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“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the the better to read C, C the better to read D, D the better to go back and get something more out of A. Progress is not the aim, but circulation. The thing is to get among the poems where they hold each other apart in their places as the stars do.” ** Robert Frost



Ask most accomplished poets about their apprenticeship in the craft, and chances are they’ll have a lot to say about the books they read when they first became serious about writing. And oftentimes the collections of poems that become touchstones for them aren’t ones that were assigned in classes but those they discovered for themselves in their search for models and masters. In that spirit, I’d like you to compile a short annotated bibliography of what you’ve read on your own accord this term to further what Robert Frost calls your “education by poetry.” The primary objective of this assignment is to give you the chance to steep yourself in the work of a few poets you find particularly engaging and instructive or simply would like to know better. You’re also encouraged to include other kinds of texts (reference works, scholarly studies, even books in other fields such as art history, folklore, or science) that were useful to you in working on some of your poems or perhaps opened up productive new avenues of artistic insight.


Please follow these guidelines:


**You should list at least three books of poetry you’ve read with particular interest or pleasure and would recommend to your peers. You may naturally include more than three, though you shouldn’t feel obliged to give an account of everything you may have looked at over the span of the semester. There’s no need to confine yourself to books you’ve encountered for the first time this term; if you found yourself going back to a favorite collection or reacquainting yourself with a certain poet’s body of work, you’re welcome to cite those volumes. Ancients or contemporaries, work in English or in translation, the illustrious or the obscure – all’s fair game, wherever your affinities and enthusiasms have taken you. That said, I think it would be worthwhile to make an effort to read at least one poet who’s entirely new to you.


**If you’re not accustomed to seeking out collections of poetry, you might want to begin by browsing the library stacks (English literature is filed under PR; American literature under PS), looking through literary journals such as Middlebury’s New England Review, or visiting the poetry websites on the syllabus. Another approach would be to browse through an anthology of contemporary poetry and track down titles by particular poets who make a strong impression on you for whatever reason. I’ve also enclosed a selective list of recent titles that have received major literary awards or wide critical acclaim. Please see me if you’d like additional recommendations.


**In addition to your three poetry titles, you’re welcome to include any books in other fields or genres that may have informed the poems you’ve written for class. It’s not necessary to have read them from cover to cover: reference works or textbooks are fair game so long as you can say a few words about their general scope and contents.


**As we’ve touched on in class, a number of important poets from various historical periods have written influential pieces of criticism about the art of the poetry, ranging from philosophical treastises and polemical essays to reviews, prefaces, and letters. Their ideas and arguments continue to shape many of our fundamental conceptions about what poetry is and how it works. You may also want to take the opportunity to read something in this vein as well. Please see the attached list of titles.


**For each title, write a succinct capsule appraisal that both characterizes the book in general terms and offers a personal assessment of its attributes. Four or five sentences should suffice in most cases. Brevity is very much the point: the intention is not to write a review but to distill what you admire most about the book (or specific poems or passages from a book) into a clear and concise statement. Make sure to begin with a standard bibliographic citation for each entry: the publisher, the year of publication, and page count. I’ll pool your selections into a class bibliography and attach copies to your portfolios when I return them.


Poetry collections


John Ashbury, Collected Poems, 1956-1987 (Library of America)

Frank Bidart, Star Dust

Linda Bierds, Flight: New & Selected Poems

Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Prose, and Letters (Library of America)

Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Henri Cole, Middle Earth

Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry

Alice Fulton, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

Louise Gluck, The Wild Irises

Linda Gregerson, Waterborne

Thom Gunn, Selected Poems

Robert Hass, Time and Materials

Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems

Geoffrey Hill, Collected Poems

Andrew Hudgins, After the Lost War

Donald Justice, Collected Poems

Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold

Maxine Kumin, Still to Mow

Robert Lowell, Collected Poems

James Merrill, Selected Poems

W. S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius

Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel

Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: Collected Poems

Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

Charles Simic, Selected Poems 1963-2003

Gary Snyder, No Nature: New & Selected Poems

Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: Selected Poems

Derek Walcott, Omeros

Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems

C. K. Williams, The Singing

Charles Wright, Black Zodiac



Poetry in translation


Anna Ahkmatova (Russian)

Guillaume Apollinaire (French)

Joseph Brodsky (Russian)

Constantine Cavafy (Greek)

Paul Celan (German)

Zbigniew Herbert (Polish)

Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish)

Czeslaw Milosz (Polish)

Gabriela Mistral (Spanish)

Eugenio Montale (Italian)

Pablo Neruda (Spanish)

Octavio Paz (Spanish)

Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese)

Rainer Maria Rilke (German)

Wislawa Szymborska (Polish)

Tomas Transtromer (Swedish)


Anthologies


Peter Jay, The Greek Anthology

Charles Simic & Mark Strand, Another Republic: 17 European & South American Writers

Czeslaw Milosz, The Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

David Lehman, The Oxford Book of American Poetry

Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku (Basho, Buson, Issa)

Phillis Levin, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet

Agha Shahid Ali, Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English

Eavan Boland & Mark Strand, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

Donald Allen, New American Poetry 1945-1960

J. D. McClatchy, The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry

John Hollander, American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse

Eliot Weinberger, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry



Criticism & Poetics


Aristotle, Poetics

Horace, “Ars Poetica” (Epistle to the Pisos)

Sir Philip Sidney, Apology for Poetry

Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism”

Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the English Poets

William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Defense of Poetry

John Keats, Letters

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”

Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass”

Emily Dickinson, Letters

Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry”

T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”


Essay collections


W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand

John Berryman, The Freedom of the Poet

Louise Bogan, Selected Essays

T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays

Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures

Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry

Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making

Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town

Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the Age

Denise Levertov, The Poet and the World

Federico Garcia Lorca, Deep Song

Robert Lowell, Collected Prose

Czeslaw Milosz, The Witness of Poetry

Marianne Moore, Collected Prose

Edwin Muir, The Estate of Poetry

Ezra Pound, Selected Essays

Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry

Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel

Paul Valery, The Art of Poetry

William Carlos Williams, Selected Essays

William Butler Yeats, Essays and Introductions




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