The Art of Angling. Poems About Fishing

Foreword
GONE FISHING
THOMAS TOD STODDART The Angler's Invitation
CHARLES KINGSLEY From The Invitation
MORGAN HOPTON In Praise of Angling
SIR HENRY WOTTON On a Bank as I Sat a-Fishing
WILLIAM BASSE The Angler's Song
WILLIAM BROWNE Worm-Fishing
THOMAS D'URFEY The Fisherman's Song
ISAAC MCLELLAN The Angler's Chant
ZHU DUNRU Angler's Song
KWON HOMUN Two Poems on Fishing
YUN SONDO From The Fisherman's Song of Four
Seasons
NGUYEN KHUYEN Fishing in Autumn
SERGEI TIMOFEEVICH AKSAKOV To Grisha
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Song of Wandering
Aengus
TED HUGHES Stealing Trout on a May Morning
RICHARD HUGO Plunking the Skagit
AUSTIN HUMMEL Before Snook Fishing
LINDA HOGAN Fishing
ANGLERS
OUYANG XIU The Angler
THOMAS BARKER Salmon
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Lines Omitted from
"The Milldam's Daughter"
THOMAS TOD STODDART A Loch Scene
ISAAC MCLELLAN From The Boy Angler
ROBERT SERVICE Fisherfolk
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Fisherman
NORMAN MACLEAN From A River Runs Through It
MENNA ELFYN Fisherman
RON RASH A Bass Fisherman Adjusts His Vision to a
Darker View of the World
TED KOOSER Bank Fishing for Bluegills
JIM HARRISON Early Fishing
FEDERICO GARCI'A LORCA Fishermen
SANDRA ALCOSSER A Fish to Feed All Hunger
THE SPOT
WANG WEI Green Creek
CUI HAO Song of Chang'an
LIU ZONGYUAN Snow River
YI HYONBO The Wind Stirs the Blue Lotus Blossoms
IZAAK WALTON The Angler's Wish
SIR WALTER SCOTT On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun
THOMAS TOD STODDART The Linns of Glen-Devon
ISAAC MCLELLAN Reminiscences
ISAAC MCLELLAN The Pompano of Florida
AUDRE LORDE Fishing the White Water
MARTIAL We Advise You, Fishermen, Stay Away
from Domitian's Fish
JOHN ENGELS Dead Pool
DAVE MOTES Plunge Pool Brookie
SEAN HILL Bemidji in Spring
THE FISH
MATSUO BASHO What Fish Feel
BAI JUYI Watching the Fish Swim
LLAWDDEN The Salmon
ISAAC MCLELLAN Sea-Bass
RUPERT BROOKE Heaven
ELIZABETH BISHOP The Fish
TED HUGHES Pike
THEODORE ROETHKE The Pike
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Your Catfish Friend
NORMAN MACLEAN From A River Runs
Through It
RICHARD HUGO Upper Voight's, to All the Cutthroat
There
DEREK WALCOTT Tarpon
CECILY PARKS A Blessing for Stocked Fish
THE ANGLE
OLD ENGLISH RHYME When the Wind Is in the South
CHO CHONSONG Rain Has Stopped by the East Creek
MATSUO BASHO Angling for Blowfish
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From Much Ado About
Nothing
JOHN DONNE The Bait
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT From Britannia Triumphans
THOMAS BARKER Anglers Deceit
THOMAS BARKER So I Conclude for the Flye
SAMUEL BUTLER From Hudibras
JOHN DENNYS Baites for the Dace
JOHN BUNYAN From The Pilgrim's Progress
JOHN GAY From Rural Sports: A Georgic
JAMES THOMSON From The Seasons: Spring
THOMAS DOUBLEDAY Angling
ISAAC MCLELLAN Blackfish
PETER SEARS Night Fishing
BRYAN BECK A History of the Fish
CECILY PARKS Self-Portrait as Angler's Damselfly
THE CATCH
CHO HON I Sit Carefree in My Drifting Boat
THOMAS TOD STODDART The Taking of the Salmon
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From Antony and Cleopatra
EDMUND WALLER Ladies Angling
ROSEANN LLOYD Song of the Fisherman's Lover
RAYMOND CARVER After Rainy Days
JAMES DICKEY The Shark's Parlor
DERICK BURLESON Rising Against Your Will
DONALD PLATT Tom Tate and His Fish
ED SKOOG Trotline
IZAAK WALTON From The Compleat Angler
THE DISH
YUN SONDO From The Fisherman's Song of Four
Seasons
IZAAK WALTON From The Compleat Angler
THOMAS BARKER Restorative Broth of Trouts
WILLIAM COWPER To the Immortal Memory of
the Halibut on Which I Dined This Day
ISAAC MCLELLAN The Brook-Trout's Comments upon
Delmonico's Dream
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN From The Hunchback Trout
JAMES WRIGHT Northern Pike
R.T. SMITH Roosevelt Considers Catfish Stew
KEVIN YOUNG Ode to Catfish
MARY OLIVER The Fish
JOHN HERSEY From Blues
DERICK BURLESON Our Net Brought Her Close
LI-YOUNG LEE Eating Together
PAULANN PETERSEN Caught on Tape
LOSS AND LONGING
HOMER From The Odyssey
YOSA BUSON A Fishing Line
YU XUANJI Hearing Li Had Gone Fishing, I Sent Him This
Poem
IZAAK WALTON From The Compleat Angler
SERGEI TIMOFEEVICH AKSAKOV 31 October 1856
THOMAS TOD STODDART The Angler's Grave
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. From The Stolen Child
ROBERT LOWELL The Drunken Fisherman
JOHN ENGELS The Disconnections
DAVID MOTES Breaking
WILLIAM STAFFORD The Fish Counter at Bonneville
RAYMOND CARVER The Fishing Pole of the Drowned
Man
RAYMOND CARVER Cutlery
S TANLEY KUNITZ Quinnapoxet
DAVID HARGREAVES Lures
SU SHI Plum Wine and Fish Do Not Return
REFLECTIONS
THEOCRITUS From Idylls
DU FU A Short Poem Written When a Rising River
Looked Like a Rolling Ocean
BAI JUYI Fishing in the Wei River
HIM KWANG'UK Two Poems on Fishing
MINAMOTO NO SANETOMO If Only Our World
SONG CHONG'WON Sitting in a Leaf of a Boat
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Death Is a Fisherman
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Fisherman
THOMAS TOD STODDART The Fairy Angler
SAM WALTER FOSS The Bloodless Sportsman
ADRIAN HENRI Angler
RICHARD HUGO Langaig
RICHARD WILBUR Trolling for Blues
JAMES MERRILL The Pier: Under Pisces
RAYMOND CARVER The River
ROBERT HASS On the Coast Near Sausalito
MARGARET ATWOOD Fishing for Eel Totems
KEVIN YOUNG Casting
WILLARD GREENWOOD Gravedigger
ROBERT HAIGHT Issa Casts a Dry Fly at the Moon
THOMAS TOD STODDART Song
Index of Authors
Acknowledgments and Sources