A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936) Loveliest of Trees 1948 When I Was One-and-Twenty 1949 To an Athlete Dying Young 1949 Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 1950 The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux 1952 Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 1953
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR I
RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915) The Soldier 1955
EDWABD THOMAS (1878-1917) Adlestrop 1956 Tears 1957 . The Owl 1957 Rain 1958 The Cherry Trees 1958 As the Team's Head Brass 1959
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967) 'They' 1960 The Rear-Guard 1961 The General 1961 Glory of Women 1962 Everyone Sang 1962 On Passing the New Menin Gate 1963
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 1963 [The Opening of the Battle of the Somme] 1963
IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937) 1965 To His Love 1965 The Silent One 1966
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918) 1966 Break of Day in the Trenches 1967 Louse Hunting 1967 Returning, We Hear the Larks 1968 Dead Man's Dump 1969
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) 1971 Anthem for Doomed Youth 1971 Apologia Pro Poemate Meo 1972 Miners 1973 Dulce Et Decorum Est 1974 Strange Meeting 1975 Futility 1976
S.I.W. 1976 Disabled 1977 From Owen's Letters to His Mother 1979 Preface 1980
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893-1973) 1981 Rouen 1981 From Grey Ghosts and Voices 1983
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) 1984 Goodbye to All That 1985 [The Attack on High Wood] 1985 The Dead Fox Hunter 1987 Recalling War 1988
DAVID JONES (1895-1974) 1989
IN PARENTHESIS 1990
From Preface 1990 From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks 1992
MODERNIST MANIFESTOS 1996
T. E. HULME: From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911-12) 1998
F. S. FLINT AND EZRA POUND: Imagisme; A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste (1913) 2003
AN IMAGIST CLUSTER 2007
T. E. Hulme: Autumn 2008 Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro 2008
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H. D. 2009 Oread 2009 Sea Rose 2009
Blast (1914) 2009 Long Live the Vortex! 2010 Blast 6 2012
MINA LOY: Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914) 2015
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) 2019 The Stolen Child 2022 Down by the Salley Gardens 2024 The Rose of the World 2024 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2025 The Sorrow of Love 2025 When You Are Old 2026 Who Goes with Fergus? 2026 The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland 2026 Adam's Curse 2028 No Second Troy 2029 The Fascination of What's Difficult 2029 A Coat 2029 September 1913 2030 Easter, 1916 2031 The Wild Swans at Coole 2033 In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 2034 The Second Coming 2036 A Prayer for My Daughter 2037 Leda and the Swan 2039 Sailing to Byzantium 2046 Among School Children 2041 A Dialogue of Self and Soul 2042 Byzantium 2044 Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2045 Lapis Lazuli 2046 Under Ben Bulben 2047 Man and the Echo 2050 The Circus Animals' Desertion 2051 From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] 2053
E. M. FORSTER (1879-1970) 2058 The Other Boat 2059
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) 2080 The Mark on the Wall 2082 Modern Fiction 2087 A Room of One's Own 2092 Professions for Women 2152 A Sketch of the Past 2155 [Moments of Being and Non-Being] 2155
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JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) 2163 Araby 2168 The Dead 2172 Ulysses 2200 [Proteus] 2200 [Lestrygonians] 2213 Finnegans Wake 2239 From Anna Livia Plurabelle 2239
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) 2243 Odour of Chrysanthemums 2245 The Horse Dealer's Daughter 2258 Why the Novel Matters 2269 Love on the Farm 2273 Piano 2275 Tortoise Shout 2275 Bavarian Gentians 2278 Snake 2278 Cypresses 2280 How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 2282 The Ship of Death 2283
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 2286 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2289 Sweeney among the Nightingales 2293 The Waste Land 2295 The Hollow Men 2309 Journey of the Magi 2312
FOUR QUARTETS 2312
Little Gidding 2313
Tradition and the Individual Talent 2319 The Metaphysical Poets 2325
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923) 2332 The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2333 The Garden Party 2346
JEAN RHYS (1890-1979) 2356 The Day They Burned the Books 2357 Let Them Call It Jazz 2361
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971) 2372 Sunt Leones 2373 Our Bog Is Dood 2374 Not Waving but Drowning 2374 Thoughts About the Person from Porlock 2375 Pretty 2377
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) 237 8 Shooting an Elephant 2379 Politics and the English Language 238 4
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SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989) Endgame 2394
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) Petition 2422 On This Island 2422 Lullaby 2423 Spain 2424 As I Walked Out One Evening 2427 Musee des Beaux Arts 2428 In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2429 The Unknown Citizen 2431 September 1, 1939 2432 In Praise of Limestone 2435 The Shield of Achilles 2437 [Poetry as Memorable Speech] 2438
LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963) Sunday Morning 2442 The Sunlight on the Garden 2442 Bagpipe Music 2443 Star-Gazer 2444
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower The Hunchback in the Park 2446 Poem in October 2447 Fern Hill 2448 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2450
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR II
EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) Still Falls the Rain 2453
HENRY REED (1914-1986) Lessons of the War 2455
1. Naming of Parts 2455
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944) Gallantry 2456 Vergissmeinnicht 2457 Aristocrats 2458
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917-2003) At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux 2459 Armistice Day 2460
NATION AND LANGUAGE
CLAUDE McKAY (1890-1948) Old England 2463 If We Must Die 2464
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HUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978) [The Splendid Variety of Languages and Dialects] 2465 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 2466
1. Farewell to Dostoevski 2466
2. Yet Ha'e I Silence Left 2467 In Memoriam James Joyce 2467 We Must Look at the Harebell 2467 Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2468
LOUISE BENNETT (1919-2006) Jamaica Language 2469 Dry-Foot Bwoy 2470 Colonization in Reverse 2472 Jamaica Oman 2473
BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929) Translations 2477
KAMAU BBATHWAITE (b. 1930) [Nation Language] 2523 Calypso 2527
WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934) Telephone Conversation 2529
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937) Heredity 2531 National Trust 2531 Book Ends 2532 Long Distance 2533 Turns 2534 Marked with D. 2534
NGUGI WA THIONG'O (b. 1938) Decolonising the Mind 2535 From The Language of African Literature 2535
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) [English Is an Indian Literary Language] 2540
JOHN AGARD (b. 1949) Listen Mr Oxford Don 2542
DORIS LESSING (b. 1919) To Room Nineteen 2544
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985) Church Going 2566 MCMXIV 2568 Talking in Bed 2569 Ambulances 2569 High Windows 2570
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