T.S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land. Ars Poetica. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Billy Collins - Litany. Billy collins: Sonnet - Billy Collins. John Keats. John Keats (1795-1821), renowned poet of the English Romantic Movement, wrote some of the greatest English language poems including "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Ode To A Nightingale", and "Ode On a Grecian Urn"; O Attic shape!
Fair attitude! With bredeOf marble men and maidens overwrought,With forest branches and the trodden weed;Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know. " John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 in Moorgate, London, England, the first child born to Frances Jennings (b.1775-d.1810) and Thomas Keats (d.1804), an employee of a livery stable.
Having worked on it for many months, Keats finished his epic poem comprising four books, Endymion: A Poetic Romance--"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"--in 1818. Biography written by C. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Discover this poem’s context and related poetry, articles, and media. Poet John Keats 1795–1821 POET’S REGION England SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic Subjects Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Activities, Nature, Arts & Sciences, Reading & Books, Travels & Journeys, Poetry & Poets Poetic Terms Sonnet, Imagery, Allusion Biography John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. Poem Categorization. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Source: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (Library of America, 1995) Biography Robert Frost holds a unique and almost isolated position in American letters.
Continue reading this biography. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. He is regarded by different readers as the greatest Victorian poet of religion, of nature, or of melancholy. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I. Hopkins's idiosyncratic creativity was the result of interactions with others, beginning with the members of his family. Hopkins's extended family constituted a social environment that made the commitment of an eldest son to religion, language, and art not only possible but also highly probable.
Her sister Maria Smith Giberne taught Hopkins to sketch. These artistic and religious traditions were also supported by Hopkins's paternal relations. Manley Hopkins was the founder of a marine insurance firm. ... thy book Is cliff, and wood, and foaming waterfall; My head to hear. 34. 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems. 40. (Carrion Comfort). Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
Buy or borrow this book: Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985) Biography Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. Continue reading this biography. The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins : Poem Guide : Learning Lab. I fell in love with “The Windhover” when I was a teenager, recognizing right away the rapture of a love poem directed not at a particular person (though the poem is dedicated “To Christ our Lord”) but to life itself. The poem is widely anthologized, a cornerstone of the English canon, bridging the Victorian Age and early 20th century Modernism. Its author, Gerard Manley Hopkins, was a Jesuit priest who died at the age of 44. He had felt the tension between his religious and literary callings throughout his career, first burning all his work upon entering the priesthood, then taking up verses again only for church occasions, then writing a masterpiece in earnest, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” to elegize a handful of nuns who fled persecution in Germany only to drown in the high seas.
When I was first discovering poetry, it was 1986 or so, and I was taught largely contemporary confessional and identity poetry written in modern, accessible, but (to me) dull language. Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins. To a young child Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! Ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. Buy or borrow this book: Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985) Biography Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era.
Continue reading this biography. 7. God's Grandeur. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems. God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! Buy or borrow this book: Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985) Biography Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. Continue reading this biography. Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish.