Books I'd Like to Own: Poetry

Orpheus

Poetry:

Authors:

1. W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
2. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
3. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
4. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
5. Robert Graves (1895-1985)
6. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016)
7. Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
8. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
9. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
10. Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
11. John Masefield (1878-1967)
12. William Morris (1834–1896)
13. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
14. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
15. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
16. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
17. D. M. Thomas (1935- )
18. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
19. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
20. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)
21. Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
22. Arthur Waley (1889-1966)

City Lights Bookshop (2014)

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Books I own are marked in bold:

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George Csema: W. H. Auden (1956)

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

Poetry:


1. Poems (1928)
2. Poems (1930)
   • Poems. 1930. Rev. ed. 1933. London: Faber, 1948.
3. The Orators: An English Study (1932)
   • The Orators: An English Study. 1932. Rev. ed. London: Faber, 1966.
4. Poems ['Poems', 1933; 'The Orators', 1932; 'The Dance of Death', 1933] (1934)
5. Look, Stranger! [aka On This Island, 1937] (1936)
   • Look, Stranger! 1936. London: Faber, 1946.
   • Look, Stranger! 1936. London: Faber, 2001.
6. Spain [pamphlet] (1937)
7. Selected Poems (1938)
8. Another Time (1940)
   • Another Time. London: Faber, 1940.
9. Some Poems (1940)
   • Some Poems. 1940. London: Faber, 1941.
10. New Year Letter [aka The Double Man] (1941)
    • New Year Letter. 1941. London: Faber, 1965.
11. For the Time Being ['The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest' & 'For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio'] (1944)
    • For the Time Being. 1945. London: Faber, 1953.
12. The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden (1945)
    • The Collected Poetry. New York: Random House, 1945.
13. The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947)
    • The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue. 1948. London: Faber, 1956.
14. Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944 (1950)
    • Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944. 1950. London: Faber, 1959.
15. Nones (1951)
    • Nones. 1952. London: Faber, 1953.
16. Mountains [pamphlet] (1954)
17. The Shield of Achilles (1955)
    • The Shield of Achilles. London: Faber, 1955.
18. The Old Man's Road [pamphlet] (1956)
19. W. H. Auden: A Selection by the Author (1958)
    • A Selection by the Author. 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
20. Homage to Clio (1960)
    • Homage to Clio. London: Faber, 1960.
21. About the House (1965)
    • About the House. London: Faber, 1966.
22. Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1966)
    • Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. London: Faber, 1966.
    • Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. 1966. London: Faber, 1975.
    • Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. 1966. Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Illustrated by Brian Grimwood. 2006. London: The Folio Society, 2007.
23. Collected Longer Poems (1968)
    • Collected Longer Poems. 1968. London: Faber, 1977.
24. Selected Poems (1968)
    • Selected Poems. 1968. London: Faber, 1972.
25. City Without Walls and Other Poems (1969)
    • City without Walls and Other Poems. 1969. London: Faber, 1970.
26. Academic Graffiti (1971)
    • Academic Graffiti. Illustrated by Fillipo Sanjust. London: Faber, 1971.
27. Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972)
    • Epistle to a Godson & Other Poems. 1972. London: Faber, 1973.
28. Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974)
    • Thank You, Fog: Last Poems. London: Faber, 1974.
29. Collected Poems (1976)
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1976.
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1976. Rev. ed. London: Faber, 1991.
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1976. Rev. ed. 1991. London: Faber, 1994.
30. The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (1977)
    • The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1977.
    • The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1977. London: Faber, 1986.
31. ‘In the Year of My Youth …’ 1932-33 (1978)
    • [Lucy S. McDiarmid. “W. H. Auden’s ‘In the Year of My Youth …’." Review of English Studies, 29 (115) (1978): 267-312.]
32. Selected Poems (1979)
    • Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1979.
    • Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1979. London: Faber, 1982.
    • Selected Poems: Expanded Edition. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1979. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
33. The Platonic Blow and My Epitaph. 1948 [pamphlet] (1985)
    • The Platonic Blow and My Epitaph. Washington, D.C.: Orchises Press, 1985.
34. Tell Me the Truth About Love: Ten Poems (1994)
35. Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Ed. Katherine Bucknell (1994)
    • Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Ed. Katherine Bucknell. London: Faber, 1994.
    • Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Expanded Paperback Edition. Ed. Katherine Bucknell. 1994. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003.
36. As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse. Ed. Edward Mendelson (1995)
    • As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse. Ed. Edward Mendelson. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
37. W. H. Auden: Poems. Ed. John Fuller (2000)
38. The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's "The Tempest". 1944. Ed. Arthur Kirsch. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions (2003)
    • The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest. 1944. Ed. Arthur Kirsch. 2003. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005.
39. The Age of Anxiety. 1947. Ed. Alan Jacobs. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions (2011)
    • The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue. 1947. Ed. Alan Jacobs. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011.
40. For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio. 1944. Ed. Alan Jacobs. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions (2013)
    • For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio. 1944. Ed. Alan Jacobs. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013.

W. H. Auden: Poems, 1: 1927-1939 (2022)



41. Poems. Volume I: 1927-1939. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 9. Ed. Edward Mendelson (2022)
    • Poems. Volume I: 1927-1939. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022.

W. H. Auden: Poems, 2: 1940-1973 (2022)



42. Poems. Volume II: 1940-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 10. Ed. Edward Mendelson (2022)
    • Poems. Volume II: 1940-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022.
43. Personal Writings: Selected Letters, Journals, and Poems Written for Friends. Ed. Edward Mendelson (tba)

Plays:


44. The Dance of Death (1933)
    • The Dance of Death. 1933. London: Faber, 1941.
45. [with Christopher Isherwood] The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935)
    • [with Christopher Isherwood] The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis? 1935. London: Faber, 1968.
46. [with Christopher Isherwood] The Ascent of F6 (1936)
47. [with Christopher Isherwood] On the Frontier (1938)
    • [with Christopher Isherwood] The Ascent of F6 & On the Frontier. 1958. London: Faber, 1972.
48. [with Christopher Isherwood] Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1927-1938. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 1. Ed. Edward Mendelson (1989)
    • [with Christopher Isherwood] Plays and Other Dramatic Writings: 1928-1938. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1988.

Screenplays & Libretti:


49. Coal Face (1935)
50. Negroes [aka God's Chillun, 1938] (1935)
51. Night Mail (1936)
52. The Way to the Sea (1936)
53. Paul Bunyan. Music by Benjamin Britten. 1941 (1976)
    • Paul Bunyan: The Libretto of the Operetta by Benjamin Britten. 1976. Essay by Donald Mitchell. London: Faber, 1988.
54. [with Chester Kallman] The Rake's Progress. Music by Igor Stravinsky (1951)
55. [with Chester Kallman] Elegy for Young Lovers. Music by Hans Werner Henze (1956)
56. [with Chester Kallman] The Bassarids. Music by Hans Werner Henze (1961)
57. Runner (1962)
58. [with Chester Kallman] Love's Labour's Lost. Music by Nicolas Nabokov (1973)
59. [with Chester Kallman] Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 2. Ed. Edward Mendelson (1993)
    • [with Chester Kallman] Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings: 1939-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Non-fiction:


60. "Gresham's School." In The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands. Ed. Graham Greene (1934)
    • Greene, Graham, ed. The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands. 1934. Oxford Paperbacks. London: Oxford University Press, 1984.
61. [with Louis MacNeice] Letters from Iceland (1937)
    • [with Louis MacNeice] Letters from Iceland. London: Faber, 1937.
62. [with T. C. Worsley] Education: Today - and Tomorrow (1939)
63. [with Christopher Isherwood] Journey to a War (1939)
    • [with Christopher Isherwood] Journey to a War. 1939. Rev. ed. 1973. London: Faber, 1986.
64. "I Believe." In I Believe: Nineteen Personal Philosophies, by W. H. Auden, Pearl Buck, Albert Einstein, Havelock Ellis, E. M. Forster, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, Harold J. Laski, Lin Yutang, Thomas Mann, Jacques Maritain, Jules Romains, Bertrand Russell, John Strachey, James Thurber, H. W. Van loon, Beatrice Webb, H. G. Wells & Rebecca West (1940)
    • I Believe: Nineteen Personal Philosophies. By W. H. Auden, Pearl Buck, Albert Einstein, Havelock Ellis, E. M. Forster, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, Harold J. Laski, Lin Yutang, Thomas Mann, Jacques Maritain, Jules Romains, Bertrand Russell, John Strachey, James Thurber, H. W. Van loon, Beatrice Webb, H. G. Wells & Rebecca West. 1940. London: Unwin Books, 1962.
65. The Enchafèd Flood (1950)
    • The Enchaféd Flood, or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea. London: Faber, 1951.
    • The Enchaféd Flood, or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea. 1951. London: Faber, 1985.
66. 'On Anger.' In The Seven Deadly Sins, by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes & W. H. Auden. Ed. Raymond Mortimer (1962)
    • Mortimer, Raymond, ed. The Seven Deadly Sins. By Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes & W. H. Auden. London: Sunday Times Publications, Inc. 1962.
67. The Dyer's Hand (1962)
    • The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. 1963. London: Faber, 1964.
    • The Dyer’s Hand & Other Essays. 1963. London: Faber, 1975.
68. Secondary Worlds (1969)
    • Secondary Worlds: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Delivered at Eliot College in the University of Kent at Canterbury, October, 1967. London: Faber, 1968.
    • Secondary Worlds: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. 1968. London: Faber, 1984.
69. A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
    • A Certain World: A Commonplace Book. 1970. London: Faber, 1971.
70. Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
    • Forewords and Afterwords. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1973.
    • Forewords & Afterwords. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1973. London: Faber, 1979.
71. The Prolific and the Devourer. 1939 (1993)
72. [with Louis MacNeice & Christopher Isherwood] Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse: Volume I, 1926-1938. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 3. Ed. Edward Mendelson (1997)
    • [with Louis MacNeice & Christopher Isherwood] Prose and Travel Books in Verse and Prose. Volume 1: 1926-1938. Ed. Edward Mendelson. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. London: Faber, 1996.
73. Lectures on Shakespeare. 1946–47. Ed. Arthur Kirsch. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions (2001)
    • Lectures on Shakespeare. Reconstructed and edited by Arthur C. Kirsch, with a new preface by the editor. W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. 2001. Princeton Classics. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019.
74. Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 4. Ed. Edward Mendelson (2002)
    • Prose. Volume 2: 1939-1948. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002.
75. Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 5. Ed. Edward Mendelson (2008)
    • Prose. Volume 3: 1949-1955. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008.
76. Prose, Volume IV: 1956-1962. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 6. Ed. Edward Mendelson) (2010)
    • Prose. Volume 4: 1956-1962. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010.
77. Prose, Volume V: 1963-1968. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 7. Ed. Edward Mendelson) (2015)
    • Prose. Volume 5: 1963-1968. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.
78. Prose, Volume VI: 1969-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, 8. Ed. Edward Mendelson) (2015)
    • Prose. Volume 6: 1969-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Edited:


79. [with John Garrett] The Poet's Tongue [1 & 2-volume editions] (1935)
    • [with John Garrett] The Poet’s Tongue: An Anthology. 1935. London: Bell, 1952.
80. The Oxford Book of Light Verse (1938)
    • The Oxford Book of Light Verse. 1938. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
81. A Selection from the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson [aka Tennyson: An Introduction and a Selection, 1946] (1944)
82. The Portable Greek Reader (1948)
    • The Portable Greek Reader. 1948. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1977.
83. Selected Prose and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (1950)
84. [with Norman Holmes Pearson] Poets of the English Language. 5 vols (1950)
    • [with Norman Holmes Pearson] Poets of the English Language. 5 vols. 1952. London: Heron Books, n.d.
    • [with Norman Holmes Pearson] The Portable Romantic Poets. 1950. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1978.
85. The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard [aka Kierkegaard: Selected and Introduced by W. H. Auden, 1955] (1952)
86. The Faber Book of Modern American Verse [aka The Criterion book of Modern American Verse] (1956)
    • The Faber Book of Modern American Verse. London: Faber, 1961.
87. [with Chester Kallman & Noah Greenberg] An Elizabethan Song Book (1957)
    • [with Chester Kallman & Noah Greenberg] An Elizabethan Song Book: Lute Songs, Madrigals and Rounds. 1957. London: Faber, 1972.
88. Selected Writings of Sydney Smith. London: Faber, 1957.
    • Selected Writings of Sydney Smith. London: Faber, 1957.
89. A Choice of De La Mare's Verse (1963)
    • A Choice of de la Mare’s Verse. London: Faber, 1963.
90. [with Louis Kronenberger] The Viking Book of Aphorisms [aka The Faber Book of Aphorisms] (1964)
    • [with Louis Kronenberger] The Faber Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection. 1964. London: Faber, 1965.
    • [with Louis Kronenberger] The Faber Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection. 1964. London: Faber, 1974.
91. Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems (1964)
92. George Gordon, Lord Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose 1966)
93. Nineteenth-Century British Minor Poets [aka Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets] (1966)
    • Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets. Notes by George R. Creeger. London: Faber, 1967.
94. G. K. Chesterton: A Selection from His Non-Fictional Prose (1970)
95. A Choice of Dryden’s Verse (1973)
    • A Choice of Dryden’s Verse. London: Faber, 1973.
96. George Herbert (1973)
    • George Herbert. Poet to Poet. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.

Translations:


97. [with Chester Kallman] The Magic Flute, by Emanuel Schikaneder (1956)
98. Saint-John Perse. 'On Poetry: Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature' (1960)
    • 'On Poetry.' In Saint-John Perse: Collected Poems. Trans. W. H. Auden, Hugh Chisholm, Denis Devlin, T. S. Eliot, Robert Fitzgerald, Wallace Fowlie, Richard Howard & Louise Varèse. 1971. Rev. ed. 1983. Princeton Legacy Library. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 1-13.
99. [with Chester Kallman] Don Giovanni, by Lorenzo da Ponte (1961)
100. [with Elizabeth Mayer] Italian Journey, by J. W. von Goethe (1962)
     • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Italian Journey: 1786-1788. Trans. W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer. London: Wm Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1962.
     • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Italian Journey. Trans. W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer. 1962. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
101. [with Leif Sjöberg] Dag Hammarskjöld: Markings (1964)
     • Dag Hammarskjöld. Markings. 1963. Trans. W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg. 1964. London: Faber, 1975.
102. [with Paul B. Taylor] The Elder Edda: A Selection (1969)
     • [with Paul B. Taylor] The Elder Edda: a Selection. Introduction by Peter H. Salus. 1969. London: Faber, 1973.
103. [with Leif Sjöberg] Gunnar Ekelöf: Selected Poems (1971)
     • Ekelöf, Gunnar. Selected Poems. Trans. W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg. Introduction by Göran Printz-Pahlson. Penguin Modern European Poets. Ed. A. Alvarez. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
104. [with Leif Sjöberg] Pär Lagerkvist: Evening Land / Aftonland (1975)
     • Pär Lagerkvist. Evening Land / Aftonland: bi-lingual edition. 1953. Trans. W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg. 1975. London: Souvenir Press, 1977.
105. [with Paul B. Taylor] Norse Poems (1981)
     • [with Paul B. Taylor] Norse Poems. 1981. London: Faber, 1983.

Secondary:


106. Ansen, Alan. The Table Talk of W. H. Auden. Ed. Nicholas Jenkins. 1990. London: Faber, 1991.
107. W. H. Auden. ‘The Map of all My Youth:’ Early Works, Friends & Influences. Auden Studies 1. Ed. Katherine Bucknell & Nicholas Jenkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
108. W. H. Auden. ‘The Language of Learning and the Language of Love:’ Uncollected Writings, New Interpretations. Auden Studies 2. Ed. Katherine Bucknell & Nicholas Jenkins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
109. W. H. Auden. ‘In Solitude, For Company:’ W. H. Auden after 1940: Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism. Auden Studies 3. Ed. Katherine Bucknell & Nicholas Jenkins. London: Clarendon Press, 1995.
110. Bloomfield, B. C. & Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924–1969. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972.
111. Bryant, Marsha. Auden and Documentary in the 1930s. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
112. Carpenter, Humphrey. W. H. Auden: A Biography. 1981. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1983.
113. Clark, Thekla. Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Introduction by James Fenton. London: Faber, 1995.
114. Davenport-Hines, Richard. Auden. 1995. Vintage. London: Random House, 2003.
115. Everett, Barbara. Auden. 1964. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1969.
116. Farnan, Dorothy J. Auden in Love. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
117. Fuller, John. A Reader's Guide to W. H. Auden. London: Thames & Hudson, 1970.
118. Fuller, John. W. H. Auden: A Commentary. 1998. London: Faber, 2007.
119. Haffenden, John, ed. W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage. The Critical Heritage Series. Ed. B. C. Southam. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
120. Mendelson, Edward. Early Auden. 1981. London: Faber, 1999.
121. Mendelson, Edward. Later Auden. 1999. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
122. Mendelson, Edward. Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography. 1981, 1999. With a new preface by the author. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017.
123. Osborne, Charles. W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet. 1979. London: Papermac, 1982.
124. Rowse, A. L. The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir. London: Methuen, 1987.
125. Smith, Stan. W. H. Auden. Rereading Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.
126. Spears, Monroe K., ed. Auden: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.
127. Spender, Stephen, ed. W. H. Auden: A Tribute. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1975.
128. Wasley, Aidan. The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011.

What can I say? Auden is my main man. I've been reading his work for well over forty years now, but he can still surprise me.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Works:


1. Poems, Prose and Letters. Ed. Robert Giroux (Library of America, 2008)
   • Poems, Prose and Letters. Ed. Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz. The Library of America, 180. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2008.

Poetry:


2. North & South (1946)
3. Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring (1955)
4. Questions of Travel (1965)
5. The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (1968)
6. The Complete Poems (1969)
7. Geography III (1976)
   • Geography III. 1976. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.
8. The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 (1983)
   • The Complete Poems: 1927-1979. 1983. London: Chatto & Windus Ltd. / The Hogarth Press, 1983.
9. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments. Ed. Alice Quinn (2006)
   • Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments. Ed. Alice Quinn. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.
10. Poems (2011)
    • Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.

Prose:


11. Brazil. Life World Library (1963)
    • [with the Editors of LIFE] Brazil. Life World Library. New York: Time Incorporated, 1963.
12. The Collected Prose (1984)
    • The Collected Prose. Ed. Robert Giroux. London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984.
13. Prose (2011)
    • Prose. Ed. Lloyd Schwartz. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.

Translations:


14. The Diary of Helena Morley, by Alice Brant (1957)
    • The Diary of "Helena Morley". 1957. Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century. New York: The Ecco Press, 1977.
    • The Diary of "Helena Morley". 1957. London: Virago Press Limited, 1981.
15. An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry. Ed. Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil (1972)
    • [with Emanuel Brasil] An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry. Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1972.

Art:


16. Exchanging Hats: Elizabeth Bishop Paintings. Ed. William Benton (1996)

Letters:


17. One Art: Letters. Ed. Robert Giroux (1994)
    • One Art: Letters. Ed. Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.
18. Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Ed. Thomas Travisano & Saskia Hamilton (2008)
    • Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Ed. Thomas Travisano & Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
19. Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Ed. Joelle Biele (2011)
    • Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Ed. Joelle Biele. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Secondary:


20. Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop. Ed. George Monteiro (1996)
21. Fountain, Gary, & Peter Brazeau. Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
22. Millier, Brett C. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
23. Oliveira, Carmen L. Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. ['Floras raras e banalíssimas: A história de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop', 1995]. Trans. Neil K. Besner. Foreword by Lloyd Schwartz. New Brunswick, NJ & London: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
24. Reaching for the Moon, dir. Bruno Barreto, writ. Matthew Chapman, Julie Sayres, Carolina Kotscho (based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas by Carmem Lucia de Oliveira) – with Glória Pires, Miranda Otto – (Brazil, 2013)

A wonderful, luminous writer. Not all that much fun to be around, though, if the recent Brazilian film is anything to go on.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (1873-1956)

Novels:


1. Henry Brocken (1904)
   • Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance. 1904. Illustrated by Marian Ellis. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1924].
2. The Return (1910)
   • The Return. 1910. London: Penguin Books, 1935.
3. Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
   • Memoirs of a Midget. 1921. Illustrated by Mabel Lapthorn. London: Collins, n.d.
4. The Walter de la Mare Omnibus (1933)
   • The Walter de la Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken; The Return; Memoirs of a Midget. 1904, 1910, 1921. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1933].

Short stories:


5. The Riddle and Other Stories (1923)
   • The Riddle and Other Stories. London: Selwyn & Blount Limited, 1923.
6. Ding Dong Bell (1924)
7. The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926)
   • The Connoisseur and Other Stories. 1926. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926.
8. On the Edge (1930)
   • On the Edge: Short Stories. 1932. London: Faber, 1947.
9. The Wind Blows Over (1936)
   • The Wind Blows Over. London: Faber, 1936.
10. The Nap and Other Stories (1936)
    • The Nap and Other Stories. The Nelson Classics. 1936. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., n.d.
11. Stories, Essays and Poems (1938)
    • Stories, Essays and Poems. Introduction by the Author. Everyman’s Library, 940. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1938.
12. The Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942)
    • Best Stories of Walter de la Mare. London: Faber, 1942.
13. A Beginning and Other Stories (1955)
    • A Beginning and Other Stories. 1955. London: Faber, 1955.
14. Ghost Stories (1956)
    • Ghost Stories. Lithographs by Barnett Freedman. 1956. London: The Folio Society, 1960.
15. A Selection from His Writings (1956)
    • Walter de la Mare: A Selection from His Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hopkins. London: Faber, 1956.
16. Eight Tales (1971)
17. Short Stories 1895–1926. Ed. Giles de la Mare (1996)
    • Short Stories 1895-1926. Ed. Giles de la Mare. 1923, 1924/36 & 1926. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers, 1996.
18. Short Stories 1927–1956. Ed. Giles de la Mare (2000)
    • Short Stories 1927-1956. Ed. Giles de la Mare. 1930, 1936 & 1955. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers, 2000.

Children's stories:


19. The Three Mulla Mulgars (1910)
    • The Three Royal Monkeys, or The Three Mulla-Mulgars. 1910. Illustrated by J. A. Shepherd. London: Faber, 1928.
    • The Three Royal Monkeys. 1910. Illustrated by Mildred E. Eldridge. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1979.
20. Broomsticks and Other Tales (1925)
21. Tales Told Again (1927)
    • Tales Told Again. 1927. Illustrated by Alan Howard. Faber Fanfares. London: Faber, 1980.
22. Stories from the Bible (1929)
    • Stories from the Bible. 1929. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. London: Faber, 1977.
23. The Dutch Cheese (1931)
24. The Lord Fish (1933)
25. Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
26. The Scarecrow and Other Stories (1945)
27. Collected Stories for Children (1947)
    • Collected Stories for Children. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. 1947. London: Faber, 1957.
    • Collected Stories for Children. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. 1947. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
28. Selected Stories and Verses (1952)
    • Selected Stories and Verses. A Puffin Story Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.
29. Short Stories for Children. Ed. Giles de la Mare (2006)
    • Short Stories for Children. Ed. Giles de la Mare. Illustrated by ‘Bold’ & Rex Whistler. 1925 & 1933. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers, 2006.

Poetry:


30. Songs of Childhood (1902)
31. Poems (1906)
32. The Listeners (1912)
33. Peacock Pie (1913)
    • Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes. 1913. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. London: Faber, 1946.
34. The Sunken Garden and Other Poems (1917)
35. Motley and Other Poems (1918)
36. The Veil and Other Poems (1921)
37. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems (1922)
38. A Child's Day: A Book of Rhymes (1924)
39. Selected Poems by Walter de la Mare (1927)
40. Stuff and Nonsense and So On (1927)
41. This Year: Next Year (1937)
42. Bells and Grass (1941)
43. Time Passes and Other Poems (1942)
44. Collected Poems (1942)
    • Collected Poems. Decorations by Berthold Wolpe. 1942. London: Faber, 1944.
45. Collected Rhymes and Verses (1944)
    • Collected Rhymes and Verses. Decorations by Berthold Wolpe. London: Faber, 1944.
46. Inward Companion (1950)
47. O Lovely England (1952)
48. A Choice of de la Mare’s Verse. Ed. W. H. Auden (1963)
    • A Choice of de la Mare’s Verse. Ed. W. H. Auden. London: Faber, 1963.
49. The Complete Poems. Ed. Giles de la Mare (1969)
    • The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare. Ed. Richard de la Mare. 1969. London: Faber, 1975.
    • The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare. Ed. Richard de la Mare. 1969. London: Faber, 1975.

Ariel Poems (Faber):


50. Alone (1927)
51. Self to Self (1928)
52. The Snowdrop (1929)
53. News (1930)
54. To Lucy (1931)
55. The Winnowing Dream (1954)

Plays:


56. Crossings: A Fairy Play (1921)
    • Crossings: A Fairy Play. Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923.

Non-fiction:


57. Some Women Novelists of the 'Seventies (1929)
58. Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe (1930)
    • Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe. Decorations by Rex Whistler. 1930. London: Faber, 1988.
59. Lewis Carroll (1930)
60. The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins (1932)
61. Early One Morning, in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood As It Is Revealed in Particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings (1935)
    • Early One Morning in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood as it is revealed in particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings. London: Faber, 1935.
    • Early One Morning in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood as it is revealed in particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings. 1935. London: Faber, 1946.
62. Pleasures and Speculations (1940)
    • Pleasures and Speculations. London: Faber, 1940.
63. Private View (1953)
    • Private View. Introduction by Lord David Cecil. London: Faber, 1953.

Edited:


64. Edward Thomas. Collected Poems. Foreword by Walter de la Mare (1920)
    • Edward Thomas. Collected Poems. Foreword by Walter de la Mare. 1920. London & Boston: Faber, 1979.
65. Come Hither (1923)
    • Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages. 1923. New edition. 1928. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1943.
    • Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages. 1923. New edition. 1928. Wood-engravings by Diana Bloomfield. 1957. New edition. 1960. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1962.
66. Tom Tiddler's Ground (1931)
    • Tom Tiddler’s Ground: A Book of Poetry for Children. 1931. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Illustrated by Margery Gill. 1961. London: The Bodley Head, 1975.
67. Old Rhymes and New (1932)
68. Animal Stories Chosen, Arranged and in Some Part Rewritten (1939)
    • Animal Stories Chosen, Arranged and in Some Part Rewritten. London: Faber, 1939.
69. Behold, This Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects (1942)
    • Behold, this Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects. London: Readers’ Union, 1942.
    • Behold, this Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects. London: Readers’ Union, 1942.
70. Love (1943)
    • Love. London: Faber, 1943.

Secondary:


71. Brain, Russell. Tea with Walter de la Mare. Drawing by Andrew Freeth. London: Faber, 1957.


72. [Clark, Leonard. Walter de la Mare: A Checklist prepared on the occasion of an exhibition of his books and MSS at the National Book League, 7 Albemarle Street, London W1 (20th April to 19th May 1956). Introduction by Lord David Cecil. Cambridge: The University Press, 1956.]


73. Whistler, Theresa. Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1993.

The allegorical introduction to de la Mare's classic anthology Come Hither (1923) has given rise to much speculation. Most of the anagrams are easy enough to identify, but a few remain controversial:

• Thrae = Earth
• Sure Vine = Universe
• Ten Laps = Planets
• Miss Taroone = Mother Nature
• Nahum Tarune = Human Nature
• East Dene = Destiny [or 'East of Eden'?]
• Simon = Somni [sleep]?

But what of the housekeeper "Linnet Sara Queek, or Quek, or Cuec, or Cueque"? In his online comment on Amazon.com, David L. Williams suggests that:

her name is Lynnet Sara Cueque, and an anagram for her name might be “Queer Uncany Tales.” “Uncanny” would need another “n,” obviously, but this is in line with the anagram for Taroone, in that it is by sound and not necessarily by exact spelling. The narrator says that Linnet Sara “could tell curious and rambling stories (as true as she could make them); and many of them were about the old days in Thrae, older days in Sure Vine, and about Miss Taroone.”

My own belief is that it stands for "internal quest" or something to do with the intellect, but I can't quite put my finger on how it is to be construed. I wonder if de la Mare left any notes on the subject himself?
[NB: a new suggestion has now been made on this topic by Shoni (12/6/2018):

I have an idea of what Linnet Sara Cuec represents: 'Natural Science'. With the surname spelt as 'Cuec', it is a perfect anagram.]

For myself, it's mainly the ghost stories I keep on coming back to with de la Mare - particularly 'The Green Room' - but I'm very fond of some of his poems, too, though. See my post about him here.

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Eva Rivett-Carnac: Edward FitzGerald (1873)

Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)

Works:


1. The Works of Edward FitzGerald. Ed. W. Aldis Wright. 7 vols (London, 1903)
2. Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.

Translations:


3. Translations into Verse, from Comedies of Molière and Casimir Delavigne, Preceded by a Cursory View of French Dramatic Literature, to which are added Original Poems, Imitations, School Exercises, and The Magic Lantern, A Satire (Paris, 1829)
   • Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933. 211-93.
4. Six Dramas of Calderon (1853)
   • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948. 43-329.
5. Salámán and Absál: An Allegory. Translated from the Persian of Jámi (1856)
   • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 177-223.
6. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
   • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948. 1-21.
   • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 225-72.
7. Agamemnon: A Tragedy Taken from Aeschylus (1865)
   • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 385-435.
8. Two Dramas from Calderon (1865)
   • 'The Mighty Magician.' Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 321-84.
9. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. 2nd edition (1868)
   • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948. 22-41
10. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. 3rd edition (1872)
11. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. 4th edition (1879)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 239-73.
12. The Oedipus Rex of Sophocles (1880)
13. The Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles (1881)
14. Attar of Nishapur's Mantic-Uttair: A Bird's-Eye view of the Bird Parliament (1889)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 275-319.
15. Dole, Nathan Haskell, ed. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Multi-Variorum Edition. English, French, German, Italian and Danish Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, with Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material. 2 vols. Boston: L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) / London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1898.
16. Heron-Allen, Edward. FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with Their Original Persian Sources, Collated from His Own MSS., and Literally Translated (London, 1899)
17. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Ed. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. 1909. London: A. & C. Black., 1973.
18. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948.
19. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Courage and Friendship Booklets, 2. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, n.d. [1941]
20. Arberry, A. J., ed. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Other Persian Poems: An Anthology of Verse Translations. Everyman’s Library 1996. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1954.
21. Rubaíyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition. Ed. C. Decker (Charlottesville, Va., and London, 1997)

Miscellaneous:


22. 'Little Nell's Wanderings,' from Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1844)
    • Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933. 145-90.
23. 'Memoir of Bernard Barton.' Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton (1849)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 13-40.
24. Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth (1851)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 41-94.
25. 'Preface.' Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1852)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 95-105.
26. 'Sea Words and Phrases along the Suffolk Coast' (1869)
    • Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933. 61-144.
27. 'Introduction.' Readings in Crabbe: Tales of the Hall (1882)
    • Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 437-47.
28. A Fitzgerald Medley. Ed. Charles Ganz. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933.

Letters:


29. Wright, W. Aldis, ed. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald. Ed. W. Aldis Wright. 3 vols (1889)
30. Wright, W. Aldis, ed. Edward FitzGerald, Letters to Fanny Kemble. Ed. W. Aldis Wright (1895)
31. The Letters of Edward FitzGerald. Ed. A. M. & A. B. Terhune. 4 vols., Princeton, 1980.

Secondary:


32. Martin, R. With Friends Possessed. New Haven: Princeton UP, 1985.

His work may be a bit uneven, and it took me a long time to warm to his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, but I think now I like it all the better for that.

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Eric Kenner: Robert Graves (1929)

Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985)

Poetry:


1. Over the Brazier (1916)
   • Over the Brazier. 1916. Poetry Reprint Series, 1. London: St. James Press / New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975.
2. Country Sentiment (1920)
3. The Feather Bed (1923)
4. Mock Beggar Hall (1924)
5. Welchmans Hose (1925)
6. Poems (1925)
7. [as John Doyle] The Marmosites Miscellany (1925)
8. John Kemp's Wager: A Ballad Opera (1925)
9. Poems (1914–1926) (1927)
10. Poems (1914–1927) (1927)
11. Poems 1926 to 1930 (1931)
    • Poems 1926 to 1930. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931.
12. To Whom Else? (1931)
13. Poems 1930–1933 (1933)
14. Collected Poems (1938)
15. No More Ghosts: Selected Poems (1940)
16. [with Norman Cameron & Alan Hodge] Work in Hand (1942)
17. Poems (1943)
18. Poems 1938–1945 (1945)
19. Collected Poems (1914–1947) (1948)
20. Poems and Satires (1951)
21. Poems 1953 (1953)
22. Collected Poems 1955 (1955)
23. Poems Selected by Himself (1957)
24. The Poems of Robert Graves (1958)
25. Collected Poems 1959 (1959)
26. The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children (1960)
27. More Poems 1961 (1961)
28. Collected Poems (1961)
29. New Poems 1962 (1962)
30. The More Deserving Cases: Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration (1962)
31. Man Does, Woman Is (1964)
32. Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children (1964)
33. Love Respelt (1965)
34. One Hard Look (1965)
35. Collected Poems (1965)
    • Collected Poems 1965. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1965.
36. Seventeen Poems Missing from "Love Respelt" (1966)
37. Colophon to "Love Respelt" (1967)
38. Poems 1965–1968 (1968)
39. Poems About Love (1969)
40. Love Respelt Again (1969)
41. Beyond Giving (1969)
42. Poems 1968–1970 (1970)
    • Poems 1968-1970. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1970.
43. The Green-Sailed Vessel (1971)
44. Poems: Abridged for Dolls and Princes (1971)
    • Poems: Abridged for Dolls and Princes. 1922. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1971.
45. Poems 1970–1972 (1972)
46. Deyá, A Portfolio (1972)
47. Timeless Meeting: Poems (1973)
48. At the Gate (1974)
49. Collected Poems 1975 (1975)
    • Collected Poems 1975. London: Cassell, 1975.
50. New Collected Poems (1977)
51. Selected Poems. Ed. Paul O'Prey (1986)
52. The Centenary Selected Poems. Ed. Patrick Quinn (1995)
53. Complete Poems, Volume 1. Ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward (1995)
    • Complete Poems, Volume 1. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester & Paris: Carcanet & Alyscamp Press, 1995.
54. Complete Poems, Volume 2. Ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward (1996)
    • Complete Poems, Volume 2. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 1997.
55. Complete Poems, Volume 3. Ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward (1999)
    • Complete Poems, Volume 3. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 1999.
56. The Complete Poems in One Volume. Ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward (2000)
    • The Complete Poems in One Volume. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. 2000. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.
57. Selected Poems. Ed. Michael Longley (2012)
58. War Poems. Ed. Charles Mundye (2016)
    • War Poems. Ed. Charles Mundye. Seren. Bridgend, Wales: Poetry Wales Press Ltd., 2016.

Fiction:


59. My Head! My Head! (1925)
    • [My Head! My Head! Being the History of Elisha and the Shulamite Woman; with the History of Moses as Elisha related it, and her Questions put to him. London: Martin Secker, 1925.]
60. The Shout (1929)
61. [with Laura Riding (as Barbara Rich)] No Decency Left (1932)
62. The Real David Copperfield (1933) [aka David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, Condensed by Robert Graves. Ed. M. P. Paine (1934)]
63. I, Claudius (1934)
    • I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius. 1934. London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1936.
64. Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina (1934)
    • Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina. 1934. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947.
65. Antigua, Penny, Puce (1936)
    • ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’. 1936. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
    • Included in: ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’ and They Hanged My Saintly Billy. 1936 & 1957. Ed. Ian McCormick. Robert Graves Programme. Ed. Patrick J. M. Quinn. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 2003.
66. Count Belisarius (1938)
    • Count Belisarius. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954.
    • Count Belisarius. 1938. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1962.
67. Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth [aka Sergeant Lamb's America] (1940)
    • Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth. 1940. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1945.
    • Sergeant Lamb’s America: A Novel. 1940. Vintage Books. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / Random House, Inc., 1962.
68. Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (1941)
    • Proceed, Sergeant Lamb. 1941. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1946.
69. The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton. (1943) [aka Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell (1944)]
    • Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell. 1943. Chicago: Academy Chicago Limited, , 1979.
70. The Golden Fleece (1944) [aka Hercules, My Shipmate (1945)]
    • The Golden Fleece. Overseas Edition. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1944.
    • The Golden Fleece. 1944. Pocket Library. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1951.
    • The Golden Fleece. 1944. London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1983.
71. King Jesus (1946)
    • King Jesus. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1946.
    • King Jesus. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1946.
    • King Jesus. 1946. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1983.
72. Seven Days in New Crete [aka Watch the North Wind Rise] (1949)
    • Seven Days in New Crete: A Novel. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1949.
    • Seven Days in New Crete. 1949. Introduction by Martin Seymour-Smith. Twentieth-Century Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
73. The Isles of Unwisdom (1950) [aka The Islands of Unwisdom (1949)]
    • The Isles of Unwisdom. London: Readers Union / Cassell & Company Ltd., 1952.
74. Homer's Daughter (1955)
    • Homer's Daughter. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1955.
75. Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny (1956)
    • ¡Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1956.
76. They Hanged My Saintly Billy (1957)
    • They Hanged My Saintly Billy. 1957. A Grey Arrow. London: Arrow Books Limited, 1962.
    • Included in: ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’ and They Hanged My Saintly Billy. 1936 & 1957. Ed. Ian McCormick. Robert Graves Programme. Ed. Patrick J. M. Quinn. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 2003.
77. The Big Green Book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak (1962)
    • The Big Green Book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. 1962. A Young Puffin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
78. Collected Short Stories (1964)
    • Collected Short Stories. 1964. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
79. Two Wise Children (1966)
80. The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star (1968)
81. An Ancient Castle (1980)
82. Complete Short Stories. Ed. Lucia Graves (1995)
    • Complete Short Stories. Ed. Lucia Graves. 1995. London: Penguin, 2008.

Non-fiction:


83. On English Poetry (1922)
84. The Meaning of Dreams (1924)
85. Poetic Unreason and Other Studies (1925)
    • Poetic Unreason and Other Studies. London: Cecil Palmer, 1925.
86. Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy (1925)
87. Another Future of Poetry (1926)
88. Impenetrability or the Proper Habit of English (1927)
89. The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey (1927)
    • English and Scottish Ballads. 1927. Rev. ed. 1957. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. London: Heinemann, 1969.
90. Lars Porsena or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language (1927)
    • Lars Porsena, Or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language. 1927. London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe Ltd., 1972.
91. [with Laura Riding] A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927)
92. Lawrence and the Arabs (1927) [aka Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure (1928)]
    • Lawrence and the Arabs. Illustrations ed. Eric Kennington. Maps by Herry Perry. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1927.
93. [with Laura Riding] A Pamphlet Against Anthologies [aka Against Anthologies] (1928)
94. Mrs. Fisher or the Future of Humour (1928)
95. Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929)
    • Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography. 1929. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.
    • Goodbye to All That: New edition, revised, with a prologue and epilogue. 1929. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957.
    • Good-bye to All That. 1929. Rev. ed. 1957. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
    • Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography. 1929. Ed. Richard Perceval Graves. Providence, RI & Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 1995.
96. But It Still Goes On: An Accumulation (1930)
97. [with Laura Riding] Epilogue. 3 vols (1935-37)
    • [with Laura Riding] Essays From 'Epilogue' 1935-1937. Ed. Mark Jacobs. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 2001.
98. T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer Robert Graves (1938)
99. [with Alan Hodge] The Long Weekend (1940)
    • [with Alan Hodge. The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939. 1940. London: Readers’ Union Limited, 1941.
100. [with Alan Hodge] The Reader Over Your Shoulder (1943)
     • [with Alan Hodge. The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1943.
101. The White Goddess (1948)
     • The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. 1948. Amended and Enlarged Edition. 1961. London: Faber, 1977.
     • The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. 1948. Amended and Enlarged Edition. 1961. Ed. Grevel Lindop. 1997. London: Faber, 1999.
     • The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. 1948. Amended and Enlarged Edition. 1961. Ed. Grevel Lindop. 1997. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.
102. The Common Asphodel: Collected Essays on Poetry 1922–1949 (1949)
     • The Common Asphodel: Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1922-1949. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
103. Occupation: Writer (1950)
     • Occupation: Writer. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1951.
104. [with Joshua Podro] The Nazarene Gospel Restored (1953)
     • [with Joshua Podro] The Nazarene Gospel Restored. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1953.
105. The Greek Myths (1955)
     • Greek Myths. 1955. Rev. ed. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1958.
     • The Greek Myths. 2 vols. 1955. Rev. ed. 1958. Rev. ed. 1960. Pelican Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
     • The Greek Myths. 2 vols. 1955. Rev. ed. 1958. Rev. ed. 1960. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Illustrations by Grahame Baker. 1996. London: The Folio Society, 2000.
106. The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures, 1954–1955 (1955)
     • The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures 1954-55; Also Various Essays on Poetry and Sixteen New Poems. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1955.
     • The Crowning Privilege: Collected Essays on Poetry. 1955. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.
107. Adam's Rib (1955)
     • Adam’s Rib and Other Anomalous Elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth: A New View. With Wood Engravings by James Metcalf. 1955. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958.
108. [with Joshua Podro] Jesus in Rome (1957)
109. Steps (1958)
     • Steps: Stories; Talks; Essays; Poems; Studies in History. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1958.
110. 5 Pens in Hand (1958)
111. Food for Centaurs (1960)
112. Myths of Ancient Greece (1961) [aka Greek Gods and Heroes (1960)
113. Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. James Reeves (1961)
114. Oxford Addresses on Poetry (1962)
115. The Siege and Fall of Troy (1962)
     • The Siege and Fall of Troy: Retold for Young People. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1962.
116. [with Raphael Patai] Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis (1964)
     • [with Raphael Patai. Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. 1964. An Arena book. London: Arrow Books Limited, 1989.
117. Majorca Observed (1965)
118. Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965)
     • Mammon and the Black Goddess. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1965.
119. Poetic Craft and Principle (1967)
120. Greek Myths and Legends (1968)
121. The Crane Bag (1969)
     • The Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects. 1969. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1970.
122. On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays (1969)
123. Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (1972)
     • Difficult Questions, Easy Answers. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1972.
124. Life of the Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa. Ed. Beryl & Lucia Graves (1990)
125. Collected Writings on Poetry. Ed. Paul O'Prey (1995)
     • Collected Writings on Poetry. Ed. Paul O'Prey. Robert Graves Programme. Ed. Patrick J. M. Quinn. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited / Paris: Alyscamps Press, 1995.
126. Some Speculations on Literature, History, and Religion. Ed. Patrick Quinn (2000)
     • Some Speculations on Literature, History and Religion. Ed. Patrick Quinn. Robert Graves Programme. Ed. Patrick J. M. Quinn. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 2000.

Translation:


127. Georg Schwarz: Almost Forgotten Germany (1936)
128. Apuleius: The Golden Ass (1950)
     • Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. 1950. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950.
     • Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. 1950. Bound Penguins. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950.
     • Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. 1950. London: The Folio Society, 1960.
     • Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. 1950. Rev. Michael Grant. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
129. Alarcón: The Infant with the Globe (1955)
     • Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de. The Infant with the Globe. Trianon Press Limited. London: Faber, 1955.
130. Galván: The Cross and the Sword (1956)
     • Galván, Manuel de Jesús. The Cross and the Sword. 1882. Foreword by Max Henríquez Ureña. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1956.
131. Lucan: Pharsalia (1956)
     • Lucan. Pharsalia: Dramatic Incidents of the Civil Wars. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956.
132. George Sand: Winter in Majorca (1956)
     • Sand, George. Winter in Majorca. 1855. Trans. Robert Graves. With José Quadrado's Refutation of George Sand. Mallorca: Valldemosa Edition, 1956.
     • Sand, George. Winter in Majorca. 1855. With José Quadrado's Refutation of George Sand. 1956. Cassandra Editions. Chicago: Academy Press Limited, 1978.
133. Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars (1957)
     • Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius. The Twelve Caesars. 1957. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
     • Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius. The Twelve Caesars: An Illustrated Edition. Trans. Robert Graves. 1957. Rev. Michael Grant. Ed. Sabine McCormack. 1979. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
134. The Anger of Achilles (1959)
     • The Anger of Achilles: Homer’s Iliad. London: Cassell, 1960.
135. The Song of Songs (1973)
     • The Song of Songs: Text and Commentary. Illustrated by Hans Erni. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publisher, 1973.
136. [with Omar Ali-Shah] The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam (1967)
     • [with Omar Ali-Shah] The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam: A New Translation with Critical Commentaries. 1967. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Edited:


137. Richards, Frank. Old Soldiers Never Die. 1933. Uckfield, East Sussex: The Naval & Military Press, Ltd., n.d. [c.2009].
138. Richards, Frank. Old Soldier Sahib. Introduction by Robert Graves. 1936. Uckfield, East Sussex: The Naval & Military Press, Ltd., n.d. [c.2009].

Letters:


139. In Broken Images: Selected Letters 1914–1946. Ed. Paul O'Prey (1982)
     • In Broken Images: Selected Letters 1914-1946. Ed. Paul O'Prey. London: Hutchinson, 1982.
140. Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters 1946–1972. Ed. Paul O'Prey (1984)
     • Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters 1946-1972. Ed. Paul O'Prey. London: Hutchinson, 1984.
141. Dear Robert, Dear Spike: The Graves-Milligan correspondence. Ed. Pauline Scudamore (1991)

Secondary:


142. Seymour-Smith, Martin. Robert Graves: His Life and Work. 1982. Abacus. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1983.
143. Graves, Richard Perceval. Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926. London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited, 1986.
144. Graves, Richard Perceval. Robert Graves: The Years with Laura, 1926-1940. Viking. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990.
145. Graves, Richard Perceval. Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940-1985. 1995. Phoenix Giant. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1998.
146. Seymour, Miranda. Robert Graves: Life on the Edge. 1995. Doubleday. London: Transworld Publishers Ltd., 1996.
147. King, Bruce. Robert Graves: A Biography (2009)
148. Wilson, Jean Moorcroft. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) (2018)

What can I say? Long ago I descended into the morass of Graves-olatory, and I've not been able to extract myself yet. His pukka-sahib voice on some old recordings did give me pause, I recall, but I still love his prose: rather more than his poetry.

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Clara Molden: Geoffrey Hill (2016)

Sir Geoffrey William Hill (1932-2016)

Poetry:


1. For the Unfallen (1959)
2. Preghiere (1964)
3. King Log (1968)
4. Mercian Hymns (1971)
5. Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom: Poems 1952–1971 (1975)
6. Tenebrae (1978)
7. The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983)
8. Collected Poems (1985)
   • Collected Poems. 1985. London: Andre Deutsch, 1986.
9. New & Collected Poems, 1952–1992 (2000)
10. Canaan (1996)
    • Canaan. London: Penguin, 1996.
11. The Triumph of Love (1999)
12. Speech! Speech! (2000)
13. The Orchards of Syon (2002)
14. Scenes from Comus (2005)
15. Without Title (2006)
16. A Treatise of Civil Power (2007)
17. Selected Poems (2010)
18. Oraclau | Oracles (2010)
19. Clavics (2011)
20. Odi Barbare (2012)
21. Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952–2012 (2013)
    • Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012. Ed. Kenneth Haynes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
22. The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (2019)

Prose:


23. The Lords of Limit (1984)
    • The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
24. The Enemy's Country (1991)
25. Style and Faith (2003)
26. Collected Critical Writings (2008)

A fierce old bastard, definitely. He was all the rage in the UK when I was studying there in the late 1980s.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James [Ted] Hughes (1930-1998)

Poetry:


1. The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
   • The Hawk in the Rain. 1957. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1972.
2. Lupercal (1960)
   • Lupercal. 1960. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1973.
3. Wodwo (1967)
   • Wodwo. 1967. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1977.
4. Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow (1970)
   • Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. 1972. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1981.
5. Selected Poems 1957–1967 (1972)
6. Cave Birds (1975)
   • Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. London: Faber, 1978.
7. Gaudete (1977)
   • Gaudete. 1977. London: Faber, n.d.
8. Remains of Elmet (with photographs by Fay Godwin) (1979)
   • Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence. Photographs by Fay Godwin. 1979. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1979.
9. Moortown (1979)
   • Moortown. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1979.
10. Selected Poems 1957–1981 (1982)
    • Selected Poems 1957-1981. London: Faber, 1982.
11. River (1983)
12. Flowers and Insects (1986)
13. Wolfwatching (1989)
14. Rain-charm for the Duchy (1992)
15. New Selected Poems 1957–1994 (1995)
    • New Selected Poems 1957-1994. London: Faber, 1995.
16. Tales from Ovid (1997)
17. Birthday Letters (1998)
    • Birthday Letters. 1998. London: Faber, 1999.
18. Collected Poems (2003)
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Paul Keegan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
19. A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems (2016)

Children's Books:


20. Meet my Folks! Illustrated by George Adamson (1961)
21. How the Whale Became. Illustrated by George Adamson (1963)
    • How the Whale Became and Other Stories. Illustrated by George Adamson. 1963. A Young Puffin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
22. The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. Illustrated by R.A. Brandt (1963)
23. Nessie the Mannerless Monster. Illustrated by Gerald Rose (1964)
24. The Iron Man. Illustrated by George Adamson (1968)
    1. The Iron Man. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson (1985)
    • The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights. Illustrated by George Adamson. 1968. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1975.
25. Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (1970)
26. Season Songs. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (1976)
27. Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (1976)
    • Moon-Whales. 1976. Illustrated by Chris Riddell. 1988. London: Faber, 1991.
28. Moon-Bells and Other Poems. Illustrated by Felicity Roma Bowers (1978)
29. Under the North Star. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (1981)
30. What is the Truth? Illustrated by R. J. Lloyd (1984)
    • What is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young. Drawings by R. J. Lloyd. London: Faber, 1984.
31. Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth. Illustrated by Chris Riddell (1986)
32. The Cat and the Cuckoo. Illustrated by R. J. Lloyd (1987)
33. Tales of the Early World. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson (1988)
34. The Iron Woman. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson (1993)
35. Collected Animal Poems: Vols. 1–4 (1995)
    • Collected Animal Poems. 4 vols. London: Faber, 1995.
      1. The Iron Wolf. Illustrated by Chris Riddell
      2. What is the Truth?. Illustrated by Lisa Flather (1984)
      3. A March Calf. Illustrated by Lisa Flather
      4. The Thought-Fox
36. Collected Poems for Children (2005)
    • Collected Poems for Children. Pictures by Raymond Briggs. 2005. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Limited Editions:


37. The Burning of the Brothel (Turret Books, 1966)
38. Recklings (Turret Books, 1967)
39. Scapegoats and Rabies (Poet & Printer, 1967)
40. Animal Poems (Richard Gilbertson, 1967)
41. A Crow Hymn (Sceptre Press, 1970)
42. The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar (Richard Gilbertson, 1970)
43. Crow Wakes (Poet & Printer, 1971)
44. Shakespeare's Poem (Lexham Press, 1971)
45. Eat Crow (Rainbow Press, 1971)
46. Prometheus on His Crag (Rainbow Press, 1973)
47. Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Faber, 1973)
48. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Rainbow Press, 1974)
49. Cave Birds. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Scolar Press, 1975)
50. Earth-Moon. Illustrated by Ted Hughes (Rainbow Press, 1976)
51. Eclipse (Sceptre Press, 1976)
52. Sunstruck (Sceptre Press, 1977)
53. A Solstice (Sceptre Press, 1978)
54. Orts (Rainbow Press, 1978)
55. Moortown Elegies (Rainbow Press, 1978)
56. The Threshold. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman (Steam Press, 1979)
57. Adam and the Sacred Nine (Rainbow Press, 1979)
58. Four Tales Told by an Idiot (Sceptre Press, 1979)
59. The Cat and the Cuckoo. Illustrated by R.J. Lloyd (Sunstone Press, 1987)
60. A Primer of Birds: Poems. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Gehenna Press, 1989)
61. Capriccio. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Gehenna Press, 1990)
62. The Mermaid's Purse. Illustrated by R.J. Lloyd (Sunstone Press, 1993)
63. Howls and Whispers. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin (Gehenna Press, 1998)

Plays:


64. The House of Aries [radio play] (1960)
65. The Calm (1961)
66. A Houseful of Women [radio play] (1961)
67. The Wound [radio play] (1962)
68. Difficulties of a Bridegroom [radio play] (1963)
69. Epithalamium (1963)
70. Dogs [radio play] (1964)
71. The House of Donkeys [radio play] (1965)
72. The Head of Gold [radio play] (1967)
73. The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (1957)
74. The Price of a Bride [radio play] (1966)
75. Seneca's Oedipus (1968)
    • Seneca’s Oedipus: An Adaptation. 1969. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1975.
76. [with Peter Brook] Orghast (1971)
77. The Iron Man (1972)
78. Orpheus (1973)

Short Stories:


79. The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales (1995)
    • The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales. 1995. London: Faber, 2003.
80. Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories (1995)
    • Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories. 1995. London: Faber, 1996.

Prose:


81. Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of Poems and Programmes from "Listening and Writing" [aka Poetry Is] (1967)
82. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992)
    • Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. 1992. London: Faber, 1993.
83. Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. Edited by William Scammell (1994)
    • Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. Ed. William Scammell. 1994. London: Faber, 1995.

Translation:


84. Selected Poems, by Yehuda Amichai (1968)
    • Amichai, Yehuda. Selected Poems. Trans. Assia Gutmann & Harold Schimmel, with Ted Hughes. Introduction by Michael Hamburger. Penguin Modern European Poets. Ed. A. Alvarez. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
85. Amen, by Yehuda Amichai (1977)
86. The Desert of Love: Selected Poems,by János Pilinszky (1989)
87. Blood Wedding, by Federico García Lorca (1996)
88. Spring Awakening, by Frank Wedekind (1996)
89. Tales from Ovid (1997)
    • Tales from Ovid. Trans. Ted Hughes. London: Faber, 1997.
90. The Oresteia, by Aeschylus (1999)
    • Aeschylus. The Oresteia: A New Version. Trans. Ted Hughes. London: Faber, 1999.
91. Phèdre, by Jean Racine (1999)
92. Alcestis, by Euripides (1999)
93. Selected Translations (2006)
    • Selected Translations. Ed. Daniel Weissbort. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Edited:


94. A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse (1968)
    • A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse. Ed. Ted Hughes. 1968. London: Faber, 1970.
95. Here Today (1963)
96. [co-founder] Modern Poetry in Translation [literary magazine] (1965- )
97. [with Seamus Heaney] The Rattle Bag (1982)
    • [with Seamus Heaney] The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry. 1982. London: Faber, 1985.
98. A Dancer to God: Tributes to T. S. Eliot (1993)
99. A Choice of Coleridge's Verse (1996)
100. [with Seamus Heaney] The School Bag (1997)
     • [with Seamus Heaney] The School Bag. London: Faber, 1997.
101. By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (1997)
102. A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse (2000)
103. Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath (2003)

Letters:


104. Letters of Ted Hughes. Ed. Christopher Reid. London: Faber, 2007.

Secondary:


105. Wagner, Erica. Ariel’s Gift: A Commentary on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes. 2000. London: Faber, 2001.
106. Feinstein, Elaine. Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001.
107. Koren, Yehuda, & Eilat Negev. A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill. London: Robson Books, 2006.
108. Bate, Jonathan. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. Fourth Estate. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.

I have somewhat mixed feelings about old Ted, but there's no denying he had a huge influence on the writing of his time: his work promoting poetry in translation would be worthy of praise just on its own.

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Phil May: On the Brain - Rudyard Kipling (1892)

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Collected Editions:


1. Kipling, Rudyard. The One Volume Kipling: Authorized. 1893 & 1928. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
   • Volume I: Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
   • Volume II: The Light that Failed
   • Volume III: City of Dreadful Night
   • Volume IV: Plain Tales from the Hills
   • Volume V: Soldiers Three
   • Volume VI: Mine Own People
   • Volume VII: In Black and White
   • Volume VIII: The Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories
   • Volume IX: Under the Deodars
   • Volume X: Wee Willie Winkie
   • Volume XI: The Story of the Gadsbys
   • Volume XII: Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
2. The Outward Bound Edition. 36 vols (New York, 1897–1937)
3. The Edition de Luxe. 38 vols (London, 1897–1937)
4. The Bombay Edition. 31 vols (London, 1913–38)
5. The Sussex Edition. 35 vols (London, 1937–39)
6. The Burwash Edition. 28 vols (New York, 1941)

Poetry:


7. Schoolboy Lyrics (1881)
8. [with Alice Kipling] Echoes (1884)
9. Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886)
10. Barrack-Room Ballads (1889)
    • The Complete Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling. 1892. Ed. Charles Carrington. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973.
11. The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads (1896)
    • The Seven Seas. 1896. The Dominions Edition. London: Methuen & Co., Limited, 1914.
12. An Almanac of Twelve Sports. Illustrations by William Nicholson (1898)
13. The Five Nations (1903)
    • The Five Nations. 1903. The Dominions Edition. 1914. London: Methuen & Co., Limited, 1916.
14. Collected Verse (1907)
15. [with C. R. L. Fletcher]. 'Twenty-two original Historical Poems.' A History of England (1911)
16. Songs from Books (1912)
17. The Years Between (1919)
18. Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (1940)
    • Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition. 1912. Second Edition. 1919. Third Inclusive Edition. 1927. Fourth Inclusive Edition. 1933. Definitive Edition. 1940. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1945.
    • Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition. 1912. Second Edition. 1919. Third Inclusive Edition. 1927. Fourth Inclusive Edition. 1933. Definitive Edition. 1940. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1949.
19. A Choice of Kipling's Verse. Ed. T. S. Eliot. 1941. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1963.
20. Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879-1889: Unpublished, Uncollected, and Rarely Published Poems. Ed. Andrew Rutherford. 1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
21. The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Ed. Thomas Pinney. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
22. The Surprising Mr Kipling. Ed. Brian Harris (2014)

Novels:


23. The Light that Failed (1891)
    • The Light that Failed. 1891. Macmillan’s Colonial Library. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, n.d.
    • The Light that Failed. 1891. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913.
    • The Light that Failed. 1891. The Centenary Edition. London: Macmillan London Limited, 1981.
24. [with Wolcott Balestier]. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (1892)
    • [with Wolcott Balestier]. The Naulahka: A Story of West and East. 1892. 2 vols. The Service Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1915.
25. ‘Captains Courageous’ (1896)
    • ‘Captains Courageous’: A Story of the Grand Banks. 1896. Melbourne & London: Macmillan & Company Ltd., 1942.
26. Kim (1901)
    • Kim. 1901. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1940.

Short Stories:


27. The City of Dreadful Night (1885)
28. [with John Lockwood Kipling, Alice Kipling (née MacDonald) and & Alice ('Trix') Kipling]. Quartette (1885)
29. Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
    • Plain Tales from the Hills. 1888. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1913.
    • Plain Tales from the Hills. 1888. St. Martin’s Library. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1964.
30. Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888)
    • Soldiers Three / The Story of the Gadsbys / In Black and White. 1888 & 1895. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1913.
    • Soldiers Three / The Story of the Gadsbys / In Black and White. 1888 & 1895. St. Martin’s Library. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1964.
31. The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888)
    • The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales. 1888 & 1895. New York: American Publishers Corporation, n.d.
32. Under the Deodars (1888)
33. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)
    • Wee Willie Winkie / Under the Deodars / The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Stories. 1888 & 1895. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1913.
    • Wee Willie Winkie / Under the Deodars / The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Stories. 1888 & 1895. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1913.
    • Wee Willie Winkie: Under the Deodars / The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales / Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories. 1888 & 1895. St. Martin’s Library. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1964.
    • Wee Willie Winkie: Under the Deodars / The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales / Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories. 1888 & 1895. Ed. Hugh Haughton. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.
34. Mine Own People (1891)
35. Life's Handicap (1891)
    • Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People. 1891. Library Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1948.
    • Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People. 1891. Ed. P. N. Furbank. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
36. Many Inventions (1893)
    • Many Inventions. 1893. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913.
    • Many Inventions. 1893. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913.
37. The Jungle Book (1894)
38. The Second Jungle Book (1895)
    • The Jungle Books. 1894 & 1895. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. 1955. London: the Reprint Society, 1956.
39. The Day's Work (1898)
    • The Day's Work. 1898. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.
    • The Day's Work. 1898. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1945.
40. The Brushwood Boy (1899)
    • The Brushwood Boy. 1895 & 1899. Illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 1907. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1914.
41. Stalky & Co. (1899)
    • Stalky & Co.: Complete. 1899. Ed. Isabel Quigley. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
42. Just So Stories (1902)
    • Just So Stories for Little Children. 1902. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1948.
    • Just So Stories for Little Children: A Reprint of the First Edition. Illustrated by the Author. 1902. New York: Weathervane Books, 1978.
43. Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
    • Traffics and Discoveries. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1904.
    • Traffics and Discoveries. 1904. The Dominons Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1913.
44. Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
    • Puck of Pook's Hill. 1906. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1957.
45. Actions and Reactions (1909)
    • Actions and Reactions. 1909. Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1920.
46. Abaft the Funnel (1909)
    • Abaft the Funnel: Authorized Edition. 1909. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
47. Rewards and Fairies (1910)
    • Rewards and Fairies. 1910. Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1920.
48. The Eyes of Asia (1917)
49. A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
    • A Diversity of Creatures. 1917. The Medallion Edition. Dunedin: James Johnston, Limited / London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, n.d.
50. Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
    • Land & Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. 1923. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1923.
    • Land & Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. 1923. Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1935.
51. Debits and Credits (1926)
    • Debits and Credits. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1926.
    • Debits and Credits. Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1926.
52. Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
    • Thy Servant a Dog, Told by Boots. Illustrated by G. L. Stampa. 1930. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1931.
53. Limits and Renewals (1932)
    • Limits and Renewals. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1932.
    • Limits and Renewals. 1932. The Gordon Edition. Sydney: Gordon and Gotch (Australia), Limited / London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, n.d.
    • Limits and Renewals. 1932. Ed. Phillip V. Mallett. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
54. Animal Stories from Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. 1932. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1961.
55. All the Mowgli Stories. 1933. St. Martin’s Library. 1961. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1962.
56. Collected Dog Stories (1934)
57. All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H. R. Millar & Charles E. Brock, R.I. 1906 & 1910. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1935.
58. 'Thy Servant a Dog' and Other Dog Stories. Illustrated by G. L. Stampa. 1938. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1960.
59. Ten Stories. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1947.
60. A Choice of Kipling's Prose. Ed. W. Somerset Maugham. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1952.
61. Short Stories. Volume 1: A Sahib’s War and Other Stories. Ed. Andrew Rutherford. 1971. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
62. Short Stories. Volume 2: Friendly Brook and Other Stories. Ed. Andrew Rutherford. 1971. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
63. Kipling's India: Uncollected Sketches (1884-1888). Ed. Thomas Pinney (1986)
64. The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling. Ed. Peter Haining. London: W. H. Allen & Co. Plc., 1987.
65. The Collected Short Stories. Illustrated by Philip Bannister. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2005.
    • Volume 1: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) / Soldiers Three and other stories (1888)
    • Volume 2: Wee Willie Winkie and other stories (1888) / Life's Handicap (1891)
    • Volume 3: Many Inventions (1893) / The Day's Work (1898)
    • Volume 4: Traffics and Discoveries (1904) / Actions and Reactions (1909) / A Diversity of Creatures
    • Volume 5: A Diversity of Creatures, cont. (1917) / Debits and Credits (1926) / Limits and Renewals (1932)

Non-Fiction:


66. American Notes (1891)
67. Letters of Marque (1891)
68. A Fleet in Being (1898)
69. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel. 1899. 2 vols. Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1914.
70. France at War (1915)
71. The New Army in Training (1915)
72. Sea Warfare. The Dominions Edition. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1916.
73. The War in the Mountains (1917)
74. The Graves of the Fallen (1919)
75. Letters of Travel (1892-1913). Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920.
76. Independence. Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews (October 10, 1923)
77. The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923)
78. A Book of Words: Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered Between 1906 and 1927. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1928.
79. Souvenirs of France (1933)
80. Something of Myself (1937)
    • Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown. 1937. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1937.
    • Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown. 1937. Ed. Robert Hampson. Introduction by Richard Holmes. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
81. Brazilian Sketches (1938)
82. A Second Book of Words: Some Uncollected Speeches (1884-1935). Ed. Thomas Pinney (2008)

Letters:


83. “O Beloved Kids”: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children. Ed. Elliot L. Gilbert. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson., 1983.

Secondary:


84. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Kipling and the Children. London: Elek Books Ltd., 1965.
85. Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. 1955. London: Macmillan Limited, 1978.
86. Ricketts, Harry. The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling. 1999. Pimlico. London: Random House, 2000.

Most of the missing items are now available on the Kipling Society's New Readers' Guide site, but printed versions are still desirable.

•

Fay Godwin: Philip Larkin (1970)

Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985)

Poetry:


1. The North Ship (1945)
   • The North Ship. 1945. London: Faber, 1982.
2. XX Poems (1951)
3. The Less Deceived (1955)
   • The Less Deceived. Hull: The Marvell Press, 1955.
4. The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
   • The Whitsun Weddings. 1964. London: Faber, 1968.
5. High Windows (1974)
   • High Windows. 1974. London: Faber, 1979.
6. Collected Poems. Ed. Anthony Thwaite (1988)
   • Collected Poems. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. London & Boston: Faber / The Marvell Press, 1988.
7. Collected Poems. Ed. Anthony Thwaite ['The North Ship' (1945); 'XX Poems' (1951); 'The Less Deceived' (1955); 'The Whitsun Weddings' (1964); 'High Windows' (1974); 'Appendix: Other Published Poems'](2003)
   • Collected Poems: New Edition. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. 1988. London: Faber / Melbourne: The Marvell Press, 2003.
8. Early Poems and Juvenilia. Ed. A. T. Tolley (2005)
   • Early Poems and Juvenilia. Ed. A. T. Tolley. London: Faber, 2005.
9. The Complete Poems. Ed. Archie Burnett (2012)
   • The Complete Poems. Ed. Archie Burnett. London: Faber, 2012.

Fiction:


10. Jill (1946)
    • Jill. 1945. London: Faber, 1975.
11. A Girl in Winter (1947)
    • A Girl in Winter. 1947. London: Faber, 1982.
12. Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fiction 1943–1953. Ed. James Booth (2002)
    • Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions. Ed. James Booth. London: Faber, 2002.

Non-fiction:


13. All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–1971 (1985)
    • Larkin, Philip. All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-1971. 1970. London: Faber, 1985.
14. Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982 (1983)
    • Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982. London: Faber, 1983.
15. Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews 1952–1985(2001)
    • Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews 1952-1985. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. 2001. London: Faber, 2002.

Edited:


16. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. Ed. Philip Larkin (1973)
    • Larkin, Philip, ed. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Letters:


17. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985. Ed. Anthony Thwaite (1992)
    • Selected Letters 1940-1985. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. London & Boston: Faber, 1992.
18. Letters to Monica. Ed. Anthony Thwaite (2010)

Secondary:


19. Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. London & Boston: Faber, 1993.

His letters, in particular, reveal him as a bit of a miserable old sod, but his poems seem to transcend all that somehow.

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Elsa Dorfman: Robert Lowell (1965)

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (1917-1977)

Poetry:


1. Land of Unlikeness (1944)
   • [Land of Unlikeness. Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1944.]
2. Lord Weary's Castle (1946)
   • Lord Weary's Castle. 1946. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.
   • Included in: Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of The Kavanaughs. 1946 & 1951. A Harvest / HBJ Book. San Diego, New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1974.
3. Poems 1938-1949 (1950)
   • Poems 1938-1949. 1950. London: Faber, 1970.
4. The Mills of The Kavanaughs (1951)
   • Included in: Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of The Kavanaughs. 1946 & 1951. A Harvest / HBJ Book. San Diego, New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1974.
5. Life Studies (1959)
   • Life Studies. 1959. London: Faber, 1968.
   • Included in: Life Studies and For the Union Dead. 1959 & 1964. The Noonday Press. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
6. For the Union Dead (1964)
   • Included in: Life Studies and For the Union Dead. 1959 & 1964. The Noonday Press. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
7. Selected Poems (1965)
   • Selected Poems. 1965. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1969.
8. The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems. Ed. William J. Martz & Foresman Scott (1966)
9. Near the Ocean (1967)
   • Near the Ocean. London: Faber, 1967.
10. R. F. K., 1925-1968 (1969)
11. Notebook 1967-1968 (1969)
    • Notebook 1967-68. 1969. 2nd printing. The Noonday Press N 402. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
12. Notebook (1970)
    • Notebook. 1970. London: Faber, 1971.
13. Poesie, 1940-1970 (1972)
14. History (1973)
    • History. The Noonday Press N 513. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
15. For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
    • [For Lizzie and Harriet. London: Faber, 1973.]
16. The Dolphin (1973)
    • The Dolphin. London: Faber, 1973.
    • The Dolphin. 1973. The Noonday Press N513. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
    • The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973. Ed. Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
17. Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection. Ed. Jonathan Raban (1973)
    • Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection. Ed. Jonathan Raban. 1973. London: Faber, 1974.
18. Selected Poems (1976)
    • Selected Poems: Revised Edition. 1976 & 1977. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.
19. Day by Day (1977)
    • Day by Day. 1977. London: Faber, 1978.
20. Poems. Selected by Michael Hofmann (2001)
    • Poems. Selected by Michael Hofmann. London: Faber, 2001.
21. Collected Poems (2003)
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Frank Bidart & David Gewanter, with DeSales Harrison. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.
22. Selected Poems: Expanded Edition (2006)

Plays:


23. The Old Glory (1965)
    • The Old Glory. London: Faber, 1966.

Prose:


24. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864 (1964)
25. Collected Prose. Ed. Robert Giroux (1987)
    • Collected Prose. Ed. Robert Giroux. London: Faber, 1987.
26. Memoirs. Ed. Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc (2022)
    • Memoirs. Ed. Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Translations:


27. Phaedra (1961)
    • Phaedra: A Verse Translation of Racine’s Phèdre. 1961. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1971.
28. Imitations (1961)
    • Imitations. 1961. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1971.
29. [‘Poems by Osip Mandelstam.’ The Atlantic Monthly, 211 (June, 1963): 63-68.]
30. [‘Poems by Anna Akhmatova.’ The Atlantic Monthly, 214 (October, 1964): 60-65.]
    • Included in: Poets on Street Corners: Portraits of Fifteen Russian Poets. Ed. Olga Carlisle. New York: Random House, 1968.
31. The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire (1969)
    • [The Voyage and other versions of poems by Baudelaire. Illustrated by Sidney Nolan. London: Faber, 1968.]
32. Prometheus Bound (1969)
    • Prometheus Bound: Derived from Aeschylus. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
    • Prometheus Bound: Derived from Aeschylus. 1969. London: Faber, 1970.
33. The Oresteia of Aeschylus (1978)
    • The Oresteia of Aeschylus. 1978. London: Faber, 1979.

Letters:


34. The Letters of Robert Lowell. Ed. Saskia Hamilton (2005)
    • The Letters of Robert Lowell. Ed. Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.
35. Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Ed. Thomas Travisano & Saskia Hamilton (2008)
    • Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Ed. Thomas Travisano & Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
36. The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979. Ed. Saskia Hamilton (2019)
    • The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle. Ed. Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Secondary:


37. Axelrod, Stephen Gould. Robert Lowell, Life and Art (1978)
38. Hamilton, Ian. Robert Lowell: A Biography. 1982. London: Faber, 1983.
39. Mariani, Paul. Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1994.
40. Jamison, Kay Redfield. Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire - A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character. 2017. Vintage Books. New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

I must confess to having had some doubts about him of late - especially with the recent publication of a rather fragmentary and lacklustre volume of Memoirs, but that may be more the fault of the editors than Lowell himself. I still love large sections of his poetry, though.

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John Masefield (1912)

John Edward Masefield (1878-1967)

Poetry Collections:


1. Salt-Water Ballads (1902)
   • Salt Water Ballads. 1902. London: Elkin Mathews Ltd., 1923.
2. Ballads (1903)
   • Notes from Ballads, by John Masefield (London: Elkin Mathews, 1903).]
3. Ballads and Poems (1910)
4. The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
   • “The Everlasting Mercy.” The English Review. Ed. Austin Harrison (October, 1911): 361-404.
   • The Everlasting Mercy. 1911. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911.
5. The Widow in the Bye Street (1912)
6. Dauber: A Poem (1912)
   • Included in: Dauber & Reynard the Fox. 1912, 1919. Introduction by the Author. 1962. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1965.
7. The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems (1912)
   • The Story of a Round-House and Other Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.
8. The Daffodil Fields (1913)
   • “The Daffodil Fields.” The English Review. Ed. Austin Harrison (February, 1913): 337-90.
9. Philip the King and Other Poems (1914)
10. Good Friday: A Play in Verse (1916)
11. Salt-Water Poems and Ballads (1916)
12. Sonnets (1916)
13. Sonnets and Poems (1916)
14. Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems with Sonnets (1917)
15. Rosas (1918)
16. A Poem and Two Plays (1919)
    • A Poem and Two Plays. ['Rosas', 'The Locked Chest', & 'The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight']. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1919.
17. Reynard the Fox: or the Ghost Heath Run (1919)
    • Included in: Dauber & Reynard the Fox. 1912, 1919. Introduction by the Author. 1962. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1965.
18. Animula (1920)
19. Enslaved and Other Poems (1920)
    • Enslaved and Other Poems, with Sonnets. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920.
20. Right Royal (1920)
21. King Cole (1921)
22. Selected Poems (1922)
    • Selected Poems. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922.
23. The Dream. Illustrated by Judith Masefield (1922)
24. King Cole and Other Poems (1923)
    • King Cole and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.
    • King Cole, The Dream and Other Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923.
25. The Collected Poems of John Masefield (1923)
    • Collected Poems. 1923. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926.
26. Poems (1925)
27. Sonnets of Good Cheer to The Lena Ashwell Players (1926)
28. Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse (1928)
29. The Oxford Recitations. Preface by John Masefield (1928)
    • [The Oxford Recitations: Containing: Love in the Desert, by Laurence Binyon; A Parting and The Return by Gordon Bottomley; Polyxena’s Speech and The Messenger’s Speech, from the Hecuba of Euripides, Translated by John Masefield. Preface by John Masefield. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.]
30. South and East. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons (1929)
    • South and East. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. London: The Medici Society / New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.
31. Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes (1931)
    • Minnie Maylow’s Story and Other Tales and Scenes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931.
32. The Collected Poems of John Masefield. Second, enlarged edition (1932)
33. A Tale of Troy (1932)
    • A Tale of Troy. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932.
    • A Tale of Troy. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932.
34. A Letter from Pontus and Other Verse (1936)
    • A Letter from Pontus & Other Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936.
35. The Country Scene. Pictures by Edward Seago (1937)
    • The Country Scene. With Pictures by Edward Seago. London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1937.
    • [The Country Scene. With Pictures by Edward Seago. London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1937.]
36. Tribute to Ballet. Pictures by Edward Seago (1938)
    • [Tribute to Ballet. With Pictures by Edward Seago. London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1938.]
37. The Collected Poems of John Masefield. Third, enlarged edition (1938)
    • The Collected Poems. 1923. Enlarged Edition. 1932. Enlarged Edition. 1938. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941.
    • The Collected Poems. 1923. Enlarged Edition. 1932. Enlarged Edition. 1938. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1942.
38. Some Verses to Some Germans [Pamphlet] (1939)
    • [Some Verses to Some Germans. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939.]
39. Some Memories of W. B. Yeats (1940)
    • [Some Memories of W. B. Yeats. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1940.]
40. Gautama the Enlightened and Other Verse (1941)
    • Gautama the Enlightened and Other Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941.
41. Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay (1942)
    • Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay: Two Tales in Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1942.
42. Land Workers [Pamphlet] (1942)
    • Land Workers. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1942.
43. A Generation Risen. Illustrated by Edward Seago (1943)
    • A Generation Risen. With Edward Seago. London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1942.
    • [A Generation Risen. With Edward Seago. London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1942.]
44. Wonderings (Between One and Six Years) (1943)
    • Wonderings (Between One and Six Years). London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1943.
    • Wonderings (Between One and Six Years). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943.
45. Poems: The Revised Edition of the Poet Laureate’s Collected Poems (1946)
    • Poems: The Revised Edition of the Poet Laureate’s Collected Poems. 1923. Enlarged Edition. 1932. Enlarged Edition. 1938. Revised Edition. 1946. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1948.
    • Poems. 1923. Enlarged Edition. 1932. Enlarged Edition. 1938. Revised Edition. 1946. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1948.
    • Poems: The Revised Edition of the Poet Laureate’s Collected Poems. 1923. Enlarged Edition. 1932. Enlarged Edition. 1938. Revised Edition. 1946. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961.
46. A Book of Both Sorts (1947)
    • [A Book of Both Sorts: Selections from the Verse and Prose of John Masefield (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947): 14-16, 85-91, 92-98, 191-92.]
47. The Bullying of the Badger (1949)
48. On the Hill (1949)
    • On the Hill. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1949.
49. Selected Poems (New Edition) (1949)
    • Selected Poems (New Edition). London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950.
50. Poems: Complete Edition with Recent Poems (1951)
    • [Poems: Complete Edition with Recent Poems. 1951 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967): i-xviii, 206-07; {Sonnets:} 352-53, 356-57, 360-67, 370-79; [Penelope:] 620-33; {Recent Poems:} 675-85.]
51. The Story of Ossian [LP] (1959)
    • [Cover of The Story of Ossian: Written and Read by John Masefield, O.M. Argo Recording RG 178. Distributed by Delta Trading Co. Ltd., {1959}.]
52. A Fox’s Day [LP] (1960)
    • Cover of A Fox’s Day: Adapted from Reynard the Fox and Read by John Masefield, O.M. Argo Recording RG 224. London: The Argo Record Company Limited, {1960}]
53. The Bluebells and Other Verses (1961)
    • The Bluebells and Other Verse. 1961. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961.
54. John Masefield Reading Sea Fever and Other Poems [LP] (1962)
    • Cover of John Masefield Reading Sea Fever and Other Poems. Caedmon Literary Series TC1147. Manufactured and Distributed by Philips Records (NZ) Ltd., {1962}
55. Old Raiger and Other Verses (1964)
    • Old Raiger and Other Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1964.
    • Old Raiger and Other Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1964.
56. In Glad Thanksgiving (1966)
    • In Glad Thanksgiving. 1966. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1967.
    • [In Glad Thanksgiving. 1966. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1967.]
57. Selected Poems. Preface by John Betjeman. London: Book Club Associates, 1978.
58. The Western Hudson Shore. 1962. Ed. Corliss Lamont. New York: The Oliphant Press, 1982.
59. Selected Poems. Ed. Donald E. Stanford. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1984.
60. Arthurian Poets: John Masefield. Ed. David Llewellyn Dodds. Arthurian Studies, 32. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1994.
61. Sea-Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Fyfield Books. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 2005.

Miscellaneous Poems:


62. Newspaper Cuttings:
    1. “A Prayer for the King’s Reign.” The Times (April 28, 1937): n.p.
    2. “Masefield’s Offering [three verses of John Masefield’s poem specially written for Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her wedding].” N.pl. (c. November 20, 1947): n.p.
    3. “A Prayer for a Beginning Reign.” The Times (June 2, 1953): n.p.
    4. “Poet Laureate Wrote Special Hymn Verses.” The Dominion (October 13, 1955): n.p.

Plays:


63. The Campden Wonder (1907)
64. The Tragedy of Nan (1909)
    • The Tragedy of Nan and Other Plays: The Tragedy of Nan; The Campden Wonder; Mrs. Harrison. 1909. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1922.
65. The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910)
    • [The Tragedy of Pompey the Great. 1910. Rev. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1914.]
66. The Faithful (1915)
    • [The Faithful: A Tragedy in Three Acts. London: William Heinemann, 1915.]
67. The Locked Chest and The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight (1916)
    • The Locked Chest and The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight: Two One-Act Plays. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
68. Esther: A Tragedy (1922)
    • Esther: A Tragedy. Adapted and Partially Translated from the French of Jean Racine. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922.
69. Berenice: A Tragedy (1922)
    • [Berenice: A Tragedy, Translated from the French of Jean Racine. London: William Heinemann, 1922.]
70. Melloney Holtspur (1922)
    • Melloney Holtspur. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1922.
71. A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse (1923)
    • A King’s Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.
72. The Trial of Jesus (1925)
    • The Trial of Jesus. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.
73. The Witch. Trans. from Hans Wiers-Jenssen's "Anne Pedersdotter" (1926)
74. Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse (1927)
    • Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse. London: William Heinemann, 1927.
    • [Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse. London: William Heinemann, 1927.]
75. The Coming of Christ (1928)
    • The Coming of Christ. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928.
76. Easter: A Play for Singers (1929)
    • Easter: A Play for Singers. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929.
77. End and Beginning (1934)
    • End and Beginning. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934.
78. A Play of St. George (1948)
    • [A Play of St. George. London: William Heinemann, 1948.]

Fiction:


79. A Mainsail Haul (1905)
    • A Mainsail Haul. 1905. Enlarged Ed. 1913. London: Elkin Mathews 1918.
    • A Mainsail Haul. 1905. Enlarged Ed. 1913. The Mariners Library, 25. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954.
    • A Mainsail Haul. 1905. Enlarged Ed. 1913. Enlarged Ed. 1954. Grafton Books. London: Collins Publishing Group, 1987.
80. A Tarpaulin Muster (1907)
    • A Tarpaulin Muster. 1907. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1920.
81. Captain Margaret (1908)
    • Captain Margaret: A Romance. London: Grant Richards, 1908.
    • Captain Margaret: A Romance. 1908. Introduction by Hugh Greene. The Bow Street Library. London: The Bodley Head, 1974.
82. Multitude and Solitude (1909)
    • Multitude and Solitude. 1909. The Travellers’ Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.
83. Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger (1909)
    • Martin Hyde: The Duke’s Messenger. 1910. Redhill, Surrey: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1949.
84. A Book of Discoveries (1910)
    • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by R. Gordon Browne. London: Wells, Gardner Darton & Co., 1910.
    • [A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. London: Wells, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910. 2 vols.]
85. Lost Endeavour (1910)
    • Lost Endeavour. 1910. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d.
86. The Street of Today (1911)
    • The Street of To-Day. 1911. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1911.
87. Jim Davis (1911)
    • Jim Davis. 1911. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., n.d.
    • Jim Davis. 1911. Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1924.
88. The Taking of Helen (1923)
    • The Taking of Helen. Signed, limited edition of 780 copies (613). London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.
    • Included in: Recent Prose. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924.
89. Sard Harker (1924)
    • Sard Harker: A Novel. 1924. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924.
    • Sard Harker: A Novel. 1924. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
90. ODTAA (1926)
    • Odtaa: A Novel. Limited Edition of 275 copies (23). London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926.
    • Odtaa: A Novel. 1926. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1949.
    • Odtaa. 1926. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
91. The Midnight Folk (1927)
    • The Midnight Folk. 1927. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. World Books Children’s Library. London: The Reprint Society, 1959.
    • The Midnight Folk. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. 1927. Puffin Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
    • The Midnight Folk. 1927. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1977.
    • The Midnight Folk. 1927. Abridged by Patricia Crampton. 1984. Fontana Lions. London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., 1985.
    • The Midnight Folk. 1927. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Mammoth. London: Reed Consumer Books Ltd., 1994.
92. The Hawbucks (1929)
    • The Hawbucks. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929.
93. The Bird of Dawning (1933)
    • The Bird of Dawning. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933.
    • The Bird of Dawning, or The Fortune of the Sea. 1933. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933.
    • La Course du thé. 1933. Trans. Régine & Victor Gueit. 1959. inter:presse. Paris: Plon, 1967.
94. The Taking of the Gry (1934)
    • The Taking of the Gry. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934.
95. The Box of Delights: or When the Wolves Were Running (1935)
    • The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running. 1935. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1958.
    • The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves Were Running. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. 1935. Puffin Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
    • The Box of Delights; When The Wolves Were Running. 1935. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1977.
    • The Box of Delights; When The Wolves Were Running. 1935. Illustrated by Faith Jaques. Abridged by Patricia Crampton. 1984. Fontana Lions. London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., 1984.
    • The Box of Delights; When The Wolves Were Running. 1935. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. Mammoth. London: Reed Consumer Books Ltd., 1994.
96. Victorious Troy: or The Hurrying Angel (1935)
    • Victorious Troy, or The Hurrying Angel. 1935. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1935.
    • Par les moyens du bord. 1935. Adapted by Pierre Rigaut. 1959. inter:presse. Paris: Plon, 1967.
97. Eggs and Baker (1936)
    • Eggs and Baker, or The Days of Trial. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936.
98. The Square Peg: or The Gun Fella (1937)
    • The Square Peg, or The Gun Fella: A Novel. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1937.
99. Dead Ned (1938)
    • Dead Ned: The Autobiography of a Corpse Who recovered Life within the Coast of Dead Ned and came to what Fortune you shall hear. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1938.
    • Dead Ned: The Autobiography of a Corpse Who Recovered Life within the Coast of Dead Ned and Came to What Fortune you shall hear. 1938. Puffin Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
100. Live and Kicking Ned (1939)
     • Live and Kicking Ned: A Continuation of the Tale of Dead Ned. 1939. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939.
     • Live and Kicking Ned: A Continuation of the Tale of Dead Ned. Abridged by Vivian Garfield. 1939. Puffin Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
101. Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora (1940)
     • Basilissa: A Tale of the Empress Theodora. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1940.
102. Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium (1941)
     • Conquer: A Tale of the Nika Rebellion in Byzantium. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941.
103. Badon Parchments (1947)
     • Badon Parchments. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947.

Autobiography:


104. In the Mill (1941)
     • In the Mill. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941.
105. New Chum (1944)
     • New Chum. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1944.
106. So Long to Learn (1952)
     • So Long To Learn: Chapters of an Autobiography. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1952.
107. Grace Before Ploughing (1966)
     • Grace Before Ploughing: Fragments of Autobiography. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1966.

Non-fiction:


108. Sea Life in Nelson's Time (1905)
     • Sea Life in Nelson’s Time. 1905. Introduction by Prof. C. C. Lloyd. London: Book Club Associates. 1984.
109. On the Spanish Main (1906)
     • On the Spanish Main: Or Some English forays on the Coast of Darien. With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-Time Ships and Sailors. 1906. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1922.
110. William Shakespeare (1911)
     • William Shakespeare. Home University Library, 2. 1911. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1926.
111. Gallipoli (1916)
     • Gallipoli. 1916. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1935.
     • Included in: John Masefield’s Great War: Collected Works. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Pen & Sword Military Classics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007.
112. The Old Front Line (1917)
     • The Old Front Line, or The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1917.
     • Included in: John Masefield’s Great War: Collected Works. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Pen & Sword Military Classics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007.
113. The War and the Future (1918)
114. St. George and the Dragon (1919)
     • St. George and the Dragon. 1918. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1919.
     • Included in: John Masefield’s Great War: Collected Works. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Pen & Sword Military Classics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007.
115. The Battle of the Somme (1919)
     • Included in: John Masefield’s Great War: Collected Works. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Pen & Sword Military Classics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007.
116. Recent Prose (1924)
     • Recent Prose. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924.
117. With the Living Voice (1924)
     • Masefield, John. With the Living Voice: An Address Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924.
118. The Wanderer of Liverpool (1930)
     • The Wanderer of Liverpool. 1930. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.
     • The Wanderer of Liverpool. 1930. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.
119. Poetry: a Lecture Given at the Queen's Hall in London on Thursday, October 15, 1931 (1931)
     • Poetry: A Lecture Given at the Queen’s Hall in London, on Thursday, October 15th, 1931. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931.
120. Recent Prose. Rev. ed. (1932)
     • Recent Prose. 1924. Rev. ed. 1932 (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933): 208-16, 244-321:
       • [Chaucer: The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered at Cambridge 3 March 1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931; “Ruskin.” n.d.]
121. The Conway: From Her Foundation to the Present Day (1933)
     • The Conway from her Foundation to the Present Day. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933.
     • The Conway. 1933. Rev. ed. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1953.
122. The Nine Days Wonder (The Operation Dynamo) (1941)
     • The Nine Days Wonder (The Operation Dynamo). 1941. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1941.
     • The Twenty-Five Days. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1972.
123. I Want! I Want! (1944)
     • I Want! I Want! Introduction by Geoffrey Faber. London: National Book Council, 1944.
124. A Macbeth Production (1945)
     • A Macbeth Production. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1945.
125. Thanks Before Going (1946)
     • Thanks Before Going: Notes on Some of the Original Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1946.
126. A Book of Prose Selections (1950)
     • A Book of Prose Selections. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950.
127. John Masefield’s Great War: Collected Works. ['Gallipoli' (1916); 'The Old Front Line' (1917); 'St. George and the Dragon' (1918); 'The Battle of the Somme' (1919)]. Ed. Philip W. Errington. Pen & Sword Military Classics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2007.

Edited:


128. A Sailor’s Garland. London: Methuen & Co., 1906.
129. An English Prose Miscellany. London: Methuen & Co., 1907.
130. My Favourite English Poems. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950.

Letters:


131. Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont. Ed. Corliss Lamont & Lansing Lamont. London & New York: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1979.
132. Letters to Reyna. Ed. William Buchan. London: Buchan & Enright, Publishers, Limited, 1983.
133. John Masefield’s Letters from the Front, 1915-1917. Ed. Peter Vansittart. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1984.
134. Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919). Ed. Donald E. Stanford. Manchester: Carcanet Press, in association with MidNAG, 1984.
135. Brangwen: The Poet and the Dancer. A Story Based on Letters from the Poet Laureate John Masefield to a Young Ballerina During World War Two. Ed. John Gregory. Sussex, England: The Book Guild, Ltd., 1988.
136. Brangwen: The Poet and the Dancer. A Story Based on Letters from the Poet Laureate John Masefield. Ed. John Gregory. 1988. Foreword by Corliss Lamont. New York: Prometheus Books, 1989.

Secondary:

[Books]:


137. Hamilton, W. H. John Masefield, A Popular Study. 1922. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925.
138. [Biggane, Cecil. John Masefield: A Study. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1924.]
139. [Simmons, Charles H. A Bibliography of John Masefield. London: Oxford University Press / New York: Columbia University Press, 1930.]
140. [Nevinson, Henry W. John Masefield: An Appreciation. Together with a Bibliography. London: William Heinemann, 1931.]
141. Thomas, Gilbert. John Masefield. Modern Writers Series. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1932.
142. Strong, L. A. G. John Masefield. Published for The British Council & The National Book League. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952.
     • [Strong, L. A. G. John Masefield. Printed for The British Council & The National Book League. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952.]
143. Spark, Muriel. John Masefield. London: Peter Nevill Ltd., 1953.
     • Spark, Muriel. John Masefield. 1953. Rev. ed. 1962. London: Pimlico, 1992.
144. Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey, ed. John Masefield, O.M., The Queen’s Poet Laureate: A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute. London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960.
145. [Fisher, Margery. John Masefield. A Bodley Head Monograph. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.]
146. Knight, G. Wilson. Neglected Powers: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1971.
     • [Knight, G. Wilson. “Masefield and Spiritualism.” In Neglected Powers: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971): 260-92, 384-85.]
147. Lamont, Corliss, ed. Remembering John Masefield. Introduction by Judith Masefield. London: Kaye & Ward Ltd., 1972.
148. Sternlicht, Sanford. John Masefield. Twayne English Authors Series, 209. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977.
149. Smith, Constance Babington. John Masefield: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
150. Errington, Philip W., ed. John Masefield: The “Great Auk” of English Literature. A Bibliography. London: The British Library / New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004.

[Essays & Articles]:


151. [Williams, Charles. “John Masefield.” In Poetry at Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930): 114-27.]
152. [Middleton Murry, J. “The Nostalgia of Mr. Masefield.” In Aspects of Literature (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934): 164-70.]
153. [Yu Da-Yuen. John Masefield: A Critical Estimate of His Poems and Plays (Peiping, China: Sun Yu Press, 1934) 1-4, 11-104.]
154. [Swinnerton, Frank. “John Masefield.” In The Georgian Literary Scene 1910-1935. 1935 (London: Hutchinson, 1969): 208-12.]
155. [Knight, G. Wilson. “Masefield’s Tragedy of Nan.” In New Hyperion: A Symposium of Poetry and Criticism, ed. Geoffrey Handley-Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950): 30-36.]
156. [Drew, Fraser Bragg. “Some Contributions to the Bibliography of John Masefield: 1.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (June, 1959): 188-96.]
157. [Drew, Fraser Bragg. “Some Contributions to the Bibliography of John Masefield: 2.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (October, 1959): 262-67.]
158. [Knight, G. Wilson. “W. W. Gibson and John Masefield.” In The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama (London: Phoenix House, 1962): 331-36.]
159. [Berry, F. John Masefield: The Narrative Poet. The University of Sheffield: Inaugural Lecture, 25 October 1967.]
160. [Watson, George & Ian Willison, ed. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1900-1950 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1972): 306-13, 793.]
161. [Drew, Fraser. “Selected Bibliography.” In John Masefield’s England: A Study of the National Themes in His Work (New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1973): 233-50.]
162. [Hope, Ronald. “Introduction.” In John Masefield, The Sea Poems (London: Heinemann, 1978): vii-xi.]
163. [Mellown, Elgin W. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bibliographies of Twentieth Century British Poets, Novelists and Dramatists (Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Co., 1978): vi-xiv, 235-36.]
164. Montgomerie, Leslie T. “In John Masefield’s Garden.” This England (Winter 1979): 12-13.
165. [MLA Bibliography, Vol.1 – (1968): 873; (1969): 112; (1970): 93; (1971): 109; (1972): 120; (1973): 120; (1976): 136; (1976): 143; (1977): 127; (1978): 153 & 155; (1979): 154 & 163.]
166. [Case, Ann Massie & Laurel Cooley, ed. Bibliographic Index: A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies (New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1980): Vol. 4 (1951-55): 398; Vol. 6 (1960-62): 385; Vol. 7 (1963-65): 425; Vol. 9 (1969): 273; Vol. 10 (1970): 296; Vol. 13 (1973): 269; Vol. 20 (1980): 274-75.]
167. [English Language and Literature: Annual Bibliography, 42 (1967): 513; 43 (1968): 573; 44 (1969): 593; 45 (1970): 607; 46 (1971): 16 & 654; 48 (1973): 706; 49 (1974): 791; 51 (1976): 735; 53 (1978): 592; 54 (1979): 654-55; 55 (1980): 740.]
168. [The Year’s Work in English Studies, 48 (1967): 347; 49 (1968): 326 & 386; 50 (1969): 351-52; 52 (1971): 21-22, 379; 54 (1973): 394-95; 57 (1976): 361 & 370; 58 (1977): 417; 59 (1978): 411; 60 (1979): 346 & 399; 61 (1980): 84-85.]
169. [Salmon, Eric. Granville Barker: A Secret Life (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983): 42-43, 46-47, 132-33, 188-899, 243-44, 341-42.]
170. Newspaper Cuttings:
     1. “Literature and Life: John Masefield.” The British Weekly (15 May, 1930): n.p.
     2. “On story-telling.” [Edinburgh], n.d.
     3. ‘A Carpet-maker.’ “Poet in the mail: Review of In the Mill, by John Masefield.” N.pl (28 June, 1941): 314.
     4. “Poems ‘written’ in sleep.” N.pl, n.d.
     5. Walsh, John. Review of Brangwen: The Poet and the Dancer, ed. John Gregory. The Sunday Times (20 November, 1988): G2.

What can I say? I went a big hog-wild on Masefield when I was working on his novels for my Master's thesis back in the early 1980s. He was nothing if not prolific - I still feel that his work is far more interesting than most people think, however.

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Frederick Hollyer: William Morris (1887)

William Morris (1834–1896)

Poetry:


1. The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems (1858):
   • Included in The Early Romances in Prose and Verse. Introduction by Alfred Noyes. 1907. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1910.
2. The Life and Death of Jason. 1867. Introduction by Ernest Rhys. 1911. Everyman’s Library, 575. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1927.
3. The Earthly Paradise: A Poem. 1868-70. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.
4. A Book Of Verse: A Facsimile of the Manuscript Written in 1870. Introduced by Roy Strong & Joyce Irene Whalley. 1980. London: Scolar Press, 1982.
5. Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1872)
6. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs. 1877. The Poetical Works of William Morris. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918.
7. The Pilgrims of Hope (1885):
   • Included in Three Works: A Dream of John Ball / The Pilgrims of Hope / News from Nowhere. Introduction by A. L. Morton. 1886-87, 1885-85, 1890. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1968.
8. Poems By the Way (1891)
9. Chants for Socialists (1935)
10. Geoffrey Grigson, ed. A Choice of William Morris’s Verse. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1969.

Fiction:


11. The Hollow Land (1856):
    • Included in The Early Romances in Prose and Verse. Introduction by Alfred Noyes. 1907. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1910.
12. A Dream of John Ball (1888):
    • Included in Stories in Prose / Stories in Verse / Shorter Poems / Lectures and Essays. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1934. Centenary Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946.
    • Included in Three Works: A Dream of John Ball / The Pilgrims of Hope / News from Nowhere. Introduction by A. L. Morton. 1886-87, 1885-85, 1890. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1968.
13. A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse (1889):
    • The House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and Verse. 1888. The Works of William Morris. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913.
    • The House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and Verse. 1888. Introduction by Richard Mathews. The Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, 16. Ed. R. Reginald & Douglas Menville. Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.
14. The Roots of the Mountains Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale Their Friends Their Neighbours Their Foeman and Their Fellows in Arms. 1889. Introduction by Richard Mathews. The Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, 19. Ed. R. Reginald & Douglas Menville. Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.
15. News from Nowhere (or, An Epoch of Rest) (1890):
    • Included in Stories in Prose / Stories in Verse / Shorter Poems / Lectures and Essays. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1934. Centenary Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946.
    • Included in Three Works: A Dream of John Ball / The Pilgrims of Hope / News from Nowhere. Introduction by A. L. Morton. 1886-87, 1885-85, 1890. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1968.
    • News from Nowhere and Selected Writings and Designs; With a Supplement by Graeme Shankland on William Morris, Designer, Illustrated by twenty-four plates. 1890. Ed. Asa Briggs. 1962. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
16. The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891):
    • The Story of the Glittering Plain, or The Land of Living Men. 1890. The Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, 1. Ed. R. Reginald & Douglas Menville. Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Company, Inc., 1973.
    • The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men. A Facsimile of the 1894 Kelmscott Edition. Illustrated by Walter Crane. New York: Dover, 1987.
17. The Wood Beyond the World. 1894. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972.
18. Child Christopher and Godilind the Fair. 1895. Introduction by Richard Mathews. The Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, 12. Ed. R. Reginald & Douglas Menville. Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.
19. The Well at the World’s End: A Tale. 1896. Introduction by Lin Carter. 1970. A Del Rey Book. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1977.
20. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. 1897. Introduction by Lin Carter. 1971. Adult Fantasy. London: Pan / Ballantine Books Limited., 1972.
21. The Sundering Flood. 1897. Introduction by Lin Carter. Adult Fantasy. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1973.
22. A King's Lesson (1901):
    • Included in Stories in Prose / Stories in Verse / Shorter Poems / Lectures and Essays. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1934. Centenary Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946.
23. The World of Romance (1906)
24. Golden Wings and Other Stories (1976)

Translations:


25. [with Eiríkr Magnússon] Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong (1869)
26. [with Eiríkr Magnússon] The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869)
27. [with Eiríkr Magnússon] The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda (1870):
    • Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda. 1870. Ed. H. Halliday Sparling. The Camelot Series. Ed. Ernest Rhys. London: Walter Scott, 1888.
    • Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. 1870. Ed. Robert W. Gutman. 1962. New York & London: Collier & Collier-Macmillan, 1971.
28. [with Eiríkr Magnússon] Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales (1875)
29. The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English Verse. 1875. The Poetical Works of William Morris. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
30. The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse (1887)
31. Of King Florus and the Fair Jehane (1893)
32. The Tale of Beowulf Done out of the Old English Tongue (1895)
33. Old French Romances Done into English (1896)

Non-fiction:


34. Hopes and Fears For Art (1882)
35. Lectures on Art delivered in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. London, Macmillan, 1882
36. Signs of Change (1888)
37. [with E. Belfort Bax] Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome (1893)
38. Architecture and History & Westminster Abbey". Papers read to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1884 and 1893. Printed at The Chiswick Press (London, Longmans, 1900)
39. Communism: A Lecture (London, Fabian Society, 1903):
    • Included in Stories in Prose / Stories in Verse / Shorter Poems / Lectures and Essays. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1934. Centenary Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1946.
40. William Gaunt, ed. Selected Writings of William Morris. Falcon Prose Classics. Ed. Leonard Russell. London: The Falcon Press, 1948.

Literature was, of course, only one part of his massive oeuvre, but here - at least - are most of the principal items.

William Morris: Printing (Chicago: Village Press, 1903)

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Neruda as a Young Man

Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto ['Pablo Neruda'] (1904-1973)

Poetry:


1. Crepusculario (1923)
   • Book of Twilight. Trans. William O'Daly (2018)
2. Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924)
   • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. [‘20 Poemas de amor y una Canción desesperada’, 1924]. Trans. W. S. Merwin. 1969. Cape Editions. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
   • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. William O'Daly (1976)
3. Tentativa del hombre infinito (1926)
   • Venture of the Infinite Man. Trans. Jessica Powell. Introduction by Mark Eisner (2017)
4. El hondero entusiasta (1933)
5. Residencia en la tierra (1925–1931) (1935)
   • Residencia en la tierra. 1933, 1935. Ed. Hernán Loyola. Letras Hispanicas, 254. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1987.
6. España en el corazón. Himno a las glorias del pueblo en la guerra (1936–1937) (1937)
7. Tercera residencia (1935–1945) (1947)
   • Residence on Earth. [‘Residencia en la tierra’: I, 1933; II, 1935; III, 1947]. Trans. Donald D. Walsh. New York: New Directions Press, 1973.
8. Nuevo canto de amor a Stalingrado (1943)
9. Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1948)
   • The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Nathaniel Tarn. Preface by Robert Pring-Mill (1966)
10. Canto general (1950)
    • Canto General. 1950. Biblioteca de Bolsillo. Barcelona: Editorial Seix-Barral, 1983.
    • Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems. 1947. Trans. 1950. Introduction by Christopher Perriam. Illustrated by José Venturelli. London: The Journeyman Press Ltd., 1988.
    • Canto General: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. [‘Canto General’, 1950]. Trans. Jack Schmitt. Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría. Latin American Literature and culture, 7. 1991. A Centennial Book. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
11. Los versos del capitán (1952)
    • The Captain's Verses: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Donald D. Walsh (1972)
12. Todo el amor (1953)
13. Las uvas y el viento (1954)
14. Odas elementales (1954)
15. Nuevas odas elementales (1955)
16. Tercer libro de las odas (1957)
17. Estravagario (1958)
    • Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition. 1958. Trans. Alastair Reid. Cape Poetry Paperbacks. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
18. Navegaciones y regresos (1959)
19. Cien sonetos de amor (1959)
    • 100 Love Sonnets. [‘Cien sonetos de amor’, 1960]. Trans. Stephen Tapscott. Texas Pan American Series. 1986. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
    • 100 Love Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Gustavo Escobedo, Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan, Reflections on reading Neruda by George Elliott Clarke, Beatriz Hausner & A. F. Moritz (2004)
20. Canción de gesta (1960)
21. Poesías: Las piedras de Chile (1960)
22. Cantos ceremoniales (1961)
23. Belitt, Ben, ed. & trans. Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda. Introduction by Luis Monguió. 1961. An Evergreen Book. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963.
24. Plenos poderes (1962)
    • Fully Empowered: A Bilingual Edition. [‘Plenos poderes’, 1962]. Trans. Alastair Reid. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1976.
25. Memorial de Isla Negra. 5 vols (1964)
    • Isla Negra: A Notebook. A Bilingual Edition. [‘Memorial de Isla Negra’, 1964]. Afterword by Enrico Mario Santí. Trans. Alastair Reid. 1981. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1982.
26. Arte de pájaros (1966)
27. Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta: libreto (1967)
    • Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta. [‘Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquín Murieta’, 1966]. Trans. Ben Belitt. 1972. Noonday Press. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
28. La Barcarola (1967)
29. Las manos del día (1968)
    • The Hands of the Day. Trans. William O'Daly (2008)
30. Fin del mundo. Illustrated by Mario Carreño, Nemesio Antúnez, Pedro Millar, María Martner, Julio Escámez & Oswaldo Guayasamín (1969)
    • World's End. Trans. William O'Daly (1984)
31. Aún (1969)
    • Still Another Day. Trans. William O'Daly (1984)
32. Maremoto. Illustrated by Carin Oldfelt Hjertonsson (1970)
33. La espada encendida (1970)
34. Las piedras del cielo (1970)
    • Stones of the Sky. Trans. William O'Daly (1990)
35. Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Nathaniel Tarn (1970)
36. Discurso de Estocolmo (1972)
37. Geografía infructuosa (1972)
38. La rosa separada. Engravings by Enrique Zañartu (1972)
    • The Separate Rose. Trans. William O'Daly (1985)
39. New Poems (1968-1970): A Bilingual Edition. Trans. Ben Belitt (1972)
40. Incitación al Nixonicidio y alabanza de la revolución chilena (1973)
41. Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition. Ed. Nathaniel Tarn. Trans. Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, & Nathaniel Tarn. 1970. Introduction by Jean Franco. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
42. Winter Garden. [‘Jardín de invierno’, posthumous]. Trans. James Nolan (1987)
43. The Sea and the Bells. [‘El mar y las campanas’, posthumous]. Trans. William O'Daly (1988)
44. The Yellow Heart. [‘El corazón Amarillo’, posthumous]. Trans. William O'Daly (1990)
45. The Book of Questions. [‘El libro de las preguntas’, posthumous]. Trans. William O'Daly. 1991. A Kage-An Book. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.
46. Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda. Trans. (1990) (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
47. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
48. On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea. Trans. Alastair Reid. Epilogue by Antonio Skármeta (2004)
49. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. Trans. Robert Hass, Jack Hirschman, Mark Eisner, Forrest Gander, Stephen Mitchell, Stephen Kessler, & John Felstiner. Preface by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2004)
50. Intimacies: Poems of Love. Trans. Alastair Reid (2008)
51. All The Odes. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden et al. (2013)
52. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda. Trans. Forrest Gander (2016)

Prose:


53. [with Tomás Lago] Anillos: Prosa poética (1926)
54. El habitante y su esperanza. Novela (1926)
55. [with Miguel Ángel Asturias] Comiendo en Hungría (1969)
56. Hacia la Ciudad Espléndida / Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture. 1972. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974.
57. A Basic Anthology. Ed. Robert Pring-Mill. Dolphin Books. Oxford: The Dolphin Book Co. Ltd., 1975.
58. Memoirs. [‘Confieso que he vivido: Memorias’, 1974]. Trans. Hardie St. Martin. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
59. Passions and Impressions. [‘Para nacer he nacido’, 1978]. Ed. Matilde Neruda & Miguel Otero Silva. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1983.
60. The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition. 2017. Trans. Hardie St. Martin & Adrian Nathan West. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

At his best, he's incomparable. He did write a great deal, though, and a lot of it ended up just sounding vaguely Neruda-ish. There are always, still, those mountain peaks, though. He remains impossible to bypass.

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Everett: Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Poetry:


1. The Colossus and Other Poems (1960)
   • The Colossus: Poems. 1960. London: Faber, 1977.
2. Ariel (1965)
   • Ariel. 1965. London: Faber, 1974.
3. Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968)
4. Crossing the Water (1971)
5. Winter Trees (1971)
6. Collected Poems (1981)
   • Collected Poems. Ed. Ted Hughes. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1981.
   • Collected Poems. Ed. Ted Hughes. 1981. London: Faber, 1983.
7. Selected Poems (1985)
8. Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004)
   • Ariel: The Restored Edition. A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement. 1965. Foreword by Frieda Hughes. 2004. London: Faber, 2007.

Prose:


9. [as 'Victoria Lucas'] The Bell Jar (1963)
   • The Bell Jar. 1963. London: Faber, 1966.
   • The Bell Jar. 1963. London: Faber, 1974.
10. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977)
    • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Other Prose. Ed. Ted Hughes. 1977. London: Faber, 1979.
11. The Magic Mirror [Smith College senior thesis] (1989)
12. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (2019)
    • Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom. Faber Stories. London, Faber, 2019.

Children's Books:


13. The Bed Book. Illustrated by Quentin Blake (1976)
14. The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit (1996)
15. Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)
16. Collected Children's Stories (2001)
    • Collected Children’s Stories. 1976 & 1996. Illustrated by David Roberts. Faber Children’s Classics. London: Faber, 2001.

Letters & Journals:


17. Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975)
    • Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-63. Ed. Aurelia Schober Plath. 1975. A Bantam Book. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1977.
18. The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982, Dial Press)
19. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ed. Karen V. Kukil (2000)
    • Kukil, Karen V., ed. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962: Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College. 2000. London: Faber, 2001.
20. The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1. Ed. Peter K. Steinberg & Karen V. Kukil (2017)
    • Steinberg, Peter K. & Karen V. Kukil, ed. The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956. Harper. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
21. The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2. Ed. Peter K. Steinberg & Karen V. Kukil (2018)
    • Steinberg, Peter K. & Karen V. Kukil, ed. The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963. Harper. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.

Secondary:


22. Steiner, Nancy Hunter. A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath. Afterword by George Stade. 1973. London: Faber, 1976.
23. Kyle, Barry. Sylvia Plath: A Dramatic Portrait, Conceived and Adapted From Her Writing. 1976. London: Faber, 1982.
24. Malcolm, Janet. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. 1993. Picador. London: Pan Macmillan General Books, 1994.
25. Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. With Additional Material by Lucas Myers, Dido Merwin, and Richard Murphy. 1989. New Preface. London: Penguin, 1998.

It's just as well that alphabetical sequence has divided that star-crossed duo of Hughes and Plath. She's an immensely more talented poet, imho, but far too much has been said on that subject already, I would have thought. Let's simply look at her in her own right.

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George Charles Beresford: Siegfried Sassoon (1915)

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967)

Poetry:


1. The Daffodil Murderer (1913)
2. The Old Huntsman (1917)
3. The General (1917)
4. Does it Matter? (1917)
5. Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
6. The Hero (1918)
7. Picture-Show (1919)
8. War Poems (1919)
9. Aftermath (1920)
10. Recreations (1923)
11. Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians (1925)
12. Selected Poems (1925)
13. Satirical Poems (1926)
14. The Heart's Journey (1928)
15. Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre (1931)
16. The Road to Ruin (1933)
17. Vigils (1935)
18. Rhymed Ruminations (1940)
19. Poems Newly Selected (1940)
20. Collected Poems (1947)
    • Collected Poems. London: Faber, 1947.
21. Common Chords (1950)
22. Emblems of Experience (1951)
23. The Tasking (1954)
24. Sequences (1956)
25. Lenten Illuminations (1959)
26. The Path to Peace (1960)
27. Collected Poems 1908–1956 (1961)
    • Collected Poems 1908-1956. 1961. London: Faber, 1984.
28. The War Poems. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (1983)
    • The War Poems. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Faber, 1983.

Prose:


29. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928)
    • Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man. 1928. The Faber Library, 1. London: Faber, 1932.
30. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930)
    • Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. 1930. The Faber Library, 2. London: Faber, 1932.
31. Sherston's Progress (1936)
    • Sherston’s Progress. 1936. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948.
32. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1937)
    • The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man / Memoirs of an Infantry Officer / Sherston’s Progress. 1928, 1930, 1936, 1937. London: Faber, 1945.
    • The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man / Memoirs of an Infantry Officer / Sherston’s Progress. 1928, 1930, 1936, 1937. Published by the Reprint Society Ltd. by Arrangement with Faber and Faber. London: World Books, 1940.
33. The Old Century and seven more years (1938)
    • The Old Century, and Seven More Years. London: Faber, 1938.
    • The Old Century, and Seven More Years. 1938. Introduction by Michael Thorpe. London: Faber, 1986.
34. On Poetry (1939)
35. The Weald of Youth (1942)
    • The Weald of Youth. London: Faber, 1942.
36. Siegfried's Journey, 1916–1920 (1945)
    • Siegfried’s Journey, 1916-1920. London: Faber, 1945.
    • Siegfried’s Journey, 1916-1920. The Albatross Modern Continental Library, 558. London & Paris: The Albatross Ltd., 1947.
37. Meredith (1948)
    • Meredith. 1948. A Grey Arrow. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1959.
38. Fussell, Paul, ed. Sassoon's Long Journey: An Illustrated Selection from Siegfried Sassoon's The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. 1928, 1930, 1936, 1937. A Giniger Book Published in association with Faber & Faber. London: Faber / New York: K. S. Giniger Co. Inc., 1983.

Diaries:


39. Diaries 1915-1918. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Book Club Associates, 1983.
40. Diaries 1920-1922. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Faber, 1981.
41. Diaries 1923-1925. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Faber, 1985.

Letters:


42. Letters to Max Beerbohm: with a few answers. Ed. Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Faber, 1986.

Secondary:


43. Wilson, Jean Moorcroft. Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet. A Biography 1886-1918. 1998. New York: Routledge, 1999.
44. Wilson, Jean Moorcroft. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches. A Biography 1918-1967. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 2003.

The Terence Davies movie Benediction (2021) gives an interesting insight into - especially - his long post-war decline.

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Roger Fry: Edith Sitwell (1918)

Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964)

Poetry:


1. Mother and Other Poems (1915)
2. Clowns' Houses (1918)
3. The Wooden Pegasus (1920)
4. Façade (1922)
5. Bucolic Comedies (1923)
6. The Sleeping Beauty (1924)
7. Troy Park (1925)
8. Rustic Elegies (1927)
9. Gold Coast Customs (1929)
10. Collected Poems (1930)
11. Five Variations on a Theme (1933)
12. Poems Old & New (1940)
13. Street Songs (1942)
14. Green Song and Other Poems (1944)
15. The Song of the Cold (1945)
16. The Shadow of Cain (1947)
17. The Canticle of the Rose: Selected Poems 1920–1947 (1949)
18. Façade, and Other Poems 1920–1935 (1950)
    • Façade and Other Poems. Introductory Essay by Jack Lindsay. 1950. London: Duckworth, 1976.
19. Gardeners and Astronomers: New Poems (1953)
20. Collected Poems (1954)
    • Collected Poems. 1957. London: Macmillan, 1979.
21. The Outcasts (1962)
    • The Outcasts. London: Macmillan, 1962.

Prose:


22. Alexander Pope (1930)
    • Alexander Pope. 1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948.
23. Bath (1932)
24. The English Eccentrics (1933)
    • English Eccentrics. 1933. Rev. ed. 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
25. Aspects of Modern Poetry (1934)
26. Victoria of England (1936)
27. I Live Under a Black Sun (1937)
28. English Women (1942)
29. A Poet's Notebook (1943)
30. Fanfare for Elizabeth (1946)
    • Fanfare for Elizabeth. London: Macmillan, 1946.
31. A Notebook on William Shakespeare (1948)
    • A Notebook on William Shakespeare. London: Macmillan, 1948.
32. The Queens and the Hive (1962)
    • The Queens and the Hive. 1962. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
33. Taken Care Of (1965)
    • Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. 1965. London: Readers Union / Constable, 1966.
34. Fire of the Mind: An Anthology. Ed. Elizabeth Salter & Allanah Harper (1976)
    • Fire of the Mind: An Anthology. Ed. Elizabeth Salter & Allanah Harper. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1976.
Letters:


35. Selected Letters. Ed. John Lehmann & Derek Parker. London: Macmillan, 1970. [Uncorrected Proof Copy].

Secondary:


36. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions. 1981. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

There are some wonderful moments in some of her earlier poems, but it's hard to take her critical pronouncements at all seriously.

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D. M. Thomas (1935- )

Donald Michael Thomas (1935- )

Poetry:


1. Two Voices (1968)
2. Logan Stone (1971)
3. The Shaft (1973)
4. Love and Other Deaths (1975)
5. The Honeymoon Voyage (1978)
6. [with Reg Boulton] Protest (1980)
7. Dreaming in Bronze (1981)
8. Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
9. The Puberty Tree (1992)
10. Flight and Smoke (2010)
11. Two Countries (2011)
12. Vintage Ghosts (2012)
13. Mrs English and other women (2014)
14. Corona Man: A Fictional Verse Journal in the Plague Year (2020)
15. The Last Waltz: Poems (2021)

Fiction:


16. Orpheus in Hell (1977)
17. The Flute-Player. 1979. London: Picador, 1980.
18. Birthstone. 1980. King Penguin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
19. The White Hotel. 1981. King Penguin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
20. Ararat. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.
21. Swallow. 1984. London: Abacus, 1985.
22. Sphinx. London: Victor Gollancz, 1986.
23. Summit (1987)
24. Lying Together (1990)
25. Flying in to Love (1992)
26. Pictures at an Exhibition (1993)
27. Eating Pavlova (1994)
28. Lady with a Laptop (1996)
29. Memories and Hallucinations (1998)
30. Charlotte (2000)
31. Hunters in the Snow (2014)

Non-fiction:


32. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life (1998)
33. Bleak Hotel: The Hollywood Saga of the White Hotel (2008)

Plays:


34. Hell Fire Corner (2004)

Edited:


35. The Granite Kingdom: An anthology of poems about Cornwall (1970)

Translations:


36. Anna Akhmatova. Way of All the Earth. 1969. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1979.
37. Anna Akhmatova. Selected Poems. 1976, 1979 & 1985. Penguin International Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.
38. Alexander Pushkin. The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems. The Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
39. Yevgeny Yevtushenko. A Dove in Santiago: A Novella in Verse (1982)
40. Anna Akhmatova. You Will Hear Thunder (1985)
41. Alexander Pushkin. Onegin (2011)
42. Alexander Pushkin. Ruslan and Ludmila (2019)

Everyone read The White Hotel after it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Some of his Russian translations are also very good.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953)

Poetry:


1. 18 Poems (1934)
2. Twenty-Five Poems (1936)
3. The Map of Love (1939)
4. New Poems (1943)
5. Deaths and Entrances (1946)
   • Deaths and Entrances: Poems. 1946. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1947.
6. Twenty-Six Poems (1949)
7. In Country Sleep and other poems (1952)
8. Collected Poems, 1934–1952 (1952)
   • Collected Poems 1934-1952. 1952. An Aldine Paperback. London: J. M. Dent, 1974.
9. Poet in the Making: the Notebooks of Dylan Thomas. Ed. Ralph Maud (1967)
   • Poet in the Making: the Notebooks of Dylan Thomas. Ed. Ralph Maud. 1967. London: J. M. Dent, 1968.
10. The Poems. Ed. Daniel Jones (1971)
    • The Poems. Ed. Daniel Jones. 1971. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1978.
11. Collected Poems 1934–1953 (1988)
    • Collected Poems 1934-1953. Ed. Walford Davies & Ralph Maud. 1988. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 2000.
12. The Notebook Poems: 1930-1934. Ed. Ralph Maud (1989)
    • The Notebook Poems: 1930-1934. Ed. Ralph Maud. 1989. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent, 1990.
13. Fern Hill: An Illustrated edition of the Dylan Thomas poem (1997)
14. Selected Poems (2000)
15. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition (2014)
    • The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition. Ed. John Goodby. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd., 2014.

Prose:


16. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940)
    • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. 1940. London: Guild Books, 1956.
17. [with John Davenport] The Death of the King's Canary (1941)
    • [with John Davenport] The Death of the King’s Canary. Introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon. 1976. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
18. Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas (1946)
19. Adventures in the Skin Trade (1953)
    • Adventures in the Skin Trade. 1955. London: Ace Books, 1961.
20. Quite Early One Morning (1954)
    • Quite Early One Morning: Broadcasts. Preface by Aneirin Talfan Davies. 1954. An Aldine Paperback. London: J. M. Dent, 1968.
21. A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955)
22. A Prospect of the Sea and Other Stories and Prose Poems. Ed. Daniel Jones (1955)
    • A Prospect of the Sea and Other Stories and Prose Poems. Ed. Daniel Jones. 1955. London: J. M. Dent, 1957.
23. Rebecca's Daughters (1965)
24. Early Prose Writings. Ed. Walford Davies (1971)
    • Early Prose Writings. Ed. Walford Davies. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1971.
25. The Outing. Illustrated by Meg Stevens (1971)
    • The Outing. Illustrated by Paul Cox (1985)
26. A Child's Christmas in Wales. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (1978)
27. The Collected Stories. Ed. Leslie Norris (1983)
    • The Collected Stories. Ed. Leslie Norris. Everyman Fiction. London: J. M. Dent, 1983.
28. Eight Stories (1994)
29. Collected Stories (2014)

Drama & Screenplays:


30. [with Ivan Foxwell] No Room at the Inn [adapted from Joan Birt's 1945 play] (1948)
31. [with Louise Birt] The Three Weird Sisters [adapted from Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Case of the Weird Sisters] (1948)
32. Rebecca's Daughters (1948)
    • Two Tales: Me and My Bike, Rebecca's Daughters. Ed. Sydney Box. Illustrations by Rebecca Box. 1965 & 1965. London: Sphere Books Limited, 1968.
33. The Doctor and the Devils and Other Scripts (1953)
    • The Doctor and the Devils: From the Story by Donald Taylor. 1953. London: J. M. Dent, 1969.
34. Under Milk Wood (1954)
    • Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. Preface by Daniel Jones. 1954. London: J. M. Dent, 1954.
35. The Beach at Falesa (1964)
    • The Beach of Falesá: Based on a Story by Robert Louis Stevenson. 1964. London: Panther, 1966.
36. Twenty Years a-Growing (1964)
37. Dylan Thomas: The Complete Screenplays. Ed. John Ackerman (1995)

Collections:


38. Miscellany One: Poems, stories, broadcasts (1963)
39. Miscellany Two: Including A Visit to Grandpa's and other stories and poems (1971)
40. Miscellany Three: Poems, Stories (1978)
41. Selected Works (1982)
42. On the Air With Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts. Ed. Ralph Maud (1992)
43. The Dylan Thomas Omnibus. Ed. Walford Davies & Ralph Maud (1995)
    • The Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts. Ed. Walford Davies & Ralph Maud. A Phoenix Giant Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1995.

Letters:


44. Letters to Vernon Watkins (1957)
    • Letters to Vernon Watkins. Ed. Vernon Watkins. 1957. An Aldine Paperback. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1967.
45. Twelve More Letters (1970)
46. The Collected Letters. Ed. Paul Ferris (1985)
    • The Collected Letters. Ed. Paul Ferris. 1985. London: Paladin, 1987.
    • The Collected Letters. Ed. Paul Ferris. 1985. New Edition. London: J. M. Dent & Sns, 2000.
    • The Collected Letters. Ed. Paul Ferris. 1985. Revised Edition. 2 vols. London: J. M. Dent & Sns, 2017.
      1. 1931-1939
      2. 1939-1953

Secondary:


47. Brinnin, John Malcolm. Dylan Thomas in America. 1956. An Aldine Paperback. London: J. M. Dent, 1965.
48. Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet. A Symposium. Ed. E. W. Tedlock. 1960. London: Mercury Books, 1963.
49. Ferris, Paul. Dylan Thomas. 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
50. Ackerman, John. A Dylan Thomas Companion: Life, Poetry and Prose. 1991. Macmillan. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1994.

His bibliography is nothing if not complicated - which is odd for so bounded a body of work. The demand for new work has been so great over the years, however, that the limited number of poems has been supplemented by screenplays, broadcasts and a host of other ephemera.

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Edward Thomas

Philip Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Poetry:


1. [as Edward Eastaway] Six Poems (1916)
2. Poems (1917)
3. Last Poems (1918)
   • Poems and Last Poems (Arranged in Chronological Order of Composition). Ed. Edna Longley. 1917 & 1918. Collins Annotated Student Texts. London & Glasgow: Collins Publishers, 1973.
4. Collected Poems (1920)
   • Collected Poems. Foreword by Walter de la Mare. 1920. London & Boston: Faber, 1979.
5. Two Poems (1927)
6. Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Introduction by Edward Garnett (1927)
7. Edward Thomas: The Green Roads. Ed. Eleanor Farjeon (1965)
   • The Green Roads. Ed. Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Bernard Brett. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1965.
8. The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas. Ed. R. George Thomas (1978)
   • The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas. Ed. R. George Thomas. 1978. Oxford Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
9. Edward Thomas: Selected Poems and Prose. Ed. David Wright (1981)
   • Selected Poems and Prose. Ed. David Wright. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
10. Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England. Ed. Elaine Wilson (1985)
11. Edward Thomas: Selected Poems. Ed. Ian Hamilton (1995)
12. The Poems of Edward Thomas. Ed. Peter Sacks (2003)
13. The Annotated Collected Poems. Ed. Edna Longley (2008)
    • The Annotated Collected Poems. Ed. Edna Longley. 2008. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2011.

Fiction:


14. The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (1913)
15. Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1915)

Non-fiction:


16. Horae Solitariae (1902)
17. Oxford (1903)
18. Beautiful Wales (1905)
19. The Heart of England (1906)
    • The Heart of England. 1906. Foreword and Wood-Engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish. The Open-Air Library. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1932.
20. The South Country (1906)
21. Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work (1908)
    • Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work. 1909. London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d.
22. Rest and Unrest (1910)
23. Light and Twilight (1911)
24. Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
25. The Icknield Way (1913)
26. In Pursuit of Spring (1914)
27. A Literary Pilgrim in England (1917)
    • A Literary Pilgrim in England. 1917. Oxford Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
28. The Last Sheaf (1928)
29. The Prose of Edward Thomas. Ed. Roland Gant (1948)
    • The Prose of Edward Thomas. Ed. Roland Gant. Introduction by Helen Thomas. London: The Falcon Press Limited, 1948.

Secondary:


30. Thomas, Helen, with Myfanwy Thomas. Under Storm’s Wing: As It Was, World without End &c. 1926, 1931 & 1988. Paladin Grafton Books. London: Collins Publishing Group, 1990.
31. Farjeon, Eleanor. Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years. 1958. Oxford Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
32. Hollis, Matthew. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas. 2011. London: Faber, 2012.

My love for Edward Thomas's work dates from my purchase of Edna Longley's odd little volume of the Poems and Last Poems. I never get tired of reading him and thinking about him.

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R. S. Thomas

Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000)

Poetry:


1. The Stones of the Field (1946)
2. An Acre of Land (1952)
3. The Minister (1953)
4. Song at the Year's Turning (1955)
5. Poetry for Supper (1958)
6. Judgement Day (1960)
7. Tares, [Corn-weed] (1961)
8. The Bread of Truth (1963)
9. Pietà (1966)
10. The Mountains. Illustrations by John Piper (1968)
11. Postcard: Song (1968)
12. Not That He Brought Flowers (1968)
13. H'm (1972)
14. Selected Poems, 1946–1968 (1973)
    • Selected Poems, 1946-1968. 1973. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd. London: Granada Publishing Limited, 1974.
15. What is a Welshman? (1974)
16. Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)
17. The Way of It (1977)
18. Frequencies (1978)
19. Between Here and Now (1981)
    • Between Here and Now: Poems. London: Macmillan London Limited, 1981.
20. Later Poems, 1972–1982 (1983)
21. A Selection of Poetry. Ed. D. J. Hignett (1983)
22. Poets' Meeting (1983)
23. Ingrowing Thoughts (1985)
24. Destinations (1985)
25. Poems of R. S. Thomas (1985)
26. Experimenting with an Amen (1986)
27. Welsh Airs (1987)
28. The Echoes Return Slow (1988)
29. Counterpoint (1990)
30. Cymru or Wales? (1992)
31. Mass for Hard Times (1992)
32. Collected Poems, 1945–1990 (1993)
    • Collected Poems 1945-1990. 1993. London: Phoenix Giant, 1996.
33. No Truce with the Furies (1995)
34. Residues (2002)
35. Collected Later Poems 1988–2000 (2004)
    • Collected Later Poems 1988-2000. Highgreen: Bloodaxe Books, 2004.
36. Uncollected Poems. Ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (2013)
    • Uncollected Poems. Ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies. Highgreen: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2013.

Prose:


37. Words and the Poet (1964)
38. Abercuawg (1976)
39. Neb (1985)
40. Blwyddyn yn Llŷn (1990)
41. Pe Medrwn Yr Iaith : ac ysgrifau eraill. Ed. Tony Brown & Bedwyr L. Jones (1990)
42. Autobiographies. Trans. Jason Walford Davies (1997)
    • Autobiographies: Former Paths / The Creative Writer's Suicide / No-one / A Year in Llyn. 1972, 1977, 1985, 1990. Trans. Jason Walford Davies. 1997. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1998.
43. Too Brave to Dream: Encounters with Modern Art. Ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (2016)

A grim old bastard, certainly, but you have to give him credit for sticking to his guns and actually managing to learn to write in Welsh (albeit prose, not verse).

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Dame Felicitas Corrigan: Helen Waddell: A Biography

Helen Jane Waddell (1889-1965)


1. Lyrics from the Chinese (1913)
2. The Spoiled Buddha: A Play. 1915 (1919)
3. The Wandering Scholars (1927)
   • The Wandering Scholars. 1927. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954.
4. Medieval Latin Lyrics (1929)
   • Mediaeval Latin Lyrics. 1929. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1947.
   • Medieval Latin Lyrics. 1929. The Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.
5. The Abbé Prévost: A Play (1933)
6. Peter Abelard: A Novel (1933)
   • Peter Abelard: A Novel. 1933. London: The Reprint Society, 1950.
7. Beasts and Saints (1934)
   • Beasts and Saints. 1934. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. London: Constable & Co., 1946.
8. The Desert Fathers (1936)
   • The Desert Fathers: Translations from the Latin. 1936. London: Constable & Co., 1994.
9. For Better Factory Laws: A Pamphlet (1937)
10. Poetry in the Dark Ages: The eighth W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 28th October, 1947 (1948)
11. Stories from Holy Writ (1949)
12. The Princess Splendour and Other Stories (1969)
    • The Princess Splendour and Other Stories. Ed. Eileen Colwell. Illustrated by Anne Knight. 1969. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
13. More Latin Lyrics: From Virgil to Milton. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan (1976)
    • More Latin Lyrics: From Virgil to Milton. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan. London: Victor Gollancz, 1976.
14. Songs of the Wandering Scholars. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan (1982)
    • Songs of the Wandering Scholars. 1927, 1929, 1933, 1976. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan. Wood-engravings by Joan Freeman. London: The Folio Society, 1982.
15. Between Two Eternities. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan (1993)
    
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16. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. London: Constable, 1973.

Ever since I first read Peter Abelard as a teenager, I've been rather fascinated by Helen Waddell. Her gift for verse is unmistakable, though some of her ideological positions perhaps appeal less to me now.

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Arthur Waley

Arthur David Schloss [Arthur Waley] (1889-1966)

Translations:


1. One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. 1918. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
2. More Translations from the Chinese. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
3. 'The Story of Ts'ui Ying-ying.' In Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader. Ed. William H. Nienhauser (2010): 101-113.
4. 'The Story of Miss Li.' In Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader. Ed. William H. Nienhauser (2010): 113–136.
5. Japanese Poetry: The Uta. A selection drawn mostly from the Man'yōshū and the Kokinshū (1919)
6. The Nō Plays of Japan. With Letters by Oswald Sickert. 1920. Evergreen Books. New York: Grove Press, Inc., n.d.
7. The Temple and Other Poems (1923)
8. Lady Murasaki: The Tale of Genji (1925-1933):
   • The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957.
   • The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Volume One: Part 1. The Tale of Genji; Part 2. The Sacred Tree; Part 3. A Wreath of Cloud. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1925, 1926, 1927. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965.
   • The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Volume Two: Part 4. Blue Trousers; Part 5. The Lady of the Boat; Part 6. The Bridge of Dreams. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1928, 1932, 1933. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
   • The Tale of Genji. Trans. Athur Waley. 1935. 2 vols. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1970.
9. The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon. 1928. Unwin Books. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1960.
10. The Way and Its Power: The Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. 1934. A Mandala Book. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
11. The Book of Songs. 1937. New York: Grove Press, 1960.
12. The Analects of Confucius (1938):
    • The Analects of Confucius. 1938. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971.
    • Confucius. The Analects. 1938. Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1996.
13. Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China (1939)
14. Translations from the Chinese: A Compilation (1941)
15. Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China (1942)
    • Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. 1942. Illustrated by Duncan Grant. London: The Folio Society, 1968.
    • Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. 1942. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
16. Chinese Poems. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946.
17. 77 Poems (1955)
18. The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China. 1955. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1973.
19. Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956.
20. Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang: An Anthology. Ruskin House. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1960.

Original works:


21. An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting. 1923. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1958.
22. The Life and Times of Po Chü-I (1949)
23. The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D. Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West. London & New York: George Allen and Unwin & The Macmillan Company, 1950.
24. The Real Tripitaka and Other Pieces. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952.
25. The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. 1958. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968.
26. The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1963.

Secondary:


27. Ivan Morris, ed. Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970.

I suppose that some of his versions sound a bit mannered now, but for a long time Arthur Waley would have had to be called the principal translator of Chinese poetry into English. Pound's Cathay may have shown the way, but Waley's linguistic abilities far eclipsed his. His Monkey and Tale of Genji are also great entry texts to the world of the traditional Chinese and Japanese novel. I love the simplicity and clarity of his work.

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