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Robert Frost
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Walt Whitman
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Pablo Neruda
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Sylvia Plath
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Shel Silverstein
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Emily Dickinson
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Anne Sexton
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John Keats
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E. E. Cummings
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Rudyard Kipling
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William Shakespeare
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Robert W. Service
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Jack Prelutsky
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William Blake
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Roald Dahl
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Dylan Thomas
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Ted Kooser
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Mary Oliver
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Billy Collins
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Adrienne Rich
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Donald Hall
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Sharon Olds
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W. H. Auden
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Carl Sandburg
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Gary Soto
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Poems - 15 in all
W. B. Yeats ~New ~
Easter 1916
Adam's Curse
The Stolen Child
The Player Queen
When You are Old
Leda and the Swan
The Sorrow of Love
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
The Young Man's Song
Never give all the heart
The Heart of the Woman
The Song of Wandering
Aengus
An Irish Airman Foresees
His Death
Aedh wishes for the
Cloths of Heaven
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Robert Browning
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Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell (a suburb of London),
the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. His mother was a fervent
Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father
and forgone a fortune: the poet's grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West
Indies sugar plantation, but the young man had found the institution of slavery so
abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home, to become a clerk in
the Bank of England. On this very modest salary he was able to marry, raise a
family, and to acquire a library of 6000 volumes. He was an exceedingly well-read
man who could recreate the seige of Troy with the household chairs and tables for
the benefit of his inquisitive son.
Indeed, most of the poet's education came at home. He was an extremely bright
child and a voracious reader (he read through all fifty volumes of the Biographie
Universelle ) and learned Latin, Greek, French and Italian by the time he was
fourteen. He attended the University of London in 1828, the first year it opened,
but left in discontent to pursue his own reading at his own pace. This somewhat
idiosyncratic but extensive education has led to difficulties for his readers: he did
not always realize how obscure were his references and allusions.
In the 1830's he met the actor William Macready and tried several times to write
verse drama for the stage. At about the same time he began to discover that his
real talents lay in taking a single character and allowing him to discover himself to
us by revealing more of himself in his speeches than he suspects-the
characteristics of the dramatic monologue. The reviews of Paracelsus (1835) had
been mostly encouraging, but the difficulty and obscurity of his long poem Sordello
(1840) turned the critics against him, and for many years they continued to
complain of obscurity even in his shorter, more accessible lyrics.
In 1845 he saw Elizabeth Barrett's Poems and contrived to meet her. Although she
was an invalid and very much under the control of a domineering father, the two
married in September 1846 and a few days later eloped to Italy, where they lived
until her death in 1861. The years in Florence were among the happiest for both of
them. Her love for him was demonstrated in the Sonnets from the Portugese, and
to her he dedicated Men and Women, which contains his best poetry. Public
sympathy for him after her death (she was a much more popular poet during their
lifetimes) surely helped the critical reception of his Collected Poems (1862) and
Dramatis Personae (1863). The Ring and the Book (1868-9), based on an "old
yellow book" which told of a Roman murder and trial, finally won him considerable
popularity. He and Tennyson were now mentioned together as the foremost poets
of the age. Although he lived and wrote actively for another twenty years, the late
'60s were the peak of his career. His influence continued to grow, however, and
finally lead to the founding of the Browning Society in 1881. He died in 1889, on
the same day that his final volume of verse, Asolando, was published. He is buried
in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Poems - 7 in all
My Star
Pippa's Song
Life in a Love
Love in a Life
Meeting at Night
My Last Duchess
Parting at Morning
William Blake
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Gallery Par.
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Spoken for drawing became so obvious that he was
Word apprenticed to engraver James Basire at age 14.
He finished his apprenticeship at age 21, and set
out to make his living as an engraver.
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Blake married Catherine Boucher at age 25, and
she worked with him on most of his artistic
creations. Together they published a book of
Blake's poems and drawings called Songs of
Innocence.
Poems - 10 in all
London
THE LILY
The Tyger
Infant Joy
A Poison Tree
NURSE'S SONG
The Divine Image
THE ECHOING GREEN
The Chimney-Sweeper
From Milton: And did those feet
John Keats
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Writers Gallery 1795 (probably), first child of Thomas
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Spoken Word had apparently eloped. Everything was
pretty ordinary for all concerned for a
while--the Keatses had three more
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Edward who died as a baby) and one
daughter, Frances, by 1803. That was
also the year when John went away to
school at Enfield. In 1804, John's
father was killed in a fall from a horse.
Just over two months later, for
mysterious reasons, Frances
remarried, to a London bank clerk
named William Rawlings. Frances
quickly decided she'd made some sort
of terrible error and left, taking
nothing with her since the laws of the
time decreed that all her property and
even her children belonged to her
husband. Frances' mother, Alice, swept
in and took custody of the children, but
she could do nothing about the Swan
and Hoop, which Rawlings sold
immediately before disappearing. It
was around this time that John became
prone to fistfights, which he rarely lost
even though he was small for his age.
Poems - 10 in all
John Keats
Fancy
Asleep
To Sleep
To Homer
Imitation of Spenser
In drear-nighted December
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To One who has been Long in City
Pent
When I have Fears that I may
Cease to Be
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear
Once Again
Song
A Dream
A Valentine
Spirits Of The Dead
A Dream Within A Dream
Alone
Hymn
Dreams
Serenade
Fairy-Land
Sylvia Plath
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Gallery Sensitive, intelligent, compelled toward
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Live Spoken was, on the surface, a model daughter,
Word popular in school, earning straight A's,
winning the best prizes. By the time she
entered Smith College on a scholarship in
Picture 1950 she already had an impressive list of
publications, and while at Smith she wrote
over four hundred poems.
Poems - 15 in all
Sylvia Plath
Owl
Jilted
Rhyme
Kindness
Aftermath
Admonitions
Apprehensions
An Appearance
Among the Narcissi
A Better Resurrection
Sylvia Plath - 3
Edge
Balloons
Firesong
Bluebeard
Childless Woman
Robert Frost
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America's leading 20th-century
Picture poets and a four-time winner of
the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially
pastoral poet often associated
with rural New England, Frost
wrote poems whose philosophical
dimensions transcend any region.
Although his verse forms are
traditional--he often said, in a dig
at archrival Carl Sandburg, that
he would as soon play tennis
without a net as write free
verse--he was a pioneer in the
interplay of rhythm and meter
and in the poetic use of the
vocabulary and inflections of
everyday speech. His poetry is
thus both traditional and
experimental, regional and
universal.
Poems - 20 in all
Robert Frost
Stars
Riders
October
MOWING
Plowmen
Revelation
The Cocoon
A Late Walk
A Minor Bird
Into My Own
A Dream Pang
DUST OF SNOW
A Cliff Dwelling
A Line-Storm Song
My November Guest
Robert Frost - 3
Bereft
Hannibal
Devotion
The Thatch
Immigrants