Research Catalog

Title

New collected poems / Stephen Spender ; edited by Michael Brett.

Author

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

Publication

London : Faber and Faber, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brett, Michael
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxi, 393 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett, gathers seven decades of verse from Poems (1933) to Dolphins (1994) and the late uncollected work. Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this editon returns to the book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of Spender's career."--Book jacket.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry
• 1900-1999
• English poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Previous edition published in 1985 as Collected poems, 1928-1985.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye -- Rolled over on Europe : the sharp dew frozen to stars -- Marston, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe -- Not to you I sighed : no, not a word -- Acts passed beyond the boundary of mere wishing -- I hear the cries of evening -- Different living is not living in different places -- An "I" can never be great man -- Beethoven's death mask -- Never being, but always at the edge of being -- My parents quarrel in the neighbour room -- My parents kept me from children who were rough -- What I expected -- In 1929 -- The Port -- Moving through the silent crowd -- Who live under the shadow of a war -- How strangely this sun reminds me of my love -- Your body is stars whose million glitter here -- The prisoners -- Without that once clear aim, the path of flight -- Oh young men oh young comrades -- I think continually of those who were truly great -- After they have tired of the brilliance of cities -- The funeral -- The express -- The landscape near an aerodrome -- The pylons -- Abrupt and charming mover -- In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic -- Those fireballs, those ashes -- From all these events, from the slump, from the war, from the boom -- Not palaces, an era's crown -- The dust made flesh -- His figure passes -- Hearing from its cage -- Lying awake at night -- Constant April -- Saying "good morning" becomes painful -- Always between hope and fear -- The swan -- That girl who laughed and had black eyes -- At the end of two months' holiday -- After success, your little afternoon success -- Alas, when he laughs it is not he -- Shapes of death haunt life -- For T.A.R.H. -- Van der Lubbe -- Passing, men are sorry for the birds in cages -- Perhaps -- New year -- Autumn day (Rilke) -- Orpheus Eurydice Hermes (after Rilke) -- Arrival at the city -- Parade of the executive -- The death of heroes -- Analysis and statement -- The half of life (Holderlin) -- Buonaparte (Holderlin) -- The town shore at Barcelona -- Speech from a play -- If it were not too late -- Two speeches from a play -- Ultimate death (Altolaguirre) -- My brother Luis (Altolaguirre) -- In no man's land -- Concerning the label emigrant (Brecht) -- Hear this voice (Hernandez, trans. Inez and Stephen Spender) -- Madrid (Altolaguirre) -- The word dead and the music mad -- So far from gentle, he is the danger -- How strange it seems -- When Petra slept with me -- I speak from the centre of a stage -- Dear friend, your world is the antipodes -- Polar exploration -- Easter Monday -- Experience -- Exiles from their land, history their domicile -- The past values -- An elementary school class room in a slum -- The uncreating chaos -- Holderlin's old age -- Hampstead autumn -- In the street -- The room above the square -- The marginal field -- A footnote -- Thoughts during an air raid -- View from a train -- The midlands express -- The indifferent one -- Three days -- Two armies -- Ultima ratio regum -- The coward -- A stopwatch and an ordnance map -- War photograph -- Sonnet -- Fall of a city -- At Castellon -- The bombed happiness -- Port Bou -- Darkness and light -- The human situation -- The separation -- Two kisses -- The little coat -- Variations on my life : the first -- Variations on my life : the second -- Napoleon in 1814 -- The mask -- Houses at edge of railway lines -- To a Spanish poet -- Archaic head -- Auf dem Wasser zu Singen -- After the wrestling, when our mouths -- Letter from the G.O.M. -- Song -- A separation -- The vase of tears -- The double shame -- The journey -- A hall of mirrors -- No orpheus, no Eurydice -- A wild race -- The war God -- To poets and airmen -- The air raid across the bay -- Winter and summer -- In memoriam -- June 1940 -- The ambitious son -- The drowned -- The fates -- At night -- The barn -- In a garden -- A childhood -- Into life -- The coast -- Dusk -- Daybreak -- To Natasha -- Elegy -- Prague dressed in light (Seifert, trans. S.S. and Jiri Mucha) -- The statue of Apollo -- Bridle of the sun -- Perfection -- Paris (Aragon) -- Darling of our hearts, drowning -- Dearest and nearest brother -- From a tree choked by ivy, rotted -- Poor girl, inhabitant of a strange land -- Already you are beginning to become -- The final act of love -- Summer -- Four eyes -- The dream -- Man and woman -- The trance -- Absence -- Lost -- We fly through a night of stars -- Within our nakedness nakedness still -- You were born; must die; were loved; must love -- Since we are what we are, what shall we be -- We divided, join again in belief -- The immortal spirit is that single ghost -- I am that witness through whom the whole -- Outside, the eternal star-tall mountains gleam -- Light -- Midsummer -- Seascape -- Meeting -- O omega, invocation -- O night O trembling night -- On the third day -- Awaking -- Faust's song -- Judas Iscariot -- Ice -- Returning to Vienna 1947 -- Weep, girl, weep -- The angel -- Epilogue to a human drama -- Rejoice in the abyss -- A man-made world -- The conscript -- Almond tree in a bombed city -- Responsibility : the pilots who destroyed Germany, spring 1945 -- Tom's a-cold -- Word -- Empty house -- Madonna -- Epithalamion -- Memento -- Speaking to the dead in the language of the dead -- We cannot hold onto the world -- Time in our time -- Travelling northwards home -- Terza Rima (Hofmannsthal) -- Ballad of the exterior life (Hofmannsthal) -- In Attica -- Messenger -- To my daughter -- Missing my daughter -- Nocturne -- Dylan Thomas (November 1953) -- Sirmione Peninsula -- Critic in the spring-time -- One -- Dog rose -- To Samuel Barber -- Orpheus : Adam : Christ -- Subject : object : sentence -- Instructions -- Journal leaves -- Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light -- Middle East -- Diary poems -- If it were not -- Lost days -- The chalk blue butterfly -- Boy, cat, canary -- A father in time of war -- Child falling asleep in time of war -- Almond tree by a Bombed church -- V.W. (1941) -- Mein Kind Kam Heim (after Stephan George) -- Sleepless -- The generous days -- On the photograph of a friend, dead -- Voice from a skull -- Fifteen-line sonnet in four parts -- What love poems say -- Four sketches for Herbert Read -- To W. H. Auden on his sixtieth birthday -- One more new botched beginning -- Matter of identity -- To become a dumb thing -- Bagatelles -- Central heating system -- Art student -- Cyril Connolly, November 1974 -- From my diary -- A souvenir of Cincy : a postcard for John Betjeman -- Adam (after Lorca) -- Louis MacNeice -- A girl who has drowned herself speaks -- Late Stravinsky listening to late Beethoven -- Auden's funeral -- O thrilling voice of Zeus -- If I still have the gift of prophecy -- O human generations, I consider -- 'Stranger, this is shining Colonos' -- Whoever craves a longer life than his allotted span -- 'Happy are those who never tested evil' -- Dolphins -- Her house -- Lines for Roy Fuller -- Air raid -- Letter from an ornithologist in Antarctica -- Farewell to my student -- Laughter -- History and reality -- The half of life -- The Palantine anthology -- Have-beens -- Poetes Maudits -- Room -- Grandparents -- Black-and-white photography -- A first war childhood -- Worldsworth -- Six variations -- The alphabet tree -- Timothy Corsellis -- The mythical life and love of D. H. Lawrence.

ISBN

057122279X

OCLC

55234425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library