Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics), 6th Edition

Brief and affordable, this pocket-sized anthology focus on the poems at a cost well under that of traditional anthologies.  Chronologically organized, the selections represent the full range of poetic tradition from popular ballads to contemporary work.  Diversity and flexibility are reflected in the selections by women and writers of color—representing over a third of the book—and by the inclusion of virtually every traditional poetic form used in English-language poetry.  Updates include twenty-five new selections from previously unrepresented poets, as well as different offerings from previously anthologized writers.  Contemporary poets new to this anthology include Joseph Harrison, Brian Turner, Allison Joseph, Sophie Hannah, and Emily Moore.  New poems represent poets ranging from Donne, Poe, Whitman, and Hardy, to modernists including Wallace Stevens, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Richard Wilbur. 

* asterisks indicate selections new to this edition

 

Introduction

An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts 

Speaker, Listener, and Context 

“The Star-Spangled Banner” 

Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic 

The Language of Poetry 

 Figurative Language 

Allegory and Symbol 

Tone of Voice 

Repetition: Sounds and Schemes 

Meter and Rhythm 

Free Verse, Open Form and Closed Forms

Stanza Forms 

Fixed Forms 

A Brief Note: Literary History, Poetic Conventions, and Theory

 

Writing about Poetry

 

Poetry

 Anonymous

            Western Wind

            Bonny Barbara Allan

            Sir Patrick Spens

 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)

            They Flee from Me 

            Whoso List to Hunt

 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

            Amoretti: Sonnet 75

 Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

            Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1

 Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)

            The Burning Babe

 Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

            Idea: Sonnet 61

 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

            Sonnet 18

            Sonnet 20

            Sonnet 29

            Sonnet 73

            Sonnet 116

            Sonnet 129

            Sonnet 130

            When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)

 Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

            There Is a Garden in Her Face

 John Donne (1572-1631)

            The Flea

            Holy Sonnet 10

            Holy Sonnet 14

             * The Sun Rising

            A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

 Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

            On My First Son

            Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

 Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)

            In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn

 Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

            To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

 George Herbert (1593-1633)

            Easter Wings

            Love (III)

            The Pulley

            Redemption

 Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

            Song

 John Milton (1608-1674)

            How Soon Hath Time

            On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

            When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

 Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

            The Author to Her Book

 Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)

            To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

 Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

            To His Coy Mistress

 John Dryden (1631-1700)

            To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

 Edward Taylor (1642-1729)

            Huswifery

 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

            A Description of a City Shower

 Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

            from An Essay on Criticism

            Ode on Solitude

 Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

            Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 William Blake (1757-1827)