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Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms » (Reprint)

Book cover image of Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Mark Strand

Authors: Mark Strand (Editor), Eavan Boland
ISBN-13: 9780393321784, ISBN-10: 0393321789
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Mark Strand

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin. She is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction and is a professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.

Mark Strand won the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One and was Poet Laureate of the United States. He teaches on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Book Synopsis

"Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."— Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A marvelous new anthology.

	Introductory Statement	xiii
	On Becoming a Poet	xvii
	Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter	xxv
	Acknowledgments	xxxi
I	Verse Forms
	Overview	3
	The Villanelle
	The Villanelle at a Glance	5
	The History of the Form	6
	The Contemporary Context	8
	Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures	9
	The House on the Hill	9
	Missing Dates	10
	The Waking	11
	One Art	11
	Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	12
	The World and the Child	13
	Condemned Site	13
	By the Sound	14
	Saturday at the Border	15
	Under the Hill	16
	Villanelle	16
	Reading Scheme	17
	Villanelle for the Middle of the Night	18
	Close-Up of a Villanelle: "One Art"	19
	The Sestina
	The Sestina at a Glance	21
	The History of the Form	22
	The Contemporary Context	24
	Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe	25
	from Old Arcadia	26
	Sestine 4 from Parthenophil and Parthenophe	27
	Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni	29
	Sestina	30
	Sestina	32
	Sestina of the Tramp-Royal	33
	Sestina: Altaforte	34
	After the Trial	36
	The Book of Yolek	37
	The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina	38
	Nani	39
	Close-Up of a Sestina: "Sestina: Altaforte"	41
	The Pantoum
	The Pantoum at a Glance	43
	The History of the Form	44
	The Contemporary Context	45
	In Town	45
	Pantoum of the Great Depression	47
	Parents' Pantoum	48
	Pantoum	49
	Grandmother's Song	50
	The Method	51
	Close-Up of a Pantoum: "Pantoum of the Great Depression"	53
	The Sonnet
	The Sonnet at a Glance	55
	The History of the Form	56
	The Contemporary Context	58
	Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	59
	Farewell to Love	59
	from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	60
	Sonnet XXIII: Methought I saw my late espoused saint	60
	Holy Sonnet: At the round earth's imagined corners	61
	Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	61
	Ozymandias	62
	Bright Star	62
	from Monna Innominata	63
	from Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII)	63
	Carrion Comfort	64
	What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why	64
	From the Dark Tower	65
	Epic	65
	from "Tulips and Chimneys"	66
	To My Mother	66
	After the Bomb Tests	67
	A Game of Chess	67
	The Haw Lantern	68
	Heat	68
	The Roman Baths at Nimes	69
	Half a Double Sonnet	69
	Sonnet	70
	Close-Up of a Sonnet: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"	71
	The Ballad
	The Ballad at a Glance	73
	The History of the Form	74
	The Contemporary Context	77
	The Cherry-tree Carol	78
	Sir Patrick Spens	79
	The Wife of Usher's Well	81
	My Boy Willie	82
	The Changeling	83
	from The Ballad of Reading Gaol	86
	Peter and John	88
	Bagpipe Music	90
	Death in Leamington	91
	The Tale of Custard the Dragon	92
	We Real Cool	94
	Riverbank Blues	94
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen	95
	Close-Up of a Ballad: "We Real Cool"	99
	Blank Verse
	Blank Verse at a Glance	101
	The History of the Form	102
	The Contemporary Context	104
	from his translation of The Aeneid	105
	from Tamburlaine the Great	105
	from Julius Caesar	106
	from Paradise Lost	107
	from Beachy Head	108
	from The Prelude	109
	Ulysses	110
	Rain	112
	Directive	113
	Lying	114
	Stanzas in Bloomsbury	117
	Close-Up of Blank Verse: "Directive"	119
	The Heroic Couplet
	The Heroic Couplet at a Glance	121
	The History of the Form	122
	from The Description of Cooke-ham	123
	The Author to Her Book	123
	A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685	124
	from Absalom and Achitophel	125
	from The Vanity of Human Wishes	126
	To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	127
	from The Deserted Village	128
	from An Essay on Criticism	129
	My Last Duchess	130
	Strange Meeting	132
	The J Car	133
	Close-Up of the Heroic Couplet: "My Last Duchess"	135
	The Stanza
	The Stanza at a Glance	136
	The History of the Form	137
	The Contemporary Context	139
	from Troilus and Criseyde	140
	from The Faerie Queene	141
	They Flee from Me	142
	Easter Wings	143
	The Tyger	143
	So We'll Go No More A-Roving	144
	I died for Beauty--but was scarce	145
	The Convergence of the Twain	145
	The Song of the Mad Prince	146
	A Quoi Bon Dire	147
	Song of the Son	147
	The Tropics in New York	148
	Night Song at Amalfi	149
	Not Waving but Drowning	149
	On Teaching the Young	149
	Those Winter Sundays	150
	Yes	150
	Warming Her Pearls	151
	Epith	152
	Close-Up of a Stanza: "I died for Beauty--but was scarce"	154
II	Meter
	Meter at a Glance	159
	A Brief Checklist of Further Reading on Meter	161
III	Shaping Forms
	Overview	165
	The Elegy
	Overview	167
	Lament for the Makaris	168
	If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause	171
	On My First Son	172
	Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred	172
	Lycidas	173
	Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper	178
	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	180
	R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida	184
	O Captain! My Captain!	185
	Dover Beach	185
	To His Love	187
	Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	187
	Tears in Sleep	188
	In Memory of W. B. Yeats	188
	from The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	191
	Dream Song 324	194
	To the Dead	194
	In Memoriam Paul Celan	196
	The Legend	197
	The Elegy for New York	198
	Tiara	199
	Supernatural Love	200
	Mirror in February	202
	Iris	203
	Child Burial	204
	Song	205
	The Pastoral
	Overview	207
	The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	209
	from Love's Labor's Lost	210
	The Garden	210
	To My Sister	213
	Ode on a Grecian Urn	214
	Loveliest of Trees	215
	The Wife of Llew	216
	Urban Pastoral	216
	Remembered Morning	217
	The Thought-Fox	217
	The Explosion	218
	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	219
	Midsummer, Tobago	220
	The Bear	220
	Fog	223
	Let Evening Come	224
	Smoke	224
	Meditation at Lagunitas	226
	From the Porch	227
	A Walrus Tusk from Alaska	227
	Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night	228
	The Broad Bean Sermon	229
	Of the Finished World	230
	Tornados	231
	Loss	232
	Waiting for the Storm	233
	An Engraving of Blake	233
	Pygmalion's Image	233
	Mock Orange	234
	The Black Walnut Tree	235
	Gateposts	236
	Heart of the Matter	236
	Shoeing the Currach	238
	The Ode
	Overview	240
	Ode to the West Wind	241
	To Autumn	243
	Ode	244
	The Fire of Driftwood	245
	from The Bridge	247
	The Paper Nautilus	248
	Australia 1970	249
	Miracle Glass Co.	250
	The Blue Swallows	250
	America	252
	Ode to Meaning	252
	Perhaps the World Ends Here	254
IV	Open Forms
	Overview	259
	The Circus Animals' Desertion	260
	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	262
	I, Too	266
	The Idea of Order at Key West	266
	Spring and All	268
	America	269
	Ave Maria	272
	Uncertain Oneiromancy	273
	Daddy	274
	Diving into the Wreck	276
	Move	279
	The Language of the Brag	280
	The Colonel	281
	The German Army, Russia, 1943	282
	Starlight Scope Myopia	282
	Reading Plato	284
	Close-Up of Open Forms: "Diving into the Wreck"	287
	A Brief Glossary	289
	Biographies and Further Reading	293
	Suggested Reading	335
	Credits	337
	General Index	349
	Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	357

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