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Poems bewitched and haunted, selected and edited by John Hollander

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Poems bewitched and haunted

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selected and edited by John Hollander

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A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches brew of poems from the spirit world

Foreword / Arrigo Boito -- Exordium / Samuel Rogers -- From Ode to Superstition -- Hags and beauties / Homer -- Circè the Enchantress / John Byrne Leicester Warren -- Island of Circe / Torquato Tasso -- Rinaldo is warned of the Witch Armida / Edmund Spenser -- Witch exposed / Anthony Hecht -- Witch of Endor / Pierre De Ronsard -- Invective against Denise, a witch / William Shakespeare(?) and Thomas Middleton -- Witch Hecate gets her crew together / Robert Herrick -- The hag / James Hogg -- Witch O' Fife / Nahum Tate -- Witches who hate Dido / Johann Peter Hebel -- Hexli (Little Witch) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Lovely witch's cave / Charles G. Leland -- The Witch / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- The witch-mother / William Vaughan Moody -- The Amber-Witch / Madison Cawein -- The town witch / Madison Cawein -- The wood witch / Enrique Diez Canedo -- The young witch / Robert Frost -- The Pauper witch Of Grafton / Vachel Lindsay -- The patient witch / Leonora Speyer -- Witch! / Adelaide Crapsey -- The witch / Robert Graves -- The two witches -- Dangerous procedures: Ovid -- The witch Bedea at work / Theocritus -- The sorceress / Horace -- Canidia and friends steal a boy / John Donne -- Witchcraft by a picture / Edmund Spenser -- The false florimell / William Shakespeare -- Three witches cook something up / Robert Herrick -- To bring in the witch / John Dryden -- A spell / James Hogg -- A witch's chant -- Dangerous Venues / Thomas Lovell Reddoes -- The ghosts' moonshine / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Haunted Palace / Thomas Hood -- The Haunted House / George Moses Horton -- The tearful traveler in the haunted castle / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The haunted chamber / Alice Gary -- The haunted house / Tristan Corrière -- Evil landscape / Emma Lazarus -- Haunted spot / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Haunted house / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The haunted oak / Georg Trakl -- Evening / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Haunted houses -- Dangerous wooers: Anon. -- Tom Linn / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- The Erl-King / Heinrich Heine -- The Lorelei / John Keats -- La Belle Dame Sans Merci / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The phantom-wooer / Charles Baudelaire -- The incubus -- Other apparitions / Amuel Butler -- On apparitions / Join Donne-- The apparition / Heinrich Heine -- The Double / Ann Radcliffe -- The snow-Fiend / Thomas Campbell -- The spectre boat. a ballad / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The spectral horseman / Alexander Pushkin -- The demons / William Barnes -- White in the night / John Bannister Tabb -- Phantoms / Emma Lazarus -- The will-o'-the-wisp / Madison Cawein -- Will-o'-the-wisp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Windy nights / Giovanni Pascoli -- The grey mare / Thomas Hardy-- At the piano / Thomas Hardy -- Who's in the next room? / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Luke Havergal / William Butler Yeats -- The apparitions / Itzik Manger -- The ballad of the white glow / James Merrill -- Voices from the other World -- Ceremonials / James Grahame -- From October: nearing Hallowe'en / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- Walpurgis-night / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The warning -- A choice of ghosts / Virgil -- Aeneas meets his dead Wife / Alexander Pope -- The Ghosts of beauty / David Mallet -- Margaret's ghost / Friedrich Hebbel -- Ghost / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Phantom / Matthew G. ('Monk') Lewis -- Janet curses Ronald, her betrayer / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The Old Ghost / Théopjile Gautier -- The ghost of a rose / Emily Dickinson -- The only ghost I ever saw / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The ghosts / Emily Dickinson -- Two ghosts converse / Paul Verlaine -- Sentimental conversation / Christina Rossetti -- The ghost's petition / John James Piatt -- Steps of ghosts / Dora Sigerson -- The banshee / Francis William Bourdillon -- A ghost / Edith Nesbit -- The ghost / Thomas Hardy -- The haunter / Vachel Lindsay -- Ghosts in love / John Crowe Ransom -- Spectral lovers / Mark Van Doren -- The orchard ghost / Randall Jarrell -- A ghost

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