Table of Contents

Introduction. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). A.E. Housman (1859-1936). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). W.B. Yeats (1865-1939). Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). Robert Frost (1874-1963). Edward Thomas (1878-1917). Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Marianne Moore (1887-1972). T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978). Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). E.E. Cummings (1894-1962). Robert Graves (1895-1985). Allen Tate (1899-1979). Basil Bunting (1900-1985). Laura Riding (1901-1991). Langston Hughes (1902-1967). John Betjeman (1906-1984). W.H. Auden (1907-1973). Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). C.H. Sisson (1914-2003). Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). Robert Lowell (1917-1977). W.S. Graham (1918-1986). Keith Douglas (1920-1944). Edwin Morgan (b. 1920). Donald Davie (1922-1995). Philip Larkin (1922-1985). James K. Baxter (1926-1972). Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Frank O'Hara (1926-1966). John Ashbery (b. 1927). Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928). Thom Gunn (1929-2004). Adrienne Rich (b. 1929). Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930). Ted Hughes (1930-1998). Derek Walcott (b. 1930). Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932). Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Les Murray (b. 1938). Seamus Heaney (b. 1939). Eavan Bolan (b. 1944). James Fenton (b. 1949). Glossary. 80-MINUTE AUDIO CD INCLUDES: W.B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Wallace Stevens: So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch. Wallace Stevens: Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself. William Carlos Williams: Queen-Anne's-Lace. William Carlos Williams: To Elsie. William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow. William Carlos Williams: Spring and All. William Carlos Williams: This is Just to Say. Ezra Pound: From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (II, IV, V). T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. E.E. Cummings: as freedom is a breakfast food. E.E. Cummings: my father moved through dooms of love. E.E. Cummings: pity this monster, manunkind. Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Langston Hughes: I, Too. John Betjeman: A Shropshire Lad. John Betjeman: The Licorice Fields at Pontefract. W.H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts. W.H. Auden: The Shield of Achilles. Elizabeth Bishop: The Fish. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal to Mourn... Robert Lowell: Skunk Hour. Robert Lowell: Home After Three Months Away. Allen Ginsberg: Howl (with a special full-length reading of Howl). Kamau Brathwaite: Calypso. Ted Hughes: Thrushes. Sylvia Plath: Daddy.

About the Author

Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. He is a poet, novelist, translator, literary historian and anthologist. He is the managing director of the influential poetry publisher, Carcanet Press. His books include Lives of the Poets, The Story of Poetry, The First Poets and The Shakespeare Handbook (Quercus).