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By: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) | |
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![]() Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. |
By: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) | |
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By: Robert Graves (1895-1985) | |
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By: Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
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![]() This is a volume of later Poetry by the famous American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. | |
![]() This is a volume of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This volume contains, among other poems, the famous poems The Valley of the Shadow and Lazarus. |
By: George Herbert (1593-1633) | |
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![]() George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems characterized by a precision of language, a metrical versatility, and an ingenious use of imagery or conceits that was favored by the metaphysical school of poets. He is best remembered as a writer of poems and hymns such as “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life” and “The King of Love My Shepherd Is.” | |
![]() George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever written. This is reading of a selection of these poems. |
By: Robert Burns (1759-1796) | |
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By: Alexander Pope | |
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![]() An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope’s various literary opinions. A reading of the poem makes it clear that he is addressing not so much the ingenuous reader as the intending writer. It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. |
By: James Boswell (1740-1795) | |
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By: Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
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![]() This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of color these poems remind one of Flemish masters and Dutch tulip gardens; again, they are fine and fantastic, like Venetian glass; and they are all curiously flooded with the moonlight of dreams. . . . Miss Lowell has a remarkable gift of what one might call the dramatic-decorative. Her decorative imagery is intensely dramatic, and her dramatic pictures are in themselves vivid and fantastic decorations." (Richard Le Gallienne, 'New York Times Book Review', 1916) | |
![]() This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. |
By: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) | |
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By: William Morris (1834-1896) | |
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By: Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) | |
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![]() Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. | |
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By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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By: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) | |
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![]() Carl Sandburg’s collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919. |
By: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) | |
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By: Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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![]() Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. | |
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By: William McGonagall (1825-1902) | |
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![]() Good people all, of every degree,I pray, ye all be warned by me:I advise ye all to pause and think,And never more to taste strong drink. Some people do say it is good when taken in moderation,But, when taken to excess, it leads to tribulation,Also to starvation and loss of reputation,Likewise your eternal soul’s damnation. McGonagall has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history. He campaigned vigorously against excessive drinking, appearing in pubs and bars to give edifying poems and speeches... |
By: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) | |
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![]() This book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. |
By: Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) | |
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![]() Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.” |