
Collected Poems
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The London Zoo - his first major book - was published in 1961 when the poet was 47. Since that time his place has grown secure: he is one of the few direct English heirs of the great Modernists, a poet who grounds the enormous energies of that movement in English landscapes, especially those of Somerset, and reconciles the legacies of Eliot and Pound on the one hand and of Hardy and Edward Thomas on the other. The epigraph of his 1984 Collected Poems, which this volume updates and corrects, was from John Gower:
O gentile Engleterre, a toi j'escrits.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Early poems and The London Zoo (1961)
- On a Troopship
- In Time of Famine: Bengal
- In the Hills
- The Body in Asia
- Beyond the River
- The Hills Again: with a Horse
- The Writer
- In a Dark Wood
- Fellfoot
- In London
- Sparrows seen from an Office Window
- In Kent
- A Death
- The Attic
- The Retreat
- A Duckling
- The Night Ferry
- Vienna
- An Old Man
- Stockholm
- A Girl
- A Monument in Milan
- The Poet
- Maurras Young and Old
- Paludes
- La Plage, la Nuit
- In Sloane Square
- Dialogue between a Knight and a Lady
- Astronomy
- On the Way Home
- Silence
- Moritorus
- The Aeroplane
- La Biologie
- Thirty-five
- The Shape of Life
- Ightham Woods
- Family Fortunes
- Victoria Station
- The Origin of Species
- At the Airport
- Versailles
- Commuters
- In Honour of J.H. Fabre
- Ide Hill
- Epictetus
- The Art of Living
- Nude Studies
- At a Cocktail Party
- At an International Conference
- Tintagel
- St Gennys
- To Walter Savage Landor
- In Autumn
- Cranmer
- The Conversation of Age
- Knole
- The Luxembourg
- The Leopard and the Lynx
- Two Shepherds
- The Ragman
- On a Civil Servant
- Money
- Ellick Farm
- Heroes
- The Deer-Park
- The Un-Red Deer
- The London Zoo
- Numbers (1965)
- My Life and Times
- Good-day, Citizens
- The Nature of Man
- A and B
- A Letter to John Donne
- Act Munday
- Words
- At First
- Eros
- An Old Man
- The Thrush
- Adam and Eve
- Easter
- Nuptials
- By the Lift Gate
- Great Down
- A Young Woman
- Grandmother
- Loquitur Senex
- The Nature-Lover
- Things Seen
- The Lion Man
- The Temple
- Eclogue
- In Memoriam Cecil De Vall
- The Death of a City Man
- No Title
- On a Favourite Death
- Thomas de Quincey
- To Brian Higgins
- The Beach
- The Theology of Fitness
- What a Piece of Work is Man
- A Girl
- The Reckoning
- From a Train
- Amour Propre
- Consequences
- Numbers
- The Shortest Day
- Christmas at the Greyhound
- Metamorphoses (1968)
- To the Queen
- Human Relations
- Virgini Senescens
- In Preparation for an Epitaph
- Catullus
- The Queen of Lydia
- Eurydice
- In allusion to Propertius
- The Rope
- The Garden of Epicurus
- The Person
- The Doll
- Every Reality is a Kind of Sign
- The Recollection
- The Critic
- The Alley-Way
- The Withdrawal
- The Spectre
- The Regrets
- The Cave
- The Shape
- The Affirmative
- The Adventurer
- On the Coast
- Judith
- Public Places
- In Brewer Street
- On my Fifty-first Birthday
- Horatius
- Adam
- Homo Sapiens is of No Importance
- Horace
- The Man with a Family
- Orpheus
- Lines on the Rector's Return
- Metamorphoses
- Stanzas
- An Essay on God and Man
- The Consequence
- The new poems from In the Trojan Ditch (1974)
- The Discarnation
- For Patrick Swift
- No Address
- Hod Hill
- Anacreon
- Palaestra and Ampelisca
- Hactenus arvorum cultus
- The State of the Arts
- Evening
- The Salad
- Pickers and Stealers
- The Crucifix
- Trafalgar Square
- Daphne
- Ovid in Pontus
- Ambition
- In the Trojan Ditch
- Van Diemen's Land
- Aller Church
- Envy
- Summer Green
- Good Friday
- The Usk
- Saint Anthony
- Mortalia
- Seeming
- Morpheus
- In the Great World
- In Spring-time
- Sumptuary Laws
- Somerton Moor
- Ha! Vieillesse
- In insula Avalonia
- Dialogue of the Soul and God
- In Arles
- Martigues
- Anchises (1976)
- Saint-Rémy
- Frigolet
- Alyscamps
- Cotignac
- Sillans-la-Cascade
- Entrecasteaux
- The Quantocks
- The Clouds
- Gardening
- Seed-time
- The Evidence
- Philo the Magician
- Divine Poems
- Eastville Park
- Marcus Aurelius
- Drowning
- One Evening
- It is
- Perhaps
- The House
- The Garden
- Antres
- The Corridor
- The Lizard
- Anchises
- Over the Wall
- Langport
- An Elm withered by the Dutch Elm Disease
- The Noyade
- Swimming the Horses
- Drought
- The Spider
- The End
- Virtue
- Sunshine and Rain
- The Weather
- The Inscription
- Ulysses
- Sea-fall
- The Turn-down
- The Well
- Simois
- The Fire-bird
- Troia
- The Dew
- Cato
- The Question
- Est in conspectu Tenedos
- Exactions (1980)
- The Desert
- The Mirabel Sea
- Au Clair de la Lune
- Place
- Reason
- The Zodiac
- The Pool
- Differently
- A Baby asleep in a Passing Car
- Where?
- Licence to speak
- Whiplash
- Style
- Ham Hill
- New World
- Moon-rise
- The Garden of the Hesperides
- A Sleep
- The Herb-garden
- The Surfaces
- The South
- Della la Riviére sont
- A Visitor
- The Red Admiral
- The Last Day
- The Morning
- For Passing the Time
- Three Emblems
- The Cobblestone
- Narcissus
- Circe
- Leaves
- The Prospect
- The Goldfish
- The Resurrection
- The Skull and Cross-bones
- The River
- Autumn Poems
- The Whale
- Across the Winter
- An Afternoon
- Remembering the Dead
- The Commonplace
- The Grandfather Clock
- The Forest
- The Plant
- In Flood
- The Matter
- The Dark
- Burrington Combe
- Nobody hears what we say
- For The Queen's Jubilee
- Miscellaneous poems since Exactions (1980-83)
- The Time of Year
- The Badger's Trail
- Sequelae
- A Stray
- The Spring
- No garden
- The Dog-rose
- In the Silence
- The Hedgehog
- The Forest of Dean
- The May-Boy
- Black Rocks
- Two Capitals
- The Robin
- Athelney
- The Friend
- A Reflection
- Pocket-size Poems
- The Mistletoe
- The Rose
- Nightshade
- Teazles
- At the Window
- Frost
- A Purgatory
- In the West Country
- Sleep
- The Holy Family
- The Evasion
- Vauvenargues
- Anglicans
- The Broken Willow
- Blackdown
- Night Thoughts and Other Chronicles (1982-83)
- Night Thoughts
- Stokes Croft
- Mr Crocker
- Granny Underdown
- Arthur Fry
- The Methodists
- Montagu House
- In the Raj
- The Pleasers
- For My Brother
- God Bless Karl Marx! (1987)
- Antidotes (1991)
- Aller Moor
- The Quandary
- The Residue
- Fantasies
- On Reading Old Memoirs
- Fifteen Sonnets
- The Christmas Rose
- A Dialogue with Maurice Scève
- The Birth of Venus
- In the Apple-tree
- Thurloxton
- The Test
- Appearance
- The Begging-bowl
- Minerva
- Address
- The Blackbird
- Uncertainty
- Looking
- Azure may fade
- Endymion
- A Fossil by the Sea
- On the Departure
- 1: Deep-rooted Fears
- 2: The Sow's Ear
- 3: Muchelney Abbey
- 4: Nature is merciless
- 5: The Turf
- 6: The Geese
- In Other Words
- The Sands of Dee
- Waiting for Charon
- A Renaissance
- A Variation on Eustache Deschamps
- The Mind of Man
- For Thomas à Kempis
- Read me or not
- Vigil & Ode for St George's Day
- Waking
- Another Waking
- Cotignac Again
- The Absence
- Song
- What Do You Know?
- The Description
- The Hare
- On the Prayer Book
- To His Grace the Archbishop of York
- Thoughts on the Churchyard and the Resting-Places of the Dead
- Toys
- Miscellaneous Notes
- God Bless Karl Marx!
- Looking at Old Note-Books
- Things
- Epitaph
- Conclusions
- News
- On a Marxist Litteratus
- Conscience
- Up the Arts!
- For the Primate of All England
- In the Var
- To a Satirist
- The Voyage
- Ellick Farm Revisited
- Words
- Sisson's Good-night
- On the Edge
- Taxila
- On Reflection
- Et Praevalebit
- Better you should forget
- What and Who (1994)
- The Mendips
- The Wind
- Et in Arcadia ego
- Steps to the Temple
- I talk from distant times
- Holà
- Three Sonnets from the French of Jean-Baptiste Chassignet
- Esperance
- The Trade
- Explaining
- On living rather long
- Ascendant Lines
- Sonnet
- April
- The Traveller
- The Lack
- Eppur si muove
- To a Garden Asleep
- Thinking of Politics
- The Rake's Progress
- Peat
- A Storm
- Beside the River
- Trees in a Mist
- Figure
- The Levels
- Conversation
- Portrait of the Artist
- The Question
- Broadmead Brook
- Into the Darkness
- I who am
- On a Drawing
- The Mappemonde
- If I were accused
- In the Silence
- The Model
- The Rose
- Absence
- Casualty
- A Word in Time
- The Pattern
- Poems since What and Who (1994-98)
- A Valediction
- Five Lines
- Eve
- Triptych
- On the Shore
- Olim
- Tristia
- Necessity
- The Best Thing to Say
- Estrangement
- The Media
- The Verb To Be
- The Way
- Indefinition
- 'Poet, sergeant, Under Secretary'
- 'All the flatwater'
- Finale
- Appendix: Poems 1931-5
- Homo Sapiens
- A Prince in Prison
- The Age of Reason
- Invitation to Suburbans
- Tourist's Love-Song
- Two Poems
- Poem
- Two Poems
- Address to whom it may concern
- Bibliography
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
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