Join Alexander Pope on a metaphysical journey of discovery… that will last a lifetime.
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The Forsaken Wife
Elizabeth Thomas exposes what it means to be a woman in a man’s world.
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Love in a Life
Lose yourself in Robert Browning’s twisted labyrinth.
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I Find No Peace
Sir Thomas Wyatt is trapped by his own conflicting desires.
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A Leave-Taking
Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?
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Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrestles with depression in a poem that seems to anticipate his own destiny.
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The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
Vachel Lindsay laments a vanished way of life.
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I Hear An Army…
James Joyce suffers from terrible nightmares.
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