Understanding poetry / by Cleanth Brooks [and] Robert Penn Warren.
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New York :
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
[1960]
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| Edition: | 3d ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Expostulation and reply / William Wordsworth
- Narrative poems
- Foreword
- Out, out-- / Robert Frost
- Frankie and Johnny ; Jesse James ; Johnie Armstrong ; Sir Patrick Spence ; The wife of Usher's Well / Anonymous
- Farewell to barn and stack and tree / A. E. Housman
- The three ravens ; Lord Randal / Anonymous
- Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling
- Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott
- Hell gate / A. E. Housman
- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Badger / John Clare
- Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning
- The demon lover / Anonymous
- La belle dame sans merci / John Keats
- Battle of the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis / Walt Whitman
- Epitaph on an army of mercernaries / A. E. Housman
- Afterword
- Descriptive poems
- Foreword
- Pippa's song / Robert Browning
- Written in March / William Wordsworth
- Two voices in a meadow / Richard Wilbur
- The main-deep / James Stephens
- Pear tree ; Heat / H. D.
- A brisk wind / William Barnes
- In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound
- Dust of snow / Robert Frost
- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Spring ; Winter / William Shakespeare
- To spring / William Blake
- Summer and winter / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- A dirge / John Webster
- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman
- Nightingales / Robert Bridges
- Rocky acres / Robert Graves
- Desert places / Robert Frost
- Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The yew in the graveyard / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- To autumn / John Keats
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth
- Preludes / T. S. Eliot
- Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Metrics
- Foreword
- Absent yet present / Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
- The bells of Shandon / Francis Mahoney
- Rhetorical variation
- Like as the waves / William Shakespeare
- To heaven / Ben Jonson
- Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor
- Ah, sunflower / William Blake
- Quantitative variation and onomatopoeia
- Sound and sense / Alexander Pope
- The blindness of Samson / John Milton
- Rhyme
- Stanza forms
- How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
- A deep-sworn vow ; After long silence / William Butler Yeats
- No more be grieved ; The expense of spirit in a waste of shame / William Shakespeare
- In Tenebris, I / Thomas Hardy
- Slow, slow, fresh fount / Ben Jonson
- The poplar-field / William Cowper
- Binsey poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Red wheelbarrow ; Poem / William Carlos Williams.
- Tone
- Foreword
- Portrait / E. E. Cummings
- Little Trotty Wagtail / John Clare
- His prayer to Ben Jonson ; An ode for Ben Jonson / Robert Herrick
- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy
- The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart
- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas
- Ten days leave / W. D. Snodgrass
- The leg / Karl Shapiro
- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
- A city shower / Jonathan Swift
- To a young heir / Samuel Johnson
- The maimed debauchee / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- Kind of an ode to duty / Ogden Nash
- The season 'tis, my lovely lambs / E. E. Cummings
- As a plane tree by the water / Robert Lowell
- Horace paraphrased / Isaac Watts
- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
- Wessex Heights / Thomas Hardy
- The pilgrims / Adelaide Anne Procter
- Lead, kindly light / John Henry Newman
- Ulalume--a ballad / Edgar Allan Poe
- Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Voices / Walter de la Mare
- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom
- After the burial / James Russell Lowell
- On my first son / Ben Johnson
- On his blindness / John Milton
- Piano / D. H. Lawrence
- Western wind / Anonymous
- When love meets love / Thomas Edward Brown
- O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns
- Song / Edmund Waller
- Envoi (1919) / Ezra Pound
- A litany / Sir Philip Sidney
- Cynara / Ernest Dowson
- Blame not my cheeks / Thomas Campion
- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
- Winter remembered / John Crowe Ransom
- They flee from me / Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Lay your sleeping head, my love / W. H. Auden
- The going / Thomas Hardy
- I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
- Imagery
- Foreword
- Yew-trees ; The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
- The goat paths / James Stephens
- When first I came here / Edward Thomas
- Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow / Thomas Campion
- Trees / Joyce Kilmer
- Cleopatra's lament ; Tomorrow and tomorrow / William Shakespeare
- Tomorrow and tomorrow / Sir William Davenant
- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell
- My springs / Sidney Lanier
- The tear / Richard Crashaw
- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne
- The last days of Alice / Allen Tate
- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
- Mariana / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Doom is dark / W. H. Auden
- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Mystery / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- At Melville's tomb ; Voyages II, VI / Hart Crane
- Because I could not stop for death ; After great pain a formal feeling comes ; The soul selects / Emily Dickinson
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden
- Among school children / William Butler Yeats
- The fair singer / Andrew Marvell.
- Theme: statement and idea
- Foreword
- Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith
- 1887 / A. E. Housman
- Elegy / Thomas Gray
- If poisonous minerals / John Donne
- Thou art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- After apple-picking ; Mowing ; Birches / Robert Frost
- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
- Church going / Philip Larkin
- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth
- The scoffers ; London / William Blake
- Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The miracle / Walter de la Mare
- The force that through the green fuse / Dylan Thomas
- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot
- The march into Virginia / Herman Melville
- Losses / Randall Jarrell
- Two songs from a play / William Butler Yeats
- Shine, perishing republic / Robinson Jeffers
- The return / John Peale Bishop
- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lycidas / John Milton
- Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
- Poems for study
- Foreword
- Upon a dying lady / William Butler Yeats
- In memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden
- Praise for an urn / Hart Crane
- The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell
- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville, 1955 / Donald Hall
- My father moved through dooms of love / E. E. Cummings
- The waste land ; Notes on The waste land / T. S. Eliot
- The second coming / William Butler Yeats
- Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate
- Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's city / Archibald MacLeish
- Lee in the mountains / Donald Davidson
- On the move / Thom Gunn
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (life and contacts) I-V / Ezra Pound
- O where are you going? / W. H. Auden
- Just a smack at Auden / William Empson
- Journey of the magi / T. S. Eliot
- Twelfth night / John Peale Bishop
- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The owl / Edward Thomas
- The heron / Vernon Watkins
- At the slackening of the tide / James Wright
- Little exercise / Elizabeth Bishop
- The open sea / William Meredith
- A grave / Marianne Moore
- Rainy summer / Ruth Pitter
- Grapes making / Léonie Adams
- A summer commentary / Yvor Winters
- Come in / Robert Frost
- To Juan at the winter solstice / Robert Graves
- Bavarian Gentians / D. H. Lawrence
- Low barometer / Robert Bridges
- Counting the mad / Donald Justice
- The heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz
- The minute / Karl Shapiro
- The cottage hospital / John Betjeman
- The gallows / Edward Thomas
- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart
- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats
- Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
- from Canto LXXXI / Ezra Pound
- In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore
- The visitant / Theodore Roethke
- Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost
- How poems come about: intention and meaning
- I hoed and trenched and weeded / A. E. Housman
- The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell
- The immortal part ; To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman
- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth.