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Title Page Contents Introduction I: 1900–1914 Never such innocence again
1900   THOMAS HARDY: The Darkling Thrush WILFRID WILSON GIBSON: Flannan Isle 1901   LES MURRAY: The Ballad of Jimmy Governor NOËL COWARD: 1901 RUDYARD KIPLING: Bridge-Guard in the Karroo LAURENCE HOPE (ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON): Story of Lilavanti 1902   JOHN MASEFIELD: Sea-Fever FRANCES CORNFORD: Autumn Morning at Cambridge A. E. HOUSMAN: The Olive A. E. HOUSMAN: ‘I did not lose my heart in summer’s even’ 1903   JOHN MASEFIELD: Cargoes WILLIAM WATSON: Rome and Another 1904   JAMES JOYCE: Tilly JAMES JOYCE: ‘Because your voice was at my side’ 1905   JOHN DAVIDSON: A Runnable Stag H. D. RAWNSLEY: To the Mikado, Portsmouth, USA STEPHEN PHILLIPS: from The Apparition 1906   J. M. SYNGE: Beg-Innish 1907   SHAW NEILSON: The Sundowner 1908   W H. DAVIES: A Beggar’s Life J. M. SYNGE: Dread 1909   WILLIAM WATSON: from Sonnets to Miranda 1910   W B. YEATS: No Second Troy LINDA BIERDS: White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON: Uncle Ananias D. H. LAWRENCE: Guards JAMES ELROY FLECKER: The Ballad of Camden Town 1911   HILAIRE BELLOC: Lord Finchley D. H. LAWRENCE: Last Lesson of the Afternoon DOUGLAS STEWART: from Rutherford ALLEN TATE: The Swimmers 1912   KATHLEEN EMERSON: ‘Oh! who are these in scant array?’ CHARLOTTE MEW: The Farmer’s Bride KATHERINE MANSFIELD: To God the Father RUPERT BROOKE: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester E. J. PRATT: from The Titanic WALTER DE LA MARE: The Listeners EZRA POUND: The Gypsy THOMAS HARDY: Your Last Drive 1913   THOMAS HARDY: At Castle Boterel CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN: ‘I said, This misery must end’ 1914   ROBERT FROST: Home Burial EZRA POUND: Abu Salammamm – A Song of Empire G. K. CHESTERTON: The Rolling English Road EDWARD THOMAS: Adlestrop RUPERT BROOKE: The Soldier GEOFFREY HILL: from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy PHILIP LARKIN: MCMXIV
II: 1915–1922 War to Waste Land
1915   THOMAS HARDY: In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ KATHERINE MANSFIELD: To L. H. B. (1894–1915) CARL SANDBURG: Buttons EDGAR LEE MASTERS: Mrs Kessler WALLACE STEVENS: Sunday Morning THOMAS HARDY: The Oxen 1916   ISAAC ROSENBERG: Break of Day in the Trenches DAVID JONES: from In Parenthesis W. B. YEATS: Easter 1916 PADRAIC COLUM: Roger Casement CHARLOTTE MEW: Beside the Bed ANNA WICKHAM: The Fired Pot EDWARD THOMAS: As the Team’s Head-Brass SIEGFRIED SASSOON: The Hero SIEGFRIED SASSOON: ‘They’ 1917   LEON GELLERT: Before Action WILFRED OWEN: Dulce et Decorum Est WILFRED OWEN: Strange Meeting WILFRED OWEN: Anthem for Doomed Youth IVOR GURNEY: Bach and the Sentry RUDYARD KIPLING: Mesopotamia T. S. ELIOT: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ALAN BROWNJOHN: Common Sense 1918   WILFRED OWEN: The Send-Off ALLEN CURNOW: Survivors SIEGFRIED SASSOON: Reconciliation D. H. LAWRENCE: Piano 1919   RUDYARD KIPLING: from Epitaphs of the War 1920   EZRA POUND: E. P. Ode Pour l’Election de son Sepulchre CARL SANDBURG: Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache CARL SANDBURG: Buffalo Dusk EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON: The Rat W B. YEATS: The Second Coming 1921   WALLACE STEVENS: The Snow Man ROBERT FROST: The Census-Taker LANGSTON HUGHES: The Negro Speaks of Rivers VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST: Full Moon 1922   T. S. ELIOT: from The Waste Land
III: 1923–1939 Danger and hope
1923   WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Red Wheelbarrow D. H. LAWRENCE: Snake JEAN TOOMER: Portrait in Georgia NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY: The Leaden-Eyed ROBERT FROST: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening HILAIRE BELLOC: On a General Election 1924   A. A. MILNE: Buckingham Palace W H. DAVIES: To a Lady Friend 1925   SHAW NEILSON: The Old Wives Sat at the Table THOMAS HARDY: No Buyers COUNTEE CULLEN: Incident 1926   ROBERT BRIDGES: Low Barometer ROY CAMPBELL: The Sisters IDRIS DAVIES: ‘Cow-parsley and hawthorn blossom’ JOHN MASEFIELD: An Epilogue LANGSTON HUGHES: Cross 1927   JOHN CROWE RANSOM: Vision by Sweetwater T. S. ELIOT: Journey of the Magi 1928   EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY: Dirge without Music ROBERT FROST: Acquainted with the Night EDGELL RICKWORD: Luxury 1929   HART CRANE: A Name for All 1930   W H. AUDEN: Consider ROBERT GRAVES: Song: Lift-Boy 1931   BASIL BUNTING: Aus dem Zweiten Reich 1932   MARIANNE MOORE: The Steeple-Jack 1933   WILLIAM EMPSON: Aubade 1934   CHARLES REZNIKOFF: from Jerusalem the Golden DON MARQUIS: mehitabel s morals R. A. K. MASON: Lugete o veneres 1935   E. E. CUMMINGS: ‘may I feel said he’ EZRA POUND: Canto XLV 1936   WALLACE STEVENS: The Idea of Order at Key West W B. YEATS: The Ghost of Roger Casement ROY FULLER: On Seeing the Leni Riefenstahl Film of the 1936 Olympic Games LOUIS MACNEICE: from Autumn Journal JOHN CORNFORD: A Letter from Aragon GEOFFREY PARSONS: Lorca 1937   W. H. AUDEN: Spain STEPHEN SPENDER: Thoughts during an Air Raid LOUIS MACNEICE: Bagpipe Music WILLIAM EMPSON: Missing Dates ROBINSON JIEFFERS: The Purse-Seine 1938   STEPHEN SPENDER: Port Bou DANNIE ABSE: In the Theatre W. B. YEATS: Lapis Lazuli HUGH MACDIARMID: The Glen of Silence AUSTIN CLARKE: Penal Law HILAIRE BELLOC: The Pacifist DAVID GASCOYNE: Snow in Europe 1939   W. H. AUDEN: In Memory of W. B.Yeats WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Last Words of My English Grandmother KENNETH SLESSOR: Five Bells ANDREW YOUNG: Walking on the Cliff ROBERT GRAVES: The Thieves LOUIS MACNEICE: Meeting Point W H. AUDEN: ‘Say this city has ten million souls’
IV: 1940–1945 War
1940   HENRY REED: Lessons of the War ALUN LEWIS: ‘All day it has rained …’ JOHN BETJEMAN: In Westminster Abbey ROY FISHER: The Entertainment of War EVE LANGLEY: Native-born T. S. ELIOT: East Coker 1941   NOEL COWARD: We Must Have a Speech from a Minister JOHN MAGEE: High Flight H. D.: from R.A.F. W. R. RODGERS: Escape ALLEN CURNOW: House and Land MARIANNE MOORE: What are Years? CARL RAKOSI: To an Anti-Semite 1942   ROY FULLER: Spring 1942 ALAN ROSS: Survivors H.D.: from The Walls Do Not Fall SORLEY MACLEAN: Death Valley KENNETH SLESSOR: Beach Burial 1943   KEITH DOUGLAS: Cairo Jag KEITH DOUGLAS: Vergissmeinnicht KEITH DOUGLAS: Sportsmen CHARLES CAUSLEY: Rattler Morgan A. R. D. FAIRBURN: Tapu 1944   CHARLES SIMIC: Prodigy E. J. SCOVELL: A Refugee DOROTHY PARKER: War Song JOHN MANIFOLD: Fife Tune LOUIS SIMPSON: Carentan O Carentan MARIANNE MOORE: The Mind is an Enchanting Thing ROBINSON JEFFERS: The Eye 1945   CLAUDE MCKAY: Look within RANDALL JARRELL: A Pilot from the Carrier RANDALL JARRELL: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner PHILLIP WHITFIELD: Day of Liberation, Bergen-Belsen, May 1945 JEFFREY HARRISON: Sketch HOWARD NEMEROV: August, 1945 EDWIN MUIR: The Castle DYLAN THOMAS: Fern Hill
V: 1946–1968 Peace and Cold War
1946   JUDITH WRIGHT: The Hawthorn Hedge JUDITH WRIGHT: The Company of Lovers R. S. THOMAS: A Peasant ELIZABETH BISHOP: The Map SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: Mr Gradgrind’s Country 1947   WELDON KEES: The View of the Castle PATRICK KAVANAGH: Epic W H. AUDEN: Partition 1948   THEODORE ROETHKE: Child on Top of a Greenhouse KINGSLEY AMIS: The Last War 1949   WILLIAM EMPSON: Let it go 1950   R. A. K. MASON: Sonnet to MacArthur’s Eyes GWENDOLYN BROOKS: Beverly Hills, Chicago 1951   ADRIENNE RICH: The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room DYLAN THOMAS: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ LAWRENCE DURRELL: Sarajevo 1952   W H. AUDEN: The Shield of Achilles NISSIM EZEKIEL: The Double Horror 1953   JUDITH WRIGHT: The Lost Man 1954   EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE: from Rites PHILIP LARKIN: Church Going THOM GUNN: The Wound JON SILKIN: Death of a Son 1955   JUDITH WRIGHT: At Cooloolah KIT WRIGHT: Frankie and Johnny in 1955 EDWIN MUIR: The Horses 1956   ALLEN GINSBERG: America EARLE BIRNEY: Sinalóa ELIZABETH BISHOP: At the Fishhouses RICHARD WILBUR: A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra 1957   STEVIE SMITH: Not Waving but Drowning STEVIE SMITH: I Remember KENDRICK SMITHYMAN: Waikato Railstop 1958   LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see PHILIP LARKIN: The Whitsun Weddings 1959   R. D. FITZGERALD: The Wind at Your Door LOUIS SIMPSON: To the Western World JAMES WRIGHT: Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959 FRANK O’HARA: The Day Lady Died W D. SNODGRASS: from Heart’s Needle ROBERT LOWELL: Skunk Hour 1960   RANDALL JARRELL: The Woman at the Washington Zoo GALWAY KINNELL: from The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World TED HUGHES: Epiphany TED HUGHES: Pike DOM MORAES: From Tibet INGRID DE KOK: Our Sharpeville 1961   MICHAEL HAMBURGER: In a Cold Season ELIZABETH JENNINGS: My Grandmother LOUIS MACNEICE: The Taxis RICHARD WILBUR: Advice to a Prophet ROBERT LOWELL: Fall 1961 1962   PAUL MULDOON: Cuba D. J. EENRIGHT: Apocalypse BOB DYLAN: Blowin’ in the Wind KENNETH KOCH: You were wearing DAVID CAMPBELL: Mothers and Daughters ANNE SEXTON: All My Pretty Ones SYLVIA PLATH: The Bee Meeting SYLVIA PLATH: Lady Lazarus 1963   GWEN HARWOOD: Prize-Giving DAVID CAMPBELL: The Australian Dream C. K. STEAD: Dallas, 1963 1964   ROBERT LOWELL: For the Union Dead FRANK O’HARA: Anxiety JOHN BERRYMAN: Dream Song 41 1965   BASIL BUNTING: from Briggflatts IAIN CRICHTON SMITH: Old Woman ELIZABETH BISHOP: Questions of Travel 1966   WILLIAM PLOMER: A Walk in Würzburg ARTHUR NORTJE: At Rest from the Grim Place JOHN BETJEMAN: Mortality 1967   RICHARD WILBUR: A Miltonic Sonnet for Mr Johnson on His Refusal of Peter Hurd’s Official Portrait ROBERT LOWELL: Waking Early Sunday Morning JOHN BERRYMAN: Sonnet 71 ROGER MCGOUGH: Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death W S. MERWIN: For the Anniversary of My Death ANTHONY HECHT: ‘It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.’ 1968   A. D. HOPE: On an Engraving by Casserius SHARON OLDS: May 1968 DEREK WALCOTT: Elegy CHARLES CAUSLEY: Ballad of the Bread Man CHARLES TOMLINSON: Siena in Sixty-Eight W H. AUDEN: August, 1968 JOHN BERRYMAN: Dream Song 105 JOHN BERRYMAN: Dream Song 343 NORMAN MACCAIG: Crossing the Border EDWIN MORGAN: One Cigarette HARRY CLIFTON: Death of Thomas Merton
VI: 1969–1988 From the Moon to Berlin
1969   JOHN UPDIKE: Seven New Ways of Looking at the Moon 511 W H. AUDEN: Moon Landing WILLIAM PLOMER: To the Moon and Back JAMES MCAULEY: Because JAMES MCAULEY: Tabletalk 1970   DAVID MALOUF: Reading Horace outside Sydney, 1970 FRANCIS WEBB: Incident JAMES K. BAXTER: from Jerusalem Sonnets W. S. GRAHAM: ‘I leave this at your ear’ 1971   CHARLES SIMIC: Spoon JONATHAN KARIARA: A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree CHINUA ACHEBE: Vultures 1972   PETER REDGROVE: The Curiosity-Shop PHILIP LARKIN: Going, Going ROBERT PENN WARREN: Natural History JOHN BERRYMAN: Certainty Before Lunch JAMES K. BAXTER: from Autumn Testament 1973   DOUGLAS STEWART: B Flat HOWARD NEMEROV: On Getting Out of Vietnam HOWARD NEMEROV: On Being Asked for a Peace Poem 543 1974   PAUL DURCAN: In Memory of Those Murdered in the Dublin Massacre, May 1974 1975   SEAMUS HEANEY: Punishment DEREK MAHON: A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford PETER PORTER: On First Looking into Chapman’s Hesiod 1976   ELIZABETH BISHOP: One Art ARUN KOLATKAR: The Priest JAYANTA MAHAPATRA: The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore 1977   LES MURRAY: The Future JOHN TRANTER: from Crying in Early Infancy 1978   U. A. FANTHORPE: The List PETER PORTER: An Exequy TED HUGHES: Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days ROBERT GRAY: Flames and Dangling Wire GEOFFREY HILL: ‘Christmas Trees’ 1979   DEREK WALCOTT: Koenig of the River CAROLYN FORCHÉ: The Visitor SEAMUS HEANEY: Casualty RALPH GUSTAFSON: The Old Moscow Woman C. K.WILLIAMS: Tar 1980   PAUL MULDOON: Why Brownlee Left DAVE SMITH: Cumberland Station 1981   ANDREW MOTION: Anne Frank Huis DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE: Bad Run at King’s Rest CHRISTOPHER LOGUE: from War Music 1982   JAMES FENTON: Dead Soldiers KIT WRIGHT: I Found South African Breweries Most Hospitable NISSIM EZEKIEL: from Very Indian Poems in Indian English GAVIN EWART: The Lovesleep ALLEN CURNOW: A Reliable Service ROBERT BRINGHURST: Questions for the Old Woman GILLIAN CLARKE: The Water-Diviner DON COLES: from Landslides 1983   JORIE GRAHAM: History MICHAEL LONGLEY: Wounds LANDEG WHITE: Raid JOHN WHITWORTH: These Boys 1984   IAN MCMILLAN: Visitors: Armthorpe, August 1984 ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA: The Roys FUNSO AIYEJINA: A View of a View SHIRLEY KAUFMAN: Stones CRAIG RAINE: In Modern Dress SEAMUS HEANEY: The Underground PHYLLIS WEBB: ‘My loves are dying’ MICHAEL ONDAATJE: The Cinnamon Peeler 1985   HUGO WILLIAMS: Tangerines DOUGLAS DUNN: Empty Wardrobes PETER READING: ‘This is unclean …’ TONY HARRISON: The Mother of the Muses 1986   VINCENT O’SULLIVAN: liberal VIKRAM SETH: from The Golden Gate MICHAEL HOFMANN: Albion Market WENDY COPE: Waste Land Limericks 1987   RICHARD WILBUR: A Fable DAVID CONSTANTINE: The Quick and the Dead atPompeii SEAN O’BRIEN: Cousin Coat CIARAN CARSON: Belfast Confetti SHARON OLDS: Looking at My Father THOM GUNN: The Missing LES MURRAY: Letters to the Winner ROBERT BRINGHURST: The Reader 1988   R. S. THOMAS: The Moor YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA: Facing It WOLE SOYINKA: After the Deluge JOHN ASHBERY: Down by the Station, Early in the Morning CHARLES BOYLE: The Chess Player
VII: 1989–2000 Endgames
1989   ELIZABETH SPIRES: The Woman on the Dump ROO BORSON: After a Death ELIZABETH SMITHER: The Forecast for Night SIMON ARMITAGE: Zoom! CIARAN CARSON: Last Orders IMTIAZ DHARKER: Purdah I TOI DERRICOTTE: On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses MATTHEW SWEENEY: Breaches 1990   CAROL RUMENS: A Dialogue of Perestroishiks EAVAN BOLAND: Outside History ROBERT PINSKY: Shirt GEOFFREY LEHMANN: Parenthood GWEN HARWOOD: Bone Scan HUGO WILLIAMS: When I Grow Up 1991   MICHAEL LASKEY: Living with the Doctor PETER GOLDSWORTHY: Mass for the Middle-Aged JOHN FULLER: Kent BILL MANHIRE: Jalopy: The End of Love LUCILLE CLIFTON: white lady JOHN ASH: Cigarettes JOHN FORBES: Love Poem DENISE LEVERTOV: Misnomer IAN DUHIG: I’r Hen Iaith A’i Chaneuon JACKIE KAY: ££££ 1992   SIMON ARMITAGE: Gooseberry Season PAULINE STAINER: Sighting the Slave Ship GLYN MAXWELL: Helene and Heloise 1993   ANDREW JOHNSTON: How to Talk CHARLES BOYLE: Timur the Lame DOUGLAS DUNN: A Game of Bowls IMTIAZ DHARKER: Untitled DON PATERSON: The Scale of Intensity 1994   STEVE CHIMOMBO: Developments from the Grave ANTHONY THWAITE: Philip Larkin in New Orleans JOHN LEVETT: Early Warning 1995   MARY JO SALTER: A Kiss in Space ANNE CARSON: God’s Christ Theory W. S. MERWIN: A Taste KEVIN HART: Her Kiss JOHN KINSELLA: The Fire in the Forty-four AUGUST KLEINZAHLER: Going ALAN JENKINS: Neighbours 1996   VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR: One Ordinary Evening MARK DOTY: A Letter from the Coast CHARLES SIMIC: What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl CHRISTOPHER REID: Two Dogs on a Pub Roof LES MURRAY: It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 1997   JAMIE MCKENDRICK: Legacies SELIMA HILL: Red Cows 1998   VINCENT O’SULLIVAN: Seeing You Asked GLYN MAXWELL: Deep Sorriness Atonement Song 1999   SOPHIE HANNAH: None of the Blood HUGO WILLIAMS: Her News CAROL ANN DUFFY: The Devil’s Wife YVETTE CHRISTIANSË: Sunday School BRIAN MCCABE: Hand ROBERT GRAY: In Departing Light 2000   CHRISTOPHER REID: Bollockshire ROGER FINCH: Dancing in the Churchill Lounge DON COLES: Kurgan No. 10 KAREN PRESS: Hope for Refugees KIT WRIGHT: Hoping It Might Be So JEFFREY HARRISON: Pale Blue City
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