A poet's prose : selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems / edited and with an introduction by Mary Kinzie.

Author
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2005], ©2005.
Description
xxxv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Details

Summary note
"Best known as a master of the lyric poem, Louise Bogan also published criticism, personal essays, and fiction." "The distinguished poet and critic Mary Kinzie provides a selection of Bogan's best criticism, meditations, letters, journal entries, personal essays, and short fiction as well as a generous sampling of her uncollected and unpublished poems."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Books / Louise Bogan
  • Louise Bogan in her prose / Mary Kinzie
  • I. Fiction
  • Keramik (1927)
  • Winter morning (1928)
  • Art embroidery (1928)
  • Soliloquy (1928)
  • Hydrotherapy (1931)
  • Sabbatical summer (1931)
  • When it is over (1931)
  • Zest (1931)
  • Journey around my room (1933)
  • The short life of Emily (1933)
  • The last tear (1933)
  • Conversation piece (1933)
  • Coming out (1933)
  • Dove and serpent (1933)
  • Letdown (1934)
  • Not love, but ardor (1934)
  • To take leave (1935)
  • Saturday night minimum (1935)
  • Whatever it is (1936)
  • II. Journals and memoir
  • On the Bogans
  • Self-portrait, with politics
  • Unsent questionnaire
  • Self-questionnaire
  • The sudden marigolds
  • The Gardner family
  • Mary Shields Bogan
  • Childhood in Boston
  • The repressed narrative
  • The Apercu
  • Managing the unconscious
  • Thumbnails
  • Out of all moments forever
  • The time of day
  • How can I break these mornings?
  • Final questionnaire
  • III. Letters
  • IV. Criticism
  • Colette (1930)
  • William Butler Yeats (1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1951)
  • W. H. Auden (1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1960)
  • Henry James (1936, 1944, 1945)
  • T. S. Eliot (1936, 1939, 1943)
  • Federico Garcia Lorca (1937, 1940)
  • Elizabeth Bowen (1939)
  • James Joyce (1939, 1944)
  • Ezra Pound (1940, 1948, 1956)
  • Gustave Flaubert (1942)
  • Folk art (1943)
  • Isak Dinesen (1943)
  • Detective novels (1944)
  • Andre Gide (1944, 1947, 1948)
  • Robert Lowell (1946, 1959, 1965, 1967)
  • Charles Baudelaire (1947)
  • The heart and the lyre (1947)
  • Marianne Moore (1948)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949)
  • Wallace Stevens (1950, 1954)
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett (1951)
  • Caitlin Thomas (1957)
  • Juan Ramon Jimenez (1958)
  • Philip Larkin (1958, 1965)
  • Dorothy Richardson (1967)
  • Poetry appendix : uncollected poems
  • A night in summer (1911)
  • The betrothal of King Cophetua (1915)
  • The young wife (1917)
  • Survival (1921)
  • Elders (1922)
  • Resolve (1922)
  • Leave-taking (1922)
  • To a dead lover (1922)
  • Decoration (1923)
  • A letter (1923)
  • Words for departure (1923)
  • Epitaph for a romantic woman (1923)
  • Song ("love me because I am lost") (1923)
  • Pyrotechnics (1923)
  • The stones (1923)
  • Trio (1923)
  • The flume (1929)
  • Old divinity (1929)
  • For an old dance (1930)
  • The engine (1931)
  • Gift (1932)
  • Hidden (1936)
  • New moon (1937)
  • Untitled ("tender and insolent") (1937)
  • The catalpa tree (1951)
  • Unpublished poems and drafts - dated works
  • Second act curtain (1933)
  • Lines written after detecting in myself a yearning toward the large, wise, calm, richly resigned, benignant act put on by a great many people after having passed the age of thirty-five (1934)
  • The lie (1935)
  • Lines written on coming to late in the afternoon (1935)
  • "I put the supposed" (1935)
  • "We might have striven years" (1935)
  • Four quarters (1936)
  • "You labor long to fit the pearl" (1936)
  • Entrance, with harp and fiddles (1936-37)
  • Poem at forty (1937)
  • Mozart [translation] (1939)
  • Portrait of the artist as a young woman (1940)
  • Leechdoms (1961)
  • The castle of my heart : a rondel [translation] (1966)
  • December daybreak (1967)
  • Unpublished poems and drafts - undated works
  • Fortune-teller's pack
  • Fantasy
  • "In what still rays"
  • Beginning of an unpopular song
  • Letter to Mrs. Q's sister
  • Three sonnets in autumn
  • Love severally rhymed
  • "O come again, distilled"
  • "When at last"
  • Index of prose / Louise Bogan
  • Index of poetry / Louise Bogan.
ISBN
  • 0804010706 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0804010714 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2004029395
OCLC
57342283
RCP
C - S
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