The Poetry of Business Life: An Anthology

359 Pages·1994·0.86 MB·English

by  Ralph Windle

title: The Poetry of Business Life : An Anthology
author: Windle, Ralph.
publisher: Berrett Koehler
isbn10 | asin: 1881052591
print isbn13: 9781881052593
ebook isbn13: 9781583764909
language: English
subject Business--Poetry.
publication date: 1994
lcc: PN6110.B9P64 1994eb
ddc: 808.81/9355
subject: Business--Poetry.
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The Poetry of Business Life
An Anthology
Ralph Windle
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Copyright © 1994 by Ralph Windle
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The poetry of business life: an anthology / [compiled by] Ralph
Windle.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-881052-59-1
1. BusinessPoetry. I. Windle, Ralph.
PN6110.B9P64 1994
808.81'9355dc20 94-
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To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to't with delight.
Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It would frae mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion . . .
Robert Burns
To a Louse
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To
JUSTIN and CHRISTINA
for
the rolling back of years.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Canto I
Origins
from The Gulistan (Persian) 11
Sa'adi
from The Panchatantra (Sanskrit) 11
Anonymous
from The Nineteen Ancient Poems (Chinese) 12
Anonymous
from The Greek Anthology (Greek) 13
Agathias
from The Peace (Greek) 13
Aristophanes
from Sextus the UsurerThe Epigrams (Latin) 14
Martial
from Epistles: Book I (Latin) 15
Horace
from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales 16
Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Merchant of Venice (passim) 16
William Shakespeare
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from Imperium Pelagi, or The Merchant 17
Edward Young
Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition 18
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Letter to Matthew Boulton 19
James Watt
from Science Revealed 20
George Everleigh
Canto II
Money
Money 23
Dana Gioia
Tourist Japan 23
Takenaka Iku
Bankers are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer 24
Ogden Nash
Where does the Money Go 25
Carolyn Hull
Declining the Loan 27
Carolyn Hull
Variation on a Theme by Newbolt 29
John Betjeman
Isaac Meek: An Epitaph 29
John Masefield
The Mortgage 30
Will M. Carleton
from Lucile 31
Earl of Lytton
from Playboy: Canto III 31
William Oxley
Really England's 32
William Oxley
Underground Press (1956 Edition) 33
Charles Blackburn Owen
City Leak 34
Charles Blackburn Owen
Golden Mean 34
Charles Blackburn Owen
The Bankers 34
Bertie Ramsbottom
A Country Vicar at the Shrine of Mammon 36
Sir Nicholas Goodison
Bankrupt 37
Patrick Taylor
Canto III
Markets
A California Ad Man Celebrates His Art 43
David Alpaugh
Dobrodeyev 45
Jim Lindop