Title:
Modern American poets : their voices and visions
Alternate title:
Voices and visions.
Author:
General Note:
Includes index.
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xxi, 730 p. ; 21 cm.
Author(s):
Publisher:
Random House,
Publication Date:
1987
ISBN:
9780394362793
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, c1987.
Call Number:
811 MODERN
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Author Notes
Robert DiYanni received a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1968 and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1976. He has taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, New York University, Harvard University, and Pace University. He has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. He has written numerous books including The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, Women's Voices, Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert, and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction |
Reading Poetry |
The Experience of Reading Poetry: Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays |
The Process of Reading Poetry: Robert Frost, Mending Wall |
The Practice of Active Reading: Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz |
Centering on Subject and Theme: Elizabeth Bishop, One Art |
Aspects of Poetry |
Voices: Stephen Crane, War Is Kind |
William Carlos Williams, The Widow's Lament in Springtime; T.S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi |
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother Words: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy |
Adrienne Rich, Rape Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station |
Images: Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia HD (Hilda Doolittle), Heat Robert Lowell, The Drinker Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
Comparisons: Langston Hughes |
Dream Deferred Robert Wallace |
The Double Play Sylvia Plath |
Metaphors Marianne Moore |
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing |
Symbols Peter Meinke |
Advice to My Son Robert Frost |
The Road Not Taken Emily Dickinson |
Because I could not stop for Death Hart Crane |
Royal Palm |
Sentences: Adrienne Rich |
Prospective Immigrants Please Notes Robert Frost |
The Silken Tent e.e. Cummings |
Me up at does Wallace Stevens |
No Possum |
No Sop |
No Taters |
Sounds: Robert Frost |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Walt Whitman |
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Wallace Stevens |
Peter Auince at the Clavier May Swenson |
The Universe Helen Chasin |
The Word Plum |
Rhythms: Robert Frost |
The Span of Life Langston Hughes |
Ballad of the Landlord Theodore Roethke |
Elegy for Jane Richard Wilbur |
Junk |
Structure: Edna St. Vincent Millay |
I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields |
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink |
What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why; John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece |
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
e.e. Cummings, 1, Buffalo Bill's |
William Carlos Williams, The Dance |
Theodore Roethke, The Waking |
A.R. Ammons, Poetics |
Revisions |
Walt Whitman: A Noiseless Patient Spider |
The Soul, Reaching, Throwing Out for Love |
Robert Frost: Design |
In White |
Emily Dickinson: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859 and 1861 versions) |
Marianne Moore: Poetry (1921, 1924, and 1967 versions) |
William Carlos Williams: This Is Just to Say |
Kenneth Koch: Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
Henry Reed: Chard Whitlow |
Pieter Breughel the Elder: LandScape with the Fall of Icarus |
William Carlos Williams: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. W.H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts Pieter Breughel the Elder: Hunters in the Snow |
William Carlos Williams: The Hunters in the Snow |
John Berryman: Winter Landscape |
Part 2 Major Voices and Visions |
Walt Whitman (1819-1892): One's-Self I Sing |
Song of Myself |
There Was a Child Went Forth |
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry |
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
The Dalliance of the Eagles |
Cavalry Crossing a Ford |
Bivouac on a Mountain Side |
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame |
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night |
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim |
The Wound Dresser |
Reconciliation |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Emily Dickinson (1830-1866): I cannot dance upon my Toes |
The Soul selects her own Society |
Success is counted sweetest |
"Faith" is a fine invention |
I'm "wife"-I've finished that |
I like a look of Agony |
Wild Nights-Wild Nights! |
I can wade Grief |
There's a certain Slant of light |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
The Soul's Superior instants |
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad |
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church |
A Bird came down the Walk |
After great pain, a formal feeling comes |
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? |
Much Madness is divinest Sense |
This was a Poet-It is That |
I died for Beauty-but was scarce |
I heard a Fly buzz-w |
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