All Are Following: The Quest for Poetical Inspiration There are poets who emerge on the scene entirely removed from what came before them. Yet there are those who look to the past, seeking their own offering to be annexed to the grander pantheon of English poetry. These include poets such as Edmund Spenser, John Keats, and William Morris;
essay The Poet's Prayer: Deeper Truths Behind Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life,” prefaced with the phrase “What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist” treads the line very carefully between poem and prayer. This is accomplished not merely by Longfellow’s heightened quality of rhythm, an uplifting score that sings itself
essay Sentence End V. Line End in Narrative Verse, with Frederick Turner’s The New World In current times, the vast majority of narratives we receive are composed in either prose or are portrayed acted out on the silver screen. It was not always like this, and at a time rather distant from our own, the popular mode was that of the epic. These tales were
