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Poetry: The Basics by Wainwright Jeffrey
mobi |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Wainwright, Jeffrey [Wainwright, Jeffrey]

This first stanza of a burial poem – # 216 in the standard edition, for she gave none of her poems titles – encapsulates the variety of her rhyming. I ...
( Category: Fiction November 24,2014 )
The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers by Harmon William
mobi |eng | 2012-01-26 | Author:Harmon, William [Harmon, William]

METER, in a narrow sense, refers to the number of RHYTHMIC units (“FEET”) in a given LINE. Any number of units is theoretically possible, but the majority of lines in ...
( Category: Poetry November 24,2014 )
The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Donne
mobi |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:John Donne

A FEVER 9–12 Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st … Petrarch wrote that the death of his mistress had left the earth without a sun, and destroyed the ...
( Category: Love Poems November 24,2014 )
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Wooldridge Susan G
mobi |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Wooldridge, Susan G. [Wooldridge, Susan G.]

30 I dress myself with rain • I thought I had it all worked out in a workshop session funded by a grant to teach poetry and ecology. I wanted ...
( Category: Poetry November 24,2014 )
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Coleridge
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Samuel Coleridge

To Nature It may indeed be phantasy, when I Essay I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings; And trace in leaves and ...
( Category: British & Irish November 24,2014 )
The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Walt Whitman

The Last Invocation At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress’d house, From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
Poems and Prose (Poets) by Hopkins Gerard
mobi |eng | 2008-02-27 | Author:Hopkins, Gerard [Hopkins, Gerard]

SERMON FOR SUNDAY EVENING NOV. 23 1879 AT BEDFORD LEIGH1 – LUKE ii 33. Et erat pater ejus et mater mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo (text taken at ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
THE AENEID (complete, unabridged, and in verse) by VIRGIL
mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:VIRGIL

BOOK 8 When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs, His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs; When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar, Had giv'n the signal of approaching war, Had ...
( Category: Epic November 24,2014 )
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Robert Browning
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
Penguin's Poems for Life (Penguin Classics) by Laura Barber
mobi |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Laura Barber

PHILIP LARKIN This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 24,2014 )
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
epub |eng | 1988-11-22 | Author:Alan Bennett [Alan Bennett]

Even with the final dress rehearsals no alarm bells rang. The play was too long, admittedly, and ought to have been cut in rehearsal or, better still, beforehand, which is ...
( Category: Drama November 24,2014 )
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin]

And the countryside not caring: The place-names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat’s restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 24,2014 )
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Philip Larkin [Larkin, Philip]

Monday Am propped up on my studio couch, having at last found a way of ‘sitting comfortably’ – one end pushed up against the wall behind, &, not a carrot, ...
( Category: Poetry November 24,2014 )
Just As I Thought by Grace Paley
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Grace Paley [Paley, Grace]

—1984 Of Poetry and Women and the World Our panel has a kind of odd definition, and I think the three of us have taken it to mean whatever we ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura
epub |eng | 2006-07-31 | Author:Lia Purpura [Purpura, Lia]

The Space Between Now, more than hitherto, there occurs shocks, surges, crossings, falls and almost scrambles, creating thus a different space, a space scattered and unknown, space enclosing spaces, superimposed, ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )

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