Chess Poems II

[Stephen Leary]

Lydgate, John. "Outwitted." From "Reson and Sensuallyte."
Lydgate, John. "The Playe Most Gloryous." From "Troy Book," II.
And there was founde by clerkes full prudent
Of the chess the playe most gloryous,
Which is so sotill and so mervaylous
That it were harde the matter to discryve,
For though a man studied all his lyve
He shall aye fynde dyverse fantasyes,
There is theirin so great diversytie....

Breton, Nicholas. "The Chess Playe."
[...]
And when you play beware of check,
Know how to save and give a neck:
And with a check, beware of mate;
But chief, ware had I wist too late:
Lose not the Queen, for ten to one,
If she be lost, the game is gone.

Jones, Sir William. "Caissa."

Pound, Ezra. "The Game of Chess."

Morrison, R.H. "Checkmate." In "The Poetry of Chess."

Carey, Jack. "Games." In "The Poetry of Chess."

Cumberlege, Marcus. "Lord Dunsany." In "Firelines."

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "False Fortune." In "The Book of the Duchess."

Fitzgerald, Edward. "The Chequer-Board." From "The Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam."
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where destiny with men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Yeats, William Butler. "Time and the Witch Vivien."

Berryman, John. "The Moon and the Night and the Men." In "Selected
Poems, 1938-1968."

Waterman, Andrew. "Playing Through Old Games of Chess." In "The
Poetry of Chess."

Fuller, John. "The Most Difficult Position." In "Lies and Secrets."
Long poem about Morphy and Staunton.

Bantock, Gavin. "Opponent." In "Dragons."

Caws, Ian. "Chess Master." In "Boy With a Kite."

Ibn Ezra, Abraham. "The Song of Chess." In "A Treasury of Jewish
Poetry."

Sinclair, Keith. "The Young Chess Players." In "Anthology of
Twentieth Century New Zealand Poetry."

Quite an impressive list of authors have pondered our fair game....

Stephen Leary

[THOMAS JAMES BRYCE]

dont forget ts eliot who wrote of "a game of chess" in "the wasteland"
which some consider the single most influential poem of our century

[Dan Potvin]

TJB>From: tjb...@unix.amherst.edu (THOMAS JAMES BRYCE)
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TJB>Subject: Chess Poems II
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TJB>Date: 3 Feb 93 02:39:28 GMT

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