Singing School by Pinsky, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Preface I. Freedom

Introduction Frank O’hara, “Why I Am Not a Painter” Michaelangelo, “On Painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling” (translated by Gail Mazur) Marianne Moore, “Silence” Anonymous, “The Old Cloak” Gregory Corso, “Marriage” Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Stevie Smith, “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock” William Carlos Williams, “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper” Kenneth Koch, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” Alan Dugan, “How We Heard the Name” James Shirley, “The Glories of Our Blood and State” Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop” Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House” Jonathan Swift, “A Description of the Morning” Aphra Behn, “The Disappointment” Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” John Wilmot, “Upon Nothing”

II. Listening

Introduction Walter Savage Landor, “On Love, on Grief” George Peele, “Betsabe’s Song” H.D., “The Pool” Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Eros Turannos” Ben Jonson, “His Excuse for Loving” Ben Jonson, “My Picture Left in Scotland” Robert Herrick, “Upon M. Ben. Johnson” Gerard Manley Hopkins, “For Margaret” Thomas Campion, “Now Winter Nights Enlarge” Thom Gunn, “Tamer and Hawk” Mina Loy, from “Songs to Joannes,” I–III William Carlos Williams, “To Waken an Old Lady” Robert Frost, “An Old Man’s Winter Night” Robert Frost, “To Earthward” Walter Ralegh, “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk” Wallace Stevens, “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” William Butler Yeats, “Adam’s Curse” Emily Dickinson, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”

III. Form

Introduction Anonymous, “The Cruel Mother” Anonymous, “The Man of Double Deed” Chidiock Tichborne, “My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares” Sappho, “Artfully Adorned Aphrodite” (translated by Jim Powell) William Carlos Williams, “To a Poor Old Woman” Thomas Nash, “In Time of Plague” H.D., “Sea Rose” William Blake, “A Question Answered” Christopher Smart, from Jubilate Agno Fulke Greville, “You That Seek What Life Is in Death” Fulke Greville, “Elegy for Philip Sidney” Allen Ginsberg, from “Howl,” II May Swenson, “Question” Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” George Gascoigne, “The Lullaby of a Lover” George Herbert, “Church Monuments” Thomas Hardy, “During Wind and Rain”

IV. Dreaming Things Up

Introduction Elizabeth Bishop, “The Weed” George Herbert, “Love Unknown” Robert Southwell, “The Burning Babe” Thomas Hardy, “The Self-Unseeing” John Crowe Ransom, “Captain Carpenter” Jorge De Lima, “The Big Mystical Circus” (translated by Dudley Poore) Robert Herrick, “The Shooe Tying” and “To God, on His Sicknesse” Wallace Stevens, “Madame La Fleurie” William Cowper, “Epitaph on a Hare” Louise Bogan, “Women” Sterling Brown, “Harlem Happiness” Elizabeth I, “When I Was Fair and Young” Walt Whitman, “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night” Sylvia Plath, “Nick and the Candlestick” William Shakespeare, “The Phoenix and the Turtle” Bible, Samuel 2, “David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan” Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky” William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” Ezra Pound, “The Lake Isle” Ezra Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” John Milton, “Methought I saw my late espousèd saint” William Butler Yeats, from “A Woman Young and Old,” IV: “Her Triumph” John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” Marianne Moore, “Poetry” John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

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