Essential pleasures : a new anthology of poems to read aloud

Record details

ISBN: 0393066088
ISBN: 9780393066081 :
Physical Description: print
sound disc
xx, 508 p. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.

General Note:	Audio CD contains poetry read by Robert Pinsky. Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	CD track listing. To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet ; Of money / Barnabe Googe ; His excuse for loving / Ben Jonson ; My picture left in Scotland / Ben Jonson ; Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne ; Song (When I am dead, my dearest) / Christina Rossetti ; from Jubilate agno (My cat Jeoffry) / Christopher Smart ; Eros turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson ; Wild nights--wild nights-- (249), The poets light but lamps-- (883), and The soul selects her own society-- (303) / Emily Dickinson ; Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney / Fulke Greville ; Bethsabe's song / George Pelle ; Ode to a nightingale / John Keats ; To autumn / John Keats ; Methought I saw my late espousèd saint / John Milton ; A married state / Katherine Philips ; My true love hath my heart and I have his / Philip Sidney ; Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion ; from Song of myself (1 & 52) / Walt Whitman ; Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester / Sir Walter Raleigh ; On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor ; Epitaph on a hare / William Cowper.
Summary, etc.:	A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.