Songs of experience : an anthology of literature on growing old
Title:
Songs of experience : an anthology of literature on growing old
JLCTITLE245:
compiled and edited by Margaret Fowler and Priscilla McCutcheon ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, ©1991.
Physical Description:
xvi, 379 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780345360571
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-371).
Genre:
Contents:
The country of old age. At seventy : a journal / May Sarton -- The view from 80 / Malcolm Cowley -- Sister age / M.F.K. Fisher -- The layers / Stanley Kunitz -- Song on reaching seventy / John Hall Wheelock -- The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell -- From my diary / Stephen Spender -- Personal geography : almost an autobiography / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The autumn of my life / Polly Francis.
A spirit of discriminating wisdom. Palais de Justice / Mark Helprin -- Reflections on my eightieth birthday / Bertrand Russell -- Interview with Henry Miller -- All is but a beginning / John G. Neihardt -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield (Fisher) -- Bare tree / Anne Morrow Lingbergh -- Una anciana / Robert Coles.
An intense eagerness to live. The delights of growing old / Maurice Goudeket -- The blue lantern / Colette -- The amaryllis / Mary Ward Brown -- Hardy perennial / Richard Eberhart -- Sunset and twilight : diaries 1947-1958 / Bernard Berenson -- Jack Frost / Josephine Jacobsen -- Letters from a father / Mona Van Duyn -- Fenstad's mother / Charles Baxter.
To make a contribution. Interview with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn -- Introduction to Onward and upward in the garden by Katharine S. White / E.B. White -- The hotel / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My life's history / Grandma Moses -- Old florist / Theodore Roethke -- Womb ward / Doris Lessing -- Letter to President John Kennedy / Albert Schweitzer -- Collected letters : 1926-1950 / Bernard Shaw.
The art of loving. The ivy crown / William Carlos Williams -- What feels like the world / Richard Bausch -- Happiness in Cornwall / Raymond Carver -- The cloven tree / Helen Norris -- After the dinner party / Robert Penn Warren -- Number our days / Barbara Myerhoff -- The wild old wicked man / Archibald MacLeish -- Man dancing / Carolyn Osborn -- Old man, old woman / Mark Van Doren.
Free to choose one's life. The unseemly old lady / Bertolt Brecht -- After sixty / Marilyn Zuckerman -- Ahmed and the old lady / Jon Godden -- Voices : an epilogue / Helen Hayes -- A window full of sky / Anzia Yezierska -- Discovery / Marie Ponsot -- The last leaf / Katherine Anne Porter -- All passion spent / Vita Sackville-West.
The world of memory. The listening woman / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The brown wasp / Loren Eiseley -- Do Lord remember me / Julius Lester -- Retrospect / Carl Gustav Jung -- The journey's echo / Freya Stark -- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The memory of old Jack / Wendell Berry.
Into another intensity. Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- Aubade / Philip Larkin -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Last rites / Arturo Vivante -- Courage / Anne Sexton -- Ending / May Swenson -- Being seventy : the measure of a year / Elizabeth Gray Vining -- "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" / Alice Walker -- The woman within / Ellen Glasgow -- Interview with Eleanor Roosevelt -- What are years? / Marianne Moore.