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An edition of Selected poetry and prose (1960)

Selected poetry and prose

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Language
English
Pages
336

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Table of Contents

[I]. Poetry. 1. Ballads and tales
American names
Ballad of William Sycamore
The mountain whippoorwill
King David
The retort discourteous
Southern ships and settlers
Captain Kidd
French pioneers
Thomas Jefferson
John James Audubon
Daniel Boone
Western Wagons
2. Young adventure
8:30 a.m. on 32nd street
Mortuary parlors
Ghosts of a lunatic asylum
For all blasphemers
Architects
Talk
The golden corpse
To Rosemary
Nomenclature
Difference
A sad song
A nonsense song
3. My Fair Lady
To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel
Legend
Dulce ridentem
Illa
Hands
Memory
Memento Mori
4. Nightmares and visitants
Notes to be left in a cornerstone
Short ode
Metropolitan nightmare
Nightmare, with angels
Nightmare number three
1936
Sparrow
For city lovers
Do you remember, Springfield?
Ode to Walt Whitman
Nightmare for future reference
Minor litany
Nightmare at noon
They burned the books (radio script)
[II]. Prose.
1. Stories of America
Jacob and the Indians
The devil and Daniel Webster
Freedom's a hard-bought thing
Johnny Pye and the fool-killer
The die-hard
Glamour
The prodigal children
Schooner Fairchild's class
Doc Mellhorn and the pearly gates
2. Far from here and now
The barefoot saint
The bishop's beggar
The curfew tolls
Into Egypt
By the waters of Babylon
3. Criticism and letters
Foreword to Muriel Rukeyser's Theory of Flight
Epic on an American theme (correspondence with the Guggenheim foundation).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page xiv).

Published in
New York
Series
Rinehart editions -- 100

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.52
Library of Congress
PS3503.E5325 A6 1960

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 336 pages
Number of pages
336

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27956129M
Internet Archive
selectedpoetrypr0000unse
LCCN
60005174
OCLC/WorldCat
16674789, 224018140

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20674635W

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