Poems of London / edited by Christopher Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Christopher, 1949- editor.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Poetry.

London (England).

London (England)--In literature.

Literature.

England--London.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]

Summary:

"An anthology of poems from the Middle Ages to the present on the subject of London"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE THAMES AND OTHER WATERWAYS

The River's Tale / Rudyard Kipling

From Poly-Olbion / Michael Drayton

Impression du Matin / Oscar Wilde

From The Horse's Mouth / Joyce Cary

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth

Composed underneath Westminster Bridge / Denise Riley

Town in 1917 / D. H. Lawrence

Frost Fair 1684 / Anonymous

From An Arrant Thief / John Taylor

Charon / Louis Macneice

Ballad of the Londoner / James Elroy Flecker

`Delectable Creatures' / Jo Shapcott

London Seagulls / Cicely Fox Smith

Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen

In the Isle of Dogs / John Davidson

Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe

From On the Famous Voyage / Ben Jonson

Wailing in Wandsworth / Kit Wright

From Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser

From The Waste Land / T. S. Eliot

THE CITY AND WESTMINSTER

London / William Dunbar

Oranges and Lemons / Traditional

From Summoned by Bells / Sir Jomn Betjeman

The Bells / Tom Chivers

From The Anathemata: `The Lady of the Pool' / David Jones

City Street Cries / Anonymous

From Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson / Krancis Beaumont

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / John Keats

Plague / Sir John Davies

A Litany in Time of Plague / Thomas Nashe

The Fire of London / John Dryden

St. Stephen Walbrook / Ian Nairn

Holy Thursday / William Blake

A Few Words from Rev. Sydney Smith / Peter Bostock

In St. Paul's a While Ago / Thomas Hardy

Homage to Wren / Louis Macneice

Fleet Street / Arthur Henry Adams

London / William Blake

Hell / Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Princes in the Tower / William Shakespearf

Little Ease / Oliver Reynolds

`Who list his wealth and ease retain' / Sir Thomas Wyatt

From Holbein / Geoffrey Hill

Portraits of Tudor Statesmen / U. A. Fanthorpe

From Fire: A Song for Mistress Askew / David Harsent

From An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell

By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross / Lionel Johnson

Clever Tom Clinch, Going to Be Hanged / Jonathan Swift

A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson / Lawrence Durrell

Villes / Arthur Rimbaud

Big Ben / Virginia Woolf

Westminster Abbey / Francis Beaumont

The Statues of Buckingham Palace / Imogen Robertson

DIVERSIONS

From On St. James's Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty / Edmund Waller

From A Ramble in St. James's Park / John Wilmot

The Garden / Ezra Pound

Queen Mary's Rose Garden / Sylvia Plath

Jaguar / Ted Hughes

Serena I / Samuel Beckett

Homage to the British Museum / William Empson

Song of the Temple Maiden / Roisin Tierney

Imperial War Museum, November / Fergus Allen

Hampton Court / Alexander Pope

A Spellbound Palace / Thomas Hardy

Twickenham Garden / John Donne

Prologue to Henry V / William Shakespeare

From On the Death of the Famous Actor, Richard Burbage / Anonymous

On Salathiel Pavy: A Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel / Ben Jonson

From To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson

DAT AND NIGHT

London's Summer Morning / Mary Robinson

London Dawn / Ivor Gurney

Aubade 1940 / Geoffrey Matthews

Business Girls / Sir John Betjeman

The Real Scene / William Wordsworth

The Blind Beggar / William Wordsworth

A Description of a City Shower / Jonathan Swift

Fog / John Davidson

Pick-pockets / John Gay

An Old-fashioned Traveller on the Trade Routes / Rosemary Tonks

Buses on the Strand / R. P. Lister

To a Disused Phone Box / Luke Heeley

Red Lion, Duke of York Street / Ian Nairn

Lament for `The Old Swan', Notting Hill Gate / John Heath-Stubbs

Don Juan in London / Lord Byron

A Nocturnal Sketch / Thomas Hood

A Ballad of London / Richard Le Gallienne

The Embankment / T. E. Hulme

On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal / Sir John Betjeman

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / Eric Maschwitz

Behind the Scenes: Empire / Arthur Symons

Orpheus in Soho / Rosemary Tonks

From Soho / Richard Scott

From A Satire, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal / John Oldham

The Haunted City / Charles Churchill

A London Thoroughfare, 2 a.m. / Amy Lowell

Parliament Hill in the Evening / D. H. Lawrence

The World in the Evening / Hubert Witheford

Quiet Neighbours / Sylvia Townsend Warner

Regent's Park Terrace / Bernard Spencer

London Snow / Robert Bridges

One of These Nights / Derek Mahon

Greenwich Observatory / Sidney Keyes

NATURE AND PLACE

Ode to a Nightingale / John Keats

Keats at Highgate / Thom Gunn

A London Plane-Tree / Amy Levy

Letter from Town: The Almond-Tree / D. H. Lawrence

Closed Sky / Robert Lowell

Solstices / Ruth Fainlight

The Trees Are Down / Charlotte Mew

Earthquake in Camden Town / Charles Dickens

London / Emile Verhaeren

From Milton / William Blake

In the Fire-Frost Morning / Hilary Davies

On Living in an Area of Manifest Greyness and Misery / Martina Evans

If It Wasn't for the `Ouses in Between' / Edgar Bateman

From Fox Running / Ken Smith

From Jerusalem / William Blake

The Reverie of Poor Susan / William Worusworth

Seven Dials, London, 1880 / Bernardine Evaristo

Kerr's Ass / Patrick Kavanagh

SOME LONDONERS

All Specimens of Man / William Wordsworth

Whitechapel in Britain / Abraham Nahum Stenzel

A Long Look Back / Emanuel Litvinoff

The Mountains O'Mourne / Percy French

Grand Union Bridge / Ian Duhig

London Is the Place for Me / Aldwyn Roberts

Johnson Inglan Is a Bitch / Linton Kwesi

Immigrant / Fleur Adcock

What Ails the King? / John Agard

Sir Topaz & Da Elephant / Patience Agbabi

The Maunder's Praise of His Strowling Mort / John Shirley

Night's Scavengers / Fawzi Karim

`Why should I care for the men of Thames' / William Blake

Directions / Inua Ellams.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780593320204

0593320204

OCLC:

1230461384