Articles Containing Tag: poets

After neoclassicism dominated the literary arts with logic and reason, a new age focused on nature and emotions emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: Romanticism. Unlike poetry written during the Enlightenment, which followed strict rules and emulated… Read More

Neoclassical poetry dominated the 18th century, emerging at the end of the Renaissance around 1650 and running until the year 1800. It developed during the Enlightenment, a period defined by order that was also referred to as the Age of… Read More

For millennia, writers have expressed themselves through poetry, an intimate literary art form that dates back to 2000 BC. The earliest recognized form of poetry is called “epic,” a type of long narration that usually explores an ancient character’s adventures…. Read More

Poetry often brings one prolific writer to mind: William Shakespeare. Arguably the most famous poet to ever put quill to parchment, Shakespeare rose to prominence during the English Renaissance, a period of major cultural change that developed in the late… Read More

John Keats lived just 25 years, published only a small body of work, and spent much of his short life convinced that his poems would not last. He wrote during an era of disease, strict social class boundaries, and ruthless… Read More

Words can hop, skip, and even dance on the page when you’re reading a poem by E. E. Cummings. He didn’t believe poetry had to sit still. To him, words were alive, meant to move, twist, and surprise. E.E. Cummings… Read More

Imagine someone who loved the sound of waves breaking on the shore, the chatter of a busy street, and the soft rustle of grass underfoot, and then turned all those sounds into poetry. That person was Walt Whitman. He was… Read More

Have you ever seen the musical Cats, a play about a tribe of felines called the Jellicles? Those characters began as poems written by a playful, puzzle-loving poet named T. S. Eliot, short for Thomas Stearns Eliot. He was born… Read More

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) is still today one of America’s most… Read More

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. An American short-story writer and poet, he is recognized as the inventor of modern detective stories. His stories and poems led the way for cartoons such as Scooby-Doo… Read More