Poetry

 

Chief Modern Poets of England and America

Selected and Edited by

Gerald Dewitt Sanders

John Herbert Nelson

M. L. Rosenthal, 1929/1968

 

How Does a Poem Mean?

by John Ciardi, 1959

 

The Iliad of Homer

Translated with an Introduction

by Richard Lattimore, 1951/67

 

Homer The Odyssey

The Story of Odysseus

Translated by W. H. D. Rouse, 1937/64

 

Publius Vergilius Maro

(also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BCE – September 21, 19 BCE) was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works—the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him.

 

Dante

 

 

The Rinehart Book of Verse

Edited by Alan Swallow, 1952

 

PROSE AND POETRY 

OF AMERICA

Edited by 

Julian L. Maline, Ph.D.

and

Frederick P. Manion, A. M., 1955

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FAUST

PART ONE & PART TWO

Translaed, with an Introduction and Notes

by Charles E. Passage, 1965

 

Edmund Spencer's Poetry

Authoritative Texts

Criticism

Selected and Edited by

Hugh MaClean, 1968

 

THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL

The Interior Career of

JOHN DONNE

by Richard E. Hughes, 1968

 

  William Blake

Introduction and Edited

by J. Bronowski, 1958

 

Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

His Original Edition, 1855/1959

 

Paradise Lost

and other poems

By John Milton

Newly annotated and with a biographical introduction

by Edward Le Comte, 1961

 

Paradise Lost

By John Milton

Edited by Scott Elledge, 1993

 

The Language of Life:

A Festival of Poets

by Bill Moyers, 1995

Editor James Haba

 

AN AMERICAN MOSAIC

PROSE and POETRY BY EVERYDAY FOLK

Edited by Robert Wolf, 1999

 

 

 

 

A Vehicle In Trust

To bridge the old into the new

Requires strength

To break away from the grasp

Of yesterday which has gone past

 

To see the new in heritage

Of parents died but still at work

From old foundations long since layed

Repatterned by a child who strayed

 

To build a vehicle in trust

To carry those who will and must

Break away from us at last

Before their freedom has gone past

Don Hutchinson

April 29, 1973

 

"What are you doing, Earth, in heaven?

Tell me, what are you doing, Silent Earth?"

Guiseppi Ungaretti

 

 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity ...

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

W. B. Yeats