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In the crowded tenement of an index, there is never enough space. The main poems each have a separate entry here. With rare exceptions, other books and poems by the same author appear in the author entry, though in greater or lesser ways they are relevant to the main poem. Minor references have been discarded, like unhappy children—usually books and authors mentioned only in notes; insignificant figures who dash in once or twice; and any gods, biblical figures, Homeric heroes, and Shakespearean characters relegated to bit parts they no doubt resent.
Abbot, Jacob, 195–96
ABC of Reading (Pound), 185
Ackroyd, Peter, 327n24
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Cranach), 284
Addison, Joseph, 238
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 211, 229
Aeneid (Virgil), 119, 152, 179, 181, 183–84, 225, 228
Aesop, 77
“After Apple-Picking” (Frost), 311
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes” (Dickinson): analysis of, 227–66; Arctic travel and exploration and, 261–63, 364nn146–48; Christ in, 232–35, 263, 266; coda to, 311–13; Coleridge and, 261–62; Cooper and, 262, 264; critics on, 232; dash in, 265; death in, 229–32, 257–64; ending of, 265–66; feet in, 231, 234, 247–54, 256–259, 261; freezing in, 255–256, 260–64, 266, 312; Hall and, 263; “Hour of Lead” in, 229, 232, 234, 254, 255–58, 259, 261, 266; “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” and, 257–60; “if outlived” in, 264–65; inversion of syntax in, 227–29; Kane and, 261–63; lead (element) in, 256; manuscript of, 249–52, 250; meter of, 228–29, 251–52; nerves in, 231–32, 234, 238, 247, 253–54, 257–58, 266; punctuation in, 232–33, 249, 251, 265; “quartz contentment” in, 234, 254–56, 258, 261, 264; rhyme in, 251, 252, 266–67; Robinson Crusoe and, 259; Shakespeare and, 256, 258; stanza 1, 227–34; stanza 2, 254–55; stanza 2, line arrangement of, 249–52, 250; stanza 3, 255–67; syntax in, 227–28, 232–33, 248, 249–52, 265; “wooden way” in, 248–53. See also Dickinson, Emily
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 139
Ahearn, Barry: William Carlos Williams and Alterity, 203, 204
Aldington, Richard, 176
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 195–96
Alexander the Great, 119
Alger, Horatio, 82
Allegro, L’ (Milton), 120
Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 88–89
All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), 151
Altieri, Charles, 194
Amarynthus, the Nympholept (H. Smith), 20, 320n23
Ambassadors, The (H. James), 140–41
American Gothic (Wood), 192
American Indians, 91–93, 95–96, 273, 329n53. See also Song of Hiawatha, The
American in Paris, An (Gershwin), 6
American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens), 85
American Scene, The (H. James), 135–37, 145–46
American Standard of Excellence, 198
American Standard of Perfection, 198–99
Amherst, Massachusetts: “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” and, 4, 230, 236, 237–38, 239–41, 245, 248, 254, 256, 260, 264, 358n45, 359n64
Amherst Academy, 254
Amours de Voyage (Clough), 89
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), 256
Andersen, Hans Christian, 262
“Annabel Lee” (Poe), 138
Antoinette, Marie, 181
“Apparuit” (Pound), 172
Apsley, William, 340n5
Arabian Nights, The, 198
Arctic Explorations (Kane), 262–63
Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux (Hall), 263
Arctic travel and exploration, 261–63, 364nn146–48
Ariosto, Ludovico, 119
Aristotle, 181
“Armadillo, The” (Bishop), 64, 65
Armin, Robert, 154–55
Armory Show (1913), 209–10, 352n145
Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard, 344n9
art: Cubism, 200–201, 225; Dada, 210, 222, 225. See also Brueghel, Jan, the Elder; Duchamp, Marcel; Cole, Thomas; Cranach, Lucas, the Elder; Demuth, Charles; Friedrich, Caspar David; Gris, Juan; Hiroshige; Hokusai; Lear, Edward; Leutze, Emanuel; Monet, Claude; Moran, Thomas; Rembrandt; Rousseau, Henri; Rubens, Peter Paul; Titian; Turner, J. M. W.; Van Gogh, Vincent; Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; Wood, Grant
Arte of Rhetorique, The (T. Wilson), 165, 342n51
Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine, 196
Ash, John, 120
astronomy, 127–29, 133–35, 336n91, 337n113
Astrophil and Stella (Sidney), 271
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 157
Auden, W. H., 13, 126, 273, 291–92
Aurora Leigh (E. B. Browning), 241
Austen, Jane, 265
Autobiography (Williams), 201, 206, 209–10
“Ax-Helve, The” (Frost), 311
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 130–32, 133, 147, 337n113
Baldwin, T. W., 6, 165, 317n11, 342n51
Ballads and Other Poems (Longfellow), 83
Barbauld, Anna Laeticia, 23
Barber, John W., 260
Baxter, Sylvester, 298
Bedroom in Arles (Van Gogh), 6
Beecher, Henry, 239
Benét, William Rose, 202, 205, 213, 224
Bentham, Jeremy, 233
Bentley, Richard, 116
Berkeley, California: “The Skunk” and, 68–73, 77
“Bermudas” (Marvell), 6
“Between Walls” (Williams), 207
Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 239, 358n55
Bible, 12, 141–42, 144–45, 158–9, 162–63, 167, 188, 194, 220
Bibliotheca Historica (Diodorus Siculus), 25–26
Bierstadt, Albert, 284–85
Bingham, Millicent Todd, 313
Binyon, Laurence, 173
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 206
“Birches” (Frost), 311
Bird, Isabella, 360n76
Bishop, Elizabeth, 61, 63–65, 201, 324n28, 325n40; “The Armadillo” by, 64, 65; “Arrival at Santos” by, 201; “The Burglar of Babylon” by, 65; enjambment and, 201; “One Art” by, 142; Questions of Travel by, 64, 65
“Black Cottage, The” (Frost), 311
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 120–21
Blast (magazine), 348n79
Bleak House (Dickens), 248
Bleau, N. Arthur, 269–70, 293, 304
Blind Man (magazine), 210
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 10, 17, 28, 365n157
Bonivard, François, 243–44
Bonnycastle, John: An Introduction to Astronomy, 128–129, 336nn90–91
Book of Sir Thomas More, The, 151, 168
“book was writ of late called Tetrachordon, A” (Milton), 201;
Booth, George, 26–27
Booth, Stephen, 166
Boston Daily Traveller, 93
“Bound—a trouble” (Dickinson), 255
Bowdler, Thomas, 356n13
Bowles, Mary, 239, 241, 360n76
Bowles, Samuel, 227, 240–46, 260, 263, 358n58, 359n67
Bow Weekly News, 280
Boyer, Charles, 72
“Boy’s Poem, A” (A. Smith), 279–80
Boy’s Will, A (Frost), 288
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 224
Brawne, Fanny, 129
Bricault, Charlemagne, 371n252
Bride of Abydos, The (Byron), 30
Bright, Henry, 96–97
British Museum, 9, 25, 26, 28, 173, 190, 320n30
Brkich, Melanie, 346n42
Brook’s (club), 130–31
Brougham, John, 94–95
Browne, Charles Armitage, 114
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 241; Aurora Leigh by, 241
Browning, Robert, 241, 275; “ ‘How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’ ” by, 35, 42; “My Last Duchess” by, 12, 59, 89, 275
Brueghel, Jan, the Elder, 284
Bryant, William Cullen, 92, 106
“Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar” (Eliot), 224
Burell, Carl, 268–69, 293, 300, 302
Burke, Edmund, 299
Burton, Richard, 256
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 10, 121, 265; The Bride of Abydos by, 30; The Giaour by, 30; “The Prisoner of Chillon” by, 243–44, 258
“By the road to the contagious hospital” (Williams), 206
Cantos, The (Pound), 174
Canzoni (Pound), 173
Carpenter, Humphrey, 176
Carroll, Lewis, 12, 201; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by, 203; “Hiawatha’s Photographing” by, 102–6, 330n76; Sylvie and Bruno by, 104; “Turtle Soup” by, 201; “The White Knight’s Song” by, 82
Carter, Howard, 321n44
Carter, Jimmy, 325n46
Cary, Henry, 121
Castine, Maine: “Skunk Hour” and, 49, 52–53, 59–65, 71, 75, 76, 324n28, 325n39
Cathay (Pound), 172–73, 189, 208, 352n138
Cather, Willa: The Professor’s House, 5
Catholic Anthology (Pound), 176, 187
Caxton, William, 154
Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 79
Champollion, Jean-François, 12–13
Chapbook, 286
Chapman, George: Homer’s Odysses translated by, 111, 114, 116, 118–19, 124–25, 127–29, 132, 134–135, 147–48; The Iliads of Homer translated by, 111, 114, 116–19, 120–21, 124–30, 132, 134–35, 147–48; Keats and, 116–17; paraphrasing by, 334n60. See also “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
“Charge of the Light Brigade, The” (Tennyson), 32, 35
Charles I, 258
“Charm invests a face, A” (Dickinson), 260
Chatterton, Thomas, 10
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 30, 102, 174, 282
Chekhov, Anton, 267
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 238
chickens, 198–99, 213, 268, 282–83
Child, Francis James, 91
Chinese Made Easy, 200
Christ. See Jesus Christ
Christianity, 37–38, 47, 58, 62, 81, 166–67, 232–234, 237, 239, 287, 360n88
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 309
Circe, 71
Clark brothers (friends of Wadsworth and Dickinson), 239
Clarke, Charles Cowden: Hunt and, 318n5, 332n31; Keats and, 110–14, 132, 332n32; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” (Keats) and, 110–11, 113–14; 116–121, 122–23, 124–25, 129, 132, 134
Clipper Garden Wheelbarrow, 196, 197
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 89
coda: to “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” 311–13; to “The Draft Horse,” 45–47; to “In a Station of the Metro,” 223–25; to “Ozymandias” (Shelley), 25–30; to “Ozymandias” (H. Smith), 25–30; to “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 223–25; to “The Ride,” 45–47; to “The Skunk,” 74–77; to “Skunk Hour,” 74–77; to “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 311–13
“Code, The” (Frost), 311
Cold Storm (1857), 312
Cole, Thomas, 285
Coleman (family friends of Dickinson), 358n45
Coleridge, Hartley, 337n113
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1, 10, 121, 125, 206, 262, 264, 318n1, 337n113; Biographia Literaria by, 206; “Hymn Before Sun-Rise” by, 121; “Kubla Khan” by, 190; “The Night-Scene” by 25; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by, 261–62, 364n142; Sibylline Leaves by, 25; Wordsworth and, 364n142
Collected Poems (Justice), 137
Collected Poems, 1921–1931 (Williams), 202
Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 285–86
Collected Prose (Lowell), 324n36
Colman, George, 357n39
Colosseum, 13
Colossus of Memnon, 26–27
Columbus, Christopher, 71
“Commission” (Pound), 176
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 285–86
“Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, The,” 173
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” (Wordsworth), 10
Concorde, La (Métro station). See La Concorde
Condell, Henrie, 151
Conkling, Grace Hazard, 224
Connecticut River Valley, 234
“Contemporania” (Pound), 171, 175–76, 186, 188, 190, 348n79
Cooper, Charles W., 293
Cooper, James Fenimore, 31, 95, 262, 284–85
copyright law, 92–93
Cortez, Hernan, 24, 122–23, 129–35, 337n113, 338n120
Cowley, Abraham, 125
Cowper, William, 111, 121, 282
Cranach, Lucas, the Elder, 74, 284, 326n55
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage by, 211
Cravens, Margaret, 190–91, 348n79
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 132
Daniel, Samuel, 151
Dante, 4–5, 34, 55–56, 66, 84, 119, 121, 142, 178, 225, 287, 296; Divine Comedy (Commedia) by, 4–5, 34, 55–56, 66, 91, 121, 142, 287, 296
Danton, Georges, 181
Darien, Isthmus of, 134
Darwin, Charles, 62–63, 65, 75, 199, 325n38
“Defence of Poetry” (Longfellow), 91–92
“Defence of Poetry, A” (Shelley), 29, 120
Defoe, Daniel, 259
de León, Ponce, 71
Demuth, Charles, 209; I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by, 209
Denon, Dominique Vivant, Baron, 27
Department of Agriculture, U.S., 366n178
Derry, New Hampshire, 6, 40; Derry stores, 306–7; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and, 268–69, 272–276, 278, 279, 280, 283, 299–311, 306, 308, 365n165, 366n169, 370n241, 371n252, 371n257, 371n262
Derry News, 280, 282–83, 300, 305–6
“Descendant of Kings, A” (Williams), 201
Description de l’Egypte (Napoleonic scholarship), 28
Description of the East and Other Countries, A (Pococke), 27
“Despair” (Frost), 278–79
Devlin, Marie. See Heaney, Marie
Dickens, Charles: American Notes for General Circulation by, 85; Bleak House by, 248; A Christmas Carol by, 309; copyright law and, 92–93; Dombey and Son by, 248; Frost and, 309–10; The Old Curiosity Shop by, 87, 242; Oliver Twist by, 99; The Pickwick Papers by, 109
Dickinson, Austin (brother), 230, 234, 237, 240, 241, 245, 254
Dickinson, Edward (father), 234, 236
Dickinson, Emily, 6; Bianchi and, 239, 358n55; “Bound—a trouble” by, 255; Bowles and, 227, 240–46, 260, 263, 358n58, 359n67; Byron and, 243–44; “A Charm invests a face” by, 260; Chillon, prisoner of, and, 243–44; Christianity and, 234, 237; courtship and romantic interests of, 238–46, 313; crisis or terror of, 235–36, 240, 241, 246; dashes of, 265; dating works of, 242–43, 359n74, 365n151; eye trouble of, 244, 246; Franklin on, 236, 242, 245, 249, 359n74, 360n75, 360n91, 365n151; “From Blank to Blank” by, 247–48; Further Poems of Emily Dickinson by, 245, 249; geology and, 254, 256, 362n116; handwriting of, 235; Hawthorne and, 259–60; Higginson and, 235–38, 240, 241, 246; Hitchcock and, 254, 256, 362n116; “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by, 257–60; “If I may have it, when it’s dead” by, 243; “I like to see it lap the Miles” by, 4; image clusters by, 258; on immortality, 237; T. H. Johnson and, 232–33, 241, 249, 358n58, 359n74, 365n151; Master and Master Letters of, 242–47, 256, 359n74, 360n75; meter of, 266–67; “My cocoon tightens—Colors teaze” by, 202; “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” by, 256; “A nearness to Tremendousness” by, 255; “On a Columnar Self” by, 254; “One Blessing had I than the rest” by, 255; Poe and, 259–60; poems, reciting her own, 235; poems, reading, 241–42, 243–44, 246; poems, recipients of, 253, 326n113; “A Prison gets to be a friend” by, 258; religion and, 234; “Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue” by, 264; revision by, 242, 253, 259; seclusion of, 235, 249, 260, 313; Shakespeare and, 229, 232, 256, 258, 356n13; suitors of, possible, 238–46; “Sweet—safe—Houses” by, 230; “Through the strait pass of suffering” by, 263; “’Tis so appalling—it exhilirates” by, 264; “Title divine—is mine!” by, 245; Wadsworth and, 238–40, 243, 246, 248; Wolff on, 260; “You’ll find it—when you try to die” by, 264. See also “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
Dickinson, Emily Norcross (mother), 230, 234, 236
Dickinson, Lavinia (sister), 230, 234, 237, 240, 241, 244, 245
Dickinson, Susan (sister-in-law), 235, 239, 241
Diodorus Siculus, 25–27, 30; Bibliotheca Historica, 25–26
Diomedes, 129
Divine Comedy (Dante), by, 4–5, 34, 55–56, 66, 91, 121, 142, 287, 296
Doesticks, Q. K. Philander (pseud. of Mortimer Q. Thomson): Plu-ri-bus-tah by, 101
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 248
Domestic Manners of the Americans (Trollope), 85
Domino, Fats, 58
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 321n44
“Draft Horse, The” (Frost): analysis of, 32–38, 40; buggy in, 33–34, 35–36, 37; coda to, 45–47; draft of, 38, 39, 40; faith in, 36–38, 45; fate in, 34–35, 37–38; grove in, 33–35; horse in, 32, 34–35, 37, 38, 40, 322n8; horse in American literature, 31–32; meter in, 35–36, 45; murderer in, 34–35, 37–38; necessity and, 34–35; nightmare, as, 33, 45–46; parable of, 38; revision of, 38, 40; syntax of, 36; “When I consider how my light is spent” (Milton) and, 46–47. See also Frost, Robert
Drayton, Michael, 151
Dreamthorp (A. Smith), 279
Drummond of Hawthornden, William, 258
Duchamp, Marcel, 199, 201, 209–11, 222, 352nn145–46, 353n148; Fountain (sculpture) by, 199, 201, 209–11, 222; Nude Descending a Staircase by, 201, 209–10, 225, 352n145
Duncan-Jones, Katherine: on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2, 151, 153, 155, 159, 161, 168, 169
Eberhart, Richard, 61, 221; “The Groundhog” by, 221
Eddas, 91
Edwards, Jonathan, 234
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (Barbauld), 23
Einstein, Albert, 128
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 74
Eld, George, 340n5
Elementary Geology (Hitchcock), 254, 256, 362n116
Eliot, T. S., 92, 127, 175, 178–79, 211, 213, 224, 242; “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar” by, 224; “Hamlet and His Problems” by, 185; Selected Essays by, 185, 346n48; The Waste Land by, 206, 211, 300
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 86, 92–93, 211; “The Poet” by, 90, 93, 209; “The Snow Storm” by, 312
Empson, William: The Face of the Buddha by, 319n11; Seven Types of Ambiguity by, 233; Using Biography by, 2–3
Endymion (Keats), 124
Enfield Academy: Keats and, 110, 114, 119, 124, 128, 130, 336n101
enjambment, 65, 118, 142, 186, 200–202, 204–5, 222
Epicoene (Jonson), 68
“Epitaph” (Williams), 208
European Magazine, 126–27
Evans, G. Blakemore, 151
Examiner (magazine), 18, 20, 21, 24, 123, 319n8, 335n77, 338n120
“Excelsior” (Longfellow), 82
Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, The (Wordsworth), 130–31
Exultations (Pound), 181
Ezuversity, 213
Face of the Buddha, The (Empson), 319n11
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser), 117
“Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe), 259
Family Shakespeare, The (Bowdler), 356n13
Faustus, 59
“Few Don’ts by an Imagiste, A” (Pound), 174, 181–82
Feynman, Richard, 71
Field Work (Heaney), 66
Fifty Poets: An Auto-Anthology (Benét), 202, 205, 213, 224
Fireside Poets, 106
FitzGerald, Edward, 293
Flag of Truce, The (Warner), 196
Flint, F. S., 173–74, 187; “Imagisme” by, 173–74
Foole Upon Foole (Armin), 154–55
Ford, Ford Madox, 173
Ford, Henry, 217
“For Delmore Schwartz” (Lowell), 201
Fordor Ford, 56
Fortnightly Review, 177, 180, 185–86, 188
Fountain (Duchamp), 199, 201, 209–11, 222
Frankenstein (M. Shelley), 11, 28–29, 261, 287, 318nn3–4
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 30
Franklin, Jane, Lady, 263
Franklin, R. W., 233, 236, 242, 245, 249, 359n74, 360n75, 360n91, 365n151
Freneau, Philip, 92
Friedrich, Caspar David, 24
Fripp, Edgar, 342n51
“From Blank to Blank” (Dickinson), 247–48
Frost, Carol (son), 301, 303–4
Frost, Elinor (wife), 267–68, 303
Frost, Elliott (son), 305
Frost, Irma (daughter), 303–4
Frost, Marjorie (daughter), 304
Frost, Lesley, 270, 289, 301–7, 307, 309, 365n165, 370n245
Frost, Robert, 6, 79–80, 92, 175, 213, 224; “After Apple-Picking” by, 311; autobiographical tale of, 269–70, 298–311; “The Ax-Helve” by, 311; “Birches” by, 224, 311; “The Black Cottage” by, 311; Bleau and, 269–70, 293, 303–4; A Boy’s Will by, 288; Burell and, 268–69, 300; chickens and, 268, 269, 282–83, 301, 309, 311; “The Code” by, 272–73, 311; Collected Poems of Robert Frost by, 285–86; Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by, 285; Complete Poems of Robert Frost by, 285–86; critics on, 287, 289, 292, 300; “Despair” by, 278–79; Dickens and, 309–10; education of, 267–68; failure of, 267–69; family of, 268–69, 270, 278, 300–307, 309–12; farmer, as, 268–70, 276, 300–01, 302–04, 306–7, 309–10; “The Generations of Men” by, 275; “Home Burial” by, 38, 278; horses and, 269, 279, 293, 295, 303, 304, 305, 310, 370n231; “A Hundred Collars” by, 280–81, 311; illness of, 268; In the Clearing by, 40; “Into My Own” by, 288; jobs, 268; Longfellow, compared to, 79–80; at Magoon Place, 268–69, 300, 301, 307, 309, 311, 370n241, 371n262; “Mending Wall” by, 272, 311; money and, 268–69, 283, 300–1, 302–4, 306, 307, 309–10; New Hampshire by, 40, 286, 291–92; The Notebooks of Robert Frost by, 38–40, 322n11; “Out, Out—” by, 38, 311; Panics of 1873–1896 (Long Depression) and, 275–76; Poetry of Robert Frost by, 285; “The Rubaiyat of Carl Burell” by, 293; “Snow” by, 38, 264, 273, 277, 311; teacher, as, 268, 301, 303–4; Thompson on, 279, 291–92, 300, 302–3, 309–10; “West-Running Brook” by, 311. See also Derry, New Hampshire; “Draft Horse, The”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Frost, William Prescott (grandfather), 268–69, 299, 300–301, 309–11
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson), 245, 249
Garden, The (magazine), 196
“Garden, The” (Pound), 176
Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, The (Brueghel and Rubens), 284
Gare de Lyon (Métro station), 178, 179
Garnett, Richard, 130
“Garret, The” (Pound), 175–76
Gaudier-Brzeska (Pound), 186
“Generations of Men, The” (Frost), 275
George I, 114
George III, 133
Georgics (Virgil), 181
Gershwin, George, 6
Geyer’s Stationer (magazine), 196
Giaour, The (Byron), 30
Gilbert, W. S., 86
Gilbert, William, 130
Gilfillan, George, 127
Glirastes (pseud. of Shelley), 18
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 260–61
Godey’s Magazine, 248
Godwin, Mary. See Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Golden Bowl, The (H. James), 140–41
Golden Treasury, The (Palgrave), 132
Gower, John, 161
“Grace Before Song” (Pound), 174
“Grave, A” (Moore), 224
Great Blizzard (1888), 312
Great Depression, 276
“Great Figure, The” (Williams), 209, 212
Great Revival, 234
Greeley, Horace, 291
Grimm, Jacob, 262
Grimm, Wilhelm, 262
Grimms’ Fairy Tales, 262
“Groundhog, The” (Eberhart), 221
Guay, Napoleon, 301
Guy’s Hospital, 110
Hall, Charles Francis, 263
Hamilton, Ian, 66
Hamilton, William, 9
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 212, 353n153
“Hamlet and His Problems” (Eliot), 185
Hammond, Thomas, 119
Handsome Lawn Wheelbarrow, 196, 197
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 61, 323n2
Hardy, Thomas, 87, 139, 271; The Return of the Native, 139
Harvey, Gabriel, 165
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 31, 40, 86, 92, 259; The Song of Hiawatha and, 96–97; “The Minister’s Black Veil” by, 259–60; Twice-Told Tales by, 259–60, 363n134
Haydon, Benjamin, 119, 124, 131
Hazlitt, William, 131
Head, Nathaniel, 307–9
Heaney, Marie (née Devlin), 69
Heaney, Seamus, 40, 66; Field Work by, 66; “Oysters” by, 71. See also “Skunk, The”
Hearst, William Randolph, 275
Hecataeus, 30
Hellas (Shelley), 17
Helps, Arthur, 255
Heminge, John, 151
Henderson, Marc Antony (pseud. of George A. Strong), 97–101, 106, 329n58
Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare), 23, 165, 256
Henry V (Shakespeare), 160, 212
“Henry James by the Pacific” (Justice), 4; The American Scene and, 145–46; analysis of, 138–48; Bible and, 141–42, 144–45; California and, 138, 140, 145, 146–47, 148; H. James and, 137–48; meter in, 143; Milton and, 142–45, 148; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” and, 147–48; Poe and, 138; rhyme in, 144
Heraclitus, 199
Herrick, Robert, 271
Herschel, William, 122, 125, 128, 132, 133
“Hiawatha’s Photographing” (Carroll): analysis of, 102–6, 330n76
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 235–38, 240, 241, 246, 251, 259; “Letter to a Young Contributor” by, 235
“Highwayman, The” (Noyes), 41
Hill, Geoffrey, 182
Hill, Thomas, 284–85
Hiroshige, 182
History of America (Robertson), 130, 131, 133, 147
History of British Birds (Bewick), 16
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 23
“His Vision of a Certain Lady Post Mortem” (Pound). See “Post Mortem Conspectu”
Hitchcock, Edward, 254, 256, 362n116
Hoffman, Daniel, 323n11
Hokusai, 182
Holiday (magazine), 214
Hollander, John, 213
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 92, 104, 106
Holmes, Richard (critic), 25, 332n32
Holmes, Richard (historian), 300, 302–3, 307, 317n8, 366n177, 367n179, 367nn182–83, 371n252
Holmes, Sherlock, 189
Homemade World, A (Kenner), 351n124
Homer, 41, 61, 84, 90, 111, 113–14, 116, 119, 120–21, 123–25, 127, 129, 132, 135, 147, 179; Iliad by, 90, 91, 111, 116–18, 121, 124–25, 135; Odyssey by, 61, 91, 118–19, 120, 135, 177, 179, 191, 225, 286. See also Chapman, George; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”; Pope, Alexander
Homer’s Odysses (Chapman, trans.), 111, 114, 116, 118–19, 124–25, 127–29, 132, 134–135; 332n32
Honest Whore, The (Dekker and Middleton), 162
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: “No worst, there is none” by, 201; “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves” by, 201
horse: in American literature, 31–32, 45; in “The Draft Horse,” 32, 34–35, 37–38, 40, 322n8; in “The Ride,” 40–45, 47; in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 270, 276–83, 295
Hotel del Coronado, 148
Housman, A. E., 82
“How I Began” (Pound), 171, 343n1
“ ‘How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’ ” (R. Browning), 35, 42
“How to Read, or Why” (Pound), 182
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (Twain), 144
Hulme, T. E., 173
Hume, David, 130
Humphry, Charlotte Eliza, 196
“Hundred Collars, A” (Frost), 280–81, 311
Hunt, Christopher, 317n11
Hunt, Leigh, 11, 18, 20, 24, 27, 127; Clarke and, 318n5, 332n31; Imagination and Fancy by, 132; Keats and, 24, 110 114, 123, 132, 133, 135; Shelley and, 11, 18, 20, 27
“Hymn Before Sun-Rise” (Coleridge), 121
“I felt a funeral, in my Brain” (Dickinson), 257–60
“If I may have it, when it’s dead” (Dickinson), 243
Iliad (Homer), 90, 91, 111, 116–18, 121, 124–25, 135. See also “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
Iliad of Homer, The (Pope, trans.), 114, 116–20, 124, 127. See also “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
Iliads of Homer, The (Chapman, trans.), 111, 114, 116–19, 120–21, 124–30, 132, 134–35, 147–48, 332n32. See also “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
“I like to see it lap the Miles” (Dickinson), 4
Illustrated London News, 30
Imagination and Fancy (Hunt), 132
Imagism (Imagisme), 173–74, 175, 181–82, 185, 187, 208
“Imagisme,” (Flint), 173–74
“In a Station of the Metro” (Pound), 205, 208, 223, 348n80; Aeneid and, 179, 181, 183–84, 191; analysis of, 176–91; coda to, 223–25; Cravens and, 190–91; Imagism and, 175; Orientalism and, 171, 173, 179, 182, 185, 189, 352n138; origin of, 171–86, 188, 190–91, 344n17, 345n32, 347nn55–56, 348n80; Paris Métro and, 171–72, 176–84, 179, 180, 184, 190–1, 224–25, 345n27; punctuation and spacing in, 177, 186–8; rhythm of, 185–88; title of, 176–77, 184–85; tone of, 184–85. See also Paris; Pound, Ezra
Independence Day, 60–61
Inferno (Dante). See Divine Comedy
In Memoriam A.H.H. (Tennyson), 248
Insurance Maps of Rutherford and East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey, 216, 218, 353n159, 354n162
In the Clearing (Frost), 40
“Into My Own” (Frost), 288
Into My Own (Walsh), 303
Introduction to Astronomy (Bonnycastle), 128, 336n91
Irving, Washington, 31–32, 40; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by, 31, 46
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (Demuth), 209
It’s a Wonderful Life (film), 309
I Wanted to Write a Poem (Williams), 206
James, Harry, 137
James, Henry: The Ambassadors by, 140–41; The American Scene by, 135–37, 145–46; California and, 138, 140, 145, 146–47; The Golden Bowl by, 140–41; “Henry James by the Pacific” and, 4, 137–48; “The Jolly Corner” by, 139, 141, 144; Lamb House (home), 144, 145; The Middle Years by, 146–47; New York edition of, 140; The Portrait of a Lady by, 224, 140–41; “A Private Life” by, 299; Pullman cars and, 136, 140, 147; The Wings of the Dove by, 140–41
James, William, 139–40
Jardin des Tuileries, 180
Jeffrey, Francis, 87
Jesus Christ, 37, 44, 62, 76, 89, 167, 177, 232–35, 263, 266
“Jewel Stairs’ Grievance, The” (trans. Pound), 189
“Jewish Cemetery at Newport, The” (Longfellow), 85–86
Johnson, Edgar, 327n24
Johnson, Thomas H., 232–33, 241, 245, 249, 251, 358n58, 359n74, 365n151
“Jolly Corner, The” (H. James), 139, 141, 144
Jonson, Ben, 1, 68, 150, 201; Epicoene by, 68; Timber: or, Discoveries by, 151, 340n16; “To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison” by, 201; “To the Reader” by, 151
Journal of Horticulture, The, 283
Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 87
Judgment of Paris, The (Cranach), 326n55
Justice, Donald: Collected Poems by, 137. See also “Henry James by the Pacific”
Kane, Elisha Kent, 261–63; Arctic Explorations by, 262–63; The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin by, 261
Keats, George, 129
Keats, John, 6, 11, 12, 29, 30, 147–48, 241, 265; birthday of, 330n5; Chapman and, 111 116–17; Clarke and, 110–14, 132, 332n32; description of, 110; education of, 114, 116, 119–20; at Enfield Academy, 110, 114, 119, 124, 128, 130, 336n101; Hunt and, 24, 114, 123; “Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there” by, 113; Mathew and, 124, 126; medical training of, 110, 119; “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by, 28; “Ode to a Nightingale” by 265; “On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour” by, 113; Poems by, 126; reading aloud, 111, 124–25, 132, 135, 335n82; Rzepka on, 337n113; “Sleep and Poetry” by, 114; Spenser, reading of, 117, 132; “To one who has been long in city pent” by, 122, 129; travel by, 129–31; writing, habits of, 113. See also “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
Keats, Tom, 120
“Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there” (Keats), 113
Kempe, Will, 155
Kerrigan, John, 151, 165; on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2, 151, 156, 158–59, 165
Kinbote, Charles, 291
King Lear (Shakespeare), 159
Kipling, Rudyard, 31
Knox, Vicesimus, 248
Kora in Hell (Williams), 343n7
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 190
Kyd, Thomas, 170
La Concorde (Métro station), 171, 183, 184
Ladies’ Literary Gazette, 283
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 119
Lamb House (home of H. James), 144, 145
Langland, William, 120
Lathem, Edward Connery, 285
Lattimore, Richmond, 336n96, 338n122
“Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi” (Pound), 181
Lear, Edward, 212
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 90, 93–94, 101, 211
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 31
Legh, Thomas, 26
Leonard, William Ellery, 224
Leslie’s Monthly Magazine, 195
Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907–1941, The (ed. Paige), 347n55
“Letter to a Young Contributor” (Higginson), 235
Leutze, Emanuel, 85
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt, 278
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, The (Bianchi), 358n55
“Lines” (Williams), 208
Li Po (Li Bai), 189
London: “Ozymandias” (Shelley) and, 10, 11; “Ozymandias” (H. Smith) and, 21–25; “Henry James by the Pacific” and, 138; “In a Station of the Metro” and, 173, 178–79, 183–84; “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” and, 109–11, 113, 130–31, 331n21; postal service, 113–14; The Song of Hiawatha and, 85; Southwark, 110, 113–14, 115, 122, 332n28
London Times, 111
Long Depression, 275–76
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 79–80, 87–88, 90–92, 98–99; American Renaissance and, 79; Ballads and Other Poems by, 83; “The Children’s Hour” by, 80; critics of, 83–84, 93, 94, 95; “Defence of Poetry” by, 91–92; education of, 90–91; “Excelsior” by, 82; Frost compared to, 79–80; Housman parody of, 82; “The Jewish Cemetery at Newport” by, 85–86; parodies of, 81–83, 84–85, 86–87, 88–89, 94–95, 96–106; “Paul Revere’s Ride” by, 32, 85; plagiarism, accusation of, 84; Poe and, 83–84; “A Psalm of Life” by, 80–82; reputation of, 79, 80; “Resignation” by, 87–89; trochaic meter, fashion for, 94; “The Village Blacksmith” by, 83; “The Village Schoolboy” parody of, 84–85; Whitman compared to, 79, 84, 90, 93, 95–96. See also parody; Song of Hiawatha, The
Longley, Michael, 66
Lönnrot, Elias, 91; Kalevala by, 91, 107
Lord, Otis, 313
Louis XVI, 181
Louis-Philippe (king), 181
“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” (Wilbur), 44
“Lovely Ad” (Williams), 203
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 151, 157, 256
Love’s Labour’s Won (Shakespeare), 6, 317n11
Lowell, Harriet, 63
Lowell, James Russell, 106
Lowell, Robert, 1, 56, 201, 277, 323n11; Bishop and, 63–65; Collected Prose by, 324n36; “For Elizabeth Bishop” by, 64; “Inspiration” by, 64; Life Studies by, 51, 53; mental illness and, 57–60, 63–64, 75–76, 326n56; as Milton, 76; misspellings and punctuation by, 61; religion of, 62, 76; “For Delmore Schwartz” by, 201; “91 Revere Street” by, 56, 63, 323n11; “Sailing Home from Rapallo” by, 63. See also “Skunk Hour”
Ludington, Sybil, 32
Lustra (Pound), 176, 187–88, 190, 344n18, 348n70, 348n76
Lycidas (Milton), 326n57
Lyman, Joseph, 246
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 23–24
Macpherson, James, 10
Madison, Charles, 296
Madoc (Southey), 283
“Madonna e desiata in sommo cielo” (Pound). See “Post Mortem Conspectu”
Magellan, Ferdinand, 131–32, 134
Magoon Place (home of Frost), 268–69, 300, 301, 307, 309, 311, 370n241, 371n262
Make Light of It (Williams), 201
Manifest Destiny, 105
“March Hare” (Eliot), 175
Marie Antoinette, 181
Marlowe, Christopher, 59
Marshall, Milton D., 214, 215, 219
Marshall, Thaddeus, 214–220, 215, 216, 218, 219, 222, 354n163; home of, 214, 216, 217–20, 218; “The Red Wheelbarrow” and, 214–23; “St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils” and, 218, 220
Marshall, Thaddeus (son), 217, 219
Martineau, Harriet, 254
Marvell, Andrew, 6
Marx, Karl, 221
Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, The (ed. Franklin), 242–47, 256, 359n74, 360n75
Mathew, George Felton, 124, 126
Mauberly, Hugh Selwyn (alter ego of Pound), 173
Mayflower, 225
Mazeppa (Byron), 11
Memnon, Younger. See Younger Memnon
“Memory of April” (Williams), 208
“Mending Wall” (Frost), 311
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 149
Meredith, George, 89
Meres, Francis, 149–50
Merriam, George, 359n67
“Mesmerism” (Pound), 174
meter, 35, 51, 82, 132, 192, 266; in “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” 228–29, 252; anapests, 35, 45, 143, 205; Cortez, pronunciation of, 132, 337n113; in Dickinson, 266; in “The Draft Horse,” 35–36; Finnish, 91, 93; in “Henry James by the Pacific,” 143; in Homer’s Odysses, 143; iambic, 143, 188, 205, 228–29, 251–52; in Iliads of Homer, 118–19; in “In a Station of the Metro,” 187, 188; ionics, 35; in Kalevala, 91; music and, 228–29; in parodies, 82–83; pentameter, 64, 118, 143, 228; in “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 192, 204–5; rhythm of, 187; in “The Ride,” 45; in “Skunk Hour,” 68–69; in The Song of Hiawatha, 91, 93–95; in Sonnet 2, 152, 165; spondees, 35, 143, 204, 228; in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 272, 273, 281, 286; syllabic, 199–200, 203; tetrameter, 91, 94, 188, 272, 273, 286; trimeter, 35, 228; trochees, 35, 94, 143. See also rhythm
Métro. See Paris Métro
Michigan Poultry Breeder, 354n165
Middleton, Thomas, 162
Middle Years, The (H. James), 146–47
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 149, 211
“Mill, The” (Robinson), 286–87
Milton, John, 6, 30, 46–47, 84, 126, 201; “A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon” by, 201; “Henry James by the Pacific” and, 143–45; Lycidas by, 326n57; “Skunk Hour” and Milton’s Satan, 59–60, 76; “When I consider how my light is spent” by, 46–47, 142–143, 144–145, 148. See also Paradise Lost.
Moby-Dick (Melville), 211
Modern Love (Meredith), 89
Monet, Claude, 172
Monroe, Harriet, 175, 180, 186, 345n32, 347n56
Monteiro, George, 369n213
Montgomery Ward and Co. catalogue, 196
Moore, Marianne, 92, 199, 213, 223, 224; “A Grave” by, 224
Moore, Thomas, 282
Moran, Thomas, 284–85
Mountaineers, The (Colman), 357n39
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 234, 254
Murray, Gilbert, 172
Mutt, R. (pseud. of Duchamp), 210–211
“My Last Duchess” (R. Browning), 12, 59, 89, 275
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” (Dickinson), 256
Nabokov, Vladimir, 291
Naipaul, V. S., 31
Napoleon. See Bonaparte, Napoleon
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe), 261
Nat Head’s Woods, 307
National Magazine, 196
Native Americans. See American Indians
Nautilus Island, 49, 51–52. See also “Skunk Hour”
Neanderthal, 120
“nearness to Tremendousness, A” (Dickinson), 255
Nemo, Captain, 51
New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (Ash), 120
New-Church Messenger, 196
New Hampshire (Frost), 40, 286, 291–92
New Hampshire Register, Farmer’s Almanac and Business Directory, 306–7
New Hampshire’s Child (L. Frost), 302, 370n245
Newman, William, 128
Newton, Isaac, 199
New York Daily Times, 94
New York Evening Mirror, 101
New-York Mirror, 283
“Night-Scene, The” (Coleridge), 25
“91 Revere Street” (Lowell), 56, 63, 323n11
North of Boston (A. Smith), 279
Notebooks of Robert Frost, The, 38–40, 322n11
Noyes, Alfred, 41
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Duchamp), 201, 225
O’Connell, Daniel, 87
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), 28
Odysses of Homer, The (Chapman, trans.). See Homer’s Odysses
Odyssey (Homer), 61, 91, 118–19, 120, 135, 177, 179, 191, 225, 286
Odyssey of Homer, The (Pope, trans.), 118–19, 333n49, 334n54
Oedipus, 61
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 87, 242
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 99
“On a Columnar Self” (Dickinson), 254
“On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below” (H. Smith). See “Ozymandias” (H. Smith)
“One Art” (Bishop), 142
“One Blessing had I than the rest” (Dickinson), 255
“one day in Paradise” (Williams), 207
“On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” (Keats): analysis of, 110–35; astronomy and, 127–29, 133–35, 336n91, 337n113; Balboa’s discovery and, 130–32, 133, 147, 337n113; Chapman’s oratory in, 117, 124–26, 127, 135; Clarke and, 111–14, 116–25, 129, 132, 134; Cortez in, 129–35; Cortez, pronunciation of, 132, 337n113; criticism of, 126; dating of, 114; dispatch of, 111, 113–14; “eagle eyes” in, 133; earliest copy of, 111, 112; “Henry James by the Pacific” and, 147–48; Homer, reading aloud from, 124–125, 332n32; Homer’s Odysses (Chapman, trans.), 111, 114, 116, 118–19, 124–25, 127–29, 132, 134–135, 147–48; The Iliad of Homer (Pope, trans.) and, 114, 116–20, 124, 127; The Iliads of Homer (Chapman, trans.) and, 111, 114, 116–19, 120–21, 124–30, 132, 134–35, 147–48; language of, 126–27; “like stout Cortez” in, 129–32; “low-browed” in, 120–21; manuscript of, 110–13, 112; “new planet swims into his ken” in, 128–29; The Odyssey of Homer (Pope, trans.), 114, 116, 118–20, 127; origin of, 109–111, 113–14; Petrarchan sonnet and, 133–34; poet-traveler in, 119, 334n56; punctuation in, 338n120; “pure serene” in, 121–23; “realms of gold” in, 119, 120; rhyme in, 122–24; “silent upon a peak” in, 133–35; “some watcher of the skies,” in, 127 structure of, 122; tenses of, 122; “till I heard Chapman” in, 124–27. See also Keats, John; London
“On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour” (Keats), 113
Oppian, 282
Orientalism, 185, 189, 352n138
Orientalism and Modernism (Qian), 352n138
Origen, 61
Osymandyas statue, 27. See also “Ozymandias” (Shelley)
Othello (Shakespeare), 159
“Our orchestra” (Williams), 201
“Out, Out—” (Frost), 311
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 280
Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The, 280
“Oysters” (Heaney), 71
“Ozymandias” (Shelley): analysis of, 11–25; anthropomorphism in, 16–17; Bible and, 12; Bibliotheca Historica and, 25–26; Booth and, 26, 27; British Museum and, 9, 25, 26, 28, 320n30; coda to, 17–18, 25–30; Colossus of Memnon and, 25, 26–27; comparison to “Ozymandias” (H. Smith), 21–23, 24–25; Denon and, 27; Diodorus Siculus and, 25–27, 30; draft of, 12, 19, 19, 20, 21, 27; Examiner and, 18, 319n8; final lines of, 17–18; Legh and, 26; mortality and, 27–28; “The Night-Scene” (Coleridge) and, 25; origin of, 16–17, 25–30; Osymandyas statue and, 27; Pococke and, 27, 30, 321n37; Rameses II and, 12–16, 17, 22, 24–26, 30; rhyme in, 13–14, 16, 19–20; ruins in, 13, 17, 19–20, 27–28; sonnet competition, 11, 25; structure of, 12–16, 17; syntax in, 14–15; Tillyard and, 28; “wreck” in, 17; Younger Memnon and, 26. See also London
“Ozymandias” (H. Smith): analysis of, 20–25; Barbauld and, 23; Bibliotheca Historica and, 25–26; Booth and, 26, 27; British Museum and, 9, 25, 26, 28, 320n30; coda to, 25–30; Colossus of Memnon and, 25, 26–27; comparison to “Ozymandias” (Shelley), 21–23, 24–25; Denon and, 27; Diodorus Siculus and, 25–27, 30; Examiner and, 20, 21, 24; “gigantic leg” and, 21–22; Legh and, 26; London and, 21–25; mortality and, 27–28; “The Night-Scene” (Coleridge) and, 25; origin of, 25–30; Osymandyas statue and, 27; Pococke and, 27, 30, 321n37; Rameses II and, 12, 17, 22, 24–26, 30; rhyme in, 22; ruins in, 21–24, 27–28; sonnet competition, 11, 25; syntax in, 22; Tillyard and, 28; title of, 20, 21; wolves and, 23; Younger Memnon and, 26. See also London
paintings. See Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Cranach); American Gothic (Wood); Bedroom in Arles (Van Gogh); The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (Brueghel and Rubens); I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (Demuth); The Judgment of Paris (Cranach); Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Duchamp); Rain, Steam and Speed, (Turner); Roses (Gris); Venus and Adonis (Titian); Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich); Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze)
Pale Fire (Nabokov), 291
Palgrave, Francis Turner, 132
Palladis Tamia (Meres), 149
Panic of 1893, 275–76
Panic of 1896, 275–76
Panic of 1907, 138
“Papyrus” (Pound), 189–90
Paradise Lost (Milton), 59, 66, 138, 143, 228, 283, 326n57
Paris: “In a Station of the Metro” and, 171–72, 177–84, 179, 180, 184, 190–91, 221, 223; “The Red Wheelbarrow” and, 221
Parisi, Joseph, 347n55
Paris Métro, 172, 177–84, 190; Gare de Lyon station, 178, 179; La Concorde station, 179, 183, 184; lighting in, 178–79, 179, 180; opening of, 178; tragedy in, 191. See also “In a Station of the Metro”
Paris Underground (Ovenden), 183, 345n27
parodies, 90; art of, 81–83, 84, 87, 90, 101, 102, 106; of Longfellow, 81–83, 86–87, 97–106
Parry, Milman, 127
Partisan Review, 51
Partridge, Eric, 159
Passionate Centurie of Loue (Watson), 162
Passionate Pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare, The, 151
Paterson (Williams), 212
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow), 32, 85
Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, 164, 168
Penobscot Expedition, 49
Pepé Le Pew, 72
Pepinster, Julian, 183, 346n42
Percy, Thomas, Bishop, 91
Perry, Matthew C., Commodore, 185
Personae (Pound) (1926), 174–75, 188, 344n12, 348n70, 348n79
Personae of Ezra Pound (Pound) (1909), 343n7
Perth (Australia) Gazette, 101
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 119, 132–33
Petrarchan sonnet, 133–34
“Piccadilly” (Pound), 190
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 109
Pierces Supererogation (Harvey), 165
planets. See astronomy
Plautus, 149
Plu-ri-bus-tah (pseud. Doesticks), 101
Po-ca-hon-tas; or, The Gentle Savage (Brougham), 94–95
Pococke, Richard, 27, 30, 321n37
Poe, Edgar Allan, 106; “Annabel Lee” by, 138; E. Dickinson and, 259–60; “The Fall of the House of Usher” by, 259; “Henry James by the Pacific” and, 138; Longfellow and, 83–84; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by, 261; “The Premature Burial” by, 259
Poems (Keats), 126
Poems of Shelley, 319n8
“Poet, The” (Emerson), 90, 209
Poetry (magazine), 173–76, 204
Poetry of Robert Frost, 285
Pollock, Channing, 327n24
Ponce de Leon, 71
Ponting, Herbert, 101
Pope, Alexander, 17, 114, 116–20, 124, 127, 334nn54, 60; The Iliad of Homer (trans.), 114, 116–20, 124, 127; The Odyssey of Homer (trans.), 114, 116, 118–20, 127
Portrait of a Lady, The (H. James), 224, 140–41
“Post Mortem Conspectu” (Pound), 190, 348n79
Pound, Ezra, 5–6, 92, 206, 208, 209, 211, 213, 223–25; ABC of Reading by, 185; antique diction in, 172, 174–75; “Apparuit” by, 172; British Museum and, 173, 190; The Cantos by, 174; Canzoni by, 173; Cathay by, 172–73, 189, 208, 352n138; Catholic Anthology by, 176, 187; “Commission” by, 176; compositions by, 186–87; “Comraderie” by, 174–75; “Contemporania” by, 171, 175–76, 186, 188, 190, 348n79; Cravens and, 190–91; critics on, 173; Exultations by, 181; “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” by, 174, 181–82; as foreign correspondent, 175; in Fortnightly Review, 177, 180, 185–86, 188; “The Garden” by, 175; “The Garret” by, 175–76; Gaudier-Brzeska by, 186; “Grace Before Song” by, 174; haiku (hokku) and, 173, 177, 179, 187, 188, 191; “How I Began” by, 171, 343n1; “How to Read, or Why” by, 182; Imagism (Imagisme) and, 173–74, 175, 181–82, 185, 187; “The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance” trans. by, 189; “Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi” by, 181; The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907–1941 (ed. Paige) by, 347n55; logopoeia and, 182, 189; Lustra by, 176, 187–88, 190, 344n18, 348n70, 348n76; “March Hare” by, 175; Mauberly, Hugh Selwyn, alter ego of, 173, melopoeia and, 182; “Mesmerism” by, 174; Monroe and, 175, 180, 186, 343n2, 344n14, 345n32, 347n56; Odyssey, Latin translation of, and, 334n60; Orientalism and, 171, 173, 179, 182, 185, 189, 208, 352n138; “Papyrus” by, 189–90; Personae (1926) by, 174–75, 188, 344n12, 348n70, 348n79; Personae of Ezra Pound (1909) by, 343n7; phanopoeia and, 182; “Piccadilly” by, 190; Poetry and, 173–76, 347n55; “Post Mortem Conspectu” by, 190, 348n79; Ripostes by, 172–73; “Salutation the Second” by, 176; “Seafarer, The” by, 172–73; “Silet” by, 172; Le Testament by, 186–87; “A Villonaud: Ballad of the Gibbet” by, 174; Williams and, 208, 209, 211, 223–25. See also “In a Station of the Metro”
Preface to Poetry (Cooper), 293
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 278
“Premature Burial, The” (Poe), 259
Princess Ida (Gilbert), 86
“Prisoner of Chillon, The” (Byron), 243–44, 258
“Prison gets to be a friend, A” (Dickinson), 258
“Private Life, A” (H. James), 299
Professor’s House, The (Cather), 5
“Psalm of Life, A” (Longfellow), 80–81
Pullman cars, 136, 140, 147, 214
punctuation: in “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” 251, 265; in “In a Station of the Metro,” 177, 186–8; in “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” 338n120; in “Skunk Hour,” 61; in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 285–86
“pure products of America go crazy, The” (Williams), 206
Puritans, 52–53
Qian, Zhaoming, 352n138
Questions of Travel (Bishop), 64, 65
Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner), 6, 172
Rameses II, 12–17, 22, 24–25, 26, 30; Ramesseum, 26
Rape of Lucrece, The (Shakespeare), 149–50, 160
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 211
Redbook (magazine), 305
“Red Wheelbarrow, The” (Williams): Altieri on, 194; analysis of, 192–225; Benét and, 224; Bible and, 194; chickens and, 192, 195, 198–99, 201–2, 208, 211, 213–21, 218, 223, 225; coda to, 223–25; couplet in, 202–3; critics on, 203–5, 213; Cubism and, 200, 201, 209–10, 225; Dada and, 210, 222, 225; Demuth and, 209; Duchamp and, 201, 209–11, 225; Emerson and, 209; enjambment in, 200–5, 222; Gris and, 201, 209; haiku and, 223; Imagism and, 209; “In a Station of the Metro” and, 205, 208; Kenner on, 194; Marshall and, 192, 214–20, 215, 216, 218, 219; meter in, 204–5; “one day in Paradise” and, 207; opening lines of, 193–95, 199–200, 202, 204–05, 212, 213, 224; Orientalism and, 200, 208; origin of, 192, 214–220, 215, 216, 218, 219, 222; rainwater in, 198–99, 202, 207–8, 210, 213, 220, 225; rhythm in, 204–5; “so much depends” in, 193–95; sources and influence on, 208–14; in Spring and All, 192, 205–8; “St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils” and, 218–19; structure of, 199–205, 222; style of, 193; syntax in, 195, 199–200, 202–04; title of, 200, 202; wheelbarrows in, 195–99, 197, 204, 220, 221–22 See also Rutherford, New Jersey; Williams, William Carlos
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 224
Religio Medici (T. Brown), 59
Religious Allegories (Barber), 260
Rembrandt, 247
“Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue” (Dickinson), 264
“Resignation” (Allen), 88–89
“Resignation” (Longfellow), 87–89
“Resolution and Independence” (Wordsworth), 12
Restless Legs Syndrome, 46
Return of the Native, The (Hardy), 139
Revolutionary War, 52
rhyme. See specific poems
rhythm: in “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” 228; in “The Draft Horse,” 35–36; in “In a Station of the Metro,” 185–88, 205; of meter, 187; in Pound, 172, 174; in “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 204–5; in “Skunk Hour,” 58; in The Song of Hiawatha, 93, 95, 104; in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” 290
Richard II (Shakespeare), 149, 162
Richard III (Shakespeare), 149
“Ride, The” (Wilbur): analysis of, 40–45; ars poetica, as, 45; coda to, 45–47; dream and, 42–46; faith in, 44–45; freezing and, 42–43; horse in, 40–45, 47; medias res in, 41; meter in, 45; nightmare, as, 45–46; pillar in, 43; sin in, 44; “When I consider how my light is spent” (Milton) and, 46–47
Rihaku. See Li Po
Riis, Jacob A., 354n165
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The (Coleridge), 261–62, 364n142
Ripostes (Pound), 172–73
Robertson, William: History of America, 130, 131, 133, 147
Robespierre, Maximilien, 181
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 224, 286–87
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 259
Roe, Nicholas, 128
Rokeby (Scott), 283
Rollo at Work, 195
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 149
Rorschach Test, 195
Roses (Gris), 201
Rosetta Stone, 28
Rousseau, Henri, 284
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 284
“Rubaiyat of Carl Burell, The” (Frost), 293
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald), 292–93
Rubens, Peter Paul, 284
Rushdie, Salman, 31
Rutherford, New Jersey: “The Red Wheelbarrow” and, 192, 193, 201, 210, 213, 214–220, 215, 216, 218, 219, 222, 353n159, 354n162
Ryland, John, 128
Rylandiana (Newman), 128
Rzepka, Charles, 337n113
“Sailing Home from Rapallo” (Lowell), 63
“Salutation the Second” (Pound), 176
Sappho, 189
Saturday Evening Post, 196
Saturday Review, 289
Sawyer, Bob (Dickens character), 109
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 95, 99, 329n53
Schoolhouse Blizzard (1888), 312
Schrödinger’s cat, 222
Scott, Robert Falcon, 101
Scribner’s Magazine, 196
sculpture. See Fountain (Duchamp)
“Seafarer, The” (Pound), 172–73
Sea Lions (Cooper), 262
Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue, 196, 197
Second Great Awakening, 234
Selected Essays (Eliot), 185, 346n48
Seneca, 149
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 279
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Empson), 233
Shakespeare, William, 1, 30, 113, 119, 211, 212, 232, 258, 265; All’s Well That Ends Well by, 151; As You Like It by, 157; The Book of Sir Thomas More and, 151, 168; Cymbeline by, 132; Dickinson and, 229, 232, 256, 258, 356n13; Hamlet by, 212, 353n153; Henry IV, Part II by, 23, 165, 256; Henry V by, 160, 212; image clusters by, 258; Jonson on, 150; King Lear by, 159; Love’s Labour’s Lost by, 151, 157, 256; Love’s Labour’s Won, 6, 317n11; manuscripts of, 150, 150–52, 153, 164; The Merchant of Venice by, 149; Meres and, 149–50; A Midsummer Night’s Dream by, 149, 211; Othello by, 159; The Passionate Pilgrime by, 151; The Rape of Lucrece by, 149–50, 160; Richard II by, 149, 162; Richard III by, 149; Romeo and Juliet by, 149; Shake-speares Sonnets by, 133–34, 150, 150, 339n1, 340n5; “Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” on, 151, 340n14, 341n22; The Tempest by, 144; Titus Andronicus by, 154, 161; Twelfth Night by, 162; The Two Gentlemen of Verona by, 154; Venus and Adonis by, 149–50, 154, 232; The Winter’s Tale by, 212, 229, 353n153. See also Sonnet 2
Shakespeare’s Bawdy (Partridge), 159
Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Won (Baldwin), 6, 317n11
Shake-speares Sonnets (Shakespeare), 133–34, 150, 150, 339n1, 340n5
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Mary Godwin), 11, 18, 29, 318nn3–4, 320n23; Frankenstein by, 11, 28–29, 261, 318n3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5–6, 20–21; as atheist, 16; British Museum and, 9, 25, 26, 28, 320n30; Colosseum and, 13, 319n10; “A Defence of Poetry” by, 29, 120; Hellas by, 17; L. Hunt and, 11, 18, 20, 27; Poems of Shelley by, 319n8; pseudonym of, 18, 319n18; H. Smith and, 11, 20–25; sonnet competition and, 11, 18; “To the Nile,” 11. See also “Ozymandias” (Shelley)
Sherwood, William R., 356n9
Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge), 25
Sidney, Philip, 150, 158, 167, 271
“Silet” (Pound), 172
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 46
“Skunk, The” (Heaney): adultery, 70, 74; airmail letters and, 69; analysis of, 66–74; “broach” in, 70; California and, 68–73, 77; coda to, 74–77; desire in, 71, 72–77; eucalyptus in, 67, 70, 71–72; funeral and, 68, 69; lordosis in, 73–74; love in, 75; meter in, 68–69; perfume and scent in, 70–72, 75; rhyme in, 69; skunk in, 67–69, 71, 72–76; style of, 66; syntax in, 67; time in, 69–70, 76; voyeurism in, 68–69, 73, 75; wife in, 69–71, 73–76. See also Berkeley, California; Heaney, Seamus
“Skunk Hour” (Lowell), 4; adultery and, 58–59, 63; analysis of, 51–66; Bishop and, 63–65; “Careless Love” and, 57–58; coda to, 74–77; Darwin and, 62–63; daughter and, 63; drafts of, 64; “fairy decorator” in, 53–55, 64, 66, 76–77; Fall of Man, 59–60; graveyard and, 56, 60–62, 69; “hermit heiress” in, 51–53; homosexuality in, 53–55, 64, 66, 76–77; ill-spirit in, 58; Independence Day and, 60–61; “love-cars” in, 55–56, 58– 59, 63, 75; mental illness and, 57–60; 63–64, 75–76, 326n56; meter of, 51, 64, 68–69, 324n36; Milton and, 59–60, 66, 76; mother in, 63, 76; Nautilus Island and, 49, 51–52, 62, 65, 325n45; odor in, 65, 71–72; punctuation in, 61; Puritans in, 52–53; religion and, 61–62, 64, 76; rhyme in, 52, 58, 61, 68–69; skunks and, 59–65, 66, 75–77, 324n28, 325n39; “summer millionaire” and, 53, 65, 66, 76; syntax in, 61; Tories and loyalists in, 51–52, 323n6; voyeurism in, 55–59, 61, 63, 66, 75; “Water” and, 63; Whitman and, 56–57; wife and, 58–59, 63, 64; writing of, 55. See also Castine, Maine; Lowell, Robert
“Sleep and Poetry” (Keats), 114
Sloan, N., 127
Smith, Alexander, 279–80; “A Boy’s Poem” by, 279–80; Dreamthorp by, 279
Smith, Bessie, 58
Smith, Horace, 5–6; Amarynthus, the Nympholept by, 20, 320n23; Shelley and, 5–6, 11, 20–25; sonnet competition, 11. See also “Ozymandias” (H. Smith)
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 56–57
“Snow Man, The” (Stevens), 45
“Snow Storm, The” (Emerson), 312
“Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (Taylor), 151, 340n14, 341n22
Song of Hiawatha, The (Longfellow): analysis of, 91–94, 95–96, 98, 99, 100; creation of, 91–92; Evening Mirror parody of, 101; Hawthorne and, 96–97; “Hiawatha’s Photographing” and, 102–6; Leaves of Grass and, 93–94; parodies of, 97–106; Po-ca-hon-tas and, 94–95; Ponting and, 101; Schoolcraft and, 95, 99. See also Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Plu-ri-bus-tah (pseud. Doesticks); Song of Milgenwater, The (pseud. Henderson); Song of Milkanwatha, The (pseud. Henderson)
Song of Milgenwater, The (pseud. Henderson), 97
Song of Milkanwatha, The (pseud. Henderson), 97–101, 329n58
Sonnet 2 (Shakespeare): “account” / “count” in, 164–65; “all-eaten truth” / “all-eating shame” in, 161; analysis of, 149–70; Bible and, 158–59, 162–63, 167; Christianity and, 166; couplet in, 167–70; Duncan-Jones on, 151, 153, 155, 159, 161, 168, 169; “faire Liu’rie” / “proud liuery” in, 155–57; “hollow suncken eyes” in, 157, 160; Kerrigan on, 151, 156, 158–59, 165; “lustre” / “treasure” in, 159–60; “make(s) my old excuse” in, 166; “making his bewty” / “proouing his beautie” in, 166–67; manuscript of, 150–52, 153, 164; meter of, 152, 165; modernized version of Q, 339n1; modernized version of W, 341n22; “new borne” / “new made” in, 167; “pretty child” / “faire child” in, 164–65; Quarto version (Q), 149–170, 150, 339n1; revision and, 152, 156–58, 159, 160–61, 164, 166, 168–69; “rotten weeds” / “totter’d weed” in, 157–58; “saues my account” / “shall sum my count” in, 165–66; stanza 1, 153–58; stanza 2, 158–62; stanza 3, 162–67; Taylor and, 151–52, 159, 161, 165, 340n14, 341n22; titles of (W), 152; trench in; 153–55, “use” in, 163–64; Westminster Abbey manuscript of (W), 152–170, 153; “worthless prayse” / “thriftlesse praise” in, 161–63. See also Shakespeare, William
“Soughing Wind, The” (Williams), 208
Sour Grapes (Williams), 208
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, 164, 168
Southey, Robert, 283
Spectator (magazine), 121
Spenser, Edmund, 132, 167, 234; The Faerie Queene, 117
“Spring” (Williams), 208
Spring and All (Williams), 201, 221; “The Red Wheelbarrow” in, 192, 205–8
Springfield Republican, 240
“St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils” (Williams), 218–19
St. John of the Cross, 60
Stevens, Wallace, 45, 92, 213, 224; “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by, 224
Stieglitz, Alfred, 209–10
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Frost): analysis of, 269–311; “and miles to go before I sleep” in, 290–91; buggy and, 277; Christmas and, 270, 301–06, 309; clichés and, 282–83; coda to, 311–13; critics and, 285, 287, 289, 291, 297, 298; death and, 278–79; 286–90; despair and, 270, 272, 278–79; “Despair” and, 278–79; draft version, 292–98, 294, 305, 369n213; farming and, 274–76; form of, 291–98, 370n234; freezing in, 277, 285–91, 311; Frost’s autobiographical tale and, 269–70, 271–72, 278, 281, 282, 284, 298–311, 306, 308; harness bells and, 281; horses in, 270, 272–73, 276–82, 286–88, 289, 293, 295, 300, 303, 304–05, 310, 370n231, 371n260; “A Hundred Collars” and, 280–81; “Into My Own” and, 288; meter in, 272, 273, 281, 286; New England economy, 274–78, 279; origin of, 269–71, 298, 301–11; promises in, 289, 291; punctuation in, 285–86; revisions of, 286, 292, 293–98, 294; rhyme in, 292–93, 296–98; Robinson and, 287; Rubáiyát stanza and, 292–93, 295; A. Smith and, 279–80; snow and, 277–78, 301–06, 312; stanza 1, 271–76; stanzas 2–3, 276–84; stanza 4, 284–89; suicide and, 278–79, 286–87, 288–91; Thoreau and, 284, 287; title of, 270–71, 278, 295; tone of, 272, 291; town Frost versus village Frost, 299–300;. See also Derry, New Hampshire; Frost, Robert
Strong, George A.: The Song of Milgenwater (pseud. Henderson) by, 97; The Song of Milkanwatha (pseud. Henderson) by, 97–101, 329n58
“Sweet—safe—Houses” (Dickinson), 230;
Swift, Jonathan, 259
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 106
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll), 104
Symzonia, 261
Tasso, Torquato, 119
Tattersall’s (club), 130–31
Taylor, Edward, 9
Taylor, Gary, 151–52, 159, 165, 340n14, 341n22
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 144
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 79, 106, 132, 337n113, 361n97; “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by, 32, 35–36; In Memoriam A. H. H. by, 248
Ten Years’ War, A (Riis), 354n165
Terminator, The (film), 46
Testament, Le (Pound), 186–87
Thatcher, T., 82
Thaxter, Celia, 327n16
Theobald, Lewis, 353n153
“This Is Just to Say” (Williams), 207
Thompson, Lawrance, 40; on Frost, 279, 291–92, 300, 302–3, 307, 309–10
Thomson, Mortimer Q.: Plu-ri-bus-tah (pseud. Doesticks) by, 101
Thoreau, Henry David, 86, 92, 138, 284–85; Walden by, 287–88
Thorpe, Thomas, 340n5
Three-Character Classic, 200
“Through the strait pass of suffering” (Dickinson), 263
Tillyard, E. M. W., 28
Timber: or, Discoveries (Jonson), 151, 340n16
“’Tis so appalling—it exhilirates,” (Dickinson), 264
“Title divine—is mine!” (Dickinson), 245
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 154, 161
“To a Mexican Pig-Bank” (Williams), 207
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 136
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 245, 360n91
Tolstoy, Leo, 221
“To one who has been long in city pent” (Keats), 122, 129
“To the Nile” (Shelley), 11, 319n6
T.P.’s Weekly, 177
Train, The (magazine), 103
Trilling, Lionel, 289
Trollope, Frances, 85
Tudor Ford, 55–56
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 140
Twain, Mark, 95; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by, 144, 211, 229; Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians by, 144
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 162
Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne), 259–60, 363n134
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare), 154
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 267
Understanding Poetry (1939) (Brooks and Warren), 2, 232
Understanding Poetry (1950) (Brooks and Warren), 296
Unforgotten Years (L. P. Smith), 56–57
United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, The (Kane), 261
Untermeyer, Louis, 311
urinal. See Fountain (Duchamp)
Using Biography (Empson), 2–3
Van Gogh, Vincent, 6
Vendler, Helen, 123, 134–35, 252
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), 149–50, 154, 232
Verne, Jules, 51
Victoria (Queen), 80
“Village Blacksmith, The” (Longfellow), 83
“Village Schoolboy, The” (parody of Longfellow), 84–85
“Villonaud: Ballad of the Gibbet, A” (Pound), 174
Virgil, 66, 287; Aeneid by, 119, 152, 179, 181, 183–84, 225, 228; Georgics by, 181
Vivant, Dominique. See Denon, Dominique Vivant, Baron
Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypt (Denon), 27
Wadsworth, Charles, 238–43, 245–46, 248
Walcott, Derek, 31
Walden (Thoreau), 287
Waley, Arthur, 208
Walsh, John Evangelist, 303
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich), 24
Ward, Stephen H., 365n157
Warren, Robert Penn, 2, 232, 296
Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze), 85
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 300
“Water” (Lowell), 63
Watson, Thomas, 162
Webster, John, 170
West Cemetery, 230
“West-Running Brook” (Frost), 311
Wharton, Edith, 139
“What about all this writing?” (Williams), 206
wheelbarrows, 354n165; Clipper Garden Wheelbarrow, 196; Handsome Lawn Wheelbarrow, 196, 197; painted, 195–98; rainwater and, 198, 200–201
“When I consider how my light is spent” (Milton), 46–47, 142–43, 144–45, 148
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 185
“White Knight’s Song, The” (Carroll), 82
Whitman, Walt, 31, 79, 84–85, 90, 92, 93, 95, 211, 241–42, 265, 266; Leaves of Grass by, 90, 93, 95, 101, 211, 241–42; L. P. Smith and, 56–57
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 79, 92, 106
Wilbur, Richard, 32; “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by, 44. See also “Ride, The”
Williams, William Carlos, 5–6, 92; Autobiography by, 201, 206, 209–10; “Between Walls” by, 207; “By the road to the contagious hospital” by, 206; Collected Poems, 1921–1931 by, 202; “A Descendant of Kings” by, 201; “Epitaph” by, 208; “The Great Figure” by, 209, 212; influences on, 208–14; I Wanted to Write a Poem by, 206; Kora in Hell by, 210, 343n7; “Lines” by, 208; “Lovely Ad” by, 203; Make Light of It by, 201; “Memory of April” by, 208; “one day in Paradise” by, 207; paintings by, 209; Paterson: Book I by, 212; Pound and, 208, 209, 211, 223–25; “The pure products of America go crazy” by, 206; Sour Grapes by, 208; Spring and All by, 192, 201, 205–8, 221; “St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils” by, 218–19; “Our orchestra” by, 201; “The Soughing Wind” by, 208; “Spring” by, 208; “This Is Just to Say” by, 207, 224; “To a Mexican Pig-Bank” by, 207; “What about all this writing?” by, 206. See also “Red Wheelbarrow, The”
William Carlos Williams and Alterity (Ahearn), 203, 204
Willis, Thomas, 46
Wilson, Dover, 163–64
Wilson, Georgia Johnson, 52
Wilson, John Dover, 158, 163–64
Wilson, John Howard, 52
Wings of the Dove, The (H. James), 140–41
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), 212, 229, 353n153
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, 260
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 224
Wood, Grant, 192
Wordsworth, William, 1, 83, 113, 124, 125, 126, 178, 193, 228; Coleridge and, 364n142; “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by, 10; The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse by, 130–31; The Prelude by, 278; “Resolution and Independence” by, 12
Wright, John, 340n5
Wyatt, Thomas, 57
Wycliffe, John, 157
“Yankee Doodle,” 54
Year of the Locust, 138
Year Without a Summer, 11, 110
Yeats, William Butler, 175
Yip, Wai-lim, 189
“You’ll find it—when you try to die” (Dickinson), 264
Young, Stephen, 347n55
Younger Memnon, 25–27