The Rattle Bag: The A Poems
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:08 am
OK - I've got the book.
The Foreword explains that Heaney and Hughes decided to put the poems in Alphabetical order, because to have arranged it according to author would have robbed the order of the poems of an unexpectedness which it now possesses. To have done it Thematically would have made it feel too much like a textbook. To have done it chronologically would have left whole centuries unrepresented and made the thing look a botched historical survey.
Thanks Saffron for supplying M-Z - I'll do A-L:
1. Adieu, farewell earth's bliss - Thomas Nashe
2. After his Death - Norman MacCaig
3. After Looking into a book Belonging to My Great-Grandfather - Hyam Plutzik
4. Afterwards - Thomas Hardy
5. Ah Sunflower - William Blake
6. Alfred Corning Clark - Robert Lowell
7. The Allansford Pursuit - Robert Graves
8. 'All the World's a stage' - William Shakespeare
9. Among the Narcissi - Sylvia Plath
10. The Ancients of the world - R S Thomas
11. And death shall have no dominion - Dylan Thomas
12. And in the 51st Year of that Century - Hyam Plutzik
13. And the days are not full enough - Ezra Pound
14. Angelica the Doorkeeper - Anon
15. The Angel that presided o'er my birth - William Blake
16. Anger lay by me all night long - Elizabeth Daryush
17. An Animal Alphabet - Edward Lear
18. Another Epitaph on an army of Mercenaries - Hugh MacDiarmid
19. anyone lived in a pretty how town - e e cummings
20. Apple Blossom - Louis MacNeice
21. The Artist - William Carlos Williams
22. As I came in by Fiddich-side - Anon
23. As I walked out one evening - W H Auden
24. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins
25. As Much as you Can - C P Cavafy
26. As the team's head-brass flashed out - Edward Thomas
27. As you came from the Holy Land - Sir Walter Raleigh
28. At Grass - Philip Larkin
29. At the Bomb Testing Site - William Stafford
30. At the grey round of the hill - W B Yeats
31. Auguries of Innocence - William Blake
32. Aunt Julia - Norman MacCaig
33. Autobahnmotorwayautoroute - Adrian Mitchell
34. Autobiography - Louis MacNeice
35. Auto wreck - Karl Shapiro
36. Aye, but to die, and go we know not where - William Shakespeare
That's the A's - B's in next post because I am scared of losing my typing.
The Foreword explains that Heaney and Hughes decided to put the poems in Alphabetical order, because to have arranged it according to author would have robbed the order of the poems of an unexpectedness which it now possesses. To have done it Thematically would have made it feel too much like a textbook. To have done it chronologically would have left whole centuries unrepresented and made the thing look a botched historical survey.
Thanks Saffron for supplying M-Z - I'll do A-L:
1. Adieu, farewell earth's bliss - Thomas Nashe
2. After his Death - Norman MacCaig
3. After Looking into a book Belonging to My Great-Grandfather - Hyam Plutzik
4. Afterwards - Thomas Hardy
5. Ah Sunflower - William Blake
6. Alfred Corning Clark - Robert Lowell
7. The Allansford Pursuit - Robert Graves
8. 'All the World's a stage' - William Shakespeare
9. Among the Narcissi - Sylvia Plath
10. The Ancients of the world - R S Thomas
11. And death shall have no dominion - Dylan Thomas
12. And in the 51st Year of that Century - Hyam Plutzik
13. And the days are not full enough - Ezra Pound
14. Angelica the Doorkeeper - Anon
15. The Angel that presided o'er my birth - William Blake
16. Anger lay by me all night long - Elizabeth Daryush
17. An Animal Alphabet - Edward Lear
18. Another Epitaph on an army of Mercenaries - Hugh MacDiarmid
19. anyone lived in a pretty how town - e e cummings
20. Apple Blossom - Louis MacNeice
21. The Artist - William Carlos Williams
22. As I came in by Fiddich-side - Anon
23. As I walked out one evening - W H Auden
24. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins
25. As Much as you Can - C P Cavafy
26. As the team's head-brass flashed out - Edward Thomas
27. As you came from the Holy Land - Sir Walter Raleigh
28. At Grass - Philip Larkin
29. At the Bomb Testing Site - William Stafford
30. At the grey round of the hill - W B Yeats
31. Auguries of Innocence - William Blake
32. Aunt Julia - Norman MacCaig
33. Autobahnmotorwayautoroute - Adrian Mitchell
34. Autobiography - Louis MacNeice
35. Auto wreck - Karl Shapiro
36. Aye, but to die, and go we know not where - William Shakespeare
That's the A's - B's in next post because I am scared of losing my typing.