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Leaves of Grass
by Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass is a collection of poems written by “the father of free verse” Walt Whitman, an American poet who published this work initially as a collection of 12 poems and went on to re-write until his death which ended up with 400 poems written over a period of forty years. Whitman did not follow any rules of standard such as line length, a..
Don Juan
by Lord ByronDon Juan, a satirical poem and is known as the masterpiece of the English poet Lord Byron, his short lyric She Walks in Beauty and lengthy narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage made him to be the celebrated poet of the England. Don Juan portrays the fictional libertine, Don Giovanni as a character who can be easily seduced by women, against ..
The Odyssey
by HomerThe Odyssey is written by Homer, one of the greatest ancient Greek epic poets. A sequel to the Iliad, both the works by the author is considered to be the greatest Greek Poems and oldest extant work of western literature. The story is set around the Trojan War and fall of Troy. Greek hero Odysseus is believed to be missing in the Trojan Wa..
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet and philosopher credited as the founder of Romantic Movement in England. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written as poem narrates the long voyage experiences of a mariner who narrates his story to a man who is on his way to attend a wedding ceremony. Blesse..
Spenser's The Faerie Queene
by Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene is written by Edmund Spenser, an English poet who crafted the modern English verse. This epic poem has been considered as the first work to be compiled in Spenserian stanza which is a fixed verse form contains 9 lines. One of the longest poems of English language, this was written to celebrate the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I...
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
by Baron George Gordon Byron ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem written by George Gordon Byron, an English poet who led the romantic movement of British literary world. Along with his magnum opus Don Juan, his poetic works includes Parthenon marbles, The Curse of Minerva and She Walks in Beauty. It looks like the author’s experiences during his travels through E..
The Waste Land
by T. S. EliotThe Waste Land is one of the most important poems of 20th century written by T. S. Eliot, an American essayist, playwright and literary critic whose magnum opus being The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. This long poem is written in five parts, titling it as The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What..
The Iliad
by HomerThe Iliad is an epic poem written by Homer, an ancient Greek Poet whose work influenced the shaping of Greek culture to great extent. Considered to be sequel to the author’s early work “The Odyssey”, The Iliad narrates final week incidents of the Trojan War, the early events like the cause of the war, gathering warriors for the siege has b..