edited by Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter

Hardcover: 256 pages - March 20, 2007
ISBN-10: 0307265455
ISBN-13: 978-0307265456
Publisher: Everyman's Library)

This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses to other poems in a dialogue conducted across space and time.

Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past. We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal. Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" sparked a centuries-long debate that John Donne, William Carlos Williams, C. Day Lewis, and Ogden Nash could not resist joining. In these pages we see Denise Levertov respond to Wordsworth, Randall Jarrell to Auden, Ogden Nash to Byron, Donald Justice to César Vallejo. We also see contemporary poets responding to their peers with the same intriguing mix of admiration and impatience.

Whether they offer approbation or reproof, the pleasures of a jazz riff or a completely different perspective, these remarkable poems are not only engaging themselves but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems that inspired them.

edited by Harold Schechter and Jonna G. Semeiks

Textbook Paperback - 2nd ed, October 1992
ISBN: 0195068505
Format: Paperback, 672pp
Pub. Date: October 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press

by Harold Schechter

Hardcover, February 1988
ISBN: 0877451931
Publisher:University of Iowa Press

Paperback, 2 edition, 174 pages; Nov. 2000
ISBN: 0820445142
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
List Price: USD $23.95

by Harold Schechter
Hardcover, July 1980

ISBN: 0879721685
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

by Harold Schechter, Jonna G. Semeiks

Paperback, January 1980
ISBN: 0060457619
Publisher: Addison-Wesley