Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize / edited, with an introduction, by John Hollander ; advisory committee, Eavan Boland ... [et al.].

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Riverhead Books, 1997.Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. editionDescription: 196 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

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1573226467
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821.008

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PR 1175 C734 1997

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Introduction 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

Summary: One 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.

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Introduction
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
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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

One 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.

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