
Selected Poems
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'It's a reflection of Heath-Stubbs's creative generosity that he writes warmly about apparently trivial things, sometimes in a way that explores or hints at the momentous implications behind them'Edmund Prestwich, The North
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- Front Cover
- About the Authors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- From Eight Oxford Poets (1941):
- Leporello
- Illusion
- Wounded Thammuz (1942)
- From Beauty and the Beast (1945):
- Mozart
- An Heroic Epistle
- Valse Oubliée
- The Heart's Forest
- From The Divided Ways (1946):
- Don Juan Muses
- The Divided Ways
- From A Charm Against the Toothache (1954):
- Donna Elvira
- To the Mermaid at Zennor
- A Charm Against the Toothache
- Address Not Known
- Elegiac Stanzas
- Epitaph
- The Last Watch of Empire
- From The Triumph of the Muse (1958):
- St Luke's Summer
- The Unpredicted
- A Ballad of Pope Joan
- From The Blue-Fly in his Head (1959):
- Not Being Oedipus
- Lament for the 'Old Swan', Notting Hill Gate
- The History of the Flood
- From Selected Poems (1965):
- Variation on a Theme by George Darley
- From The Watchman's Flute (1978):
- Old Mobb
- The Watchman's Flute
- Christus Natus Est
- A Formality
- From Birds Reconvened (1980):
- The Scops Owl
- The Carrion Crow
- The Rooks
- The Jays
- The Greater Spotted Woodpecker
- The Heron
- The Curlew
- The Wheatear
- The Greenfinch
- The Chaffinch
- From Naming the Beasts (1982):
- A Paraphrase
- This Is Your Poem
- Greensleeves
- From The Immolation of Aleph (1985):
- Timur
- Nixon, the Cheshire Prophet
- Souvenir of St Petersburg
- The Pearl
- Epitaph for Julian Kollerstrom, Mathematician
- From Collected Poems (1988):
- To the memory of George Frederick Heath-Stubbs 1925-1983
- Moving to Winter
- From The Game of Love and Death (1990):
- The Game of Love and Death
- Mary Magdalen, Martha and Lazarus in Provence
- From Sweetapple Earth (1993):
- The Mulberry Tree
- From Galileo's Salad (1996):
- In Memory
- From The Sound of Light (1999):
- Apple Gripe
- Ten Kinds of Birds
- Fitz and the Mouse
- Not Actaeon
- From The Return of the Cranes (2002):
- Mary Kingsley and the Crocodile
- A Dream Transcribed
- Ancient Wisdom
- From Pigs Might Fly (2006):
- In the Porcelain Factory
- Three Translations from Giacomo Leopardi (1946):
- The Evening After the Holy Day
- To the Moon
- The Younger Brutus
- Index of Titles and First Lines
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