Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?
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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.
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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Dover Beach
Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.
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After
There’s never enough time says Philip Bourke Marston in this powerful poem about loss and bereavement.
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