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diary

(Encyclopedia) diary [Lat.,=day], a daily record of events and observations. As distinguished from memoir (an account of events placed in perspective by the author long after they have occurred), the…

Memorial Poetry

top all the clocks, cut off the telephone . . . compiled by Erin Teare Excerpts from memorial poems by some of the world's greatest poets, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and E. E…

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey was an English writer and a member of the snappy group of 19th-century writers and pals that included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, and Charles Lamb…

Poets on Poetry

I, too, dislike it—Marianne Moore I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.—John Ashbery, London Times (23…

Coleridge: The Beginnings

At Nether StoweyThe Beginnings Coleridge lived in what may safely be called the most momentous period of modern history. In the year following his birth Warren Hastings was appointed first…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was famous for dreamy and somewhat creepy poems like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan (the last of which he allegedly wrote subconsciously during a…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was England's Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892, and the author of the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade." He wrote poems as a child and published his first important work in…

Southey, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Southey, RobertSouthey, Robertsouˈᵺē, sŭᵺˈē [key], 1774–1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a…

Brewer's: Laureate

Poets so called from an ancient custom in our universities of presenting a laurel wreath to graduates in rhetoric and poetry. Young aspirants were wreathed with laurels in berry (orné de…