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by James Longenbach


  In Our Time (Hemingway), 132–34

  “Introduction to The Tempest” (James), 20–21

  “Is it possible” (Wyatt), 97–98, 99, 102

  “Is Your Town Nineveh?” (Moore), 38

  “It may be good, like it who list” (Wyatt), 68

  James, Henry, 20–21, 22, 101

  “John Donne” (Eliot), 40

  Johnson, Mark, 49

  Johnson, Samuel, 42

  Johnson, W. R., 131

  Jonson, Ben, 86–87

  Joyce, James, 18–19, 136–37

  “Karintha” (Toomer), 134–36

  Keats, John, 21, 53–59, 63, 123–24

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 102, 140

  Koethe, John, 35–36

  “Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 146–49

  Lakoff, George, 49

  Lawrence, D. H., 38, 44–46, 47

  “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (Shakespeare), 17, 18, 19, 62

  Loews, John Livingston, 147

  “Louie Louie” (Richard Berry), 74

  “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot), 40–41, 90

  Margulis, Elizabeth, 116

  Milner, Marian, 19

  Milton, John, 74

  “Monkeys, The” (Moore). See “My Apish Cousins”

  Monroe, Harriet, 51, 52

  Moore, Marianne, 22–25, 38, 80, 98–101, 110, 149

  Most, Glenn, 108

  “My Apish Cousins” (Moore), 22–25, 80, 98–99, 101, 149

  “My life closed twice before its close” (Dickinson), 110–11

  “My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love” (Campion), 138

  “Nephelidia” (Swinburne), 77

  “New York” (Moore), 100–101

  “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters” (Stevens), 29–33, 133

  “Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself” (Stevens), 81

  Observations (Moore), 101

  “Observations on the Art of English Poesie” (Campion), 109

  “Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 56–57

  Odyssey (Homer), 136

  “Of Mere Being” (Stevens), 80

  “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Keats), 21

  “On Tone” (Voigt), 128–29

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 74

  Phillips, Adam, 56–57

  Picasso, Pablo, 20

  “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (Borges), 102

  Pindar, 131

  Pinsky, Robert, 78–80, 81

  Plato, 107, 108, 131

  Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd), 78–79

  “Pomegranate” (Lawrence), 38, 44–46

  Pope, Alexander, 42

  Pound, Ezra, 63–65, 67, 68, 80, 84–85, 88, 93, 108

  “Prologue to the Aetia” (Callimachus), 138

  Propertius, 138

  “Queen-Anne’s-Lace” (Williams), 86

  Ransom, John Crowe, 52–53, 56, 62

  Rauschenberg, Robert, 15

  “Relic, The” (Donne), 88, 89

  “Retrospect, A” (Pound), 84

  Richards, I. A., 119

  Rolling Stones, The, 107–8, 109

  “St. Louis Blues” (Handy), 107

  Sappho, 61, 108, 131

  “Seafarer, The” (anonymous), 16–17, 21, 23, 61

  Seeger, Pete, 104

  “Sermon Preached at the Funerals of Sir William Cokayne Knight” (Donne), 76–77, 96

  Shakespeare, William, 17, 18, 19, 20–21, 36, 38, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 62, 63, 73, 77, 80, 81, 88–89, 96, 110, 111, 122–23, 138, 146, 150

  “Sleep” (Voigt), 46–47, 68, 126–29, 134

  “Somnambulisma” (Stevens), 124

  Sonnets (Shakespeare), 17, 18, 19, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 62, 73, 77, 80, 81, 88, 96, 111, 122–23, 146, 150

  “Souls of the Labadie Tract” (Howe), 90

  “So, we’ll go no more a roving” (Byron), 65–67, 75, 77, 93, 150

  Stein, Gertrude, 102

  Stevens, Wallace, 29–33, 63, 77–78, 80–81, 133, 138

  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Frost), 32, 33, 36

  Strand, Mark, 95–96, 102–4, 110, 145

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 77

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord

  “Tipitina” (Professor Longhair), 78–79

  “To a Poor Old Woman” (Williams), 124–26

  “To Autumn” (Keats), 123–24

  Toomer, Jean, 18, 134–36

  “To Shakespeare” (Crane), 58–59

  “Tower, The” (Yeats), 24–25, 35

  Ulysses (Joyce), 18–19, 136–37

  Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 39, 46–47, 68, 126–29, 134

  “Vorticism” (Pound), 84–85

  Warren, Robert Penn, 40

  Waste Land, The (Eliot), 40–41

  “Western Wind” (anonymous), 27–29, 33, 36, 110, 133

  West Side Story (Bernstein and Sondheim), 115

  “When I do count the clock that tells the time” (Shakespeare), 53–54, 80, 81, 88, 96, 122–23, 146, 150

  “When thou must home to shades of under ground” (Campion), 111, 114

  “Where Shall I Wander” (Ashbery), 18

  “Why is my verse so barren of new pride” (Shakespeare), 36

  Williams, William Carlos, 86, 93, 124–26, 128

  Wright, C. D., 87–89, 93

  Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 68, 97–98, 99, 102, 135

  Yeats, W. B., 24–25, 145, 146

  Zukofsky, Louis, 41

  ALSO BY JAMES LONGENBACH

  PROSE

  The Virtues of Poetry

  The Art of the Poetic Line

  The Resistance to Poetry

  Modern Poetry after Modernism

  Wallace Stevens

  Stone Cottage

  POEMS

  Earthling

  The Iron Key

  Draft of a Letter

  Fleet River

  Threshold

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