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And the William Morris service provider. Carolyn Wells: Such Nonsense: An Anthology, ed. Carolyn Wells, copyright 1918 by means of George H. Doran Co. , reprinted by means of permission of Doubleday & corporation, Inc. E. B. W h i t e : "Marble T o p , " from the woman Is chilly, copyright 1927 by way of E. B. W h i t e , initially within the New Yorker; "Window Ledge within the Atom Age," from the second one Tree from the nook, copyright 1946 by means of E. B. W h i t e , initially within the New Yorker; either poems reprinted by way of permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Jonathan Williams: An Ear in Bartram's Tree, copyright © 1969 by means of Jonathan Williams, reprinted via permission of the collage of North Carolina Press; distinct model of " T h e Anthropophagites . . . " revealed via permission of the writer. Tennessee Williams: within the wintry weather of towns, copyright 1946 via G. Schirmer, copyright © 1956 through Tennessee Williams, reprinted by means of permission of recent instructions Publishing company. William Carlos Williams: amassed past Poems, copyright 1938 by means of New instructions Publishing company; accrued Later Poems, copyright 1944, 1950 by way of William Carlos Williams; photos from Brueghel and different Poems, copyright © 1962 by means of William Carlos Williams; poems from all volumes reprinted via permission of latest instructions Publishing company. Edmund Wilson: evening techniques, copyright © 1953, 1961 by means of Edmund Wilson. Reprinted through permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. James Wright: electorate, copyright © 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 ^y James Wright. Reprinted by means of permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Elinor Wylie: amassed Poems, copyright 1934 via Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. To Richard Harter Fogle and Robert Haig INTRODUCTION i these o's glance out from Oxford ebook so owlishly and solemnly that any editor should keep in mind the phrases of Daniel H. H. Ingalls, the celebrated Orientalist: "Sanskrit anthologies often commence with various benedictory verses, disbursed in teams in keeping with the god addressed, the private god of the anthologist coming first. " even though i don't by any means resemble the Abbot Vidyakara or maybe Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, i will be able to quite simply comprehend any anthologist's reputation of the necessity for benedictory preliminaries. The comforting sound of "the own god of the anthologist" makes me want i may, like Vidyakara, invoke the names of strong bodhisattvas or, like Quiller-Couch, point out "the President, Fellows, and students of Trinity university, Oxford. " yet it is a ebook of yankee gentle Verse, from which no o's glance out, in order that any solemn identify I name could be taken in useless. having said that, an anthologist wishes the entire aid he can get, and it might probably perform a little strong if I invoke, as a provisional muse, one of many lesser figures one of the "self-born mockers of man's enterprise": Mary, Mary, rather opposite. I do that, first, for enjoyable (her epithet does proportion the initials of Sir Arthur's very good kin name), but additionally for a rhetorical goal, that's to signify that the spirit of comedy, which pervades the entire many species of sunshine verse, is a spirit of contrariness, opposing ailment to stress ("raising hell") yet in almost the following breath correcting sickness with regularity ("blowing the whistle").