Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry—Connecticut [Browse]
• Connecticut—Poetry [Browse]

Related name

• Barone, Dennis [Browse]

Series

• The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
• Garnet books

Summary note

Landmark collection illuminates the state through the work of its most prominent poets

Notes

• Includes index.
• "A Driftless Connecticut series book."

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Garnet Poems; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; EDITOR'S PREFACE; JOHN TRUMBULL (1750-1831); from Progress of Dulness; from M'Fingal; TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817); from Greenfield Hill; A Song; DAVID HUMPHREYS (1753-1818); The Monkey; Sonnet I; from The Address to the Armies of the United States of America; JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812); from The Hasty Pudding; from The Columbiad; JAMES ABRAHAM HILLHOUSE (1789-1841); from The Judgment, A Vision; from Sachem's Wood; LYDIA SIGOURNEY (1791-1865); The Western Emigrant; Death of an Infant; The War-Spirit; Indian Names
• HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896)The Old Psalm Tune; Above; The Miserere; HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820-1872); Suspiria Ensis; A War Study; All Together; CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935); In Duty Bound; To the Young Wife; ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH (1875-1937); Connecticut Road Song; Inheritance; First Letter; WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955); Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Of Hartford in a Purple Light; from An Ordinary Evening in New Haven; The Plain Sense of Things; The River of Rivers in Connecticut; MARK VAN DOREN (1894-1972); Going Home; The Unknown Army; The Seven Sleepers
• Anger in the RoomROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989); Small White House; Evening Hawk; Rather Like a Dream; Heart of Autumn; CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970); from As the Dead Prey upon Us; Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele; JAMES LAUGHLIN (1914-1997); Is Memory; The Old Men; from My Aunt; What the Pencil Writes; WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919-2007); The Open Sea; The Wreck of the Thresher; Winter Verse for His Sister; Here and There; RICHARD WILBUR (1921- ); In Trackless Woods; In the Field; Advice to a Prophet; "A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness"; The Beautiful Changes
• HAYDEN CARRUTH (1921-2008)The Sound of Snow; Stepping Backward; The Mythology of Dark and Light; JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995); A Tenancy; The Emerald; The Victor Dog; from Mirabell: Books of Number; Dead Center; F. D. REEVE (1928- ); Night River; Identity Crisis; Watersong; what the cranes said; DONALD HALL (1928- ); Christmas Eve in Whitneyville; White Apples; Kicking the Leaves; 1943; JOHN HOLLANDER (1929- ); An Old Song; Pageant of the Cold; That's for Oblivion; Collected Novels; Adam's Task; LEWIS TURCO (1934- ); Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1964; The Late, Late Show; The Recurring Dream
• Wake Disturbing SurfacesRUSSELL EDSON (1935- ); A Chair; A Stone Is Nobody's; The Ancestral Mousetrap; The Ceremony; The Matter; SUSAN HOWE (1937- ); Silence Wager Stories; BRENDAN GALVIN (1938- ); The Potatoes Have a Word to Say; The Connecticut River in Flood; from Wampanoag Traveler; DICK ALLEN (1939- ); Another Knowledge; On the New Haven Line; To a Woman Half a World Away; A Last Memory of Korea; The Persistence; GEORGE F. BUTTERICK (1942-1988); 1970; The Walker; Gurleyville Road; The Distances; DOUG ANDERSON (1943- ); First Blood; History Blues; The Oracle; Crows
• VIVIAN SHIPLEY (1943- )

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ISBN

0-8195-7310-8

OCLC

• 813285768
• 854969001

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