The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195020588 ISBN 13: 9780195020588

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1976

Synopsis

An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Ellmann is Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature, Oxford University.

Review:

The Accomplices by Conrad Aiken
Dear Uncle Stranger by Conrad Aiken
Discordants: 1 by Conrad Aiken
Hatteras Calling by Conrad Aiken
Herman Melville by Conrad Aiken
Priapus And The Pool: 3 by Conrad Aiken
Priapus And The Pool: 4 by Conrad Aiken
The Room by Conrad Aiken
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Archie Randolph Ammons
Cascadilla Falls by Archie Randolph Ammons
The City Limits by Archie Randolph Ammons
Classic by Archie Randolph Ammons
Coon Song by Archie Randolph Ammons
Corsons Inlet by Archie Randolph Ammons
Laser by Archie Randolph Ammons
Periphery by Archie Randolph Ammons
So I Said I Am Ezra by Archie Randolph Ammons
Triphammer Bridge by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Unifying Principle by Archie Randolph Ammons
Upland by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Yucca Moth by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Marchenbilder by John Ashbery
The One Thing That Can Save America by John Ashbery
The Painter by John Ashbery
Rivers And Mountains by John Ashbery
Spring Day by John Ashbery
Tenth Symphony by John Ashbery
Worsening Situation by John Ashbery
Years Of Indiscretion by John Ashbery
Evil Nigger Waits For Lightnin' by Amiri Baraka
For Hettie by Amiri Baraka
I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer by Amiri Baraka
Legacy (for Blues People) by Amiri Baraka
The Liar by Amiri Baraka
Numbers, Letters by Amiri Baraka
A Poem For Speculative Hipsters by Amiri Baraka
A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand by Amiri Baraka
W.w. by Amiri Baraka
Advice To A Raven In Russia by Joel Barlow
Canto: 1 by Joel Barlow
The Ball Poem by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 127 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 14 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 147 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 149 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 219. So Long? Stevens by John Berryman
Henry's Understanding by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 1 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 2 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 3 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 34 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 35 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 36 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 37 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 4 by John Berryman
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet: 57 by John Berryman
A Professor's Song by John Berryman
A Strut For Roethke by John Berryman
A Thurn by John Berryman
A Winter-piece To A Friend Away by John Berryman
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
First Death In Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
The Map by Elizabeth Bishop
The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop
Questions Of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop
Come With Me by Robert Bly
Evolution From The Fish by Robert Bly
Looking At Some Flowers by Robert Bly
Looking Into A Face by Robert Bly
Poem Against The Rich by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 1 by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 2 by Robert Bly
Poems In Three Parts: 3 by Robert Bly
Romans Angry About The Inner World by Robert Bly
Sleet Storm On The Merritt Parkway by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 1 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 2 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 3 by Robert Bly
Snowfall In The Afternoon: 4 by Robert Bly
Waking From Sleep by Robert Bly
When The Dumb Speak by Robert Bly
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
The Flesh And The Spirit by Anne Bradstreet
Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse: The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
The Lovers Of The Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery by Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Robert Frost by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sadie And Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Second Sermon On The Warpland by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Sermon On The Warpland by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song In The Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Vacant Lot by Gwendolyn Brooks
Green River by William Cullen Bryant
The Prairies by William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
Ave Maria by Harold Hart Crane
The Broken Tower by Harold Hart Crane
Chaplinesque by Harold Hart Crane
For The Marriage Of Faustus And Helen by Harold Hart Crane
In Shadow by Harold Hart Crane
My Grandmother's Love Letters by Harold Hart Crane
Passage by Harold Hart Crane
Praise For An Urn; In Memoriam: Ernest Nelson by Harold Hart Crane
Repose Of Rivers by Harold Hart Crane
The River by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
To Emily Dickinson by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 1 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 2 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 3 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 4 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 5 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 6 by Harold Hart Crane
The Wine Menagerie by Harold Hart Crane
The Black Riders: 24 by Stephen Crane
The Black Riders: 3 by Stephen Crane
War Is Kind: 1 by Stephen Crane
The Death Of Venus by Robert Creeley
Fancy by Robert Creeley
The Fire by Robert Creeley
For Love by Robert Creeley
The Gift by Robert Creeley
Here by Robert Creeley
Heroes by Robert Creeley
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
If You by Robert Creeley
Naughty Boy by Robert Creeley
Wait For Me by Robert Creeley
The Window by Robert Creeley
1x1 (one Times One): 13 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 20 by Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1 (one Times One): 39 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 25 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 6 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 27 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
New Poems: 11 by Edward Estlin Cummings
New Poems: 22 by Edward Estlin Cummings
No Thanks: 16 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 19 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Portraits: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Songs: 6 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet - Realities: 1 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 30 by Edward Estlin Cummings
A Birth by James Dickey
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
The Heaven Of Animals by James Dickey
The Performance by James Dickey
The Sheep Child by James Dickey
The Underground Stream by James Dickey
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
Ah, Necromancy Sweet! by Emily Dickinson
Arcturus Is His Other Name by Emily Dickinson
As Imperceptibly As Grief by Emily Dickinson
A Bee His Burnished Carriage by Emily Dickinson
The Brain, Within Its Groove by Emily Dickinson
Called Back by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Colloquy by Emily Dickinson
Crumbling Is Not An Instant's Act by Emily Dickinson
Did Our Best Moment Last by Emily Dickinson
Drama's Vitallest Expression Is The Common Day by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
Escape by Emily Dickinson
Exclusion by Emily Dickinson
Experience by Emily Dickinson
'faith' Is A Fine Invention by Emily Dickinson
Finding Is The First Act by Emily Dickinson
Further In Summer Than The Birds by Emily Dickinson
God Is Indeed A Jealous God by Emily Dickinson
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Emily Dickinson
Hope (1) by Emily Dickinson
I Am Alive - I Guess by Emily Dickinson
I Can Wade Grief by Emily Dickinson
I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson
I Dwell In Possibility by Emily Dickinson
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain by Emily Dickinson
I Never Lost As Much But Twice by Emily Dickinson
I Would Not Paint - A Picture by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who Are You by Emily Dickinson
I've Seen A Dying Eye by Emily Dickinson
If You Were Coming In The Fall by Emily Dickinson
In The Garden (1) by Emily Dickinson
In Winter, In My Room by Emily Dickinson
Intoxication by Emily Dickinson
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up by Emily Dickinson
Life by Emily Dickinson
A Light Exists In Spring by Emily Dickinson
The Lost Thought by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson
Our Lives Are Swiss by Emily Dickinson
Parting by Emily Dickinson
The Pedigree Of Honey by Emily Dickinson
Perception Of An Object Costs by Emily Dickinson
The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson
Remorse Is Memory Awake by Emily Dickinson
Reportless Subjects, To The Quick by Emily Dickinson
Returning by Emily Dickinson
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson
Satisfaction - Is The Agent by Emily Dickinson
The Snake by Emily Dickinson
So Proud She Was To Die by Emily Dickinson
Softened By Time's Consummate Plush by Emily Dickinson
The Storm by Emily Dickinson
Success by Emily Dickinson
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant by Emily Dickinson
That It Will Never Come Again by Emily Dickinson
That Love Is All There Is by Emily Dickinson
There Are Two Mays by Emily Dickinson
There Came A Day At Summer's Full by Emily Dickinson
There Is A Pain - So Utter by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
They Shut Me Up In Prose by Emily Dickinson
This Is My Letter To The World by Emily Dickinson
This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson
Title Divine - Is Mine! by Emily Dickinson
Too Happy Time Dissolves Itself by Emily Dickinson
Until The Desert Knows by Emily Dickinson
We Outgrow Love Like Other Things by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Another Shout From The Wharves by Hilda Doolittle
At Baia by Hilda Doolittle
The Flowering Of The Rod: 4 by Hilda Doolittle
Good Frend: 6 by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Helen In Egypt: 1, 3 by Hilda Doolittle
Let Zeus Record: 6 by Hilda Doolittle
The Mysteries Remain by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Pear Tree by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 4 by Hilda Doolittle
From Gloucester Out by Edward Dorn
Oxford: 3. Comforted By Limestone by Edward Dorn
Thesis by Edward Dorn
The Ballad Of Mrs. Noah by Robert Duncan
Homage And Lament For Ezra Pound In Captivity, May 12, 1944 by Robert Duncan
Often I Am Permitted To Return To A Meadow by Robert Duncan
Passage Over Water by Robert Duncan
Passages: 1. Tribal Memories by Robert Duncan
Passages: 3. What I Saw by Robert Duncan
Persephone by Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing by Robert Duncan
The Temple Of The Animals by Robert Duncan
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom by Robert Duncan
3. by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1-5 Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sweeney Among The Nightingales by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land (1-5, Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Whispers Of Immortality by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Alphonso Of Castille by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bacchus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blight by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation (1) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each And [or, In] All by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guy by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hamatreya by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Humble-bee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merlin: 1 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merlin: 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mithridates by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nemesis by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode Inscribed To W.h. Channing by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Snow-storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terminus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thine Eyes Still Shined For Me, Though Far by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two Rivers by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uriel by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Visit by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waldeinsamkeit by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 1 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 3 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 1, 4 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woodnotes: 2 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Xenophanes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
George The Third's Soliloquy by Philip Freneau
The Indian Burying Ground by Philip Freneau
To An Author by Philip Freneau
The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau
Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
Away! by Robert Frost
Come In by Robert Frost
Departmental by Robert Frost
Desert Places by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Directive by Robert Frost
A Drumlin Woodchuck by Robert Frost
Fire And Ice by Robert Frost
For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
The Gift Outright ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0195020588
• ISBN 13: 9780195020588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1136
• Editor: Ellmann Richard