The Norton Anthology of Poetry--fifth edition

Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems by 340 poets in the Regular Edition. Many major figures—from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Ashbery and Walcott—have expanded sections, and a range of outstanding younger voices have been newly added. Concise annotations, biographical sketches, an Essay on Versification by Jon Stallworthy, and, new to this edition, an Essay on Poetic Syntax by Margaret Ferguson help readers understand and enjoy the poems. Contents......Page 6 Preface to the Firth Edition......Page 60 Acknowledgments......Page 64 CAEDMON'S HYMN......Page 66 FROM BEOWULF......Page 67 RIDDLES......Page 75 THE WIFE'S LAMENT......Page 76 THE SEAFARER......Page 77 ANONYMOUS LYRICS OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 80 GEOFFREY CHAUCER......Page 84 WILLIAM LANGLAND......Page 136 CHARLES D'ORLEANS......Page 142 ANONYMOUS LYRICS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY......Page 144 WILLIAM DUNBAR......Page 151 JOHN SKELTON......Page 155 EARLY MODERN BALLADS......Page 162 ANONYMOUS ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN POEMS......Page 182 THOMAS WYATT......Page 191 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY......Page 202 ANNE ASKEW......Page 205 QUEEN ELIZABETH I......Page 207 GEORGE GASCOIGNE......Page 209 ISABELLA WHITNEY......Page 211 SIR WALTER RALEGH......Page 216 EDMUND SPENSER......Page 224 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE......Page 271 JOHN LYLY......Page 272 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY......Page 273 GEORGE PEELE......Page 286 THOMAS LODGE......Page 287 ROBERT SOUTHWELL......Page 288 MARY SIDNEY......Page 290 SAMUEL DANIEL......Page 295 MICHAEL DRAYTON......Page 300 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE......Page 303 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE......Page 322 THOMAS CAMPION......Page 343 THOMAS NASHE......Page 347 AEMILIA LANYER......Page 349 JOHN DONNE......Page 358 BEN JONSON......Page 388 JOHN FLETCHER......Page 410 EDWARD HERBERT......Page 411 MARY WROTH......Page 412 ROBERT HERRICK......Page 419 HENRY KING......Page 428 GEORGE HERBERT......Page 432 THOMAS CAREW......Page 450 JAMES SHIRLEY......Page 455 EDMUND WALLER......Page 458 JOHN MILTON......Page 459 SIR JOHN SUCKLING......Page 517 ANNE BRADSTREET......Page 523 RICHARD CRASHAW......Page 533 ABRAHAM COWLEY......Page 535 RICHARD LOVELACE......Page 537 ANDREW MARVELL......Page 540 HENRY VAUGHAN......Page 555 MARGARET CAVENDISH......Page 564 JOHN DRYDEN......Page 565 KATHERINE PHILIPS......Page 591 THOMAS TRAHERNE......Page 596 EDWARD TAYLOR......Page 601 APHRA BEHN......Page 605 JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER......Page 614 ANNE KILLIGREW......Page 619 ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA......Page 621 MATTHEW PRIOR......Page 631 JONATHAN SWIFT......Page 633 ISAAC WATTS......Page 654 JOHN GAY......Page 659 ALEXANDER POPE......Page 661 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU......Page 704 MATTHEW GREEN......Page 710 JAMES THOMSON......Page 714 CHARLES WESLEY......Page 717 SAMUEL JOHNSON......Page 720 THOMAS GRAY......Page 731 WILLIAM COLLINS......Page 738 JEAN ELLIOT......Page 742 CHRISTOPHER SMART......Page 743 OLIVER GOLDSMITH......Page 751 WILLIAM COWPER......Page 760 ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD......Page 770 HANNAH MORE......Page 772 CHARLOTTE SMITH......Page 776 PHILIP FRENEAU......Page 781 PHILLIS WHEATLEY......Page 784 GEORGE CRABBE......Page 788 WILLIAM BLAKE......Page 797 ROBERT BURNS......Page 812 JOANNA BAILLIE......Page 825 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH......Page 828 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE......Page 870 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR......Page 896 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON......Page 898 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY......Page 928 JOHN CLARE......Page 958 FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS......Page 962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT......Page 967 JOHN KEATS......Page 970 RALPH WALDO EMERSON......Page 1006 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING......Page 1012 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW......Page 1016 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER......Page 1022 EDWARD FITZGERALD......Page 1026 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES......Page 1039 EDGAR ALLAN POE......Page 1040 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON......Page 1047 ROBERT BROWNING......Page 1074 EDWARD LEAR......Page 1106 JONES VERY......Page 1109 HENRY DAVID THOREAU......Page 1110 EMILY BRONTE......Page 1111 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH......Page 1116 HERMAN MELVILLE......Page 1119 SPIRITUALS......Page 1122 WALT WHITMAN......Page 1125 FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN......Page 1151 MATTHEW ARNOLD......Page 1152 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI......Page 1167 GEORGE MEREDITH......Page 1172 EMILY DICKINSON......Page 1175 CHRISTINA ROSSETTI......Page 1193 LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON)......Page 1200 WILLIAM MORRIS......Page 1204 W. S. GILBERT......Page 1209 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE......Page 1211 THOMAS HARDY......Page 1217 SIDNEY LANIER......Page 1227 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS......Page 1231 EMMA LAZARUS......Page 1237 A. E. HOUSMAN......Page 1238 RUDYARD KIPLING......Page 1246 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS......Page 1253 ERNEST DOWSON......Page 1276 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON......Page 1277 CHARLOTTE MEW......Page 1281 STEPHEN CRANE......Page 1285 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR......Page 1287 WALTER DE LA MARE......Page 1290 ROBERT FROST......Page 1292 AMY LOWELL......Page 1310 GERTRUDE STEIN......Page 1313 TRUMBULL STICKNEY......Page 1315 CARL SANDBURG......Page 1317 EDWARD THOMAS......Page 1318 WALLACE STEVENS......Page 1321 WITTER BYNNER......Page 1334 E.J. PRATT......Page 1335 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS......Page 1337 D. H. LAWRENCE......Page 1349 EZRA POUND......Page 1360 ELINOR WYLIE......Page 1375 H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE)......Page 1376 SIEGFRIED SASSOON......Page 1382 ROBINSON JEFFERS......Page 1385 RUPERT BROOKE......Page 1389 MARIANNE MOORE......Page 1393 EDWIN MUIR......Page 1401 T. S. ELIOT......Page 1405 JOHN CROWE RANSOM......Page 1432 CONRAD AIKEN......Page 1435 IVOR GURNEY......Page 1436 ISAAC ROSENBERG......Page 1438 HUGH MACDIARMID (CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE)......Page 1441 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH......Page 1446 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY......Page 1447 WILFRED OWEN......Page 1451 DOROTHY PARKER......Page 1456 E. E. CUMMINGS......Page 1457 JEAN TOOMER......Page 1463 ROBERT GRAVES......Page 1465 EDMUND BLUNDEN......Page 1469 LOUISE BOGAN......Page 1471 HART CRANE......Page 1475 ALLEN TATE......Page 1482 BASIL BUNTING......Page 1486 LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON......Page 1490 STERLING A. BROWN......Page 1491 LANGSTON HUGHES......Page 1494 ROY CAMPBELL......Page 1501 OGDEN NASH......Page 1502 STEVIE SMITH......Page 1504 COUNTEE CULLEN......Page 1508 EARLE BIRNEY......Page 1512 C. DAY LEWIS......Page 1513 PATRICK KAVANAGH......Page 1515 STANLEY KUNITZ......Page 1519 ROBERT PENN WARREN......Page 1521 JOHN BETJEMAN......Page 1525 WILLIAM EMPSON......Page 1528 W. H. AUDEN......Page 1530 A. D. HOPE......Page 1546 LOUIS MACNEICE......Page 1550 JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN......Page 1556 THEODORE ROETHKE......Page 1558 RICHARD WRIGHT......Page 1567 MALCOLM LOWRY......Page 1568 STEPHEN SPENDER......Page 1570 ROBERT FITZGERALD......Page 1572 NORMAN MACCAIG......Page 1573 CHARLES OLSON......Page 1576 ELIZABETH BISHOP......Page 1580 ALLEN CURNOW......Page 1593 IRVING LAYTON......Page 1595 ROBERT HAYDEN......Page 1598 MURIEL RUKEYSER......Page 1602 MAY SWENSON......Page 1605 R. S. THOMAS......Page 1609 JOHN BERRYMAN......Page 1611 RANDALL JARRELL......Page 1617 WELDON KEES......Page 1624 NORMAN NICHOLSON......Page 1626 HENRY REED......Page 1628 DYLAN THOMAS......Page 1631 ALUN LEWIS......Page 1638 MARGARET WALKER......Page 1641 JUDITH WRIGHT......Page 1642 DAVID GASCOYNE......Page 1645 P. K. PAGE......Page 1648 GWENDOLYN BROOKS......Page 1651 CHARLES CAUSLEY......Page 1655 ROBERT LOWELL......Page 1657 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI......Page 1671 WILLIAM MEREDITH......Page 1673 AMY CLAMPITT......Page 1674 BARBARA GUEST......Page 1681 EDWIN MORGAN......Page 1683 KEITH DOUGLAS......Page 1685 HOWARD NEMEROV......Page 1688 GEORGE MACKAY BROWN......Page 1692 MONA VAN DUYN......Page 1693 RICHARD WILBUR......Page 1697 DONALD DAVIE......Page 1706 SIDNEY KEYES......Page 1709 PHILIP LARKIN......Page 1713 HOWARD MOSS......Page 1724 JAMES DICKEY......Page 1726 PETER KANE DUFAULT......Page 1730 ANTHONY HECHT......Page 1732 RICHARD HUGO......Page 1739 DENISE LEVERTOV......Page 1742 JOHN ORMOND......Page 1746 JAMES SCHUYLER......Page 1748 DONALD JUSTICE......Page 1749 CAROLYN KIZER......Page 1753 KENNETH KOCH......Page 1756 A. R. AMMONS......Page 1760 JAMES K. BAXTER......Page 1766 ROBERT BLY......Page 1769 ROBERT CREELEY......Page 1770 ALLEN GINSBERG......Page 1773 JAMES MERRILL......Page 1781 FRANK O'HARA......Page 1793 W. D. SNODGRASS......Page 1796 ELIZABETH JENNINGS......Page 1800 JOHN ASHBERY......Page 1801 GALWAY KINNELL......Page 1805 W. S. MERWIN......Page 1808 CHARLES TOMLINSON......Page 1811 JAMES WRIGHT......Page 1814 PETER DAVISON......Page 1816 DONALD HALL......Page 1818 THOMAS KINSELLA......Page 1822 PHILIP LEVINE......Page 1826 ANNE SEXTON......Page 1829 L. E. SISSMAN......Page 1831 THOM GUNN......Page 1833 JOHN HOLLANDER......Page 1840 RICHARD HOWARD......Page 1843 JOHN MONTAGUE......Page 1848 PETER PORTER......Page 1851 ADRIENNE RICH......Page 1856 A. K. RAMANUJAN......Page 1866 EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE......Page 1868 GREGORY CORSO......Page 1872 TED HUGHES......Page 1875 GARY SNYDER......Page 1881 DEREK WALCOTT......Page 1885 ALAN BROWNJOHN......Page 1894 JAY MACPHERSON......Page 1895 GEOFFREY HILL......Page 1896 SYLVIA PLATH......Page 1901 JOHN UPDIKE......Page 1911 ANNE STEVENSON......Page 1912 FLEUR ADCOCK......Page 1914 POPULAR BALLADS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 1918 AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES)......Page 1921 AUDRE LORDE......Page 1923 N. SCOTT MOMADAY......Page 1926 WOLE SOYINKA......Page 1927 MARK STRAND......Page 1928 CHARLES WRIGHT......Page 1930 DARYL HINE......Page 1933 C. K. WILLIAMS......Page 1934 TONY HARRISON......Page 1937 ELEANOR WILNER......Page 1944 DOM MORAES......Page 1948 LES MURRAY......Page 1950 CHARLES SIMIC......Page 1956 MARGARET ATWOOD......Page 1959 SEAMUS HEANEY......Page 1964 MICHAEL LONGLEY......Page 1975 ROBERT PINSKY......Page 1978 BILLY COLLINS......Page 1982 ROBERT HASS......Page 1984 DEREK MAHON......Page 1986 ERIC ORMSBY......Page 1990 DOUGLAS DUNN......Page 1992 ALFRED CORN......Page 1994 LOUISE GLUCK......Page 1996 MICHAEL ONDAATJE......Page 1998 MICHAEL PALMER......Page 2001 EAVAN BOLAND......Page 2003 CRAIG RAINE......Page 2007 KIT WRIGHT......Page 2011 WENDY COPE......Page 2012 YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA......Page 2014 JANE SHORE......Page 2017 RICHARD KENNEY......Page 2019 ROBYN SARAH......Page 2021 AGHA SHAHID ALI......Page 2023 JAMES FENTON......Page 2026 CHARLES BERNSTEIN......Page 2032 ANNE CARSON......Page 2034 DANA GIOIA......Page 2037 NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER......Page 2038 JORIE GRAHAM......Page 2040 PAUL MULDOON......Page 2044 RITA DOVE......Page 2050 DANIEL HALL......Page 2055 SEAN O'BRIEN......Page 2057 VIKRAM SETH......Page 2059 GARY SOTO......Page 2061 BRAD LEITHAUSER......Page 2063 GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG......Page 2065 LOUISE ERDRICH......Page 2070 CAROL ANN DUFFY......Page 2072 DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ......Page 2074 LI-YOUNG LEE......Page 2076 CYNTHIA ZARIN......Page 2078 LAVINIA GREENLAW......Page 2080 GLYN MAXWELL......Page 2081 SIMON ARMITAGE......Page 2086 GREG WILLIAMSON......Page 2088 Versification......Page 2092 Poetic Syntax......Page 2118 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 2138 Biographical Sketches......Page 2140 PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 2205 Index......Page 2216 Long The Classic Anthology Of Poetry In English, The Norton Anthology Of Poetry, Fifth Edition, Adds To Its Wealth Of Known And Loved Poems A Rich Gathering Of New Poetry. Beginning With Beowulf, Newly Represented By Selections From Seamus Heaney's Dazzling Translation, And Continuing To The Present Day, The Norton Anthology Of Poetry Includes Over 1,700 Poems By 340 Poets In The Regular Edition, And 1,100 Poems By 250 Poets In The Shorter. Many Major Figures--from Chaucer And Shakespeare To Ashbery And Walcott--have Expanded Sections, And A Range Of Outstanding Younger Voices Have Been Newly Added. Concise Annotations, Biographical Sketches, An Essay On Versification By Jon Stallworthy, And, New To This Edition, An Essay On Poetic Syntax By Margaret Ferguson Help Readers Understand And Enjoy The Poems. Preface To The Fifth Edition -- Editorial Procedures -- Acknowledgments -- Caedmon's Hymn / Translated By John Pope -- From Beowulf / Translated By Seamus Heaney -- Riddles / Translated By Richard Hamer -- Wife's Lament / Translated By Richard Hamer -- Seafarer / Translated By Ezra Pound -- Anonymous Lyrics Of The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Langland -- Pearl -- Charles D'orleans -- Anonymous Lyrics Of The Fifteenth Century -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Early Modern Ballads -- Anonymous Elizabethan And Jacobean Poems -- Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey -- Anne Askew -- Queen Elizabeth I -- George Gascoigne -- Isabella Whitney -- Chidiock Tichborne -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Edmund Spenser -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Astrophil And Stella -- George Peele -- Thomas Lodge -- Robert Southwell -- Mary Sidney -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare --^ Thomas Campion -- Thomas Nashe -- Aemilia Lanyer -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- John Fletcher -- Edward Herbert -- Mary Wroth -- Robert Herrick -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- Thomas Carew -- James Shirley -- Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Anne Bradstreet -- Richard Crashaw -- Abraham Cowley -- Richard Lovelace -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Dryden -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- Edward Taylor -- Aphra Behn -- John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester -- Anne Killigrew -- Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea -- Matthew Prior -- Jonathan Swift -- Isaac Watts -- John Gay -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Matthew Green -- James Thomson -- Charles Wesley -- Samuel Johnson -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Jean Elliot -- Christopher Smart -- Oliver Goldsmith -- William Cowper -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Hannah More -- Charlotte Smith -- Philip Freneau -- Phillis Wheatley --^ George Crabbe -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- Joanna Baillie -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- William Cullen Bryant -- John Keats -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Robert Browning -- Edward Lear -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- Emily Bronte -- Arthur Hugh Clouh -- Julia Ward Howe -- Herman Melville -- Spirituals -- Walt Whitman -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Matthew Arnold -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- George Meredith --emily Dickinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Lewis Carroll (charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- William Morris -- W S Gilbert -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Thomas Hardy -- Sidney Lanier -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Emma Lazarus -- A E Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Ernest Dowson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Charlotte Mew -- Stephen Crane -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- John Mccrae -- Walter De La Mare -- Robert Frost -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Trumbull Stickney -- Carl Sandburg -- Edward Thomas -- Wallace Stevens -- Witter Bynner -- E J Pratt -- William Carlos Williams -- D H Lawrence -- Ezra Pound -- Elinor Wylie -- H D (hilda Doolittle) -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Robinson Jeffers -- Rupert Brooke --^ Marianne Moore -- Edwin Muir -- T S Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- Ivor Gurney -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Hugh Macdiarmid (christopher Murray Grieve) -- Archibald Macleish -- Edna St Vincent Millay -- Wilfred Owen -- Dorothy Parker -- E E Cummings -- Jean Toomer -- Robert Graves -- Edmund Blunden -- Louise Bogan -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Basil Bunting -- Laura (riding) Jackson -- Sterling A Brown -- Langston Hughes -- Roy Campbell -- Odgen Nash -- Stevie Smith -- Countee Cullen -- Earle Birney -- C Day Lewis -- Richard Eberhart -- Patrick Kavanagh -- Stanley Kunitz -- Robert Penn Warren -- John Betjeman -- William Empson -- W H Auden -- A D Hope -- Louis Macneice -- Josephine Jacobsen -- Theodroe Roethke -- Richard Wright -- Malcolm Lowry -- Stephen Spender -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Norman Maccaig -- Charles Olson -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Allen Curnow -- Irving Layton -- Robert Hayden -- Muriel Bukeyser -- May Swenson -- R S Thomas -- John Berryman -- Randall Jarrell --^ Weldon Kees -- Norman Nicholson -- Henry Reed -- Dylan Thomas -- Alun Lewis -- Margaret Walker -- Judith Wright -- David Gascoyne -- P K Page -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Charles Causley -- Robert Lowell -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- William Meredith -- Amy Clampitt -- Barbara Guest -- Edwin Morgan -- Keith Douglas -- Howard Nemerov -- George Mackay Brown -- Mona Van Duyn -- Richard Wilbur -- Donald Davie -- Sidney Keyes -- Philip Larkin -- Howard Moss -- James Dickey -- Peter Kane Dufault -- Anthony Hecht -- Richard Hugo -- Denise Levertov -- John Ormond -- James Schuyler. Donald Justice -- Carolyn Kizer -- Kenneth Koch -- A R Ammons -- James K Baxter -- Robert Bly -- Robert Creeley -- Allen Ginsberg -- James Merrill -- Frank O'hara -- W D Snodgrass -- Elizabeth Jennings -- John Ashbery -- Galway Kinnell -- W S Merwin -- Charles Tomlinson -- James Wright -- Peter Davison -- Donald Hall -- Thomas Kinsella -- Philip Levine -- Anne Sexton -- L E Sissman -- Thom Gunn -- John Hollander -- Richard Howard -- John Montague -- Peter Porter -- Adrienne Rich -- A K Ramanujan -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Gregory Corso -- Ted Hughes -- Gary Snyder -- Derek Walcott -- Alan Brownjohn -- Jay Macpherson -- Geoffrey Hill -- Sylvia Plath -- John Updike -- Anne Stevenson -- Fleur Adcock -- Popular Ballads Of The Twentieth Century -- Amiri Baraka (leroi Jones) -- Audre Lorde -- N Scott Momaday -- Wole Soyinka -- Mark Strand -- Charles Wright -- Daryl Hine -- C K Williams -- Tony Harrison -- Eleanor Wilner -- Dom Moraes -- Les Murray -- Charles Simic --^ Margaret Atwood -- Seamus Heaney -- Michael Longley -- Robert Pinsky -- Billy Collins -- Robert Hass -- Derek Mahon -- Eric Ormsby -- Douglas Dunn -- Alfred Corn -- Louise Gluck -- Michael Ondaatje -- Michael Palmer -- Eavan Boland -- Craig Raine -- Kit Wright -- Wendy Cope -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Jane Shore -- Richard Kenney -- Robyn Sarah -- Agha Shahid Ali -- James Fenton -- Charles Bernstein -- Anne Carson -- Dana Gioia -- Nicholas Christopher -- Jorie Graham -- Paul Muldoon -- Rita Dove -- Daniel Hall -- Sean O'brien -- Vikram Seth -- Gary Soto -- Brad Leithauser -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Louise Erdrich -- Carol Ann Duffy -- Dionisio D Martinez -- Li-young Lee -- Cynthia Zarin -- Lavinia Greenlaw -- Glyn Maxwell -- Simon Armitage -- Greg Williamson -- Versification: -- Rhytm -- Meter -- Rhyme -- Forms -- Basic Forms -- Composite Forms -- Irregular Forms -- Open Forms Or Free Verse -- Other Forms Of Poetry -- Suggestions For Further Reading -- Poetic Syntax: --^ What Is Syntax? -- Parts Of Syntax -- Sentences And Words -- Clauses -- Moves In The Game -- Nominal Syntax -- Double Syntax -- Word Order Inversions -- Game Of Interpretation: -- Emily Dickinson -- John Keats -- Thomas Gray -- John Dryden -- William Blake -- Scorn Not Syntax -- Suggestions For Further Reading -- Biographical Sketches -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index. [edited By] Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 6 Preface to the Firth Edition 60 Acknowledgments 64 CAEDMON'S HYMN 66 FROM BEOWULF 67 RIDDLES 75 THE WIFE'S LAMENT 76 THE SEAFARER 77 ANONYMOUS LYRICS OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 80 GEOFFREY CHAUCER 84 WILLIAM LANGLAND 136 CHARLES D'ORLEANS 142 ANONYMOUS LYRICS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 144 WILLIAM DUNBAR 151 JOHN SKELTON 155 EARLY MODERN BALLADS 162 ANONYMOUS ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN POEMS 182 THOMAS WYATT 191 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY 202 ANNE ASKEW 205 QUEEN ELIZABETH I 207 GEORGE GASCOIGNE 209 ISABELLA WHITNEY 211 CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE 216 SIR WALTER RALEGH 216 EDMUND SPENSER 224 FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE 271 JOHN LYLY 272 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 273 GEORGE PEELE 286 THOMAS LODGE 287 ROBERT SOUTHWELL 288 MARY SIDNEY 290 MARY SIDNEY 290 SAMUEL DANIEL 295 MICHAEL DRAYTON 300 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 303 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 322 THOMAS CAMPION 343 THOMAS NASHE 347 AEMILIA LANYER 349 JOHN DONNE 358 BEN JONSON 388 JOHN FLETCHER 410 EDWARD HERBERT 411 MARY WROTH 412 ROBERT HERRICK 419 HENRY KING 428 GEORGE HERBERT 432 THOMAS CAREW 450 JAMES SHIRLEY 455 EDMUND WALLER 458 JOHN MILTON 459 SIR JOHN SUCKLING 517 ANNE BRADSTREET 523 RICHARD CRASHAW 533 ABRAHAM COWLEY 535 RICHARD LOVELACE 537 ANDREW MARVELL 540 HENRY VAUGHAN 555 MARGARET CAVENDISH 564 JOHN DRYDEN 565 KATHERINE PHILIPS 591 THOMAS TRAHERNE 596 EDWARD TAYLOR 601 APHRA BEHN 605 JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER 614 ANNE KILLIGREW 619 ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA 621 MATTHEW PRIOR 631 JONATHAN SWIFT 633 ISAAC WATTS 654 JOHN GAY 659 ALEXANDER POPE 661 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 704 MATTHEW GREEN 710 JAMES THOMSON 714 CHARLES WESLEY 717 SAMUEL JOHNSON 720 THOMAS GRAY 731 WILLIAM COLLINS 738 JEAN ELLIOT 742 CHRISTOPHER SMART 743 OLIVER GOLDSMITH 751 WILLIAM COWPER 760 ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD 770 HANNAH MORE 772 CHARLOTTE SMITH 776 PHILIP FRENEAU 781 PHILLIS WHEATLEY 784 GEORGE CRABBE 788 WILLIAM BLAKE 797 ROBERT BURNS 812 JOANNA BAILLIE 825 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 828 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 870 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 896 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 898 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 928 JOHN CLARE 958 FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 967 JOHN KEATS 970 RALPH WALDO EMERSON 1006 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1012 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1016 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 1022 EDWARD FITZGERALD 1026 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1039 EDGAR ALLAN POE 1040 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1047 ROBERT BROWNING 1074 EDWARD LEAR 1106 JONES VERY 1109 HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1110 EMILY BRONTE 1111 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1116 JULIA WARD HOWE 1119 HERMAN MELVILLE 1119 SPIRITUALS 1122 WALT WHITMAN 1125 FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 1151 MATTHEW ARNOLD 1152 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1167 GEORGE MEREDITH 1172 EMILY DICKINSON 1175 CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1193 LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) 1200 WILLIAM MORRIS 1204 W. S. GILBERT 1209 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 1211 THOMAS HARDY 1217 SIDNEY LANIER 1227 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1231 EMMA LAZARUS 1237 A. E. HOUSMAN 1238 RUDYARD KIPLING 1246 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1253 ERNEST DOWSON 1276 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 1277 CHARLOTTE MEW 1281 STEPHEN CRANE 1285 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 1287 JOHN McCRAE 1290 WALTER DE LA MARE 1290 ROBERT FROST 1292 AMY LOWELL 1310 GERTRUDE STEIN 1313 TRUMBULL STICKNEY 1315 CARL SANDBURG 1317 EDWARD THOMAS 1318 WALLACE STEVENS 1321 WITTER BYNNER 1334 E.J. PRATT 1335 WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 1337 D. H. LAWRENCE 1349 EZRA POUND 1360 ELINOR WYLIE 1375 H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) 1376 SIEGFRIED SASSOON 1382 ROBINSON JEFFERS 1385 RUPERT BROOKE 1389 MARIANNE MOORE 1393 EDWIN MUIR 1401 T. S. ELIOT 1405 JOHN CROWE RANSOM 1432 CONRAD AIKEN 1435 IVOR GURNEY 1436 ISAAC ROSENBERG 1438 HUGH MACDIARMID (CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE) 1441 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH 1446 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 1447 WILFRED OWEN 1451 DOROTHY PARKER 1456 E. E. CUMMINGS 1457 JEAN TOOMER 1463 ROBERT GRAVES 1465 EDMUND BLUNDEN 1469 LOUISE BOGAN 1471 HART CRANE 1475 ALLEN TATE 1482 BASIL BUNTING 1486 LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON 1490 STERLING A. BROWN 1491 LANGSTON HUGHES 1494 ROY CAMPBELL 1501 OGDEN NASH 1502 STEVIE SMITH 1504 COUNTEE CULLEN 1508 EARLE BIRNEY 1512 C. DAY LEWIS 1513 RICHARD EBERHART 1515 PATRICK KAVANAGH 1515 STANLEY KUNITZ 1519 ROBERT PENN WARREN 1521 JOHN BETJEMAN 1525 WILLIAM EMPSON 1528 W. H. AUDEN 1530 A. D. HOPE 1546 LOUIS MACNEICE 1550 JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN 1556 THEODORE ROETHKE 1558 RICHARD WRIGHT 1567 MALCOLM LOWRY 1568 STEPHEN SPENDER 1570 ROBERT FITZGERALD 1572 NORMAN MACCAIG 1573 CHARLES OLSON 1576 ELIZABETH BISHOP 1580 ALLEN CURNOW 1593 IRVING LAYTON 1595 ROBERT HAYDEN 1598 MURIEL RUKEYSER 1602 MAY SWENSON 1605 R. S. THOMAS 1609 JOHN BERRYMAN 1611 RANDALL JARRELL 1617 WELDON KEES 1624 NORMAN NICHOLSON 1626 HENRY REED 1628 DYLAN THOMAS 1631 ALUN LEWIS 1638 MARGARET WALKER 1641 JUDITH WRIGHT 1642 DAVID GASCOYNE 1645 P. K. PAGE 1648 GWENDOLYN BROOKS 1651 CHARLES CAUSLEY 1655 ROBERT LOWELL 1657 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI 1671 WILLIAM MEREDITH 1673 AMY CLAMPITT 1674 BARBARA GUEST 1681 EDWIN MORGAN 1683 KEITH DOUGLAS 1685 HOWARD NEMEROV 1688 GEORGE MACKAY BROWN 1692 MONA VAN DUYN 1693 RICHARD WILBUR 1697 DONALD DAVIE 1706 SIDNEY KEYES 1709 PHILIP LARKIN 1713 HOWARD MOSS 1724 JAMES DICKEY 1726 PETER KANE DUFAULT 1730 ANTHONY HECHT 1732 RICHARD HUGO 1739 DENISE LEVERTOV 1742 JOHN ORMOND 1746 JAMES SCHUYLER 1748 DONALD JUSTICE 1749 CAROLYN KIZER 1753 KENNETH KOCH 1756 A. R. AMMONS 1760 JAMES K. BAXTER 1766 ROBERT BLY 1769 ROBERT CREELEY 1770 ALLEN GINSBERG 1773 JAMES MERRILL 1781 FRANK O'HARA 1793 W. D. SNODGRASS 1796 ELIZABETH JENNINGS 1800 JOHN ASHBERY 1801 GALWAY KINNELL 1805 W. S. MERWIN 1808 CHARLES TOMLINSON 1811 JAMES WRIGHT 1814 PETER DAVISON 1816 DONALD HALL 1818 THOMAS KINSELLA 1822 PHILIP LEVINE 1826 ANNE SEXTON 1829 L. E. SISSMAN 1831 THOM GUNN 1833 JOHN HOLLANDER 1840 RICHARD HOWARD 1843 JOHN MONTAGUE 1848 PETER PORTER 1851 ADRIENNE RICH 1856 A. K. RAMANUJAN 1866 EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE 1868 GREGORY CORSO 1872 TED HUGHES 1875 GARY SNYDER 1881 DEREK WALCOTT 1885 ALAN BROWNJOHN 1894 JAY MACPHERSON 1895 GEOFFREY HILL 1896 SYLVIA PLATH 1901 JOHN UPDIKE 1911 ANNE STEVENSON 1912 FLEUR ADCOCK 1914 POPULAR BALLADS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1918 AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) 1921 AUDRE LORDE 1923 N. SCOTT MOMADAY 1926 WOLE SOYINKA 1927 MARK STRAND 1928 CHARLES WRIGHT 1930 DARYL HINE 1933 C. K. WILLIAMS 1934 TONY HARRISON 1937 ELEANOR WILNER 1944 DOM MORAES 1948 LES MURRAY 1950 CHARLES SIMIC 1956 MARGARET ATWOOD 1959 SEAMUS HEANEY 1964 MICHAEL LONGLEY 1975 ROBERT PINSKY 1978 BILLY COLLINS 1982 ROBERT HASS 1984 DEREK MAHON 1986 ERIC ORMSBY 1990 DOUGLAS DUNN 1992 ALFRED CORN 1994 LOUISE GLUCK 1996 MICHAEL ONDAATJE 1998 MICHAEL PALMER 2001 EAVAN BOLAND 2003 CRAIG RAINE 2007 KIT WRIGHT 2011 WENDY COPE 2012 YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA 2014 JANE SHORE 2017 RICHARD KENNEY 2019 ROBYN SARAH 2021 AGHA SHAHID ALI 2023 JAMES FENTON 2026 CHARLES BERNSTEIN 2032 ANNE CARSON 2034 DANA GIOIA 2037 NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER 2038 JORIE GRAHAM 2040 PAUL MULDOON 2044 RITA DOVE 2050 DANIEL HALL 2055 SEAN O'BRIEN 2057 VIKRAM SETH 2059 GARY SOTO 2061 BRAD LEITHAUSER 2063 GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG 2065 LOUISE ERDRICH 2070 CAROL ANN DUFFY 2072 DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ 2074 LI-YOUNG LEE 2076 CYNTHIA ZARIN 2078 LAVINIA GREENLAW 2080 GLYN MAXWELL 2081 SIMON ARMITAGE 2086 GREG WILLIAMSON 2088 Versification 2092 Poetic Syntax 2118 Suggestions for Further Reading 2138 Biographical Sketches 2140 PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2205 Index 2216