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Ted Hughes: <em>By Heart</em>

Ted Hughes: By Heart

Ted Hughes: <em>By Heart</em> (audiobook)

Ted Hughes: By Heart (audiobook)

By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember.

Edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber, 1997

This is an anthology of 'poems to remember'. In his foreword, Hughes gives a short introduction to the topic and his view on the importance of memorising poems.

The introduction is the same essay as appeared in The School Bag. 

This is also available as an audio book.

Contents:

Introduction: Memorising Poems

  1. William Shakespeare: 'The Witches' Song' from Macbeth
  2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
  3. A. E. Housman: 'On Wenlock Edge'
  4. Rudyard Kipling: James I
  5. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
  6. W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome
  7. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
  8. W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
  9. T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man
  10. Anonymous: Donal Og
  11. William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
  12. Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot
  13. Keith Douglas: How To Kill
  14. Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth
  15. Edward Thomas: The Combe
  16. John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont
  17. R. S. Thomas: Here
  18. John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30
  19. William Blake: The Tyger
  20. John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
  21. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
  22. Emily Dickinson: 'Like Rain It Sounded'
  23. Anonymous: Mad Tom's Song
  24. Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky
  25. Andrew Young: Field Glasses
  26. Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph
  27. William Shakespeare: My Mistress' Eyes
  28. T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange
  29. Robert Frost: Provide, Provide
  30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  31. D. H. Lawrence: Piano
  32. William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper
  33. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
  34. T. S. Eliot: Marina
  35. W. B. Yeats: 'A Woman's Beauty'
  36. F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones
  37. John Betjeman: A Subaltern's Love-Song
  38. William Shakespeare: 'Other Slow Arts'
  39. William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
  40. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall
  41. Thomas Wyatt: 'They Flee From Me'
  42. William Shakespeare: 'Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun'
  43. W. H. Auden: 'Stop All The Clocks'
  44. William Blake: The Smile
  45. John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls
  46. John Donne: The Relique
  47. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
  48. Ezra Pound: The Return
  49. Seamus Heaney: The Skunk
  50. William Shakespeare: 'That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold'
  51. W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916
  52. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
  53. Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods
  54. Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff
  55. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
  56. Emily Dickinson: 'There's A Certain Slant Of Light'
  57. William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence
  58. W. E. Henley: Invictus
  59. William Shakespeare: 'The Heavens Themselves, The Planets'
  60. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
  61. Robert Frost: The Runaway
  62. Dylan Thomas: Poem In October
  63. William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big
  64. Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water
  65. W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts
  66. Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning
  67. Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2)
  68. W. H. Auden: 'Carry Her Over The Water'
  69. John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered
  70. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
  71. William Shakespeare: 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds'
  72. John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter
  73. T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi
  74. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
  75. William Shakespeare: 'Tir'd With All These, For Restful Death I Cry'
  76. W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan
  77. Emily Dickinson: 'This World Is Not Conclusion'
  78. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars
  79. W. B. Yeats: 'Come Let Us Mock At The Great'
  80. William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass
  81. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
  82. William Shakespeare: 'My Love Is As A Fever'
  83. W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement
  84. William Wordsworth: 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal'
  85. William Shakespeare: 'Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul'
  86. John Donne: Song
  87. Emily Dickinson: 'A Wind That Rose'
  88. John Keats: To Autumn
  89. William Blake: The Sick Rose
  90. Robert Frost: Spring Pools
  91. William Shakespeare: 'To Be, Or Not To Be' from Hamlet
  92. T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax
  93. William Shakespeare: 'To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow'
  94. W. B. Yeats: Death
  95. T. S. Eliot: Death By Water
  96. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming
  97. Emily Dickinson: 'There Came A Wind'
  98. William Shakespeare: 'Our Revels Now Are Ended'
  99. Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
  100. W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty
  101. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument
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