The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English / edited by Ian Hamilton.

New England's crises and cultural memory : literature, politics, history, religion, 1620-1860 / John McWilliams. by McWilliams, John P. (John Probasco)

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Try whistling this : writings on music / Andrew Ford. by Ford, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…To Be a Pilgrim: The music of Ralph Vaughan WilliamsHolst, the Mystic; William Walton: A twentieth-century Romantic; Thinking of Michael Tippett: A centenary essay; The Letters of Michael Tippett and Robert Lowell; Britten and the Poets; Percy Grainger: The objections; On Resisting Identity; David Lumsdaine's Ground; Misunderstanding Malcolm Williamson; Richard Meale: A eulogy; The Luck of Brett Dean; Meeting Mary Finsterer; Messiaen and Carter: Two centenaries; Luciano Berio Remembers the Future; Keith Jarrett and His Archetypal Standards; Cole Porter: Words and music.…”
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New England Beyond Criticism : In Defense of Americas First Literature. by New, Elisa

Table of Contents: “…Robinson, and Frost; 8: Disinheriting New England: Robert Lowell's Reformations; Part III: Matriculations: In Academic Terms; 9: Winter at the Corner of Quincy and Harvard: The Brothers James; 10: Upon a Peak in Beinecke: The Beauty of the Book in the Poetry of Susan Howe.…”
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Circling the canon : the selected book reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969-1994. Marjorie Perloff ; edited by David Jonathan Bayot. by Perloff, Marjorie

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Seamus Heaney : looking back / Digital Classics (Firm).

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Whiplash / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by Maurice Geraghty and Harriet Frank Jr. ; adaptation by Gordon Kahn from a story by Kenneth Earl ; produced by William Jacobs ; directed by Lew Seiler.

77 dream songs / John Berryman ; introduction by Henri Cole. by Berryman, John, 1914-1972

Conversations with Stanley Kunitz / edited by Kent P. Ljungquist. by Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006

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A thickness of particulars : the poetry of Anthony Hecht / Jonathan Post. by Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947-

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Break, blow, burn / Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 -- William Shakespeare, The Ghost's speech -- John Donne, "The flea" -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet I -- John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV -- George Herbert, "Church-monuments" -- George Herbert, "The quip" -- George Herbert, "Love" -- Andrew Marvell, "To his coy mistress" -- William Blake, "The chimney sweeper" -- William Blake, "London" -- William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us" -- William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" -- Walt Whitman, Song of myself -- Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for death" -- Emily Dickinson, "Safe in their alabaster chambers" -- Emily Dickinson, "The soul selects her own society" -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" -- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the swan" -- Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of ten o'clock" -- Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the jar" -- William Carlos Williams, "The red wheelbarrow" -- William Carlos Williams, "This is just to say" -- Jean Toomer, "Georgia dusk" -- Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia" -- Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings" -- Theodore Roethke, "Root cellar" -- Theodore Roethke, "The visitant" -- Robert Lowell, "Man and wife" -- Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" -- Frank O'Hara, "A Mexican guitar" -- Paul Blackburn, "The once-over" -- May Swenson, "At East River" -- Gary Snyder, "Old pond" -- Norman H. …”
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Anthology of modern American poetry / edited by Cary Nelson.

Hart Crane : a Re-Introduction. by Berthoff, Warner

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Boston : voices and visions / edited by Shaun O'Connell.

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A critical friendship : Donald Justice and Richard Stern, 1946-1961 / edited by Elizabeth Murphy ; foreword by William Logan.

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Circling the canon : the selected book reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017. Marjorie Perloff ; edited by David Jonathan Bayot. by Perloff, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Apollinaire's War; Chapter 13. The Return of Robert Lowell; Chapter 14. Anna Akhmatova in Translation; Chapter 15. …”
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Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems / John Felstiner. by Felstiner, John

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay -- Pablo Neruda at Machu Picchu -- Stanley Kunitz : his nettled field, his dune garden -- Things whole and holy for Kenneth Rexroth -- Theodore Roethke from greenhouse to seascape -- George Oppen's Psalm of Attentiveness -- Elizabeth Bishop traveling -- Something alive in May Swenson -- Earth home to William Stafford -- America's angst and Robert Lowell's -- Life illumined around Denise Levertov --Shirley Kaufman's roots in the air -- News of the North from John Haines -- Trust in Maxine Kumin -- Wind in the reeds in the voice of A.R. …”
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Scanning the hypnoglyph : sleep in modernist and postmodern representation / by Nathaniel Wallace. by Wallace, Nathaniel Owen, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Elizabeth Bishop's "Sleeping Standing Up"Robert Lowell's "Man and Wife"; Vincent Desiderio's The Sleeping Family; Vincent Desiderio's The Intepretation of Color; 3: The Size of Sleep, Sizing the Self; Richard Wilbur's "Walking to Sleep"; Anselm Kiefer's The Rose Gives Honey to the Bees (Dat Rosa Mel Apibus); Fran Gardner's No Need for Wings; Fran Gardner's Orienting the Self; David Yaghjian's Sleep; 4: Latter-Day Ariadnes: From Hypnoglyph to Somnoscript; Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)"; Marguerite Duras's The Malady of Death (La maladie de la mort).…”
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American writing today / edited by Richard Kostelanetz.

Table of Contents: “…Fiedler -- The Voice of America and the voice of Eric Bentley -- Sylvia Plath : beyond the biographical / Rochelle Ratner -- The poetry of Robert Lowell / Allen Grossman -- Adrienne Rich : the evolution of a poet / Wendy Martin.…”

Melville's short novels : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism / selected and edited by Dan McCall. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891