Mark Scroggins was born on a military base in Frankfurt am Main, and grew up in various places before ultimately settling in Tennessee. He was educated at Virginia Tech and Cornell University, and taught for many years at Florida Atlantic University. He now lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and Manhattan. He has published four books of poetry, and his The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) was widely reviewed. His essays and reviews have been collected in Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries (University of Alabama Press, 2015) and The Mathematic Sublime: Writing About Poetry (MadHat, 2016).
Introduction
From Poems and Ballads, First Series: The triumph of time
A leave-taking
Itylus
A match
In memory of Walter Savage Landor
The garden of Prosperine
Dedication, 1865
From Poems and Ballads, Second Series: A forsaken garden
Ave atque vale
Song
From Poems and Ballads, Third Series: To Armada
To a seamew
In a garden
The winds
The bride's tragedy
A Jacobite's exile
From Songs of the Springtides: Thalassius
From Songs before Sunrise: Prelude
A watch in the night
To Walt Whitman in America
Mater triumphalis
Cor cordium
Perinde ac cadaver
The oblation
From Tristram of Lyonesse: Storm in 'The sailing of the swallow
From Atalanta in Calydon: Argument
First chorus
Althaea
Second chorus
Althaea to Meleager
Meleager to Althaea
Althaea and Meleager
Herald
Last chorus
From Studies in Song: By the North Sea
From A Century of Roundels and Other Poems: Adieux à Marie Stuart
A child's laughter
Nephelidia
From A Midsummer Holiday: On a country road
From Astrophel and Other Poems: A swimmer's dream
Eton: an ode
Jacobite song
A channel passage
Prose passages: Review of L'homme qui rit
Byron
Notes.
