Music's spell : poems about music and musicians / edited by Emily Fragos.

The music of what happens : poems, poets, critics / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024

Table of Contents: “…The function of criticism -- Looking for poetry in America -- Critical models : on Geoffrey Hartman -- Defensive Harmonies : on Harold Bloom -- The medley is the message : on Roland Barthes -- The hunting of Wallace Stevens : critical approaches -- Lionel Trilling and Wordsworh's immortality ode -- Keats and the use of poetry -- Reading Walt Whitman -- Seamus Heaney -- Stephen Spender : journals and poems -- Donald Davie : self-portraits in verse -- Ted Hughes -- Czeslaw Milosz -- John Ashbery, Louise Gluck -- Allen Ginsberg -- Sylvia Plath -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Anne Sexton -- A.R. …”

Modern American poetry, 1865-1950 / Alan Shucard, Fred Moramarco, William Sullivan. by Shucard, Alan, 1935-2018

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and Ezra Pound -- A world of ideas, a world of things : Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams -- "The visionary company" : Hart Crane, E. …”

The desk clerk at the Holiday Inn Pasadena welcomes His Holiness the Dalai Lama / by Laura Lynn Tarvin. by Tarvin, Laura Lynn

Table of Contents: “…The man with the paper heart -- At first -- Obvious -- The trouble with crazy -- Letter home -- Tea on sundays with Czeslaw Milosz -- Another conversation with Czeslaw Milosz -- Henry Miller whispers her name -- Thelonius Monk -- Advice -- Wallace Stevens dines at the International House of Pancakes -- Yuwanna Longmeyer -- The effects of zero gravity on a broken heart -- Meditation -- Hard feelings -- Heartache -- True story -- If you got something to say then say it -- Quince -- Single man holding a tomato -- Seven short poems with peels -- June and Harold -- Borges's toenails -- Immortality -- Tanzania -- Note to self -- The desk clerk at the Holiday Inn Pasadena welcomes His Holiness the Dalai Lama.…”

The ringers in the tower : studies in romantic tradition. by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…On Ginsberg's Kaddish -- The central man: Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens -- Notes toward a supreme fiction: a commentary -- A. …”

Poetry Vocare. by Groves, Adam Staley

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Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature : Vol. 29. by Gill, Glen Robert

Table of Contents: “…Eliot -- I: Introduction -- II: Antique Drum -- III: Dialect of the Tribe -- IV: Unreal City -- V: From Fire by Fire -- 42 Tribute to John Crowe Ransom -- 43 The Rising of the Moon: A Study of A Vision -- 44 Foreword to 1984 -- 45 The Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats -- 46 Draft Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature -- 47 Wallace Stevens and the Variation Form -- 48 Aldous Huxley -- 49 Rolls Royce -- 50 Cycle and Apocalypse in Finnegans Wake -- 51 Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.…”
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The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002 : ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine / edited by Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young ; with an introduction by Joseph Parisi.

Table of Contents: “…Eliot -- from Discordants: IV / Conrad Aiken -- Answer / Sara Teasdale -- Beethoven / John Hall Wheelock -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens.…”

The day before : new poems / Dick Allen. by Allen, Dick, 1939-2017

Table of Contents: “…Vehicle -- A boy called Vanish -- Homefront -- Triptych -- The father suite -- Bishop eyes -- God gives to every bird -- After reading Tichborne's elegy -- The familiar -- Some man I knew -- Ballade of the protester -- Two friends meet in the Slate Mountains -- The pardon of Richard Milhouse Nixon -- Letter from one who may be dead or not -- Urban pastoral -- Below Hoover Dam -- Animus -- Sunday -- [Say we have to name the world again] -- If you get there before I do -- Then -- Intuition -- In Wyeth country -- Rime forest -- Ferns -- Strip malls -- Quiet, quiet now -- The simile -- The green children -- Cassandra in Connecticut -- April -- The selfishness of the poetry reader -- The devotion of Thomas Merton -- Memo from the desk of Wallace Stevens -- The children -- The rug pulled out from under you -- The cove -- Lost friends -- The day before yesterday -- In the gunfight with myself -- The dusk traveller -- Being taught -- Jubilante -- Letter to Ye Feng, his student now in Iowa -- Poem for Li, in her white bridal dress -- Although the temporal is beautiful -- Poem for my 60th birthday -- The litany of disparagement -- This far.…”

Modernism : A Short Introduction. by Ayers, David

Table of Contents: “…Eliot and Modernist Reading -- 3 'The Waste Land', Nancy Cunard and Mina Loy -- 4 Wallace Stevens and Romantic Legacy -- 5 Wyndham Lewis: Genius and Art -- 6 James Joyce: Ulysses and Love -- 7 D. …”
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Poets at play : an anthology of modernist drama / edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole.

Table of Contents: “…Modernist poetic drama: a critical introduction -- Travelers watch a sunrise / Wallace Stevens -- Aria Da Capo: a play in one act / Edna St. …”

101 great American poems / edited by the American Poetry & Literacy Project.

Table of Contents: “…Anne Bradsheet -- Phillis Wheatley -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edgar Allen Poe -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Sara Teasdale -- Ezra Pound -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. …”

Poets at play : an anthology of modernist drama / edited by Sarah Bay-Cheng and Barbara Cole.

Table of Contents: “…Modernist poetic drama: a critical introduction -- Three travelers watch a sunrise / Wallace Stevens -- Aria da Capo: a play in one act / Edna St. …”
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One hundred years of the Nation : a centennial anthology / edited by Henry M. Christman. Abraham Feldman, poetry editor. Introd. by Carey McWilliams.

Table of Contents: “…Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- The bear / Robert Frost -- Prelude / Conrad Aiken -- The men that are falling / Wallace StevensLong-legged fly / William Butler Yeats -- Matthew Arnold / W.H. …”

Awake in America : on Irish American poetry / Daniel Tobin. by Tobin, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Modernism, leftism, and the spirit : the poetry of Lola Ridge -- The westwardness of everything : Irishness in the poetry of Wallace Stevens -- Lines of leaving, lines of returning : John Montague's double vision -- Starting from Wexford, ending in the sublime : the poetry of James Liddy -- Two for the road : the new Irish routes of Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty -- The parish and lost America : the witness of Michael Coady's All souls -- Back through distance : currents of tradition in the poetry of Louise Bogan and Thomas McGrath -- "Crossings." …”

On Frost / edited by Edwin H. Cady and Louis J. Budd.

Table of Contents: “…Juhnke -- Frost's poetry of fear / Eben Bass -- Robert Frost's dramatic principle of "oversound" / Tom Vander Ven -- Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens : "what to make of a diminished thing" / Todd M. …”

Poetry of mourning : the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney / Jahan Ramazani. by Ramazani, Jahan, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The modern elegy -- Social mourning and poetic mourning -- Genre, high modernism, psychoanalysis -- Thomas Hardy: Elegies for an era: "By the Century's Deathbed", Poems of 1912-13 and Other elegies for Emma -- Wilfred Owen -- Wallace Stevens: Harmonium: mockeries and Pathetic Fallacies, War Elegies, Self-Elegies: Making alpha of omega.…”

R.S. Thomas : Identity, Environment and Diety / Christopher Morgan. by Morgan, Christopher

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Dear editor : a history of Poetry in letters : the first fifty years, 1912-1962 / edited and compiled by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young ; introductions and commentary by Joseph Parisi ; foreword by Billy Collins.

Table of Contents: “…Beginning again -- The view from Cass Street -- The view from Church Walk -- The editor and the impresario at odds -- Recognition and romance -- American modernism : William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and others -- Poetry on the ascendant, Pound in decline -- Departures, 1916-1919 -- World War I and the aftermath -- Another new generation, 1918-1922 -- The twenties -- The depression years, 1930-1936 -- Passing the torch, 1936-1941 -- World War II -- Period of adjustments, 1944-1949 -- Karl Shapiro : 1950-1955 -- Henry Rago : the early years, 1955-1962.…”

Poets, poems, movements / by Thomas Parkinson. by Parkinson, Thomas Francis, 1920-1992

Table of Contents: “…Poetry and the art of loneliness -- Poetry and the art of loneliness Poets as poets and audiences: Yeats and Pound: the illusion of influence -- Pound and Williams -- Hart Crane and Yvor Winters -- Some grand poems: Whitman's "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd" and the American civil religion -- Wallace Stevens on Sunday morning -- Yeats' "Nineteen hundred and nineteen" -- Yeats and contemporary Irish poetry: W.B. …”