C.H. Sisson Reader by Sisson, C.H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Introduction Poems From The London Zoo (1961) and other early poems

On a Troopship In Time of Famine: Bengal The Body in Asia In a Dark Wood In London Sparrows seen from an Office Window In Kent Maurras Young and Old On the Way Home Silence Ightham Woods Family Fortunes In Honour of J.H. Fabre Nude Studies Tintagel To Walter Savage Landor Cranmer Knole On a Civil Servant Money Ellick Farm The Un-Red Deer The London Zoo

From Numbers (1965)

My Life and Times The Nature of Man A and B A Letter to John Donne Words The Thrush Adam and Eve Easter In Memoriam Cecil De Vall The Death of a City Man No Title Thomas de Quincey The Theology of Fitness What a Piece of Work is Man The Reckoning From a Train Numbers

From Metamorphoses (1968)

Virgini Senescens Catullus In Allusion to Propertius, I, iii The Person Every Reality is a Kind of Sign On my Fifty-first Birthday

From the new poems in In the Trojan Ditch (1974)

The Discarnation No Address Evening Aller Church The Usk Morpheus Somerton Moor In insula Avalonia Martigues A Ghost (1974, uncollected)

From Anchises (1976)

Cotignac The Quantocks Gardening The Evidence Eastville Park Marcus Aurelius The Garden Anchises Troia Est in conspectu Tenedos

From Exactions (1980)

The Desert Place The Zodiac The Pool Differently Style Ham Hill Moon-rise from The Garden of the Hesperides (****) The Herb-garden The Surfaces The Red Admiral The Morning For Passing the Time Leaves Autumn Poems Across the Winter In Flood Burrington Combe

From the new poems in Collected Poems (1984)

The Time of Year Two Capitals Athelney The Broken Willow Blackdown

From God Bless Karl Marx! (1987)

Read me or not Vigil and Ode for St George’s Day Waking The Absence The Hare God Bless Karl Marx! Looking at Old Note-Books Taxila

From Antidotes (1991)

Fifteen Sonnets The Christmas Rose Uncertainty Muchelney Abbey (from On the Departure)

From What and Who (1994)

The Mendips Et in Arcadia ego Steps to the Temple April The Lack Peat Trees in a Mist The Levels Broadmead Brook Absence Casualty

Poems from Collected Poems (1998)

Five Lines Triptych Tristia The Verb To Be Indefinition Finale

Translations

Roman Poems

Carmen Saeculare (Horace) Palinurus (Virgil, Aeneid V, 835ff.) The Descent (Virgil, Aeneid VI) Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi (Horace, Odes I, xi) Hactenus arvorum cultus (Virgil, Georgics II)

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume (Horace, Odes II, xiv)

Essays

From the New English Weekly (1937–1949)

Charles Maurras and the Idea of a Patriot King Prejudice as an Aid to Government English Liberalism The Civil Service Charles Péguy Epitaph on Nuremberg T.S. Eliot on Culture Ego Scriptor: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound

Order and Anarchy: An Essay on Intellectual Liberty Charles Maurras Reflections on Marvell’s Ode The Nature of Public Administration A Note on the Monarchy Autobiographical Reflections on Politics Natural History The Study of Affairs William Barnes Sevenoaks Essays/Native Ruminations

Introduction A Possible Anglicanism An Essay on Identity ‘Call No Man Happy Until he is Dead’ On the Eros of Poetry A Note on Morality On Poetic Architecture Le Roi Soleil By Way of Explanation

The Politics of Wyndham Lewis From English Poetry 1900–1950: An Assessment

W.B. Yeats T.S. Eliot Edward Thomas

From The Case of Walter Bagehot

Chapter Four: The Art of Money

Songs in the Night: The Work of Henry Vaughan the Silurist Forewords from In the Trojan Ditch Looking Back on Maurras A Four Letter Word Poetry and Myth Poetry and Sincerity The Poet and the Translator

Notes Bibliography Index of Poem Titles Index of First Lines About the Authors Copyright

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