGIBLE LETTER SOME OUTSIDER POETS Prologue I AM RAIFTEIRÍ Anonymous Revolutionary Pamphlet from The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times HISTORY OF NEZ PERCÉ INDIANS FROM 1805 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880 DEATHS ON THREE-MILE CREEK: 1841–1915 THE BOASTING DRUNK IN DODGE [1883] THE SONG OF THE LOW THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES, A PRISON-RHYMEINTENBOOKS THE STRANGE EFFECTS OF FAITH THE HONEST FARMER’S DECLARATION [1853] MY DEMON FRAGMENT FROM “THE SLEEPERS” LINES—AFTER SHAKESPEARE THE SPHINX CORRESPONDENCES THE MADMAN DANTE’S NEW LIFE: HIS PITIFUL SONG #1249 MY DREAM O GUESA ERRANTE: THE WALL STREET INFERNO JUDITH SECOND CHORUS FROM ATALANTA IN CALYDON “CETTE ADORABLE BAGUE” A BOOK OF EXTENSIONS PROLOGUE LAOCOÖN Two Shaker Vision Drawings LETTERS TO EVELYN BARING CONCRETE POEM: A MOUSE CALLIGRAMS: THE BLEEDING-HEART DOVE AND THE FOUNTAIN JABBERWOCKY The Shakers HOLY TRINITY NIGHT: THE NIGHT IN GALE’S SONG CHARCOAL MAN A RAILWAY OF RHYME DEFORMATIONS VOWELS & COLORS WRITING ASLANT THREE SYLLOGISMS WORDS IMPROVISATION: CONTADINI AND IMPROVISATORI A TELEGRAPH HARP [1851] THÈMES ANGLAIS: INDEFINITE ARTICLES THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN THREE ALPHABETS Jubilate Agno A Hieroglyphic Alphabet The Poetical Alphabet SADAKICHI’S 1895 LIGHT SHOW A THIRD GALLERY. From Hopkins & Nietzsche to Yosano & Apollinaire STAR IMAGES: SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1864 OEDIPUS: SOLILOQUIES OF THE LAST PHILOSOPHER CHANSON D’AUTOMNE [Epigraph] “I replace melancholy with courage” UNDATED FRAGMENT MORNING OF DRUNKENNESS [Epigraph] “Dans la pièce les femmes vont et viennent” SOME ORIENTALISMS Prologue THEBOOK OF LOS: ASIA ARABIAN BALLAD THE GIAOUR: LEILA AS GAZELLE LES ORIENTALES: BOUNABERDI BRAHMA PASSAGE TO INDIA L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE STELAE: ROADSIDE STELAE SIX FROM PHANTASUS NOCTURNE III I LOOK IN THE LAND OF ALLEGORY EXPLOITS AND OPINIONS OF DOCTOR FAUSTROLL, PATAPHYSICIAN THE MAKING OF AMERICANS SIX POEMS ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, AND HERMES THE WOMAN MANIFESTOS & POETICS TOWARD A WORLD LITERATURE THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL: REASON AND ENERGY ON THE DIFFERENCE OF POETIC MODES ADVERTISEMENT FOR LYRICAL BALLADS SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE ATHENAEUM FRAGMENT 116 A DEFENCE OF POETRY TO RICHARD WOODHOUSE, 27 OCTOBER 1818 JOURNEY FROM MUNICH TO GENOA PREFACE TO CROMWELL THE POET PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND LETTER TO THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY CRISIS IN VERSE POETRY AND VERSE LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, MAY 15, 1871 AN ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO CREDITS FIGURE CREDITS INDEX OF AUTHORS Views the work of the romantic and post-romantic poets as an international, collective, often utopian enterprise that became the foundation of experimental modernism. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, this book features prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry, along with more familiar forms