
C.H. Sisson Reader
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Poems
- From The London Zoo (1961) and other early poems
- On a Troopship
- In Time of Famine: Bengal
- The Body in Asia
- In a Dark Wood
- In London
- Sparrows seen from an Office Window
- In Kent
- Maurras Young and Old
- On the Way Home
- Silence
- Ightham Woods
- Family Fortunes
- In Honour of J.H. Fabre
- Nude Studies
- Tintagel
- To Walter Savage Landor
- Cranmer
- Knole
- On a Civil Servant
- Money
- Ellick Farm
- The Un-Red Deer
- The London Zoo
- From Numbers (1965)
- My Life and Times
- The Nature of Man
- A and B
- A Letter to John Donne
- Words
- The Thrush
- Adam and Eve
- Easter
- In Memoriam Cecil De Vall
- The Death of a City Man
- No Title
- Thomas de Quincey
- The Theology of Fitness
- What a Piece of Work is Man
- The Reckoning
- From a Train
- Numbers
- From Metamorphoses (1968)
- Virgini Senescens
- Catullus
- In Allusion to Propertius, I, iii
- The Person
- Every Reality is a Kind of Sign
- On my Fifty-first Birthday
- From the new poems in In the Trojan Ditch (1974)
- The Discarnation
- No Address
- Evening
- Aller Church
- The Usk
- Morpheus
- Somerton Moor
- In insula Avalonia
- Martigues
- A Ghost (1974, uncollected)
- From Anchises (1976)
- Cotignac
- The Quantocks
- Gardening
- The Evidence
- Eastville Park
- Marcus Aurelius
- The Garden
- Anchises
- Troia
- Est in conspectu Tenedos
- From Exactions (1980)
- The Desert
- Place
- The Zodiac
- The Pool
- Differently
- Style
- Ham Hill
- Moon-rise
- from The Garden of the Hesperides (****)
- The Herb-garden
- The Surfaces
- The Red Admiral
- The Morning
- For Passing the Time
- Leaves
- Autumn Poems
- Across the Winter
- In Flood
- Burrington Combe
- From the new poems in Collected Poems (1984)
- The Time of Year
- Two Capitals
- Athelney
- The Broken Willow
- Blackdown
- From God Bless Karl Marx! (1987)
- Read me or not
- Vigil and Ode for St George's Day
- Waking
- The Absence
- The Hare
- God Bless Karl Marx!
- Looking at Old Note-Books
- Taxila
- From Antidotes (1991)
- Fifteen Sonnets
- The Christmas Rose
- Uncertainty
- Muchelney Abbey (from On the Departure)
- From What and Who (1994)
- The Mendips
- Et in Arcadia ego
- Steps to the Temple
- April
- The Lack
- Peat
- Trees in a Mist
- The Levels
- Broadmead Brook
- Absence
- Casualty
- Poems from Collected Poems (1998)
- Five Lines
- Triptych
- Tristia
- The Verb To Be
- Indefinition
- Finale
- Translations
- Roman Poems
- Carmen Saeculare (Horace)
- Palinurus (Virgil, Aeneid V, 835ff.)
- The Descent (Virgil, Aeneid VI)
- Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi (Horace, Odes I, xi)
- Hactenus arvorum cultus (Virgil, Georgics II)
- Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume (Horace, Odes II, xiv)
- Essays
- From the New English Weekly (1937-1949)
- Charles Maurras and the Idea of a Patriot King
- Prejudice as an Aid to Government
- English Liberalism
- The Civil Service
- Charles Péguy
- Epitaph on Nuremberg
- T.S. Eliot on Culture
- Ego Scriptor: The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound
- Order and Anarchy: An Essay on Intellectual Liberty
- Charles Maurras
- Reflections on Marvell's Ode
- The Nature of Public Administration
- A Note on the Monarchy
- Autobiographical Reflections on Politics
- Natural History
- The Study of Affairs
- William Barnes
- Sevenoaks Essays/Native Ruminations
- Introduction
- A Possible Anglicanism
- An Essay on Identity
- 'Call No Man Happy Until he is Dead'
- On the Eros of Poetry
- A Note on Morality
- On Poetic Architecture
- Le Roi Soleil
- By Way of Explanation
- The Politics of Wyndham Lewis
- From English Poetry 1900-1950: An Assessment
- W.B. Yeats
- T.S. Eliot
- Edward Thomas
- From The Case of Walter Bagehot
- Chapter Four: The Art of Money
- Songs in the Night: The Work of Henry Vaughan the Silurist
- Forewords from In the Trojan Ditch
- Looking Back on Maurras
- A Four Letter Word
- Poetry and Myth
- Poetry and Sincerity
- The Poet and the Translator
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Poem Titles
- Index of First Lines
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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