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  CREDITS

  “As I Walked Out One Evening,” copyright © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden; from W. H. Auden Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

  “Genesis 1–2:4,” copyright © 1991 by Frank Bidart; from In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965–1990 by Frank Bidart. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Carcanet Press Limited.

  “At the Fishhouses,” copyright © 1983; from Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. From Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. © 2011.

  “At Melville’s Tomb,” from The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

  “Souls of the Labadie Tract,” by Susan Howe, from Souls of the Labadie Tract, copyright © 2007 by Susan Howe. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

  “Pomegranates” from The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto & F. Warren Roberts, copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C.M. Weekley, executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

  “New York” from The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore. Copyright © 1935 by Marianne Moore, renewed 1963 by Marianne Moore and T.S. Eliot. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.

  “Gulf Music,” copyright © 2014 by Robert Pinsky; from Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

  “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters” and “Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by Permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.

  “Of Mere Being” from Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1989 by Holly Stevens. Copyright © 1957 by Elsie Stevens and Holly Stevens, copyright renewed 1985 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.

  “Elevator” from Man and Camel: Poems by Mark Strand, copyright © 2006 by Mark Strand. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. “Elevator” by Mark Strand. Copyright © Mark Strand, 2014, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.

  “Karintha,” from Cane by Jean Toomer. Copyright 1923 by Boni & Liveright, renewed 1951 by Jean Toomer. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

  “Sleep,” from Headwaters: Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt. Copyright © 2013 by Ellen Bryant Voigt. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  “To a Poor Old Woman,” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Used with permission of Carcanet Press Limited.

  C.D. Wright, excerpt from “Flame” from Steal Away: Selected and New Poems. Copyright © 1996, 2002 by C.D. Wright. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

  “The Tower” from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised by W.B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright © 1928 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

  INDEX

  Adorno, Theodore, 145

  “America” (Bernstein and Sondheim), 115

  “Among School Children” (Yeats), 146

  Anacreon, 108, 131

  “Andrea del Sarto” (Browning), 38

  Aristotle, 49, 131

  Arnold, Matthew, 122

  Ashbery, John, 18, 36, 39

  “As I Walked Out One Evening” (Auden), 86

  “At Melville’s Tomb” (Crane), 51–52, 150

  “At the Fishhouses” (Bishop), 151–52

  Auden, W. H., 86

  “Bantams in Pine-Woods” (Stevens), 77

  Bede, 142–44

  “Below the surface-stream” (Arnold), 122

  Bernstein, Leonard, 115

  Bidart, Frank, 38–39, 121–22, 144–45

  Bishop, Elizabeth, 151–52

  “Black Jack Davey” (anonymous), 104–5, 113–14

  Blake, William, 50–51, 52, 90, 92–93

  Block, Ned, 85

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 102

  “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art” (Keats), 57

  “Broken Heart, The” (Donne), 38

  Brooks, Cl
eanth, 40

  Browning, Robert, 38

  Byron, George Gordon Lord, 65–68, 75, 77, 93, 150

  Cædmon, 142–44, 145–46, 151

  “Cædmon’s Hymn,” 143–44, 146, 147

  Callimachus, 138

  Campion, Thomas, 108–16

  Cane (Toomer), 18, 134–36

  “Canonization, The” (Donne), 33–35, 37, 43–44, 49, 80, 127–28, 150

  Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 17, 18, 21

  “Celebration of Charis, A” (Jonson), 86–87

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 17, 18, 21

  “Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350–325 BC” (Bidart), 121

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 35, 146–49

  “Constructor, The” (Koethe), 35–36

  Crane, Hart, 51–52, 57, 58–59, 150

  Dickinson, Emily, 29–31, 68–71, 75, 110–11, 122, 146

  Donne, John, 33–35, 38–42, 44, 47, 49, 62, 76–77, 80, 88–89, 96, 127–28, 132, 150

  Dowland, John, 108–9

  Dylan, Bob, 104, 112

  “Elevator” (Strand), 95, 96, 102–4, 110, 145

  Eliot, T. S., 40–42, 88–89, 90

  “Figure a Poem Makes, The” (Frost), 142

  “Flame” (Wright), 87–89

  Freud, Sigmund, 103, 151

  Frost, Robert, 32, 33, 36, 66, 142

  “Genesis 1–2:4” (Bidart), 144–45

  “Georgia Dusk” (Toomer), 18

  Giorgione, 15

  Gogh, Vincent van, 83, 93

  “Golden State” (Bidart), 39

  “Good Morrow, The” (Donne), 38

  “Grey Monk, The” (Blake), 50

  “Gulf Music” (Pinsky), 78–80, 81

  “Gypsy Laddie, The.” See “Black Jack Davey”

  Handy, W. C., 107

  “Headwaters” (Voigt), 39

  “He fumbles at your Soul” (Dickinson), 69–71, 75, 122, 146

  Hemingway, Ernest, 132–34

  “He Thinks of Those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved” (Yeats), 145

  Hollow Men, The (Eliot), 41

  Homer, 136, 138

  “Honky Tonk Woman” (Jagger and Richards), 107–8, 109

  Horace, 138

  Howe, Susan, 41, 90

  “I Asked Mr. Dithers Whether It Was Time Yet He Said No to Wait” (Ashbery), 39

  “In a Station of the Metro” (Pound), 63–65, 80, 84–95

 

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