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FLEUR ADCOCK From Tigers by Fleur Adcock. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1967. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
ANNA AKHMATOVA ‘I wrung my hands’ from Poems of Akhmatova, translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz, by permission of Atlantic-Little, Brown & Co. Copyright © 1973 by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz.
YEHUDA AMICHAI ‘We Did It’ from Songs of Jerusalem and Myself by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Harold Schimmel (Harper & Row, 1973), ‘Quick and Bitter’ and ‘A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention’ from Poems by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Assia Gutmann. Copyright © 1968 by Yehuda Amichai. English translation copyright © 1968, 1969 by Assia Gutmann. All included in Selected Poems by Yehuda Amichai, Penguin Books, 1971. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., Olwyn Hughes and Penguin Books.
ANON ‘Plucking the Rushes’, from 170 Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley, Constable & Co. Ltd; and from Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. Copyright 1919, 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., renewed 1947 by Arthur Waley. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
ANON ‘The Wife's Complaint’, from The Earliest English Poems, translated by Michael Alexander, Penguin Books, 1966.
ANONYMOUS FRONTIER GUARD From The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite, Penguin Books, 1964.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Translated by Quentin Stevenson. From The Succession, Oxford University Press. By permission of the translator.
SIMON ARMITAGE From Selected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber.
ANTHONY ASTBURY Reprinted by kind permission of the author. W. H. AUDEN ‘Dear, though the night is gone’, copyright 1935 by W. H. Auden, ‘Fish in the unruffled lakes’, copyright 1937, renewed 1965 by W. H. Auden, and ‘Lay your sleeping head, my love’, copyright 1940, renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden, all from Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957; ‘Master and Boatswain’ from ‘The Sea and the Mirror’, copyright 1944 by W. H. Auden, from Collected Longer Poems, ‘Twelve Songs IX’ from Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Random House, Inc.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Translated by Roy Campbell. Reprinted by permission of Hughes Massie Ltd.
HILAIRE BELLOC From Complete Verse, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. Reprinted by permission of A. D. Peters & Company.
JOHN BERRYMAN No. 36 and No. 71 from Berryman's Sonnets, No. 4 from 77 Dream Songs and No. 171 from His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, to Faber & Faber Ltd; reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. from The Dream Songs by John Berryman. Copyright © 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 by John Berryman.
JOHN BETJEMAN From Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of the author and John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.
BHARTRHARI From Poems from the Sanskrit, translated by John Brough, Penguin Books, 1968.
ELIZABETH BISHOP From The Complete Poems: 1927–1979. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
LUIS DE CAMOËNS Translated by Roy Campbell. From Collected Poems Vol. III by Roy Campbell, reprinted by permission of The Bodley Head Ltd.
ROY CAMPBELL ‘The Sisters’ from Adamastor, Faber & Faber, reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.
CATULLUS No. 45 and No. 92 from The Poems of Catullus, translated by Peter Whigham, Penguin Books, 1966.
ALAIN CHARTIER From Towards Silence by Edward Lucie-Smith. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
AUSTIN CLARKE From Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of The Dolmen Press, Dublin.
TONY CONNOR From With Love Somehow by Tony Connor. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1962. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
WENDY COPE From Serious Concerns. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber.
FRANCIS CORNFORD From Selected Poems published by Enitharmon Press, 1996. Reprinted by permission of Enitharmon Press.
JOHN CORNFORD By permission of Mr Christopher Cornford.
HART CRANE From The Collected Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane by Hart Crane. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press and Liveright Publishing, New York. Copyright © 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corp.
ROBERT CREELEY ‘The Way’ by Robert Creeley from For Love. Copyright © 1962 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of Calder & Boyars Ltd and Charles Scribner's Sons.
E. E. CUMMINGS ‘it may not always be so; and i say…’, copyright 1923, 1951 by E. E. Cummings, ‘if i should sleep with a lady called death’ and ‘i like my body when it is with your body’, copyright 1925 by E. E. Cummings, ‘may i feel said he’, copyright 1935 by E. E. Cummings; renewed 1963 by Marion Morehouse Cummings. All reprinted from his volume Complete Poems 1913–1962 by permission of MacGibbon & Kee and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
DONALD DAVIE From A Winter Talent and Other Poems, 1957. Reprinted by permission of Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
DICK DAVIS First published in Belonging, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.
C. DAY LEWIS From Collected Poems, 1954. Copyright 1954 by C. Day Lewis. Reprinted by permission of the Executors of the Estate of C. Day Lewis, Jonathan Cape Ltd, The Hogarth Press and Harold Matson Co., Inc.
PAUL DEHN From The Fern on the Rock. Copyright © 1965 by Paul Dehn. Reprinted by permission of Hamish Hamilton, London.
CAROL ANN DUFFY ‘Warming Her Pearls’ from Selling Manhattan, published by Anvil Press Poetry, 1987. ‘Valentine’ from Mean Time, published by Anvil Press Poetry, 1993. Reprinted by permission of Anvil Press Poetry.
DOUGLAS DUNN From Elegies. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
LAWRENCE DURRELL From Collected Poems by Lawrence Durrell. Copyright © 1965, 1960 by Lawrence Durrell. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
T. S. ELIOT From The Elder Statesman by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1959 by Thomas Stearns Eliot. This poem also appears in a different version in Collected Poems 1909–1962. Copyright © 1963 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
PAUL ÉLUARD Translated by Quentin Stevenson. From The Succession, Oxford University Press. By permission of the translator.
HARRY FAINLIGHT From Sussicran, published by Turret Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
JAMES FENTON From Out of Danger. Reprinted by permission of PFD on behalf of James Fenton. Copyright: as printed in the original volume.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ‘Away Above a Harborful’ from A Coney Island of the Mind. Copyright 1955 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York.
ROBERT GRAVES From Collected Poems by Robert Graves, Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1965, reprinted by permission of the author, except for ‘The Foreboding’ from Complete Poems, reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
THOM GUNN ‘Carnal Knowledge’ from Fighting Terms, and ‘The Hug’ from The Man with Night Sweats. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
SOPHIE HANNAH From Hotels Like Houses/Leaving and Leaving You. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet.
THOMAS HARDY From Collected Poems. Copyright 1925 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1953 by Lloyds Bank Ltd. Reprinted by permission of the Trustees of the Hardy Estate, Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited and Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York.
TONY HARRISON From Selected Poems. Copyright © Penguin Books, 1987. Reprinted by permission of Gordon Dickerson on behalf of the author.
SEAMUS HEANEY From Opened Ground. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS From Selected Poems, Oxford University Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ANTHONY HECHT ‘Going the Rounds’ first printed in the Quarterly Review of Literature, 1969. Reprinted by permission of the author.
HEDYLOS By permission of the translator, Louis Untermeyer. Copyright 1956 by Louis Untermeyer.
LADY HEGURI From The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite, Penguin Books, 1964.
A. D. HOPE From Collected Poems 1930–1965 by A. D. Hope. Copyright 1963, 1966 in all countries of the International Copyright Union by A. D. Hope. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Inc. and Angus & Robertson (U.K.) Ltd.
HORACE From Poems of Horace, Rupert Hart-Davis. Reprinted by permission of the translator, James Michie.
A. E. HOUSMAN ‘When I was one-and-twenty’ and ‘Oh, when I was in love with you’ from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ – Authorized Edition – from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. Copyright 1939, 1940, © 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright © 1967, 1968 by Robert E. Symons; ‘The rainy Pleiads wester’ from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. Copyright 1936 by Barclays Bank Ltd. Copyright © 1964 by Robert E. Symons. Reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of A. E. Housman, Jonathan Cape Ltd, and Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., Publishers, New York.
TED HUGHES ‘September’ from The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes. Copyright © 1957 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
ELIZABETH JENNINGS From Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of Macmillan, London and Basingstoke.
DONALD JUSTICE Reprinted from The Summer Anniversaries by Donald Justice by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Copyright © 1954 by Donald Justice.
PHILIP LARKIN From The Whitsun Weddings. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
D. H. LAWRENCE From The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Inc., Lawrence Pollinger Ltd and the Estate of the late Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
LAURIE LEE From The Sun My Monument. Reprinted by permission of the author and The Hogarth Press.
ALUN LEWIS ‘Goodbye’ from Ha, Ha, Among the Trumpets and ‘Postscript: For Gweno’ from Raider's Dawn. Reprinted by permission of George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
MICHAEL LONGLEY From Poems 1963–1983, published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Limited.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA From Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems, translated by A. L. Lloyd. Copyright © 1962 by A. L. Lloyd. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, publishers and agents for the Estate of Federico Garcia Lorca.
ROBERT LOWELL ‘Man and Wife’ from Life Studies, copyright © 1958 by Robert Lowell; ‘The Old Flame’ from For the Union Dead, copyright © 1962 by Robert Lowell; and Villon, ‘The Old Lady's Lament for Her Youth’ from Imitations, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 by Robert Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
HUGH MACDIARMID From Collected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid. Copyright © Christopher Murray Grieve, 1948, 1962. Reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH From The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
LOUIS MACNEICE Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
DEREK MAHON From Night Crossing by Derek Mahon. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
MARTIAL From After Martial by Peter Porter. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1972. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
MELEAGER ‘Love's night and a lamp’ and ‘Busy with love, the bumble bee’ from The Poems of Meleager, 1973. Reprinted by permission of the translator, Peter Whigham, and Anvil Press Poetry.
CHARLOTTE MEW From Collected Poems, 1953. Reprinted by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY From Collected Poems, Harper & Row. Copyright 1923, 1951 by Edna St Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. Reprinted by permission of Norma Millay Ellis.
HAROLD MONRO From Collected Poems, 1970. Reprinted by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
EDWIN MORGAN By permission of the author.
ANDREW MOTION ‘On the Table’ from Salt Water. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.
EDWIN MUIR From Collected Poems 1921–1958. Copyright © 1960 by Willa Muir. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Oxford University Press Ltd.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1944, 1972 by Vladimir Nabokov. All rights reserved.
PABLO NERUDA ‘Drunk as drunk on turpentine’ from The Man Who Told His Love, translated by Christopher Logue. Reprinted by permission of Scorpion Press.
BORIS PASTERNAK Reprinted by permission of the translators, Peter France and Jon Stallworthy.
BRIAN PATTEN From Little Johnny's Confession. Copyright © Brian Patten, 1967. Reprinted by permission of George Allen & Unwin Ltd and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
OCTAVIO PAZ From Configurations. Copyright © 1968 by Octavio Paz and Charles Tomlinson. Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd and New Directions Publishing Corporation.
PETRONIUS ‘Good God, what a night that was’, from Poems from the Greek Anthology, translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of The University of Michigan Press.
PETER PORTER Reprinted by permission of the author.
EZRA POUND From Collected Shorter Poems, Faber & Faber Ltd, and Personae, New Directions Publishing Corporation. Copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
JOHN PRESS From Guy Fawkes Night, Oxford University Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
JACQUES PRÉVERT ‘Alicante’, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, copyright © 1947 by Les Editions du Point du Jour. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.
JONATHAN PRICE By permission of the author.
F. T. PRINCE By permission of the author.
CRAIG RAINE From A Martian Sends a Postcard Home. Reprinted by permission of David Godwin Associates on behalf of the author.
RAMANUJAN From The Interior Landscape, translated by A. K. Ramanujan, published by Peter Owen, London, and Indiana University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
JOHN CROWE RANSOM From Selected Poems, Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by John Crowe Ransom. Copyright 1927 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and renewed 1955 by John Crowe Ransom. Reprinted by permission of Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
HENRY REED From A Map of Verona. Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd.
KENNETH REXROTH From Poems from the Greek Anthology, translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of the University of Michigan Press.
w. R. RODGERS From Europa and the Bull. Reprinted by permission of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.
THEODORE ROETHKE ‘She’, copyright © 1956, and ‘I Knew a Woman’, copyright 1954 by Theodore Roethke, from the book Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc.
PIERRE DE RONSARD By permission of the translator, Robert Mezey.
ALAN ROSS From African Negatives. Reprinted by permission of Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd.
RUDAKI From Loquitor. Translated by Basil Bunting. Reprinted by permission of Fulcrum Press.
MARY JO SALTER From Poems. Copyright © Mary Jo Salter, 1999. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
LOUIS SIMPSON ‘As birds are fitted to the boughs’ (copyright © 1955 by Louis Simpson), which first appeared in Discovery 6, is reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press from Selected Poems by Louis Simpson, and Charles Scribner's Sons from Poets of Today II by Louis Simpson et al.; ‘The Custom of the World’, copyright © 1949 by Louis Simpson. Reprinted from A Dream of Governors by Louis Simpson, by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
STEVIE SMITH From Selected Poems, copyright © 1962, 1964 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of Longman and New Directions Publishing Corporation.
W. D. SNODGRASS From After Experience by W. D. Snodgrass, published by Oxford University Press and Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Copyright © 1966 by W. D. Snodgrass. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
WILLIAM SOUTAR Reprinted by permission of The Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.
DYLAN THOMAS From Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of J. M. Dent & Sons and the Trustees for the copyrights of the late Dylan Thomas; and from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York.
R. S. THOMAS From Song at the Year's Turning. Reprinted by permission of Hart-Davis Ltd.
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO Reprinted by permission of the author.
FRANÇOIS VILLON Translated by Robert Lowell. From Imitations, copyright© 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 by Robert Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
ANDREI VOZNESENSKY ‘Dead Still’ translated by Richard Wilbur and included in Antiworlds by Andrei Voznesensky, edited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward, published by Oxford University Press and Basic Books Inc. Copyright © 1966, 1967 by Basic Books Inc., Publishers, New York. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
RICHARD WEBER From Stephen's Green Revisited. Reprinted by permission of The Dolmen Press, Dublin.
ANNA WICKHAM Reprinted by permission of George W. Hepburn and Margaret I. Hepburn.
HUGO WILLIAMS From Symptoms of Loss, by Hugo Williams. Copyright © Oxford University Press, 1965. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
KIT WRIGHT Reprinted by permission of Leviathan.
W. B. YEATS From Collected Poems. ‘When You Are Old’ and ‘Never Give All the Heart’ copyright 1906 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1934 by William Butler Yeats; ‘A Drinking Song’ and ‘Brown Penny’ copyright 1912 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1940 by Bertha Georgie Yeats; ‘Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop’, ‘Chosen’, ‘Lullaby’ and ‘After Long Silence’ copyright 1933 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats; ‘Whence Had They Come’ copyright 1934 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1962 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Mr M. B. Yeats, The Macmillan Company of London and Basingstoke, The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
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