Poems of the Sea

Name: Poems of the Sea
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ISBN: 9780375413292

ISBN-10: 0375413294

ISBN-13: 9780375413292

Edition: 2001

Authors: J. D. McClatchy

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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/30/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.40" wide x 6.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.682
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


"Exultation is the going"



Sea Longing



The Return



Mana of the Sea



Seafarer



Exiled



Sea-fever



From Paradise Lost, Book VII



From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



From Queen Mab



On the Sea



The Sea Limits



By the Sea



Man and Sea



The Sea



The Sound of the Sea



Voyages, II



Full Fathom Five



From The Storm



A Vision of the Sea



The Beacon in the Storm



A Hurricane at Sea



Qua Cursum Ventus



A Calm at Sea



The Even Sea



Sir Patrick Spens


From The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner



Sir Humphrey Gilbert



Casabianca



The Wreck of the Hesperus



The Phantom Ship



Trafalgar


From The Tempest



We'll Go to Sea No More


Frankie's Trade



The Death of Admiral Benbow


Hearts of Oak


Davey Jones's Locker


A Song in Storm



A Pier-head Chorus



From H.M.S. Pinafore



Matelot



"My bounding bark"


Blow the Man Down


Drunken Sailor


Rule, Britannia



From Carmina Gadelica


Father Mapple's Hymm



The Sea Ritual



The Sailors' Hymn



From Paradise Lost, Book XI



From The Odyssey, Book XII



From Ulysses



Ithaka



Song of the Argonauts



The Seafarer


Columbus



The Pirate



Old Ironsides



Seafarer



The Shipwreck



The Convergence of the Twain



The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket



The Wreck of the Thresher



From Richard III



The World Below the Brine



In Praise of Neptune



Leviathan



The Mermaid



Sea Lullaby



Annabel Lee



The City in the Sea



Atlantis



Sunk Lyonesse



The Berg



The Tuft of Kelp



Seaweed



The Lighthouse



Neither Out Far Nor In Deep



A Grave



Marine Surface, Low Overcast



Billy in the Darbies



Echoes



"Break, break, break"



Sea-change



Crossing the Bar



At Melville's Tomb



Dover Beach



Putting to Sea



"I started early"



Not Waving but Drowning



The Idea of Order at Key West



Marina



As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life



Acknowledgments


Index of Authors