Hollow palaces : an anthology of modern country house poems / edited and introduced by Kevin Gardner and John Greening ; illustrated by Rosie Greening.
Machine generated contents note: To a Cedar Tree / Insiders -- Castle Howard / Agatha Christie. Romance of a Youngest Daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Still-Life / Elizabeth Daryush -- Sissinghurst / Vita Sackville-West -- The Manor House / Clive Wilmer -- Owlpen Manor / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Dorothy Osborne in the Country / Peter Porter -- Peter Wentworth in Heaven / Fleur Adcock -- Twilight / Stuart Henson -- Daisy at the Court / Robert Minhinnick -- Plas Difancoll / R. S. Thomas -- The Ballroom at Blaxter Hall / Peter Bennet -- Sir Frederick / Charles Causley -- The Grange / Stevie Smith -- From Sir Osbert's Complaint / Gregory Woods -- A Household / W. H. Auden -- A Vacant Possession / James Fenton -- Milgate / Robert Lowell -- Coole Park, 1929 / W. B. Yeats -- Song to Mark a Boundary / Anne Ridler -- The Topiarist / Freda Downie -- Mistress / Esther Morgan -- Service / Philip Gross -- Baize Doors / Craig Raine -- Song of a Past Scullery-Maid / Sheila Wingfield -- Servant Boy / Seamus Heaney -- Ghosts & Echoes -- Haunted House / U. A. Fanthorpe -- The Pier-Glass / Robert Graves -- While Reading a Ghost Story / Siegfried Sassoon -- A Haunted House / Jane Griffiths -- In the Castle / Jean Sprackland -- The Ruined Garden / Neil Powell -- Walmer Castle / P. J. Kavanagh -- In Blenheim Park / Kieron Winn -- Shrine for a Young Soldier, Castle Drogo / Rory Waterman -- Soap Suds / Louis Macneice -- Blown Hilcote Manor / John Masefield -- That House / Brian Jones -- Acton Burnell / Rennie Parker -- The House that Was / Laurence Binyon -- Prospect of Ditchley / Roland Mathias -- Tapestries / C. Day Lewis -- House-keeping / Esther Morgan -- Houghton House / Robert Conquest -- Blue Bedfordshire / Glen Cavaliero -- At Mapledurham / Edmund Blunden -- Canons Ashhy / David Wright -- Penshurst Place / Derek Mahon -- Wilton Park / Alison Brackenbury -- Alfoxton / J. C. Hall -- Elm End / Jon Stallworthy -- A Country Mansion / Robert Graves -- Colonel Fantock / Edith Sitwell -- From Bolsover Castle / Sacheverell Sitwell -- In Heytesbury Wood / Siegfried Sassoon -- These Homes / Mimi Khalvati -- From Burnt Norton / T. S. Eliot -- Rites & Conversions -- Tresham's Fancy / Rennie Parker -- Lyveden New Bield / Jane Griffiths -- At Colwick Park / George Szirtes -- A Banquet at Middleton / Gillian Clarke -- The Young Duchess Walks with Mr Brown To Discuss Improvements / Sarah Salway -- County / John Betjeman -- Great Edwardian / Tony Williams -- Metamorphoses / Hilary Davies -- Care-taking / Esther Morgan -- Ripley Eels / Kit Fan -- Wycoller Hall / Ted Hughes -- The Changeling / Henry Reed -- A Property of the National Trust / Debora Greger -- Great Good House / Michael Vince -- Corpus Christi / Elizabeth Bartlett -- Family Seat / Richard Murphy -- Revesby / Anne Berkeley -- Flensby Hall Day Spa / Rory Waterman -- At a Country-House Hotel / John Fowles -- Ridge-Foot House / Herbert Lomas -- The Space / Roger Garfitt -- Name-Tag / Jamie Mckendrick -- A Huntingdonshire Nocturne / John Greening -- The Children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy -- October in Clowes Park / Tony Connor -- Newstead Abbey / Roy Fuller -- Rest on the Hunt / George Szirtes -- Fixtures & Fittings -- The National Trust / Laurence Lerner -- Parson's Castle, Birr, Ireland / Bernardine Evaristo -- Swarthmoor Hall, Cumbria / Penelope Shuttle -- Enypnion / Peter Redgrove -- 53° 09'33.17" N, 0° 25'33.18" W / Rory Waterman -- Late Elizabethan / Roger Caldwell -- Cleaning the Candelabrum / Siegfried Sassoon -- The Old Bell-board / Peter Scupham -- The King's Bed / Penny Boxall -- Tapestry / William Virgil Davis -- The Gunroom / Penelope Shuttle -- Aspects of a Novel / Grey Gowrie -- A Valentine for John and Margaret / Kathleen Raine -- Knole / Roy Fuller -- Artemis Before a Prospect of Blaxter Hall / Peter Bennet -- Real Estate / Michael Hamburger -- Plumbing / Gillian Clarke -- A Charm for Blagdon / Laurence Whistler -- Greenhouses / John Gurney -- Clough The Washstand / Elisabeth Sennitt -- Mr Gradgrind's Country / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Eighteenth-Century Blocks / Harry Guest -- The Laird's Lug / Penny Boxall -- Guidelines / Lawrence Sail -- Stately Home / Tony Harrison -- Water-Gardens / Sean O'Brien -- Fore-edge Painting / Peter Scupham -- The Property of the Executors / Anthony Thwaite -- Loyalties & Divisions -- Gardeners / Douglas Dunn -- Craxton / Dom Moraes -- The Cedars at Highclere / John Greening -- Conservatism Revisited / Michael Hamburger -- Bone China / Esther Morgan -- Emma / Bernardine Evaristo -- Mappa Mundi / Peter Didsbury -- Stately Home / Geoffrey Grigson -- Unexpected Visit / Fleur Adcock -- Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House in Wiltshire, October 1953 / George Barker -- Two Versions of Pastoral / Alan Jenkins -- Landscape / C. Day Lewis -- At a Warwickshire Mansion / Roy Fuller -- Landscape Poem / Glyn Hughes -- The Doll's House / Patience Agbabi -- The Two of Us / Simon Armitage -- Lord and Lady Romfort / Osbert Sitwell -- The Jacobean Mansion / Hilary Davies -- At Great Tew / Brian Jones -- In Darley Abbey Park / Paul Wilkins -- Coole and Ballylee, 1931 / W. B. Yeats -- Swans / John Mcauliffe -- Woodtown Manor / John Montague -- A Visit to Castletown House / Michael Hartnett -- The Owner Instructs the Master Mason / Juliet Aykroyd -- A Man / Thomas Hardy -- Elizabeth Sweyn, Widow, at Her Writing Desk in the Hall / George Mackay Brown -- Ruins of a Great House / Derek Walcott -- The Landscape Gardeners / Geoffrey Grigson -- Arrivals & Departures -- Death of King George V / John Betjeman -- The Extreme Verge of the World / Ruth Padel Downe -- Fall Weekend at Milgate (3) / Robert Lowell -- The Mansion / Robert Minhinnick -- A Stately Exterior / Siegfried Sassoon -- An East Wind / Freda Downie -- Effacements / Peter Scupham -- The Woods / Derek Mahon -- In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz / W. B. Yeats -- Lissadell / Wendy Cope -- Final Movement / Cahal Dallat -- Order to View / Louis Macneice -- Manor House / Ruth Bidgood -- The Conjuror's Trick / Sarah Salway -- The Lakes at Blenheim / Peter Levi -- Somewhere / George Macbeth -- The Laurel Axe / Geoffrey Hill -- Letter of Notice to the Country House / Corinna McClanahan Schroeder -- A Kind of Jericho / Robert Minhinnick -- Warner The Old Squire / Sylvia Townsend -- The Chaos / Philip Gross -- The Library / Tamar Yoseloff -- The Break-up of a Library in an Anglo-Irish House in Wexford: 1964 / Eavan Boland -- The Old Workman / Thomas Hardy -- After Mr Mayhew's Visit / Ken Smith -- A Sad Story / Gillian Clarke -- Orielton Empty / Roland Mathias -- Interior at Petworth: From Turner / Rosanna Warren -- View / Sheila Wingfield -- St Botolph's / Robert Selby -- The Ornamental Water / Edmund Blunden -- Dreams & Secrets -- The Belvedere / John Gurney -- The Duke's Pagoda / John Fuller -- Youth Revisited / Roy Fuller -- Night-Scented Stock / Katherine Mansfield -- Oxnead Hall, Norfolk / Pauline Stainer -- The Dwelling-Place / Walter De La Mare -- Erddig / John Greening -- Osterley Park: Summertide Trees / Penelope Shuttle -- Tapestry Moths / Peter Redgrove -- Greenhallows / James Reeves -- The English Sweats / James Brookes -- Meteor / John Clegg -- Three Riddles / Sarah Salway -- Architectural Masks / Thomas Hardy -- Up at the House / Jane Draycott -- Send for Lord Timothy / John Heath-Stubbs -- The Body in the Library / Jane Yeh -- The Owl Writes a Detective Story / Gavin Ewart -- The Uninvited / Glyn Maxwell -- Greenway House / John Greening -- The Hidden / Vicki Raymond -- The Blickling Hall Poem / Robert Sheppard -- Furlongs / Katharine Towers -- From Shugborough Eclogues / Grevel Lindop -- Lines on a Tudor Mansion / Alun Lewis -- Felbrigg / Michael Riviere -- Ha-Ha / Glen Cavaliero -- Saltatorium / Lisa Kelly -- The Manor / Simon Armitage -- Ancestral Houses / W. B. Yeats -- England / Toby Martinez De Las Rivas -- Outsiders -- Avington: The Avenue at Dawn / Jeremy Hooker -- Knebworth Park / Katherine Gallagher -- The Landowner / Alex Wong -- Open Gardens Scheme / Jane Draycott -- Open Day at Stancombe Park / David Ashbee -- Open to the Public / Freda Downie -- In the Grounds / Douglas Dunn -- Our Weird Regiment / Martyn Crucefix -- Haydn, in a Neo-Gothic Mansion of the National Trust / Geoffrey Grigson -- Britannia / Anne Berkeley -- Staying with Friends / Lachlan Mackinnon -- After the Revolution / Emily Grosholz -- End House / G. S. Fraser Brockham -- Stourhead / Patricia Beer -- At Burghley House / Lotte Kramer -- The Inherited Estate / Thom Gunn -- Domesday Book / Robert Lowell -- Higham Hall / William Scammell -- Inheritance / Charles Tomlinson -- In the Formal Garden / Philip Gross -- Ickworth / Rebecca Watts -- Knole / Neil Powell -- J.P. / Robert Minhinnick -- Moonlight / Anne Berkeley -- Breaking / Andrew Motion -- The Manor Garden / Sylvia Plath -- The Plain Sense of Things / Wallace Stevens -- Asleep in the Orangery / Stuart Henson -- To a Stately Home / David Clarke -- To a Cedar Tree / Agatha Christie.
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