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The complete poems of American poet Donald E. Stanford, 1913-1998

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Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
134

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: List of Tables
Commendatory Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. New England Earth and Other Poems (1941)
For the Audience
Reflections on Fear
Monologue
For Hate
New England Earth
A Valentine ["Unproven love is the evading wraith"]
On a Child Lost in the Woods
The Grand Mesa
Wedding Wine
The Meadowlark
Noon at Neebish
The Bee
Letter from Widener Library
Song
Birthday Card (for David Stanford)
Spring
Sonnet on Graduation
Sonnet in Autumn
Rhesus
The Cartesian Lawnmower
Country Church
The Falls
The Sea Gull
Summer Scene
The Thrush
Bird Call
II. Poems Added in The Traveler. Allegorical Lyrics (1955)
Vacation Harvest
Bayou
The Intruder
The Old Woods
The Fountain of La Merced Cathedral
III. Poems Added in The Cartesian Lawnmower
and Other Poems (1984)
Tussle
For a Book of Elizabethan Madrigal Verse
IV. Separately Published Poems
The Lizard King Here
A Valentine ["Happy the past and time to be"]
V. Privately Printed Poems
The Funeral March of Life
Philosophy
VI. Unpublished Poems
Louisiana Winter
On Viewing an Aztec Pyramid
The Woodsman
Sunday Afternoon
Afternoon of a Poet
To an Aztec Indian Guide
On the Death of a Philosopher
The Hunt
"These geometric and eternal lines"
The Dream
The Loon
At the Grave of Edward Taylor
The Oriole at Dusk
The Return
Letter to Yvor Winters
Epitaph [ "What power can breathe to life again"]
Prayer
The Cocktail Party
Boudoir
Epitaph [ "This flesh must fade, though pure and bright"]
Eros
Atomic Apollo
Toast
The Personal Muse
Mr. Cunningham Addresses His Muse, Briefly,
Concerning the Bow-Wow Style
Exile
Design for Living
The Blizzard
After the Blizzard
Two Love Songs
To Edward Taylor
Epigram
Table of Stanford's Editions and Typescript Collections of Poems
Tables of Contents for the Published and Unpublished
Collections of Poems
Appendices
A. New England Earth and Other Poems: Opening Quotation
to the Volume and "Foreword" by Yvor Winters
B. Donald E. Stanford's Unpublished Description of the
School of Poetry to Which He Belonged
C. Excerpts from an Interview with Donald E. Sanford,
May 2, 1984
D. Excerpts from an Interview with Donald E. Stanford,
May 15, 1992
Introduction to Textual Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.
Includes poems from three published chapbooks, his privately printed poems, and all extant manuscript poems.

Published in
Lewiston, N.Y
Series
Studies in American literature ;, v. 51, Studies in American literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;, v. 51.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3537.T182 A17 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
134 p. :
Number of pages
134

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3954706M
ISBN 10
0773472088
LCCN
2001054357
OCLC/WorldCat
48131779
Goodreads
544484

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