OSSIAN: THE SONGS OF SELMA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 19
5. PRELUDIUM
6. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT 23
7. THE SPIRITUAL DIARY 26
8. RAMEAU’S NEPHEW: AN IMPROVISATION 30
9. JUBILATE AGNO 34
10. THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS 42
11. OSSIAN: THE SONGS OF SELMA 46
12. JULIETTE , OR VICE AMPLY REWARDED 53
13. FOUR CAPRICHOS 58
14. PROMETHEUS 63
15. THE ROWLEY POEMS 65
16. SEVEN ANCIENT MONUMENTS. Map of Rudhall and Redcliff Wall 70
17. A LETTER TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND ON THE INJUSTICE OF MENTAL SUBORDINATION 72
18. AMERICA A PROPHECY: PRELUDIUM 76
19. A FIRST GALLERY. From Goethe & Blake to Solomos & Pushkin
20. MIGNON’S SONG 81
21. [Epigraph] Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience 95
22. THE NOTEBOOKS: 1789–1794 109
23. A LONDON SUMMER MORNING 114
24. A RED, RED ROSE 121
25. FIRST FLOWER-PIECE 133
26. CORINNE’S IMPROVISATION IN THE NAPLES COUNTRYSIDE 138
27. I ONCE ASKED THE MUSE 145
28. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING 160
29. THE GRASMERE JOURNALS 183
30. Novalis 190
31. [Epigraph] “The heart should have fed” 202
32. THE THEORY OF THE FOUR MOVEMENTS 217
33. DREAM-FUGUE: ON THE THEME OF SUDDEN DEATH 221
34. DARKNESS 230
35. ELEVEN ROMAN SONNETS: FOR THE POPE 243
36. SONG FROM PROMETHEUS UNBOUND 250
37. SOME ASIAN POETS
38. Prologue 279
39. FIFTEEN HAIKU 281
40. AUTUMN LANDSCAPE 285
41. FOR THE COURTESAN CH’ING LIN 286
42. BEFORE THERE WAS A HINT OF CIVILIZATION 288
43. I AM: A SONNET & A VARIATION 293
44. BUTTERFLIES, LINEATED 301
45. EZRA POUND, AFTER HEINE 314
46. CRIMEAN SONNETS 335
47. L’INFINITO 343
48. THE DESTRUCTION OF PSARA 358
49. THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I 375
50. A BOOK OF ORIGINS
51. PROLOGUE 395
52. THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL 397
53. THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD 397
54. PISTIS SOPHIA: O LIGHT OF LIGHTS 398
55. TWO FROM SANSKRIT 402
56. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 403
57. RIG VEDAAMERICANUS: TWO FOR THE GODDESS 406
58. SONG OF THE OWL 407
59. THE NIGHT CHANT 408
60. SIR PATRICK SPENCE 411
61. HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON 412
62. A POEM FOR THE GODDESS HER CITY & THE MARRIAGE OF HER SON & DAUGHTER 413
63. HANES TALIESIN / THE TALE OF TALIESIN 414
64. FRITHIOF’S SAGA 416
65. Christmas Gysarts [Mummers] Play from Bowden 417
66. NEGRO SPIRITUALS 421
67. SONG OF THE BALD MOUNTAIN WITCHES & MAGIC NYMPHS 425
68. FIVE DREAM WORKS, FROM COLERIDGE TO FREUD 426
69. The Notebooks 426
70. The King of Cats, a Ghost Narrative 427
71. Aurelia, or Dream and Life 428
72. Lenz 429
73. The Dream-Work 430
74. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 431
75. A SECOND GALLERY. From Hugo & Lönnrot to Swinburne & Mallarmé
76. THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE 435
77. KALEVALA 451
78. DREAM OF DYING 460
79. TWO SONNETS, FOR GEORGE SAND 466
80. GASPARD DELA NUIT: PREFACE AND SIX POEMS 476
81. PANORAMA 482
82. DAYS 494
83. SONNET—SILENCE 504
84. “FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL” 510
85. “HEAP CASSIA, SANDAL-BUDS AND STRIPES” 520
86. EIGHT LIMERICKS 531
87. THE ILLEGIBLE LETTER 540
88. SOME OUTSIDER POETS
89. Prologue 546
90. I AM RAIFTEIRÍ 547
91. Anonymous Revolutionary Pamphlet from The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times 548
92. HISTORY OF NEZ PERCÉ INDIANS FROM 1805 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880 549
93. DEATHS ON THREE-MILE CREEK: 1841–1915 551
94. THE BOASTING DRUNK IN DODGE [1883] 552
95. THE SONG OF THE LOW 553
96. THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES, A PRISON-RHYMEINTENBOOKS 556
97. THE STRANGE EFFECTS OF FAITH 560
98. THE HONEST FARMER’S DECLARATION [1853] 562
99. MY DEMON 563
100. FRAGMENT FROM “THE SLEEPERS” 569
101. LINES—AFTER SHAKESPEARE 584
102. THE SPHINX 590
103. CORRESPONDENCES 596
104. THE MADMAN 608
105. DANTE’S NEW LIFE: HIS PITIFUL SONG 619
106. #1249 634
107. MY DREAM 644
108. O GUESA ERRANTE: THE WALL STREET INFERNO 655
109. JUDITH 663
110. SECOND CHORUS FROM ATALANTA IN CALYDON 674
111. “CETTE ADORABLE BAGUE” 686
112. A BOOK OF EXTENSIONS
113. PROLOGUE 707
114. LAOCOÖN 709
115. Two Shaker Vision Drawings 710
116. LETTERS TO EVELYN BARING 712
117. CONCRETE POEM: A MOUSE 713
118. CALLIGRAMS: THE BLEEDING-HEART DOVE AND THE FOUNTAIN 714
119. JABBERWOCKY 715
120. The Shakers 716
121. HOLY TRINITY NIGHT: THE NIGHT IN GALE’S SONG 716
122. CHARCOAL MAN 717
123. A RAILWAY OF RHYME 718
124. DEFORMATIONS 719
125. VOWELS & COLORS 719
126. WRITING ASLANT 720
127. THREE SYLLOGISMS 720
128. WORDS 721
129. IMPROVISATION: CONTADINI AND IMPROVISATORI 722
130. A TELEGRAPH HARP [1851] 723
131. THÈMES ANGLAIS: INDEFINITE ARTICLES 724
132. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN 726
133. THREE ALPHABETS 727
134. Jubilate Agno 727
135. A Hieroglyphic Alphabet 729
136. The Poetical Alphabet 730
137. SADAKICHI’S 1895 LIGHT SHOW 731
138. A THIRD GALLERY. From Hopkins & Nietzsche to Yosano & Apollinaire
139. STAR IMAGES: SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1864 737
140. OEDIPUS: SOLILOQUIES OF THE LAST PHILOSOPHER 743
141. CHANSON D’AUTOMNE 752
142. [Epigraph] “I replace melancholy with courage” 760
143. UNDATED FRAGMENT 768
144. MORNING OF DRUNKENNESS 779
145. [Epigraph] “Dans la pièce les femmes vont et viennent” 795
146. SOME ORIENTALISMS
147. Prologue 806
148. THEBOOK OF LOS: ASIA 807
149. ARABIAN BALLAD 809
150. THE GIAOUR: LEILA AS GAZELLE 813
151. LES ORIENTALES: BOUNABERDI 815
152. BRAHMA 816
153. PASSAGE TO INDIA 816
154. L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE 819
155. STELAE: ROADSIDE STELAE 821
156. SIX FROM PHANTASUS 824
157. NOCTURNE III 836
158. I LOOK 838
159. IN THE LAND OF ALLEGORY 844
160. EXPLOITS AND OPINIONS OF DOCTOR FAUSTROLL, PATAPHYSICIAN 854
161. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS 861
162. SIX POEMS 868
163. ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, AND HERMES 874
164. THE WOMAN 878
165. MANIFESTOS & POETICS
166. TOWARD A WORLD LITERATURE 895
167. THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL: REASON AND ENERGY 895
168. ON THE DIFFERENCE OF POETIC MODES 897
169. ADVERTISEMENT FOR LYRICAL BALLADS 898
170. SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE 899
171. ATHENAEUM FRAGMENT 116 900
172. A DEFENCE OF POETRY 902
173. TO RICHARD WOODHOUSE, 27 OCTOBER 1818 904
174. JOURNEY FROM MUNICH TO GENOA 905
175. PREFACE TO CROMWELL 906
176. THE POET 907
177. PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS 908
178. THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE 908
179. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND 910
180. LETTER TO THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON 912
181. THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY 913
182. CRISIS IN VERSE 914
183. POETRY AND VERSE 915
184. LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, MAY 15, 1871 916
185. AN ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO 918
186. CREDITS 919
187. FIGURE CREDITS 926
188. INDEX OF AUTHORS 927