Broadview Anthology Of Poetry
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Item#: | 9781551114859 |
Edition | 02 |
Author | Rosengarten & Goldrick-Jones |
On Hand | 14 |
Among the poets new to this edition are such leading names as Americans Robert Pinsky, Louise Erdrich and Louise Glück; Britons James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Anne Carson, Robert Bringhurst, and Christian Bök. A number of names who may be new to many readers of poetry are also included among them: Ohioan Debra Allbery, Vancouverite Elise Partridge, and the Cree poet Connie Fife; as with the first edition, the editors have endeavored to include much that is fresh as well as much that is familiar. There are many additions to the selections from poets who appeared in the first edition including selections from the recent work of Leonard Cohen, Les Murray, and Margaret Atwood. As before, the anthology includes work from English-language poets throughout the world from India, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as from Britain, North America, and Australia.
Although the selections from the work of poets of earlier eras are largely unchanged from the first edition, there have been some changes; among poems added for this edition are Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Bradstreet’s “Employment,” Dickinson’s “I cannot live without You,” Frost’s “Once by the Pacific,” and Auden’s “Funeral Blues.”
As before, the text emphasizes work of the past century; poems from 1900 or later take up more than half of the anthology’s pages.
In its first edition The Broadview Anthology of Poetry included biographical information about the poets at the back of the anthology; for the new edition, biographical material appears in a headnote to each poet. Two other features are also new to this edition: the date of first publication is appended after each poem, and line numbering is used throughout. The numbers have been kept unobtrusive, however; as with the first edition, the designers have endeavored to give a clean look to the pages of the anthology.
A substantial section on prosody, figures of speech, and so on is included as an appendix.
A thoroughly up-to-date new edition of Broadview’s all-time best-selling title.
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400)
from The Canterbury TalesEnglish Ballads (Anonymous)
Lord RendalSir Patrick Spens
Barbara Allan
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbarWho so list to hounte I know where is an hynde
Ffarewell, love, and all thy lawes for ever
They fle from me that sometyme did me seke
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey(c.1517–1547)
The Soote SeasonLove, that Doth Reign and Live Within
My Thought
Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1552–1618)
The Nimphs Reply to the SheepheardEdmund Spenser (1552–1599)
from AmorettiSonnet XXXVII
Sonnet LXXV
Sonnet LXXIX
Sonnet LXXXI
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
from Astrophil and StellaLeave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
The Passionate Sheepherd to his LoveWilliam Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 18Sonnet 29
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 55
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 106
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 129
Sonnet 130
Sonnet 146
Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
My Sweetest LesbiaWhen Thou Must Home
There is a Garden in her face
John Donne (1572–1631)
The Good-MorrowThe Sunne Rising
The Canonization
The Flea
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
from: Holy Sonnets
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
On my first SonneInviting a friend to supper
Song. To Celia
To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us
Lady Mary Wroth (1587–c.1652)
from Pamphilia to AmphilanthusWhen nights black mantle could most darknes prove
Faulce hope which feeds butt to destroy, and spill
Love a child is ever criing
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Corinna’s going a MayingDelight in Disorder
Upon Julia’s Clothes
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Easter WingsPrayer (I)
Jordan (I)
The Collar
The Pulley
John Milton (1608–1674)
LycidasOn Shakespeare
How Soon Hath Time
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Anne Bradstreet (1613?–1672)
PrologueThe Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To my Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
The CoronetA Dialogue between the Soul and Body
To his Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
The Garden
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1674)
The Poetresses PetitionNatures Cook
A Woman drest by Age
Katherine Philips (1631–1664)
A marryd state affords but little EaseL’Amitie: To Mrs M. Awbrey
Friendship’s Mysterys: to my dearest Lucasia
John Dryden (1631–1700)
To the Memory of Mr. OldhamMac Flecknoe; Or, a Satire upon the True-Blue Protestant Poet, T.S.
Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
Love in fantastick Triumph satThe Disappointment
To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. Ode
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710)
To the LadiesThe Resolve
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
The IntroductionA Nocturnal Reverie
The Unequal Fetters
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
A Description of the MorningA Description of a City Shower
The Lady’s Dressing-Room
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
from The Rape of the LockElegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
from Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of HoraceThe Resolve
from Six Town Eclogues
Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold FishesElegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
from Jubilate Agno (fragment B)Mary Leapor (1722–1746)
Strephon to Celia. A Modern Love-LetterAn Essay on Woman
The Epistle of Deborah Dough
Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret
William Cowper (1731–1800)
The Poplar-Fieldfrom The Task: Book II
On The Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch
The Cast-Away
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. PriestleyThe Rights of Woman
Washing-Day
William Blake (1757–1827)
How sweet I roam’d from field to fieldfrom Songs of Innocence
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
Holy Thursday
The Little Black Boy
from Songs of Experience
London
The Tyger
The Chimney-Sweeper
Holy Thursday
from Milton
Robert Burns (1759–1796)
To a LouseHoly Willie’s Prayer
The Banks O Doon
A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tourStrange fits of passion have I known
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Three years she grew in sun and shower
A slumber did my spirit seal
I travelled among unknown men
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
London, 1802
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
Frost At MidnightDejection: An Ode
Kubla Khan
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
She Walks in Beautyfrom Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
The Prisoner of Chillon
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
Mont BlancOzymandias
Ode to the West Wind
Sonnet: England in 1819
John Keats (1795–1821)
On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerLa Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
To Autumn
When I have fears that I may cease to be
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
The Snow-StormBlight
Terminus
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
from Sonnets from the PortugueseSonnet XXII
Sonnet XLIII
A Musical Instrument
from Aurora Leigh: Book I
from Aurora Leigh: Book V
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Snow-FlakesIn the Churchyard at Cambridge
My Lost Youth
Divina Commedia
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
The City in the SeaTo Helen
The Sleeper
Dream-Land
The Haunted Palace
The Raven
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Morte d’ArthurThe Lady of Shalott
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
from In Memoriam A.H.H.
Obiit MDCCCXXXIII
Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
Porphyria’s LoverSoliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
Fra Lippo Lippi
Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
The Old StoicShall Earth no more inspire thee
Remembrance
No Coward Soul
Often rebuked, yet always back returning
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
Say not the Struggle nought AvailethThe Latest Decalogue
from Dipsychus
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
from Song of MyselfWhen I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
To a Locomotive in Winter
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
The House-topThe Maldive Shark
Art
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
ShakespeareThe Buried Life
Isolation. To Marguerite
To Marguerite—Continued
Dover Beach
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
The Blessed DamozelThe Card-Dealer
from The House of Life
Sonnet
Silent Noon
A Superscription
The One Hope
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
214: I taste a liquor never brewed241: I like a look of Agony
258: There’s a certain Slant of light
303: The Soul selects her own Society
341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
449: I died for Beauty
465: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
585: I like to see it lap the Miles
640: I cannot live with You
712: Because I could not stop for Death
986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1227: My triumph lasted till the Drums
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Goblin MarketLewis Carroll (1832–1898)
JabberwockyThe White Knight’s Song
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
HapNature’s Questioning
Drummer Hodge
The Darkling Thrush
The Convergence of the Twain
Channel Firing
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
Transformations
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
God’s GrandeurThe Windhover: to Christ our Lord
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
No Worst, There is None
Carrion Comfort
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887)
The Camp of SoulsThe City Tree
The Dark Stag
A.E. Housman (1859–1936)
Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowTo an Athlete Dying Young
Is my team ploughing
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble
Terence, this is stupid stuff
The chestnut casts his flambeaux
The night is freezing fast
Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943)
Tantramar RevisitedThe Potato Harvest
The Solitary Woodsman
The Skater
Bliss Carman (1861–1929)
Low Tide on Grand PréThe Eavesdropper
The World Voice
Vestigia
Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)
HeatMorning on the Lièvre
The City of the End of Things
Winter Evening
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947)
The Onondaga MadonnaWatkwenies
On the Way to the Mission
The Forsaken
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
RecessionalCities and Thrones and Powers
The Way through the Woods
The Hyaenas
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
The Sorrow of LoveWhen You Are Old
Easter 1916
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
A Prayer for my Daughter
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
Among School Children
Lapis Lazuli(For Harry Clifton)
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Mending WallAfter Apple-Picking
The Road not Taken
Birches
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acquainted with the Night
Once by the Pacific
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Design
The Silken Tent
Robert Service (1874–1958)
The Shooting of Dan McGrewOnly a Boche
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdThe Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Motive for Metaphor
E.J. Pratt (1882–1964)
The SharkFrom Stone to Steel
The Highway
The Prize Cat
from Towards the Last Spike
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Queen-Anne’s-LaceThe Red Wheelbarrow
At the Ball Game
This is Just to Say
The Yachts
The Dance
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
PianoAfter The Opera
Snake
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
Bavarian Gentians
The Ship of Death
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Portrait d’une FemmeThe Garden
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
In a Station of the Metro
Commission
Canto I
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
ConscriptsA Night Attack
Base Details
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
LedaOread
Helen
Fragment Thirty-six
Fragment Forty
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
PoetryPoetry (Revised version)
The Fish
Critics and Connoisseurs
No Swan So Fine
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
The SwansStill Falls the Rain
Two Songs of Queen Anne Boleyn
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
Bells for John Whiteside’s DaughterBlue Girls
Jack’s Letter
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPreludes
from The Waste Land
Journey of the Magi
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
JourneyElegy Before Death
Dirge Without Music
Love is Not All
Menses
Hugh Macdiarmid (1892–1978)
In the Children’s HospitalWe Must Look at the Harebell
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
The Silent SlainThe End of the World
Ars Poetica
You, Andrew Marvell
“Dover Beach” — A Note to that Poem
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
Arms and the BoyInsensibility
Dulce et Decorum Est
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
BohemiaA Pig’s-Eye View of Literature
On Being a Woman
Sonnet For the End of a Sequence
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulgoodby Betty, don’t remember me
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
i sing of Olaf glad and big
anyone lived in a pretty how town
i thank You God for most this amazing day
Robert Graves (1895–1985)
The Cool WebDown, Wanton, Down!
Recalling War
F.R. Scott (1899–1984)
The Canadian Authors MeetTrans Canada
Lakeshore
Laurentian Shield
Last Rites
W. L. M. K.
Basil Bunting (1900–1985)
Personal ColumnI am agog for foam
Nothing
What the Chairman Told Tom
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
The Weary BluesTrumpet Player
Harlem
A.J.M. Smith (1902–1980)
The Lonely LandNews of the Phoenix
Prothalamium
The Archer
Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
Mother, Among the DustbinsThe River God
Away, Melancholy
The Blue from Heaven
Not Waving but Drowning
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Yet Do I MarvelFrom the Dark Tower
To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time
Earle Birney (1904–1991)
Anglosaxon StreetVancouver Lights
From the Hazel Bough
Bushed
El Greco: Espolio
The Bear on the Delhi Road
John Betjeman (1906–1984)
The Cottage HospitalLate-Flowering Lust
A Subaltern’s Love-song
W.H. Auden (1907–1973)
Funeral BluesLay your sleeping head, my love
Musée des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
September 1, 1939
The Unknown Citizen
Our Bias
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
My Papa’s WaltzThe Waking
Dolor
Elegy for Jane
I Knew a Woman
A.D. Hope (1907–2000)
AustraliaImperial Adam
The Return of Persephone
The Pleasure of Princes
Meditation on a Bone
Parabola
A.M. Klein (1909–1972)
Psalm VI: A Psalm of Abraham, Concerning That Which He Beheld Upon The Heavenly ScarpAutobiographical
Montreal
The Rocking Chair
Political Meeting
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu
Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996)
The DifferenceThe Three Emily’s
Bartok and the Geranium
Lament
On Looking into Henry Moore
The Unquiet Bed
Anne Wilkinson (1910–1961)
LensIn June and Gentle Oven
Tigers Know from Birth
On a Bench in a Park
Nature be Damned
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
The FishThe Armadillo
Sestina
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Allen Curnow (1911–2001)
House and LandThe Unhistoric Story
Out of Sleep
The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
You Will Know When You Get There
Irving Layton (1912–2006)
The Birth of TragedyThe Cold Green Element
The Bull Calf
From Colony to Nation
Cain
Butterfly on Rock
Henry Reed (1914–1986)
from Lessons of the WarRandall Jarrell (1914–1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret GunnerLosses
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling through the DarkA Message from the Wanderer
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
John Berryman (1914–1972)
A Professor’s SongDesires of Men and Women
from The Dream Songs
Douglas LePan (1914-1998)
Coureurs de BoisA Country Without A Mythology
An Incident
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
And Death Shall Have No DominionThe Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
After the Funeral
Fern Hill
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Judith Wright (1915–2000)
The BullRequest to a Year
Song
At Cooloola
P.K. Page (b.1916)
The StenographersThe Landlady
Stories of Snow
Young Girls
The Permanent Tourists
The Metal and the Flower
T-bar
After Rain
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
As a Plane Tree by the WaterSkunk Hour
For the Union Dead
The Public Garden
Miriam Waddington (1917–2004)
Thou Didst Say MeSea Bells
Ten Years and More
Margaret Avison (1918–2007)
The ButterflyVoluptuaries and Others
Butterfly Bones OR Sonnet Against Sonnets
The Swimmer’s Moment
The Dumbfounding
A Nameless One
Rising Dust
Al Purdy (1918–2000)
On the Decipherment of “Linear B”Remains of an Indian Village
The Cariboo Horses
The Country North of Belleville
Wilderness Gothic
Lament For the Dorsets
Richard Wilbur (b.1921)
Digging For ChinaLove Calls Us to the Things of this World
Beasts
The Pardon
The Death of a Toad
A Late Aubade
This Pleasing Anxious Being
Raymond Souster (b.1921)
Young GirlsMemory of Bathurst Street
Queen Anne’s Lace
Words Before a Statue of Champlain
Philip Larkin (1922–1985)
Poetry of DeparturesChurch Going
Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album
Ambulances
An Arundel Tomb
Sad Steps
The Explosion
Aubade
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Laying the DustThe Jacob’s Ladder
The Dog of Art
Matins
The Novel
Caedmon
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why
Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004)
Poet, Lover, BirdwatcherIn India
Night of the Scorpion
The Company I Keep
In The Garden
Carolyn Kizer (b.1925)
from Pro Femina ThreeThe Ungrateful Garden
The Copulating Gods
Parents’ Pantoum
Second Time Around
The Oration
James Merrill (1926–1995)
After GreeceAngel
The Broken Home
Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
The HillThe Rain
The Door for Robert Duncan
W.D. Snodgrass (b.1926)
April InventoryThe Mother
Diplomacy: The Father
The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical
Academics
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
A Supermarket in CaliforniaMy Sad Self
James K. Baxter (1926–1972)
The BayThe Homecoming
Elegy for an Unknown Soldier
My Love Late Walking
Phyllis Webb (b.1927)
PatienceMarvell’s Garden
A Tall Tale
Breaking
Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
Her KindIn the Deep Museum
Cinderella
Maya Angelou (b.1928)
Caged BirdOur Grandmothers
Adrienne Rich (b.1929)
Aunt Jennifer’s TigersOrion
Planetarium
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Final Notations
Diving into the Wreck
Take
Late Ghazal
Peter Porter (b.1929)
Annotations of AuschwitzSoliloquy at Potsdam
Sydney Cove, 1788
An Australian Garden
Derek Walcott (b.1930)
A Far Cry from AfricaRuins of a Great House
A Letter from Brooklyn
Map of Europe
The Sea Is History
Menelaus
Ted Hughes (1930–1998)
The JaguarThe Thought-Fox
Hawk Roosting
Pike
Second Glance at a Jaguar
Wodwo
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b.1930)
Wings of a DoveCalypso
Jay Macpherson (1931–2007)
The BoatmanThe Fisherman
A Lost Soul
The Well
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
The ColossusCrossing the Water
Face Lift
Ariel
Daddy
Edge
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Last Words
Alden Nowlan (1933–1983)
Warren PryorThe Execution
I, Icarus
In Those Old Wars
The Word
The Bull Moose
Leonard Cohen (b.1934)
ElegyYou Have the Lovers
A Kite is a Victim
I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries
Suzanne Takes You Down
Nightingale
Amiri Baraka (b.1934)
Ostriches & Grandmothers!I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer
Three Modes of History and Culture
The Golgotha Local
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
OutsideHanging Fire
Stations
The Art of Response
Fleur Adcock (b.1934)
Wife to HusbandUnexpected Visit
Below Loughrigg
Leaving the Tate
Kofi Awoonor (b.1935)
On the Way to Durham, N.C.The First Circle
I Rejoice
George Bowering (b.1935)
The SwingGrandfather
The Kingdome 1974
My Father in New Zealand
Dancing Bones
Leaves Flipping
Marge Piercy (b.1936)
I will not be your sicknessBarbie Doll
The secretary chant
The cat’s song
Daryl Hine (b.1936)
Point GreyNorthwest Passages
Tabula Rasa?
Les Murray (b.1938)
The InstrumentThe Disorderly
Reclaim the Sites
Post Mortem
W. H. New (b.1938)
FissuresPacific Rim
Figure-Eights
Safety
Seamus Heaney (b.1939)
Personal HeliconPoor Women in a City Church
Docker
The Grauballe Man
The Railway Children
From the Frontier of Writing
Anything Can Happen
Helmet
Margaret Atwood (b.1939)
This Is a Photograph of MeJourney to the Interior
At the Tourist Centre in Boston
from The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Further Arrivals
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
Dream 1: The Bush Garden
Thoughts from Underground
Waiting
Marsh Languages
Girl without Hands
Poetry Reading
The Door
Dennis Lee (b.1939)
from Civil ElegiesPatrick Lane (b.1939)
Pissaro’s TombWinter 6
Winter 9
Winter 40
The Old Ones
Family
Teaching Poetry
Michael Longley (b.1939)
WoundsWreaths
The Linen Workers
Aubade
The Butchers
Ceasefire
The War Graves
The Bullet Hole
Scrap Metal
Robert Pinsky (b.1940)
From the Childhood of JesusThe Night Game
Avenue
Vessel
Ode to Meaning
Autumn Quartet
Jersey Rain
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987)
Eden, EdenInside the Great Pyramid
Dark Pines Under Water
The Discovery
Letter to a Future Generation
The Child Dancing
Billy Collins (b.1941)
My NumberThe Death of Allegory
Directions
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey
Sonnet
Rooms
Nine Horses
The Peasants’ Revolt
Daphne Marlatt (b.1942)
Ghostin the dark of the coast
Sharon Olds (b.1942)
The PromiseThe Elopement
Culture and Religion
What It Meant
Don McKay (b.1942)
Night Skating on the Little Paddle RiverTo Speak of Paths
Sometimes a Voice (1)
Finger Pointing at the Moon
The Canoe People
Louise Glück (b.1943)
Gretel in DarknessWidows
Celestial Music
Parable of the Hostages
Telemachus’ Fantasy
Circe’s Torment
A Myth of Innocence
A Myth of Devotion
Michael Ondaatje (b.1943)
Henri Rousseau and FriendsDates
King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens
Tom Wayman (b.1945)
Long Beach SuiteThe Astonishing Weight of the Dead
Eavan Boland (b.1944)
The Emigrant IrishThe Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
On the Gift of “The Birds of America” by John James Audubon
The Making of an Irish Goddess
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Emigrant Letters
Quarantine
Paul Durcan (b.1944)
The Death by Heroin of Sid ViciousPoem Not Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Notes Towards a Necessary Suicide
Torn in Two
David Kirby (b.1944)
At the Grave of Harold GoldsteinDear Derrida
Wendy Cope (b.1945)
Engineers’ CornerReading Scheme
A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by William Wordsworth
A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by T.S. Eliot
Triolet
Emily Dickinson
Lonely Hearts
Being Boring
The Sitter
Alice Notley (b.1945)
What’s SuppressedThere Was Also Valium in the Drink, Placed There by Two Other People
Sharon Thesen (b.1946)
Hello GoodbyeDoubletalk
Biography of a Woman
Wanda Coleman (b.1946)
CoffeeThree Trees
Voices
Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead
Poetry Lesson Number Two
Sex and Politics in Fairyland
Busted on My Watch
Robert Bringhurst (b.1946)
DeuteronomyThe Beauty of the Weapons
These Poems, She Said
Leda and the Swan
Yusef Komunyakaa (b.1947)
Starlight Scope MyopiaCommuniqué
Facing It
Nude Interrogation
Once the Dream Begins
NJ Transit
David Lehman (b.1948)
The Difference Between Pepsi and CokeFirst Offense
Lorna Crozier (b.1948)
Inventing the HawkThe Memorial Wall
Sturgeon
The Swan Girl
Le Feu-Cracher in Montpellier
James Fenton (b.1949)
A German RequiemLines for Translation into Any Language
In Paris with You
John Agard (b.1949)
Listen Mr Oxford DonHow Aunty Nansi Reshuffled Prospero’s Books
The Embodiment
Charles Bernstein (b.1950)
The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi TreeVerdi and Postmodernism
Being a Statement on Poetics for the New Poetics Colloquium of the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1985
Of Time and the Line
Anne Carson (b.1950)
AudubonFather’s Old Blue Cardigan
Interview with Hara Tamiki (1950)
Tango IX. But What Word Was It
Susan Musgrave (b.1951)
At Nootka SoundExchange of Fire
Things That Keep and Do Not Change
Paul Muldoon (b.1951)
Good Friday, 1971. Driving WestwardThe Upriver Incident
Meeting the British
Errata
The Misfits
Rita Dove (b.1952)
ParsleyLady Freedom Among Us
The Bistro Styx
I Cut My Finger Once on Purpose
Dionne Brand (b.1953)
Canto ICanto II
from Land to Light On
V i
V ii
V iii
V iv
V v
V vi
Patricia Young (b.1954)
Three Point Five NineThe Third Sex
Photograph, 1958
Choosing a Picture to Live With
The Picnic
Louise Erdrich (b.1954)
Dear John WayneIndian Boarding School: The Runaways
Vijay Seshadri (b.1954)
Divination in the ParkParty Girl
Lifeline
Jan Zwicky (b.1955)
Border StationBone Song
Nostalgia
Carol Ann Duffy (b.1955)
LitanyConfession
Valentine
Poet for Our Times
Little Red-Cap
Answer
The Love Poem
Amy Gerstler (b.1956)
The UnforeseenSculpture/The Impatience of Youth
Around the Block in Eighty Days
Suffering in the Old Testament
Lost in the Forest
Scorched Cinderella
Jacqueline Osherow (b.1956)
Phantom Haiku/Silent FilmSonnet
Ghazal: Comet
Villanelle from a Sentence in a Poet’s Brief Biography
Debra Allbery (b.1957)
Sherwood Anderson Walks OutOffering
A Little Blessing
Elise Partridge (b.1959)
EvergladesIn the Barn
Caught
A Valediction
Ways of Going
George Elliott Clarke (b.1960)
PrimitivismComing into Intelligence
En Lutte!
Halifax Blues
Ballad of a Hanged Man
Connie Fife (b.1961)
and dance they willThis is not a metaphor
i have become so many mountains
dear walt
she who remembers
Karen Solie (b.1966)
Signs Taken for WondersSturgeon
Days Inn
Dear Heart
Flashpoint
The Bends
Lines Compose a Few Miles Above Duncairn Dam
Christian Bök (b.1966)
from EunoiaChapter E
Sherman Alexie (b.1966)
Economics of the TribePoem
After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994
Soon to be a National Geographic Special
Stephanie Bolster (b.1969)
Many have Written Poems about BlackberriesAperture, 1856
Still Life
Natal
Virginia Woolf’s Mother in the Blurred Garden
Fargo in Flood
Reading Poetry
Glossary: Poetic and Literary Terms
Sources
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of First Lines
“The long-awaited second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry preserves the best of the first edition and incorporates important and valuable new additions.” — Patricia Whiting, Carleton University
“This text strikes exactly the right balance: there is plenty of fine poetry by new writers from many parts of the English-speaking world, but there is also excellent representation of the best of the traditional canon. This anthology will support innovative teaching of poetry!” — Anthony John Harding, University of Saskatchewan
“The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is a good anthology that just got better. The revised format makes it easier to use; the greater breadth of coverage allows for a detailed and vital examination of poetic traditions and innovations over time, as well as across diverse national and cultural contexts. With their lucid explanation of metre and form, the editors also provide support to both instructor and student in the study of prosody.” — Susan Birkwood, Carleton University