Babel to Byzantium: poets & poetry now

I. Poets and Poetry Now

In the Presence of Anthologies

Randall Jarrell

David Ignatow

Kenneth Burke

Gene Derwood

Howard Nemerov

W. S. Graham

Samuel French Morse

Reed Whittemore

Allen Ginsberg

Donald F. Drummond

John Ashbery

Rolfe Humphries

Herbert Read

Katherine Hoskins

Philip Booth

Kenneth Patchen

May Sarton

William Jay Smith

Robert Penn Warren

Richard Eberhart

Edwin Muir

Ted Hughes

Lawrence Durrell

Conrad Aiken

Margaret Tongue

Ellen Kay

James Merrill

E. E. Cummings

Emma Swan

Harold Witt

Winfield Townley Scott

Elder Olson

Nikos Kazantzakis

Thom Gunn

Brother Antoninus

Hayden Carruth

James Kirkup

Anne Sexton

Galway Kinnell

Charles Olson

William Stafford

Lewis Turco

W. S. Merwin

Theodore Weiss

Josephine Miles

Theodore Roethke

Louis MacNeice

Charles Tomlinsonʼs Version of Fyodor Tyutchev

Marianne Moore

John Logan

John Frederick Nims

Richard Wilbur

Robert Duncan

Horace Gregory

I. A. Richards

Yvor Winters

Robert Graves

Robinson Jeffers

Ralph Hodgson

Vernon Watkins

William Carlos Williams

J. V. Cunningham

Louis Simpson

William Meredith

John Berryman

Robert Frost

Edwin Arlington Robinson

II. Five Poems

Christopher Smart: A Song to David

Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Wreck of the Deutschland

Francis Thompson: The Hound of Heaven

William Carlos Williams: The Yachts

III. The Poet Turns on Himself

Barnstorming for Poetry

Notes on the Decline of Outrage

The Poet Turns on Himself.