| ENGLISH564 | form of poetry
SUSAN TICHY / FALL 2002
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form & genre lists, page one Wyatt (16th c): Whoso list to hunt 113, My galley charged with forgetfulness 114 (abbaabbacddcee) Sidney (16th c): fr Astrophel and Stella: Loving in truth 192 (ababababcdcdee), With how sad steps 194 (Wyatt’s form) Spenser (16th c): fr Amoretti: One day I wrote her name 169 (Spenserian) Drayton (16th c): Since there’s no help 215 (Shakesperean) Shakespeare (16th c): any, especially: 29 When, in disgrace 236Wroth: any from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 313 (the first sonnet sequence by a woman in English and the only one of her time) Donne (17th c): Holy Sonnets: any, esp: 7 At the round earth’s 288, 10 Death be not proud 288, 14 Batter my heart 289 (Petrarchan) Herrick (17th c): The argument of his book 317 (couplet sonnet) Herbert (17th c): Redemption 329 (irregular) Milton (17th c): When I consider how my light is spent 378, Methought I saw (379) (Miltonic) Charlotte Smith (18th c): Written in the church yard at Middleton 652, Written near a port on a dark evening 653, Written in October 653 (Shakespearean w/ variations) Wordsworth (19th c): Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 727, Nuns Fret Not 727, The World Is Too Much With Us 735, Surprised by Joy 736 (Petrarchan) Shelley (19th ): To Wordworth 793 (Petrarchan w/ English quatrains), Ozymandias 799 (irregular), England in 1819 800 (irregular) Keats (19th c): When I Have Fears 832 (Shakespearean), E.B. Browning (19th c): I thought how once 856, The Soul’s Expression, To George Sand, When Our Two Souls (Petrarchan) Meredith: Modern Love 1007 Hopkins (19th c): God’s Grandeur 1062, The Windhover 1062, Pied Beauty 1062 (curtal), Felix Randal 1063, As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1064, Carrion Comfort 1064, No Worst 1065, I wake and fee 1065 (others Petrarchan, in “sprung rhythm”) Yeats (19t-20th c): Leda and the Swan 1095 (Petrarchan) Robinson (19-20th c): Reuben Bright 1107 (Sh. structure w/ Italian quatrains) Frost: Design 1135 (Petrarchan), The Oven Bird 1128 Stevens: A Clear Day and No Memories 144 Lawrence: Andraitx 1183 Sassoon: Glory of Women 1208 (P. structure w/ English quatrains) Ransom: Piazza Piece 1256 (P. structure w/ irregular rhyme scheme) McKay: The Harlem Dancer 315, To the White Fiends 315, If We Must Die 315, The Lynching, The White City 317, America 317, Mulatto 318, etc. Millay: I Being Born a Woman and Distressed 320 (Petrarchan), Love is not blind 321, Oh oh you will be sorry 321, Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree 321, Love is not all 327 Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth 1276, Dulce et Decorum Est 1276 cummings: next to of course god America 1284 (Petrarchan) or MAP 348 Toomer: November Cotton Flower 353 Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel 531 Kavanaugh: Canal Bank Walk 1347 (Shakespearean) Lowry: Delerium in Vera Cruz 1398 (Petrarchan), The Wild Cherry 1398 (Shakespearean) Davidman: This Woman 733 R. Lowell: The March I & II 763 (unrhymed) Brooks: Gay Chaps at the Bar 768 Clampitt: The Cormorant in its element 1508 (Petrarchan) J. Wright: Saint Judas 890 Rich: Twenty-one Love Poems 945 Knight: For Malcolm 971 Duffy (20th c): Prayer 1875 (Shakespearean)
NOTE: We will talk about the sonnet as a form in Week 3. At the end of the semester we will talk about some specific sonnet traditions of the 20th century, including: 1) thematized form: sonnets about closure, design, form,
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BLANK VERSE: Surrey (16th c): The Aeneid (sample some of it – this is the first blank verse in English) Milton: (17th c): Paradise Lost: any or all, esp. the first lines, from Book V l.73 (“myself am Hell” passage by Satan), or from Book V l.357 (O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold?). The Norton has Book IX. Charlotte Smith (18th c): from Beachy Head 655, or the whole poem on line Wordsworth (19th c): Lines (Tintern Abbey) 699, The Ruined Cottage 703, from The Prelude 714, or the whole poem on line Coleridge: The Aeolian Harp 739, Frost at Midnight 742 Emerson (19th c Am): The Snow-Storm 851 E.B. Browning (19th c): fr Aurora Leigh 857, and more of Aurora Leigh Robert Browning (19th c): The Bishop Orders his Tomb 915 Tennyson (19th c): Ulysses 896 Frost: Mending Wall 1121, Birches 1128, or MAP 84, 90, Home Burial 85, The Hill Wife 93 A. Lowell: The Sisters 48 Stevens: Sunday Morning 1151 or MAP 135 Bishop: The Man-moth 633 Van Duyn: Letters from a Father 1523 Ashbery: Rivers and Mountains 1627 Rich: Living in Sin 1679 Corn: Contemporary Culture and the Letter K 1811 Hall: Mangosteens 1863 Back to Top / Back to Form & Genre Index HEROIC COUPLET Queen Elizabeth I (16th c): Ah silly pug 131 Jonson (17th c): On my first son 291 Donne (17th c): Elegy XIX. To his mistress going to bed 281 Finch (17th c): Letter to Daphnis (W), A Nocturnal Reverie 519, On Myself 523 Milton (17th c): Lycidas (with variations) 354 Bradstreet (17th c): Author to her book 419 Dryden (17th c): Mac Flecknoe 473, fr Absolom and Achitophel (1st 30 ll.) 458 Behn (17th c): To the fair Clorinda who made love to me, imagined as more than woman 503 Finch (17th c): A Nocturnal Reverie 519 Swift (18th c): A description of a city shower 526, A Description of the morning 526 Pope (18th c): The rape of the lock 547, Essay on Criticism 539, or the whole poem on line Montagu (18th c): Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 580 Thomson (18th c): Winter 585 Wheatley (18th c.) To S.M. a Young Black Painter 661, On Being Brought from Africa to America 660 Leapor (18th c): Mira’s Will 616 Crabbe (18-19th c): fr The Parish Register 662, fr The Borough 668 R. Browning (19th c): My Last Duchess 911 Yeats: Adam’s Curse (couplet stanzas) 1086 Frost: Good-bye and Keep Cold 95 Rolfe: Little Ballad for Americans 619 Back to Top / Back
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HEXAMETER COUPLETS Blake: Holy Thursday 672 Gurney: First Time In 1262 Toomer: Reapers 352 Back to Top / Back
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SHORT COUPLETS Barbour (14th c, Scottish): from The Bruce: A! fredome Dunbar (15th-16th c, Scottish): Lament for the Makaris 71, In prais of wemen 73 Jonson (17th c): On my first daughter 291, Epitaph on Elizabeth LH 296 Herrick (17th c): The Vine 317, Delight in disorder 318 Milton (17th c): L’Allegro 365, Il Penseroso 369 (w/variations) Marlowe (17th c): A dialogue between the soul and body 434, To his coy mistress 435 Philips (17th c): Epitaph, on her son 482 Behn (17th c): Song (Love armed) 497, The Disappointment 497 Swift (18th c): Stella’s Birthday 528, The Lady’s Dressing Room 530 Montagu (18th c): The Lover: A Ballad 577 Leapor (18th c): Epistle of Deborah Dough 617 Burns (18th c): Tam o’Shanter 689 R. Browning (19th c): Memorabilia 933 Spencer: Lady, Lady 163 Cullen: Heritage 532 Back to Top / Back to Form & Genre Index
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