Autumn-Born in Autumn

Penetrating essay by Dick Davis of Ohio State argues for the revaluation of Mead's poetry.

Matthew Mead was born in 1924. He served in the British army from 1942 to 1947, including three years in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. He has lived in Germany since 1962 and with his German wife Ruth has translated many German poets. He featured in the Penguin Modern Poets series in 1970. He has published five collections of poetry. Dick Davis was born in 1945. He teaches Persian at Ohio State University; as well as his collections of his own poetry, Davis has published a number of translations from the Persian.

Identities and other poems (1967)
Identities	p. 13
from 'Render unto Ezra'	p. 31
Chloris Periplum	p. 34
Fidelity	p. 35
Translator to Translated	p. 36
A Poem in Nine Parts	p. 37
The Barbarians	p. 54
Medusa	p. 55
John at Machaerus	p. 56
The Nihilist	p. 58
The Autumn-Born in Autumn	p. 59
Theocrasy	p. 62
Ballade of the Spectre of Communism	p. 63
227 Idle Words against Apollo	p. 64
The Slush	p. 66
Lullaby	p. 67
The Administration of Things (1970)
The Administration of Things	p. 68
Echo	p. 77
Missing Persons	p. 79
The Road from Kenninghall	p. 80
A Woman of the World	p. 81
From a Provisional Capital	p. 82
Some Aspects of the Goddess	p. 88
Ballade of the Only Aspect	p. 89
Chione	p. 90
Song of the Square Meal	p. 91
Schoolgirls Swimming	p. 92
Since the War	p. 93
Orpheus	p. 94
Wrack	p. 95
A Greeting for Sophie Elizabeth	p. 96
'... what bites the poet?'	p. 97
The Midday Muse (1979)
The Midday Muse	p. 98
Ballade of an Unforeseen Nostalgia	p. 103
Minusland	p. 104
Stadtbahn: Early	p. 105
The Man with the Red Guitar	p. 106
Sestina Supposed to have been Written while Waiting to Clean his Teeth	p. 111
Quatrains	p. 112
Invitation	p. 116
Retreats to Reality	p. 117
After the Economy	p. 120
Skeleton Speech	p. 122
Wasserburg	p. 123
And a Merry Meeting	p. 124
In the Eyes of the People	p. 125
A Sestina at the End of Socialism (1996)
Sclerosis	p. 130
A Roman in Cologne	p. 133
Death Valley	p. 134
The Lighted Castle	p. 135
Farewell	p. 136
Sestina at the End of Socialism	p. 137
Confrontation	p. 138
Triolet: 'I went to kiss you'	p. 140
Triolet: 'You are still beautiful'	p. 140
For You, Ruth	p. 141
City	p. 142
Folkestone	p. 143
Frinton	p. 144
The Late Late Later	p. 145
The Flickering Shadow Stanzas	p. 146
Walking Out of the World (2004)
Invocation	p. 150
A Dozen Villanelles
Villanelle of the Final Whole	p. 151
Villanelle of the Last Gasp	p. 152
A Villanelle on Hold	p. 153
Villanelle of the Unslept Night	p. 154
Villanelle of the Sudden Twinge	p. 155
An Unrhymed VillaneLle	p. 156
A Double Villanelle	p. 157
Villanelle: A Blotted Weltanschauung	p. 159
A Phantom Villanelle	p. 160
Villanelle of the Last Lap	p. 161
A Villanelle in Memory of Edward Mummery	p. 162
A Badly Bloated Villanelle	p. 163
Bearings	p. 165
Triolet: 'Young girls explode'	p. 165
In the Bleachery	p. 166
Kenneth Cain	p. 168
Losses 2002	p. 169
The Sentences of Death
Set Up	p. 170
Death as a Foreign Language, Lesson One	p. 172
Cowardice in Face of the Blank Page	p. 174
Local Colour Seen as Camouflage	p. 175
And Daylight Hours Tomorrow	p. 176
In the Epitaph Section	p. 177
Drill for a Deathbed	p. 178
Sitrep	p. 179
Fade Out	p. 181
The Poetry of Matthew Mead	p. 183
Index of Titles	p. 191
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Autumn-Born in Autumn

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials