Alan Dugan
Alexander Pope
Epistolary Teasing
Kidding and Tribute
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson: “His Excuse for Loving”
Music and Poetry
H.D. and Ben Jonson: Intense Rhythms
Form as a Quality
David Ferry
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
Gilgamesh: Tablet I, Part ii—The Double
What is "Great"
Gilgamesh: Conviction
What is "Great"
A Great Translation
What is "Great"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Millay: “I shall forget you presently, my dear”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Uneven Bars
Form as a Quality
Ballad to the Ballad Power
Form as a Quality
Elise Partridge
The Opposite of Freedom
Freedom & Meaning
Elizabeth Bishop
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
Building Up to the Immeasurable
What is "Great"
“Cold dark deep”
What is "Great"
“At the Fishhouses”: The Ascent
What is "Great"
Frank O'Hara
Michelangelo Meets O’Hara
Difficulty and Pleasure
Gail Mazur
Michelangelo Meets O’Hara
Difficulty and Pleasure
The Joy of Kvetching
Difficulty and Pleasure
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur”
Freedom & Meaning
H.D.
“You Are Caught in the Drift”
Form as a Quality
H.D. and Ben Jonson: Intense Rhythms
Form as a Quality
Henry Reed
The Negative of an Image
Kidding and Tribute
“Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Evening Postscript”
Kidding and Tribute
John Donne
John Donne, II: Specious Arguments Leading to Reality
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
John Donne, I: Thinking in the Sonnet
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
John Dowland
Downland’s Response to the Sonnet Tradition
Music and Poetry
Both Poem and Song: John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies”
Music and Poetry
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Montagu: “Champagne and a chicken”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Lewis Carrol
“Jabberwocky”: Sense = Nonsense
Freedom & Meaning
Mark Halliday
Halliday: “The Students”—Free to Jabber
Freedom & Meaning
Almost Flippantly
Freedom & Meaning
Michael Drayton
Courtship Games, II: “In my immortal song”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Meets O’Hara
Difficulty and Pleasure
The Joy of Kvetching
Difficulty and Pleasure
Robert Frost
Frost: “To Earthward”
Form as a Quality
Williams: “a solace of ripe plums”
Form as a Quality
Robert Hayden
“The Sound of Poetry” By Jay Anania
Form as a Quality
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky: “Street Music”
Music and Poetry
Robert Pinsky: “Samurai Song”
Music and Poetry
Robert Pinsky: “The Hearts”
Music and Poetry
Robert Pinsky: “Ginza Samba”
Music and Poetry
Samuel Daniel
Courtship Games, I: “A volume of despairs”
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Sappho
“The Sound of Poetry” By Jay Anania
Form as a Quality
Sara Peters
Form as Generator
Form as a Quality
Sir Phillip Sidney
If You Were Being Courted by Sir Phillip Sidney
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Stevie Smith
“Thoughts About the Person from Portlock”
Kidding and Tribute
T.S. Eliot
The Negative of an Image
Kidding and Tribute
Thomas Campion
“They Shorten Tedious Nights”
Freedom & Meaning
Singing, Junk and Drunk
Freedom & Meaning
Walt Whitman
Whitman: “Vigil Strange”
Form as a Quality
William Butler Yeats
Ferry, Bishop, Yeats
What is "Great"
“Of what is past, or passing, or to come”
What is "Great"
The Best Kind of Memorization
What is "Great"
William Carlos Williams
“A Sonnet Might Be Made of It” and Authenticity
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Williams: Teasing the Teasing
Teasing, Flirting, and Courting
Frost: “To Earthward”
Form as a Quality
Williams: “a solace of ripe plums”
Form as a Quality
William Shakespeare
