{"product_id":"the-four-seasons-isbn-9780307268341","title":"The Four Seasons","description":"For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable. From Robert Frost’s tribute to the evanescence of spring in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to Langston Hughes’s moody “Summer Night” in Harlem, from the “stopped woods” in Marie Ponsot’s “End of October” to the chilling “mind of winter” in Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage the world outside ourselves.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPRING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare\u003c\/b\u003e  First Sight of Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e The Year’s Awakening \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e ‘‘Light exists in Spring’’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e  Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e ‘‘It was a lover and his lass’’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e  Nothing Gold Can Stay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur\u003c\/b\u003e March \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins\u003c\/b\u003e Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStevie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e  Black March\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e Spring Pools \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. E. Housman\u003c\/b\u003e ‘‘Loveliest of trees’’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e March Morning Unlike Others \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost \u003c\/b\u003e Putting in the Seed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. E. Housman\u003c\/b\u003e The Lent Lily \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Garrigue\u003c\/b\u003e Spring Song II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e Another April \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. R. Ammons\u003c\/b\u003e Resurrections \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Bishop\u003c\/b\u003e Cold Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Wordsworth\u003c\/b\u003e Lines Written in Early Spring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKay Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e  Sonnet to Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Nashe\u003c\/b\u003e Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Herrick\u003c\/b\u003e Corinna’s Going a-Maying \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams\u003c\/b\u003e The Widow’s Lament in Springtime \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. H. Lawrence\u003c\/b\u003e The Enkindled Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Mew\u003c\/b\u003e  ‘‘I so liked Spring’’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson \u003c\/b\u003e‘‘A little Madness in the Spring’’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Rossetti \u003c\/b\u003e Another Spring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Reed \u003c\/b\u003e Naming of Parts \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay Swenson\u003c\/b\u003e  April Light \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur\u003c\/b\u003e A Storm in April\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Herrick \u003c\/b\u003e To Daffodils \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Teasdale\u003c\/b\u003e  There Will Come Soft Rains \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Browning\u003c\/b\u003e  Home-Thoughts, from Abroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLizette Woodworth Reese\u003c\/b\u003e  April in Town \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. E. Cummings\u003c\/b\u003e [in Just-] \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e Out of May’s Shows Selected\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e  Spring \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUMMER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnon.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘‘Summer is y-comen in’’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer\u003c\/b\u003e  Roundel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e The House was Quiet and the World was Calm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e Further in Summer than the Birds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey\u003c\/b\u003e The Sweet Season \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e At the Royal Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e \"Woof of the sun’’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e Summer Poem \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMona Van Duyn\u003c\/b\u003e End of May \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Schuyler\u003c\/b\u003e I Think\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare\u003c\/b\u003e Summer Moods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Keats\u003c\/b\u003e On the Grasshopper and the Cricket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH.D.\u003c\/b\u003e Pear Tree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLangston Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e Summer Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhyllis McGinley\u003c\/b\u003e June in the Suburbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Nemerov\u003c\/b\u003e Trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Clampitt\u003c\/b\u003e Lindenbloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH.D.\u003c\/b\u003e Heat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e A July Afternoon by the Pond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLéonie Adams\u003c\/b\u003e Midsummer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnon\u003c\/b\u003e. Summer Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e Heatwave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay Swenson\u003c\/b\u003e Flag of Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Cullen Bryant\u003c\/b\u003e Summer Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e The Summer Rain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Meynell\u003c\/b\u003e The Rainy Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur \u003c\/b\u003eMy Father Paints a Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wagoner\u003c\/b\u003e Falling Asleep in a Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Lowell \u003c\/b\u003eDog-Days\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Penn Warren\u003c\/b\u003e August Moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e August Moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Hollander \u003c\/b\u003eLate August on the Lido\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e Hyla Brook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Rossetti \u003c\/b\u003eSummer is Ended\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e \"As imperceptibly as God\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.E. Housman \u003c\/b\u003e\"When summer's end is nighing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAUTUMN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Keats\u003c\/b\u003e To Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e \"Summer begins to have the look\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Brontë\u003c\/b\u003e \"Fall, leaves, fall\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e Unharvested \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter de la Mare\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn Chant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e Ode to the West Wind \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e The Seven Sorrows \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e An Autumn Sunset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Puskin\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Bogan\u003c\/b\u003e Simple Autumnal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Garrigue\u003c\/b\u003e The Flux of Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Stanley Braithwaite\u003c\/b\u003e ‘‘Turn me to my yellow leaves’’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJones Very\u003c\/b\u003e The Latter Rain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Blake\u003c\/b\u003e To Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e Hoar-Frost \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Tighe\u003c\/b\u003e Written in Autumn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e The Fall of the Leaf \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn Refrain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Nemerov\u003c\/b\u003e The Dying Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e An Autumnal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Wadsworth Longfellow\u003c\/b\u003e Aftermath \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e The Love for October \u003cbr\u003eTed Hughes October Dawn \u003cbr\u003eHelen Hunt Jackson October \u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy Last Week in October\u003cbr\u003eMarie Ponsot End of October\u003cbr\u003eRobert Penn Warren Heart of Autumn \u003cbr\u003eThomas Hood No! \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dean Howells November \u003cbr\u003ePhyllis McGinley November \u003cbr\u003eAdelaide Crapsey November Night \u003cbr\u003eA.R. Ammons Late November \u003cbr\u003eThomas Hardy During Wind and Rain \u003cbr\u003eRichard Wilbur Crow’s Nests\u003cbr\u003eGarard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hollander An Old-Fashioned Song\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare ‘‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’’\u003cbr\u003eE.E. Cummings [l(a]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWINTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e Winter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Sackville\u003c\/b\u003e, Earl of Dorset Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e \"It sifts from Leaden Sieves\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e \"Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Bradstreet\u003c\/b\u003e Winter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.E. Housman\u003c\/b\u003e \"The night is freezing fast\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare\u003c\/b\u003e Winter Walk \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Russell Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e The First Snow-Fall \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e From a Notebook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e The Snow-Storm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGjertrud Schnackenberg\u003c\/b\u003e The Paperweight \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eSnow-Bound 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Hall\u003c\/b\u003e The Snow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shenstone\u003c\/b\u003e Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElinor Wylie\u003c\/b\u003e Silver Filigree \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e To a Leaf Falling in Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Clampitt\u003c\/b\u003e Runes, Blurs, Sap Rising \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e Crows in Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Wadsworth Longfellow\u003c\/b\u003e Snow-Flakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e Afterflakes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e The Snow Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Campion\u003c\/b\u003e \"Now winter nights enlarge\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngelina Weld Grimké\u003c\/b\u003e A Winter Twilight \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKay Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e Winter Fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e Sestina d’Inverno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.R. Ammons \u003c\/b\u003eWinter Scene \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e \"There’s a certain Slant of light\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur\u003c\/b\u003e Year’ End \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e Snow and Snow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Brontë \u003c\/b\u003e\"The night is darkening round me\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost\u003c\/b\u003e \"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Shapiro \u003c\/b\u003eCalifornia Winter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams\u003c\/b\u003e Winter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e \"The Sky is low –the Clouds are mean\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur \u003c\/b\u003eOrchard Trees, January \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e February Afternoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Schuyler \u003c\/b\u003eFebruary 13, 1975 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Authors \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgment\u003c\/i\u003eJ. D. McClatchy is a poet and Professor of English at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His book \u003ci\u003eHazmat\u003c\/i\u003e (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. He edits the \"Voice of the Poet\" series for Random House AudioBooks; and has written texts for musical settings, including eight opera libretti, for such composers as William Schuman, Ned Rorem, Lorin Maazel, Bruce Saylor, Lowell Liebermann, and Elliot Goldenthal. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been one of the New York Public Literary Lions, and received the 2000 Connecticut Governor's Arts Award. He received the 1991 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and served as an Academy Chancellor from 1996 until 2003.  He has edited or co-edited four previous Everyman's Library Pocket Poet volumes.FROM THE INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe seasons are both segments of time and states of mind. Though ourword ‘‘season’’ derives from the Latin for ‘‘sowing’’ and refers thereby only to spring, every culture has had terms – whether winter and summer, or rainy and dry – for the sequence of great climatic changes by which the world transforms itself every year. But it’s more than what is going on outside. Our hearts have seasons as well. Mostly, we call them moods, and we lay our plans by their accustomed recurrences. We recall the crucial moments in our lives by the weather that still swirls around them in memory. Weddings and family reunions, getaways and homecomings are most often scheduled by the season. Yes, we have urgent appointments and traditional holidays, our deadlines and habits. But our bodies and their tides of desire seem to move more slowly, and are governed by the larger, more dramatic and decisive movements of the sun itself – the arrival of light and the opulence of warmth, then their slow fading and cold withdrawal. Aren’t, in fact, the seasons like the stages of a love affair?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is where the poets come in. They are enthusiasts and brooders. Love and death are their stock-in-trade. But first of all, they are observers. A strong imagination begins with a keen eye. The poet is interested in both the detail and the scheme, in both the streak on the tulip and the nature of beauty which the flower represents. This is why the seasons have, down the centuries, had a special appeal for poets. (It’s interesting though obvious to note that modern poets from England and especially from New England, where weather patterns\u003cbr\u003eare more extreme, are more likely to write about the seasons than poets from more steadily temperate parts.) This book is a virtual anthology of small details, because the seasons invite us to catalogue the terms of our love for the world. It takes hours of observation to get the tiniest half-line right that describes, say, the precise shade of a bird’s wing in flight. And such details are then the starting-point of metaphor. 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