Epilogue
Selected and Last Poems
Published on 3. May 2022
427 pages
978-1-63628-043-1 (ISBN)
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- FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON REVIEW: The late Frederick Morgan founded and edited The Hudson Review in 1947, remaining with it for 50 years
- ICONIC LEGACY: Frederick Morgan left a lasting legacy in the literary world
- FINAL, UNSEEN POEMS: This collection includes Frederick Morgan's final poems before his passing
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Frederick Morgan (1922-2004), a native New Yorker and graduate of Princeton University, served during WWII in the US Army's Tank Destroyer Corps. A founder of The Hudson Review in 1947, he edited it for fifty years, remaining affiliated until his death as Founding Editor. He published eleven books of poems, two collections of prose fables, and two books of translations. In 1984, he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In 2001, he won the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry. Morgan lived in New York City, with summers in Blue Hill, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan
- A BOOK OF CHANGE (1972)
- Port Caradoc
- Scotch Mary
- "Sometimes I hear ."
- Poem of the Self
- The World of Purple Light
- Then
- The Oppositions
- Etude
- The Reprieve
- The Way
- Nocturne
- Song
- The Vantage
- POEMS OF THE TWO WORLDS (1977)
- I
- In Silence
- "When it rained and rained ."
- Poem of the Gold Coin
- The Past
- Memories
- The Door
- 1949
- The Letter
- From a Diary
- Exotica
- II
- From a Forgotten Book
- Centaurs
- Bianca
- Mary
- Hideyoshi
- Pirate Poem
- The Rescue
- The Exiles
- Autobiographies
- III
- Two Poems to a Dead Woman
- Grandfather Poem
- Enigmas
- The Closed House
- Bones
- Maitreya
- IV
- Poems of the Two Worlds
- V
- Saying
- Blue Hill Poems
- Whale Poem
- "Anger at my heart one April morning ."
- Being, I
- Being, II
- "In a five-minute stillness in September ."
- Music
- Winter Poem
- First of May
- From the Kuan-Tzu
- The Step
- DEATH MOTHER AND OTHER POEMS (1979)
- I
- Canandaigua
- Moments
- As It Was
- The Touch
- The Turtle
- "We took a room at the Westbury ."
- The Turn
- February 11, 1977
- II
- Orpheus to Eurydice
- III
- Samson
- History
- The Trader
- In Mexico
- Abenaki Poem
- The Promise
- IV
- Death Mother
- V
- The End
- The Wrong Side
- The Ghost
- President Poem
- "Lucky black man in my dream ."
- Three Children Looking over the Edge of the World
- The Summit
- REFRACTIONS & SEVEN POEMS BY MALLARMÉ (1981)
- Euripides: Choral Passage from Hippolytos
- Catullus: Carmen v
- Catullus: Carmen xi
- Catullus: Carmen xli
- Catullus: Carmen ci
- Horace: Liber iv, Carmen vii
- The Emperor Hadrian: "Animula, vagula, blandula ."
- Asklepiades: Greek Anthology (v, 158)
- Asklepiades: Greek Anthology (vii, 217)
- Dante: "Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente ."
- Anonymous (Spanish, fifteenth century): The Prisoner
- Leconte De Lisle: In Excelsis
- Baudelaire: "Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville ."
- Baudelaire: A Voyage to Cythera
- Mallarmé: Sigh
- Mallarmé: Saint
- Supervielle: In the Forest
- NORTHBOOK (1982)
- I
- The Tree
- Odin
- Odin's Song
- Heimdall
- Freya
- Njord
- Aegir
- Ran
- Jormungand
- Thor
- Frigg
- Tyr
- Loki
- Loki's Song
- Balder
- II
- The Murder
- His Last Case
- Captain Blaze
- Omen
- The Skulls
- III
- "I remember the sea when I was six ."
- Alexander
- After
- Metamorphosis
- Interiorly
- Exile
- Castle Rock
- Encounter
- The Master
- "Now that at last I must forego ."
- IV SEVEN DREAM POEMS
- Gawain
- The Demonstration
- The Adventure
- The Reflection
- The Choice
- From the Terrace
- The Diagrams
- V
- The River
- New Poems (1987)
- The Christmas Tree
- Irvington
- Greenwich 1930s, I
- Greenwich 1930s, II
- Mr. Boyd
- 1904
- Anaktoria
- The Night Skater
- The Body
- Eight Triolets
- The Gorge
- POEMS FOR PAULA (1995)
- Words
- I MAINE
- The Hummingbird
- August
- Nightwatchers
- Autumn Moments
- II NEW YORK
- The Breathing Space
- "I love grim autumn days ."
- "I call it back ."
- First Snow
- New Year's Poem
- The Busses
- The Depths
- The Mermaid
- The Smile
- Envoi
- THE ONE ABIDING (2003)
- I
- Washington Square
- Eleventh Street
- The Clock
- 1932
- II
- May Night
- Dolores
- September 1957
- The Recreant
- The Parting
- III
- "I called up Myrtis from the dead ."
- Actaeon
- Hypatia
- In the Private Hospital
- The Tower
- IV
- The Sign
- The Burial
- The Shamrock
- Recollections of Japan
- Meditation at Sundown
- V
- The Watcher
- The Priest
- Nothing
- Rain
- "When I awoke at last ."
- After Shen Zhou
- LAST POEMS
- Season of Advent
- "The scene in the stable ."
- The Soldier
- Remember Waco
- Primer
- The Voice
- Chloris
- Encounter
- The Thaw
- Bank Street
- To Nancy
- On Madison
- Barbara
- "Did you see that blonde we passed back there-"
- The Garden
- Song
- Alison
- Two Songs
- Sub Rosa
- Tomorrow
- "A small apple orchard ."
- Perfection
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Notes
- Back Cover
