TITULO: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse 1918-60
COMPILADOR: Kenneth Allott
EDITORIAL: PENGUIN BOOKS
AÑO: 1962
LUGAR: Great Britain
CONTENIDO:
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………..15
W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939………………………………………………………………………………………39
A Prayer for My Daughter………………………………………………………………………..41
A song……………………………………………………………………………………………………44
Leda and the Swan…………………………………………………………………………………..45
Byzantium………………………………………………………………………………………………45
Long-Legged Fly…………………………………………………………………………………….47
The Circus Animals’ Desertion…………………………………………………………………48
Laurence Binyon, 1869-1943………………………………………………………………………………49
The Burning of the Leaves………………………………………………………………………..50
Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956……………………………………………………………………………..51
The Children of Stare………………………………………………………………………………52
“Was it by cunning the curious fly” (from Dreams)……………………………53
Sunk Lyonesse…………………….……………………………………………57
A Portrait…………………………………………………………………………58
Edward Thomas,1878-1917…………………………………………………………..60
Old Man…………………………………………………………………………61
No One So Much As You……………………………………………………….63
Harold Monro, 1879-1932………………………………………………………………64
Living……………………………………………………………………………65
James Joyce, 1882-1941………………………………………………………………..66
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly………………………………………………….68
Wyndham Lewis, 1884-1957……………………………………………………………71
If So the Man You Are,14………………………………………………………73
One-Way Song, XXIV………………………………………………………….74
D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930…………………………………………………………….75
The Mosquito……………………………………………………………………77
Bavarian Gentians………………………………………………………………80
Innocent England……………………………………………………………….81
Andrew Young, b. 1885………………………………………………………………..82
A Prospect of Death…………………………………………………………….83
Charles Williams, 1886-1945…………………………………………………………..84
The Calling of Arthur…………………………………………………………..86
Siegfreed Sassoon, 1886-1967………………………………………………………….87
The Death Bed………………………………………………………………….88
The Child at the window………………………………………………………..90
Edwin Muir, 1887-1958………………………………………………………………..90
The Wayside Station……………………………………………………………92
The Combat……………………………………………………………………..93
T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965………………………………………………………………….95
Sweeney Erect…………………………………………………………………..98
A Game of Chess (from The Waste Land)…………………………………….100
“Although I do not hope to run again” (from Ash Wednesday)……………….103
“Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain” (from Murder in the Cathedral)……………………………………………………………………..104
Chorus (from The Family Reunion)……………………………………………105
Little Gidding II (from Four Quartets)………………………………………..106
Arthur Waley, 1889-1966……………………………………………………………..109
The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden…………………………………111
A Mad Poem addressed to my Nephews and Nieces………………………….112
Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918…………………………………………………………..113
God Made Blind……………………………………………………………….114
Herbert Read, 1893-1968……………………………………………………………..115
To a Conscript of 1940………………………………………………………..116
Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918…………………………………………………………….117
Exposure………………………………………………………………………119
Insensibility……………………………………………………………………120
Strange Meeting……………………………………………………………….122
Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963……………………………………………………………124
Second Philosopher’s Song……………………………………………………125
Fifth Philosopher’s Song………………………………………………………125
Robert Graves, b. 1895………………………………………………………………..126
Warning to Children…………………………………………………………..128
Welsh Incident…………………………………………………………………129
Never Such Love………………………………………………………………131
Lollocks……………………………………………………………………….132
The Thieves……………………………………………………………………133
To Evoke Posterity…………………………………………………………….134
Edmund Blunden, b.1896……………………………………………………………..135
The Pike……………………………………………………………………….136
The Midnight Skaters…………………………………………………………137
October Comes………………………………………………………………..138
Sacheverell Sitwell, b.1897……………………………………………………………139
“Clouds touched the church-towers” (from Upon an Image from Dante)…….140
“The poor are fast forgotten” (from Agamemnon’s Tomb)……………………141 Roy Campbell, 1901-57……………………..…………………………………………143
Poets in Africa…………………………………………………………………144
The Palm………………………………………………………………………147
Michael Roberts, 1902-48…………………………………………………………….149
The Castle……………………………………………………………………..150
William Plomer, b.1903……………………………………………………………….151
Father and Son: 1939………………………………………………………….152
A Ticket for the Reading Room……………………………………………….154
Cecil Day Lewis, b. 1904……………………………………………………………..157
You That Love England……………………………………………………….159
Passage from Childhood………………………………………………………160
The Poet……………………………………………………………………….161
The Unwanted…………………………………………………………………163
Peter Quennell, b.1905………………………………………………………………..164
The Flight into Egypt………………………………………………………….165
Rex Warner, b.1905…………………………………………………………………….167
Nile Fishermen…………………………………………………………………168
Norman Cameron, 1905-53……………………………………………………………169
Naked Among the Trees………………………………………………………169
The Invader……………………………………………………………………170
Vernon Watkins, 1906-67……………………………………………………………..171
“My lamp that was lit every night has burnt a hole in the shade” (from The Broken Sea)……………………………………………………………………173
John Betjeman, b.1906………………………………………………………………..175
The Planster’s Vision………………………………………………………….177
May-Day Song for North Oxford……………………………………………..177
Death in Leamington………………………………………………………….178
The Cottage Hospital………………………………………………………….179
William Empson, b. 1906……………………………………………………………..181
Aubade…………………………………………………………………………182
Reflection from Rochester…………………………………………………….184
Courage means Running………………………………………………………185
Christopher Fry, b.1907……………………………………………………………….186
Dynamene’s Lament (from A Phoenix too Frequent)…………………………188
Louis MacNeice, 1907-63…………………………………………………………….189
Snow…………………………………………………………………………..191
Bagpipe Music…………………………………………………………………192
Les Sylphides………………………………………………………………….193
Prayer Before Birth……………………………………………………………194
W.H. Auden, b.1907…………………………………………………………………..196
“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read” (from The Dog Beneath the Skin)……………………………………………………………………………200
“He turned his field into a meeting-place” (In Time of War, VIII)……………201
Law Like Love…………………………………………………………………201
“All had been ordered weeks before the start” (The Quest, II)………………..203
“A weary Asia out of sight” (from New Year Letter)…………………………204
“O Unicorn among the cedars” (from New Year Letter)………………………205
Solo and Chorus (from For the Time Being)………………………………….206
The Shield of Achilles…………………………………………………………208
E.J. Scovell, b. 1907…………………………………………………………………..210
Child Waking………………………………………………………………….211
John Lehmann, b.1907…………………………………………………………………212
The Sphere of Class……………………………………………………………213
Kathleen Raine, b.1908……………………………………………………………….214
Passion…………………………………………………………………………215
The Spring……………………………………………………………………..216
James Reeves, b.1909…………………………………………………………………217
The Little Brother……………………………………………………………..218
Stephen Spender, b.1909………………………………………………………………219
The Landscape near an Aerodrome……………………………………………221
Fall of a City…………………………………………………………………..222
The Double Shame…………………………………………………………….223
“Poor girl, inhabitant of a strange land” (Elegy for Margaret, IV)……………225
W.R. Rodgers, b.1909…………………………………………………………………226
Stormy Day……………………………………………………………………227
Life’s Circumnavigators………………………………………………………228
Bernard Spencer, 1909-63…………………………………………………………….229
Allotments: April………………………………………………………………230
On the Road……………………………………………………………………231
Francis Scarfe, b. 1911………………………………………………………………..232
Tyne Dock……………………………………………………………………..233
Norman MacCaig, b.1911…………………………………………………………………………………234
Nude in a Fountain…………………………………………………………………………………235
Charles Madge, b.1912………………………………………………………………..237
Ode…………………………………………………………………………….238
Inscription I……………………………………………………………………239
Henry Treece, 1912-67………………………………………………………………..240
Legend…………………………………………………………………………242
Anne Ridler, b.1912……………………………………………………………………242
At Parting………………………………………………………………………243
For a Child Expected………………………………………………………….244
Kenneth Allott, b. 1912………………………………………………………………..246
Lament for a Cricket Eleven…………………………………………………..246
Two Ages……………………………………………………………………….248
F.T. Prince,b 1912…………………………………………………………………….249
Soldiers Bathing……………………………………………………………….249
Roy Fuller, b.1912…………………………………………………………………….252
“Reading the shorthand on a barber’s sheet”………………………………….254
Harbour Ferry…………………………………………………………………255
At a Warwickshire Mansion…………………………………………………..256
The Final Period……………………………………………………………….257
George Barker, b.1913…………………………………………………………………260
Battersea Park…………………………………………………………………261
To My Mother…………………………………………………………………263
R.S. Thomas, b. 1913………………………………………………………………….263
A Peasant………………………………………………………………………265
Iago Prythereh…………………………………………………………………265
Lawrence Durrell, b.1914……………………………………………………………..266
Three Carols (from The Death of General Uncebunke, I,III,V)………………268
A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson……………………………………………269
Deus Loci…..…………………………………………………………………..271
Dylan Thomas, 1914-53………………………………………………………………275
A Grief Ago……………………………………………………………………278
After the Funeral………………………………………………………………279
The Hunchback in the Park……………………………………………………280
Poem in October………………………………………………………………281
Norman Nicholson, b. 1914……………………………………………………………284
Poem for Epiphany……………………………………………………………285
A Turn for the Better………………………………………………………….286
Henry Reed, b,1914……………………………………………………………………287
Naming of Parts (Lessons of the War, I)………………………………………288
Judging Distances (Lessons of the War, II)……………………………………289
Laurie Lee, b.1914…………………………………………………………………….291
April Rise………………………………………………………………………292
Alun Lewis, 1915-44………………………………………………………………….292
The Mahratta Ghats……………………………………………………………294
David Gascoyne, b.1916………………………………………………………………295
A Wartime Dawn………………………………………………………………296
Terence Tiller, b.1916…………………………………………………………………297
Egyptian Beggar………………………………………………………………298
Thomas Blackburn, b.1916……………………………………………………………299
Hospital for Defectives………………………………………………………..300
Robert Conquest, b.1917………………………………………………………………301
A Problem……………………………………………………………………..303
John Heath-Stubbs, b.1918……………………………………………………………304
The Divided Ways…………………………………………………………….305
A Charm against the Toothache……………………………………………….307
Epitaph…………………………………………………………………………308
W.S. Graham, b.1918…………………………………………………………………309
Letter III……………………………………………………………………….310
John Holloway, b.1919………………………………………………………………..312
Warning to a Guest……………………………………………………………313
D. J. Enright, b.1920…………………………………………………………………..315
Blue Umbrellas………………………………………………………………..316
Hilary Corke, b.1921………………………………………………………………….317
O Castle Heart…………………………………………………………………317
Sidney Keyes, 1922-43………………………………………………………………..319
The Bards………………………………………………………………………320
William Wordsworth………………………………………………………….321
Donald Davie, b.1922……………………………………………………………………………………….321
The Garden Party…………………………………………………………………………………..324
Remembering the Thirties………………………………………………………………………325
Heigh-ho on a Winter Afternoon……………………………………………………………..326
Kingsley Amis, b.1922……………………………………………………………………………………..327
Against Romanticism……………………………………………………………………………..329
A Bookshop Idyll…………………………………………………………………………………..331
Philip Larkin, b.1922………………………………………………………………………………………..332
Church Going………………………………………………………………………………………..336
Line’s on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album…………………………………………..338
The Whitsun Weddings………………………………………………………………………….339
James Kirkup, b.1923……………………………………………………………………………………….342
A House in Summer……………………………………………………………………………….343
Tea in a Space-Ship……………………………………………………………………………….344
Jon Manchip White, b.1924……………………………………………………………………………….345
The Rout of San Romano………………………………………………………………………..346
William Bell, 1924-48………………………………………………………………………………………348
A Young Man’s song……………………………………………………………………………..349
Patricia Beer, b.1924………………………………………………………………………………………..350
The Fifth Sense……………………………………………………………………………………..351
John Wain, b,1925……………………………………………………………………………………………352
Poem Feigned to have been Written by an Electronic Brain………………………..354
Time Was……………………………………………………………………………………………..355
Elizabeth Jennings, b.1926………………………………………………………………………………..358
In the Night…………………………………………………………………………………………..359
Song at the beginning of Autumn…………………………………………………………….360
Charles Tomlinson, b.1927………………………………………………………………………………..361
Tramontana at Lerici………………………………………………………………………………363
A Meditation on John Constable……………………………………………………………..364
Thomas Kinsella, b.1928…………………………………………………………………………………..366
Another September………………………………………………………………………………..367
Cover Her Face……………………………………………………………………………………..368
A. Alvarez, b.1929……………………………………………………………………………………………370
A Cemetery in New México……………………………………………………………………371
Thom Gunn, b.1929………………………………………………………………………………………….372
On the Move…………………………………………………………………………………………375
Autumn Chapter in a Novel…………………………………………………………………….376
Anthony Thwaits, b.1930………………………………………………………………………………….377
Death of a Rat……………………………………………………………………………………….378
Ted Hughes, b.1930………………………………………………………………………………………….379
An Otter……………………………………………………………………………………………….381
Jon Silkin, b.1930…………………………………………………………………………………………….382
Death of a Son……………………………………………………………………………………….383
To My Friends………………………………………………………………………………………385
Peter Levi, b.1931…………………………………………………………………………………………….386
The Gravel Ponds…………………………………………………………………………………..387
Sylvia Plath, 1932-63……………………………………………………………………………………….388
Frog Autumn…………………………………………………………………………………………389
Metaphors…………………………………………………………………………………………….390
Geoffrey Hill, b.1932………………………………………………………………………………………..390
Annunciations I and II……………………………………………………………………………393
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………………….395
Index of First Lines…………………………………………………………………………………………..407
Index of Poets………………………………………………………………………………………………….412
INDEX OF POETS
Allott, Kenneth, 246
Alvarez, A., 370
Amis Kingsley, 327
Auden, W.H., 196
Barker, George, 260
Beer, Patricia, 350
Bell, William, 348
Betjeman, John, 175
Binyon, Laurence, 49
Blackburn, Thomas, 299
Blunden, Edmund, 135
Cameron,Norman, 169
Campbell, Roy, 143
Conquest, robert, 301
Corke, Hilary, 317
Davie, Donald, 321
Day Lewis, Cecil, 157
De la Mare, Walter, 51
Durrell, Lawrence, 266
Eliot, T.S., 95
Empson, William, 181
Enright, D.J., 315
Fry, Christopher, 186
Fuller, Roy, 252
Gascoyne, David, 295
Graham, W.S., 309
Graves, Robert, 126
Gunn, Thom, 372
Heath, Geoffrey, 390
Holloway, John, 312
Hughes, Ted, 379
Huxley, Aldous, 124
Jennings, Elizabeth, 358
Joyce, James, 66
Keyes, Sidney, 319
Kinsella, Thomas, 366
Kirkup, James, 342
Larkin, Philip, 332
Lawrence, D.H.,75
Lee, Laurie, 291
Lehmann, John, 212
Levi Peter, 386
Lewis,Alun, 292
Lewis, Wyndham, 71
MacCaig, Norman, 234
MacNeice, Louis, 189
Madge, Charles, 237
Manchip White, Jon, 345
Monro, Harold, 64
Muir, Edwin, 90
Nicholson, Norman, 284
Owen, Wilfred, 117
Plath, Sylvia, 388
Plomer, William, 151
Prince, F.T., 249
Quennell, Peter, 164
Raine, Kathleen, 214
Read, Herbert, 115
Reed, Henry, 287
Reeves, James, 217
Ridler, Anne, 242
Roberts, Michael, 149
Rodgers, W.R., 226
Rosenberg, Isaac, 113
Sassoon, Siegfried, 87
Scarfe, Francis, 232
Scovell, E.J., 210
Silkin, Jon, 382
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 139
Spencer, Bernard, 229
Spender, Stephen, 219
Thomas, Dylan,275
Thomas, Edward, 60
Thomas, R.S., 263
Thwaite, Anthony, 377
Tiller, Terence, 297
Tomlinson, Charles, 361
Treece, Henry, 240
Waits, John, 352
Waley, Arthur, 109
Warner, Rex, 167
Watkins, Vernon, 171
Williams, Charles, 84
Yeats, W.B., 39
Young, Andrew, 82
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