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Heath Introduction to Poetry

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ISBN-10: 0395958245

ISBN-13: 9780395958247

Edition: 6th 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Joseph DeRoche

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This affordable, chronologically arranged anthology features more than 500 poems written between the eighth century and the present. Multiple works by major poets allow students to compare different poems by the same author. The overall theme of the book asserts that poetry is a crafted art that is either molded by, added to, or reacting against tradition. A Brief History essays throughout the book discuss the social and cultural contexts of poems, major developments in the history of poetry, and technical literary terms.
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 6/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.17" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Introduction: On Poetry
A Brief History Anonymous (eighth century)
The Seafarer (modern version by Ezra Pound, 1912) Anonymous (eighth century)
From Beowulf (translation by C.W. Kennedy) Anonymous--Middle English Lyrics (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)
Summer Is Icumen In. Alysoun
All Night by the Rose
Western Wind
The Lady Fortune Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13431400)
From The Legend of Good Women Anonymous--the Popular Ballads (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries)
Get Up and Bar the Door
Lord Randal
The Three Ravens
The Cherry-Tree Carol
The Unquiet Grave
Bonny Barbara Allan Sir Thomas Wyatt (15031542)
They Flee from Me Sir Walter Raleigh (15521618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Edmund Spenser (1552?1599)
From Amoretti
Sonnet 15 (Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle)
Sonnet 67 (Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace)
Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand)
Sonnet 82 (Joy of my life, full oft of loving you) Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
Thou Blind Man's Mark
Leave Me, O Love Chidiock Tichborne (1558?1586)
Tichborne's Elegy Robert Southwell (1561?1595)
The Burning Babe Michael Drayton (15631631)
From Idea: Sonnet 6 (How many paltry, foolish, painted things), Sonnet 7 (Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part)
Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love William Shakespeare (15641616)
From The Sonnets: Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?)
Sonnet 20 (A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted)
Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,)
Sonnet 30, (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)
Sonnet 97 (How like a winter hath my absence been)
Sonnet 104 (To me, fair friend, you never can be old)
Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)
Sonnet 129 (Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame)
Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;)
Sonnet 144 (Two loves I have, of comfort and despair)
Sonnet 151 (Love is too young to know what conscience is,--)
Anonymous--Elizabethan Lyrics (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
Back and Side Go Bare
April Is in My Mistress' Face
My Love in Her Attire
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind
The Silver Swan Thomas Nashe (15671601)
Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss Thomas Campion 915671620)
My Sweetest Lesbia
There Is a Garden in Her Face
A Brief History John Donne (15721631)
Song (Go and catch a falling star,)
The Sun Rising. A Valediction: Of Weeping
A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning
The Funeral
From Holy Sonnets
Sonnet 7 (At the round earth's imagined corners, blow)
Sonnet 10 (Death, be not proud, though some have called thee)
Sonnet 14 (Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness Robert Herrick (15911674)
Delight in Disorder
Upon Julia's Clothes
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time George Herbert (15931633)
The Pulley
The Collar
Easter Wings
Virtue
Love (III) John Milton (16081674)
Jow Soon Hath Time
On His Blindness
At a Solemn Music
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
From Paradise Lost, Book 12 Anne Bradstreet (1612?1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Publick Employment Andrew Marvell (16211678)
To His Coy Mistress
The Garden John Dryde