Till I end my song : a gathering of last poems

Summary: A collection of poems by one hundred poets, including pieces from T.S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Conrad Aiken, George Meredith, and others. Features critical commentary from Harold Bloom on each poem.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062009739 (e-book)
ISBN: 0062009737 (e-book)
ISBN: 9780061923067 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0061923060 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780061923050
ISBN: 0061923052
Physical Description: xxviii, 377 p. ; 24 cm.
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper, c2010.

Content descriptions

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Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser -- from The ocean to Cynthia / Walter Ralegh -- from Astrophil and Stella : "Who will in fairest book" / Philip Sidney -- "Down in the depth of mine iniquity" / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Last verses : "So well I love thee" / Michael Drayton -- from Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- from The tempest / William Shakespeare -- A hymn to God the father / John Donne -- from Pleasure reconciled to virtue / Ben Jonson -- The white island, or place of the blest / Robert Herrick -- Love (III) / George Herbert -- Dirge / James Shirley -- Of the last verses in the book / Edmund Waller -- from Samson Agonistes / John Milton -- On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost / Andrew Marvell -- The night / Henry Vaughan -- from The secular masque / John Dryden -- Upon nothing / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- The day of judgment / Jonathan Swift -- from The dunciad (Book IV) / Alexander Pope -- On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Samuel Johnson -- The cast-away / William Cowper -- To the accuser who is the god of this world / William Blake -- Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg / William Wordsworth -- Epitaph / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Memory / Walter Savage Landor -- On this day I complete by thirty-sixth year / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from The triumph of life / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- This living hand / John Keats -- Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Elegiac verse / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- from The rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- prologue from Asolando / Robert Browning -- Last lines / Emily Jane Brontë -- Night on the prairies / Walt Whitman -- Shelley's vision / Herman Melville -- Growing old / Matthew Arnold -- A ballad of past meridian / George Meredith -- Insomnia / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Passing away / Christina Rossetti -- The saddest noise / Emily Dickinson -- from The story of Sigurd the Volsung / William Morris -- Sonnet : between two seas / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- He never expected much / Thomas Hardy -- To R.B. / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Low barometer / Robert Bridges -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- from The ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde -- They say my verse is sad / A.E. Housman -- The fabulists / Rudyard Kipling -- Cuchulain comforted / William Butler Yeats -- The dark angel / Lionel Johnson -- Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Monsieur qui passe / Charlotte Mew -- One more brevity / Robert Frost -- Liberty / Edward Thomas -- The lonely death / Adelaide Crapsey -- Of mere being / Wallace Stevens -- The world contracted to a recognizable image / William Carlos Williams -- Shadows / D.H. Lawrence -- Ejaculation / Elinor Wylie -- I have been warned / Robinson Jeffers -- from Little Gidding / T.S. Eliot -- Tetélestai / Conrad Aiken -- A worm fed on the heart of Corinth / Isaac Rosenberg -- To dear Daniel / Samuel Greenberg -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- The dragonfly / Louise Bogan -- Fish food : an obituary to Hart Crane / John Brooks Wheelwright -- The broken tower / Hart Crane -- Black March / Stevie Smith -- Heart of autumn / Robert Penn Warren -- Missing dates / William Empson -- A lullaby / W.H. Auden -- Charon / Louis MacNiece -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- To Walker Evans / James Agee -- Souls lake / Robert Fitzgerald -- Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop -- Grief was to go out, away / Jean Garrigue -- Last poem / F.T. Prince -- Bone-flower elegy / Robert Hayden -- The first night of fall and falling rain / Delmore Schwartz -- Space walking / R.S. Thomas -- Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another / May Swenson -- Poem on his birthday / Dylan Thomas -- Henry's understanding / John Berryman -- Thinking of the lost world / Randall Jarrell -- Epilogue / Robert Lowell -- Language ah now you have me / W.S. Graham -- A silence / Amy Clampitt -- Aristocrats / Keith Douglas -- "The darkness and the light are both alike to thee" / Anthony Hecht -- Proverb / Kenneth Koch -- In view of the fact / A.R. Ammons -- Days of 1994 / James Merrill -- A winter daybreak above Vence / James Wright -- News from the dogs / Vicki Hearne -- The veiled suite / Agha Shahid Ali.