STORIES and POETRY




Man Stands at the Crossroad and Contemplates Humankind Making
its Way Beyond the Cosmic Machine. Cecilia Bustamante

POEMS OF ALL TIME

THE PAGE OF IMMORTAL POEMS

Though the list of poems is not complete, it is representative of the long, golden era of the Elizabethan and Victorian period of British world literature. This listing ends with poets of the first two decades of 20th century, just at the end of the first great world conflagration and the start of science and art advancements of our modern time. One of these important advancements was the inline production of the Ford model "T" motor car, and other breakthroughs in science and technology was the invention of the electrical dynamo. Skip to Contemporary Poetry.
This list of poets of all times contains authors born in any part of the English speaking world, and is arranged by their date of birth. Enjoy browsing through some of the most wonderful examples of the used words, since mankind first learned to speak.

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POETRY IN TRANSITION: From Middle Ages to Elizabeth I

We begin this selection of pre-Elizabethan Poetry with the anonymously-authored ballad, Sir Patrick Spens, which pertains to an event said to have taken place in the 14th Century.  This old work is important in helping us compare the different styles of poetry and make them clearer in regard to the transition of Middle English to Early Modern English-the language of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and others, that was in use by the 16th Century...
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ANONYMOUS:
Sir Patrick Spens (Ballad)

POETRY IN THE GOLDEN YEARS OF ELIZABETH I

THE SONNET
The English sonnet was derived from the continental European sonnet, more exactly, from Italian Cesare Petrarch (1304-74), who was the creator of this form of verse. The sonnet soon spread to France, Spain and other European countries, and it was Sir Thomas Wyatt who translated some of those continental sonnets and introduced them to England... Other sonneteers mentioned here are: Pierre de Ronsard, William Shakespeare and Francisco de Quevedo.
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17th CENTURY POETRY AND THE NEW WORLD -

The Precursors:

DONNE, MILTON AND MARVELL: metaphisical poets
Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, four years before the first English settlement had established itself successfully in the New World. Elizabeth would be honored there by the first arriving group of immigrants, who named the landing place Virginia, after "The Virgin Queen." It was the beginning of what almost two centuries later would become The United States of America, homeland of extraordinary poets like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and many others.
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POETRY IN THE 18TH CENTURY - Part One

Alexander Pope and his time - the century of learning
18th. Century heralded the end of the renaissance and the beginning of the short-lived neo-classical period, that soon followed the Renaissance and shortly gave way to the romanticism. The world had begun to search for knowledge and rely on scientific learning. At the beginning of this century, England did command the respect of its eternal archenemy, Spain, when England seized Gibraltar, though it would not be the deathblow to Spanish might. England was still preparing for the coming of that day.
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CONTENT:
EDMUND SPENSER : (1552-99)
Easter
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : (1564-1616)    
Sonnet VII
Sonnet CXLVI
BEN JONSON: (1573-1637)
Against Jelousy
JOHN DONNE : (1573-1631)
Death Be Not Proud
GEORGE HERBERT : (1593-1633)
The Pulley
JOHN MILTON : (1608-74)
On His Blindness
I Did But Prompt
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CONTENT:
ANDREW MARVELL: (1621-78)
Song of the Emigrants in the Bermudas
The Garden
ALEXANDER POPE: (1688-1744)
A Little Learning
WILLIAM WORSDWORTH: (1770-1850)
September, 1802
LORD BYRON: (1788-1824)
Chillon
JOHN KEATS: (1795-1821)
When I have Fears
P.B. SHELLEY: (1792-1822)
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
ALFRED (LORD) TENNYSON: (1809-92)
In Memorian XXVII
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CONTENT:
ROBERT BROWNING: (1812-89)
Thoughts From Abroad
WALT WHITMAN: (1819-92)
O Captain! My Captain!
EMILY DICKINSON: (1830-86)
Wonder Is Not Precisely Knowing
AUSTIN DOBSON (1840-1921)
In After Days (Rondeau)
THOMAS HARDY: (1840-1928)
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: (1844-89)
The Windhover (modern sonnet)
ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN: (1861-99)
Late November
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CONTENT:
BLISS CARMAN: (1861-1929)
Vestigia
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: (1865-1939)
Before the World Was Made
JOHN McCREA : (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields (Rondeau)
G.K. CHESTERTON: (1874-1936)
Hymn for the Church Militant
ROBERT FROST:(1874-1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Morning
JOHN MASEFIELD: (1878-1967)
Sea Fever (Narrative poem)
CARL SANDBURG:(1878-1967)
Chicago
Aztec
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CONTENT:
AMY LOWELL:(1878-1925)
Madonna of the Evening Flowers (Free verse)
JAMES STEPHENS: (1882-1950)
Hate
EZRA POUND: (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro (Haiku)
T.S. ELIOT: (1888-1965)
Journey of the Magi
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY : (1892-1950)
Sonnet (Modern sonnet
WILFRED OWEN: (1893-1918)
Arms and the Boy
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET: (1898-1943)
Western Wagons
John James Audubon (modern ballad)
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CONTENT:
RICHARD EBERHART: (1904)
The Goal of Intellectual Man
RICHARD ARMOUR: (1906-89)
My Mattress and I (Light Verse)
W.H. AUDEN: (1907-73)
Ballad
ROBERT HAYDEN: (1913-80)
Those Winter Sundays
DYLAN THOMAS: (1914-53)
The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
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