London : : A History in Verse /

London : : A History in Verse / / ed. by Mark Ford.

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...

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Ford, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • John Gower (1330?-1408) from Confessio Amantis
  • William Langland (1330?-1386?) from The Vision of Piers Plowman
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?-1400) from The Canterbury Tales
  • Thomas Hoccleve (1367?-1426) from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue
  • John Lydgate (1370?-1449/50) from King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
  • Anon. (15th century) London Lickpenny
  • John Skelton (1460?-1529) from Collyn Clout
  • Anon. (1500?) "London, thou art of townes A per se"
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams"
  • "Who list his wealth and ease retain"
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) "London, hast thou accusèd me"
  • Anne Askew (1521-1546) The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate
  • George Turberville (1544?-1597?) The Lover to the Thames of London, to Favour His Lady Passing Thereon
  • Isabella Whitney (1548?-?) The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those in It, at Her Departing
  • Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) Prothalamion
  • George Peele (1556-1596) from King Edward the First
  • Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-1586) Tichborne's Elegy
  • Michael Drayton (1563-1631) from Poly-Olbion
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from Henry VI, Part II
  • from Henry V
  • from Henry VIII
  • Thomas Nashe (1567?-1601) from Summer's Last Will and Testament
  • Everard Guilpin (1572?-?) from Skialetheia
  • Ben Jonson (1572?-1637) from The Devil Is an Ass
  • On the Famous Voyage
  • John Donne (1572-1631) Satire 1
  • To Mr. E. G.
  • Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
  • Satire 4
  • Twickenham Garden
  • John Taylor (1580-1653) from The Sculler
  • from Sir Gregory Nonsense's News from No Place
  • Philip Massinger (1583-1640) from The City Madam
  • Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) from The Knight of the Burning Pestle
  • Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) Letter to Ben Jonson
  • On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey
  • Thomas Freeman (1590?-1630?) from London's Progress
  • W. Turner (?) from Turner's Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry
  • Abraham Holland (?-1626) from London, Look Back
  • Robert Herrick (1591-1674) An Ode for Him [Ben Jonson]
  • His Return to London
  • His Tears to Thamasis
  • Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London Sad London: An Echo
  • Edmund Waller (1606-1687) On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross
  • On St. James's Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty
  • John Milton (1608-1674) When the Assault Was Intended to the City
  • Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) A Ballad upon a Wedding
  • Thomas Jordan (1612?-1685) from The Cheaters Cheated
  • from The Triumphs of London
  • A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor's Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company
  • Sir John Denham (1615-1669) from Cooper's Hill
  • Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) from The Civil War
  • Richard Lovelace (1618-1657/8) To Althea, from Prison: Song
  • Simon Ford (1619?-1699) from London's Resurrection
  • Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) A Rhapsody
  • Anon. (17th century) The Cries of London
  • Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
  • John Dryden (1631-1700) from Annus Mirabilis
  • from MacFlecknoe
  • Anon. (pub. 1680) In the Fields of Lincoln's Inn
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) from A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country
  • Song ("Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to Counselor Knight")
  • A Ramble in St. James's Park
  • John Oldham (1653-1683) from A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal
  • Anon. (1684) A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There
  • Anon. (1684) from The Wonders of the Deep
  • Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660-1718) A Song
  • Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Description of the Morning
  • A Description of a City Shower
  • Clever Tom Clinch
  • A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
  • from On Poetry: A Rhapsody
  • John Gay (1685-1732) from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London
  • from The Beggar's Opera
  • Anon. (pub. 1719) The Fair Lass of Islington
  • Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser
  • A Farewell to London in the Year 1715
  • Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation
  • from The Dunciad
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) from Six Town Eclogues
  • Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754) On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750
  • John Bancks (1709-1751) A Description of London
  • Anon. (1739) Hail, London!
  • Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) from London
  • Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th-19th centuries) London Bridge
  • Oranges and Lemons
  • "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?"
  • "Poussie, poussie, baudrons"
  • "Up at Piccadilly oh!"
  • "See-saw, sacradown"
  • "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree"
  • "As I was going o'er London Bridge"
  • "As I was going o'er London Bridge"
  • "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod"
  • Pop Goes the Weasel
  • William Whitehead (1715-1785) The Sweepers
  • Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774) Description of an Author's Bedchamber
  • William Cowper (1731-1800) from The Task
  • Charles Jenner (1736-1774) from Town Eclogues
  • Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) Song for the London Volunteers
  • West End Fair
  • Charles Dibdin (1745?-1814) The Jolly Young Waterman
  • Poll of Wapping
  • Hannah More (1745-1833) from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Prison
  • Mary Robinson (1757-1800) London's Summer Morning
  • William Blake (1757-1827) Holy Thursday
  • The Chimney Sweeper
  • London
  • from Jerusalem
  • Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) London
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
  • The Reverie of Poor Susan
  • Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
  • from The Prelude
  • James Smith (1775-1839) and Horace Smith (1779-1849) from Horace in London
  • Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) To Hampstead
  • Description of Hampstead
  • Lord Byron (1788-1824) from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • from Don Juan
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) from Letter to Maria Gisborne
  • from Peter Bell the Third
  • John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852) Sonnet
  • John Keats (1795-1821) "To one who has been long in city pent"
  • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
  • Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
  • Thomas Hood (1799-1845) Moral Reflections on the Cross of St. Paul's
  • The Lord Mayor's Show
  • Sonnet to Vauxhall
  • The Workhouse Clock: An Allegory
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly
  • Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) Goodnight to the Season
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) from Aurora Leigh
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) from In Memoriam
  • from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
  • Cleopatra's Needle
  • Anon. (1851) Have You Been to the Crystal Palace?
  • Robert Browning (1812-1889) from Waring
  • Edward Lear (1812-1888) There Was an Old Person of Putney
  • There Was an Old Man of Blackheath
  • There Was a Young Person of Kew
  • There Was an Old Person of Bow
  • There Was a Young Lady of Greenwich
  • There Was an Old Person of Ealing
  • There Was an Old Person of Bromley
  • There Was an Old Person of Sheen
  • There Was an Old Man of Thames Ditton
  • Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) To the Great Metropolis
  • In the Great Metropolis
  • "Blessed are those who have not seen"
  • "Ye flags of Piccadilly"
  • Anon. (19th century) from The Cries of London
  • George Eliot (1819-1880) In a London Drawingroom
  • Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen
  • Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895) St. James's Street
  • Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
  • West London
  • East London
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Tiber, Nile, and Thames
  • Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) A London Fête
  • James Thomson (1834-1882) from Sunday at Hampstead
  • Henry S. Leigh (1837-1883) A Cockney's Evening Song
  • Anon.
  • (1893) Bloomsbury
  • Austin Dobson (1840-1921) A New Song of the Spring Garden
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Beyond the Last Lamp
  • The Coronation
  • In the British Museum
  • In St. Paul's a While Ago
  • Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening
  • A Refusal
  • To a Tree in London
  • Christmas in the Elgin Room
  • W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) To a London Sparrow
  • Robert Bridges (1844-1930) London Snow
  • Trafalgar Square
  • W. E. Henley (1849-1903) from London Voluntaries
  • from London Types
  • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Impression du Matin
  • John Davidson (1857-1909) London
  • Thirty Bob a Week
  • In the Isle of Dogs
  • Fog
  • from The Thames Embankment
  • A. E. Housman (1859-1936) "From the wash the laundress sends"
  • Mary E. Coleridge (1861-1907) In London Town
  • Amy Levy (1861-1889) A March Day in London
  • Straw in the Street
  • London Poets
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) In Partibus
  • The River's Tale
  • London Stone
  • The Craftsman
  • from Epitaphs of the War
  • Arthur Symons (1865-1945) from London Nights
  • from Décor de Théâtre
  • London
  • W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) from Vacillation
  • Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) London Town
  • By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross
  • Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) In Nunhead Cemetery
  • Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) As I Walked Through London
  • T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) The Embankment
  • Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
  • D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
  • Frances Cornford (1886-1960)
  • Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Monody on the Demolition of Devonshire House
  • T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
  • Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) Fleet Street
  • Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
  • Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) "I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair"
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
  • John Rodker (1894-1955)
  • Robert Graves (1895-1985) Armistice Day, 1918
  • A. S. J. Tessimond (1902-1962)
  • Stevie Smith (1902-1971) Suburb
  • William Empson (1906-1984) Homage to the British Museum
  • John Betjeman (1906-1984)
  • Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
  • Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
  • Bernard Spencer (1909-1963)
  • Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) London Buses
  • Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) Memento Mori
  • Roy Fuller (1912-1991)
  • Anne Ridler (1912-2001) Wentworth Place: Keats Grove
  • George Barker (1913-1991) Kew Gardens
  • Alun Lewis (1915-1944) Westminster Abbey
  • Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
  • Nicholas Moore (1918-1986) Monmouth Street
  • John Heath-Stubbs (1918-2006)
  • W. S. Graham (1918-1986) The Night City
  • Muriel Spark (1918-2006) from A Tour of London
  • Keith Douglas (1920-1944) from The "Bête Noire" Fragments
  • D. J. Enright - Ahren Warner (1986-)
  • Credits und Index

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