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Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.
Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062669451
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374520259
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571153862
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended.
Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1991-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811224597
Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—." So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.
Author : Ron Padgett
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1566893429
Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.
Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811211888
Collection of poems of William Carlos Williams from 1939-1962
Author : Jack Gilbert
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375711767
Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work. There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience. Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack Gilbert’s work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307961974
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.
Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466880570
Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today. Williams's rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch them unfold from his confrontational early poems through the open, expansive Tar and With Ignorance. His voice is both cerebral and muscular, capable of both the eightline poems of Flesh and Blood and the inward soundings of A Dream of Mind—and of both together in the award-winning recent books Repair and The Singing. These poems feel spontaneous, individual, and directly representative of the experience of which they sing; open to life, they chafe against summary and conclusion. Few poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its ambition and achievement. C. K. Williams is one of them.