London : a history in verse
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
ISBN
9780674065680 (alk. paper), 0674065689 (alk. paper)
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xxvii, 745 pages cm.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Cambridge - Adult | POETRY Ford, Mark | On Shelf |
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
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Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780674065680 (alk. paper), 0674065689 (alk. paper)
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 727-734) and index.
Table of Contents
John Gower Confessio amantis --
William Langland The vision of piers plowman --
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury tales --
Thomas Hoccleve La male regle de T Hoccleue --
John Lydgate King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London --
Anon. (15th century) London lickpenny --
John Skelton Collyn Clout --
Anon. (1500?) "London, thou art of townes A perse" --
Sir Thomas Wyatt "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" --
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "London, hast thou accusèd me" --
Anne Askew The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate --
George Turberville The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon --
Isabella Whitney The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing --
Edmund Spenser Prothalamion --
George Peele King Edward the first --
Chidiock Tichborne Tichborne's elegy --
Michael Drayton Poly-olbion --
William Shakespeare Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII --
Thomas Nashe Summer's last will and testament --
Everard Guilpin Skialetheia --
Ben Jonson The devil in an ass On the famous voyage --
John Donne Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --
John Taylor The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place --
Philip Massinger The city madam --
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The knight of the burning pestle --
Francis Beaumont Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey --
Thomas Freeman London's progress --
W. Turner Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry --
Abraham Holland London, look back --
Robert Herrick 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 On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty --
John Milton When the assault was intended to the city --
Thomas Jordan The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company --
Sir John Denham Cooper's hill --
Abraham Cowley The civil war --
Richard Lovelace To Althea, from prison : song --
Simon Ford London's resurrection --
Henry Vaughan A rhapsody --
Anon. (17th century) The cries of London --
Andrew Marvell An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland --
John Dryden Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe --
Anon. (pub. 1680) In the fields of Lincoln's inn --
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 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) The wonders of the deep --
Pierre Antoine Motteux A song --
Jonathan Swift 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 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 The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad --
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Six town eclogues --
Elizabeth Tollet On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 --
John Bancks A description of London --
Anon. (1739) Hail, London! --
Samuel Johnson 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" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel --
William Whitehead The sweepers --
Oliver Goldsmith Description of an author's bedchamber --
William Cowper The task --
Charles Jenner Twon eclogues --
Anna Letitia Barbauld Song for the London volunteers West End fair --
Charles Dibdin The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping --
Hannah More The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --
Mary Robinson London's summer morning --
William Blake Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem --
Joanna Baillie London --
William Wordsworth The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude --
James Smith and Horace Smith Horace in London --
Leigh Hunt To Hampstead Description of Hampstead --
Lord Byron Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan --
Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third --
John Hamilton Reynolds Sonnet --
John Keats "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern --
Thomas Hood Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory --
Letitia Elizabeth Landon Scenes in London : Piccadilly--
Winthrop Mackworth Praed Goodnight to the season --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle --
Anon. (1851) Have you been to the crystal palace? --
Robert Browning Waring --
Edward Lear 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 Clogh To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --
Anon. (19th century) The cries of London --
George Eliot In a London drawingroom --
Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen --
Frederick Locker-Lampson St. James's street --
Matthew Arnold Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London --
Dante Gabriel Rosetti Tiber, Nile, and Thames --
Coventry Patmore A London fête --
James Thomson Sunday at Hampstead --
Henry S. Leigh A Cockney's evening song --
Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury --
Austin Dobson A new song of the spring garden --
Thomas Hardy 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 To a London sparrow --
Robert Bridges London snow Trafalgar square --
W. E. Henley London voluntaries ; from London types --
Oscar Wilde Impression du matin --
John Davidson London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment --
A. E. Housman "From the wash the laundress sends" --
Mary E. Coleridge In London town --
Amy Levy A March day in London Straw in the street --
Rudyard Kipling In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war --
Arthur Symons London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London --
W. B. Yeats Vacillation --
Lionel Johnson London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross --
Charlotte Mew In Nunhead cemetery --
Laurence Binyon As I walked through London --
T. E. Hulme The embankment --
Ezra Pound Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley --
D. H. Lawrence Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 --
Frances Cornford London streets Parting in wartime --
Siegfried Sassoon Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house --
T. S. Eliot The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets --
Isaac Rosenberg Fleet street --
Richard Aldington St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche --
Wilfred Owen "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" --
Sylvia Townsend Warner Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery --
John Rodker The shop The searchlight --
Robert Graves Armistice Day, 1918 --
A. S. J. Tessimond Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne --
Stevie Smith Suburb --
William Empson Homage to the British museum --
John Betjeman The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells --
Louis MacNeice Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon --
Stephen Spender Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama --
Bernard Spencer Regent's park terrace Train to work --
Mervyn Peake London buses --
Kenneth Allott Memento mori --
Roy Fuller First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --
Anne Ridler Wentworth place : Keats grove --
George Barker Kew gardens --
Alun Lewis Westminster abbey --
Robert Lowell Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London --
Nicholas Moore Monmouth street --
John Heath-Stubbs Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate --
W. S. Graham The night city --
Muriel Spark A tour of London --
Keith Douglas The "bête noire" fragments --
D. J. Enright The stations of King's cross --
Philip Larkin Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses --
Donald Davie To Londoners --
Dannie Abse Street scene Soho : Saturday night --
James Berry Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 --
John Ashbery The tower of London --
Thom Gunn Autobiography Talbot road --
Connie Bensley Vauxhall Bottleneck --
Peter Porter Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas --
U. A. Fanthorpe Rising damp Widening the Westway --
Ted Hughes Fate playing Epiphany --
Derek Walcott Omeros --
Alan Brownjohn A202 --
Ruth Fainlight The same power --
Geoffrey Hill Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament --
Sylvia Plath Parliament hill fields --
Anne Stevenson Cashpoint Charlie --
Fleur Adcock Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London --
John Fuller London songs ; from The shires --
Ken Smith The London poems --
Seamus Heaney The underground District and circle --
Lee Harwood Rain journal : London : June 65 --
Grey Gowrie Outside Biba's --
Joseph Brodsky In England --
Derek Mahon Sunday Morning --
Hugo Williams Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill --
Iain Sinclair Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston --
Mimi Khalvati Earls court --
Carol Rumens Pleasure island, marble arch --
Wendy Cope Lonely hearts After the lunch --
Peter Reading Perduta gente --
Christopher Reid North London sonnet Exasperated piety --
Gillian Allnutt Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields --
John Agard Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames --
Grace Nichols Island man --
Charles Boyle The miracle at Shepherd's bush --
Andrew Motion London plane --
Linton Kwesi Johnson Sonny's Lettah --
Jo Shapcott St. Bride's --
Michael Donaghy The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --
Jeremy Reed Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman --
John Stammers John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke --
Carol Ann Duffy Woman seated in the underground, 1941 --
Alan Jenkins The London dissector --
Jamie McKendrick Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse --
Mick Imlah Cockney --
Sarah Maguire Almost the equinox --
Michael Hofmann kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road --
Maura Dooley Smash the windows --
David Kennedy The bombs, July 2005 --
Fred d'Aguiar Home --
Lavinia Greenlaw River history --
Glyn Maxwell The fires by the river --
Simon Armitage KX --
Alice Oswald Another Westminster bridge --
Daljit Nagra Yobbos! --
Nick Laird The tip --
Heather Phillipson German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London --
Ben Borek Donjong heights --
Tom Chivers Big skies over docklands --
Ahren Warner "Girl with ridiculous earrings"
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ford, M. (2012). London: a history in verse . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. 2012. London: A History in Verse. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-. London: A History in Verse Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ford, Mark. London: A History in Verse Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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