Atlantic Wall and Other Poems / / Rosalie Littell Colie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Colie, Rosalie Littell,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1302
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)

A noted historian of Renaissance English literature and scholar of comparative literature, Rosalie L. Colie was also a serious poet. This volume brings together 31 of her poems, illustrating the striking interplay between her scholarship and her personal response to the world. The title poem and the shorter poems that follow testify to Professor Colie's versatility as a poet. There are sonnets, elegies, metaphysical speculations, pastorals, love poems all imbued with the intelligence and sensibility that pervaded her life and work.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Atlantic Wall -- Farmstead -- A Divination in October for Spring -- Meadow in Spring -- Petrarch's Vaucluse -- Homo Faber on His Birthday -- Timepiece -- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus -- Cordelia -- Views of Delft -- Eve to Adam -- The Shortest Distance -- Leda -- State of Nature -- Earth's Sonnet -- Eurydice -- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning -- A Valediction of the Imagination -- Sonnets -- I. Through Judgment's brazen bray -- II. At that fanfaronade -- III. Met at this instant -- IV. Our shoulders sore from shoving up the earth -- V. The untold time we line up for our turn -- VI. The angel, poised with scales -- VII. If Judgment were -- VIII. What human dignity may be -- The End -- Night Animals -- Amour Pro pre -- Falling Out -- My love is neat -- Your hurt is only in my mind -- Where I Lie -- My peregrine slipped her jesses -- Pastoral -- Most memorable pains we manage to forget