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Index
Cover
Title page
Dedication page
Contents
Introduction
Rules on Reading Aloud
Western Wind • Anonymous
They Flee From Me • Thomas Wyatt
Elegy • Chidiock Tichborne
The Lie • Sir Walter Raleigh
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) • William Shakespeare
Chorus Sacerdotum • Fulke Greville
The Sun Rising • John Donne
Love III • George Herbert
Delight in Disorder • Robert Herrick
On His Blindness • John Milton
The Definition of Love • Andrew Marvell
Tam o’ Shanter • Robert Burns
Kubla Khan • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A fragment of The Prelude, Book One • William Wordsworth
She Walks in Beauty • Lord Byron
Ode on Melancholy • John Keats
Ozymandias • Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Kraken • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
My Last Duchess • Robert Browning
All Nature Has a Feeling • John Clare
Remember • Christina Rossetti
How do I love thee? • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dover Beach • Matthew Arnold
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Edward Fitzgerald
The Dalliance of the Eagles • Walt Whitman
Spring • Gerard Manley Hopkins
There’s a certain Slant of light • Emily Dickinson
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae • Ernest Dowson
Cargoes • John Masefield
Harp Song of the Dane Women • Rudyard Kipling
From Lepanto • G.K. Chesterton
In Death Divided • Thomas Hardy
In a Station of the Metro • Ezra Pound
The Soldier • Rupert Brooke
Wedded • Isaac Rosenberg
Not for That City • Charlotte Mew
Yasmin • James Elroy Flecker
Anthem for Doomed Youth • Wilfred Owen
La Figlia Che Piange • T.S. Eliot
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death • W.B. Yeats
Wild Peaches • Elinor Wylie
The Emperor of Ice-Cream • Wallace Stevens
One Perfect Rose • Dorothy Parker
Captain Carpenter • John Crowe Ransom
Craftsmen • Vita Sackville-West
Choosing a Mast • Roy Campbell
somewhere i have never travelled • E.E. Cummings
crackup in barcelona • Osbert Lancaster
The Sunlight on the Garden • Louis MacNeice
Missing Dates • William Empson
September 1, 1939 • W.H. Auden
Gone to Report • Brian Howard
War of Nerves • Frederic Prokosch
Canoe • Keith Douglas
Naming of Parts • Henry Reed
Green, Green is El Aghir • Norman Cameron
The Silken Tent • Robert Frost
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner • Randall Jarrell
Dedication • Edmund Wilson
In My Craft or Sullen Art • Dylan Thomas
From The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World • Galway Kinnell
A Bookshop Idyll • Kingsley Amis
Remembering the ’Thirties • Donald Davie
Japan • Anthony Hecht
A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra • Richard Wilbur
On the Move • Thom Gunn
An Arundel Tomb • Philip Larkin
Last Meeting • Gwen Harwood
At Seven O’Clock • Dom Moraes
John Marston Advises Anger • Peter Porter
Poor Old Horse • David Holbrook
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota • James Wright
The Paper Nautilus • Marianne Moore
Cut • Sylvia Plath
Sandpiper • Elizabeth Bishop
Dream Song 4 • John Berryman
Will Not Come Back • Robert Lowell
Pike • Ted Hughes
Shore Woman • Seamus Heaney
Sea Grapes • Derek Walcott
Not My Best Side • U.A. Fanthorpe
Mrs Midas • Carol Ann Duffy
Basho in Ireland • Billy Collins
The Red Sea • Stephen Edgar
Postscript: Growing up in poetical Australia
Acknowledgements
Index of first lines
Permission Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Clive James
Copyright page
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