Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems / John Felstiner. by Felstiner, John

Table of Contents: “…Yeats -- Robert Frost and the fun in how you say a thing -- Frost and the necessity of metaphor -- England thanks to Edward Thomas, 1914-1917 -- Wings of Wallace Stevens -- Reviving America with William Carlos Williams -- Williams and the environmental news -- D.H. …”
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Settling the score : essays on music / Ned Rorem. by Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022

Table of Contents: “…; Our Music Now (1974); Our Music Now (1984); SIX: OF SONGS AND WORDS; Poetry of Music; Song Singing in America; Anatomy of Two Songs; Last Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Album Note; A Postscript on Whitman; SEVEN: ODDS AND ENDINGS; Why I Write as I Do; Notes on Sacred Music; The Well-Dressed Composer; Ladies' Music; Charles Rosen's The Classical Style.…”
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After the fall : poems old and new / Edward Field. by Field, Edward, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- New Poems -- What Poetry Is For -- Credo -- Homeland Security -- Letter on the Brink of War -- Good-bye to Berlin -- My Favorite President -- In Memory of My Foreskin -- Holding Up the Universe -- Oedipus Schmoedipus -- If This Be Jews -- Too Late -- Mission Accomplished -- What Poetry Is For -- Judgment at Nuremberg -- Dead Man Walking -- Dead Man Walking -- In Praise of My Prostate -- When It Struck Him -- Taking My Breath Away -- Mrs. Wallace Stevens -- Prospero, in Retirement -- After the Fall -- After the Fall…”
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A companion to modernist literature and culture / edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar.

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence: Women in love / Joyce Piell Wexler ; Wyndham Lewis: Tarr / Andrzej asiorek ; Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker / Michael Thurston ; Marianne Moore: Observations / Catherine Paul ; Ezra Pound: Huh Selwyn Mauberley / Michael Coyle -- Dorothy Richardson: Pilrimae / Laura Marcus ; ertrude Stein: Three lives / Jaime Hovey ; Wallace Stevens: Harmonium / Jonathan Levin ; Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts / Jay Martin ; William Carlos Williams: Paterson / Daniel Morris ; Virinia Woolf: To the lihthouse / Pamela L. …”

Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts.

Table of Contents: “…Wells on Being an EngineerWho We Are and the Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum; Reading Texts and Liberal Education; Core Texts, Introspection, and the Recovery of the Renaissance Ideal in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education; Adverbial Play in Plato's Ion; Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato's Recollection; Dante Is from Mars; Art and Revolution in the Images of Francisco Goya; Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens.…”
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Critical essays on E.E. Cummings / [edited by] Guy Rotella.

Table of Contents: “…Reviews -- Incorrect English (The enormous room) / John Peale Bishop -- Off the shoals (The enormous room) / John Dos Passos -- Review of Tulips and chimneys / Slater Brown -- Flare and Blare (Tulips and chimneys) / Harriet Monroe -- Wallace Stevens and E.E. Cummings (Tulips and chimneys)/ Edmund Wilson -- People stare carefully (XLI poems) / Marianne Moore -- The poetry of E.E. …”

Hemingway and Faulkner in their time / edited with commentary and narrative by Earl Rovit and Arthur Waldhorn.

Table of Contents: “…Eliot (1888-1965) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Hilda Doolittle [h.d.] (1887-1961) -- e.e.cummings (1894-1962) -- Theodore Roethke (1908-63) -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- H.L. …”

Common wealth : contemporary poets on Pennsylvania / edited by Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple.

Table of Contents: “…"Mennonite Farm Wife," Janet Kauffman -- "Female Ancestor," Ann Hostetler -- "Buggy Ride at Sixteen," Marjorie Maddox -- "Papaya: Lancaster County," Juanita Brunk -- "Back with the Quakers," Betsy Sholl -- "Before the Silver Chord Is Loosed," Helen Mallon -- "In Carpenter's Woods," Gerald Stern -- "Halfway," Maxine Kumin -- "Potter's Field, Germantown," Robin Hiteshew -- "Wallace Stevens House Prayer," Heather Thomas -- "Shillington," John Updike -- "Route 222: Reading to Kutztown," Heather Thomas -- "The Idea of the Ordinary," Carmine Sarracino -- 3. …”
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A little history of poetry / John Carey. by Carey, John, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Yeats -- Inventing Modernism : Eliot, Pound -- West meets East : Waley, Pound, the Imagists -- American Modernists : Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Esther Popel, Helene Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes -- Getting over Modernism : Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop -- The Thirties poets : Auden, Spender, MacNeice -- Poetry of the Second World War : Douglas, Lewis, Keyes, Fuller, Ross, Causley, Reed, Simpson, Shapiro, Wilbur, Jarrell, Pudney, Ewart, Sitwell, Feinstein, Stanley-Wrench, Clark -- American confessional poets, and others : Lowell, Berryman, Snodgrass, Sexton, Roethke -- The movement poets and associates : Larkin, Enright, Jennings, Gunn, Betjeman, Stevie Smith -- Fatal attractions : Hughes, Plath -- Poets in politics : Tagore, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Seferis, Seifert, Herbert, MacDiarmid, R.S. …”
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The Cambridge history of American poetry / edited by Alfred Bendixen, Princeton University ; Stephen Burt, Harvard University.

Table of Contents: “…Schulze -- The formalist modernism of Edna St Vincent Millay, Helene Johnson, and Louise Bogan / Lesley Wheeler -- The romantic and anti-romantic in the poetry of Wallace Stevens / George Lensing -- Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and the East coast projectivists / Matthew Hofer -- Langston Hughes and his world / David Chioni Moore -- The objectivists and the left / Mark Scroggins -- 'All the blessings of this consuming chance': Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the middle generation poets / David Wojahn -- Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the lost world of real feeling / Richard Flynn -- Writing the South / Ernest Suarez -- Part IV. …”

Literature : a pocket anthology / edited by R.S. Gwynn, Lamar University.

Table of Contents: “…Housman -- William Butler Yeats -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stephen Crane -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- H.D. …”

Walt Whitman--the measure of his song / edited by Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, & Dan Campion ; introduction by Ed Folsom ; contributors Ralph Waldo Emerson [and ninety four others].

Table of Contents: “…Betty Jean Craige; Zona Gale, ""Walte Whitman"" (Poem, late 1920s); Edwin Markham, ""Walt Whitman"" (Poem 1931); Michael Golld, ""Ode to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1935); Stephen Vincent Benet, ""Ode to Walt Whitman"" (Poem, 1935); Wallace Stevens, ""Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery"" Part 1 (Poem, 1936); Langston Hughes, ""The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman"" (Essay, 1946).…”
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I Found It at the Movies : an Anthology of Film Poems. by Atwood, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…SCARY MOVIES, THRILLERS, HORROR FLICKS and FILM NOIRWerewolf Movies; Nosferatu; Bride of Frankenstein; King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens; Monster (Godzilla); Batman; Film Noir; Scary Movies; Movie Monster; Screenplay by King; New Rats; James Bond Considers Retirement; INDELIBLE IMAGES; Frontier, in Cinecolor; Slow Motion; Catch and Release; Article of Faith; Depression Pictures; Film in an Unknown Tongue; Oz: A Tribute to Gerda Taro*; Emerald City Blues; Instruments from Oz or Paranoid Indian; John; Apocalypse Now; What we remember; The woman in the carpet; Open; Mon Chair.…”
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The Harper anthology of poetry / John Frederick Nims, [editor].

Table of Contents: “…Housman -- Francis Thompson -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Ernest Dowson -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Walter de la Mare -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Edward Thomas -- Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Wallace Stevens -- Vachel Lindsay -- William Carlos Williams -- D.H. …”

100 great poems of the twentieth century / [edited by] Mark Strand.

Table of Contents: “…Snodgrass -- A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens -- That winter / Ruth Stone -- Rain and the tyrants / Jules Supervielle -- Question / May Swenson -- The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Rain / Edward Thomas -- Track / Tomas Tranströmer -- An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Rose nocturnal / Xavier Villaurrutia -- The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott -- Lullaby: Moonlight lingers / Robert Penn Warren -- Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur -- These / William Carlos Williams -- The journey / James Wright -- I have seen black hands / Richard Wright -- In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz / William Butler Yeats -- That's how we are / Andrea Zanzotto -- "A"-11 / Louis Zukofsky.…”

A century of recorded poetry.

Table of Contents: “…America / Walt Whitman -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree ; The song of the old mother / William Butler Yeats -- The road not taken ; Birches ; The gift outright / Robert Frost -- If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- So & so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens -- The red wheelbarrow ; To Elsie / William Carlos Williams -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [excerpt] / Ezra Pound -- Bird-witted / Marianne Moore -- Recuerdo ; Love is not all / Edna St. …”

American religious poems : an anthology / by Harold Bloom ; Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Vincent O'Sullivan -- Trumbull Stickney -- Anna Hempstead Branch -- Robert Frost -- Ameen Rihani -- Carl Sandburg -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- Kahlil Gibran -- William Carlos Williams -- Sara Teasdale -- H.D. -- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- Elinor Wylie -- T.S. …”

Garnet Poems : an Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 / edited by Dennis Barone ; with a foreword by Dick Allen. by Barone, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Connecticut Road Song ; Inheritance ; First Letter -- WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955). Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ; Of Hartford in a Purple Light ; from An Ordinary Evening in New Haven ; The Plain Sense of Things ; The River of Rivers in Connecticut -- MARK VAN DOREN (1894-1972). …”
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Currents from the dancing river : contemporary Latino fiction, nonfiction, and poetry / edited by Ray González.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Reflection on El Train Glass -- Leroy Quintana: And on All Your Children -- Ruben Martinez: Homecoming -- Richard Rodriguez: Mexico's Children -- Pablo Medina: Winter of a Rose -- Margarita Tavera Rivera: Thirst -- Virgil Suarez: Miami During the Reagan Years -- Elias Miguel Munoz: Strange Planet -- Cristina Garcia: Baskets of Water -- Jorge Guitart: The House on the Burial Mound -- Wallace Stevens in Havana -- A Love Note -- Bertha Sanchez Bello: Guijuelo 1968 -- Riding on the #5 -- Jack Lopez: My Grandfather's Eye.…”

The art of the sonnet / Stephen Burt, David Mikics. by Burt, Stephanie, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay (1917) -- "Firelight" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1921) -- "America" / Claude McKay (1921) -- "Self-portrait" / Elinor Wylie (1922) -- "On Somme" -- "Nomad exquisite" / Wallace Stevens (1923) -- "Leda and the swan" / William Butler Yeats (1924) -- "To Emily Dickinson" / Hart Crane (written 1926) -- "At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" / Countee Cullen (1927) -- "The castle of thorns" / Yvor Winters (1930) -- "No swan so fine" / Marianne Moore (1932) -- "Single Sonnet" / Louise Bogan (1937) -- In time of war 27 / W. …”