Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work

Paschen, Elise. (Added Author). Mosby, Rebekah Presson. (Added Author).

Summary: Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.

Record details

ISBN: 9781402210624
ISBN: 1402210620
Physical Description: print
xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 3 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Edition: [2nd ed.].
Publisher: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Poetry speaks, 2001.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ulysses /Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- My last Duchess -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Meeting at night / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Last invocation / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Second coming / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Among school children / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Crazy Jane on the day of judgment / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- If I told him / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- To earthward / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Come in / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Fog / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Chamber music II / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Chamber music X / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Chamber music XVIII / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- She weeps over Rahoon / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Ecce Puer / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Sort of a song / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Garden / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Orchard / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Helen / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Oread / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Painted head / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Burnt Norton from Four Quartets / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- News item / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Lady's reward / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- In just / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Love is a place / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- May I feel said he / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Pity this busy monster / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Ulysses / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Return of the Goddess / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Amergin's charm / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- With her lips only / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Time of waiting / Robert Graves (1895-1985).