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Poetry is currently separate from the rest of the literature curriculum because it is undeniably insular. Most poems are not about worldview or history or narrative or society. Poetry is about itself and perpetual things: God, life and death, sex, aging, the seasons. (Poems that do directly speak to history and society are included in the history curriculum.) |
Poetry is currently separate from the rest of the literature curriculum because it is undeniably insular. Most poems are not about worldview or history or narrative or society. Poetry is about itself and perpetual things: God, life and death, sex, aging, the seasons. (Poems that do directly speak to history and society are included in the history curriculum.) |
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Before we can get to poetry's fundamental role in reshaping not just human society but man's relationship to God and the cosmos, it's good to appreciate play with sound and symbol for their own sake. |
Before we can get to poetry's fundamental role in reshaping not just human society but man's relationship to God and the cosmos, it's good to appreciate play with sound and symbol for their own sake. |
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== Lessons in Elemental Poetry == |
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Dr. Seuss |
Dr. Seuss |
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Riddles |
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Reading Meters |
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Metaphors, Conceits & Allegories |
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Alliteration |
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Consonance & Assonance |
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Synecdoche & Metonymy |
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Hyperbole & Subtlety |
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Personification |
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Voice |
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Imagery |
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Utterance |
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Haiku |
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Ballad |
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Lyric |
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Elegies & Odes |
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Pastorals |
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Sonnets |
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Couplets & Epigrams |
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Translation |
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Epic |
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Prophecy |
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== Lessons in Reading == |
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Anglo Saxons |
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Chaucer |
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Shakespeare |
Shakespeare |
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John Donne |
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The Metaphysicals |
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Edmund Spenser |
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John Milton |
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British Ballads |
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George Herbert |
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American Ballads |
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William Blake |
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The Romantics |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The Moderns |
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John Keats |
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American Pop Standards |
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William Butler Yeats |
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The Postmoderns: Billy Collins; |
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T.S. Eliot |
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70s singer-songwriter lyricism and the underground canon; |
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== Smash Glass for Poems == |
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And yes, Rap, the only major living form of popular social poetry |
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In case of emergency, break open this list: |
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[[Emergency Poems]] |
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== Canons of English Poetry == |
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==== Anglo Saxons ==== |
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==== Middle English ==== |
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Prophetic speech |
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==== Tudor & Elizabethan ==== |
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==== Baroque ==== |
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== 1. Teaching with Dr. Seuss == |
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==== Augustan ==== |
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==== Graveyard Poets ==== |
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==== Sensibility ==== |
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==== Romantics ==== |
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==== Victorians ==== |
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==== Transcendentalists, New England & Gothic Americans ==== |
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==== Pre-Raphaelites & Arts and Crafts Poets ==== |
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==== Child Ballads ==== |
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To a Waterfowl |
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==== Decadents & Fin-de-Siècle ==== |
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BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
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==== War Poets & Georgians, Imagists & Modernists ==== |
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The Bridge: A Poem |
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==== British Surrealism ==== |
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Hart Crane |
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==== Postwar Poets ==== |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
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'''American Folk Songs''' |
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==== The Postmodern Academics ==== |
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Craig Raine |
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After World War II, poetry became regulated through the university credential apparatus. As such, it rapidly lost almost all social relevance and vanished from public life except for those who participate in the carefully sterilized environment of the academy. |
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==== Anglo-American Pop Lyricism ==== |
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The Task |
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Rock n roll, 70s singer-songwriter lyricism and the underground canon, art pop, the bohemian bourgeois |
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Rap |
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William Cowper |
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Independent Rock |
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God's Grandeur |
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The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord |
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Pied Beauty |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) |
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The Homes of England, by Felicia Hemans |
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Upon Appleton House - Marvell |
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John Gower (1330–1408) |
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Among Schoolchildren; Easter, 1916; Sailing to Byzantium; The Wild Swans at Coole- Yeats |
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Tennyson - Tithonus |
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Thomas Hoccleve (1368–1426) |
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To Althea, From Prison - Richard Lovelace |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime; Spring and All |
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John Lydgate (1370–1451) |
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William Carlos Williams |
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The Collar |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
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George Herbert |
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Easter-Wings |
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) |
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George Herbert |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
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George Gascoigne (1534–1577) |
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BY ROBERT HERRICK |
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La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to A Nightingale - Keats |
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Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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Christopher Marlowe |
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
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The Darkling Thrush |
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Thomas Hardy |
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison |
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Frost at Midnight |
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Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Anecdote of the Jar |
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Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
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Wallace Stevens |
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The White Man's Burden |
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Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
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Rudyard Kipling |
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The Blessed Damozel - Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
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The Deserted Village |
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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John Donne (1572–1631) |
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For the Union Dead |
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Robert Lowell |
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George Chapman (1559–1634) |
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Ars Poetica |
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BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH |
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Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645) |
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I Hear America Singing |
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Walt Whitman |
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Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
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Mac Flecknoe |
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John Dryden |
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George Herbert (1593–1633) |
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To an Athlete Dying Young |
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A. E. Housman |
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Richard Lovelace (1617–1657) |
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Thanatopsis |
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William Cullen Bryant |
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Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal |
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William Wordsworth |
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Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
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Church Going |
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Philip Larkin |
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Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
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The Sick Rose |
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William Blake |
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Katherine Philips (1632–1664) |
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Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson |
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The Canonization |
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John Milton (1608–1674) |
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John Donne |
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The New Colossus |
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John Dryden (1631–1700) |
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Emma Lazarus |
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Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) |
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley |
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Ezra Pound |
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Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) |
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Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) |
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James Thomson (1700–1748) |
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Edward Young (1683–1765) |
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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) |
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Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
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William Collins (1721–1759) |
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Christopher Smart (1722–1771) |
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) |
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William Cowper (1731–1800) |
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George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
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Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
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William Blake (1757–1827) |
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Mary Robinson (1757–1800) |
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Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
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William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
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Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
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Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
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John Keats (1795–1821) |
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Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) |
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Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
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Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
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Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
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Emily Brontë (1818–1848) |
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Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
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Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
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Herman Melville (1819–1891) |
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Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
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Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
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William Morris (1834–1896) |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) |
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) |
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A. E. Housman (1859–1936) |
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) |
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Francis Thompson (1859–1907) |
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
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Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) |
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Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) |
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John Davidson (1857–1909) |
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Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) |
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Ezra Pound (1885–1972) |
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T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) |
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Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) |
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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) |
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Marianne Moore (1887–1972) |
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961) |
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William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) |
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Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) |
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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) |
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Robert Frost (1874–1963) |
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Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) |
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John Masefield (1878–1967) |
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) |
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Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) |
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Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) |
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Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) |
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Hart Crane (1899–1932) |
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Latest revision as of 04:27, 26 October 2025
[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
Poetry is currently separate from the rest of the literature curriculum because it is undeniably insular. Most poems are not about worldview or history or narrative or society. Poetry is about itself and perpetual things: God, life and death, sex, aging, the seasons. (Poems that do directly speak to history and society are included in the history curriculum.)
This curriculum is intended to initiate students into that rarest of traits: genuine appreciation of poetry.
I hated poetry in middle school and the lights did not flash on until I was in college. Thank you, Dr. Grieser. I began to read poetry voraciously, and compose on occasion.
Because of this, I don't expect young students to have aesthetic appreciation for fine letters. This curriculum might be better suited for someone in upper secondary or college who somehow has been struck by words and wants to understand what has just happened to them.
Before we can get to poetry's fundamental role in reshaping not just human society but man's relationship to God and the cosmos, it's good to appreciate play with sound and symbol for their own sake.
Lessons in Elemental Poetry
Dr. Seuss
Riddles
Reading Meters
Metaphors, Conceits & Allegories
Alliteration
Consonance & Assonance
Synecdoche & Metonymy
Hyperbole & Subtlety
Personification
Voice
Imagery
Utterance
Haiku
Ballad
Lyric
Elegies & Odes
Pastorals
Sonnets
Couplets & Epigrams
Translation
Epic
Prophecy
Lessons in Reading
Anglo Saxons
Chaucer
Shakespeare
John Donne
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
George Herbert
William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
William Butler Yeats
T.S. Eliot
Smash Glass for Poems
In case of emergency, break open this list:
Canons of English Poetry
Anglo Saxons
Middle English
Tudor & Elizabethan
Baroque
Augustan
Graveyard Poets
Sensibility
Romantics
Victorians
Transcendentalists, New England & Gothic Americans
Pre-Raphaelites & Arts and Crafts Poets
Child Ballads
Decadents & Fin-de-Siècle
War Poets & Georgians, Imagists & Modernists
British Surrealism
Postwar Poets
American Folk Songs
The Postmodern Academics
After World War II, poetry became regulated through the university credential apparatus. As such, it rapidly lost almost all social relevance and vanished from public life except for those who participate in the carefully sterilized environment of the academy.
Anglo-American Pop Lyricism
Rock n roll, 70s singer-songwriter lyricism and the underground canon, art pop, the bohemian bourgeois
Rap
Independent Rock
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
John Gower (1330–1408)
Thomas Hoccleve (1368–1426)
John Lydgate (1370–1451)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547)
George Gascoigne (1534–1577)
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
John Donne (1572–1631)
George Chapman (1559–1634)
Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645)
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Richard Lovelace (1617–1657)
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695)
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
Katherine Philips (1632–1664)
John Milton (1608–1674)
John Dryden (1631–1700)
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)
Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
James Thomson (1700–1748)
Edward Young (1683–1765)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
William Collins (1721–1759)
Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
William Cowper (1731–1800)
George Crabbe (1754–1832)
Robert Burns (1759–1796)
William Blake (1757–1827)
Mary Robinson (1757–1800)
Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
Lord Byron (1788–1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
John Keats (1795–1821)
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
Thomas Hood (1799–1845)
Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896)
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
William Morris (1834–1896)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
A. E. Housman (1859–1936)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900)
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902)
John Davidson (1857–1909)
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917)
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939)
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
John Masefield (1878–1967)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
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