Essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud
(CD)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(1)
4 star
 
(1)
3 star
 
(0)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(0)
Contributors:
Published:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009].
Format:
CD
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393066081, 0393066088
Physical Desc:
xx, 508 pages ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Status:
SSCL Bud Adult Nonfiction
811.54 ESS
Description

A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.

Also in This Series
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
SSCL Bud Adult Nonfiction
811.54 ESS
On Shelf
Mar 13, 2019
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
CMU Main Books 3rd Floor
PN6101 .E87 2009
On Shelf
Mar 1, 2024
EPL Non-Fiction
808.81 ESSENTIAL
On Shelf
Jun 23, 2023
Summit-Breck Non Fiction
811.54 ESS
Due May 1, 2024
More Like This
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Other Editions and Formats
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Pinsky, R. (2009). Essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Pinsky, Robert. 2009. Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Pinsky, Robert, Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud. New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 2009.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Pinsky, Robert. Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud. New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 2009.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
a6fec567-3e0a-f9db-018e-13e3dacd6c97
Go To GroupedWork

Record Information

Last Sierra Extract TimeApr 17, 2024 12:28:09 PM
Last File Modification TimeApr 17, 2024 12:28:27 PM
Last Grouped Work Modification TimeApr 17, 2024 12:28:15 PM

MARC Record

LEADER15771cam a2200757 a 4500
001286488341
003OCoLC
00520140425084751.0
006innnn        p  n 
007sd fungnnmmneu
008090107t20092009nyu           001 p eng  
010 |a 2008055985
020 |a 9780393066081
020 |a 0393066088
035 |a (OCoLC)286488341
040 |a DLC|b eng|c DLC|d BTCTA|d YDXCP|d C#P|d BWX|d ABG|d B2A|d UPZ|d OSE|d CQU|d VP@|d IG#|d BDX|d ACN|d OCLCF|d COM
049 |a COMA
05000|a PN6101|b .E87 2009
08200|a 808.81|2 22
24500|a Essential pleasures :|b a new anthology of poems to read aloud /|c edited by Robert Pinsky.
250 |a 1st ed.
264 1|a New York :|b W.W. Norton & Co.,|c [2009]
264 4|c ©2009
300 |a xx, 508 pages ;|c 25 cm +|e 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
336 |a text|b txt|2 rdacontent
337 |a unmediated|b n|2 rdamedia
338 |a volume|b nc|2 rdacarrier
500 |a Audio CD contains poetry read by Robert Pinsky.
500 |a Includes index.
50500|g CD track listing.|t To my dear and loving husband /|r Anne Bradstreet ;|t Of money /|r Barnabe Googe ;|t His excuse for loving /|r Ben Jonson ;|t My picture left in Scotland /|r Ben Jonson ;|t Tichborne's elegy /|r Chidiock Tichborne ;|t Song (When I am dead, my dearest) /|r Christina Rossetti ;|g from|t Jubilate agno (My cat Jeoffry) /|r Christopher Smart ;|t Eros turannos /|r Edwin Arlington Robinson ;|t Wild nights--wild nights--|g (249),|t Poets light but lamps--|g (883), and|t Soul selects her own society--|g (303) /|r Emily Dickinson ;|t Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney /|r Fulke Greville ;|t Bethsabe's song /|r George Pelle ;|t Ode to a nightingale /|r John Keats ;|t To autumn /|r John Keats ;|t Methought I saw my late espousèd saint /|r John Milton ;|t A married state /|r Katherine Philips ;|t My true love hath my heart and I have his /|r Philip Sidney ;|t Now winter nights enlarge /|r Thomas Campion ;|g from|t Song of myself|g (1 & 52) /|r Walt Whitman ;|t Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester /|r Sir Walter Raleigh ;|t On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia /|r Walter Savage Landor ;|t Epitaph on a hare /|r William Cowper.
5050 |a Part I, Short lines, frequent rhymes. Infant joy / William Blake -- Sick rose / William Blake -- We real cook / Gwendolyn Brooks -- When we two parted / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion -- For my contemporaries / J.V. Cunningham -- Wild nights - wild nights! / Emily Dickinson -- "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- Soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- If you were coming in the fall / Emily Dickinson -- Poets light but lamps / Emily Dickinson -- Song (sweetest love, I do not go) / John Donne -- Gospel / Rita Dove -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- To earthward / Robert Frost -- Tamer and hawk / Thom Gunn -- Self-unseeing / Thomas Hardy -- Ring presented to Julia / Robert Hetrick -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Otherwise / Jane Kenyon -- Facing it / Yysef Komunyakaa -- Song on porcelain / Czeslaw Milosz -- In time of plague / Thomas Nashe -- Fairy-land / Edgar Allan Poe -- Lie / Sir Walter Raleigh -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Wish for a young wife / Theodore Roethke -- Needle / Charles Simic -- To Mistress Margery Wentworth / John Skelton -- Question / May Swenson -- To one that had little wit / George Turberville -- Fine work with pitch and copper / / William Carlos Williams -- Poem ("As the cat") / William Carlos Williams -- To waken an old lady / William Carlos Williams -- Coat / William Butler Yeats.
5050 |a Part II, Long lines, strophes, parallelisms. from Ecclesiastes: or, the Preacher -- City limits / A.R. Ammons -- Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney / Fulke Greville -- When you're lying awake with a dismal headache / W.S. Gilbert -- Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Afterwards / Thomas Hardy -- Spelt from Sibyl's leaves / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Proverb / Kenneth Koch -- Bavarian gentians / D.H. Lawrence -- Fish / Marianne Moore -- Columbus / Ogden Nash -- Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure / Thomas Nashe -- I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra / Ishmael Reed -- from Jubilante agno [my cat Jeoffry] / Christopher Smart -- Lover exhorteth his lady to take time, while time is / George Tuberville -- Liver / Charles Harper Webb -- from Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- Dog / C.K. Williams -- Singing / C.K. Williams -- Self portrait on a rocky mount / C.D. Wright.
5050 |a Part III, Ballads, repetitions, refrains. Cruel mother -- House that Jack built -- There was a man -- Western wind -- It was raining in the capital / John Ashbery -- Burglar of Babylon / Elizabeth Bishop -- Chemin de Fer / Elizabeth Bishop -- Low barometer / Robert Bridges -- Green grow the rashes, O / Robert Burns -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Epitaph on a hare / William Cowper -- If you / Robert Creeley -- Bunches of grapes / Walter de la Mare -- When I was fair and young / Queen Elizabeth I -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Lullaby of a lover / George Gascoigne -- Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Invictus / W.E. Henley -- Battle-hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Seventh / Attila Jozsef -- Fado / J.D. McClatchy -- Ballad of Aunt Geneva / Marilyn Nelson -- Village of reason / Michael Palmer -- Samurai song / Robert Pinsky -- Nature, that washed her hands in milk / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Song (When I am dead, my dearest) / Christina Rossetti -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- When that I was and a little tiny boy / William Shakespeare -- Ballad / Charles Simic -- song from The princess (The splendour falls) / Alfred Tennyson -- Slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Blame not my lute / Thomas Wyatt.
5050 |a Part IV, Love poems. N.V.N. / Anna Akhmatova -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Variation on the word Sleep / Margaret Atwood -- Yoke / Frank Bidart -- Marriage for the millennium / Eavan Boland -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- Serenade at the villa / Robert Browning -- Follow your saint / Thomas Campion -- Body, remember / Constantine Cavafy -- Valediciton: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- Good morrow / John Donne -- Fine knacks for ladies / John Dowland -- How many paltry, foolish, painted things (Sonnet 6) / Michael Drayton -- Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee / Michael Drayton -- Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan -- Little brown baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Putting in the seed / Robert Frost -- Measuring the tyger / Jack Gilbert -- Mock orange / Louise Gluck -- Yoko / Thomas Gunn -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Skunk / Seamus Heaney -- Familiarization is not good - it / Lyn Hejinian -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- His excuse for loving / Ben Jonson -- My picture left in Scotland / Ben Jonson -- Garden by moonlight / Amy Lowell -- Letter / Amy Lowell -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- She / James McMichael -- Methought I saw my late espoused saint / John Milton -- Lover: a ballad / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Illusion / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Hardness scale / Joyce Peseroff -- To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship / Katherine Philips -- Epistle to Miss Blount / Alexander Pope -- River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- Artfully adorned Aphrodite / Sappho -- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) / William Shakespeare -- What is your substance, whereof are you made (Sonnet 53) / William Shakespeare -- To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104) / William Shakespeare -- My true love hath my heart and I have his / Philip Sidney -- final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens -- Love song / William Carlos Williams -- Sappho / William Carlos Williams -- My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest (Sonnet 103) / Mary Wroth -- Madam, withouten many words / Thomas Wyatt -- They flee from me / Thomas Wyatt -- Her triumph / William Butler Yeats -- Crazy Jane gown old looks at the dancers / William Butler Yeats.
5050 |a Part V, Stories. Man-moth / Elizabeth Bishop -- Poison tree / William Blake -- Chimney-sweeper (from Songs of innocence) / William Blake -- Harlem happiness / Sterling Brown -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Waiting for the barbarians / Constantine Cavafy -- Badger / John Clare -- tomatoes / Stephen Dobyns -- Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Gilgamesh, I: the story / David Ferry -- Home burial / Robert Frost -- Tributaries / Louise Gluck -- Story about the body / Robert Hass -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Woofer (When I consider the African-American) / Terrance Hayes -- Love unknown / George Herbert -- Vulture / Robinson Jeffers -- Dying speech of an old philosopher / Walter Savage Landor -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Michelangelo: To Giovanni da Pistoia when the author was painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel / Gail Mazur -- What he thought / Heather McHugh -- Bible study: 71 B.C.E. / Sharold Olds -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Alone / Edgar Allan Poe -- Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom -- Dickhead / Michael Ryan -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Old man leaves party / Mark Strand -- Lost pilot / James Tate -- Ulysses / Alfred Tennyson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne -- Hen / Ellen Voigt -- Dedication for a plot of ground / William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Night wash / Anne Winters -- Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight / Yvor Winters -- Ars poetica: some recent criticism / James Wright.
5050 |a Part VI, Odes, complaints, and celebrations. Rights of woman / Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- For the twentieth century / Frank Bidart -- Tyger / William Blake -- Boy breaking glass / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Startled into life like fire / Charles Bukowski -- What is a day / Thomas Camlion -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Some days / Billy Collins -- Caesarea / Alfred Corn -- Lines written during a period of insanity / William Cowper -- to Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Buffalo Bill's / E.E. Cummings -- For the last wolverine / James Dickey -- Days of me / Stuart Dischell -- Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae / Ernest Dowson -- My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan -- America / Allen Ginsberg -- Prayer / Jorie Graham -- Church monuments / George Herbert -- Virtue / George Herbert -- Ode for hi / Robert Herrick -- Corinna's going a-Maying / Robert Herrick -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Rondeau / Leigh Hunt -- On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Samuel Johnson -- Ode to himself / Ben Jonson -- Hour-glas / Ben Jonson -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- To autumn / John Keats -- To my twenties / Kenneth Koch -- On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor -- Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives / Walter Savage Landor -- Piano / D.H. Larence -- Where is the angel? / Denise Levertov -- Shunk hour / Robert Lowell -- In Houston / Gail Mazur -- Drunk in the furnace / W.S. Merwin -- Moy sand and gravel / Paul Muldoon -- Poet's work / Lorine Niedecker -- Naphtha / Frank O'Hara -- Pslam / George Oppen -- Chemo side effects: memory / Elise Partridge -- Bethsabe's song / George Peele -- Nick and the candlestick / Sylvia Plath -- On the cards and dice / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke -- For my father / Philip Schultz -- Glories of our blood and state / James Shirley -- Lamentation on Ur / Tom Sleigh -- Behaving like a Jew / Gerald Stern -- Madame La Fleurie / Wallace Stevens -- Snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Star / Jane Taylor -- Italian music in Dakota / Walt Whitman -- Turtle / William Carlos Williams -- Lines / William Wordsworth -- Lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats.
5050 |a Part VII, Parodies, ripostes, jokes, and insults. On being fired again / Erin Belieu -- Dream song / John Berryman -- Several voices out of a cloud / Louise Bogan -- Doctor fell / Thomas Brown -- On some South African novelists / Roy Campbell -- You don't know what love is / Raymond Carver -- Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Epigrams 42, 60, 62 / J.V. Cunningham -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot / T.S. Eliot -- Zero-account / David Gewanter -- Of money / Barnabe Googe -- Afterwards / Seamus Heaney -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams / Kenneth Koch -- This be the verse / Philip Larkin -- How pleasant to know Mr. Lear / Edward Lear -- I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Reasons that induced Dr. Swift to write a poem called the Lady's dressing room / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- To be liked by you would be a calamity / Marianne Moore -- Married state / Katherine Philips -- Hustler speaks of places / Carl Phillips -- Lake isle / Ezra Pound -- Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Chard Whitlow / Henry Reed -- Academic / Theodore Roethke -- Who's on first? / Lloyd Schwartz -- Old Jake / Alan Shapiro -- Thoughts about the person from Porlock / Stevie Smith -- Pleasures of merely circulating / Wallace Stevens -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- Lady's dressing room / Jonathan Swift -- Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, dec'd. / Mark Twain -- Grecian kindness / John Wilmot -- Upon nothing / John Wilmot -- Personals / C.D. Wright -- Scholars / William Butler Yeats.
5110 |a Read by the editor (accompying disc).
520 |a A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.
650 0|a Poetry|v Collections.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103707
650 7|a Poetry.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01067691
655 7|a Collections.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01424032
655 7|a Collections.|2 lcgft
655 7|a Sound recordings.|2 lcgft|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026594
655 7|a Poetry.|2 lcgft|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026481
7001 |a Pinsky, Robert.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83039273
907 |a .b28689586
948 |a MARCIVE Comp, in 2022.12
948 |a MARCIVE Comp, 2018.05
948 |a MARCIVE Comp, 2017.10
948 |a MARCIVE August, 2017
948 |a MARCIVE extract Aug 5, 2017
989 |1 .i54148856|b 1240050850111|d ssbnf|g -|m |h 12|x 0|t 0|i 9|j 7|k 090409|n 03-13-2019 15:00|o -|a 811.54|r ESS
989 |1 .i54165362|b 1200001621986|d subnf|g -|m 240501|h 18|x 0|t 2|i 18|j 7|k 090413|n 02-05-2024 20:36|o -|a 811.54|r ESS
989 |1 .i74776630|b 31526003000145|d epnf|g -|m |h 5|x 1|t 0|i 7|j 2|k 121130|n 06-23-2023 21:23|o -|a 808.81 ESSENTIAL
989 |1 .i83956153|b 1080005982850|d culmb|g -|m |h 6|x 1|t 2|i 1|j 18|k 140425|n 03-01-2024 19:43|o -|a PN6101|r .E87 2009
994 |a C0|b COM
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2022.12
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2018.06
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2017.10
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2017.08
995 |a Exported from Connexion by CMU
995 |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.01
995 |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.01
995 |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.02
998 |e -|f eng|a cu|a ep|a ss|a ssb|a su|a sub