Contents xiii
To Mark Anthony in Heaven 990
Portrait of a Lady 991
Queen-Anne’s-Lace 991
The Great Figure 992
The Bull 992
Spring and All 993
The Red Wheelbarrow 993
This Is Just to Say 994
The Yachts 994
A Sort of a Song 995
The Dance 995
Raleigh Was Right 996
The Pause 996
The Ivy Crown 997
Marianne Moore (1887—1972) 999
Poetry 1000
In The Days of Prismatic Color 1001
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish 1002
No Swan So Fine 1002
The Frigate Pelican 1002
The Pangolin 1004
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1006
In Distrust of Merits 1007
A Jelly-Fish 1009
John Crowe Ransom (1888—1974) 1009
Winter Remembered 1010
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter 1011
Blue Girls 1011
Antique Harvesters 1012
The Equilibrists 1013
Allen Tate (1899—1979) 1015
Ode to the Confederate Dead 1016
The Swimmers 1018
Hart Crane (1899—1932) 1020
At Melville’s Tomb 1022
Voyages: I 1023
Voyages: II 1023
Royal Palm 1024
The Bridge 1024
To Brooklyn Bridge 1024
Van Winkle 1025
The River 1027