Appendix I: Anthologies Examined
¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 On this chart, the villanelles in the anthologies I examined (listed below) are plotted by number and year. Blue squares are data points, and the red line shows an increasing average since 1970.
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Anthology | Number | Titles of Villanelles |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, ed., The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918, New edn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940). | 0 | None. |
Arthur M. Eastman, ed., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 1st edn. (New York: Norton, 1970). | 1 | Roethke, “The Waking” |
Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair, eds., The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1st edn. (New York: Norton, 1973). | 4 | Empson, “Villanelle” and “Missing Dates”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Roethke, “The Waking” |
Alexander W. Allison and Arthur M. Eastman, eds., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Rev. edn. (New York: Norton, 1975). | 2 | Empson, “Missing Dates”; Roethke, “The Waking” |
Helen Louise Gardner, ed., The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford,: Clarendon Press, 1975). | 3 | Wilde, “Theocritus”; Empson, “Missing Dates”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” |
Richard Ellmann, ed., The New Oxford Book of American Verse (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976). | 1 | Roethke, “The Waking” |
John Hayward, ed., The Penguin Book of English Verse (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1978). | 1 | Empson, “Missing Dates” |
D. J. Enright, ed., The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980 (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). | 0 | None. |
Martin Booth, ed., Contemporary British and North American Verse: An Introductory Anthology (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). | 0 | None. |
Donald Merriam Allen and George F. Butterick, eds., The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised, 1st Evergreen edn. (New York: Grove Press, 1982). | 0 | None. |
Alexander W. Allison, ed., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd edn. (New York: Norton, 1983). | 3 | Empson, “Missing Dates”; Roethke, “The Waking”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” |
Robert Penn Warren and Academy of American Poets., eds., Fifty Years of American Poetry: Anniversary Volume for the Academy of American Poets (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1984). | 0 | None. |
A. Poulin, Jr., ed., Contemporary American Poetry, 4th edn. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985). | 3 | Roethke, “The Waking”; Bishop, “One Art”; Justice, “In Memory of the Unknown Poet Robert Boardman Vaughn” |
Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, Jay Parini, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College., eds., The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Hanover: Published for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Middlebury College by University Press of New England, 1985). | 3 | Justice, “Villanelle at Sundown”; Morgan, “The Christmas Tree”; Simmerman, “Hide-and-Go-Seek” [?] |
Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair, eds., The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd edn. (New York: Norton, 1988). | 9 | Empson, “Villanelle” and “Missing Dates”; Auden, Miranda; Roethke, “The Waking”; Bishop, “One Art”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Hugo, “The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field”; Justice, In Memory of the Unknown Poet Robert Boardman Vaughn; Dove, “Parsley” |
A. Poulin, Jr., Contemporary American Poetry, 5th edn. (Boston and Toronto: Houghton Mifflin, 1991). | 2 | Roethke, “The Waking”; Bishop, “One Art” |
Paul Hoover, ed., Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (New York: Norton, 1994). | 2 | Lehman, “First Offense”; Yau, “Chinese Villanelle” |
Jay Parini, ed., The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). | 0 | None. |
Carl Woodring and James S. Shapiro, eds., The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). | 2 | Davidson, “The Battle”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” |
Margaret W. Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edn. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996). | 5 | Empson, “Missing Dates”; Roethke, “The Waking”; Bishop, “One Art”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Dove, “Parsley” |
A. Poulin, Jr., ed., Contemporary American Poetry, 6th edn. (Boston, Toronto: Houghton Mifflin, 1996). | 5 | Bishop, “One Art”; Roethke, “The Waking”; Strand, “2. The Disquieting Muses” (from “Two De Chiricos”); Williams, “Villanelle of the Suicide’s Mother”; Matthews, “Practice, Practice, Practice” |
Robert Penn Warren and Academy of American Poets., eds., Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets, Expanded edn. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996). | 1 | Carolyn Kizer, “On a Line from Valéry” |
Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College., eds., The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Hanover, NH; London: Published for Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Middlebury College Press by University Press of New England, 1999). | 3 | Linda Bierds, “Grand Forks, 1997”; Edward Hirsch, “Ocean of Grass”; Gregory Orr, “The Talk” |
Christopher B. Ricks, ed., The Oxford Book of English Verse (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). | 1 | Empson, “Missing Dates” |
Michael Collier and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College, eds., The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England, 2000). | 0 | None. |
Paul Keegan, ed., The New Penguin Book of English Verse (London: Allen Lane, 2000). | 4 | Empson, “Missing Dates”; Auden, “Miranda”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Mahon, “Antarctica” |
Cary Nelson, ed., Anthology of Modern American Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). | 3 | Robinson, “The House on the Hill”; Bishop, “One Art”; Dove, “Parsley” |
Keith Tuma, ed., Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). | 1 | Empson, “Villanelle” |
Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair, eds., The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd edn. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003). | 6 | Empson, “Villanelle” and “Missing Dates”; Roethke, “The Waking”; Bishop, “One Art”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Dove, “Parsley” |
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