Reading path
Make It New
At the start of the twentieth century the lyric broke open. Stevens set an emperor of ice-cream against the dead, Lorca filled Andalusia with knives and moonlight, Tsvetaeva wrote a love affair ending as the end of the world, Lowell turned his own breakdown into form. The old music of rhyme and resolution gave way to fragments, leaps, and raw confession. This is the poem after the epic and the ode: smaller, stranger, and closer to the bone.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT.S. Eliot, 1915
- 2. The Emperor of Ice-CreamWallace Stevens, 1922
- 3. The Waste LandT.S. Eliot, 1922
- 4. Poem of the EndMarina Tsvetaeva, 1924
- 5. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairPablo Neruda, 1924
- 6. Romance SonámbuloFederico García Lorca, 1928
- 7. Four QuartetsT.S. Eliot, 1943
- 8. Death FuguePaul Celan, 1948
- 9. HowlAllen Ginsberg, 1956
- 10. Skunk HourRobert Lowell, 1959
- 11. The CantosEzra Pound, 1962
- 12. The Half-Finished HeavenTomas Tranströmer, 1962
- 13. RequiemAnna Akhmatova, 1963
- 14. DaddySylvia Plath, 1965
- 15. CrowTed Hughes, 1970
- 16. PunishmentSeamus Heaney, 1975
- 17. Le Pont Mirabeau (The Mirabeau Bridge)Guillaume Apollinaire, 1912
- 18. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdWallace Stevens, 1923