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Title

Selected poems : 1955-1997 / Charles Tomlinson.

Author

Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-2015.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 226 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Presenting Charles Tomlinson's finest poems, this edition of Selected Poems provides perfect entry into the work of one of England's contemporary masters. Rendering with remarkable precision the response of the poet to the surfaces and depths of things as well as the world of historical necessity, Tomlinson's poems embody aspects of both tragedy and possibility.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook original, NDP855"--P. [4] of cover.
• Includes index.

Contents

• Preface / Charles Tomlinson -- Aesthetic -- Venice -- Nine Variations in a Chinese Winter Setting -- Sea Change -- Fiascherino -- The Atlantic -- Winter Encounters -- Oxen: Ploughing at Fiesole -- The Mediterranean -- How Still the Hawk -- Glass Grain -- Tramontana at Lerici -- Northern Spring -- The Crane -- Paring the Apple -- More Foreign Cities -- A Meditation on John Constable -- Frondes Agrestes -- Farewell to Van Gogh -- Cezanne at Aix -- At Holwell Farm -- On the Hall at Stowey -- Civilities of Lamplight -- from 'Antecedents': VI Something: A Direction -- The Churchyard Wall -- Winter-Piece -- Canal -- John Maydew or The Allotment -- The Hand at Callow Hill Farm -- The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone -- Up at La Serra -- Sea Poem -- Head Hewn with an Axe -- Over Brooklyn Bridge -- Ode to Arnold Schoenberg -- The Snow Fences -- The Door -- The Weathercocks -- A Given Grace -- The Cavern -- Arizona Desert -- A Death in the Desert --
• Las Trampas USA -- Mr Brodsky -- Ute Mountain -- A Garland for Thomas Eakins -- The Well -- The Oaxaca Bus -- Idyll -- Swimming Chenango Lake -- Prometheus -- Eden -- Adam -- Assassin -- Against Extremity -- In the Fullness of Time -- The Way of a World -- Descartes and the Stove -- On the Principle of Blowclocks -- A Sense of Distance -- The Fox Gallery -- To be Engraved on the Skull of a Cormorant -- The Chances of Rhyme -- On Water -- The Lighthouse -- Stone Speech -- The Compact: at Volterra -- At Sant'Antimo -- Ariadne and the Minotaur -- Hawks -- Of Beginning Light -- Autumn Piece -- Event -- During Rain -- The Way In -- At Stoke -- Gladstone Street -- The Marl Pits -- After a Death -- Hill Walk -- How Far -- Of Lady Grange -- Charlotte Corday -- For Danton -- Casarola -- Prose Poem -- Images of Perfection -- The Faring -- The Metamorphosis -- Mushrooms -- Sky Writing -- In Arden -- The Shaft -- The Scream -- Snow Signs -- Their Voices Rang --
• For Miriam -- Hay -- Under the Bridge -- San Fruttuoso: the Divers -- Above Carrara -- Fireflies -- Thunder in Tuscany -- The Littleton Whale -- The Flood -- The Epilogue -- Above Manhattan -- All Afternoon -- To Ivor Gurney -- Black Brook -- Poem for my Father -- Night Fishers -- The Moment -- Writing on Sand -- Valle de Oaxaca -- In the Borghese Gardens -- Revolution -- Fountain -- The Return -- Catacomb -- The Miracle of the Bottle and the Fishes -- In Memory of George Oppen -- The Tax Inspector -- from 'Winter Journey' -- A Rose for Janet -- The Well -- The Hawthorn in Trent Vale -- Ararat -- Annunciation -- The Blade -- Above the Rio Grande -- The Plaza -- Far Point -- Carrara Revisited -- The House in the Quarry -- At the Autumn Equinox -- The Butterflies -- Harvest -- Letter to Uehata -- Orion over Farne -- Chance -- The Headland -- For a Godchild -- The Operation -- Siena in Sixty-Eight -- Paris in Sixty-Nine -- Blaubeuren --
• The Door in the Wall -- Geese Going South -- The Stair -- Hacienda -- Response to Hopkins -- Song -- Second Song -- Before the Concert -- Picking Mushrooms by Moonlight -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 1 On the Terrace -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 2 To be Read Later On -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 3 Jessica Learned to Kiss -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 6 To My Daughter -- Against Travel -- To Vasko Popa in Rome -- Valestrieri -- Down from Colonnata -- A Retrospect: 1951-91 -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 1 Alto Minho -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 2 Ponte de Lima -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 3 Soajo -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 4 Swallows -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 6 In Lisbon -- Zipangu -- Snapshot -- Jubilacion -- The Track of the Deer -- The Shadow -- Walks -- A Doggerel for My Seventieth Birthday -- A Backward Glance.

ISBN

0811213692 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97025373

OCLC

• 37109266
• ocm37109266

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries