Poems for the millennium : the University of California book of romantic & postromantic poetry / edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-2024.

Robinson, Jeffrey Cane, 1943-

University of California (System)

University of California Press.

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (957 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.

Language Note:

Multiple languages

Summary:

The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes. Now editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson bring a radically new interpretation to the poetry of the preceding century, viewing the work of the romantic and post-romantic poets as an international, collective, often utopian enterprise that became the foundation of experimental modernism. Global in its range, volume three gathers selections from the poetry and manifestos of canonical poets, as well as the work of lesser-known but equally radical poets. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, Rothenberg and Robinson feature prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry, along with more familiar forms seen here as if for the first time. The anthology also explores romanticism outside the European orbit and includes ethnopoetic and archaeological works outside the literary mainstream. The range of volume three and its skewing of the traditional canon illuminate the process by which romantics and post- romantics challenged nineteenth-century orthodoxies and propelled poetry to the experiments of a later modernism and avant-gardism.

Contents:

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three

Front matter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PRELUDIUM

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

THE SPIRITUAL DIARY

RAMEAU'S NEPHEW: AN IMPROVISATION

JUBILATE AGNO

THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS

OSSIAN: THE SONGS OF SELMA

JULIETTE , OR VICE AMPLY REWARDED

FOUR CAPRICHOS

PROMETHEUS

THE ROWLEY POEMS

SEVEN ANCIENT MONUMENTS. Map of Rudhall and Redcliff Wall

A LETTER TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND ON THE INJUSTICE OF MENTAL SUBORDINATION

AMERICA A PROPHECY: PRELUDIUM

A FIRST GALLERY. From Goethe & Blake to Solomos & Pushkin

MIGNON'S SONG

[Epigraph] Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience

THE NOTEBOOKS: 1789-1794

A LONDON SUMMER MORNING

A RED, RED ROSE

FIRST FLOWER-PIECE

CORINNE'S IMPROVISATION IN THE NAPLES COUNTRYSIDE

I ONCE ASKED THE MUSE

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING

THE GRASMERE JOURNALS

Novalis

[Epigraph] "The heart should have fed"

THE THEORY OF THE FOUR MOVEMENTS

DREAM-FUGUE: ON THE THEME OF SUDDEN DEATH

DARKNESS

ELEVEN ROMAN SONNETS: FOR THE POPE

SONG FROM PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

SOME ASIAN POETS

Prologue

FIFTEEN HAIKU

AUTUMN LANDSCAPE

FOR THE COURTESAN CH'ING LIN

BEFORE THERE WAS A HINT OF CIVILIZATION

I AM: A SONNET & A VARIATION

BUTTERFLIES, LINEATED

EZRA POUND, AFTER HEINE

CRIMEAN SONNETS

L'INFINITO

THE DESTRUCTION OF PSARA

THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I

A BOOK OF ORIGINS

PROLOGUE

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

PISTIS SOPHIA: O LIGHT OF LIGHTS

TWO FROM SANSKRIT

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

RIG VEDAAMERICANUS: TWO FOR THE GODDESS

SONG OF THE OWL

THE NIGHT CHANT

SIR PATRICK SPENCE

HOMER'S HYMN TO THE MOON

A POEM FOR THE GODDESS HER CITY & THE MARRIAGE OF HER SON & DAUGHTER

HANES TALIESIN / THE TALE OF TALIESIN

FRITHIOF'S SAGA

Christmas Gysarts [Mummers] Play from Bowden

NEGRO SPIRITUALS

SONG OF THE BALD MOUNTAIN WITCHES & MAGIC NYMPHS

FIVE DREAM WORKS, FROM COLERIDGE TO FREUD

The Notebooks

The King of Cats, a Ghost Narrative

Aurelia, or Dream and Life

Lenz

The Dream-Work

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

A SECOND GALLERY. From Hugo & Lönnrot to Swinburne & Mallarmé

THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE

KALEVALA

DREAM OF DYING

TWO SONNETS, FOR GEORGE SAND

GASPARD DELA NUIT: PREFACE AND SIX POEMS

PANORAMA

DAYS

SONNET-SILENCE

"FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL"

"HEAP CASSIA, SANDAL-BUDS AND STRIPES"

EIGHT LIMERICKS

THE ILLEGIBLE LETTER

SOME OUTSIDER POETS

I AM RAIFTEIRÍ

Anonymous Revolutionary Pamphlet from The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times

HISTORY OF NEZ PERCÉ INDIANS FROM 1805 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880

DEATHS ON THREE-MILE CREEK: 1841-1915

THE BOASTING DRUNK IN DODGE [1883]

THE SONG OF THE LOW

THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES, A PRISON-RHYMEINTENBOOKS

THE STRANGE EFFECTS OF FAITH

THE HONEST FARMER'S DECLARATION [1853]

MY DEMON

FRAGMENT FROM "THE SLEEPERS"

LINES-AFTER SHAKESPEARE

THE SPHINX

CORRESPONDENCES

THE MADMAN

DANTE'S NEW LIFE: HIS PITIFUL SONG

#1249

MY DREAM

O GUESA ERRANTE: THE WALL STREET INFERNO

JUDITH

SECOND CHORUS FROM ATALANTA IN CALYDON

"CETTE ADORABLE BAGUE"

A BOOK OF EXTENSIONS

LAOCOÖN

Two Shaker Vision Drawings

LETTERS TO EVELYN BARING

CONCRETE POEM: A MOUSE

CALLIGRAMS: THE BLEEDING-HEART DOVE AND THE FOUNTAIN

JABBERWOCKY

The Shakers

HOLY TRINITY NIGHT: THE NIGHT IN GALE'S SONG

CHARCOAL MAN

A RAILWAY OF RHYME

DEFORMATIONS

VOWELS & COLORS

WRITING ASLANT

THREE SYLLOGISMS

WORDS

IMPROVISATION: CONTADINI AND IMPROVISATORI

A TELEGRAPH HARP [1851]

THÈMES ANGLAIS: INDEFINITE ARTICLES

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN

THREE ALPHABETS

Jubilate Agno

A Hieroglyphic Alphabet

The Poetical Alphabet

SADAKICHI'S 1895 LIGHT SHOW

A THIRD GALLERY. From Hopkins & Nietzsche to Yosano & Apollinaire

STAR IMAGES: SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1864

OEDIPUS: SOLILOQUIES OF THE LAST PHILOSOPHER

CHANSON D'AUTOMNE

[Epigraph] "I replace melancholy with courage"

UNDATED FRAGMENT

MORNING OF DRUNKENNESS

[Epigraph] "Dans la pièce les femmes vont et viennent"

SOME ORIENTALISMS

THEBOOK OF LOS: ASIA

ARABIAN BALLAD

THE GIAOUR: LEILA AS GAZELLE

LES ORIENTALES: BOUNABERDI

BRAHMA

PASSAGE TO INDIA

L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE

STELAE: ROADSIDE STELAE

SIX FROM PHANTASUS

NOCTURNE III

I LOOK

IN THE LAND OF ALLEGORY

EXPLOITS AND OPINIONS OF DOCTOR FAUSTROLL, PATAPHYSICIAN

THE MAKING OF AMERICANS

SIX POEMS

ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, AND HERMES

THE WOMAN

MANIFESTOS & POETICS

TOWARD A WORLD LITERATURE

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL: REASON AND ENERGY

ON THE DIFFERENCE OF POETIC MODES

ADVERTISEMENT FOR LYRICAL BALLADS

SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE

ATHENAEUM FRAGMENT 116

A DEFENCE OF POETRY

TO RICHARD WOODHOUSE, 27 OCTOBER 1818

JOURNEY FROM MUNICH TO GENOA

PREFACE TO CROMWELL

THE POET

PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS

THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

LETTER TO THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY

CRISIS IN VERSE

POETRY AND VERSE

LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, MAY 15, 1871

AN ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO

CREDITS

FIGURE CREDITS

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612360657

9781282360655

1282360655

9780520942202

0520942205

OCLC:

814418003