Penguin Book of The Sonnet
Penguin Book of The Sonnet
Penguin Book of The Sonnet
EDITED BY
Phillis Levin
PENGUIN BOOKS
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Acknowledgments v
Introduction • xxxyii
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FRANCESCO PETRARCA (1304—1374): Canzoniere, 132 lxxvi
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (i343?-i4oo): FROM Troilus and Criseyde,
Canticus Troili lxxvii
GEORGE GASCOIGNE ( 1 5 3 9 - I 5 7 8 )
"That self-same tongue which first did thee entreat" 9
A Sonet written in prayse of the browne beautie , 9
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THOMAS.LODGE (1558^1625)
FROM Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies and amorous
delights
35. "I hope and feare, I pray and hould my peace" 29
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JAMES I (1566—1625)
An Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney 54
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ELIZABETH COBBOLD ( 1 7 6 7 - 1 8 2 4 )
FROM Sonnets of Laura .
1. Reproach 89
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W. B. YEATS (1865-1939)
The Folly of Being Comforted 155
The Fascination.of What's Difficult 155
At the Abbey Theatre 156
"While I,from that reed-throated whisperer"- 156
Leda and the Swan • • 157
Meru 157
A Crazed Girl 158
High Talk 158
TRUMBULL STICKNEY ( 1 8 7 4 - I 9 O 4 )
"Be still.The Hanging Gardens.were a dream" 165
Six O'Clock 165
RUPERT BROOKE ( 1 8 7 5 - I 9 1 5 )
The Hill , 166
Clouds 166
A Memory • . 167
- FROM 1914
The Soldier 167
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON ( 1 8 7 5 - I 9 3 5 )
Sonnet ("I had no thought of violets of late") 168
EDWARD THOMAS ( 1 8 7 8 - I 9 I 7 )
Some Eyes Condemn • 173
February Afternoon ' 174
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T. S. ELIOT (1888-I965)
FROM T h e Dry Salvages 180
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E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-I962)
"when thou hast taken thy last applause.and when" 194
"my girl's tall with hard long eyes" 194
"it is'at moments after i have dreamed" 195
"it may not always- be so;and i say" 195
FROM Sonnets—Actualities
I. "when my love comes to see me it's"( • 196
11. "it is funnyyou will be dead some day" 196
Vii. '-'yours is the music for no instrument" 197
X. "a thing most new complete fragile intense" 197
XII. "my love is building a building" 198
"i like my body when it is with your" 198
" 'next to of course god america i" . 199
"if i have made,my ladyintricate" 199
"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in" 200
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w. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
Who's Who . • 210
Our Bias ' 211
Montaigne 211
Rimbaud • 212
Brussels in Winter ' 212
FROM The Quest: A Sonnet Sequence
The Door • 213
FROM In Time of War\
XII. "And the age ended, and the last deliverer
died" 213
XXVII. "Wandering lost upon the mountains of our
choice" 214
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MURIEL RUKEYSER ( 1 9 1 3 - 1 9 8 0 )
Oil the Death of Her Mother 220
DELMORE SCHWARTZ ( 1 9 1 3 - I 9 6 6 )
The Beautiful American Word, Sure 220
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JAMES K. BAXTER ( 1 9 2 6 - 1 9 7 2 )
FROM Jerusalem Sonnets
1. "The small gray cloudy louse that nests in my
beard" . 245
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DOUGLAS DUNN ( B . I 9 4 2 )
France 278
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