Favourite Literature: Poetry & Drama
Submitted by Zacharyyy on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 17:22
Tags:
- Longer Poetry
- Living. Jenny Holzer. 2000.
- Four Quartets. T S Eliot. 1944.
- Gilgamesh. Author Unknown. ~1500BC.
- Medium-length Poetry
- Howl. Allen Ginsberg. 1956.
- Death Of A Hired Man. Robert Frost. 1915.
- Goblin Market. Christina Rossetti. 1859.
- A Ramble in St James Park. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. 1672.
- The 19 Holy Sonnets. John Donne. 1610.
- The Book of Amos. Amos the Prophet. ~750BC.
- Song Of Songs. Bible. ~900BC.
- Shorter Poetry
- Black Sheep. Karen Finley. 1991.
- THE CATHEDRAL IS/slated for destruction. John Ashbery. 1979.
- Suicide Note. George Finley. 1978.
- Waiting. Faith Wilding. 1972.
- And the days are not full enough. Ezra Pound. before 1972.
- Old Men. Ogden Nash. before 1971.
- Balloons, Edge. Sylvia Plath. February 5, 1963.
- Daddy. Sylvia Plath. 1962.
- l(a. e e cummings. 1958.
- Birches. Robert Frost. 1919.
- The Second Coming. William Butler Yeats. 1919.
- Home Burial. Robert Frost. 1915.
- Like rain it sounded. Emily Dickinson. ~1886.
- I took my power in my hand. Emily Dickinson. ~1886.
- If I can stop one heart from breaking. Emily Dickinson. ~1886.
- I had no time to hate, because. Emily Dickinson. ~1886.
- Elysium is as far as to. Emily Dickinson. ~1886.
- The Odes. John Keats. 1819.
- Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1818.
- Darkness. George Gordon, Lord Byron. 1816.
- The 5 Lucy Poems. William Wordsworth. 1801.
- Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1795.
- The Fly. William Blake. 1794.
- The Little Vagabond. William Blake. 1794.
- A Little Boy Lost. William Blake. 1794.
- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. William Wordsworth. 1789.
- The Divine Image. William Blake. 1785.
- Infant Joy. William Blake. 1785.
- Vacana 8. Basavanna (as translated by A K Ramanujan) . ~1100s.
- Iroha. Author Unknown (Japan). 700~1100.
- If I might be an ox. Author unknown (Ethiopia). ???.
- Psalm 42-3. Sons of Korah. ???
- Psalm 41. David. Before 970BC.
- Psalm 133. David. Before 970BC.
- Psalm 143. David. Before 970BC.
- Psalm 90. Moses. Before 1200BC
- Drama
- LegoLand. Jacob Richmond. 2007.
- The Final Days of Immanuel Kant. Odd Nerdrum. 2005?
- Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. Edward Albee. 1962.
- Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov. 1900.
- Dance of Death I. August Strindberg. 1900.
- Miss Julie. August Strindberg. 1888.
- La Dame Aux Camelias. Alexandre Dumas Jr. 1852.
- Dido & Aeneas. Nahum Tate & Henry Purcell. 1688.
- King Lear. William Shakespeare. 1608.
- Macbeth. William Shakespeare. 1605~.
- The Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare. 1597~.
- Kagekiyo. Zeami Motokiyo. 1440~.
- Matsukaze. Kan'ami Kiyotsugu & Zeami Motokiyo. 1440~.
- The Last Days of Socrates (Sophist, Statesman, Theaetetus, Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo). Plato. ~400-350BC.
- The Persians. Aeschylus. 472BC.
Author Comments:
chronological!
Wordsworth's We Are Seven kicked my ass maybe harder than anything has all year. Wow. You know the drill--get to it!
My ass is currently being kicked by useless screenwriting textbooks I was forced to buy for a class where the main screenings are Dangerous Liaisons and Wall-E.
Found and bookmarking that poem for when I am not too tired for it. Have you read Blake's Songs of Innocence/Experience WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS? because they are THE BEST and so weirdly touching.
No! I just looked at the Wikipedia and it looks like an incredible way of reading them. I love the poems I've read from it already... (The Chimney Sweeper, Little Black Boy, Holy Thursday) and the illustrations look like they'd push them to the next level. I've been eying this for the longest time, but it doesn't look like it has anything besides text. Hopefully my library pulls through.
These are the two I have
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Experience-Facsimile-Reproduction-Plates/dp/...
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Innocence-William-Blake/dp/0486227642/ref=pd...
Songs of Innocence is printed a little lightly (don't know if that's bad reproduction or Blake's original being a little too light and hard to read at times) but still good.
And YOU NEED THEM WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS. I cannot even explain how weirdly more touching shit like Little Boy Lost or Infant Joy/Infant Sorrow become when they are weaved into Blake's images. So the images adding that much, I felt, made it seem like a good idea to put thost books, as a whole, into the "graphic literature" section instead of poetry.