Brush Up Your Poetry!

259 Pages·1996·3.748 MB·English

by  Michael Macrone

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Macrone, Michael.
Brush up your poetry! / by Michael Macrone. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8362-2145-1
1. English poetry. 2. American poetry. 3. English poetry—
Explication. 4. American poetry—Explication. I.Title
PR1175.M22 1996
821.008—dc20 96-43989
November 1996
First edition
10 98765432 1
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Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 11
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 49
THE RENAISSANCE 67
John Skelton • Sir Thomas Wyatt • Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe *John Donne • Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick • Richard Lovelace • Henry Vaughan
Andrew Marvell
JOHN MILTON 91
ALEXANDER POPE 112
THE RESTORATION & 18TH CENTURY 126
Samuel Butler • Thomas Gray • William Cowper
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 135
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THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 144
Robert Burns • William Blake • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sir Walter Scott • George Gordon, Lord Byron •John Keats
THE LATER 19TH CENTURY 169
Edgar Allan Poe • Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Robert Browning
Walt Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Lewis Carroll
Gerard Manley Hopkins • Gelett Burgess • Oscar Wilde
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 206
THE 20TH CENTURY 216
Rudyard Kipling *A.E. Housman • Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens • Marianne Moore
William Carlos Williams W.H. Auden
TS.ELIOT 236
REFERENCES 249
INDEX 250
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