Great Poets

By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer...

Wordsworth’s Lament I wandered lonely as a cloud—Oh dear! I watched the dance of daffodils—Oh my! When on my couch...

. by David Bellemare Gosselin Today, seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard as it's drowned out by the popular...

In another lifetime I was William Blake When I saw his work That was my take He wrote about love...

By Carter Davis Johnson In a period where American literature was considered peripheral and amateur, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) helped create...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I wandered, drunk and weary, Over many a quaint and dimlit alley of forgotten...

By David B. Gosselin The nature of the subject matter discussed in Dante Alighieri’s lyric poetry, his canzoni, has been...

Homer’s Iliad I.1-47. Translation in the epic hexameter, the meter of the Greek. Sing of the wrath, my goddess, of...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807 - died March 24, 1882) was an American poet of the Romantic period. He...

by Annabelle Fuller John Keats (born October 31, 1795 - died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of...

Any treatise claiming critical review of verse, whether in the widest sense, or, as in this case, the result of...

by Dusty Grein The Man The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA....

John Milton (Born December 9, 1608 – died November 8, 1674) was an English poet of the late Renaissance period. He...

By David Gosselin The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare and Dante are not dead because...

Of course, I like to see rainbows, But my heart hasn’t leapt for one; I’ve not wandered like a cloud...

  Re-visiting Dante “For Dante it was a strict rule not to rhyme the word ‘Christ’ with any other word...

Dante’s Inferno, Canto I (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle...

By Joshua Philipp The poetry of John Keats is known for its light and dreamy nature. Even in his time,...

Inspired by the Ashland, Oregon, Shakespeare Festival Narrator: William Shakespeare—Shakspere? Shaksper? Shakespear? Shackespeare? Shake-and-Bake-speare?—died but did not Go to heaven....

By Joshua Philipp The Italian poet Dante Alighieri is best known for his journey into hell, purgatory, and heaven which...

Penelope’s Postscript Uncounted days, wrung dry of tears— Lost wanderers do not return: So much for the departed years. Heap...

Ephemeral Constant With hued music, beautified page. His spheres were thinner than gossamer, Only to beauty, did Keats defer. Was...

By Wilbur Dee Case One of the most unlikely poems of the Modernist period is that by Robert Frost: "The...

by Evan Mantyk WHAT DOES THE classic Chinese story Journey to the West have to do with William Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet? A...

By Conan Milner | The Epoch Times For centuries, the plays of William Shakespeare have been celebrated for their larger-than-life...

By Douglas Thornton "And lo I lie between the sun and thee" (Venus and Adonis; line 194) To see the...

Original Shakespeare followed by imitation.   Sonnet 49 Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see...

By Wilbur Dee Case | Edited by Kent Van May Now I can see why T.S. Eliot disliked Edgar Allan Poe's...

William Shakespeare is believed to have died on April 23, 1616. Post your commemorative poems in the comments section or...

By Dusty Grein and Evan Mantyk “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the English language’s most popular...

Inspired by real events in China   Not that long ago in China, in a labor camp confined a Year...

  A Fifteen-Year-Old's Response to Frost "This 'pome' don't make NO sense! What junk!" the scowling students muttered. "Two roads...

for E.E. Club Saw Reid   I. Priam, Returning to the Ramparts He’d never say it to my face and...

Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare Some say that Shakespeare didn’t write The many works that bear his name; But surely if that...

In Rembrandt's scene of 1653, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, there is much that we can see amidst that...

From Dante, to Beatrice In your father’s garden we first met, a pair in exile, two children playing without a...

The Trojan War has finished its long course. Achaeans won by sneaking past the vaulting walls As if they were...

My Love, Penelope My love, Penelope, I'm incomplete– You are not here, and I feel so alone; Love is a...

  I This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, Of wedded...

On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward,...