Poetry@Princeton http://english.princeton.edu/poetry A weblog for poets and poetry events at Princeton University Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en Michael Snediker http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/michael-snediker/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/michael-snediker/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:50 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/michael-snediker/ A Poetry Reading
Lunch will be served.
Hinds Library


]]> A Poetry Reading
Lunch will be served.
Hinds Library


]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/michael-snediker/feed/ Keats’s Last Poem http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keatss-last-poem/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keatss-last-poem/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:37:57 +0000 admin Poems http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keatss-last-poem/ [First published in 1838 titled “Keats’s Last Sonnet” in the 1848 edition of Keats’s “Literary Remains” and thus throughout the 19th c; now known as Bright Star. In the summer of 1818 Keats remarked that the scenery of the lake country “refine[s] one’s sensual vision into a sort of north star which can never cease to be open lidded and stedfast over the wonders of the great Power”; sometime before summer 1819 he drafted this sonnet, and in early autumn 1820 wrote it out again, with some variants, in the volume of Shakespeare’s poems he took to Italy. The opening line of this Shakespearean sonnet chimes with Caesar’s heroic declaration:  “I am constant as the Northern Star, / Of whose true-fixed and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament” (Julius Caesar 3.1.58-62).]

 

BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as thou art–

      Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

      Like nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

      Of pure ablution  round earth’s human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask

       Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–

No–yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

      Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

      Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

            And so live ever–or else swoon to death.

 

 

]]> [First published in 1838 titled “Keats’s Last Sonnet” in the 1848 edition of Keats’s “Literary Remains” and thus throughout the 19th c; now known as Bright Star. In the summer of 1818 Keats remarked that the scenery of the lake country “refine[s] one’s sensual vision into a sort of north star which can never cease to be open lidded and stedfast over the wonders of the great Power”; sometime before summer 1819 he drafted this sonnet, and in early autumn 1820 wrote it out again, with some variants, in the volume of Shakespeare’s poems he took to Italy. The opening line of this Shakespearean sonnet chimes with Caesar’s heroic declaration:  “I am constant as the Northern Star, / Of whose true-fixed and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament” (Julius Caesar 3.1.58-62).]

 

BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as thou art–

      Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

      Like nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

      Of pure ablution  round earth’s human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask

       Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–

No–yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

      Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

      Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

            And so live ever–or else swoon to death.

 

 

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keatss-last-poem/feed/ Vibrant Futures: Episode Two http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/vibrant-futures-episode-two/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/vibrant-futures-episode-two/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:28:26 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/vibrant-futures-episode-two/ The Poetry Project, NY
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]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/vibrant-futures-episode-two/feed/ Joshua Beckman & Jack Collom http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/joshua-beckman-jack-collom/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/joshua-beckman-jack-collom/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:27:19 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/joshua-beckman-jack-collom/ The Poetry Project, NY

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]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/joshua-beckman-jack-collom/feed/ Keats Birthday Party http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keats-birthday-party/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keats-birthday-party/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:23:39 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keats-birthday-party/ featuring Professor Susan Wolfson,

birthday cake, and poems!

Hinds Library

]]> featuring Professor Susan Wolfson,

birthday cake, and poems!

Hinds Library

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/keats-birthday-party/feed/ Adrienne Rich http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/adrienne-rich-2/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/adrienne-rich-2/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:36:40 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/adrienne-rich-2/ Douglass Campus Center, Trayes Hall

Rutgers University, More info

 

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Rutgers University, More info

 

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/adrienne-rich-2/feed/ Cate Marvin http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/cate-marvin/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/cate-marvin/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:09:10 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/cate-marvin/ author of FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN
editor of LEGITIMATE DANGERS

Library Auditorium

The College of New Jersey

]]> author of FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN
editor of LEGITIMATE DANGERS

Library Auditorium

The College of New Jersey

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/cate-marvin/feed/ Ben Lerner http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/ben-lerner/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/ben-lerner/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:07:31 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/ben-lerner/ author of ANGLE OF YAW
Library Auditorium

The College of New Jersey

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Library Auditorium

The College of New Jersey

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/ben-lerner/feed/ Poetics Colloquium http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/poetics-colloquium/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/poetics-colloquium/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:52 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/poetics-colloquium/ 9:00 am - 7:30 pm.

Centenary College

400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown

Full day of Panels and workshops

Free, but reservation requested.

More Info

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Centenary College

400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown

Full day of Panels and workshops

Free, but reservation requested.

More Info

]]> http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/poetics-colloquium/feed/ Mark Doty http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/mark-doty/ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/mark-doty/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:03:56 +0000 admin Poetry Events http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/mark-doty/ Centenary College

400 Jefferson Street,

Hackettstown

Reading and reception

Free, but reservation requested.

More Info

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400 Jefferson Street,

Hackettstown

Reading and reception

Free, but reservation requested.

More Info

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