Curtain Call
eBook - ePub

Curtain Call

101 Portraits in Verse

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eBook - ePub

Curtain Call

101 Portraits in Verse

About this book

The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann. Poetry is an art form which encourages introspection, so it is a welcome break to find these poets looking outward, fondly or otherwise, in homage or in satire, at their fellow performers on the human stage. Here, you may find yourself rubbing shoulders with the likes of Elvis Presley, Oscar Wilde, and the Duke of Buckingham, or buttonholed by intriguing gatecrashers to the virtual party. Who is Butch Weldy, for instance? And what did become of Waring?

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780571264803
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Whoā€™s Who
  6. Mythology
  7. My Mother
  8. Complaint
  9. Message
  10. One Man One Vote
  11. Mary Bly
  12. By Candlelight
  13. The Beach
  14. The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
  15. From a Childhood
  16. To My Brother Miguel
  17. The Little Brother
  18. Bells for John Whitesideā€™s Daughter
  19. The Boy Actor
  20. Elvis Presley
  21. My Cat, Jeoffrey
  22. And now the house-dog stretched once more
  23. Winter: My Secret
  24. The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge
  25. Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation
  26. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
  27. Mews Flat Mona
  28. Do Take Muriel Out
  29. Sun and Fun
  30. Friedrich
  31. Alfred Corning Clark
  32. Fleming Helphenstine
  33. Aspects of Robinson
  34. Paysage Triste
  35. The Farmerā€™s Bride
  36. Margery Kempe
  37. A Nun Takes the Veil
  38. Absolon from The Millerā€™s Tale
  39. The Description of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer
  40. from Livings
  41. from This is Your Subject Speaking
  42. Why Brownlee Left
  43. Butch Weldy
  44. House Guest
  45. Cinquevalli
  46. Of Ane Blak-Moir
  47. Resolution and Independence
  48. An Old Manā€™s Winter Night
  49. The Fisherman
  50. Casualty
  51. The Gap in the Hedge
  52. David Garrick
  53. In Church
  54. You Donā€™t Know What Love Is
  55. birthday party
  56. I Love Drunks
  57. The Talented Man
  58. The mixer
  59. Rastignac at 45
  60. ā€˜I was in the Forum once at a loose endā€™
  61. The Great War Major
  62. The Stalin Epigram
  63. Epitaph on a Tyrant
  64. Dead Soldiers
  65. Ali Ben Shufti
  66. Behaviour of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden
  67. Egyptian Dancer at Shubra
  68. Dreaming in the Shanghai Restaurant
  69. Caravaggio: Self-Portrait with Severed Head
  70. To maystres Margaret Hussey
  71. The Vicar of Bray
  72. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross
  73. A Satyr on Charles II
  74. Character of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
  75. The Duke of Buckingham
  76. How pleasant to know Mr Lear
  77. Edward Lear
  78. Aunt Helen
  79. Elegy
  80. The Late Richard Dadd, 1817ā€“1886
  81. Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
  82. from Peter Grimes
  83. The Ephemeral Past
  84. Next Day
  85. You are Old, Father William
  86. A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
  87. An Old Man
  88. To an Old Lady
  89. Wellingtonia
  90. Uncle Stan
  91. To Eugene Lambe in Heaven
  92. Danny
  93. How Mā€™Ginnis Went Missing
  94. Tommy
  95. An Elegy
  96. Waring
  97. The Ballad of Lord Timbal
  98. Suicide
  99. An Epitaph on M. H.
  100. On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
  101. On the Death of Mr William Harvey
  102. The Unknown Citizen
  103. The Self-Unseeing
  104. The Old Station at Cahors
  105. Now Read On
  106. Acknowledgements
  107. Index of Poets
  108. Index of first lines
  109. About the Author
  110. Copyright