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Poems (William Golding)

Poems was the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for Lord of the Flies, among other novels), released in 1934, 20 years before Lord of the Flies (his second major work and first novel).

Category:1934 books Category:English poetry collections Category:Poetry by William Golding Category:Macmillan Publishers books

Poems (Hesse)

Poems is a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921. They were selected and translated to English by James Wright in 1970 from Die Gedichte, which was published in German in 1953. This collection was first published in 1971.

Poems (Auden)

Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden. Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply Poems when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber & Faber in 1930 (second edition 1933), and by Random House in 1934 (which also included The Orators and The Dance of Death).

The privately printed 1928 edition of Poems was produced in an edition of "about 45 copies" as its limitation page obscurely states. It is one of the great rarities of twentieth century literature.

The 1930 commercially published edition of Poems appeared from Faber and Faber in 1930, having been accepted by T. S. Eliot; it was printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Only a small number of the poems in the 1928 version survived into the 1930 volume. Written in a gnomic, seemingly obscure style, the poems and the play included with them, Paid on Both Sides, were extraordinarily influential. The compression of their style, their presentation of a personality "frustrate and vexed" that could be seen as a metaphor for the zeitgeist of a country—plainly England, struck a wholly new, modernist note. Not allusive like Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), the numbered poems in the volume as well as the play were as difficult and rich as that work but, unlike it, seemed to come from a person speaking in a private but significant code. This impression derives from the density of rhetorical device, but some of it also comes from the author's stoic, detached attitude toward his own intense emotional life. Some of these mannerisms were copied in the work of Spender and C. Day-Lewis. For this reason critics dubbed these contemporary writers, who also saw England in parlous condition, as "the Auden generation."

In 1933, when Poems was reprinted, Auden replaced seven of the poems in the 1930 edition with poems that he had written during the year 1930 after completing the 1930 version of the book. Auden revised or dropped many of the poems in the 1933 edition for the collections and selections that he prepared in the 1940s and afterwards.

The 1934 edition published by Random House was Auden's first published book in the United States. The publisher included all three of the books that Auden had published in the UK in this volume.

For a few readers and critics, e. g., Randall Jarrell, the 1930 and 1933 versions remain Auden's greatest achievement.

Poems (William Carlos Williams)

Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper.

Poems (disambiguation)

Poems are literary pieces written in verse.

Poems may also refer to:

Literature

  • Poems (Auden), three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden
  • Poems (Agatha Christie), the second of two collections of poetry by Agatha Christie
  • Poems (Emerson), a series of poems written in 1847 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Poems (William Golding), the first work by William Golding
  • Poems (Hesse), a collection of 31 poems written by Hermann Hesse
  • Poems (William Carlos Williams), an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams

Science

  • POEMS syndrome, a medical condition
Poems (Agatha Christie)

Poems is the second of two collections of poetry by crime writer Agatha Christie, the first being The Road of Dreams in January 1925. It was published in October 1973 at the same time as the novel Postern of Fate, the final work she ever wrote.

The book is divided into two volumes with the first part, which occupies over half of the book, being titled Volume I and is stated on the copyright page to be a reprint of the contents of The Road of Dreams (incorrectly dated to 1924) however there are several differences between the two publications. They are:

  • Pierrot Grown Old, which in 1925 appears as the very last poem in the overall book, appears in 1973 between the verses The Last Song of Columbine and Epilogue: Spoken by Punchinello within the overall sequence titled A Masque from Italy.
  • Islot of Brittany, which appears between the verses The Bells of Brittany and Dark Sheila in the sequence titled Ballads in 1973 does not appear in the 1925 volume.
  • Beatrice Passes, which in 1925 appears between the verses The Road of Dreams and Heritage in the Dreams and Fantasies sequence appears in the 1973 version in Volume II.
  • A Palm Tree in Egypt in the sequence Other Poems in 1925 is retitled A Palm Tree in the Desert in 1973.
  • In a Dispensary, one of the most quoted poems Christie wrote, which in 1925 appears between the verses Easter, 1918 and To a Beautiful Old Lady in the sequence Other Poems does not appear in the 1973 volume.

The remainder of the 1973 publication, titled Volume II was, like its predecessor, divided into four sections:

  • Things
  • Places
  • Love Poems and Others
  • Verses of Nowadays

One of the poems in the sequence Love Poems and Others is entitled To M.E.L.M. in Absence. The dedicatee of this poem is Christie's second husband Max Mallowan or Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan to give him his full name. It is not known when the poem was written however the only prolonged absence the married coupled ever suffered was in the Second World War when Max was sent to Egypt with the British Council in February 1942 and after several years and different postings in North Africa, did not return home until May 1945. Both Christie's autobiography and her official biography are silent on the subject of whether or not this poem dates from this period.

Remembrance, another poem in the same sequence, is a poem about the loss of a loved one and was reprinted in a small sixteen-page volume of the same name in 1988 by the Souvenir Press with illustrations by Richard Allen (ISBN 0-285-62876-3) The following year, the Souvenir Press published another of the poems from the collection, My Flower Garden, again in a small sixteen-page volume with illustrations by Richard Allen (ISBN 0-285-62888-7)

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Project Gutenberg Etext of The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!

I would like to acknowledge the help of Edwin Duncan, Juris Lidaka and Aniina Jokinnen in identifying some of the poems no Longer attributed to Chaucer.

Preface: The preface is for a combined volume of poems by Chaucer and Edmund Spenser.

THE CANTERBURY TALES And other Poems of GEOFFREY CHAUCER Edited for Popular Perusal by D.

If we add together the three great poems of antiquity -- the twenty-four books of the Iliad, the twenty-four books of the Odyssey, and the twelve books of the Aeneid -- we get at the dimensions of only one-half of The Faerie Queen.

Many of the notes, especially of those explaining classical references and those attached to the minor poems of Chaucer, have been prepared specially for this edition.

Lady Blanche, begs that her choice of a mate may be deferred for a year, 1358 and 1359 have been assigned as the respective dates of the two poems already mentioned.

The plan of the volume does not demand an elaborate examination into the state of our language when Chaucer wrote, or the nice questions of grammatical and metrical structure which conspire with the obsolete orthography to make his poems a sealed book for the masses.

The end of the Project Gutenberg e-text of The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The poems that were written about the Spanish Civil War, for instance, were simply a deflated version of the stuff that Rupert Brooke and Co.

Apparently Kipling was a versifier who occasionally wrote poems, in which case it was a pity that Mr Eliot did not specify these poems by name.

All of these reek of sentimentality, and yet -- not these particular poems, perhaps, but poems of this kind, are capable of giving true pleasure to people who can see clearly what is wrong with them.

One could fill a fair-sized anthology with good bad poems, if it were not for the significant fact that good bad poetry is usually too well known to be worth reprinting.

In his own lifetime some of his poems travelled far beyond the bounds of the reading public, beyond the world of school prize-days, Boy Scout singsongs, limp-leather editions, poker-work and calendars, and out in the yet vaster world of the music halls.

Such poems are a kind of rhyming proverb, and it is a fact that definitely popular poetry is usually gnomic or sententious.