Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

100 Men on the Words That Move Them

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eBook - ePub

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

100 Men on the Words That Move Them

About this book

'The best leave you with a renewed sense of how extraordinary it is that poetry can, over the course of one sentence, flood your circuit board with loss, or anger, or love' Independent From J.J. Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, Ian McEwan to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth, and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchins, 100 men confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. This remarkable collection of poems, from the sixteenth century to the present day, delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting and thinking are admired around the world.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781471134906
eBook ISBN
9781471134913
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Preface by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden
‘Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne
DAVID MCVICAR
Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare
MELVYN BRAGG
‘On My First Son’ by Ben Jonson
JOHN CAREY
‘Amor constante más allá de la muerte’ by Francisco de Quevedo
ARIEL DORFMAN AND JAVIER MARÍAS
‘Hokku’ by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
BORIS AKUNIN
‘Wandrers Nachtlied II’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
JOHN LE CARRÉ
‘Frost at Midnight’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SEBASTIAN FAULKS
‘Character of the Happy Warrior’ by William Wordsworth
HAROLD EVANS
‘Surprised by Joy’ by William Wordsworth
HOWARD JACOBSON
‘Last Sonnet’ by John Keats
KENNETH LONERGAN
Extract from The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
DAVID EDGAR
‘I Am’ by John Clare
KEN LOACH
‘Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances’ by Walt Whitman
STEPHEN FRY
‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti
ROBERT FISK AND JULAIN FELLOWERS
‘After Great Pain’ by Emily Dickinson
DOUGLAS KENNEDY
Extract from Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
KENNETH BRANAGH
‘Requiem’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
‘The Remorseful Day’ by A. E. Housman
JOE KLEIN
‘The Wind, One Brilliant Day’ by Antonio Machado
ROBERT BLY
‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
COLM TÓIBÍN
‘Ithaka’ by Constantine P. Cavafy
WALTER SALLES
‘At Castle Boterel’ by Thomas Hardy
ALAN HOLLINGHURST
‘The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy
SEAMUS HEANY
‘Adlestrop’ by Edward Thomas
SIMON WINCHESTER
‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke
HUGH BONNEVILLE
‘During Wind and Rain’ by Thomas Hardy
KEN FOLLET
‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
‘God’s World’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay
PATRICK STEWART
‘Everyone Sang’ by Siegfried Sassoon
BARRY HUMPHRIES
‘Last Poems: XL’ by A. E. Housman
ANDREW MOTION AND RICHARD DAWKINS
‘God Wills It’ by Gabriela Mistral
JEREMY IRONS
‘Out of Work’ by Kenn...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden
  7. ‘Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne
  8. Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare
  9. ‘On My First Son’ by Ben Jonson
  10. ‘Amor constante más allá de la muerte’ by Francisco de Quevedo
  11. ‘Hokku’ by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
  12. ‘Wandrers Nachtlied II’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  13. ‘Frost at Midnight’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  14. ‘Character of the Happy Warrior’ by William Wordsworth
  15. ‘Surprised by Joy’ by William Wordsworth
  16. ‘Last Sonnet’ by John Keats
  17. Extract from The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  18. ‘I Am’ by John Clare
  19. ‘Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances’ by Walt Whitman
  20. ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti
  21. ‘After Great Pain’ by Emily Dickinson
  22. Extract from Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
  23. ‘Requiem’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  24. ‘The Remorseful Day’ by A. E. Housman
  25. ‘The Wind, One Brilliant Day’ by Antonio Machado
  26. ‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
  27. ‘Ithaka’ by Constantine P. Cavafy
  28. ‘At Castle Boterel’ by Thomas Hardy
  29. ‘The Voice’ by Thomas Hardy
  30. ‘Adlestrop’ by Edward Thomas
  31. ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke
  32. ‘During Wind and Rain’ by Thomas Hardy
  33. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen
  34. ‘God’s World’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  35. ‘Everyone Sang’ by Siegfried Sassoon
  36. ‘Last Poems: XL’ by A. E. Housman
  37. ‘God Wills It’ by Gabriela Mistral
  38. ‘Out of Work’ by Kenneth H. Ashley
  39. ‘All the Pretty Horses’ by Anonymous
  40. ‘The Cool Web’ by Robert Graves
  41. ‘The Broken Tower’ by Hart Crane
  42. ‘Bavarian Gentians’ by D. H. Lawrence
  43. ‘A Summer Night’ by W. H. Auden
  44. ‘Those Who Are Near Me Do Not Know’ by Rabindranath Tagore
  45. ‘Let My Country Awake’ by Rabindranath Tagore
  46. Extract from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  47. ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ by W. H. Auden
  48. ‘Lullaby’ by W. H. Auden
  49. ‘If I Could Tell You’ by W. H. Auden
  50. ‘Canoe’ by Keith Douglas
  51. ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ by Theodore Roethke
  52. ‘The Book Burnings’ by Bertolt Brecht
  53. ‘Liberté’ by Paul Éluard
  54. Extract from The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound
  55. ‘I see a girl dragged by the wrists’ by Philip Larkin
  56. ‘The Mother’ by Gwendolyn Brooks
  57. ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ by Randall Jarrell
  58. ‘War Has Been Brought into Disrepute’ by Bertolt Brecht
  59. ‘Le Message’ by Jacques PrĂ©vert
  60. ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas
  61. ‘Unfinished Poem’ by Philip Larkin
  62. ‘Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance’ by Elizabeth Bishop
  63. ‘End of Summer’ by Stanley Kunitz
  64. ‘The Horses’ by Edwin Muir
  65. ‘Friday’s Child’ by W. H. Auden
  66. ‘Long Distance I and II’ by Tony Harrison
  67. ‘The Widower in the Country’ by Les Murray
  68. ‘A Blessing’ by James Arlington Wright
  69. ‘Injustice’ by Pablo Neruda
  70. ‘The Meaning of Africa’ by Abioseh Nicol
  71. ‘Elegy for Alto’ by Christopher Okigbo
  72. ‘Requiem for the Croppies’ by Seamus Heaney
  73. ‘Gone Ladies’ by Christopher Logue
  74. ‘Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13’ by John Berryman
  75. ‘Essay’ by Hayden Carruth
  76. ‘An Exequy’ by Peter Porter
  77. ‘Crusoe in England’ by Elizabeth Bishop
  78. ‘For Julia, in the Deep Water’ by John N. Morris
  79. ‘Aubade’ by Philip Larkin
  80. ‘Dear Bryan Wynter’ by W. S. Graham
  81. ‘A Meeting’ by Wendell Berry
  82. ‘eulogy to a hell of a dame –’ by Charles Bukowski
  83. Midsummer: ‘Sonnet XLIII’ by Derek Walcott
  84. ‘In Blackwater Woods’ by Mary Oliver
  85. ‘Love After Love’ by Derek Walcott
  86. Extract from and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
  87. ‘Sandra’s Mobile’ by Douglas Dunn
  88. ‘Brindis con el Viejo’ by Mauricio Rosencof
  89. ‘An End or a Beginning’ by Bei Dao
  90. ‘A Call’ by Seamus Heaney
  91. Extract from ‘Eastern War Time’ by Adrienne Rich
  92. ‘It Is Here (for A)’ by Harold Pinter
  93. ‘For Andrew Wood’ by James Fenton
  94. ‘Not Cancelled Yet’ by John Updike
  95. ‘Armada’ by Brian Patten
  96. ‘A Poetry Reading at West Point’ by William Matthews
  97. ‘Bedecked’ by Victoria Redel
  98. ‘The Lanyard’ by Billy Collins
  99. ‘Regarding the home of one’s childhood, one could:’ by Emily Zinnemann
  100. ‘For Ruthie Rogers in Venice’ by Craig Raine
  101. ‘Keys to the Doors’ by Robin Robertson
  102. Afterword by Nadine Gordimer
  103. Acknowledgements
  104. Amnesty International
  105. Index of Contributors and Poets
  106. Index of Titles of Poems
  107. Index of First Lines
  108. Credits, Copyrights, and Permissions