Revision as of 16:51, 5 June 2014

19th C.

US

• Emily Dickinson
  • A word is dead / When it is said / Some say.
    I say it just / Begins to live / That day.
  • "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" [1]
  • "If you were coming in the fall" [2]
• Edgar Allen Poe,
  • Annabel Lee [3]
  • The Raven [4]
• Walt Whitman
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" [5] from Leaves of Grass

UK

• Lewis Carroll
  • "Jabberwocky" [6]
• Samuel Coleridge
  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798 in fact) [7] (compare to Baudelaire's "Albatros" [8])
• Edward Fitzgerald
  • "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" [9] (click go)
  • Rubaiyat Tuesday on the blog.
• Edward Lear
  • "The Akond of Swot" [10]
  • "Owl and the Pussycat" [11]

• Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • "The Lady of Shalott" [12]

20th C.

US

• W.H. Auden, "Funeral Blues" (Stop all the clocks) [13]
• e.e. cummings
  • "In just-spring" [14]
  • "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" [15]
  • "Tictoc" [16]
• T.S. Eliot
  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats[17]
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock (read by Eliot on youtube: [18])
• Robert Frost
  • "The Mending Wall" [19]
  • "The Road Not Taken" [20]
• Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
  • concerning the title: Jubilee (Leviticus)
  • concerning Holy, holy, holy: Holiness code
• Ishmael Reed
  • A Cowboy in the Boat of Ra [21]
  • "Dualism in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man":
    I am outside of history. / i wish i had some peanuts, / it looks hungry there in its cage.
    i am inside of history. / its hungrier than i thot."
• Adrienne Rich
  • "Diving into the Wreck" [22]
• Shel Silverstein
  • "Lazy Jane" [23]
• Wallace Stevens
  • "The Man With the Blue Guitar"

Ireland

• W. B. Yeats, "Second Coming" [24]

UK

• Rudyard Kipling, "If" [25]
  • A Daily Mail article on its Transvaal inspiration. [26]

• Ted Hughes, "Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days" [27]

Formal

Japanese poetry

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renga
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kireji
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka