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- “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- “Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne (1572-1631) Death, be not proud, though some have called thee. Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
- “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
- “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Original Compositions: Lament for Evenstar ~ In Ithilien ~ Darkening of Valinor. Translations of Tolkien’s English poems into Elvish: In Western Lands Galadriel’s Warning ~ The Last Ship~ Words of the Seer
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Eighteenth-century poet Edward Young, best known for his poem “Night Thoughts,” published Conjectures on Original Composition at the encouragement of his friend Samuel Richardson.
In “The Philosophy of Composition,” Poe turned his attention to poetry. The essay is a methodical account of how he came to write “The Raven.” He describes the deliberate choices he made in composing the poem, and the choices reveal his aesthetic.
Mar 7, 2019 · William Carlos Williams, “ The Red Wheelbarrow ” The most anthologized poem of the last 25 years for a reason. See also: “ This is Just to Say ,” which, among other things, has spawned a host of memes and parodies. T. S. Eliot, “ The Waste Land ” Without a doubt one of the most important poems of the 20th century.
Khusro is credited with popularizing several poetic forms, including the ghazal, a rhyming couplet form with a refrain at the end of the second line, and the qawwali, a devotional music style that blended Persian and Indian traditions.
Feb 7, 2022 · 1. Sonnet. History's most prodigious sonneteer (as seen in Shakespeare in Love ). Image: Miramax. The invention of the sonnet is first accredited to the thirteenth-century Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini, who crafted the form as an ideal way of expressing ‘courtly love’.
