Elizabeth Bishop: “The Moose”
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How the poet devoted 20 years to immortalizing a moment in her classic poem.
POEM GUIDE SYNOPSIS
How the poet devoted 20 years to immortalizing a moment in her classic poem.
W.S. Graham: “Dear Bryan Wynter”
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How a poem brings language to loss and speaks to the dead.
POEM GUIDE SYNOPSIS
How a poem brings language to loss and speaks to the dead.
Elinor Wylie: “Wild Peaches”
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An escape leads a young poet to confront her impulses.
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An escape leads a young poet to confront her impulses.
Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella 63 (“O Grammar rules…”)
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An Elizabethan plays a Modernist language game
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An Elizabethan plays a Modernist language game
John Ciardi: “A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats”
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Making the difficult look easy.
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Making the difficult look easy.
Elizabeth Drew Barrow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”
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The child elegy and the 19th-century poetess.
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The child elegy and the 19th-century poetess.
Linda Pastan: “The Deathwatch Beetle”
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Pastan captures the sound of mortality while echoing Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
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Pastan captures the sound of mortality while echoing Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Gertrude Stein’s “The house was just twinkling in the moon light”
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An intimate glimpse into one of the 20th century’s most fascinating marriages.
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An intimate glimpse into one of the 20th century’s most fascinating marriages.
Robert Hass: “The Nineteenth Century as a Song”
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Robert Hass, Baudelaire, Marx, and a bomb-building anarchist.
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Robert Hass, Baudelaire, Marx, and a bomb-building anarchist.
Gwendolyn Brooks: “kitchenette building”
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The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.
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The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: “The Answer”
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How poetry became the 18th century’s social media network.
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How poetry became the 18th century’s social media network.
Thomas Hardy: “The Shadow on the Stone”
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After the poet lost his wife, he found his voice.
POEM GUIDE SYNOPSIS
After the poet lost his wife, he found his voice.
