The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker,9780141180229

The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

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ISBN13: 9780141180229
ISBN10: 0141180226
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Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

The master of the short story, dramatist, screenwriter, and sharp-tongued critic, provides poems that depict a world haunted by unrequited love, alcohol and men of overbearing will.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading xxix(4)
Chronology xxxiii(6)
A Note on the Text xxxix
ENOUGH ROPE (1926)
3(94)
Threnody
5(1)
The Small Hours
6(1)
The False Friends
7(1)
The Trifler
8(1)
A Very Short Song
9(1)
A Well-Worn Story
10(1)
Convalescent
11(1)
The Dark Girl's Rhyme
12(2)
Epitaph
14(1)
Light of Love
15(1)
Wail
16(1)
The Satin Dress
17(1)
Somebody's Song
18(1)
Anecdote
19(1)
Braggart
20(1)
Epitaph for a Darling Lady
21(1)
To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady
22(1)
Paths
23(1)
Hearthside
24(1)
The New Love
25(1)
Rainy Night
26(2)
For a Sad Lady
28(1)
Recurrence
29(1)
Story of Mrs. W----
30(1)
The Dramatists
31(1)
August
32(1)
The White Lady
33(1)
I Know I Have Been Happiest
34(1)
Testament
35(1)
"I Shall Come Back"
36(1)
Condolence
37(1)
The Immortals
38(1)
A Portrait
39(1)
Portrait of the Artist
40(1)
Chant for Dark Hours
41(1)
Unfortunate Coincidence
42(1)
Verse Reporting Late Arrival at a Conclusion
43(1)
Inventory
44(1)
Now at Liberty
45(1)
Comment
46(1)
Plea
47(1)
Pattern
48(1)
De Profundis
48(1)
They Part
49(1)
Ballade of a Great Weariness
50(2)
Resume
52(1)
Renunciation
53(1)
Day-Dreams
54(2)
The Veteran
56(1)
Prophetic Soul
56(1)
Verse for a Certain Dog
57(1)
Folk Tune
58(1)
Godspeed
58(1)
Song of Perfect Propriety
59(2)
Social Note
61(1)
One Perfect Rose
62(1)
Ballade at Thirty-Five
63(2)
The Thin Edge
65(1)
Spring Song
66(1)
Love Song
67(1)
Indian Summer
68(1)
Philosophy
68(1)
For an Unknown Lady
69(1)
The Leal
70(1)
Finis
71(1)
Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror
72(1)
Men
73(1)
News Item
73(1)
Song of One of the Girls
74(1)
Lullaby
75(1)
Faut de Mieux
76(1)
Roundel
76(1)
A Certain Lady
77(1)
Observation
78(1)
Symptom Recital
79(1)
Rondeau Redouble
80(2)
Autobiography
82(1)
The Choice
82(1)
Ballade of Big Plans
83(2)
General Review of the Sex Situation
85(1)
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
86(1)
Pictures in the Smoke
87(1)
Biographies
88(3)
Nocturne
91(1)
Interview
92(1)
Song in a Minor Key
93(1)
Experience
94(1)
Neither Bloody nor Bowed
94(1)
The Burned Child
95(1)
Fighting Words
96(1)
SUNSET GUN (1928)
97(60)
Godmother
99(1)
Partial Comfort
100(1)
The Red Dress
101(1)
Victoria
102(1)
The Counsellor
103(1)
Parable for a Certain Virgin
104(2)
Bric-a-Brac
106(1)
Interior
107(1)
Reuben's Children
108(1)
For R. C. B.
108(1)
There Was One
109(2)
On Cheating the Fiddler
111(1)
Incurable
112(1)
Fable
113(1)
The Second Oldest Story
114(1)
A Pig's-Eye View of Literature
115(3)
The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
115(1)
Oscar Wilde
115(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
115(1)
D. G. Rossetti
116(1)
Thomas Carlyle
116(1)
Charles Dickens
116(1)
Alexandre Dumas and His Son
116(1)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
117(1)
George Gissing
117(1)
Walter Savage Landor
117(1)
George Sand
117(1)
Mortal Enemy
118(1)
Penelope
119(1)
Bohemia
120(1)
The Searched Soul
121(1)
The Trusting Heart
122(1)
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning
122(1)
The Gentlest Lady
123(1)
The Maid-Servant at the Inn
124(1)
Fulfilment
125(1)
Daylight Saving
125(1)
Surprise
126(1)
Swan Song
127(1)
On Being a Woman
128(1)
Afternoon
129(1)
A Dream Lies Dead
130(1)
The Homebody
131(1)
Second Love
132(1)
Fair Weather
133(1)
The Whistling Girl
134(1)
Story
135(1)
Frustration
136(1)
Healed
136(1)
Landscape
137(1)
Post-Graduate
138(1)
Verses in the Night
139(3)
Honeymoon
139(1)
Triolet
139(1)
Melange for the Unknown George
140(2)
Liebestod
142(2)
For a Favorite Grand-Daughter
144(1)
Dilemma
145(1)
Theory
146(1)
A Fairly Sad Tale
147(1)
The Last Question
148(1)
Superfluous Advice
148(1)
Directions for Finding the Bard
149(2)
But Not Forgotten
151(1)
Two-Volume Novel
151(1)
Pour Prendre Conge
152(1)
For a Lady Who Must Write Verse
153(1)
Rhyme Against Living
154(1)
Wisdom
155(1)
Coda
156(1)
DEATH AND TAXES (1931)
157(42)
Prayer for a Prayer
159(1)
After a Spanish Proverb
160(1)
The Flaw in Paganism
160(1)
The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse
161(1)
Distance
162(1)
The Evening Primrose
163(1)
Sanctuary
164(1)
Cherry White
164(1)
Salome's Dancing-Lesson
165(1)
My Own
166(1)
Solace
167(1)
Little Words
168(1)
Ornithology for Beginners
168(1)
Tombstones in the Starlight
169(2)
I. The Minor Poet
169(1)
II. The Pretty Lady
169(1)
III. The Very Rich Man
169(1)
IV. The Fisherwoman
169(1)
V. The Crusader
170(1)
VI. The Actress
170(1)
The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk
171(2)
Garden-Spot
173(1)
Vers Demode
174(1)
Sonnet for the End of a Sequence
175(1)
In the Meadow
176(1)
The Apple Tree
176(1)
Iseult of Brittany
177(1)
"Star Light, Star Bright--"
178(1)
The Sea
179(1)
Guinevere at Her Fireside
180(1)
Transition
181(1)
Lines on Reading Too Many Poets
182(1)
Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals
183(2)
From a Letter from Lesbia
185(1)
Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song
186(1)
Prayer for a New Mother
187(1)
Midnight
188(1)
Ninon de L'Enclos, on Her Last Birthday
189(1)
Ultimatum
190(1)
Of a Woman, Dead Young
191(1)
The Willow
192(1)
Ballade of a Talked-Off Ear
193(2)
Sonnet on an Alpine Night
195(1)
Requiescat
196(1)
Sweet Violets
196(1)
Prologue to a Saga
197(1)
Summary
197(2)
DEATH AND TAXES AND OTHER POEMS (1936)
199(8)
Sight
201(1)
The Lady's Reward
202(1)
Prisoner
203(1)
Temps Perdu
204(1)
Autumn Valentine
205(2)
THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER (1944)
207(4)
War Song
209(2)
POEMS UNCOLLECTED BY PARKER
211(182)
Any Porch
213(2)
The Bridge Fiend
215(1)
A Musical Comedy Thought
216(1)
Women: A Hate Song
217(3)
The Gunman and the Debutante
220(2)
The Lady in Back
222(2)
Men: A Hate Song
224(3)
Actresses: A Hate Song
227(3)
Relatives: A Hate Song
230(3)
Slackers: A Hate Song
233(3)
Bohemians: A Hate Song
236(3)
Oh, Look--I Can Do It, Too
239(3)
Bacchanale
239(1)
Sunday
239(1)
The Picture Gallery
240(1)
Fragment
240(2)
Our Office: A Hate Song
242(3)
Actors: A Hate Song
245(3)
Letter to Robert Benchley
248(3)
Our Own Home Talent
251(3)
Bores: A Hymn of Hate
254(3)
With Best Wishes
257(2)
Invictus
259(2)
Song of the Open Country
261(1)
The Passionate Freudian to His Love
262(2)
The Drama: A Hymn of Hate
264(3)
Parties: A Hymn of Hate
267(4)
Love Song
271(2)
Idyl
273(1)
Movies: A Hymn of Hate
274(3)
To My Dog
277(2)
Absence
279(1)
Lyric
280(1)
Song for the First of the Month
281(2)
Fulfilment
283(1)
Lynn Fontanne
284(1)
To Marjorie Rambeau
285(1)
Christmas, 1921
286(1)
Marilyn Miller
287(1)
Books: A Hymn of Hate
288(3)
Fragment
291(1)
Figures in Popular Literature
292(2)
The Sheik
292(1)
The Flapper
292(2)
Chantey
294(1)
Moral Tales for the Young [1]
295(1)
Life's Valentines
296(3)
Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles
296(1)
Mr. David Wark Griffith
296(1)
David Belasco
296(1)
Calvin Coolidge
297(1)
Dr. Frank Crane
297(1)
Avery Hopwood
297(1)
Florenz Ziegfeld
298(1)
John Wanamaker
298(1)
The Far-Sighted Muse
299(1)
Figures in Popular Literature
300(1)
The Drab Heroine
300(1)
Paging Saint Patrick
301(1)
Mood
302(1)
Triolets
303(1)
Figures in Popular Literature
304(1)
The Western Hero
304(1)
The Younger Set: A Hymn of Hate
305(3)
To Myrtilla, on Easter Day
308(2)
Figures in Popular Literature
310(2)
The Glad Girl
310(1)
The Boy Savant
310(2)
Moral Tales for the Young [2]
312(2)
Poem in the American Manner
314(1)
Thoughts
315(2)
Fantasy
317(1)
Men I'm Not Married To
318(2)
Woodland Song
320(1)
Rondeau [1]
321(1)
Figures in Popular Literature
322(1)
The Great Lover
322(1)
Rosemary [1]
323(1)
Song [1]
324(1)
Summer Resorts: A Hymn of Hate
325(3)
Grandfather Said It
328(1)
Monody
329(1)
Somewhat Delayed Spring Song
330(1)
Sonnet [1]
331(1)
To a Lady
332(1)
Memories
333(1)
Promise
334(1)
Rondeau [2]
335(1)
Song of the Conventions
336(1)
Song [2]
337(1)
Ballade of Understandable Ambitions
338(2)
"How Bold It Is"
340(1)
Song of a Contented Heart
341(1)
Song of the Wilderness
342(1)
Triolet [1]
343(1)
Wanderlust
344(2)
A Triolet
346(1)
Wives: A Hymn of Hate
347(4)
Paean
351(1)
Song [3]
352(1)
And Oblige
353(1)
Triolet [2]
354(1)
Ballade of a Not Insupportable Loss
355(2)
Husbands: A Hymn of Hate
357(4)
Song of a Hopeful Heart
361(1)
Song [4]
362(1)
Song for an April Dusk
363(1)
Rosemarty [2]
364(1)
Ballade of a Complete Flop
365(2)
Folk Song
367(1)
College Boys: A Hymn of Hate
368(4)
Balto
372(1)
Cassandra Drops into Verse
373(1)
Meeting-Place
374(1)
Song of Americans Resident in France
375(1)
Rhyme of an Involuntary Violet
376(2)
The Temptress
378(1)
To Elspeth
379(1)
When We Were Very Sore
380(1)
The Accursed
381(1)
Chris-Cross
381(1)
Grande Passion
382(1)
Excursion into Assonance
383(1)
--And Return
384(1)
Song of Social Life in Hollywood
385(1)
Sonnet [2]
386(1)
Letter to Ogden Nash
387(1)
After Dawn
388(1)
Song in the Worst Possible Taste
388(1)
Our Cousins
389(1)
The Passionate Screen Writer to His Love
390(1)
Threat to a Fickle Lady
391(2)
Index of Titles and First Lines 393

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