396 INDEX
Williams, William Carlos (continued )
141–49; “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” 160–
61;Autobiography, 158; “Blueflags,” 144;
“Daisy,” 144; “The Defective Record,”
159; as environmentalist, xiv, 14–15, 159;
on getting the news from poems, 7, 15, 161,
188, 279; “Great Mullen,” 144; on imitating
rather than copying reality, 145, 155; as
influence, 180, 183, 272–73, 284, 336, 341,
350–52, 357; “Iris,” 155, 157; on “no ideas
but in things,” 150, 212, 224; and other
poets, 73, 129, 139, 143–44, 146–49, 217,
280–81, 294; Paterson, 157–59; “The Pot of
Flowers,” 151; “Primrose,” 144; “Queen-
Ann’s Lace,” 144; “The Red Wheelbar-
row,” 2–3, 149–50, 152, 223–24, 341; “The
Source,” 153; Spring and All, 146–47, 149–
51, 158, 159; “Spring and All,” 7, 142, 147–
48, 150, 153, 217, 223, 272, 280–81; “To a
Poor Old Woman,” 155; “To Waken an
Old Lady,” 142, 144–46, 150, 157; “The
Wanderer,” 143; “Young Sycamore,” 153–
55, 272, 356
Wind, in Ammons, 294–300; Frost, 117;
Hardy, 8, 92–93; Merwin, 302, 306; Ne-
ruda, 201, 342; Roethke, 218–19; Shelley,
31, 52; Snyder, 349; Walcott, 336, 337;
Western, 28–33
“The Windhover” (Hopkins), 98, 303, 327
Winter Garden (Neruda), 201
Winter News (Haines), 284
Winters, Yvor, 157
Wiracocha (Incan god), 201
“The Wish” (Hall), 325
Without(Hall), 318, 324
“Witness” (Stafford), 252
Wolves. See Animals
The Woodlanders (Hardy), 89
The Woodland Life (Thomas), 131
“The Wood-Pile” (Frost), 132
Woolf, Virginia, 33, 37, 155, 360
“Words for the Wind” (Roethke), 218–19
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 34–38, 40–41, 171,
284, 361
Wordsworth, William, 34–38, 341, 361;and
Coleridge, 36, 39–40, 44; “Daffodils,” 35–
36, 66; and Keats, 47, 52; language of, 120;
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tin-
tern Abbey,” 35, 62, 234; as nature poet, 4,
15, 100; “Ode. Intimations of Immortality,”
35; and other poets, 208, 234, 235, 285;
Simplon Pass (The Prelude), 37–38, 43, 45,
49, 199; Thoreau on, 7, 67
World War I, 130–35, 175, 213, 271
World War II, atomic bombs in, 160, 197, 269,
271, 354; conscientious objectors in, 212,
251, 260; and Frost, 128–29; Haines, 284;
Jeffers, 175; Levertov, 271; Millay, 192
Wounded Knee Creek Massacre, 9, 10, 288Yeats, W. B., 6, 88, 104–12, 134, 172, 218, 261,
356, 361;and Blake, 34, 107; “Down by the
Salley Gardens,” 106; “Easter 1916,” 45,
107, 109; Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, 106;
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” 104–7; “Lapis
Lazuli,” 109–11, 183, 289, 348; and other
poets, 175, 203, 219, 220, 285, 310, 336, 351;
“Sailing to Byzantium,” 109; “The Second
Coming,” 108, 175, 218; “The Stare ’s Nest
by My Window,” 81, 108–9, 264; “Under
Ben Bulben,” 111–12; “Who Goes with
Fergus?,” 106; “The Wild Swans at Coole,”
107, 203, 261
Yellowstone National Park, 12
Yokuts people, xiv, 172, 221, 289, 343, 357
“Yom Kippur 1984” (Rich), 172–73
Yosemite National Park, 9, 12, 14, 67, 347
“Young Sycamore” (Williams), 153–55, 272,
356Zen Buddhism, 344, 346, 348–51