Modern poetry: A selection; - Hardcover

Townsend, John Rowe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192760394 ISBN 13: 9780192760395

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1971

Synopsis

More than 135 poems by modern English and American poets including W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and Randall Jarrell.

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Ballad by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
On This Island by Wystan Hugh Auden
On A Friend's Escape From Drowning Off The Norfolk Coast by George Barker
A Dream Of Hanging by Patricia Beer
The Romanies In Town by Anne Ellen Beresford
Saturday In New York by Anne Ellen Beresford
Cornish Cliffs by John Betjeman
Dorset by John Betjeman
The Licorice Fields At Pontefract by John Betjeman
The Educators by David Macleod Black
Chad by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Mmenson by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Timbuctu by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Evolution by Edwin Brock
Song Of The Battery Hen by Edwin Brock
The Rabbit by Alan Brownjohn
Brindisi (1) by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Ballad Of The Bread Man by Charles Causley
Timothy Winters by Charles Causley
Above Penmaenmawr by Tony Connor
Elegy For Alfred Hubbard by Tony Connor
Unseen Fire by Ralph Nixon Currey
Circus Lion by Cecil Day Lewis
Watching Post by Cecil Day Lewis
The Ballad Of Mrs. Noah by Robert Duncan
Dreaming In The Shanghai Restaurant by Dennis Joseph Enright
The Quagga by Dennis Joseph Enright
Snow In Europe by David Gascoyne
Unknown Shores by Theophile Gautier
Geography Lesson by Zulfikar Ghose
This Landscape, These People by Zulfikar Ghose
Incident On A Journey by Thomson William Gunn
Jesus And His Mother by Thomson William Gunn
Touch by Thomson William Gunn
By The Exeter River by Donald Hall
In The Old House by Donald Hall
The Old Pilot's Death; In Memory Of Philip Thompson by Donald Hall
Digging by Seamus Heaney
Epitaph by John Heath-stubbs
The Starling by John Heath-stubbs
Adrian Henri's Talking After Christmas Blues by Adrian Henri
Tonight At Noon (for Charles Mingus And The Clayton Squares) by Adrian Henri
The Place's Fault by Philip Hobsbaum
Hawk Roosting by Edward James Hughes
Pike by Edward James Hughes
Thistles by Edward James Hughes
Wind by Edward James Hughes
Bats by Randall Jarrell
The Lonely Man by Randall Jarrell
My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings
One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
Lament Of The Banana Man by Evan Jones
The Song Of The Banana Man by Evan Jones
Warning by Jennifer Joseph
Baking Day by Rosemary Joseph
If Ever You Go To Dublin Town by Patrick Kavanagh
Fishing Harbour Towards Evening by Richard Kell
The Pay Is Good by Richard Kell
Love In A Space-suit by James Kirkup
Tea In A Space-ship by James Kirkup
An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
April Rise by Laurie Lee
Milkmaid by Laurie Lee
Goodbye by Alun Lewis
Conversation With A Giraffe At Dusk In The Zoo by Douglas Livingstone
Sunstrike by Douglas Livingstone
Dunbarton by Robert Lowell
Imperialists In Retirement by Edward Lucie-smith
The Lesson by Edward Lucie-smith
Bedtime Story by George Macbeth
Owl by George Macbeth
Aunt Julia by Norman Maccaig
Uncle Roderick by Norman Maccaig
June Thunder by Frederick Louis Macneice
Prayer Before Birth by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Slow Starter by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Streets Of Laredo by Frederick Louis Macneice
For A Junior School Poetry Book by Christopher Middleton
An Addition To The Family, For M. L. by Edwin Morgan
The Computer's First Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan
French Persian Cats Having A Ball by Edwin Morgan
Trio by Edwin Morgan
Sailing To An Island by Richard Murphy
Grace To Be Said At The Supermarket by Howard Nemerov
Life Cycle Of Common Man by Howard Nemerov
Cleator Moor by Norman Nicholson
Rising Five by Norman Nicholson
Weather Ear by Norman Nicholson
The Fox by Kenneth Patchen
Balloons by Sylvia Plath
Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
Aunts Watching Television by John Pudney
A River by Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan
The Force by Peter Redgrove
Lessons Of The War: 1. Naming Of Parts by Henry Reed
Academic by James Reeves
Spicer's Instant Poetry by James Reeves
The Geranium by Theodore Roethke
The 'dorset Nose' by Clive Sansom
Schoolmistress by Clive Sansom
Autobiographical Note by Vernon Scannell
Autumn by Vernon Scannell
Gunpowder Plot by Vernon Scannell
Young by Anne Sexton
Carol by John Short
Carentan O Carentan by Louis Simpson
Columbus by Louis Simpson
The Goodnight by Louis Simpson
By Ferry To The Island by Iain Crichton Smith
Rythm by Iain Crichton Smith
First, Goodbye by John (1924-) Smith
Jazz For Five: 3. Colin Barnes, Drums by John (1924-) Smith
Jazz For Five: 5. Shake Keane, Trumpet by John (1924-) Smith
An Elementary School Class Room In A Slum by Stephen Spender
The Express by Stephen Spender
Moving Through The Silent Crowd by Stephen Spender
Ultima Ratio Regum by Stephen Spender
La Marche Des Machines by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
Missionary by Donald Michael Thomas
And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas
Poem In October by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
Cynddylan On A Tractor by Ronald Stuart Thomas
The Evacuee by Ronald Stuart Thomas
For The Record by Ronald Stuart Thomas
The Hill Farmer Speaks by Ronald Stuart Thomas
Welsh Landscape by Ronald Stuart Thomas
At Dunwich by Anthony Thwaite
Disturbances by Anthony Thwaite
A Sense Of Property by Anthony Thwaite
Conquerors by Henry Treece
The Collier by Vernon Watkins
A Christmas Hymn by Richard Wilbur
Eve To Her Daughters by Judith Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0192760394
• ISBN 13: 9780192760395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222