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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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