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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke By: Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer) (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic
war sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier); however, he never experienced combat at first hand. He was also known for
his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson By: Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community
ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant
for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that
was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are
unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and
punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister,
discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became
available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism
of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem about the early days of Plymouth Colony, the colonial settlement established in America
by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem
of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.[1] The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian
afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is
written as the Italian standard.[2] It is divided into three parts, the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
The Hunting of the Shark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old.
It describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature". The poem borrows occasionally from
Carroll's short poem Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-Glass (especially the poem's creatures and portmanteau words), but it is a stand-alone work, first
published in 1876 by Macmillan. The illustrations were by Henry Holiday.
In common with other Carroll works, the meaning of his poems has been queried and analysed in depth. One of the most comprehensive gatherings of information
about the poem and its meaning is The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner.
The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (baptized 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th century English poet.
The over-riding message of Herrick’s work is that life is short, the world is beautiful, love is splendid, and we must use the short time we have to make
the most of it. This message can be seen clearly in To the Virgins, to make much of Time, To Daffodils, To Blossoms and Corinna going a-Maying, where the
warmth and exuberance of what seems to have been a kindly and jovial personality comes over strongly.
The opening stanza in one of his more famous poems, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", is as follows:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
(In Elizabethan slang, "dying" referred both to mortality and to orgasm.) This poem is an example of the carpe diem genre; the popularity
of Herrick's poems of this kind helped revive the genre.
The Masque of Pandora (1875) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pandora was the first woman.
Prometheus had stolen fire and had given it to man. Zeus decided to even things up a bit by introducing disease, death, and sorrow.
Until then, mankind had lived life in a paradise without worry. Zeus' punishment to mankind was woman.
Pandora was molded out of clay by Hephaestus, clothed by Athena , and adorned by the Graces. Aphrodite gave her beauty; Apollo,
musical talent and a gift for healing; Demeter taught her to tend a garden; Poseidon gave her the ability never to drown. She
received curiosity from Hera, and cunning, boldness, and charm from Hermes. Zeus gave her insatiable curiosity and mischievousness.
Her name, Pandora ("all gifts"), derives from the fact that she received gifts from all deities.
Pandora was “given” to Prometheus' brother, the Titan Epimetheus. Along with Pandora came her dowry in the form of a jar
(mistranslated as a box in the 16th century). Even though her husband warned her not to, curiosity overcame her and she opened the jar/box anyway.
All the miseries and misfortunes of mankind were instantly released. Only hope remained in the box.
The Seaside and the Fireside By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As one who, walking in the twilight gloom,
Hears round about him voices as it darkens,
And seeing not the forms from which they come,
Pauses from time to time, and turns and hearkens;
So walking here in twilight, O my friends!
I hear your voices, softened by the distance,
And pause, and turn to listen, as each sends
His words of friendship, comfort, and assistance.
If any thought of mine, or sung or told,
Has ever given delight or consolation,
Ye have repaid me back a thousand-fold,
By every friendly sign and salutation.
The Song of Hiawatha By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, featuring an Indian hero and loosely based
on legends and ethnography of the Ojibwe (Chippewa, Anishinaabeg) and other Native American peoples contained in Algic Researches and additional
writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. In sentiment, scope, overall conception, and many particulars, the poem is very much a work of American
Romantic literature, not a representation of Native American oral tradition, although Longfellow insisted, "I can give chapter and verse for
these legends. Their chief value is that they are Indian legends."
Longfellow had originally planned on following Schoolcraft in calling his hero Manabozho, the name of the Ojibwe trickster-transformer in use
along the south shore of Lake Superior at the time, but in his journal entry for June 28, 1854, he wrote, "Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think
I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'—that being another name for the same personage." Hiawatha, was not, in fact, "another name for the same personage"
(the mistaken identification was actually made by Schoolcraft then compounded by Longfellow), but a probable historical figure associated with the
founding of the League of the Iroquois. Because of the poem, however, Hiawatha came into use as a name for everything from towns to a telephone
company in the upper Great Lakes region where predominantly Ojibwe, not Iroquois, reside.
A Selection of Poetry & Prose By Allan D Stewart (1946 - 2005)
This is the third book of poetry that I have written, and published over the last
40 years or so. Those of you who have read either of my previous books – "Just
Me" (1971) and "Through The Windmills of my mind" (1983) will recognise several of the
pieces in this book, along with some relatively new pieces with a link to the World Wide
Web and the Internet.
I have used the word published. That however, is just a dream. What it does mean is
that I wrote, typed, proof read, retyped, printed and photo copied them and put them into
folders myself. That means you wont find any of my books on library shelves, not just
yet.
Over the years, both readers and critics of my work have all come up with the same
question, albeit phrased in different ways – and that is – ‘Where do you find your
inspiration’? Well I could have used that old cliché that says 10% inspiration and 90%
perspiration; but that would not be true. I actually find it a close to home...
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