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London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

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London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

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Full title

London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Date

2012.

Call Numbers

G 2013/2205

Record Identifier

74VKZR5XrpkO

MMS ID

991018649249702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxvii, 745 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: from Confessio Amantis / John Gower -- from The Vision of Piers Plowman / William Langland -- from The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue / Thomas Hoccleve -- from King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London / John Lydgate -- Lon...

Contents note continued: Prothalamion / Sir Thomas Wyatt / Edmund Spenser -- from King Edward the First / Sir Thomas Wyatt / George Peele -- Tichborne's Elegy / Sir Thomas Wyatt / Chidiock Tichborne -- from Poly-Olbion / Sir Thomas Wyatt / Michael Drayton -- from Henry VI, Part II / William Shakespe...

Contents note continued: Letter to Ben Jonson / Francis Beaumont -- On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey / Francis Beaumont -- from London's Progress / Francis Beaumont / Thomas Freeman -- from Turner's Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry / Francis Beaumont / W. Turner -- from London, Look Back / Fr...

Contents note continued: A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor's Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company / Thomas Jordan -- from Cooper's Hill / Thomas Jordan / Sir John Denham -- from The Civil War / Thomas Jordan / Abraham Cowley -- To AIthea, from Prison: Song / Thomas Jordan / Richard Lov...

Contents note continued: A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There / Anon / John Wilmot -- from The Wonders of the Deep / John Wilmot / Anon -- A Song / John Wilmot / Pierre Antoine Motteux -- A Description of the Morning / Jonathan Swift -- A Description of a Cit...

Contents note continued: On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 / Alexander Pope / Elizabeth Tollet -- A Description of London / Alexander Pope / John Bancks -- Hail, London! / Alexander Pope / Anon -- from London / Samuel Johnson / Alexander Pope -- London Bridge / Nursery Rhymes -- Or...

Contents note continued: from Town Eclogues / Charles Jenner / Nursery Rhymes -- Song for the London Volunteers / Anna Letitia Barbauld -- West End Fair / Anna Letitia Barbauld -- The Jolly Young Waterman / Charles Dibdin -- Poll of Wapping / Charles Dibdin -- from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Pris...

Contents note continued: from Don Juan / Lord Byron -- from Letter to Maria Gisborne / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Peter Bell the Third / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sonnet / John Hamilton Reynolds / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- "To one who has been long in city pent" / John Keats -- On Seeing the Elgin Mar...

Contents note continued: Have You Been to the Crystal Palace? / Alfred / Anon / Lord Tennyson -- from Waring / Robert Browning / Alfred / Lord Tennyson -- There Was an Old Person of Putney / Edward Lear -- There Was an Old Man of Blackheath / Edward Lear -- There Was a Young Person of Kew / Edward L...

Contents note continued: Strike of the London Cabmen / Anon / Arthur Hugh Clough -- St. James's Street / Frederick Locker-Lampson / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Lines Written in Kensington Gardens / Matthew Arnold -- West London / Matthew Arnold -- East London / Matthew Arnold -- Tiber, Nile, and Thames /...

Contents note continued: To a London Sparrow / W. H. Hudson / Thomas Hardy -- London Snow / Robert Bridges -- Trafalgar Square / Robert Bridges -- from London Voluntaries / W. E. Henley -- from London Types / W. E. Henley -- Impression du Matin / Oscar Wilde / W. E. Henley -- London / John Davidson...

Contents note continued: from Vacillation / W. B. Yeats / Arthur Symons -- London Town / Lionel Johnson -- By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross / Lionel Johnson -- In Nunhead Cemetery / Charlotte Mew / Lionel Johnson -- As I Walked Through London / Laurence Binyon / Lionel Johnson -- The E...

Contents note continued: from Four Quartets / T. S. Eliot -- Fleet Street / Isaac Rosenberg / T. S. Eliot -- St. Mary's, Kensington / Richard Aldington -- In the Tube / Richard Aldington -- Hampstead Heath / Richard Aldington -- London / Richard Aldington -- Whitechapel / Richard Aldington -- Eros a...

Contents note continued: The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel / John Betjeman -- In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- Parliament Hill Fields / John Betjeman -- St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N / John Betjeman -- The Metropolitan Railway / John Betjeman -- Business Girls...

Contents note continued: Wentworth Place: Keats Grove / Anne Ridler / Roy Fuller -- Kew Gardens / George Barker / Roy Fuller -- Westminster Abbey / Alun Lewis / Roy Fuller -- from Redcliffe Square / Robert Lowell -- from Winter and London / Robert Lowell -- Monmouth Street / Nicholas Moore / Robert...

Contents note continued: Beginning in a City, 1948 / James Berry -- The Tower of London / John Ashbery / James Berry -- Autobiography / Thom Gunn -- Talbot Road / Thom Gunn -- Vauxhall / Connie Bensley -- Bottleneck / Connie Bensley -- Thomas Hardy at Westbourne Park Villas / Peter Porter / Connie B...

Contents note continued: from The London Poems / Ken Smith / John Fuller -- The Underground / Seamus Heaney -- District and Circle / Seamus Heaney -- Rain journal: London: June 65 / Lee Harwood / Seamus Heaney -- Outside Biba's / Grey Gowrie / Seamus Heaney -- from In England / Joseph Brodsky / Seam...

Contents note continued: Toussaint L'Ouverture Acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" / John Agard -- Chilling Out Beside the Thames / John Agard -- Island Man / Grace Nichols / John Agard -- The Miracle at Shepherd's Bush / Charles Boyle / John Agard -- London Plane / Andrew Mo...

Contents note continued: The Deadhouse / Jamie McKendrick -- Cockney / Mick Imlah / Jamie McKendrick -- Almost the Equinox / Sarah Maguire / Jamie McKendrick -- From Kensal Rise to Heaven / Michael Hofmann -- From A to B and Back Again / Michael Hofmann -- Malvern Road / Michael Hofmann -- Smash the...

Contents note continued: oo / Ahren Warner / Michael Hofmann.

Publication information

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

2012.

Subjects

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Called the flour of Cities all, London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the maj...

Alternative Titles

Full title

London : a history in verse / edited by Mark Ford.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience note

Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2013/2205

Record Identifier

74VKZR5XrpkO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKZR5XrpkO

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0674065689 (hbk.) :

9780674065680 (hbk.) :

DDC

821.0080358421

MMS ID

991018649249702626

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