All the Poems of Muriel Spark PA

In the seventy-three poems collected here Muriel Spark works in open forms as well as villanelles, rondels, epigrams, and even the tour de force of a twenty-one page ballad. She also shows herself a master of unforgettable short poems. Before attaining fame as a novelist (Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Muriel Spark was already an acclaimed poet. The "power and control" of her poetry, as Publishers Weekly remarked, "is almost startling." With the vitality and wit typical of all her work, Dame Muriel has never stopped writing poems, which frequently appear in The New Yorker. As with all her creations, the poems show Spark to be "astonishingly talented and truly inimitable" (The San Francisco Chronicle).

Foreword by the Author

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A Tour of London (c. 1950-51)

1

(3)

The Dark Music of the Rue du Cherche-Midi (2000)

4

(3)

The Yellow Book (c. 1951)

7

(1)

What? (2002)

8

(1)

Verlaine Villanelle (c. 1950)

9

(1)

Edinburgh Villanelle (c. 1950)

10

(1)

Holy Water Rondel (c. 1951)

11

(1)

The Creative Writing Class (2003)

12

(1)

Authors' Ghosts (2003)

13

(1)

That Bad Cold (2003)

14

(1)

Leaning Over an Old Wall (c. 1947)

15

(2)

Flower into Animal (1949/1950)

17

(1)

Abroad (1984)

18

(1)

Going Up to Sotheby's (1982)

19

(2)

On the Lack of Sleep (c. 1963)

21

(1)

The Grave that Time Dug (c. 1951)

22

(1)

The Pearl-Miners (c. 1952)

23

(3)

Omen (c. 1949)

26

(1)

My Kingdom for a Horse (c. 1956)

27

(1)

Intermittence (c. 1956)

28

(1)

Letters (2003)

29

(1)

Holidays (2002)

30

(1)

Facts (2003)

31

(1)

Complaint in a Wash-out Season (c. 1959)

32

(1)

Litany of Time Past (c. 1959)

33

(1)

The Fall (c. 1943)

34

(1)

Faith and Works (c. 1957)

35

(1)

Conundrum (c. 1952)

36

(1)

The Messengers (c. 1967)

37

(1)

Fruitless Fable (c. 1948)

38

(2)

Note by the Wayside (c. 1965)

40

(1)

Mungo Bays the Moon (1996)

41

(1)

Panickings (2003)

42

(1)

The Hospital (2003)

43

(1)

The Empty Space (2002)

44

(1)

Hats (2003)

45

(2)

Anger in the Works (1995)

47

(1)

Dimmed-Up (2002)

48

(1)

While Flicking Over the Pages (1995)

49

(1)

Standing in the Field (1994)

50

(1)

To the Gods of My Right Hand (c. 1954)

51

(1)

That Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road (1993)

52

(1)

The Victoria Falls (c. 1948)

53

(1)

Conversation Piece (c. 1954)

54

(2)

Elementary (c. 1951)

56

(1)

Against the Transcendentalists (c. 1952)

57

(2)

Shipton-under-Wychwood (c. 1950)

59

(1)

Conversations (c. 1965)

60

(2)

The Card Party (c. 1951-52)

62

(2)

Chrysalis (c. 1951)

64

(1)

Elegy in a Kensington Churchyard (c. 1949)

65

(1)

Evelyn Cavallo (c. 1952)

66

(1)

The Rout (c. 1951)

67

(3)

Four People in a Neglected Garden (c. 1951)

70

(1)

Like Africa (c. 1948)

71

(1)

We Were Not Expecting the Prince To-day (c. 1947)

72

(1)

Communication (c. 1955)

73

(1)

Created and Abandoned (c. 1979)

74

(1)

The Goose (c. 1960)

75

(1)

A Visit (c. 1950)

76

(2)

Bluebell Among the Sables (c. 1958)

78

(2)

Industriad (c. 1951)

80

(1)

Canaan (c. 1952)

81

(3)

The Nativity (c. 1950)

84

(6)

The Three Kings (c. 1953)

90

(1)

Sisera (c. 1953)

91

(1)

The Ballad of the Fanfarlo (c. 1951)

92

(23)

From the Latin

Persicos Odi (c. 1949)

115

(2)

To Lucius Sestius in the Spring (c. 1949)

117

(4)

Winter Poem (c. 1949)

121

(2)

Prologue and Epilogue (c. 1949)

123

(3)

Index of Titles and First Lines

126

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