English Poetry
Eine Anthologie für das Studium
3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage
herausgegeben von
Arno Löffler und Eberhard Späth
Quelle & Meyer Verlag • Wiesbaden
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Vorwort
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SIR THOMAS WYATT
"I find no peace, and all my war is done"
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HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
"The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings"
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SIR WALTER RALEGH
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
"WhatlsOurLife?"
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BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN
"My lady's hair is threads of beaten gold"
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EDMUND SPENDER
"This holy season fit to fast and pray"
"Trust not the treason ofthose smiling looks"
"Most glorious Lord oflife"
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
"Loving in tmth, and fain in verse my love to show"
"Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace"
"She comes, and straight therewith her shining twins do move"
A Farewell
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THOMAS LODGE
Rosalind's Madrigal
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MICHAEL DRAYTON
"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part"
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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee")
Sonnet XX ("A woman's face")
Sonnet LV ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments")
Sonnet LXXIII ("That time of year")
Sonnet CXVI ("Let me not to the marriage")
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Sonnet CXXIX ("Th'expense of spirit")
Sonnet CXXX ("My mistress' eyes")
Sonnet CXXXVIII ("When my love swears")
Sonnet CXLVI ("Poor soul")
THOMAS CAMPION
"There is a garden in her face"
THOMAS NASHE
"Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure"
BEN JONSON
On My First Son
Song ("Still to be neat")
Song: To Celia
JOHN DONNE
Song ("Go and'c*atch a falling star")
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
Holy Sonnet X ("Death be not proud")
Holy Sonnet XTV ("Batter my heart")
ROBERT HERRICK
To Daffodils
Delight in Disorder
GEORGE HERBERT
The Collar
Jordan (I)
The Pulley
Redemption
EDMUND WALLER
Song (MGo, lovely rose")
JOHN MJXTON
At a Solemn Music
Lycidas
Sonnet XIX ("When I consider")
On His Dead Wife
RICHARD CRASHAW
Easter Day A
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RICHARD L'SVELACE
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
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ANDREW MARVELL
Bermudas
To His Coy Mistress
The Garden
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HENRY VAUGHAN
The Retreat
The Waterfall
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JOHNDRYDEN
Mac Flecknoe
88
APHRA BEHN ^
The Willing Mistress
98
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
• Verses Put into a Lady's Prayer Book
Love and Life
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100
ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
A Nocturnal Reverie
101
MATTHEW PRIOR
To Phillis
103
JONATHAN SWIFT
A Description of the Morning
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
On the Day of Judgement
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107
ISAAC WATTS
The Day of Judgement: An Ode
108
ALEXANDER POPE
Ode on Solitude
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Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town
Chloe: A Character
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JAMES THOMSON
Ode: Rule, Britannia!
114
THOMAS
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
116
WILLIAM COLLINS ,
OdetoEvening
121
WILLIAM COWPER
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
124
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD
The Rights of Woman
127
WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
TheLamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimriey Sweeper
InfantJoy
Songs of Experience
The Clod & the Pebble
The Chimney Sweeper
The Sick Rose
TheTyger
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London
InfantSorrow
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137
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142
ROBERT BURNS
AuldLangSyne
To a Mouse. On Tuming Her up in Her Nest, with the Plough
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145
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Tables Tumed
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
"The world is too much with us"
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Kubla Khan:Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
DejectipnfAn Ode
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161
THOMAS MOORE
"The.harp that once through Tara's halls"
167
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
"She walks in beauty"
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Prometheus
"So, we'l! go no more a-roving"
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172
PERCYBYSSHE SHELLEY
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
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178
JOHNKEATS
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Bailad
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Ode on a Grecian Um
ToAutumn
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
To George Sand. A Desire
To George Sand. A Recognition
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Sonnet from the Portuguese XXII ("When our two souls")
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The Lady ofShalott
Ulysses
The Charge of the Light Brigade"
ROBERT BROWNING
My LäSt Duchess
Andrea del Sarto
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MATTHEW ARNOLD
Dover Beach
East London
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Nuptial Sleep
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Lilith
CHRISTINA|rEORGINA ROSSETTI
Song ("When I am dead")
LEWIS CARROLL
Jabberwocky
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
The Garden ofProserpine
THOMAS HARDY
The Darkling Thrush
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The Windhover:
To Christ our Lord
Pied Beauty ^
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235
OSCAR WILDE"
Impression du Matin
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236
JOHN DAVIDSON
Thirty Bob a Week
237
RUDYARD KIPLING
Mandalay
242
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
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248
ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae_
250
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
Impression de Nuit: London
252
THOMAS ERNEST HULME
The Embankment
Above the Dock
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
Bavarian Gentians
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254
EDITH SITWELL
Still Falls the,Rain
The Raids*!"940. Night and Dawn
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256
RUPERT BROOKE
The Soldier
258
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Joumey of theMagi
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267
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WILFREDOWEN
Anthem for Doomed Youth
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
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271
JOHNBETJEMAN
In Westminstei%bbey - •
Devonshire Street W.l
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274
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
• The Capital
Musee des Beaux Arts
STEPHEN SPENDER
ThePylons
The Express
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RONALD STUART THOMAS
No Through Road
InChurch
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282
DYLAN THOMAS
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
"Do not go gentle into that göod night"
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285
KINGSLEYAMIS
Against Romanticism
287
PHILIP LARKIN
Whatever Happened?
ChurchGoing
Afternoons
Here
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294
295
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CHARLES TOMLINSON
A Meditation on John Constable
THOM GUNN
On the Move
TED HUGHES
The Jaguar
• HawkRoosting
Examination at the Womb-Door
Crow's Last Stand
SYLVIA PLATH
, . Spinster
TONYHARRISON
A Kumquat för John Keats
SEAMUSHEANEY
Anahorish •
Punishment
DOUGLAS DÜNN
The Clothes Pit
LIZ LOCHHEAD
Poem for my sister
Dreaming Frankenstein
CAROL ANN DUFFY
Poet for Our Times
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