Description: PrefaceTHOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)HapNeutral TonesThe SubalternsThe Darkling ThrushThe Man He KilledChannel Firing''I Found Her Out There''After a Journeyfrom Satires of Circumstance II. In Church VI. In the CemeteryThe Pity of ItIn Time of ''the Breaking of Nations''Snow in the SuburbsThe Harbour BridgeHe Never Expected MuchGERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)God''s Grandeur"As kingfishers catch fire"The WindhoverPied BeautySpring and FallInversnaid"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day""No worst, there is none"[Carrion Comfort]Spelt from Sibyl''s LeavesThat Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the ResurrectionJustus quidem tu es, DomineRUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)Gunga DinSestina of the Tramp-Royalfrom Epitaphs of the War Common Form A Dead StatesmanWILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)To The Rose upon the Rood of TimeThe Lake Isle of InnisfreeWho Goes with Fergus?The Valley of the Black PigSeptember 1913The WitchThe PeacockThe DollsA CoatThe Wild Swans at CooleEaster 1916The Second ComingA Prayer for my DaughterSailing to ByzantiumThe TowerLeda and the SwanAmong School ChildrenByzantiumCrazy Jane Talks with the BishopLapis LazuliUnder Ben BulbenThe Circus Animals'' DesertionPoliticsCHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928)The Farmer''s BrideFameArracombe WoodOn the Road to the SeaMonsieur Qui PasseWALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)Miss LooThe ListenersThe Old SummerhouseFORD MADOX FORD (1873-1939)The StarlingEDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)The OtherAdlestropThe Wasp TrapA CatRainHAROLD MONRO (1879-1932)Bitter SanctuaryMINA LOY (1882-1966)Italian Picturesfrom Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose English RoseDer Blinde JungeT.E. HULME (1883-1917)AutumnThe EmbankmentConversionfrom FragmentsAs a FowlANNA WICKHAM (1884-1947)DivorceSelf AnalysisMeditation at KewD.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)Under the OakPomegranateSnakeSwanWilly Wet-LegAndraitx.--Pomegranate FlowersBavarian GentiansSIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)A Working PartyThe Rear-GuardThe GeneralEDITH SITWELL (1887-1964)from Facade 4. Ass-Face 6. The Bat 22. Fox Trot 37. Sir BeelzebubThe Canticle of the RoseELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887-1977)Still-life"Children of wealth in your warm nursery"News-reelEDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)The Old GodsThe Three MirrorsThe HorsesT.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockGerontionThe Waste Landfrom Four Quartets Little GiddingMARY BUTTS (1890-1937)CorfeISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)The JewBreak of Day in the TrenchesLouse HuntingDead Man''s DumpIVOR GURNEY (1890-1937)First Time InLa GorgueLaventieThe Bare Line of the HillThe BohemiansSea-MargeHUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978)from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle [Sic Transit Gloria Scotiae] [The Barren Fig] [Yank Oot Your Orra Boughs]On a Raised Beachfrom In Memoriam James JoyceSYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893-1978)Nelly TrimEast London CemeteryKing DuffusAnne DonneTHOMAS MACGREEVY (1893-1967)De Civitate HominumThe Six Who Were HangedHomage to Hieronymus BoschWILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)Dulce et Decorum EstStrange MeetingArms and the BoyDisabledJOHN RODKER (1894-1955)A Slice of LifeThe Music HallHymn to LoveI''d have loved you as you deserved had we been frogsDAVID JONES (1895-1974)from In Parenthesis from Part 7: The five unmistakable marksfrom The Anathemata from I: Rite and Fore-Time III. Angle-LandA, a, a, Domine DeusROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)Warning to ChildrenThe LegsTo Juan at the Winter SolsticeThe White GoddessNANCY CUNARD (1896-1965)from ParallaxAUSTIN CLARKE (1896-1974)Forget Me NotF.R. HIGGINS (1896-1941)A PleaAuction!BASIL BUNTING (1900-1985)from First Book of Odes 3. "I am agog for foam" 8. "Loud intolerant bells" 15. "Nothing" 17. "Now that sea''s over that island" 28. "You leave" 30. "The Orotava Road"from Briggflatts: I, Codafrom Second Book of Odes: 11. "Boasts time mocks cumber Rome" 12. "Now we''ve no hope of going back"STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)Souvenir de Monsieur PoopNot Waving but DrowningMy HatThe CeltsPrettyBlack MarchJOSEPH GORDON MACLEOD (1903-1984)from The Ecliptic Cancer, or, The CrabPATRICK KAVANAGH (1904-1967)from The Great Hunger: I, IXFather MatCanal Bank WalkBRIAN COFFEY (1905-1995)HEADROCK from Advent: IWILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984)Plenum and VacuumVillanelleReflection from RochesterSonnetSAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)Enueg IEnueg IIOoftishW.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)"Bones wrenched, weak whimper, lids wrinkled..."The Secret AgentThe Watershed"Consider this and in our time"A Bride in the 30''sSpainfrom Sonnets from China: VI, VIIMuse des Beaux ArtsIn Memory of W.B. YeatsSeptember 1, 1939In Memory of Sigmund FreudNo TimeAt the Grave of Henry JamesIn Praise of Limestonefrom Horae Canonicae: NonesOde to TerminusLOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963)An Eclogue for ChristmasValedictionSnowCarrickfergusCLERE PARSONS (1908-1931)CorybanticPhotogravureDifferentInterruptionDENIS DEVLIN (1908-1959)Lough DergObstacle BasiliskLYNETTE ROBERTS (1909-1995)from Gods with Stainless Ears: IV, VNORMAN MACCAIG (1910-1996)High Street, EdinburghNude in a fountainCeltic crossIntrusionSORLEY MACLEAN/SOMHAIRLE MACGILL-EAIN (1911-1996)The IslandGoing WestwardsF.T. PRINCE (b. 1912)StraffordCHARLES MADGE (1912-1996)ObsessionalDelusions IDelusions IIIDelusions VDelusions VIICountries of the Dead IIDYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerOur eunuch dreamsTo-day, this insectOver Sir John''s hillC.H. SISSON (b. 1914)A Letter to John DonneThe DesertAu Clair de la LunePlaceDAVID GASCOYNE (b. 1916)And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of IsisBaptismThe Rites of HysteriaThe Cubical DomesNICHOLAS MOORE (1918-1986)SongIdeas of Disorder at TorquayPortman RestaurantLeap YearW.S. GRAHAM (1918-1986)The NightfishingA Note to the Difficult OneLanguage Ah Now You Have MeTOM SCOTT (1918-1995)Johnie Raw Prays for His Lords and MaistersKEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)Simplify me when I''m deadThese grasses, ancient enemiesMersaDead MenCairo JagAristocratsVergissmeinnichtHow to KillBOB COBBING (b. 1920)[wan do tree][LION LENIN LEONORA][ALEVIN BARS CAUSAPSCAL]PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)Church GoingToadsNothing To Be SaidWaterThe Whitsun WeddingsAn Arundel TombHigh WindowsGoing, GoingHomage to a GovernmentThis Be The VerseThe ExplosionDONALD DAVIE (1922-1995)Hearing Russian SpokenRejoinder to a CriticRodezOut of East AngliaA Conditioned AirInditing A Good MatterJAMES BERRY (b. 1924)Letter to My Father from LondonFrom Lucy: Englan a UniversityIAN HAMILTON FINLAY (b. 1925)Orkney LyricsSea-Poppy ISea-Poppy 2ASA BENVENISTE (1925-1990)First WordsGeorgicBird AppealBlue CrepeELIZABETH JENNINGS (b. 1926)ChoicesFountainOn Its OwnCHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON (b. 1926)Hearing Elgar AgainThe Prose of Walking Back to ChinaCHARLES TOMLINSON (b. 1927)AestheticDistinctionsSaving the AppearancesSwimming Chenango LakePrometheusAnnunciationThe PlazaThe GardenTHOMAS KINSELLA (b. 1928)Baggot Street DesertaRitual of DepartureGAEL TURNBULL (b. 1928)George Fox, from his Journalsfrom Twenty Words, Twenty Days: XVII-XXThighs GrippingJOHN MONTAGUE (b. 1929)The TroutA Bright DayThe CageThis Neutral RealmThe Well DreamsTHOM GUNN (b. 1929)The Unsettled Motorcyclist''s Vision of his DeathConfessions of the Life ArtistMolySeesawA Sketch of the Great DejectionLamentELAINE FEINSTEIN (b. 1930)MarriageExileFor Brighton, Old BawdTED HUGHES (1930-1998)View of a PigPikeOutPibrochWodwoCrow Hears Fate Knock on the Doorfrom GaudeteFloundersROY FISHER (b. 1930)from City: The Entertainment of War The Poplars "Walking through the suburb at night "From an English Sensibilityfrom A Furnace: Introit II. The ReturnJON SILKIN (1930-1998)Death of a SonFirst it was SingingDandelionA DaisyA Word about Freedom and Identity in Tel-AvivROSEMARY TONKS (b. 1932)The Sofas, Fogs, and CinemasThe Little Cardboard SuitcaseThe Ice-cream Boom TownsPETER REDGROVE (b. 1932)Against DeathYoung Women with the Hair of Witches and No ModestyThe British Museum SmileMothers and ChildGEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932)GenesisOvid in the Third ReichSeptember SongHistory as Poetryfrom Mercian Hymns: I-XIII, XXVII-XXXfrom The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Pguy: 4,5Respublicafrom The Triumph of Love: XXIII, XXV, XXXV, XXXIX-XLIV, LV, LXI-LXIV, CXLVII-CLFLEUR ADCOCK (b. 1934)Against CouplingThe Ex-Queen Among the AstronomersLeaving the TateTONY HARRISON (b. 1937)v.JOHN RILEY (1937-1978)CzargradTOM RAWORTH (b. 1938)Wedding DayYou''ve Ruined My Evening/You''ve Ruined My LifeSouth Americafrom Logbook: pages 106, 453from Sentenced to Death: "sentenced he gives a shape" "curiously the whole thing had begun" "reversals of performance levels"from Eternal Sections: "in black tunics, middle-aged" "brilliance of the orange lily" "thoughts are in real time"Out of the PictureR.F. LANGLEY (b. 1938)Saxon LandingsMan JackCARLYLE REEDY (b. 1938)The Slave ShipE.A. MARKHAM (b. 1939)The SeaTowards the End of a CenturyGrandmotherpoemThe Mother''s TaleJOHN JAMES (b. 1939)Good Old HarryInaugural AddressLEE HARWOOD (b. 1939)When the geography was fixedThe Blue MosqueSalt WaterSEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)BoglandNorthSinging SchoolOystersThe Toome RoadThe Undergroundfrom Station Island: VII, XIIThe Mud VisionPETER RILEY (b. 1940)from Lines on the Liver: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17from Excavations, Part One: from Book I: Distant Points: "the body in its final commerce" "folded in river clay" "carefully dismembered" from Book 2: This Carol They Began That Hour "Sing to me" "Meaning spills" "Leaving a simple state" from Book 3: Vacant Thrones: "Ganesa dances" "''I arrived at a place mute of light''"DEREK MAHON (b. 1941)The Snow PartyA Disused Shed in Co. WexfordCourtyards in DelftA Garage in Co. CorkANDREW CROZIER (b. 1943)The Veil PoemTOM LEONARD (b. 1944)Six Glasgow PoemsA Priest Came on at Merkland StreetCRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)An Enquiry into Two Inches of IvoryA Martian Sends a Postcard HomeEAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944)The Woman Turns Herself into a FishListen. This is the Noise of Mythfrom Outside History 9: In ExileALLEN FISHER (b. 1944)from four novels: 1. African Missiondefamiliarising *: 38Mummers'' StrutTOM PICKARD (b. 1946)A History Lesson from My Son on Hadrian''s Wal

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