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English poetry--History and criticism, American poetry--History and criticism, Books and reading, American poetry, English poetry.
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1996
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PR503.T68 1996eb
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821.009
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English poetry--History and criticism, American poetry--History and criticism, Books and reading, American poetry, English poetry.
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Touchstones
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A BREAD LOAF ANTHOLOGY
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, and Jay Parini, 1985.
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1987.
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1989.
Writers on Writing, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1991.
Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1993.
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1994.
Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem, edited by Robert Pack and Jay parini, 1995.
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Touchstones
American Poets on a Favorite Poem
Edited by Robert Pack Jay Parini
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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PRESS Published by University Press of New England Hanover, NH 03755 1996 by the President and Fellows of Middlebury College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
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Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. MATTHEW ARNOLD
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Contents
Introduction
Robert Pack and Jay Parini
Touchstones
On "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
Julia Alvarez
1
On "Space being... Curved" by e. e. cummings
David Baker
4
On "Wulf and Eadwacer" by Anonymous, Anglo-Saxon
John Balaban
1
On The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Ann Barker
15
On "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed
Marvin Bell
20
On "Silence" by Marianne Moore
Rosellen Brown
26
On The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Teresa D. Cader
31
On "Astrophil and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney
Michael Collier
37
On "Painting" by Langston Hughes
William C. Cook
40
On "Caelica" by Fulke Greville
Steven Cramer
44
On "Mithridates" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas M. Disch
48
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On "Mr. Flood's Party" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Stephen Dunn
52
On "Frau Baumann, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartz" by Theodore Roethke
John Engels
57
On "The Wife of Usher's Well" by Anonymous
Donald Finkel
61
On "Because I Could not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
Carol Frost
67
On "Gaze Not on Swans" Attributed to William Strode
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