Poet

Charles Harpur, a major nineteenth-century Australian poet, made a living as a sheep farmer and civil servant in New South Wales. Elizabeth Perkins first published a good edition of his poems in 1984. His manuscripts can be seen at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

• Henry Kendall papers: State Library of New South Wales, and National Library of Australia.
• Kendall, Thomas Henry. Leaves from Australian Forests. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1869.
• --. Poems and Songs. Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1862. Internet Archive.
• --. Songs from the Mountains. Sydney: William Maddock, 1880. Google book.
• -- The Poems of Henry Kendall. Ed. Bertram Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1920. Internet Archive. Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS).
• Reed, T.T. "Kendall, Thomas Henry (1839-1882)." Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5. Melbourne University Press, 1974. 13-14.
• --. Henry Kendall: A Critical Appreciation. Adelaide: Rigby, 1960.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Derek Walcott's works are in copyright. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained from his publishers.

For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site.

• Walcott, Derek. 25 Poems. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948.
• --.Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos. Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Advocate, 1949.
• --.Poems. Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston City Printery, 1953.
• --.In a Green Night: Poems. London: J. Cape, 1962.
• --.Selected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
• --.The Castaway. London: J. Cape, 1965.
• --.The Gulf and Other Poems. London: J. Cape, 1969.
• --.Another Life. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973.
• --.Sea Grapes. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1976.
• --.Selected Verse. London: Heinemann, 1976.
• --.The Star-Apple Kingdom. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1979.
• --.The Fortunate Traveller. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1981.
• --.Midsummer. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1984.
• --.Collected Poems, 1948-1984. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1986.
• --.The Arkansas Testament. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1987.
• --.Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1990.
• --.Collected Poems. London: Faber, 1990.
• --.Poems, 1965-1980. London: J. Cape), 1992.
• --.Derek Walcott: Selected Poems. London: Longman, 1993.
• --.The Bounty. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1997.
• --.Tiepolo's Hound. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2000.
• --.The Prodigal. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2004.

For a biography, see the Nobel site at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html.

• Heaney, Seamus. Eleven Poems. 1965.
• --. Death of a Naturalist. 1966.
• --. Door into the Dark. 1969.
• --. Wintering Out. 1972.
• --. North. 1975.
• --. Field Work. 1979.
• --. Selected Poems, 1965-1975. 1980.
• --. Preoccupations. 1980. [essays]
• --. Station Island. 1984.
• --. The Haw Lantern. 1987.
• --. The Government of the Tongue. 1988. [essays]
• --. The Place of Writing. Emory University, 1989.
• --. New Selected Poems, 1966-1987. 1990.
• --. Seeing Things. 1991.
• --. Sweeney's Flight. 1992.
• --. The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures. Faber & Faber, 1995. [prose]
• --. Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture. Gallery Press, 1995. [prose]
• --. The Spirit Level. Faber & Faber, 1996.
• --. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996. Faber & Faber, 1998.
• --. Electric Light. Faber & Faber, 2001.
• --. Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Faber & Faber, 2002.
• --. District and Circle. .Faber & Faber, 2006.
• --, trans. Sweeney Astray. 1984.
• --. The Cure at Troy A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Field Day, 1990.
• --. The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Gallery Press, 1993
• --. Jan Kochanowski: Laments. Faber & Faber, 1995.
• --. Beowulf. Faber & Faber, 1999.
• --. Diary of One who Vanished. Faber & Faber, 1999.
• --. The Burial at Thebes A version of Sophocles' Antigone. Faber & Faber, 2004.

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• As I Walked Out One Evening
• Epitaph on a Tyrant
• First Things First
• Friday's Child
• In Memory of Sigmund Freud
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats
• Lullaby
• On Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
• On the Circuit
• September 1, 1939
• The Fall of Rome
• The More Loving One
• The Shield of Achilles
• The Unknown Citizen

the Poetry Archive

• The Shield of Achilles
• One Evening
• The Fall of Rome

and The Poetry Foundation

• Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
• Journey to Iceland
• Ode to the Medieval Poets
• The Shield of Achilles
• Voltaire at Ferney

  All of W. H. Auden's poems are in copyright. Permission to publish must be sought of the poet's publishers.

John Reibetanz has published five collections of poetry. The most recent, Mining for Sun, was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award in 2001. He was awarded First Prize in the Petra Kenney Poetry Competition in 2003. In addition to poetry, his publications include essays on Elizabethan drama and on modern and contemporary poetry, along with a book on King Lear and translations of modern German poetry. He is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto whose teaching and research interests include modern American and British poetry, 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama, and Shakespeare.

• Mining for Sun. London, On: Brick Books, 2000.
• Near Finisterre. Toronto: St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1996.
• Midland Swimmer. London, On: Brick Books, 1996.
• Morning Watch. Véhicule Press, 1995.
• Ashbourn Véhicule Press, 1986.

Source:

• Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2003.

• Guruswamy, Rosemay Fithian. The Poems of Edward Taylor: a reference guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
• Hammond, Jeffrey A. American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Taylor, Edward. The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
• --. Edward Taylor's Gods determinations and Prepatory Meditations: a critical edition. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003.
• --. The Poems of Edward Taylor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
• --. Early New England Meditative Poetry: Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.
• Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1-2: To 1940. American Council of Learned Societies, 1944-1958.

• Fredericksen, Elaine. "Wylie, Elinor." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Gray, Thomas A. Elinor Wylie. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969.