Invitation to Poetry: A Round of Poems from John Skelton to Dylan Thomas, Arr. with Comments

Front Cover
Lloyd Frankenberg
Doubleday, 1956 - 414 pages

Contents

THE VERY IDEA
27
A WORD ABOUT THE STYLE
33
Kubla Khan
43
Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
51
The rivals
57
A fit of rime against rime BEN JONSON 15731637
58
The argument of his book ROBERT HERRICK
61
A true hymn GEORGE HERBERT 15931633
62
John Gilpin
113
In good King Charless golden days
121
Wha is that at my bower door?
127
It fell upon a holy eve
143
Mark Antony
149
Back and side go bare go bare
157
Virtue
163
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Piping down the valleys wild WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827
63
To R B GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 18441889
65
Of modern poetry WALLACE STEVENS 18791955
67
On wings of paper
69
no manif men are gods E E CUMMINGS 1894
73
The story of Phoebus and Daphne applied etc EDMUND WALLER 16061687
74
The progress of poetry JONATHAN SWIFT 16671745
76
The Mermaid Tavern JOHN KEATS 17951821
78
To a skylark PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 17921822
79
Chaucer HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 18071882
83
John Webster ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 18371909
85
An ode for Ben Jonson ROBERT HERRICK
86
On Donnes poetry SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
87
Edward Lear W H AUDEN 1907
88
By way of preface EDWARD LEAR 18121888
89
On Shakespeare
92
In my craft or sullen art
99
The laily worm and the machrel of the sea
106
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A red red rose
170
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Think of dress in every light
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