In Our Time (Hemingway), 132–34
“Introduction to The Tempest” (James), 20–21
“Is it possible” (Wyatt), 97–98, 99, 102
“Is Your Town Nineveh?” (Moore), 38
“It may be good, like it who list” (Wyatt), 68
James, Henry, 20–21, 22, 101
“John Donne” (Eliot), 40
Johnson, Mark, 49
Johnson, Samuel, 42
Johnson, W. R., 131
Jonson, Ben, 86–87
Joyce, James, 18–19, 136–37
“Karintha” (Toomer), 134–36
Keats, John, 21, 53–59, 63, 123–24
Kierkegaard, Søren, 102, 140
Koethe, John, 35–36
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 146–49
Lakoff, George, 49
Lawrence, D. H., 38, 44–46, 47
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (Shakespeare), 17, 18, 19, 62
Loews, John Livingston, 147
“Louie Louie” (Richard Berry), 74
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot), 40–41, 90
Margulis, Elizabeth, 116
Milner, Marian, 19
Milton, John, 74
“Monkeys, The” (Moore). See “My Apish Cousins”
Monroe, Harriet, 51, 52
Moore, Marianne, 22–25, 38, 80, 98–101, 110, 149
Most, Glenn, 108
“My Apish Cousins” (Moore), 22–25, 80, 98–99, 101, 149
“My life closed twice before its close” (Dickinson), 110–11
“My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love” (Campion), 138
“Nephelidia” (Swinburne), 77
“No Possum, No Sop, No Taters” (Stevens), 29–33, 133
“Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself” (Stevens), 81
Observations (Moore), 101
“Observations on the Art of English Poesie” (Campion), 109
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 56–57
Odyssey (Homer), 136
“Of Mere Being” (Stevens), 80
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Keats), 21
“On Tone” (Voigt), 128–29
Paradise Lost (Milton), 74
Phillips, Adam, 56–57
Picasso, Pablo, 20
“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (Borges), 102
Pindar, 131
Pinsky, Robert, 78–80, 81
Plato, 107, 108, 131
Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd), 78–79
“Pomegranate” (Lawrence), 38, 44–46
Pope, Alexander, 42
Pound, Ezra, 63–65, 67, 68, 80, 84–85, 88, 93, 108
“Prologue to the Aetia” (Callimachus), 138
Propertius, 138
“Queen-Anne’s-Lace” (Williams), 86
Ransom, John Crowe, 52–53, 56, 62
Rauschenberg, Robert, 15
“Relic, The” (Donne), 88, 89
“Retrospect, A” (Pound), 84
Richards, I. A., 119
Rolling Stones, The, 107–8, 109
“St. Louis Blues” (Handy), 107
Sappho, 61, 108, 131
“Seafarer, The” (anonymous), 16–17, 21, 23, 61
Seeger, Pete, 104
Shakespeare, William, 17, 18, 19, 20–21, 36, 38, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 62, 63, 73, 77, 80, 81, 88–89, 96, 110, 111, 122–23, 138, 146, 150
“Sleep” (Voigt), 46–47, 68, 126–29, 134
“Somnambulisma” (Stevens), 124
Sonnets (Shakespeare), 17, 18, 19, 52–54, 56, 57, 59, 62, 73, 77, 80, 81, 88, 96, 111, 122–23, 146, 150
“Souls of the Labadie Tract” (Howe), 90
“So, we’ll go no more a roving” (Byron), 65–67, 75, 77, 93, 150
Stein, Gertrude, 102
Stevens, Wallace, 29–33, 63, 77–78, 80–81, 133, 138
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Frost), 32, 33, 36
Strand, Mark, 95–96, 102–4, 110, 145
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 77
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
“Tipitina” (Professor Longhair), 78–79
“To a Poor Old Woman” (Williams), 124–26
“To Autumn” (Keats), 123–24
Toomer, Jean, 18, 134–36
“To Shakespeare” (Crane), 58–59
“Tower, The” (Yeats), 24–25, 35
Ulysses (Joyce), 18–19, 136–37
Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 39, 46–47, 68, 126–29, 134
“Vorticism” (Pound), 84–85
Warren, Robert Penn, 40
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 40–41
“Western Wind” (anonymous), 27–29, 33, 36, 110, 133
West Side Story (Bernstein and Sondheim), 115
“When I do count the clock that tells the time” (Shakespeare), 53–54, 80, 81, 88, 96, 122–23, 146, 150
“When thou must home to shades of under ground” (Campion), 111, 114
“Where Shall I Wander” (Ashbery), 18
“Why is my verse so barren of new pride” (Shakespeare), 36
Williams, William Carlos, 86, 93, 124–26, 128
Wright, C. D., 87–89, 93
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 68, 97–98, 99, 102, 135
Yeats, W. B., 24–25, 145, 146
ALSO BY JAMES LONGENBACH
PROSE
The Virtues of Poetry
The Art of the Poetic Line
The Resistance to Poetry
Modern Poetry after Modernism
Wallace Stevens
Stone Cottage
POEMS
Earthling
The Iron Key
Draft of a Letter
Fleet River
Threshold
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