The Art of growing older : writers on living and aging / selected, and with personal reflections, by Wayne Booth.
Old age, they tell us, is not for sissies. Nevertheless, it is a territory that most of us can expect to enter and that, considering the alternative, we are usually willing to brave, however tentatively. Now, in this superb anthology, Wayne Booth, one of our most widely read and admired literary cri...
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Art of growing older : |b writers on living and aging / |c selected, and with personal reflections, by Wayne Booth. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Feeling older. |t from Essays / |r Montaigne -- |t "Death be not proud" / |r John Donne -- |t "Timor mortis conturbat me" / |r Anonymous -- |t from A margin of hope / |r Irving Howe -- |t from "The tower" ; |t from "Sailing to Byzantium" / |r W.B. Yeats -- |t "Lines written on the eve of a birthday" / |r Kelly Cherry -- |t from Gulliver's travels / |r Jonathan Swift -- |t from Macbeth ; |t from As you like it / |r William Shakespeare -- |t from "Sonnet on turning twenty-three" / |r John Milton -- |t from "On being twenty-six" / |r Philip Larkin -- |t from "On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year" / |r George Gordon, Lord Byron -- |t from On old age / |r Cicero. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Facing the facts : losses, fears, lamentations. |t from "Rabbi Ben Ezra" / |r Robert Browning -- |t Letter to Malcolm Cowley / |r Kenneth Burke -- |t from The view from 80 / |r Malcolm Cowley -- |t "This is what human beauty comes to" / |r Francʹois Villon -- |t from Satire X / |r Juvenal -- |t from Epistolae morales / |r Seneca -- |t from The Canterbury tales / |r Geoffrey Chaucer -- |t "The problem, unstated till now, is how" ; |t "It's true, these last few years I've lived" / |r Adrienne Rich -- |t "One art" / |r Elizabeth Bishop -- |t from Self-consciousness : a memoir / |r John Updike -- |t from "The vanity of human wishes" / |r Samuel Johnson -- |t "Dear Charles, my muse, asleep or dead" / |r Philip Larkin -- |t from "St. Mark's rest" / |r John Ruskin -- |t "Yes; I write verses now and then" / |r Walter Savage Landor -- |t from "Used : the mind-body problem" / |r Kelly Cherry -- |t "As I sit writing here" ; |t "Queries to my seventieth year" / |r Walt Whitman -- |t Letter to Malcolm Cowley / |r Kenneth Burke -- |t "It is time" / |r Laurence Lerner -- |t "Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg" / |r William Wordsworth -- |t From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / |r George Gordon, Lord Byron -- |t "The old familiar faces" / |r Charles Lamb -- |t Letter to Malcolm Cowley / |r Kenneth Burke -- |t from "A toccata of Galuppi's" / |r Robert Browning -- |t from "Faithful Wilson" / |r Thomas Hardy -- |t "The face in the mirror" / |r Robert Graves -- |t "I look into my glass" / |r Thomas Hardy -- |t "Growing old" / |r Matthew Arnold -- |t 2 Samuel 19:32-39 -- |t from "Girl from Samos" / |r Menander -- |t "O sovereign my Lord! oldness has come" / |r Ptah Hotep -- |t from The book of common prayer. |t "For when thou art angry all our days are gone" -- |t from The diary of Alice James / |r Alice James -- |t "He who has lived sixty years" / |r Egyptian papyrus -- |t Letter to W. Morton Fullerton / |r Henry James -- |t "My picture left in Scotland" / |r Ben Jonson -- |t from Paradise lost / |r John Milton -- |t "Song" / |r Christina Rossetti -- |t "Old age" / |r Buland al-Haydari -- |t "What, then, is life if love the golden is gone?" / |r Mimnermus -- |t Chorus, from Herakles / |r Euripides -- |t from Oedipus at Colonus / |r Sophocles -- |t "Jogger" / |r Daniel Hoffman -- |t Letter to Pierre Moreno / |r Colette -- |t "Last housecleaning" / |r Mark Van Doren -- |t from As we are now / |r May Sarton -- |t Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 -- |t "Lebensweisheitspielerei" / |r Wallace Stevens. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Cures, consolations, celebrations. |t "One life" / |r Adrienne Rich -- |t "Dead before death" / |r Christina Rossetti -- |t "Old age" / |r Yusuf al-Khal -- |t "I want you to be harsh" / |r Tom O'Shea -- |t "I haven't lost my marbles yet!" / |r Minnie I. Hodapp -- |t "The old player" / |r Oliver Wendell Holmes -- |t from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / |r Mark Twain -- |t "Losing the marbles" / |r James Merrill -- |t "No" / |r John Berryman -- |t "Resume" / |r Dorothy Parker -- |t "Life Is fine" / |r Langston Hughes -- |t from The coming of age / |r Simone de Beauvoir -- |t from Enjoy old age / |r B.F. Skinner -- |t Letter to John Taylor / |r Samuel Johnson -- |t from On old age / |r Cicero -- |t "Provide, provide" / |r Robert Frost -- |t "I to my perils" / |r A.E. Housman -- |t "He never expected much" / |r Thomas Hardy -- |t from The view in winter / |r Ronald Blythe -- |t from Enjoy old age / |r B.F. Skinner -- |t "Resolutions when I come to be old" / |r Jonathan Swift -- |t from an interview / |r Robertson Davies -- |t from Commonplace book / |r E.M. Forster -- |t "Poets" ; |t "A poem about black power" / |r Kay Boyle -- |t "To his coy mistress" / |r Andrew Marvell -- |t from The faerie queene / |r Edmund Spenser -- |t from Ainsi soit-il / |r Andre Gide -- |t from Essays / |r Montaigne -- |t "Defiance of age (Ode 11) / |r Anacreon -- |t from Henry IV, Part I / |r William Shakespeare -- |t from The art of growing old / |r John Cowper Powys -- |t "Sailing to Byzantium" / |r W.B. Yeats -- |t from To the lighthouse / |r Virginia Woolf -- |t from The coming of age / |r Simone de Beauvoir -- |t "No coward soul is mine" ; |t "Riches I hold in light esteem" / |r Emily Bronte -- |t "The courage that my mother had" / |r Edna St. Vincent Millay -- |t "Let no charitable hope" ; |t "Nadir" / |r Elinor Wylie -- |t from a letter to Henry P. Bowditch / |r William James -- |t from Journal / |r Wu Yu-pi -- |t "Do not go gentle into that good night" / |r Dylan Thomas -- |t from his diary / |r Henry James -- |t "The decision" / |r Theodore Roethke -- |t "Advice to the old (including myself)" / |r Kay Boyle -- |t "This high summer we love will pour its light" / |r Adrienne Rich -- |t "Age and light" / |r Sappho -- |t from Hooked : film writing 1985-88 / |r Pauline Kael -- |t from Commonplace book / |r E.M. Forster -- |t from Letters to Lucilius / |r Seneca -- |t "Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower" ; |t "Death stands above me whispering low" ; |t "Dying speech of an old philosopher" / |r Walter Savage Landor -- |t from Commonplace book / |r E.M. Forster -- |t from The republic / |r Plato. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Cures, consolations, celebrations. |t from "From 'Oedipus at Colonus'" ; |t from "The tower" / |r W.B. Yeats -- |t "The restored" / |r Theodore Roethke -- |t from Letters / |r Edith Wharton -- |t from an interview with Ronald Blythe / |r Crossing-keeper's Son (Anonymous) -- |t from The coming of age / |r Simone de Beauvoir -- |t "Yorkshire wife's saga" / |r Ruth Pitter -- |t "The envelope" / |r Maxine Kumin -- |t from The art of being a grandfather. |t "The contented exile" ; |t "Georges and Jeanne" / |r Victor Hugo -- |t "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest" ; |t "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend" ; |t "Then let not winter's ragged hand deface" ; |t "Lo, in the orient when the gracious light" ; |t "Against my love shall be, as I am now" / |r William Shakespeare -- |t Letter to Hugh Walpole / |r Henry James -- |t Letter to Malcolm Cowley / |r Kenneth Burke -- |t "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" ; |t "Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts" ; |t "That time of year thou mayest in me behold" / |r William Shakespeare -- |t "Dover beach" / |r Matthew Arnold -- |t "John Anderson my jo" / |r Robert Burns -- |t "Wish for a young wife" / |r Theodore Roethke -- |t "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" / |r Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- |t "Life begins at 80" / |r Frank Laubach -- |t "The burden of an ancient rhyme" / |r Walter Savage Landor -- |t from Anatomy of an illness / |r Norman Cousins -- |t "David and Solomon" / |r James Ball Naylor -- |t Epigrams / |r John Betjeman, Richard Armour, Elder Olson -- |t Dinner speech / |r Mark Twain -- |t One-liners / |r Ninon de Lenclos, Goodman Ace, Joel Chandler Harris, Casey Stengel, Eubie Blake, James Thurber, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lawrence J. Peter, John Gay -- |t "Crossing the border" / |r Ogden Nash -- |t "There was an old man with a beard" ; |t "There was an old man who supposed" / |r Edward Lear -- |t "Advice from a caterpillar" / |r Lewis Carroll -- |t from Volpone / |r Ben Jonson -- |t from Watt / |r Samuel Beckett -- |t Letter to Malcolm Cowley / |r Kenneth Burke -- |t "Epigram XXVI" / |r Walter Savage Landor -- |t "Doggerel by a senior citizen" / |r W.H. Auden -- |t from Confucian analects / |r Confucius -- |t from Counsels and maxims / |r Arthur Schopenhauer -- |t from The coming of age / |r Simone de Beauvoir -- |t from Self-consciousness : a memoir / |r John Updike -- |t from String quartet #16 / |r Ludwig von Beethevon-- |t "now does our world descend" / |r e.e. cummings -- |t from The coming of age / |r Simone de Beauvoir -- |t "To age" / |r Walter Savage Landor -- |t Koved funeral prayer (adapted from Psalms 144 and 90) -- |t from Lives / |r Diogenes Laertius -- |t from King Lear / |r William Shakespeare -- |t from Autobiography / |r Bertrand Russell -- |t "To get the final lilt of songs" / |r Walt Whitman -- |t from Sister age / |r M.F.K. Fisher -- |t from "Crabbed age and youth" / |r Robert Louis Stevenson -- |t "A pastoral nun" / |r Wallace Stevens -- |t from "The canzioniere" / |r Petrarch -- |t "Among school children" / |r W.B. Yeats -- |t "The whole question" / |r Robert Penn Warren -- |t "God's grandeur" / |r Gerard Manley Hopkins -- |t "The flower / |r George Herbert -- |t "Up-hill" / |r Christina Rossetti. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g A further harvest. |t "On his blindness" / |r John Milton -- |t "In winter in the woods alone" / |r Robert Frost -- |t from At seventy : a journal / |r May Sarton -- |t "The silence now" ; |t "Old lovers at the ballet" / |r May Sarton -- |t "The first snow of the year" / |r Mark Van Doren -- |t "Night thoughts in age" / |r John Hall Wheelock -- |t "Fern hill" / |r Dylan Thomas -- |t "Grasses" / |r Amy Clampitt -- |t "Fizzle 3 : afar a bird" / |r Samuel Beckett -- |t from "A catch of shy fish" / |r Gwendolyn Brooks -- |t "A prayer for old age" / |r W.B. Yeats -- |t "From my diary" / |r Stephen Spender -- |t "Wide awake, full of love" / |r William Carlos Williams -- |t "After the Persian" / |r Louise Bogan -- |t "The plain sense of things" / |r Wallace Stevens -- |t "Nadirs" ; |t "Brim" ; |t "Stroke" / |r Josephine Miles -- |t "Crossing the bar" / |r Alfred Lord Tennyson -- |t "Halcyon days" / |r Walt Whitman -- |t "Old women" / |r Czeslaw Milosz -- |t "Breakfast time" / |r Betty Rosen -- |t "Thinking of the lost world" / |r Randall Jarrell -- |t from Ecclesiastes -- |t Psalm 90 -- |t "Hymn to God my God, in my sickness" / |r John Donne -- |t "What are years" / |r Marianne Moore. |
| 520 | |a Old age, they tell us, is not for sissies. Nevertheless, it is a territory that most of us can expect to enter and that, considering the alternative, we are usually willing to brave, however tentatively. Now, in this superb anthology, Wayne Booth, one of our most widely read and admired literary critics, offers us aid and comfort: the marvelous work of some of our greatest writers and poets on what growing older is really like, with a wonderful bonus - his own wise, | ||
| 520 | |a Immensely rewarding reflections on what his seventy years have taught him. Profound, witty, shrewd, compassionate but never sentimental, Booth acknowledges, with characteristic candor, what has been lost, but also reminds us what remains to console, even to celebrate. Like the writers he has gathered, his subject is as much living as aging. And in the vitality and splendor of these contributors, we discover that the very act of making great art out of growing older is. | ||
| 520 | |a Itself a bracing victory against time. Booth shows us that the best advisers on aging are not the gerontologists and other "experts" but our poets and writers, those quiet students of feeling who tell us that to grow old well is itself an art. His commentary weaves together poems and meditations from many cultures and periods: ancient Greeks and Chinese and Persians join company with Shakespeare and Yeats and Auden and Updike. Striking illustrations make a fine visual. | ||
| 520 | |a Counterpoint, ranging from portraits by Rembrandt and Renoir to photographs of older people still going strong at work and at play. This extraordinary diversity of voices is a book to be savored and enjoyed for years to come. A perfect gift to oneself or to others, it provides ideal companionship and renewal for the journey from summer, through autumn, and on to winter. | ||
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