{"product_id":"poems-of-london-isbn-9780593320204","title":"Poems of London","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by this storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems of London\u003c\/i\u003e covers a wide range of time and includes not only the pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot, but also tributes by notable visitors from all over, from Arthur Rimbaud to Samuel Beckett to Sylvia Plath, and contributions by an array of immigrants or the children of immigrants, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patience Agbabi, and recent Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo. All the famous sights of London, from the Thames to the Tower, are touched on in this vibrant collection, and denizens of its busy streets ranging from princes to pubgoers to pickpockets wander through these pages. The result is an enthralling portrait of an endlessly varied and fascinating place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE THAMES AND OTHER WATERWAYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e RUDYARD KIPLING The River’s Tale\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL DRAYTON \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003ePolyOlbion\u003cbr\u003e OSCAR WILDE Impression du Matin \u003cbr\u003e JOYCE CARY \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Horse’s Mouth \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802\u003cbr\u003e DENISE RILEY Composed underneath Westminster Bridge \u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE Town in 1917 \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Frost Fair 1684 \u003cbr\u003e JOHN TAYLOR \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eAn Arrant Thief \u003cbr\u003e LOUIS MACNEICE Charon \u003cbr\u003e JAMES ELROY FLECKER Ballad of the Londoner\u003cbr\u003e JO SHAPCOTT ‘Delectable Creatures’ \u003cbr\u003e CICELY FOX SMITH London Seagulls \u003cbr\u003e WILFRED OWEN Shadwell Stair \u003cbr\u003e JOHN DAVIDSON In the Isle of Dogs\u003cbr\u003e U. A. FANTHORPE Rising Damp\u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eOn the Famous Voyage\u003cbr\u003e KIT WRIGHT Wailing in Wandsworth\u003cbr\u003e EDMUND SPENSER \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eProthalamion\u003cbr\u003e T. S. ELIOT \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Waste Land \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE CITY AND WESTMINSTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM DUNBAR London \u003cbr\u003e TRADITIONAL Oranges and Lemons \u003cbr\u003e T. S. ELIOT \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Waste Land \u003cbr\u003e SIR JOHN BETJEMAN \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eSummoned by Bells\u003cbr\u003e TOM CHIVERS The Bells \u003cbr\u003e DAVID JONES \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Anathemata: ‘The Lady of the Pool’\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS City Street Cries\u003cbr\u003e FRANCIS BEAUMONT \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eMaster Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS Lines on the Mermaid Tavern\u003cbr\u003e SIR JOHN DAVIES Plague \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS NASHE A Litany in Time of Plague \u003cbr\u003e JOHN DRYDEN The Fire of London\u003cbr\u003e IAN NAIRN St. Stephen Walbrook \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE Holy Thursday\u003cbr\u003e PETER BOSTOCK A Few Words from Rev. Sydney Smith\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HARDY In St. Paul’s a While Ago\u003cbr\u003e LOUIS MACNEICE Homage to Wren\u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR HENRY ADAMS Fleet Street\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE London\u003cbr\u003e PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Hell\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Princes in the Tower \u003cbr\u003e OLIVER REYNOLDS Little Ease \u003cbr\u003e SIR THOMAS WYATT ‘Who list his wealth and ease retain’ \u003cbr\u003e GEOFFREY HILL \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eHolbein \u003cbr\u003e U. A. FANTHORPE Portraits of Tudor Statesmen \u003cbr\u003e DAVID HARSENT \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eFire: A Song for Mistress Askew \u003cbr\u003e ANDREW MARVELL \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland\u003cbr\u003e LIONEL JOHNSON By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross\u003cbr\u003e JONATHAN SWIFT Clever Tom Clinch, Going to Be Hanged\u003cbr\u003e LAWRENCE DURRELL A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson\u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR RIMBAUD Villes\u003cbr\u003e VIRGINIA WOOLF Big Ben\u003cbr\u003e FRANCIS BEAUMONT Westminster Abbey\u003cbr\u003e IMOGEN ROBERTSON The Statues of Buckingham Palace \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDIVERSIONS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EDMUND WALLER \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eOn St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty\u003cbr\u003e JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER \u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003eA Ramble in St. James’s Park\u003cbr\u003e EZRA POUND The Garden \u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA PLATH Queen Mary’s Rose Garden\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES Jaguar \u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL BECKETT Serena I \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM EMPSON Homage to the British Museum \u003cbr\u003e RÓISÍN TIERNEY Song of the Temple Maiden \u003cbr\u003e FERGUS ALLEN Imperial War Museum, November \u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER POPE Hampton Court \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HARDY A Spellbound Palace \u003cbr\u003e JOHN DONNE Twickenham Garden \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Prologue to \u003ci\u003eHenry V \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eOn the Death of the Famous Actor, Richard Burbage \u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON On Salathiel Pavy: A Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel\u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eTo the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAY AND NIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARY ROBINSON London’s Summer Morning\u003cbr\u003e IVOR GURNEY London Dawn\u003cbr\u003e GEOFFREY MATTHEWS Aubade 1940\u003cbr\u003e SIR JOHN BETJEMAN Business Girls\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Real Scene\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Blind Beggar\u003cbr\u003e JONATHAN SWIFT A Description of a City Shower\u003cbr\u003e JOHN DAVIDSON Fog \u003cbr\u003e JOHN GAY Pickpockets\u003cbr\u003e ROSEMARY TONKS An Oldfashioned Traveller on the Trade Routes \u003cbr\u003e R. P. LISTER Buses on the Strand\u003cbr\u003e LUKE HEELEY To a Disused Phone Box\u003cbr\u003e IAN NAIRN Red Lion, Duke of York Street\u003cbr\u003e JOHN HEATHSTUBBS Lament for ‘The Old Swan’, Notting Hill Gate \u003cbr\u003e GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Don Juan in London\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HOOD A Nocturnal Sketch \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD LE GALLIENNE A Ballad of London\u003cbr\u003e T. E. HULME The Embankment \u003cbr\u003e SIR JOHN BETJEMAN On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal\u003cbr\u003e ERIC MASCHWITZ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square\u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR SYMONS Behind the Scenes: Empire\u003cbr\u003e ROSEMARY TONKS Orpheus in Soho \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD SCOTT \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eSoho \u003cbr\u003e JOHN OLDHAM \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eA Satire, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES CHURCHILL The Haunted City\u003cbr\u003e AMY LOWELL A London Thoroughfare, 2 a.m.\u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE Parliament Hill in the Evening \u003cbr\u003e HUBERT WITHEFORD The World in the Evening\u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Quiet Neighbours \u003cbr\u003e BERNARD SPENCER Regent’s Park Terrace\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BRIDGES London Snow \u003cbr\u003e DEREK MAHON One of These Nights \u003cbr\u003e SIDNEY KEYES Greenwich Observatory \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNATURE AND PLACE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS Ode to a Nightingale\u003cbr\u003e THOM GUNN Keats at Highgate \u003cbr\u003e AMY LEVY A London Plane Tree\u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE Letter from Town: The Almond Tree\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT LOWELL Closed Sky \u003cbr\u003e RUTH FAINLIGHT Solstices \u003cbr\u003e CHARLOTTE MEW The Trees Are Down \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES DICKENS Earthquake in Camden Town\u003cbr\u003e EMILE VERHAEREN London\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eMilton \u003cbr\u003e HILARY DAVIES In the Fire Frost Morning \u003cbr\u003e MARTINA EVANS On Living in an Area of Manifest Greyness and Misery\u003cbr\u003e EDGAR BATEMAN If It Wasn’t for the ’Ouses in Between\u003cbr\u003e KEN SMITH \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eFox Running \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eJerusalem \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Reverie of Poor Susan\u003cbr\u003e BERNARDINE EVARISTO Seven Dials, London, 1880 \u003cbr\u003e PATRICK KAVANAGH Kerr’s Ass \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSOME LONDONERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All Specimens of Man\u003cbr\u003e ABRAHAM NAHUM STENZEL Whitechapel in Britain\u003cbr\u003e EMANUEL LITVINOFF A Long Look Back \u003cbr\u003e PERCY FRENCH The Mountains o’ Mourne \u003cbr\u003e IAN DUHIG Grand Union Bridge \u003cbr\u003e ALDWYN ROBERTS London Is the Place for Me\u003cbr\u003e LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Inglan Is a Bitch \u003cbr\u003e FLEUR ADCOCK Immigrant \u003cbr\u003e JOHN AGARD What Ails the King?\u003cbr\u003e PATIENCE AGBABI Sir Topaz \u0026amp; Da Elephant \u003cbr\u003e JOHN SHIRLEY The Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort \u003cbr\u003e FAWZI KARIM Night’s Scavengers \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE ‘Why should I care for the men of Thames’ \u003cbr\u003e INUA ELLAMS DirectionsCHRISTOPHER REID is the author of many books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eA Scattering\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber \u0026amp; Faber, where he worked with Ted Hughes on such books as \u003ci\u003eTales from Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, and later he edited \u003ci\u003eLetters of Ted Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.FOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Whether you live in London, as I have done for almost fifty years, or are on a brief visit, you cannot help being reminded of both the geographical extent and the historical depth of the city. How do you make sense of it all?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For the purposes of this anthology – a pocketsize book about a vast and teeming place – I have begun at the centre. Think of the River Thames as the artery that from earliest days has allowed London’s heart, the City of London, to beat. There and in Westminster is where you will find the greatest concentration of the traces of history, some well-preserved and plain to see, others more hidden. But there is no need to rely just on old buildings and monuments: poets from the Early Modern period onward have been among the busiest and liveliest chroniclers, whether reporting events or imagining them, celebrating metropolitan life or deploring it; and while the evidence they offer is necessarily partial, it adds up to a considerable body of witness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e William Blake stands on a different plane from his fellows in having attempted, singlehanded, something more ambitious: the articulation, in his prophetic books \u003ci\u003eMilton \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, of a comprehensive mythology of London. Blake may still be thought eccentric, as he was in his own day, but his is the spirit that I have come to regard as presiding over my choice of poems, extracts from poems, song lyrics, topical doggerel and poetically charged prose. Embracing not only the city centre, but also the districts and boroughs that sprawl around and away from it, Blake’s vision strikes me as a vigorous assertion of eccentricity as the most reliable means of seeing the place as it really is.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So the following pages set out, in their own manner, to do justice to the full range between history and mythology, objective reality and the private feelings of the individual. The past – some of it proud, much disgraceful – looms large; but London’s habit of growing and changing needs to be considered as well. With this in mind, I have placed in my final section a handful of poems addressing the experiences of immigrants who have become citizens. Regrettably, it has not been possible to include a section about London as the revitalizing new intake of the future will know it.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I should like to thank Charles Boyle, Eleanor Bron, Nancy Campbell, Neil Corcoran, Tom Deveson, Cliff Forshaw, Vivi Lachs, Alan Leith, Lord Lisvane and Gwyneth Powell for their advice and assistance with\u003cbr\u003e this book.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Christopher Reid","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302939447525,"sku":"NP9780593320204","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593320204.jpg?v=1767734913","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/poems-of-london-isbn-9780593320204","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}