03383cam a2200373 a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160060019000330070003000520080041000550100017000960200015001130200018001280350012001460400023001580410008001810500023001890820012002122450154002242500037003782600040004153000024004553360026004793370028005053380027005335051954005605200332025146500020028466500021028666500029028876500021029167000041029377000031029784015303BJBSDDR20260518121719.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta970317s1997 nyu r 000 0 eng  a 97010450  a1573226467 a9781573226462 a4015303 aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng aeng14aPR 1175bC734 199700a821.00800aCommitted to memory :b100 best poems to memorize /cedited, with an introduction, by John Hollander ; advisory committee, Eavan Boland ... [et al.]. a1st Riverhead trade pbk. edition aNew York :bRiverhead Books,c1997. a196 pages ;c21 cm. atextbtxt2rdacontent aunmediatedbn2rdamedia avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aIntroduction Written by John Hollander, framing the art and value of memorizing poetry. SONNETS Elizabeth Bishop — Sonnet John Donne — At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners John Keats — On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Emma Lazarus — The New Colossus George Meredith — Lucifer in Starlight John Milton — On His Blindness John Crowe Ransom — Piazza Piece William Shakespeare — Sonnet 18, Sonnet 55 Percy Bysshe Shelley — Ozymandias William Wordsworth — Composed upon Westminster Bridge powells.com SONGS This section includes well-known lyrical poems such as: William Blake — The Tyger Robert Burns — A Red, Red Rose Emily Dickinson — Dear March—Come in— Langston Hughes — The Negro Speaks of Rivers Lewis Carroll — Jabberwocky Rudyard Kipling — If Robert Frost — The Road Not Taken And many others by poets like Auden, Whitman, and Tennyson powells.com COUNSELS Featuring reflective and philosophical pieces, such as: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 (Anonymous, Old Testament) Ralph Waldo Emerson — Brahma Edward Fitzgerald — Excerpt from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam A. E. Housman — To an Athlete Dying Young Dylan Thomas — Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Christina Rossetti — Up‑Hill powells.com TALES Narrative-driven poems including: Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Kubla Khan Ernest Lawrence Thayer — Casey at the Bat Thomas Gray — Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Christina Rossetti — An Apple Gathering Lewis Carroll — Jabberwocky (might also appear here depending on layout) MEDITATIONS Contemplative and evocative poetry: Matthew Arnold — Dover Beach Emily Dickinson — Because I Could Not Stop for Death Robert Frost — Mending Wall John Keats — To Autumn Walt Whitman — A Noiseless Patient Spider Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Ulysses, The Kraken Gerard Manley Hopkins — Spring and Fall powells.com Acknowledgments Acknowledgement section by the editor John Hollander aOne hundred poems chosen specifically for memorization, a vanishing art. For the most part they are classics in rhyming accentual-syllabic verse. Among them: Kipling's If, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. 0aEnglish poetry. 0aAmerican poetry. 4aPoesía estadounidense  4aPoesía Inglesa1 aHollander, John, d1929-2013eeditor1 aBoland, Eavan, d1944-2020