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...Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)...

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Sea stories, Poetry, Philosophy

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and ...

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...iversity. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ... ...821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ‘t is true t... ...e from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T is poetry — at least by his assertion, And may appear so when the dog st... ...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...she chooses, The fame you envy and the skill you need; And recollect a poet nothing loses In giving to his brethren their full meed Of mer... ...s to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 Meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate, In honest simple verse, this song to... ...like him too, though quite the same none; But then they shone not on the poet’s page, And so have been forgotten:— I condemn none, But can’t... ...He lied with such a fervour of intention There was no doubt he earn’d his laureate pension. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Three” 93 But he had geni... ...Would scarcely join again the ‘reformadoes,’ Whom he forsook to fill the laureate’s sty: And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes, Whether i...

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...volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 18, 2011. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. ...

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Animals, Instruction, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Poetry

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...Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of her more enduring stories. It ...

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...volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011. Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Maga...

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Fantasy, Music, Nature, Romance, Poetry

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...volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda, he found his work very light and uninspiring, so only spen...

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Poetry, Fantasy, Horror/Ghost stories, Mystery, Myths/Legends, Nature, Sea stories

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...volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 2, 2011. In 1842 the government awarded Wordsworth a civil list pension amounting to £300 a year. With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused ...

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...y there have been many creative artists whose fame depends largely on their association with a much greater artist. Such the case of Thomas Shadwell, poet and prolific writer of low brow comedies, who is today most famous as the butt of satire by one of greatest and most influential English poets, John Dryden. Shadwell and Dryden were at first colleagues and collaborators,...

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...Theological Immortal Romance is an Elysian love story written in poetic form by author Kevin Brian Wright about, love, devotion, and the angelic beauty of his beloved - Isabella. Within the story the reader embarks on a spiritual journey of love and romance seen through the eyes of the aut...

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...evin Brian Wright is a genius, what a fantastic book. I am a very big fan of poetry and this book made me cry and a few other emotions I thought I los... ...d so much more. It takes you where no book has gone before. This book brings poetry to a new level. Perry Facchiano - OZ - Find Me Guilty When I read ... ... on a magical journey into the unknown. This was so exciting for me to read. Poetry this good is hard to find. I loved everything about the book, I hi... ... is a masterfully written romance brilliantly voiced by the mind of a master poet. His relationship with rich expressions, daring originality and imag... ...utely amazing and nothing less than heavenly. On this defining trail of love poetry it will bring the beloved Isabella to life before your eyes. With ... ... hearts, crowns of eternity above her stars fall within the hands of Saints. Laureates breathe still as angels, for the Lord is feared upon his presen...

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............................................................. 28 Theodore the Poet ......................................................................... ............................................................... 48 Petit, the Poet ......................................................................... ... Nor the rhythm of life are known. Minerva Jones I AM Minerva, the village poetess, Hooted at, jeered at by the Y ahoos of the street For my heavy bod... ...sed, All wedded, doing well in the world. And then one night, Minerva, the poetess, Came to me in her trouble, crying. I tried to help her out—she die... ...t dreams Here on the hill by the river. 29 Edgar Lee Masters Theodore the Poet AS a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid ... ...ery side was heard Bent on the THE END The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four book...

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... Silva, who availed himself of a manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II. The origin of the name Cervan... ...a, who availed himself of a manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II. The origin of the name Cervantes i... ...st amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had no time or opportu- nity except in the... ...een fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shephe... ... the ranks was a dismal prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and ... ...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l...

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... T racy Runningbrook, who had also been a plum in his day, and was still a poet, said that she was exquisitely comic, they were induced to take the hu... ...he leaves, and deliberately gave utterance to the dreadful nonsense of the laureates of our drawing-rooms. Mr. Pericles and Emilia exchanged scientifi... ...efore they learnt that he was of the blood of dukes, and would be a famous poet. When this was mentioned, after his departure, they had made him their... ..., and made them unconsciously subject to what I must call the spell of the poetic power. Wilfrid in his soul wished that Emilia should date from the d... ...pictures of dancing men with animals’ hairy legs and hoofs in an old thick poetry book belonging to my mother. Just fancy a nose that seemed to be pec... ...ure in its humility as well as its grandeur.” “One expects her to have all poetical feelings,” said Mr. 51 George Meredith Barrett, while they walked...

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...an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity of the true and original creator. Bartlett ... ...est, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, nove... ...ritten with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...brilliant, colorful.” eaders of this book who would l... ...shed a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from... ...rnal When the Owl Cries Adiós Mi México Forward, Children! POETRY Wherehill Spokes for Memory NONFICTION The Haciendas... ...t distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. For the...

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...became a synonym of the universe. She saw in absolute terms which gave her poetry an accuracy like that obtained under the microscope of mod- ern scie... ...which, beyond those who profess her almost as a cult, she is supremely the poet of those who “never read poetry.” The scoffers, the literary agnostics... ... scoffers, the literary agnostics, make exception for her. She is also the poet of the unpoetic, the unlearned foreigner, the busy, practical, inexpre... ...ole—even she was at loss to tell. And for the true lovers of the prose or poetry of Emily Dickinson, explanation of her is as imperti- nent as unnec... ...This is the sovereign anguish, This, the signal woe! These are the patient laureates Whose voices, trained below, Ascend in ceaseless carol, Inaudible... ...ook T o take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How ...

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...n for gratitude as the affection he bore his friend got for him. The great poet who sang her beauty, the famous Ariosto, not caring to sing her advent... ...ter quill may sing some day; and this was no doubt a kind of prophecy, for poets are also called vates, that is to say diviners; and its truth was mad... ...diviners; and its truth was made plain; for since then a famous Andalusian poet has lamented and sung her tears, and another famous and rare poet, a C... ... said the barber here, “among all those who praised her, has there been no poet to write a satire on this Lady Angelica?” “I can well believe,” replie... ...well believe,” replied Don Quixote, “that if Sacripante or Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a trim- ming; for it is naturally th... ...omise to put a crown of laurel on thy head, and make thee look like a poet laureate, and give thee double feeds.” In this strain did Sancho bewail him...

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... Silva, who availed himself of a manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II. The origin of the name Cervan... ...a, who availed himself of a manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II. The origin of the name Cervantes i... ...st amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had no time or opportu- nity except in the... ...een fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shephe... ... the ranks was a dismal prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and ... ...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l... ...omise to put a crown of laurel on thy head, and make thee look like a poet laureate, and give thee double feeds.” In this strain did Sancho bewail him...

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...er to the subject must necessarily pro- duce an unfavourable contrast. The Poet Laureate also, in the charming tale of “Thalaba,” had shown how extens... ... the subject must necessarily pro- duce an unfavourable contrast. The Poet Laureate also, in the charming tale of “Thalaba,” had shown how extensive m... ...le value. And this is the true reading of thy parable; for what sayeth the poet Mansour: ‘It is the favour of man which giveth beauty and comeliness t... ...f love, containing all the glowing praises of beauty in which the Oriental poets are so fond of luxuriating, and which, therefore, were peculiarly unf... ...e Saracen also sung lays in praise of wine, the liquid ruby of the Persian poets; and his gaiety at length became so un- suitable to the Christian kni... ... the best of my power, a gloomy road with a cheerful verse? What saith the poet, ‘Song is like the dews of heaven on the bosom of the desert; it cools...

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...ENOCH ARDEN, &c. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D. C. L., POET-LAUREATE A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Enoch ... ...ENOCH ARDEN, &c. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D. C. L., POET-LAUREATE A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Enoch Arden... ............... 69 4 Tennyson ENOCH ARDEN, &c. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D. C. L., POET-LAUREATE ENOCH ARDEN ENOCH ARDEN Long lines of cliff breaking have lef... .......... 69 4 Tennyson ENOCH ARDEN, &c. BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D. C. L., POET-LAUREATE ENOCH ARDEN ENOCH ARDEN Long lines of cliff breaking have left a c... ...llege-times Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair As ever painter painted, poet sang, Or Heav’n in lavish bounty moulded, grew. And more and more, the...

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...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ... of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, delibera... ...and bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandina- vian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly super... ...- cratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly ham- mered leaves of finest... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...tions? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God’s great, unflattering laureate, Nature.** **I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was dur...

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...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ... of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, delibera... ...usand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly super... ...mocratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest go... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...nations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God’s great, unflattering laureate, Nature. 2 Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions...