Sir Thomas Wyatt is trapped by his own conflicting desires.
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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.
A Leave-Taking
Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?
ReadStanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrestles with depression in a poem that seems to anticipate his own destiny.
ReadThe Flower-Fed Buffaloes
Vachel Lindsay laments a vanished way of life.
ReadI Hear An Army…
James Joyce suffers from terrible nightmares.
ReadDover Beach
Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.
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