A Hundred Years of English Poetry de Edward B. Powley

A Hundred Years of English Poetry

Edward B. Powley

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2015

Originally published in 1930, this book contains a selection of English poetry from the previous 100 years. Brief biographies are given for each of the poets and an index of first lines is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry.

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1. 'Rondeau' James Henry Leight Hunt; 2. 'The war-song of Dinas Vawr' Thomas Love Peacock; 3. 'To-day' Thomas Carlyle; 4. 'The battle of Naseby' Thomas Babington Macaulay; 5. 'The song of Western man' Robert Stephen Hawker; 6. 'Brahma' Ralph Waldo Emerson; 7. (1) From Sonnets from the Portuguese: 'How do I love thee?'; (2) 'A musical instrument' Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 8. From Tales of a Wayside Inn: 'The Theologian's Tale - Torquemada' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 9. 'To Helen' Edgar Allan Poe; 10. 'Rubádiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr' Edward Fitzgerald; 11. (1) 'The lady of Shalott'; (2) 'The lotos-easters: Choric song'; (3) 'Ulysses'; (4) 'Break, break, break'; (5) From The Princess: 'Tears, idle tears'; 'Now sleeps the crimson petal'; (6) From In Memoriam; (7) From The Ancient Sage; (8) 'Crossing the bar' Alfred Tennyson; 12. 'The chambered Nautilus' Oliver Wendell Holmes; 13. (1) 'Johannes Agricola in meditation'; (2) 'From Pippa Passes; (3) 'The lost leader'; (4) From Home-Thoughts, from Abroad; (5) From Fra Lippo-Lippi; (6) 'Prospice' Robert Browning; 14. 'No coward soul is mine' Emily Browning; 15. 'Say not, the struggle nought availeth' Arthur Hugh Clough; 16. (1) 'Airly beacon'; (2) 'Ode to the North-East wind' Charles Kingsley; 17. 'The high tide on the coast of Lincolnshire' Jean Ingelow; 18. (1) From Empedocles on Etna; (2) 'Requiscat'; (3) From Sohrab and Rustum; (4) 'The scholar-gipsy' Matthew Arnold; 19. 'Mimnermus in church' William Johnson Cory; 20. 'Magna est vetitas' Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore; 21. From The Choice Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 22. (1) 'Song'; (2) 'A birthday'; (3) 'Up-hill' Christina Georgina Rossetti; 23. 'Song' Richard Watson Dixon; 24. From The City of Dreadful Night James Thomson; 25. 'The haystack in the floods' William Morris; 26. (1) From Atalanta in Calydon: 'When the hounds of spring'; (2) 'The garden of Prosperine' Algernon Charles Swinburne; 27. 'A ballad to Queen Elizabeth of the Spanish armada' Henry Austin Dobson; 28. (1) 'Friends beyond'; (2) 'Lausanne. In Gibbon's old garden'; (3) 'In time of 'The breaking of nations''; (4) 'Afterwards'; (5) 'Weathers'; (6) From the 'After scene' of The Dynasts Thomas Hardy; 29. 'Ode' Arthur William Edgar O'Shaugnessy; 30. 'Pied beauty' Gerald Manley Hopkins; 31. 'The odyssey' Andrew Lang; 32. 'So sweet love seemed' Robert Seymour Bridges; 33. 'Renouncement' Alice Christina Meynell; 34. 'Out of the night that covers me' William Ernest Henley; 35. (1) 'Sing me a song of a lad that is gone'; (2) 'Requiem' Robert Louis Stevenson; 36. 'The crescent moon' William (Fiona Macleod) Sharp; 37. (1) From Wordsworth' Grave; (2) 'World-strangeness'; (3) The Inexorable Law: 'We too shall pass' William Watson; 38. (1) 'The hound of heaven'; (2) 'The kingdom of God' Francis Thompson; 39. 'Epitaph on an army of mercenaries' Alfred Edward Housman; 40. 'To William Shakespeare' Owen Seaman; 41. (1) 'Drake's drum'; (2) 'The fighting Téméraire' Henry John Newbolt; 42. 'Tam i' the kirk' Violet Jacob; 43. The Land: 'When Julius Fabricius'; (2) 'Mine sweepers' Rudyard Kipling; 44. 'The lake isle of Innisfree' William Butler Yeats; 45. 'Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam' Ernest Dowson; 46. Unknown: 'You who had worked in perfect ways' John Galsworthy; 47. (1) From Paolo and Francesca: Act I and Act IV; (2) 'Shakespeare Stephen Phillips; 48. For the Fallen: 'With proud thanksgiving' Laurence Binyon; 49. 'The bells of heaven' Ralph Hodgson; 50. (1) 'Nod'; (2) 'Off the ground'; (3) 'Silver' Walter de la Mare; 51. (1) 'Calvary-talk'; (2) From King Lear's Wife: 'Goneril's lullaby' Gordon Bottomley; 52. 'The donkey' Gilbert Keith Chesterton; 53. 'The quietist' Rachel Annand Taylor; 54. (1) 'Cargoes'; (2) 'Beauty'; (3) From Fragments; (4) From The Widow in the Bye Street John Masefield; 55. 'Adlestrop' Philip Edward Thomas; 56. 'Farewell to beau