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CONTENTS
Preface Purpose and Metric Acknowledgements
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I. THE POET'S MANUSCRIPT
A selection of photographs and transcriptions of manuscript poems
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
GEORGE HERBERT
JOHN MILTON
THOMAS GRAY
WILLIAM COWPER
GEORGE CRABBE
WILLIAM BLAKE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
S. T. COLERIDGE
LORD BYRON
P. B. SHELLEY
JOHN KEATS
T. L. BEDDOES
LORD TENNYSON
ROBERT BROWNING
E. B. BROWNING
D. G. ROSSETTI
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
A. C. SWINBURNE
G.M.HOPKINS
EDWARD THOMAS
RUPERT BROOKE
WILFRED OWEN
ISAAC ROSENBERG
from Sir Thomas More Perfection from Lycidas from The Elegy The Halibut Jane Adair The Tyger from The Waggoner Lewti Oh! SnatcWd away in Beauty's Bloom
from Death of Adonis from Ode to the Nightingale Dream Pedlary Milton: Alcaics from The Ring and the Book from The Runaway Slave Love's Compass Sleeping at Last from Rococo The Starlight Night Adlestrop The Soldier Anthem for Dead Youth from Moses
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II. THE POET'S PRINTED REVISIONS
A selection of poems and passages of the first edition compared with a revised, later edition
i. ROBERT HERRICK To Anthea page 53 2. OLIVER GOLDSMITH from The Deserted Village 55 3. WILLIAM COWPER The Poplar-field 58 4. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Daffodils 60 5. s. T. COLERIDGE from The Ancient Mariner 63 6. JOHN KEATS from Hyperion 70 7. LORD TENNYSON from The Lotos-Eaters 72 8. D. G. ROSSETTI from The Blessed Damozel 75
III. THE POET'S RAW MATERIAL
Material adapted by the poet, presented for comparison with the poetry
1. From SIR THOMAS NORTH'S
Translation of Plutarch?s Lives 81 From SHAKESPEARE'S Antony and Cleopatra 81
2. From SIR THOMAS NORTH'S
Translation of Plutarch's Lives 82 From SHAKESPEARE'S Coriolanus 83
3. From ARTHUR GOLDING'S
Translation of Ovid?s Metamorphoses 85 From SHAKESPEARE'S The Tempest 85
4. From HOLINSHED'S Chronicles 86 From SHAKESPEARE'S Macbeth 86
5. From BOCCACCIO'S Decameron 87 From KEATS'S Isabella 88
6. From MALORY'S Le Morte d? Arthur 90 From TENNYSON'S Morte D'Arthur 92
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IV. T H E P O E T ' S T R A N S L A T I O N
Selected translations of the same poems for comparison
HOMER, Iliad vm, 542-61 {a) GEORGE CHAPMAN page IOI
(b) ALEXANDER POPE IOI (c) LORD DERBY 102 (d) LORD TENNYSON IO3
HOMER, Odyssey xxiv, 1-14 (a) GEORGE CHAPMAN 104
(b) WILLIAM COWPER IO4
(c) WILLIAM MORRIS 105
(d) F. L. LUCAS 105
HOMERIC HYMN, To the Earth
(a) GEORGE CHAPMAN 106
(b) P. B. SHELLEY IO7
ANACREON, Ode XXXIII
(a) THOMAS STANLEY 108
(b) THOMAS MOORE 109
CATULLUS, Ode XXXI
(d) C. S. CALVERLEY 110
(b) THOMAS HARDY I I I
VIRGIL, Aeneidvi, 269-294 (a) JOHN DRYDEN I I I
(b) JAMES ELROY FLECKER 112
(c) ROBERT BRIDGES 113
(d) ROLFE HUMPHRIES 114
VIRGIL, Georgics 1, 311-34 (a) JOHN DRYDEN 115 (b) C.DAY LEWIS Il6
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HORACE, Odes i, v
(a) J O H N M I L T O N page 117
(b) STEPHEN DE VERE 117 (c) G. S. FRASER I l8
HORACE, Odes I, ix
(d) JOHN DRYDEN I l8 (b) WILLIAM COWPER 120 (c) H. RACKHAM 120
HORACE, Odes iv, vii
(a) SAMUEL JOHNSON 121 (b) A. E. HOUSMAN 122 (c) JAMES MACLEAN TODD 123
D A N T E , Paradisoy Canto xxxm, 97-145 (a) H. F. CARY 124
(b) H. W. LONGFELLOW 125 (c) LAURENCE BINYON 126
CHAUCER, The Nonne Preestes Tale, 1-16 (a) JOHN DRYDEN 128 (b) NEVILL COGHILL 128
V. P O E M S F O R A P P R E C I A T I O N
A number of unsigned poems grouped for
contrast and comparison 133
Appendix: Texts of the poems of Section IV 207
Notes on the Manuscript Poems of Section I 216
Book List 219
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