The Mentor Book of Major British Poets

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ISBN: 9780451626370 | 0451626370
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/23/1985

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Summary

Offers representative selections from the works of major British poets, from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth century.

Introduction

xiii

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

And Did Those Feet

(1)

To the Muses

(1)

Song

(1)

Mad Song

(1)

How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field

(1)

To Spring

(1)

from Songs of Innocence

(1)

The Lamb

(1)

The Divine Image

(1)

Holy Thursday

(1)

Night

(1)

The Sick Rose

(1)

The Fly

(1)

The Tiger

(1)

Ah Sun-flower:

(1)

London

(1)

A Poison Tree

(1)

The Human Abstract

(1)

I Saw a Chapel All of Gold

(1)

The Angel

(1)

The Immortal

(1)

Mock on, Mock on

(1)

The Mental Traveller

(2)

The Crystal Cabinet

(1)

Auguries of Innocence

(3)

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

(2)

Abstinence Sows Sand All Over

(1)

In a Wife I Would Desire

(1)

Eternity

(1)

The Question Answered

(1)

Lacedemonian Instruction

(1)

Riches

(1)

An Answer to the Parson

(1)

Proverbs of Hell

(2)

The Book of Thel

(5)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

Daffodils

(1)

Resolution and Independence

(3)

Character of the Happy Warrior

(2)

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

(1)

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

(1)

The Rainbow

(1)

The Solitary Reaper

(1)

She Was a Phantom of Delight

(1)

In One of Those Excursions

(2)

There Was a Boy

(1)

To H. C.---Six Years Old

(1)

London, 1802

(1)

When I Have Borne in Memor

(1)

Where Lies the Land

(1)

Mutability

(1)

Surprised by Joy---Impatient as the Wind

(1)

Great Men Have Been Among Us

(1)

It Is a Beauteous Evening

(1)

The World Is Too Much with Us

(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

(1)

September, 1802: Near Dover

(1)

Intimations of Immortality

(5)

Tintern Abbey

(4)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan

(2)

Frost at Midnight

(2)

Dejection: An Ode

(3)

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison

(2)

Christabel

(17)

Time, Real and Imaginary

104

(1)

Song

104

(1)

Constancy to an Ideal Object

105

(1)

Work Without Hope

106

(1)

Phantom

106

(1)

Psyche

106

(1)

The Knight's Tomb

107

(1)

On Donne's Poetry

107

(1)

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

107

(17)

Epitaph

124

(1)

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

She Walks in Beauty

125

(1)

There's Not a Joy

125

(1)

So, We'll Go No More Aroving

126

(1)

There Be None of Beauty's Daughters

127

(1)

Sonnet on Chillon

127

(1)

And Thou Art Dead

127

(2)

Fare Thee Well

129

(2)

Darkness

131

(2)

The Ocean

133

(1)

It Is the Hush of Night

134

(2)

Tis Sweet

136

(1)

Don Juan, Canto XIII

137

(22)

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

159

(2)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)

One Word Is Too Often Profaned

161

(1)

Music, When Soft Voices Die

161

(1)

Song

162

(1)

Life of Life

162

(1)

Hymn of Pan

163

(1)

The World's Great Age

163

(2)

To Night

165

(1)

Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered

165

(1)

Ozymandias

166

(1)

Love's Philosophy

167

(1)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

167

(2)

Ode to the West Wind

169

(2)

The Cloud

171

(2)

The Indian Serenade

173

(1)

To a Skylark

173

(3)

Adonais

176

(12)

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

188

(1)

To Sleep

189

(1)

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

190

(1)

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent

190

(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

190

(1)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

191

(1)

Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whispering

191

(1)

On the Sea

192

(1)

When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be

192

(1)

Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

192

(1)

Ode on Melancholy

193

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

194

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

196

(1)

Ode to Psyche

197

(1)

Ode to Indolence

198

(2)

To Autumn

200

(1)

A Thing of Beauty

201

(1)

A Song About Myself

202

(1)

Hymn to Pan

203

(2)

The Eve of St. Agnes

205

(10)

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)

Mariana

215

(2)

A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours

217

(1)

Tithonus

218

(1)

Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights

219

(1)

St. Agnes' Eve

220

(1)

The Lotos-Eaters

221

(4)

Ulysses

225

(2)

Tears, Idle Tears

227

(1)

Ask Me No More

228

(1)

Now Sleeps the Crystal Petal

228

(1)

Come Down, O Maid

229

(1)

The Splendour Falls

229

(1)

The Eagle: A Fragment

230

(1)

from In Memoriam A. H. H.

230

(1)

Strong Son of God, Immortal Love

230

(1)

I Held It Truth, with Him Who Sings

231

(1)

Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand

232

(1)

If One Should Bring Me This Report

232

(1)

I Envy Not in Any Moods

233

(1)

If Sleep and Death Be Truly One

233

(1)

The Baby New to Earth and Sky

234

(1)

Be Near Me When My Light Is Low

234

(1)

O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good

235

(1)

When on My Bed the Moonlight Falls

236

(1)

I Cannot See the Features Right

236

(1)

What Hope Is Here for Modern Rhyme

237

(1)

How Pure at Heart and Sound in Head

237

(1)

Ring Out, Wild Bells, to the Wild Sky

238

(1)

O Wast Thou with Me.

238

(1)

O Living Will that Shall Endure

239

(1)

The Two Voices

239

(12)

See What a Lovely Shell

251

(1)

I Have Led Her Home, My Love

252

(2)

Flower in the Crannied Wall

254

(1)

To Virgil

254

(2)

Break, Break, Break

256

(1)

Crossing the Bar

256

(1)

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)

Home-Thoughts from Abroad

257

(1)

Song

257

(1)

Evelyn Hope

258

(1)

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

259

(2)

Love Among the Ruins

261

(2)

Two in Campagna

263

(2)

Porphyria's Lover

265

(1)

My Last Duchess

266

(1)

Prospice

267

(1)

Youth and Art

268

(2)

One Word More

270

(5)

Rabbi Ben Ezra

275

(5)

Andrea del Sarto

280

(6)

EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848)

Stanzas

286

(1)

The Visionary

286

(1)

The Night Is Darkening Round Me

287

(1)

Plead for Me

287

(1)

Fall, Leaves, Fall

288

(1)

Remembrance

289

(1)

The Two Children

290

(1)

No Coward Soul Is Mine

291

(1)

The Old Stoic

292

(1)

The Sun Has Set

293

(1)

Sleep Brings No Joy

293

(1)

A Little While, a Little While

293

(2)

Castle Wood

295

(1)

Love and Friendship

295

(1)

I Am the Only Being

296

(1)

Methinks This Heart

296

(1)

The Wind, I Hear It Sighing

297

(1)

MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)

Dover Beach

298

(1)

Requiescat

299

(1)

In Utrumque Paratus

299

(1)

To Marguerite

300

(1)

Growing Old

301

(1)

Youth and Calm

302

(1)

Self-Dependence

303

(1)

A Summer Night

303

(3)

The Buried Life

306

(2)

A Farewell

308

(2)

The Scholar Gipsy

310

(7)

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)

A Birthday

317

(1)

When I Am Dead, My Dearest

317

(1)

Echo

318

(1)

Good Friday

318

(1)

Up-hill

319

(1)

Passing Away

319

(1)

Remember

320

(1)

Rest

320

(1)

A Life's Parallels

321

(1)

Spring Quiet

321

(1)

Eve

322

(1)

Amor Mundi

322

(1)

The Convent Threshold

323

(4)

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

The Darkling Thrush

327

(1)

The Subalterns

328

(1)

Hap

328

(1)

The To-Be-Forgotten

329

(1)

Neutral Tones

330

(1)

To Lizbie Browne

330

(1)

Wessex Heights

331

(1)

Channel Firing

332

(1)

The Last Chrysanthemum

333

(1)

The Souls of the Slain

334

(3)

To an Unborn Pauper Child

337

(1)

In Tenebris

338

(2)

The Ruined Maid

340

(1)

A Refusal

341

(1)

Convergence of the Twain

342

(1)

No Buyers

343

(1)

In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'

343

(1)

Afterwards

344

(1)

The Going

344

(2)

The Oxen

346

(1)

The Man He Killed

346

(1)

After a Journey

347

(1)

The Phantom Horsewoman

347

(1)

Who's in the Next Room?

348

(1)

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)

God's Grandeur

349

(1)

The Starlight Night

349

(1)

Spring

350

(1)

The Lantern out of Doors

350

(1)

The Sea and the Skylark

350

(1)

The Windhover

351

(1)

Pied Beauty

351

(1)

Hurrahing in Harvest

352

(1)

The Caged Skylark

352

(1)

Duns Scotus's Oxford

352

(1)

The Habit of Perfection

353

(1)

Inversnaid

354

(1)

In the Valley of the Elwy

354

(1)

Henry Purcell

355

(1)

Spring and Fall

355

(1)

Andromeda

356

(1)

Felix Randal

356

(1)

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo

357

(1)

The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe

358

(2)

To What Serves Mortal Beauty?

360

(1)

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

361

(1)

The Soldier

362

(1)

Carrion Comfort

362

(1)

No Worst, There Is None

363

(1)

To Seem the Stranger

363

(1)

I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, not Day

363

(1)

Patience, Hard Thing!

364

(1)

My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity on

364

(1)

Harry Ploughman

365

(1)

That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

365

(1)

Wreck of the Deutschland

366

(8)

JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909)

Thirty Bob a Week

374

(2)

A Runnable Stag

376

(3)

A Ballad of Hell

379

(2)

In Romney Marsh

381

(1)

London

382

(1)

Holiday at Hampton Court

383

(1)

Imagination

384

(1)

The Outcast

384

(1)

The Unknown

385

(1)

A Ballad of a Nun

386

(4)

War-Song

390

(1)

Battle

391

(1)

The Testament of a Vivisector

391

(6)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)

When I Was One-and-Twenty

397

(1)

Oh, When I Was in Love

397

(1)

Loveliest of Trees

398

(1)

Reveille

398

(1)

Oh See How Thick

399

(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young

399

(1)

Bredon Hill

400

(1)

The Lads in Their Hundreds

401

(1)

Is My Team Ploughing

402

(1)

Others, I Am Not the First

403

(1)

On Wenlock Edge

403

(1)

White in the Moon

404

(1)

Into My Heart an Air

404

(1)

The Immortal Part

405

(1)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden

406

(1)

You Smile Upon Your Friend To-day

406

(1)

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff

406

(2)

I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded

408

(1)

The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux

409

(1)

The Laws of God, the Laws of Man

410

(1)

The Night is Freezing Fast

410

(1)

Revolution

411

(1)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

411

(1)

When Israel out of Egypt Came

411

(1)

I Did not Lose My Heart

412

(1)

Infant Innocence

412

(1)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)

When You Are Old

413

(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

413

(1)

Down by the Salley Gardens

414

(1)

The Song of Wandering Aengus

414

(1)

The Sorrow of Love

415

(1)

He Thinks of His Past Greatness

415

(1)

He remembers forgotten beauty

415

(1)

The Everlasting Voices

416

(1)

The Secret Rose

416

(1)

Prologue, Responsibilities

417

(1)

A Stick of Incense

417

(1)

A Bronze Head

418

(1)

Lapis Lazuli

418

(2)

News for the Delphic Oracle

420

(1)

For Anne Gregory

421

(1)

A Prayer for My Daughter

421

(2)

Dialogue of Self and Soul

423

(2)

Sailing to Byzantium

425

(1)

The Second Coming

426

(1)

The Tower

426

(5)

Among School Children

431

(2)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

433

(1)

John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore

433

(1)

Byzantium

434

(1)

Two Songs from a Play

435

(1)

The Municipal Gallery Revisited

436

(1)

Circus Animals' Desertion

437

(2)

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)

Song of a Man Who Has Come Through

439

(1)

Bavarian Gentians

439

(1)

Humming-Bird

440

(1)

How Beastly the Bourgeois

441

(1)

Don'ts

442

(1)

Won't It Be Strange---?

443

(1)

When I Went to the Circus---

443

(2)

The Mosquito Knows

445

(1)

The Elephant Is Slow to Mate

445

(1)

Baby Tortoise

446

(2)

Tortoise-Shell

448

(2)

Snake

450

(2)

Kangaroo

452

(2)

Retort to Whitman

454

(1)

Whales Weep Not!

454

(2)

The Ship of Death

456

(3)

The End, the Beginning

459

(1)

EDWIN MUIR (1887-1958)

In Love for Long

460

(1)

from Variations on a Time Theme

460

(2)

The Road

462

(1)

The Enchanted Knight

463

(1)

The Wayside Station

463

(1)

The River

464

(1)

The Recurrence

465

(1)

The Prize

466

(1)

The Debtor

467

(1)

The Bridge of Dread

467

(1)

The Child Dying

468

(1)

The Labyrinth

469

(1)

One Foot in Eden

470

(1)

The Absent

471

(1)

The Voyage

472

(3)

WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)

Miners

475

(1)

From My Diary, July 1914

476

(1)

Greater Love

476

(1)

Dulce et Decorum Est

477

(1)

Apologia Pro Poemate Meo

478

(1)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

479

(1)

Futility

479

(1)

Strange Meeting

479

(1)

The Send-Off

480

(1)

The Show

481

(1)

Arms and the Boy

482

(1)

Insensibility

482

(1)

On Seeing a Piece of Our Artil lery Brought into Action

483

(1)

Spring Offensive

484

(1)

Exposure

485

(1)

Mental Cases

486

(1)

Disabled

487

(1)

The Next War

488

(1)

ROBERT GRAVES (b. 1895)

Rocky Acres

489

(1)

Warning to Children

490

(1)

The Bards

490

(1)

Pure Death

491

(1)

Traveller's Curse After Misdirection

491

(1)

The Reader Over My Shoulder

492

(1)

The Legs

492

(1)

Sea Side

493

(1)

Welsh Incident

493

(2)

Interruption

495

(1)

Lost Acres

495

(1)

Recalling War

496

(1)

Down, Wanton, Down!

497

(1)

Ogres and Pygmies

498

(1)

History of the Word

498

(1)

To Juan at the Winter Solstice

499

(1)

`¡Wellcome, to the Caves of Arta!'

500

(1)

The White Goddess

501

(1)

The Naked and the Nude

501

(1)

Leaving the Rest Unsaid

502

(1)

GEORGE BARKER (b. 1913)

Elegy No. 1

503

(1)

Memorial

504

(2)

Epistle 1

506

(1)

Resolution of Dependence

507

(2)

Allegory of the Adolescent and the Adult

509

(1)

Dog, Dog in My Manger

510

(1)

To My Mother

511

(1)

Elegy V

511

(2)

Secular Elegy V

513

(1)

And Now There Is Nothing Left to Celebrate

514

(1)

To Any Member of My Generation

514

(1)

News of the World I

515

(1)

`O Who Will Speak from a Womb or a Cloud?'

515

(1)

Wake of Dylan Thomas

516

(3)

To Father G. M. Hopkins, S. J.

519

(1)

Sestina at 34

519

(1)

The True Confession of George Barker

520

(24)

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)

Especially When the October Wind

544

(1)

A Sequence of Sonnets

545

(5)

After the Funeral

550

(1)

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child

551

(1)

Poem in October

551

(2)

Do Not Go Gentle

553

(1)

Fern Hill

554

(1)

Lament

555

(2)

A Winter's Tale

557

(3)

In My Craft or Sullen Art

560

(1)

On the marriage of a virgin

561

(1)

Author's Prologue

561

(2)

The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

563

(1)

I, in My Intricate Image

564

(3)

The Hand that Signed the Paper

567

(1)

Should Lanterns Shine

568

(1)

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

568

(1)

To Others Than You

569

(1)

This Side of the Truth

570

(1)

Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait

571

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