Collected Poems 1948-1998,9780192880772

Collected Poems 1948-1998

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ISBN13: 9780192880772
ISBN10: 0192880772
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Pub. Date: 1998-07-16
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Collected Poems 1948-1998 , publishing in D.J. Enright's 78th year, adds the poetry from his books published since 1987, and extends the selection of poems, particularly from his earlier works, bringing back into circulation some poems readers may have missed. This major collection culls work from fifteen of Enright's previous publications including The Laughing Hyena (1953), Addictions (1962), and Sad Ires (1975). His three most famous sequences are also reprinted here in their entirety: Terrible Shears (1973), Paradise Illustrated (1978), and A Faust Book (1979). These collected poems enable readers to see the fascinating development of this poet, from his sensuous early work set in Alexandria and Japan, to a more terse and ironic later verse.

Author Biography


About the Author:
D. J. Enright is an essayist, anthologist, reviewer, and poet. His works include Interplay, The Alluring Problem, The Oxford Book of Death, Collected Poems, and Selected Poems (all OUP).

Table of Contents

THE LAUGHING HYENA AND OTHER POEMS (1953) 3(23)
Deir El Bahari: Temple of Hatshepsut
3(1)
The Egyptian Cat
4(1)
A Demonstration
5(1)
The Beach at Abousir
5(1)
The White Fort of Kait Bey
6(1)
One of those Days
7(1)
Arab Music
7(1)
Why the East is Inscrutable
8(1)
Evening in the Khamsin
9(1)
Life and Letters
10(1)
University Examinations in Egypt
11(1)
The Chicken's Foot
11(2)
An Egyptian in Birmingham
13(1)
The Afterlife
14(1)
Black Country Women
15(1)
Swan Village
16(1)
Waiting for the Bus
16(1)
Baie des Anges
17(1)
The Casino at Monte Carlo
18(1)
Latin Festival
19(1)
Death in the South
19(1)
Man of Letters
20(1)
A Winter Scene
21(1)
First Death
21(1)
On the Death of a Child
22(1)
Among the Falling Leaves
23(1)
Autumn Birth
24(1)
The Laughing Hyena, after Hokusai
25(1)
BREAD RATHER THAN BLOSSOMS (1956) 26(20)
Sumiyoshi: First Impressions
26(1)
Sumiyoshi: After a Typhoon
26(1)
The Rag-Picker's Feast
27(1)
The Pied Piper of Akashi
28(1)
The Monuments of Hiroshima
29(1)
Waiting for the Typhoon
30(1)
Japanese Sandman
30(1)
Happy New Year
31(1)
Tea Ceremony
32(1)
Akiko San
33(1)
Broken Fingernails
34(1)
The Short Life of Kazuo Yamamoto
34(1)
How right they were, the Chinese poets
35(1)
The Old Man Comes to His Senses
36(1)
A Moment of Happiness
36(1)
A Poor Little Lonely Child
37(2)
End of a Hot Day
39(1)
Blue Umbrellas
40(1)
Nature Poetry
41(1)
The Individual
41(1)
Rice
41(1)
A Kyoto Garden
42(1)
Excusing the Cicadas
43(1)
In the Hankyu Electric
44(1)
Hokusai's Mad Poet
45(1)
SOME MEN ARE BROTHERS (1960) 46(30)
Kyoto in Autumn
46(1)
Changing the Subject
47(1)
Suma
48(1)
Written Off
49(1)
The Popular Theatre
50(1)
The Noodle-Vendor's Flute
51(1)
Busybody under a Cherry Tree
52(1)
Where man is not...
53(1)
The Proper Due
53(1)
Berlin: Am Steinplatz
54(1)
No Offence
55(2)
Brandenburger Tor
57(1)
A Pleasant Walk
58(1)
Meeting an Egyptian at a Cocktail Party
59(1)
Sightseeing in Siam
59(1)
The Poor Wake Up Quickly
60(1)
Kite Fight
61(1)
Insects
62(1)
A Polished Performance
63(1)
Down in the Forest
64(3)
Displaced Person Looks at a Cage-Bird
67(1)
Where have you been to?
67(1)
Entrance Visa
68(1)
The Peaceful Island
69(2)
The Quagga
71(1)
The Conspectus of Sodomites
72(1)
Saying No
73(1)
Monkey
74(2)
ADDICTIONS (1962) 76(28)
In Memoriam
76(1)
Reflections on Foreign Literature
77(1)
Berlin Side-Streets
78(2)
Apocalypse
80(1)
Confessions of an English Opium Smoker
81(1)
The Burning of the Pipes
82(1)
Sticky Afternoon
83(1)
Warm Protest
84(1)
Kind
84(2)
Star Chamber
86(1)
A Fine and Private Place
87(2)
Addictions
89(1)
Bright young dull old things
90(2)
The Hard Core
92(1)
Brush-Fire
93(1)
Baroda
94(1)
I was a gulli-gulli man's chicken
94(2)
Parliament of Cats
96(1)
Dreaming in the Shanghai Restaurant
97(1)
Making Love
98(1)
The Abyss
98(2)
Campus in Vacation
100(1)
Pitchfork Department
101(1)
News
102(1)
`Why isn't your poetry more personal?'
102(2)
THE OLD ADAM (1965) 104(19)
In the Catalogue
104(1)
Laws
105(1)
Alexandrian
106(1)
Social-Realist
107(1)
To Old Cavafy, from a New Country
108(1)
Political Meeting
109(1)
Prime Minister
110(1)
Meeting the Minister for Culture
111(2)
Misgiving at Dusk
113(1)
A Liberal Lost
113(1)
Elegy in a Country Suburb
114(2)
Small Hotel
116(1)
The Ancient Anthropologist
117(1)
Doctor Doctor
118(2)
Visiting
120(1)
Poet wondering what he is up to
121(1)
Postcard from Hamburg
122(1)
Change
122(1)
UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY (1968) 123(22)
The Accents of Brecht
123(1)
The Small War
123(1)
Singapore
124(1)
What became of What-was-his-name?
125(3)
Processional
128(2)
Shabby Imperial Dreams
130(1)
Rueful Writers Contemplate a Painter
131(1)
Come to Sunny S
132(2)
After the Riots
134(1)
Unlawful Assembly
135(1)
Brief Briefing
136(1)
The Mysterious Incident at the Admiral's Party
136(2)
Writing Poetry in a Hotel Room
138(1)
Cats and Dogs
139(1)
Cultural Freedom
139(1)
Poor Yusoff
140(1)
Roman Reasons
141(2)
I was a middle-aged corrupter of youth
143(1)
Back
144(1)
DAUGHTERS OF EARTH (1972) 145(27)
Children Killed in War
145(1)
Taken Prisoner
146(1)
Goodbye Empire
147(1)
To an Emergent Politician
147(1)
An Underdeveloped Country
148(1)
J.T. on his Travels
149(1)
The Faithful
149(1)
Board of Selection
150(2)
More Memories of Underdevelopment
152(1)
Master Kung at the Keyboard
153(1)
Streets
154(1)
Tourist Promotion
155(1)
Valediction
156(1)
Where I am
157(1)
Royalties
158(1)
Memoirs of a Book Reviewer
159(1)
In the Basilica of the Annunciation
160(2)
Along the River
162(1)
How Many Devils Can Dance on the Point...
162(2)
Terminal
164(1)
Metropolitan Water Bawd
165(1)
An Ew Erra
166(1)
Another person one would like to be
167(1)
To a War Poet, on Teaching Him in a New Country
168(1)
High-mindedness of an English Poet
169(1)
Public Bar
170(1)
The Dispossessed
170(1)
The New Year Too
171(1)
THE TERRIBLE SHEARS: SCENES FROM A TWENTIES CHILDHOOD (1973) 172(37)
SAD IRES (1975) 209(26)
Since Then
209(1)
The Stations of King's Cross
210(2)
Spoons
212(1)
Origin of the Haiku
213(1)
Eternity
214(1)
The Wine List
215(1)
In Cemeteries
216(1)
Three Girls
216(1)
R-and-R Centre
217(2)
Hands Off, Foreign Devil
219(1)
Meeting a Person
219(1)
Home and Colonial
220(2)
Outstation
222(1)
Very Clean Old Man
222(1)
The Progress of Poesy
223(1)
The Progress of Prying
224(1)
Oyster Lament
225(1)
The Cauldron
226(1)
The Ageing Poet
227(1)
Vacillations of an Aspiring Vampire
228(1)
Concerning the Future of Britain
229(1)
Buy One Now
230(1)
Or perchance not
231(1)
Small Oratorio
231(1)
A Common Interest
232(1)
Remembrance Sunday
233(1)
Of Growing Old
233(2)
PARADISE ILLUSTRATED (1978) 235(39)
Paradise Illustrated: A Sequence
235(25)
The Verb `To Think'
260(1)
Old Colony, New Country
261(1)
Many Voices
262(1)
Biography
263(1)
Lives of the Gaolers
264(1)
The Roosters Cry
265(1)
The Answer
266(1)
The Word
267(1)
Matter of Opinion
267(1)
Seaside Sensation
268(1)
Poem Translated from a Foreign Language
269(1)
Anthropos feels his Age
270(1)
Give Us This Night
271(1)
A Child's Guide to Welfare
272(1)
History of World Languages
273(1)
A FAUST BOOK (1979) 274(62)
POEMS 1981 336(24)
Sketchbook
336(1)
Lingering Parents
336(2)
Midstream
338(1)
Development
338(1)
Pains
339(1)
Those First Moments
340(1)
Natural Species
341(1)
Going on with
342(1)
Burden
342(1)
Guest
343(1)
K. on the Moon
344(3)
Missionary Unfrocked
347(1)
Combat Camera
347(1)
Remembering Angkor
348(1)
World in Action
349(1)
Explanation
349(1)
Still Waiting
350(1)
Animal Kingdoms
351(1)
The Question of Lust
352(1)
Sex Shop
353(1)
Anecdote from William IV Street
353(1)
I am a Bewohner of an Elfenbeinturm
354(1)
Cargo
354(1)
Ageing Sage
355(1)
Orthography
356(1)
The Retired Life of the Demons
356(2)
A Priest in Balvano
358(1)
Poetical Justice
359(1)
INSTANT CHRONICLES: A LIFE (1985) 360(53)
POEMS 1987 413(30)
God Creating Adam
413(1)
The Monster's Request
414(1)
An Old Story
415(1)
Quotations
416(1)
Mixed Proverbs
417(1)
Fitting the Crime
418(1)
Writer's Tinnitus
419(1)
The Decline of Science Fiction
420(1)
Poetry Readings
420(2)
Joys of Writing
422(1)
Abbey Going
423(1)
Happy Ending
424(1)
Event
425(1)
Great Temptations
425(1)
Agape
426(2)
Psalm for Supersunday
428(1)
Prayer
429(1)
Bay-Tree and Fool
429(1)
Reaching after Reason
430(1)
Murder in the Sitting-Room
430(1)
The Lady Orders her Funeral
431(1)
Failing
432(1)
Monkey Puzzles
432(6)
Waiting for the Bureaucrats
438(1)
Undertones of Almost War
439(4)
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES (1991) 443(23)
Carrier bag
443(1)
Money talks
444(1)
City sorrows
444(1)
One can't go on feeling guilty for ever
445(1)
Prose
445(1)
From little acorns
446(1)
In High Dudgeon
447(1)
Door
447(2)
In a corner
449(1)
Homo felix
449(1)
Having the last word
450(1)
And again
451(1)
Disciple
451(1)
National anthem
452(1)
Bonefires
453(1)
Act of faith
453(1)
Every bullet has its bill
454(1)
Cambodian legend
454(1)
Matter of form
455(1)
Seminar on contemporary Chinese writing
456(1)
Announcement
457(1)
Case history
458(1)
Poem on the Underground
459(1)
Happening
460(1)
Recipe
460(1)
Pet
460(1)
Ban!
461(1)
Martyr to meaning
462(1)
Home town
463(1)
Magpie
463(1)
In memoriam R.G.C.
464(1)
Letters and life
464(2)
OLD MEN AND COMETS (1993) 466(26)
Cliches
466(1)
In the street
466(1)
Saving the world
467(1)
Election
467(1)
Don't smile please
468(1)
Sweet tooth
469(1)
Low-key haiku
469(1)
Wheels
470(1)
Supervision
471(1)
Memory
472(1)
The old stories
473(1)
Yusoff the bold
473(1)
Thinking of the young ladies of Tsuda College
474(1)
Seasons
475(1)
Forgetfulness in Fuzhou
475(1)
Cat dream
476(2)
Emperor dream
478(1)
First words, last chances
478(4)
Citizen's Charter
482(1)
A half-remembered tale
483(1)
A quandary
483(1)
All the things
484(1)
Confetti
484(1)
Dream snatches
485(3)
Warnings! warnings!
488(1)
As if human
489(1)
Bindings
490(1)
A register of diverse deaths
491(1)
A book at bedtime
491(1)
from INTERPLAY: A Kind of Commonplace Book (1995) 492(11)
Saving up
492(1)
Bad baby
492(1)
Light in the night
493(1)
Package tour
494(1)
The drunkenness of things being similar
494(1)
A thank-you letter from abroad
495(1)
Caligula on the subject of names
496(1)
After Cavafy
497(1)
Decline of theodicy
498(1)
Reading and Writing
499(2)
The why
501(1)
Through the window
502(1)
A HOSPITAL JOURNAL (1997) 503

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