Collected poems / Robert Conquest ; edited by Elizabeth Conquest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conquest, Robert, author.

Contributor:

Conquest, Elizabeth, editor.

Standardized Title:

Poems.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK : The Waywiser Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: [1944

1947]

For The Death Of A Poet

Dawn Near Bari

In The Marshes

From POEMS [1955]

Nantucket

Guided Missiles Experimental Range

Stendhal's Consulate

Background Music

Catullus At Sirmio (56 B.C.)

A Girl In The Snow

Lake Success

To A Girl Who Dreamt About A Poem

The Landing In Deucalion*

A Woman Poet

Near Jakobselv

The Rokeby Venus

Antheor

Poem For Julian Symons

The Death Of Hart Crane

Significant Form

A Painting By Paul Klee

Dedee D'Anvers

A Level Of Abstraction

The Classical Poets

Reading Poetry After A Quarrel

Epistemology Of Poetry

Mating Season

Humanities

Another Klee

"Head Of A Faun" / Salvator Rosa

A Problem

Posillipo: 1944

Love And War

Poem In 1944

Caserta

A Minor Front

Arion

On The Danube

Lament For A Landing Craft

Sunset Under Vitosha

Lamartine At Philippopolis

Pliska

Aegean

Messemvria At Noon

By Rail Through Istria

Intherhodope

From BETWEEN MARS AND VENUS [1962]

Art And Love

For The 1956 Opposition Of Mars

Lake In Vermont

Pytheas

Galatea

Locality

If You Must

Excerpt From A Report To The Galactic Council

Great Lakes

Karnobat

To Launch The Satellites

Non-Aristotelian Poem

Jet Over The Pacific

Small Hours

Generalities

Baie Des Anges

Bari Harbour: Remembering Dreams

Birmingham

The Virtues Of Poetry

Susquehanna

The Apples

Malbosquet

Vision

Eastern Shore

A Girl At Sea

Evening On Lake Garda

A Sort Of Zeitgeist

The Abolitionist

Near The Death Of Ovid

Watering Place

Balchik

Varshetz

A Performance Of "Boris Godunov

Spotsylvania County

Address To An Undergraduate Society

Keats In 1819

Kafka's "The City"

Spring On Puget Sound

Man And Woman

From ARIAS FROM A LOVE OPERA [1969]

Seal Rocks: San Francisco

Measure Of All Things

Chateaubriand's Grave

Then

Romantic

The Return

Revue Bar Strip

Dictator

Art And Civilization

Reading Coleridge

Budapest In 1945

Loss Of Nerve

Rio Negro

Memoirs

You Get Used To It

County Clare

Near Corinth

George Orwell

Far West

Tone Of Voice

Houghton House

Film Revival: "Tales Of Hoffman"

Vassar

A Chinese Painting

Moby Dick

Motives

A Seattle Parkland

Byron's Sex-Life

Towards

Thealogy

High Ground

Existences: Zurich

Two Arias

COMING ACROSS [1978]

Coming Across

From THE ABOMINATION OF MOAB [1979]

Two Housman Torsos

High Definition

Literature In Soho

Verse Translation

Far Out

Socialist Realism

Poem About A Poem About A Poem

Visiting Poet

Avant-Garde

Waste Land Patrol

Back To The Thirties?

From FORAYS [1979]

Casualty Ward

I Know Not Where

Aurora: Gulf Of St. Lawrence

Immortality?

To Be A Pilgrim

On That Island

The Poet's Morning

Later

Try Again

The Ruins Of Carthage

747

The Sacred Pool, Dzibilchaltun

Sundowner

The Phases Of Venus

Appalachian Convalescence

In No Time

Technique

Get Lost Gulag Archipelago!

Then And There

Transatlantic, Old Style

Heraldry

A Visit To The Evans Country

Notes For A Weather Poem

After Writing An Obituary

1944 And After

Two At Lake Tenaya

From NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS [1988]

Halemaumau Firepit

Porlock: One In Four

High

Here's How

On An X-Ray Photograph Of The Poet's Skull

As It Comes

One Way To Look At It

In Memory

Breathings

A Matter Of Degree

In Memory Of Lionel Trilling

A Georgia Graduation

Cliches

Walk That Way

On The Streets

Paul Valery's "Genoa Night"

Honeymoon In Honduras

Contact

The Beach-Boy's Song

The Other World

Similitude

Bagpipes At The Biltmore

Transpolar

Second Death

Pont Des Arts

Circumstance

The Peninsula

Winter Welcome To A West Texan

Outlaws

Kennedy Centre

Air And Water

Late Pass

So

From PENULTIMATA [2009]

Ignition

In Attendance

Two Occasions

Only Natural

On The Veranda

Beyond Them

Looking Up

Anniversary

Afterwards

The Last Day (Embarkation Leave)

Lost Love

Phryne

In Both Senses

Deep Down

Goethe In 1816

The Idea Of Virginia

Placervtlle

Below The Belt

Campania

At The Rebirth Of St. Petersburg

In Place

Whenever

Demons Don't

I. M.

This Be The Worse

Vespers

On The Solent

A Tasting

Through Persepolis

Quando Dormitant Two Translations / Andrei Voznesensky

1. Evening On The Building Site

2. You Live At Your Aunt's

Muzak In The Men's Room (Beverly Hills)

Distancing

Regrets At Being Unable To Attend A Soho Poetry Reading / Mr Scannell

Far And Away

Sooner Or Later

Elemental

In Suspense

Equatorial

Offshoots

Nocturne

Extrapolation

Grace Notes

Reconnaissance

The Fells (Mid-19Th C)

Last Hours

Black Sea

Chalet

GETTING ON [2010]

Getting On

From BLOKELORE & BLOKESONGS [2012]

Fred Meditates On Nature

Unfair To Fred

Fred Forgets

Fred's Fane

Fred On Myth

Fred's Phraseology

Feckless Fred

Not Fred's Style

One Of Fred's Fancies

Fred Goes Into Detail

Fred In A Muddle

Fred Puts The Clock Back

Fred, Film Critic

Fred Fills One In

Fred And The Founding Fathers

Fred The Healer

Xxx Fred

Fred And Fable

Fred And Fifi

Footnotes From Fred

Fred Investigates

Fred Faces Facts

Fred And The Frigid

Fred And The Ars Amatoria

Fred On Fascism

Fred And The Double Standard

Fred Seeks Guidance

Fred Outflanked

Fail-Safe Fred

Fred And Fats

Fred On Feedback

Dear Fred

Fred Tries To Help

Fred On Literature

Fred Gives Up

Festive Fred

Fred For The Defence

Fred On Feminism

Fred Looks Back

Fred Gets It Wrong

Fred At A Wedding

Fred Has Faith

Et Fred In Arcadia

Fred Counts The Ways

Fred At The Finish

From REASONABLE RHYMES / Ted Pauker

Garland For A Propagandist

Epilogue: A Song For Gorbachev, 1991

A Trifle For Trafalgar Day

A Tale Of Academe

A Grouchy Good Night To The Academic Year

Letter To The Editor

LIMERICKS

Seven Ages: First Puking And Mewling

There Was A Great Marxist Called Lenin

My Demands Upon Life Are Quite Modest

Charlotte Bronte Said, "Wow, Sister! What A Man!

Said Tennyson, "Yes Locksley Hall's

There Was A Young Fellow Called Shit

Said A Gloomy You Fellow Called Fart

Said The Famous Philosopher Russell

Said Arnold To Arthur Hugh Clough

Would You Like A Love-Life Like Dante's?

As I Whizzed `Round My 35Th Lap

Said A Stammering Wit Out At Woking

Said Pedro, "I Went Out With Hester

Oedipus Said To The Sphinx

There Was A Young Fellow Called Bernard

We're Very Refined Down In Georgia

I Was Thrilled When I Went To The Zoo

There Was Plenty Of Good-Natured Chaff

When I Plunged In A Little Bit Deeper

My Prick's A Deep Heliotrope

One Morning Old Wilfred Scawen Blunt

In Palazzos Along The Old App-

A Rebuke By The Bishop Of London

I Write About Feudal Times, Yes, Sir!

A Taxi-Cab Whore Out At Iver

Shit. Yes, I've Just Found A Morsel In

Transcendentalists Back In Old Boston

There Was A Young Man Called Debrett

"When I'm Bored," Said The Learned Descartes

"Our Brains," Said The Great Thomas Hobbes

The Enormous Great Tool Of John Locke

An Example Of Kant's Sterling Wit

Said Edna St. Vincent Millay

When Gauguin Was Visiting Fiji

There Was A Young Fellow Called Crouch

When Our Dean Took A Pious Young Spinster

When Keats Was At Work On Endymion

Said A Dressy Old Beau Up At Barnet

We're All Of Us Very Much Struck

From The Latest Book On Miles Standish It

It Was Sad For Our Bishop, Who Spent

There Was A Young Girl From Mauritius

Young Coleridge Won, While At Ottery

"While Confessing A Lad," Said Gerard

When Eliot Was In Tibet He

A Young Engine Driver Called Hunt

A Usage That's Seldom Got Right

Said The Learned Philosopher Hume

Dr Spooner Taught Literature Too

There Was A Young Fellow Called Peter

There Was A Young Man Of Bermuda

Meanwhile Back At The Ranch

When A Man's Too Old To Toss Off, He

Said A Famous Old Writer Called Spender

The First Man To Fuck Little Sophie

To Prove That I'm Not Just A Hack

"Fucking? Though I Used To Love It

Leigh Hunt Once, When Talking To Landor

Said A Sexy Young Lady Called Sands

"Though I Bullshit In Greek," Said Old Browning

An Old East End Worker Called Jock

To This Snooty Girl I Tried To Pick Up

As Byron Remarked About Shelley

While Visiting Arundel Castle

Said Gauguin, "I Think That Tahiti's

With Jane Austen One's Interest Does Quicken

"Writing Verse Is A Matter Of Luck

"Your Rhymes Are All Typed. Will You Affix

Biology II On Our Campus

Said Pound, "If One's Writing A Canto

Said A Humble Young Wooer Of Tring

There Are Critics (Said Crabbe) Who Pooh Pooh

One Midnight Old Dante Rosetti

It's Sad About Old Dylan Thomas

It Wouldn't Be Easy To Check A

When Verse Seemed In Need Of Improvement

Contents note continued: When Philip Gets Pissed Off With Death

I'M Glad My Monicker's "Bum"

What Would Old Philip Have Said?

Your Committee Reports With Regret

So Romantic, The Cistern's Soft Hiss

Hello!

Yes, It's Me, Tony Benn

Tom, Much Maligned As "That Pisser", Peered

As He Sneaked Off From Greenwich, Once Halley

Said A Bisexual Bridegroom Called Ern

There Was A Young Fellow Of Dorset

There Was A Young Curate Who Shat

Whenever Our Bishop Unfrocks

Unpleasant, That Worship Of Molloch's

There Was An Old Copper Called Brock

There Was A Young Man With An Id

There Was An Old Man Of Lugano

It's A Pity That Casablanca

The Postmaster-General Cried: "Arsehole!

Said A Bashful Young Hillbilly, "Shucks!

In A Gym With A Girl At One's Exercises

Fucking, Some Hedonists Find

One Cannot, When Dealing With Toynbee

There Was An Old Poet Named Betjeman

A Young Girl Of El Paso Del Norte

My Stands, When I Go To The Cinema

A Recent Pronouncement Of Anne's

Till Lately The Three Musketeers

Old Landor Rushed Out And Said This

In The Nineties, That Curious Camp-Age

The Writings Of Barbara Pym

Nowthat I've Joined The Ranks

Our Existence Would Be That Much Grimmer Ex-

POEMS PUBLISHED ONLY IN JOURNALS

Song

At Godstow

Evening In The Cambridgeshire Fens

First Frost

APPENDIX I JUVENILIA

Perseus

Creation

APPENDIX II From OXFORD NOTEBOOKS [1937

1939]

Summer Lightning

Perfect Gentleman

Sonnet 1

Sonnet 2

Lilies

Leaves And Roots

APPENDIX III From WAR NOTEBOOKS [1940

1945]

Four Poems For Margaret Freeling

The Corfu Channel

Evening In Apulia

Base Hospital: Mental Case

Drinking Song For Some Intellectuals, 1940

APPENDIX IV From THE DEATH OF DIMITROV

Let Me Remember

APPENDIX V MISCELLANEOUS UNPUBLISHED POEMS

Night In Romagna

Homage

A La Mode

Fred Feels

Fred's First

Fred In A Different Key

Fred's Friend's Fate

A Failure Of Fred's

Fred On Freedom

Fred Notes Faults

Fred Disagrees

Fred Observes

Fred's Balanced View

Ballad Of The Brothers-In-Law

In Anticipation Of His Seventieth Birthday

Epithalamion.

ISBN:

1904130968

9781904130963

OCLC:

1133128384