The Poet's Craft: A Course in the Critical Appreciation of Poetry Based on the Study of Holograph Manuscripts, Earlier and Later Versions of Printed Poems, Transpositions of Prose Into Verse, and Contrasted Translations, With a Selection of Unsigned Poems and Passages for Appreciation

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University Press, 1957 - 219 pages

Contents

GEORGE HERBERT Perfection
4
WILLIAM COWPER The Halibut
10
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from The Waggoner
18
P B SHELLEY from Death of Adonis
24
Alcaics
30
G ROSSETTI Loves Compass
36
EDWARD THOMAS Adlestrop
42
ISAAC ROSENBERG from Moses
48
From SIR THOMAS NORTHS
81
From BOCCACCIOS Decameron
87
HOMER Iliad VIII 54261
101
ANACREON Ode xxxIII
108
VIRGIL Georgics 1 31134
115
DANTE Paradiso Canto XXXIII 97145
124
POEMS FOR APPRECIATION
131
Texts of the poems of Section IV
207

ROBERT HERRICK To Anthea page
53
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Daffodils
60
JOHN KEATS from Hyperion
70
Notes on the Manuscript Poems of Section I
216
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