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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Some poets chose to write poems specifically for children, often to teach moral lessons. Many poems from that era, like "Toiling Farmers", are still taught to children today. [3] In Europe, written poetry was uncommon before the invention of the printing press. [4] Most children's poetry was still passed down through the oral tradition.
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).
The "Type" column is color-coded, with a green font indicating poems for or about friends, a magenta font marking his famous poems about his Lesbia, and a red font indicating invective poems. The "Addressee(s)" column cites the person to whom Catullus addresses the poem, which ranges from friends, enemies, targets of political satire, and even ...
"Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...