Great Poets

  Gun Control ---after Longfellow’s “The Arrow and the Song” I shot a bullet Into the air. It fell to...

  The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could...

  A Reading of Homer's Odyssey Book 1 (Translated by Michael Solot) https://youtu.be/1knI2sT_g28     Starring: Andrew Benson Brown as...

  A Midsummer Night's Dream Whose dream are they, these four Athenian lovers whose mad misunderstandings mock each other? Moonstruck...

  Chaucer Announces His Desire to Retire Whan that passing years and Father Time’s made difficulty in my finding sounds…...

  The Odyssey: Nolan and Solot Compared by Michael Curtis Michael Solot’s Odyssey translation is true to Homer, and because...

  The River Not Taken ---after Robert Frost The sloop’s main sail was hoisted tight But in the fog I...

  The SCP Edition of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Michael Solot, is now being released as a historic audiobook---marking the...

  Chaucer's Medieval Hangover Advice and Cure If you should quaff nocturnally too much, and waking, find your mouth’s a...

Cato of Utica: Canto I of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated from Italian by Stephen Binns Dante and Virgil...

  Home I wandered lonely, not so much a cloud As more a type of fog, as something cool And...

  Hamlet's Lawyer Will Shakespeare? Here. These papers are for you. Aye, open them. A summons and complaint! Don’t grumble,...

  Faust Foresees His End Now, as holy darkness falls And curfew reigns within the walls, To each gatehouse troops...

  The Swan’s Song He brewed his words in cauldrons on the moors. They doubled as they bubbled to the brim. He conjured...

  A Dear John Letter to Chaucer, in the Style of Chaucer Dear Geoff, I took the pilgrim’s springtime jaunt...

  Who Wrote Shakespeare?   It could not be the glover’s son; _it had to be the Earl. To know...

  Beatrice Departs, St. Bernard Arrives: Canto XXXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns It was...

  The Tomb on the Hill The ancient tomb sits brooding all alone Atop a rocky hill, remote and bare....

  The Society of Classical Poets is proud to announce the publication of Homer's civilization-defining classic The Odyssey, translated by...

    Milton’s Heavenly Muse words by John Milton (Dec. 9, 1608 - Nov. 8, 1674) musical interpretation for Milton's...

  A Genuine Petrarchan Note on William Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets How did it end, then, for Romantic Bill? He labored...

  Swimming to the Waterfall at Uvongo In the heat of the early winter By the haunts of the southern...

. Beyond "Daffodils" The British weather gets my goat. For once, upon a morning stroll, My path became a flooded...

  Longfellow I first met you in the schoolroom, _When I was but a child, And read your words and...

  Parroting the Party Line   i. The Chorus of Consensus ---a triolet The talking heads squawk on and on....

  Emily Dickinson: A Brief Synopsis Emily Dickinson Wished Mr. Higginson Hadn’t been so loath Her poems to critique. Higginson,...

. The Hokey-Cokey---Chaucer Style With music was a dingy tavern blessed, In Southwark, where we stopped to take our rest....

. Eternal Rose, with Rows and Rows: Canto XXX of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Six...

. Shakespeare The Master strolled upon the beach, __And stooped to find Among the shells washed up in heaps, __Mere...

. The Dyer’s Second Tale---A Medieval Heist Here beginneth the Dyer’s Second Tale . Part I The Third Crusade had...

. Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years...

. Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a...

. Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a...

. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more...

. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest...

. The Dark Wood: Canto I of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Midway along the...

. Elusive Illusive Art Where are the pure, illusive works of artthat bubble upward from the deep unknown?Where in this...

. Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107 . Sonnet 107 __by William Shakespeare Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of...

. Song of the Spirit After midnight slightly drowsy, Contemplating writing lousy, While the script-score I redacted, Something in my...

. Consideration in Friendship In The Inferno Canto Twenty-Nine, When Dante pauses, looks with longing for His uncle’s son amid...