Title: Selected poems /
Authors: Agee, James, 1909-1955; Hudgins, Andrew.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Library of America,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Poetry.
Abstract: "Steeped in the metaphysics and music of Elizabethan verse, alert to the nuances of the American vernacular, Agee's poetry is eloquent and wide-ranging. It exhibits, writes Andrew Hudgins, "a variety that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Agee's passionate exploration of religious themes - "his struggle," in Hudgins' words, "to comprehend his place in God's vision"--Is especially evident in the sequence of 25 sonnets that some consider his most notable verse creation, poems that take us into the heart of his most abiding concerns."--Jacket.
Contents: Permit me voyage: lyrics ; A song ; Description of Elysium ; The happy hen ; Dedication ; Ann Garner ; A chorale ; Epithalamium ; Sonnets ; Permit me voyage -- Other poems: Apotheosis ; The storm ; The shadow ; A lovers' dialogue ; The rendezvous ; Good Friday ; Résumé ; Sonnet ("death never swoops us round with sudden black") ; Two sonnets ; Description of Elysium ; The truce ; Resolution ; A poem of poets ; A parable of doors ; Delinquent ; Home again blues ; The passionate poet to his love ; "When I was small delight and fear" ; Lyrics ; Class ode, 1932 ; "As you came through the far land" ; Theme with variations ; Sonnet ("now it is competent, our common heart") ; Sonnet ("two years have passed, and made a perfect wheel") ; "Him we killed and laid alone" ; "A low pit and sink of shade" ; "When Eve first saw the glittering day" ; A poem for Brahms' death-bed ; Period pieces from the mid-thirties ; Three cabaret songs ; "You green in the young day" ; "Now on the stunned floor of darkness" ; A song ; Two songs on the economy of abundance ; "Now I lay me down beside" ; Lyric -- From John Carter: In memory of my father ; Lyrics ; Sunday: outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee ; Sun our father ; Summer evening ; Lyric ; "As in a woodland rarely" ; To Walker Evans ; On the word asleep ; On the word kingdom ; "O my poor country I have so much hated" ; Dear father ; "I walked into a wasted place" ; "We soldiers of all nations who lie killed" ; November 1945 ; Christmas 1945 ; "How many little children sleep" ; Sonnets ; "I bore my bearer on a wasted mountain" ; "O I begin to know: neither could live" ; "Just this: from now on, to go on foot" ; A lullaby ; Lines suggested by a Tennessee song ; Exiit diluculo ; Draft lyrics for Candide.