So what does my own anthology look like--the list of poems I most like to teach in my own "Reading Poetry" class?
(First of an ongoing series of posts)
Sappho, “Fragment 1: Hymn to Aphrodite, in multiple translations (Jim Powell, Anne Carson, Guy Davenport)
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Archilochos, "“Some Saian Mountaineer," in Guy Davenport's translation
The Song of Songs, in Ariel & Chana Bloch's translation
Wyatt, “"They Flee From Me”" and "Whoso List to Hunt”"
Donne, "“The Sun Rising”"
Whitman: "“Noiseless Patient Spider”" and "“As I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer"”
Yeats, "Adam's Curse" and "“Easter, 1916”"
Hughes, "“Theme for English B"
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Stevens, "“The Snow Man”"
Hayden, "“Those Winter Sundays”"
Clifton, "“Homage to My Hips”"
Johnson, "“Beam 10"” from ARK
To be continued. So: what are yours?
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A few of my short faves:
Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Herbert, Prayer (I)
Herrick, The Vine
Shakespeare, Sonnet XX
Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Blake, The Lamb and The Tyger
Dickinson, There's a Certain Slant of light, Mine by the right of the white election
Williams, Proletarian Portrait
and lots more...
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