Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan (1797) Preface of 1816 Kubla Khan was published in 1816, with the following Author’s Preface: “In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between… Read More ›
D03- English and American Poetry
Emily Dickinson – Poems 1850-1886
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) Poems 1850-1886 1 (1850) Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine! Oh the Earth was made for lovers, for damsel, and hopeless swain, For sighing,… Read More ›
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (1798)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (1798) This long ballad was published in the ‘Lyrical Ballads’ of 1798 together with poems by Wordsworth. It is divided into seven parts introduced by a short summary of the… Read More ›
John Ashbery – Selected Poems and Bibliography
John Ashbery Selected Poems and Bibliography John Lawrence Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is recognized as one of the greatest twentieth-century American poets. Critics have noted how Ashbery’s verse has taken shape under the influence of abstract expressionism, a movement… Read More ›
Black Mountain Poets
Black Mountain Poets The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College. Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933-1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200… Read More ›
Thomas S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Thomas S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun,… Read More ›
Thomas S. Eliot – The Waste Land (1922)
Thomas S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Waste Land (1922) “Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω.” For Ezra Pound il miglior fabbro. I. The… Read More ›
William Butler Yeats – Selected Poems
William Butler Yeats Selected Poems From: “Crossways” (1889) The Indian upon God I passed along the water’s edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees, My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs;… Read More ›
Seamus Heaney – Selectd Poems and Bibliography
Seamus Heaney (1939) Selected Poems and Bibliography Seamus Heaney (1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Regarded as an elder statesman of poetry, Heaney has received the T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and the Nobel… Read More ›
Dylan Thomas – Selected Poems
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Selected Poems Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which… Read More ›
