Four Seasons Poems

Name: Four Seasons Poems
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ISBN: 9780307268341

ISBN-10: 0307268349

ISBN-13: 9780307268341

Edition: 2008

Authors: J. D. McClatchy, J. D. McClatchy

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For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery. Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable. From Robert Frost's tribute to the evanescence of spring in "Nothing Gold Can Stay" to…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.40" wide x 6.50" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

J. D. McClatchy is the author of four books of poems, two books of literary essays, & four opera libretti. He is the editor of "The Yale Review" & a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.



Foreword


SPRING



First Sight of Spring Thomas Hardy


The Year’s Awakening Emily Dickinson‘‘


Light exists in Spring’’



Spring William Shakespeare‘‘


It was a lover and his lass’’



Nothing Gold Can Stay



March Gerard



Spring



Black March



Spring Pools



Loveliest of trees’’



March Morning Unlike Others



Putting in the Seed



Spring



The Lent Lily



Spring Song II



Another April



Resurrections



Cold Spring



Lines Written in Early Spring



Sonnet to Spring



Spring



Corinna’s Going a-Maying



The Widow’s Lament in Springtime



The Enkindled Spring Charlotte Mew‘‘


I so liked Spring’’ Emily Dickinson‘‘


A little Madness in the Spring’’



Another Spring



Naming of Parts



April Light



A Storm in April



To Daffodils



There Will Come Soft Rains



Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Lizette Woodworth Reese


April in Town E. E. Cummings[in Just-] Walt Whitman


Out of May’s Shows Selected Mary Oliver


Spring SUMMER Anon.‘‘Summer is y-comen in’’



Roundel



The House was Quiet and the World was Calm



Further in Summer than the Birds Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey


The Sweet Season



"At the Royal Academy Henry David Thoreau"Woof of the sun’’



Summer Poem



End of May



I Think



Summer Moods



On the Grasshopper and the Cricket



Summer Night



June in the Suburbs



Trees Amy Clampitt


Lindenbloom



A July Afternoon by the Pond Lï¿½onie Adams


Midsummer Anon. Summer Song Ted Hughes


Heatwave May



Flag of Summer



Summer Wind Henry



The Summer Rain



The Rainy Summer



My Father Paints a Summer



Falling Asleep in a Garden



Dog-Days Robert



August Moon



August Moon



Late August on the Lido



Hyla Brook



Summer is Ended



"As imperceptibly as God" A.E. Housman"When summer's end is nighing" AUTUMN



To Autumn



"Summer begins to have the look" Emily Brontï¿½


"Fall, leaves, fall"



Unharvested



Autumn



Autumn



Autumn Edna



Autumn



Ode to the West Wind



The Seven Sorrows



An Autumn