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	§25. "The Lives of the Poets:" their original plan and distinctive features. VIII. Johnson and Boswell. Vol. 10. ...
		The London booksellers were anxious to drive out of the market an Edinburgh reprint of the English poets and to protect their own copyright; and, besides producing an edition superior in accuracy and elegance, they determined to add biographical prefaces by some writer of authority.
		When he found the complete series labelled “Johnson’s Poets,” he was moved to write on a scrap of paper which has happily been preserved: “It is great impudence to put Johnson’s Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither recommended nor revised.” Of the fifty-two poets, five, at most, were included on his suggestion.
		The poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, besides affording him ample scope for expounding his views on poetry, possessed for him the personal interest which was always a stimulus to his criticism.
	www.bartleby.com /220/0825.html (883 words)

	English poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in European culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe.
		English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser.
		The poets who began to emerge in the 1930s had two things in common; they had all been born too late to have any real experience of the pre-World War I world and they grew up in a period of social, economic and political turmoil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_poetry (4581 words)

	English Literature - MSN Encarta
		Introduction; Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, Era; Middle English Period; The Renaissance; The Restoration Period and the 18th Century; The Romantic Age; The Victorian Era; Literature of the 20th-Century to the Present
		English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.
		In addition to these religious compositions, Old English poets produced a number of more or less lyrical poems of shorter length, which do not contain specific Christian doctrine and which evoke the Anglo-Saxon sense of the harshness of circumstance and the sadness of the human lot.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558048/English_Literature.html (884 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Literature
		English destroyer remained for a time almost entirely apart, though they and their literature were afterwards to have no small influence upon the literary development of England.
		English; it was the tongue, then as now, of the Church, and it was the medium for communication between scholars and the language of nearly all books of scholarship.
		English poet, and whatever may be the more balanced verdict of the future, his poetic immortality is assured.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05458a.htm (11885 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Gaius Valerius Catullus
		Whereas the majority of poets in Rome at that time produced epic poems, often commissioned by aristocratic families, Catullus and other neoteric rejected the epic and its public themes.
		English poets such as Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe wrote imitations of these poems, particularly poem five, which begins "Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love."
		This influence can be seen not only in Latin love poets such as Horace or Ovid, but also in English Renaissance poets such as Robert Herrick.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/606 (590 words)

	Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
		Wyatt is the first English poet since Chaucer to make use of Italian vernacular models in his verse, drawing on the rich legacy of Italian verse that developed from the thirteenth century on alongside the nascent humanism of the Italian city states.
		Fox points out that as Protestantism took root in the pulpit and the works of moralisers (and early Puritan demands that the English reformed church undergo further purification emerged) Italy was the source of a sensuality that was rejected by Calvinist austerity, with divines denouncing her as the symbol of Papism and vice.
		Only the poet, disclaiming to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or quite anew, forms as never were in nature {Nature’s) world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
	petrarch.petersadlon.com /submissions/Griffiths.html (3800 words)

	English 2000: Topics in English Studies (American Poetry: A Survey) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Poets, however, are probably better known for their "timeless utterances" than for their chronicling of history, and these poets have provided many of the most memorable lines composed in any language during the 19th and 20th centuries.
		In part because these poets are brilliant people, and in part because of the long-standing tradition of literature as a mode of expression, these poems communicate and often explain significant and ever-recurring states of human psychology.
		Studying the way in which these poets conducted their lives and careers can provide you with many insights into the way in which people create their own myths (or have their myths created for them), as well as the way in which celebrated people reconcile public responsibilities with their personal preferences.
	cdis.missouri.edu /previews/2116/fm.htm (2345 words)

	OWL at Purdue University: Meter
		English, being of Germanic origin, is a predominantly accentual language.
		The former is the more common; adherence to the latter often leads an English language poet toward self-conscious verse, as their predictable rhythms are counter to natural English speech.
		What most free verse poets find more useful than this strict form is accentual meter, where the accents only are counted in the line (although when scanned, the syllables are still marked off...it is just that their number is not of as much import.)
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/general/gl_meter.html (1068 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Poets'
		It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having versifiers and minstrels in the king's retinue, and of the later royal patronage of poets, such as Chaucer and Spenser.
		poet laureate Title conferred by the British monarch on a poet whose duty is then to write commemorative verse on important occasions.
		Slam or be slammed: emerging poets are finding more places to practice their craft and compete against the best of the best.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Poets' (812 words)

	Seasons India :: Literature of India - English Literature Writers
		Her depiction of the quintessential aspects of the life of the Indian peasantry in a novel like Nectar in a Sieve, are rendered authentic by the sense of empathy and sincerity that she exudes.
		Among all the Indian English poets of her generation, male or female, she maintains the shortest interval between emotion and expression.
		Unlike most of other Indian English poets, Kamala Das has not received any academic education or training in poetry writing.She is a bilingual writer, writing short fiction in Malayalam, her mother-tongue, under the pseudonym 'Madhavikutty'.
	www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/lit_english_sea.htm (1600 words)

	English poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Group of early 17th-century English poets whose work is characterized by ingenious, highly intricate wordplay and unlikely or paradoxical imagery.
		The English poet, playwright, and theatrical producer, William D¡¯Avenant, was born in Oxford,...
		THE PRINCE OF ENGLISH POETS/43 of the poet, by the eminent Yale scholar Maynard Mack* thus...
	www.dresspageant.com /english+poets.html (784 words)

	PIERCE COLLEGE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
		English 207 examines the literature of indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans, who recorded their experiences in poetry, oral tales, fiction, and non-fiction texts, and who developed genre specific to this period of the American experience.
		English 218: A survey of literature suitable for children of different age levels.
		English 270: C.S. Lewis's space trilogy--Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength--follow Ransom, a British philologist, on his odysseys to Mars, Venus, and deepest, darkest Earth, the silent planet.
	www.piercecollege.edu /departments/english/litclass.htm (1401 words)

	Ghazals in English
		Another poet recognized a poem I read publicly as a ghazal (even though it lacked radif/refrain), which indicates that there is something already recognizable about the ghazal as an English form.
		Poets unfamiliar with traditional ghazals should learn as much as they can about the form in its original cultures and the poets who produced ghazals.
		I would hate to see the English ghazal so confined by formal restrictions that it would be a minor form, used only for poets to demonstrate their technical cleverness (rather like sestinas or villanelles).
	web.umr.edu /~gdoty/poems/essays/ghazals.html (1800 words)

	Robert Bell, Annotated Edition of the English Poets
		A few of our Poets have been edited separately by men well qualified for the undertaking, and selected Specimens have appeared, accompanied by notices, which, as far as they go, answer the purpose for which they were intended.
		As the works of each Poet, when completed, will be independent of the rest, although ultimately falling into their place in the Series, they will be issued irrespective of chronological sequence.
		This arrangement will present a greater choice and variety in the selection from month to month of poets of different styles and periods, and at the same time enable the Editor to take advantage of all new sources of information that may be opened to him in the progress of publication.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/rraley/research/anthologies/R-Bell.html (857 words)

	Early English Sonnets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		English poets of almost every era have followed and adapted the sonnet to produce some of their best and worst work.
		The first English sonneteer, Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) learned of the form during travels in Spain and Italy.
		He introduced what came to be known as the English or Elizabethan sonnet form.
	members.aol.com /ericblomqu/early.htm (227 words)

	Thomas Humphry Ward, The English Poets
		There are great collections of the whole works of the poets, like that of Chalmers; there are innumerable volumes of 'Beauties' of a more or less unsatisfactory kind; there are Selections from single poets; there are a few admirable volumes, like that of Mr.
		The history of English poetry is so wide, its various selections and stages have become the objects of so special a study, that a book which aims at selecting the best from the whole field and pronouncing its judgments with some degree of authority, must not be the work of one writer, but of many.
		The exceptions that we have made are in the case of the Scotch poets (though with them it is a matter of language than of orthography), and of Spenser, who is so intentionally archaic that his spelling is peculaiar, and is a part of himself.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/rraley/research/anthologies/Ward.html (791 words)

	English Renaissance Poets (from English literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature.
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
		Instruments like the English horn were used in the 16th century and seem to have entered the...
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /ebi/article-200330 (938 words)

	Restoration & 18th C. English Poets
		John Dryden (1631-1700) was Charles II's poet laureate and the dominant literary figure of his time, even though Milton still lived and published Paradise Lost in 1665.
		He valued concision, preciseness, and order, qualities which drew him to the closed couplet form, and it was his advocacy which made the heroic couplet the dominant form for a century.
		Robert Burns (1759- 1796) began as folk poet and barely left home before he was 30; when his poems were published in 1786, he was a national celebrity, but he spent little time in Edinburgh, returning home to marry and drink himself to death.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/poets18.html (1013 words)

	THE ENGLISH POETRY FULL-TEXT DATABASE
		English Poetry is a machine-readable full-text database encompassing the works of 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century, available commercially from Chadwyck-Healey.
		Poets who were active before 1900 are included but poets principally active in the twentieth century are excluded.
		English Poetry's ability to cope with such omissions at a later stage through the seamless merging of new texts into the database is one of its great virtues.
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/chadwyck.html (1729 words)

	English Poetry, 2nd Edition
		English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of the original English Poetry collection with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems.
		The most comprehensive archive of English verse available now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of former colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.
		On its launch in 1992 (on CD-ROM), English Poetry was described by Edwin Morgan as a 'Shelleyan universal anthology waiting to be dipped into by random hands', and since then it has become recognized as an indispensable research tool for scholars and students from around the world.
	www.il.proquest.com /products_pq/descriptions/english_poetry_2.shtml (495 words)

	Poets
		Finally, the poets of the fourth generation are still too young to have garnered enough acclaim to have been translated into English, and thus won't be addressed here.
		These three poets developed negritude as a "literary and cultural movement with the fundamental objective of defining fl aesthetics and fl consciousness against a background of racial injustice and discrimination around the world" (Elimimian 1991:23).
		Senghor in particular was a driving force as both a poet and a statesman in recognizing the way in which feminism, and female sensuality in particular, leads to moral virtue, and consequently the rise of hope and the human spirit.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/poets.htm (974 words)

	English Poets Laureate: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The English academic and poet, Thomas Warton, was born in Basingstoke, England on January 9, 1728.
		He was the son of the elder Thomas Warton, also a poet from 1688-1745, and the brother to Joseph Warton.
		Because Warton supported the poetry of Thomas Gray, he is considered one of the “churchyard poets.” The poets of this school, such as Thomas Percy, Thomas Gray, James MacPherson, and Thomas Chatterton, write about melancholy, and each shows an interest in nature.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~lanes/english/laureate/warton.htm (497 words)

	Pace University - English - Westchester - Poets at Pace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Poets at Pace Series is curated by Jane Collins of the English Department.
		She is an associate professor of English at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, and she lives in New York City.
		Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins says that Poetry Caravan is “doing literary missionary work by bringing poetry into the lives of the often alienated.” At this reading, we will celebrate the publication of en(compass), an anthology of poems by Poetry Caravan writers and their writing workshop attendees, edited by Akella.
	appserv.pace.edu /execute/page.cfm?doc_id=12055 (543 words)

	The Hindu : A poet's perceptions
		Every poet in India has to create his own voice, even if he or she cannot avoid the influence of those English poets he or she admires most in a personal way.
		The voice of the poem translated remains the voice of the poet who wrote it in his language, not the voice of the translator.
		The characters and the situations projected are intended to be genuinely Indian, and the humour is in the English language as it is widely spoken by Indians, to whom it is not funny at all.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2004/04/04/stories/2004040400260400.htm (1062 words)

	Famous English Poets
		Our intention is that the reader's range of knowledge for each of the English poets, their biographies, pictures and poems can be increased effortlessly by perusing ' Famous English Poets' thus ensuring that the love of poems is passed on to as many people as possible.
		The design of the 'Famous English Poets' section was developed to encourage immediate recognition of the most famous of English poets.
		The thumbnail pictures of the English poets and the full size versions of the pictures have been presented in a format which is unique to 'Love Poems' and complements the essence of the site.
	www.love-poems.me.uk /a_english_poets.htm (499 words)

	Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language.
		This spirit and drive transformed what was, by all accounts, a pedestrian poet in 1816 into a poet for the ages only four years later.
		Women Romantic poets had sunk into obscurity by the middle of the 20th century, but in their time their volumes were bestsellers.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/Assets/courseDescriptions/2477.asp (1183 words)

	"Poetic Meter in English: Roots and Possibilities" by Richard Moore
		If you tend to think of those poets as meaningless excrescences of a past essentially boring or monstrous and the sooner forgotten, the better, then your verse will likely be the freest of the free, insouciant of the suffocating rules they seem to imagine helped them to harmony and life.
		In English, as in other stress-accent languages, the accents occur most frequently on every other—sometimes on every third—or, more rarely still, every fourth syllable; and when rhyme as a structural device in verse made its European appearance in the early Middle Ages, more-or-less systematic accentual-syllabic lines appeared along with it.
		The sixteenth century founders of English prosody, judged by their practice and that of the poets who followed, had a rule clearly modeled on the Greek: in English iambic, the accent in any iamb may be moved or removed if the accent in the following iamb remains in place.
	www.poemtree.com /poems/PoeticMeterInEnglish.htm (5468 words)

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