394 INDEX
Swenson, May (continued )
“The Wave and the Dune,” 246;
“The Willets,” 245
“The Swerve” (Stafford), 255
Switzerland, 67, 142, 160. See also Alps
“Tall Nettles” (Thomas), 130–31
The Tempest (Shakespeare), 78, 182
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 45, 80
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 89
“The Testing-Tree” (Kunitz), 205–6
Thames River (England), 99, 143, 157
“Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” (Hokusai),
273
Thomas, Dylan, 6, 89
Thomas, Edward, 57, 130–35, 271, 336, 340,
364; “Birds’ Nests,” 130; and Frost, 123,
131–35; “Haymaking,” 132–33; “Iris by
Night,” 131; “The Owl,” 134; “Rain,” 134;
“Tall Nettles,” 130–31; The Woodland Life,
131
Thomas, Helen, 133–35
Thomas Aquinas, 224
Thomson, James, 57
Thoreau, Henry David, 8, 76, 185, 301, 360;
and American idiom, 129; and other poets,
104–5, 116, 119, 131, 132, 158, 172, 183,
284, 349, 351; on poet ’s task, 21, 66–67; on
wilderness, 6, 20, 80; on Wordsworth, 7
“The Thought-Fox” (Hughes), 218, 327–28,
351
Tiepolo’s Hound (Walcott), 338–43
“Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth). See “Lines
Composed a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey” (Wordsworth)
“To a Poor Old Woman” (Williams), 155
“To a Skylark” (Shelley), 67, 218
“To a Snail” (Moore), 176
“To Autumn” (Keats), 13, 50, 52–55, 81, 98,
118, 121, 133, 138, 203, 214, 298, 342
“To a Waterfowl” (Bryant), 115
Tolstoy, Leo, 290
“To make a prairie” (Dickinson), 81, 292
Tor House (Jeffers’s California home), 172–
74
“To the Thawing Wind” (Frost), 117
“Touch lightly Nature ’s sweet Guitar”
(Dickinson), 78
“To Waken an Old Lady” (Williams), 142,
144–46, 150, 157
“Toward an Organic Philosophy” (Rexroth),
213
Translations, of Bible, 23; of Israeli poets,
276; by Merwin, 302, 304, 307; of and by
Neruda, 196, 199; poetry as what ’s lost in,
124; by Pound, 32, 213, 330; by Rexroth,
196, 211, 215; by Snyder, 349–50; of and by
Williams, 148, 150, 201
“Travel” (Stevenson), 105
“Traveling through the Dark” (Stafford),
255
Trees, 6, 11; in Bishop, 229–30, 235–36; Cole-
ridge, 81; Frost, 120; Hall, 320, 323; Hop-
kins, 99, 208, 269, 271; Jeffers, 174, 175;
Una Jeffers, 171; Johnson, 356; Kaufman,
279–81; Kenyon, 318; Kunitz, 204–6, 208;
Levertov, 268, 269, 273; Merwin, 306,
307, 336–37; Millay, 191, 193; Rexroth, 213;
Roethke, 220; Snyder, 344, 348, 350, 353;
Stevens, 137, 139–40; Swenson, 245, 248;
Walcott, 336–38, 341, 343; Williams, 142,
147–48, 152–55
Tu Fu (Chinese poet), 211–15
Turtle Island (Snyder), 351–53
“Twilight: After Haying” (Kenyon), 325
“The Tyger” (Blake), 34, 168, 218Uehara, Masa, 351
“Unconscious Came a Beauty” (Swenson),
242–44
“Under Ben Bulben” (Yeats), 111–12
Union Pacific Railroad, 337
United States, and Chile, 197, 201; environ-
mental disregard, xiv, 8–13; founding spir-
its, 151–52; idiom, 4–5, 24, 68–69, 71, 129,
141–49, 223; imperialism, 338; Lawrence ’s
views of, 166–67; literary tradition, 64, 66–
67, 73, 76, 151–52; Native American name
for, 351–52; Walcott ’s distance from, 336,- See also Specific places in, poets from,
and wars fought by
“Usufruct” (defined), 10
“Utterance” (Merwin), 306
Van Gogh, Vincent, 155, 278, 339
“Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond”
(Kinnell), 315
Vermont, 123, 315
Veronese, Paolo, 339, 340, 342
Vietnam War, and Berry, 357; Haines, 287,
315; Kinnell, 287, 310, 315–17; Kunitz, 205;
Levertov, 271–72, 287, 315; Lowell, 259;
Merwin, 307–8, 315; Stafford, 257, 315
Villon, François, 186