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| | English poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser. | | | The most significant English poet of this period was Thomas Wyatt, who was among the first poets to write sonnets in English. | | | Among the foremost of these poets were T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, both of whom spent part, and in Eliot's case a considerable part, of their writing lives in England. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry
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| | English literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The ideal English Renaissance man was Sir Philip Sidney—scholar, poet, critic, courtier, diplomat, and soldier—who died in battle at the age of 32. | | | The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John Donne, are regarded as the originators of two diverse poetic traditions—the Cavalier and the metaphysical (see Cavalier poets and metaphysical poets). | | | Restoration comedy reveals both the influence of French farce (the English court spent its exile in France) and of Jacobean comedy. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/en/Englsh-lit.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Literature |
| | Meanwhile, one matchless poet, John Milton, living through the greater part of the century, went his own way ("his soul was like a star and dwelt apart"), taking little notice of prevailing types or subject-matter, fusing romantic and classical elements into one superb kind of work that we can find no name for but "Miltonic". | | | The "Old English Chronicle", of which there are seven manuscripts, a record of events in England from the sixth century to 1154, was meanwhile being written in the monasteries, undisturbed by the many changes passing over England. | | | Old English literature was practically unknown to him, but he was saturated with French poetry, for the literature of France was then, outside the classics, the most influential in Europe. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05458a.htm
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| | Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism |
| | Wyatt is the first English poet since Chaucer to make use of Italian vernacular models in his verse, drawing on the rich legacy of Italian verse that developed from the thirteenth century on alongside the nascent humanism of the Italian city states. | | | Only the poet, disclaiming to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or quite anew, forms as never were in nature
{Nature’s) world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden. | | | Wyatt and his contemporary, the earl of Surrey, were the first English poets to imitate the Italians, and while Surrey does so with some technical skill and produces attractive verse, Wyatt adopts Petrarchan expression for deeper and more creative purposes. |
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http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/submissions/Griffiths.html
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| | English poets |
| | Larkin is ¡®the representative English poet of the post-Hardy generations¡¯. | | | John Milton (1608-1674) English poet and scholar who is best known for the... | | | Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic... |
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http://www.dresspageant.com/english+poets.html
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| | Early English Sonnets |
| | English poets of almost every era have followed and adapted the sonnet to produce some of their best and worst work. | | | The first English sonneteer, Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) learned of the form during travels in Spain and Italy. | | | The best known Italian sonneteers were Dante and Petrarch. |
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http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/early.htm
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| | Poets |
| | Finally, the poets of the fourth generation are still too young to have garnered enough acclaim to have been translated into English, and thus won't be addressed here. | | | In addition to Francophone African Poets with accessible English translations that I have represented on this page, I have appended a list of poets whose work is available in French, whether at the University of Florida or not. | | | The first generation, represented by Rabearivelo, was marked by a classical use of rhyming verse learned largely in colonial schools. |
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http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/poets.htm
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| | Thomas Humphry Ward, The English Poets |
| | The history of English poetry is so wide, its various selections and stages have become the objects of so special a study, that a book which aims at selecting the best from the whole field and pronouncing its judgments with some degree of authority, must not be the work of one writer, but of many. | | | The exceptions that we have made are in the case of the Scotch poets (though with them it is a matter of language than of orthography), and of Spenser, who is so intentionally archaic that his spelling is peculaiar, and is a part of himself. | | | It has been, to collect as many of the best and most characteristic of their writings as should fully represent the great poets, and at the same time to omit no one who is poetically considerable. |
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http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/research/anthologies/Ward.html
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| | Restoration & 18th C. English Poets |
| | John Dryden (1631-1700) was Charles II's poet laureate and the dominant literary figure of his time, even though Milton still lived and published Paradise Lost in 1665. | | | The French were admired more than early English writers, and the heroic couplet was especially popular. | | | He loved Virgil and the French, and thought English literature literally unruly, though he loved Shakespeare. |
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http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/english/canary/poets18.html
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| | Ghazals in English |
| | I would hate to see the English ghazal so confined by formal restrictions that it would be a minor form, used only for poets to demonstrate their technical cleverness (rather like sestinas or villanelles). | | | As more poets use the ghazal form (pronounced "ghuzzle") in English, questions arise as to what an English ghazal will be. | | | Visit The Ghazal Page for original ghazals in English, reviews of books of and about ghazals, essays on the ghazal in English, and a blog related to ghazals and poetry in general. |
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http://web.umr.edu/~gdoty/poems/essays/ghazals.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Prince of English Poets |
| | Few English men of letters have enjoyed greater recognition during their lifetime--or suffered a more degrading post-mortem--than Alexander Pope, author of such masterpieces of the mock-heroic epic as The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad. | | | ...To a degree unparalleled in the history of English letters, biographical revelations-often fabricated, credulously accepted, or misconstrued-about Pope's physical ailments (he was crippled), his religion (Roman Catholic), his intrigues, amours, and feuds have tarnished critical consideration of his verse... | | | ...The English scholar Emrys Jones has vividly described the sense of imaginative depletion which bedeviled the literature of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and also its compensating virtues... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V82I2P44-1.htm
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| | THE ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE |
| | English Poetry is designed to be fully integrated into library collections so that the machine-readable texts can be represented in catalogues alongside their companion print and microform editions. | | | Poets who were active before 1900 are included but poets principally active in the twentieth century are excluded. | | | Any accompanying text written by the poet and forming an integral part of the poem, such as dedications, prologues, epigraphs, footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes, is also generally included. |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/chadwyck.html
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| | Sleeve Notes - English Poets, Russian Romances |
| | His great love was English poetry and Shelley in particular, and it was his translations of Shelley’s work between 1892 and 1899 that brought him to the Russian public’s attention. | | | The verse of such writers as Goethe, Heine and Byron became familiar through the medium of translation to readers who were totally unacquainted with the original language in which the works were written. | | | The diverse sources — anonymous folk rhyme, Shakespeare, the celebrated Romantic poets Byron, Shelley, and the now largely forgotten Barry Cornwall (1787-1874) — bear witness to the enduring effect on the Russian imagination of English sensibility, particularly as expressed in its lyric poetry. |
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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67274-N.asp
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| | Films Media Group - The English Romantic Poets—on CD-ROM |
| | The Canterbury Tales is the most important work of English literature from medieval times. | | | This informative CD-ROM is the definitive resource for understanding the prominent English Romantic poets and their writings within the context of their times. | | | This CD-ROM contains modern, Middle English, and facsimile texts of the General Prologue, Chaucer's Retraction, and all 24 delightful tales, complete with char.. |
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http://www.ffhgroup.com/id/10982/The_English_Romantic_Poets-on_CD-ROM.htm
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| | Robert Bell, Annotated Edition of the English Poets |
| | As the works of each Poet, when completed, will be independent of the rest, although ultimately falling into their place in the Series, they will be issued irrespective of chronological sequence. | | | An Introductory Volume will present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets, through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time. | | | Prefatory Advertisement (in each volume): The necessity for a revised and carefully Annotated Edition of the English Poets may be found in the fact, that no such publication exists. |
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http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/research/anthologies/R-Bell.html
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| | Love Poems. A site Dedicated to Poets - Poems - Biography |
| | Our intention is that the reader's range of knowledge for each poet, their biographies, pictures and love poetry can be increased effortlessly by perusing the Love poems site, thus ensuring that the love of great poets and their poetry is passed on to as many people as possible. | | | English Author and Poet - famous for Canterbury Tales (1340 - 1400) | | | English Poet famous for writing ' There was and old lady who swallowed a fly '(1799 - 1888) |
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http://www.love-poems.me.uk
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Paradise Lost (Longman Annotated English Poets S.) |
| | Paradise Lost is the greatest work of one of the most acclaimed poets in English literature. | | | Reviews of previous edition: This is a very Bible of a Milton, and the editors should be upheld forever as the supreme example to all future editors and annotators of English verse. | | | "Paradise Lost" is the greatest work of one of the most acclaimed poets in English literature. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0582215188
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| | Lives of the English Poets |
| | There is, perhaps, no one among our English writers, who for so great a part of his life has been an object of curiosity to his contemporaries as Johnson. | | | His scholarship was attested by a translation into Latin verse of Pope's Messiah; which is said to have gained the approbation of that poet. | | | The younger Warton, he contrived to alienate from him, as is related in the life of that poet. |
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http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books141c/livpoet.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - metaphysical poets (English Literature, 1500 To 1799) - Encyclopedia |
| | The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images), a reliance on intellectual wit, learned imagery, and subtle argument. | | | The most important metaphysical poets are John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell. | | | AllRefer.com - metaphysical poets (English Literature, 1500 To 1799) - Encyclopedia |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/M/metaphys-p.html
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| | Poets & Authors: English |
| | Hopkins' English is a heightened, intensified English; it can't and shouldn't be imitated, but it's enough that it has been done, and that we can be enchanted by it. | | | His verse is wide-eyed and intoxicating; and the Middle English is lots of fun. | | | is a pinnacle of poetry; adroitly intertextual (Sadler the commentator consistently undermines Sadler the poet --- twenty years before postmodernism made this kind of thing fashionable), vivid in its imagery, and relentlessly attenuating and miniaturising his poetic forms. |
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http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Play/poets.html
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| | English: Dead Poets |
| | These indexes are by title of poem, by poet's last name, by first line, by keyword. | | | Search the list of poets, find a poem at random, or search for first line or poem title. | | | This site contains the full text of several postry anthologies, including The Oxford Book of English Verse, Modern British Postry, The Golden Treasury as well as poetry collections by Rupert Brooke, Emily Dickinson and T.S. Eliot |
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http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/links/English/poetry/poetry.html
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| | English Language and Literature Resources |
| | Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation. | | | The works are indexed by poet, title, date, keyword and first line. | | | You will find many things here, both obscure and familiar, from well and lesser known poets, from medieval ballads in middle english to poems of the early 20th century. |
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http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/engl.html
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| | Alexander Chalmers, Works of the English Poets |
| | Alexander Chalmers, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the most approved translations. | | | From the Preface: "a work professing to be a Body of the Standard English Poets" (v) | | | "There are perhaps but two rules by which a collector of English poetry can be guided. |
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http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/research/anthologies/Chalmers.html
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| | gowinning.com - biography of english poets |
| | Find biography of english poets and more at Lycos Search. | | | Find results for biography of english poets and anything else you are looking for instantly! | | | MonsterMarketplace shopping directory has biography of english poets and everything else you re looking for at one secure online location. |
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http://www.gowinning.com/Biography-Of-English-Poets.aspx
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| | Seventeenth-Century English Poets |
| | The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. | | | Waller, Gary F. The Sidney Family Romance : Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/elsky/304/304_BC.htm
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| | Re: English War Poets |
| | Well I was thinking of the mud being grey, rather than the more wholesome brown that one tends to see in the British countryside... | | | In Response To: Re: English War Poets (Pam Adams) |
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http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/jtap/board/config.pl?read=6930
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| | English 88, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry |
| | glossary of poetic terms used in English 88 | | | Mike Magee's "Final Word" for English 88 at Penn, an imitation of Stein | | | Mike Magee's "Final Word" for English 88--in imitation of Stein |
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http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html
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| | Poet Links |
| | E-text, biography and other info on 6 poets (Rupert Brooke, John McRae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger and Edward Thomas). | | | I gather here Internet resources on the twentieth-century poetry in English, which may contain glimpses of truth in whatever form. | | | For twenty-five years he taught verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge, where he is Emeritus Professor of English. |
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http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/otherpoet.htm
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| | Addison's Greatest English Poets |
| | Where-e're the Poet's Fancy led, pursu'd [318 / 319:] | | | And many a Story told in Rhime and Prose. | | | But Age has Rusted what the Poet writ, |
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http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/add.htm
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| | Pace University - English - Westchester - Poets at Pace |
| | Readings are free, open to the public and will be followed by discussion and book signing. | | | Pace University - English - Westchester - Poets at Pace | | | The Poets at Pace Series is curated by Jane Collins of the English Department. |
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http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=12055
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| | Twentieth-century Poetry in English |
| | Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. | | | --> I've collected Internet information relating to 116 poets, for 11 of whom I've created my own pages, and for the rest of whom a large index page, 'Poet Links', which adds some new entries each month; also I've created a page of related links: | | | Internet resources on 116 poets writing in English |
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http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Hardy to Larkin: Seven English Poets |
| | Look for books like Hardy to Larkin: Seven English Poets by subject: | | | Amazon.ca: Books: Hardy to Larkin: Seven English Poets | | | Top of Page : Hardy to Larkin: Seven English Poets |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0952047136
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| | William Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, "On Coleridge." |
| | He was the first poet I ever knew. | | | William Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, "On Coleridge." | | | There is only one thing he could learn from me in return but that he has not. |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/LecturesPoets.htm
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| | English Poets, Russian Romances |
| | It is devoted to Russian settings of verse originally in the English language, bearing witness to the enduring effect on the Russian imagination of English sensibility, particularly as expressed in its lyric poetry. | | | The CD booklet includes the original English verses along with Russian transliterations. | | | Four of Shakespeare's sonnets are included in settings by Shostakovich and Kabalevsky, and a number of Shelley's poems set by Arensky, Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Lyatoshinsky. |
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http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67274.asp
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| | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| | Detail of Illustration from Works of the English Poets with prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. | | | A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (University of Pennsylvania) | | | The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces (Project Gutenberg) |
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http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/swift
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| | Great Poets of China - Poems |
| | Go to: Great Poets [English translation] [Main Poetry Page] | | | Poetry by some of the great Chinese poets - [jpg] |
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http://www.chinapage.com/poet.html
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| | The Academy of American Poets |
| | Read exerpts from American Poet, browse our improved Book Awards pages, and find writing advice from legendary poets. | | | Copyright © 1997 - 2005 by The Academy of American Poets. | | | There are more than 400 essays, interviews, and other prose pieces on Poets.org. |
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http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
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| | English 4570: Eight Modern English Poets |
| | CLASS SCHEDULE (We will persistently make cross-references among all eight poets all term. | | | To read, write, and talk about the work of such poets will remind us to pause from time to time at the hard-won yet lucky intersection of art and life that is poetry. | | | Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems that were thought too strange to publish widely until after WWI set poets on a century-long sojourn of rich experimentation. |
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http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/4570sp02.htm
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| | Dead Poets Society (English/French DVD) |
| | Magnificently directed by Peter Weir (THE TRUMAN SHOW), DEAD POETS SOCIETY earned unparalleled praise among audiences and critics alike. | | | Williams portrays passionate English professor John Keating who, in an age of crew cuts, sports coats, and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming... | | | Academy Award®-winner Robin Williams delivers a brilliant performance in one of Hollywood's most compelling and thought-provoking motion pictures. |
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http://video.movies.go.com/products/1509203.html
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| | England |
| | A chonologically-oriented person might want to start from Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | | | For modern English poetry (and other literature), we recommend the collection at the university of Virginia. | | | Luminarium provides a very good picture of English poetry from the middle ages to the end of the 17th century. |
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http://www.kaapeli.fi/~nihil/babel/england.htm
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