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Song of Myself Walt Whitman Written Work    
"Song of Myself" is an epic poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. The poem was first published without sections and appeared as the first of twelve untitled poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Today it is one...
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The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda The Priest and Balda (1939 animated film) Film    
The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda (; Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale on September 13, 1830 while staying at Boldino. It is based on a Russian folk tale which...
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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (1950 animated film) Film    
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (; Skazka o rybake i rybke) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in autumn 1833 and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in May 1835. The tale is...
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The Man From Snowy River DVD cover Published Work    
"The Man From Snowy River" is a poem by Australia bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, in April 1890. The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning...
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Venus and Adonis Title page of the first quarto (1593) Written Work    
Venus and Adonis is one of Shakespeare's three longer poem. Venus and Adonis was entered into the Stationers' Register on April 18, 1593; the poem appeared later that year in a quarto edition, published and printed by Richard Field, a Stratford...
Shakespeare's sonnets Title page from 1609 edition of "Shake-Speares Sonnets" Literary Series    
Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poem in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All...
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The Rape of Lucrece The Earl of Southampton, painted in 1594, aged 21, the year that Shakespeare dedicated The Rape of Lucrece to him Written Work    
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in...
The Passionate Pilgrim Written Work    
The Passionate Pilgrim is an anthology of poems, published in 1599, which according to the title-page were "By W. Shakespeare". The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first...
The Phoenix and the Turtle Written Work    
The Phoenix and the Turtle is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. It has also been called "the first...
A Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare Written Work    
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem usually attributed to William Shakespeare, although the poem's authorship is a matter of critical debate. The poem consists of forty-seven seven-line stanzas written in the rhyme royal (with the rhyme scheme...
The Hollow Men The Hollow Men, from left to right: Nick Tanner, David Armand, Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding Written Work    
The Hollow Men are an English sketch comedy group consisting of David Armand, Nick Tanner, Rupert Russell, and Sam Spedding. The Hollow Men is also the title of their TV show broadcast in the United States by Comedy Central. The show follows the...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Cover page of The Egoist, Ltd.'s publication of T. S. Eliot's poems Quotation Source    
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the 1915 poem that marked the start of T. S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. The poem, also referred to simply as Prufrock, is one of the most anthologized 20th century...
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Ash Wednesday   Written Work    
Ash-Wednesday (sometimes Ash Wednesday) is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to...
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot Published Work    
The Waste Land (1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac...
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The Raven The Raven as illustrated by Gustave Doré Published Work   Trochaic octameter
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught...
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Annabel Lee VirginiaPoe Written Work    
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love...
Une Charogne   Written Work    
An important poem highlighting Baudelaire's beautifying things traditionally associated with ugliness.  He uses oxymorons such as "superb carcass", and a horrifying vocabulary featuring flies, maggots.
L'Albatros   Written Work      
Sed non satiata   Written Work      
Le Vampire   Written Work      
Four Quartets   Quotation Source    
Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943. They had been published individually from 1935 to 1942. Their titles are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little...
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The Bells Title page for publication of "The Bells" circa 1881. Written Work    
"The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the diacopic repetition of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker...
The Conqueror Worm   Written Work    
"The Conqueror Worm" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. It was first published separately in Graham's Magazine in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story "Ligeia" after Poe added the...
The Sleeper   Written Work      
The Valley of Unrest   Written Work      
Ulalume "Ulalume" as illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, circa 1847-8. Written Work    
"Ulalume" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of a beautiful woman due to her untimely death. Poe originally...
To helen   Written Work    
"To Helen" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It is about the ideal woman that can only exist by imagination. Poe originally wrote it about his friend's mother (her name is not Helen though). Poe uses an allusion to refer to Helen. Helen can refer to the...
Israfel   Written Work      
For Annie   Written Work      
Dream-Land   Written Work