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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
100 Men on the Words That Move Them
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A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).
Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights—confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to breaking down, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves.
Their selections include classics by visionaries, such as Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as modern works by masters, including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, with more than a dozen by women, including Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. All are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope’s famous phrase, “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”
From J.J. Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth to the late Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world. “Everyone who reads this collection will be roused: disturbed by the pain, exalted in the zest for joy given by poets” (Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature).
Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights—confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to breaking down, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves.
Their selections include classics by visionaries, such as Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as modern works by masters, including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, with more than a dozen by women, including Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. All are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope’s famous phrase, “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”
From J.J. Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth to the late Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world. “Everyone who reads this collection will be roused: disturbed by the pain, exalted in the zest for joy given by poets” (Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Preface by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden
- âElegyâ by Chidiock Tichborne
- Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare
- âOn My First Sonâ by Ben Jonson
- âAmor constante mĂĄs allĂĄ de la muerteâ by Francisco de Quevedo
- âHokkuâ by Fukuda Chiyo-ni
- âWandrers Nachtlied IIâ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- âFrost at Midnightâ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- âCharacter of the Happy Warriorâ by William Wordsworth
- âSurprised by Joyâ by William Wordsworth
- âLast Sonnetâ by John Keats
- Extract from The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- âI Amâ by John Clare
- âOf the Terrible Doubt of Appearancesâ by Walt Whitman
- âRememberâ by Christina Rossetti
- âAfter Great Painâ by Emily Dickinson
- Extract from Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
- âRequiemâ by Robert Louis Stevenson
- âThe Remorseful Dayâ by A. E. Housman
- âThe Wind, One Brilliant Dayâ by Antonio Machado
- âOrpheus. Eurydice. Hermesâ by Rainer Maria Rilke
- âIthakaâ by Constantine P. Cavafy
- âAt Castle Boterelâ by Thomas Hardy
- âThe Voiceâ by Thomas Hardy
- âAdlestropâ by Edward Thomas
- âThe Soldierâ by Rupert Brooke
- âDuring Wind and Rainâ by Thomas Hardy
- âDulce et Decorum Estâ by Wilfred Owen
- âGodâs Worldâ by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- âEveryone Sangâ by Siegfried Sassoon
- âLast Poems: XLâ by A. E. Housman
- âGod Wills Itâ by Gabriela Mistral
- âOut of Workâ by Kenneth H. Ashley
- âAll the Pretty Horsesâ by Anonymous
- âThe Cool Webâ by Robert Graves
- âThe Broken Towerâ by Hart Crane
- âBavarian Gentiansâ by D. H. Lawrence
- âA Summer Nightâ by W. H. Auden
- âThose Who Are Near Me Do Not Knowâ by Rabindranath Tagore
- âLet My Country Awakeâ by Rabindranath Tagore
- Extract from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- âIn Memory of W. B. Yeatsâ by W. H. Auden
- âLullabyâ by W. H. Auden
- âIf I Could Tell Youâ by W. H. Auden
- âCanoeâ by Keith Douglas
- âMy Papaâs Waltzâ by Theodore Roethke
- âThe Book Burningsâ by Bertolt Brecht
- âLibertĂ©â by Paul Ăluard
- Extract from âThe Pisan Cantosâ by Ezra Pound
- âI see a girl dragged by the wristsâ by Philip Larkin
- âThe Motherâ by Gwendolyn Brooks
- âThe Death of the Ball Turret Gunnerâ by Randall Jarrell
- âWar Has Been Brought into Disreputeâ by Bertolt Brecht
- âLe Messageâ by Jacques PrĂ©vert
- âDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightâ by Dylan Thomas
- âUnfinished Poemâ by Philip Larkin
- âOver 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordanceâ by Elizabeth Bishop
- âEnd of Summerâ by Stanley Kunitz
- âThe Horsesâ by Edwin Muir
- âFridayâs Childâ by W. H. Auden
- âLong Distance I and IIâ by Tony Harrison
- âThe Widower in the Countryâ by Les Murray
- âA Blessingâ by James Arlington Wright
- âInjusticeâ by Pablo Neruda
- âThe Meaning of Africaâ by Abioseh Nicol
- âElegy for Altoâ by Christopher Okigbo
- âRequiem for the Croppiesâ by Seamus Heaney
- âGone Ladiesâ by Christopher Logue
- âDream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13â by John Berryman
- âEssayâ by Hayden Carruth
- âAn Exequyâ by Peter Porter
- âCrusoe in Englandâ by Elizabeth Bishop
- âFor Julia, in the Deep Waterâ by John N. Morris
- âAubadeâ by Philip Larkin
- âDear Bryan Wynterâ by W. S. Graham
- âA Meetingâ by Wendell Berry
- âeulogy to a hell of a dameââ by Charles Bukowski
- Midsummer: âSonnet XLIIIâ by Derek Walcott
- âIn Blackwater Woodsâ by Mary Oliver
- âLove After Loveâ by Derek Walcott
- Extract from and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
- âSandraâs Mobileâ by Douglas Dunn
- âBrindis con el Viejoâ by Mauricio Rosencof
- âAn End or a Beginningâ by Bei Dao
- âA Callâ by Seamus Heaney
- Extract from âEastern War Timeâ by Adrienne Rich
- âIt Is Here (for A)â by Harold Pinter
- âFor Andrew Woodâ by James Fenton
- âNot Cancelled Yetâ by John Updike
- âArmadaâ by Brian Patten
- âA Poetry Reading at West Pointâ by William Matthews
- âBedeckedâ by Victoria Redel
- âThe Lanyardâ by Billy Collins
- âRegarding the home of oneâs childhood, one could:â by Emily Zinnemann
- âFor Ruthie Rogers in Veniceâ by Craig Raine
- âKeys to the Doorsâ by Robin Robertson
- Afterword by Nadine Gordimer
- Acknowledgments
- Amnesty International
- About Anthony Holden and Ben Holden
- Index of Contributors and Poets
- Index of Titles of Poems
- Index of First Lines
- Credits, Copyrights, and Permissions
- Copyright