The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

The Language of Spring collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. 

Other contributors include: Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.

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The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

The Language of Spring collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. 

Other contributors include: Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.

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The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal

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The Language of Spring collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. 

Other contributors include: Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807068601
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 04/14/2003
Pages: 93
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 7.45(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

 Robert Atwan is founding editor of the Best American Essays series. His previous poetry anthologies include Chapters Into Verse, Divine Inspiration, and A Mind of Winter: Poems for a Snowy Season

Table of Contents

Introduction: Easing the Spring7
"Metamorphosis"15
"Equinox"16
"The Trees"17
"Vernal Sentiment"18
"Relearning the Language of April"20
"Late Snow"21
"Vernal Equinox"23
E.e. cummings, [in Just-]24
"April's Anarchy"27
"Out of May's Shows Selected29
"Touch of Spring"30
"Spring Changes"31
"Spring Was Begging to be Born"33
"At April"35
"April 5, 1974"36
"It is a Spring Afternoon"38
"From you have I been absent..."41
"This Fevers Me"43
"Eyesight"44
"Spring"45
"It's Spring Returning,..."47
"Song"50
"The Enkindled Spring"51
"The White Fury of the Spring"53
"The Widow's Lament in Springtime"54
"Spring"56
"A Cold Spring"57
"A Light exists in Spring"60
"A Little Madness in the Spring"61
"English Sparrows"62
"Done With"63
"Naming of Parts"65
"There Will Come Soft Rains"67
"Spring in New Hampshire"69
"Another Spring"70
"Mauve"71
"Lovliest of trees, the cherry now"73
Selected Haiku74
"A Prayer in Spring"76
"Hold April"77
Biographical Notes79
Credits91
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