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Yeats, W. B.

(Encyclopedia) Yeats, W. B. (William Butler Yeats), 1865–1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. Dublin. The greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century…

Raine, Kathleen Jessie

(Encyclopedia) Raine, Kathleen Jessie, 1908–2003, English poet and critic, b. Ilford (now in Redbridge, Greater London), grad. Cambridge, 1929. Raine's poems and essays assert that true poetry is an…

Day Lewis, C.

(Encyclopedia) Day Lewis, C. (Cecil Day Lewis), 1904–72, English author, b. Ireland. While he was still at Oxford, he became associated with a group of leftist poets led by W. H. Auden. After…

Blake, William

(Encyclopedia) Blake, William, 1757–1827, English poet and artist, b. London. Although he exerted a great influence on English romanticism, Blake defies characterization by school, movement, or even…

Poems of William Blake

by WilliamBlake Poems Contents Songs of Innocence Songs Of Experience The Book Of Thel    

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet and artist whose illuminated prints included Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1792) and Milton (1811). Blake began writing…

Calvert, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Calvert, Edward, 1799–1883, English painter and engraver. A great admirer of William Blake, Calvert, along with several of his contemporaries, formed a group around Blake called the…

Recommended Online Poetry Collections

Poetry resources and poetry in the public domain compiled by David Johnson Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us…

Williams, William Carlos

(Encyclopedia) Williams, William Carlos, 1883–1963, American poet and physician, b. Rutherford, N.J., educated in Geneva, Switzerland, Univ. of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1906), and Univ. of Leipzig, where…

Poems: A Song

by WilliamBlakeLaughing SongDivine ImageA Song Sweet dreams, form a shade O'er my lovely infant's head! Sweet dreams of pleasant streams By happy, silent, moony beams! Sweet…