Cep's Poetry Notes

Maria Gowen Brooks (1794-1845) drew on her unhappy romantic experiences to create this poem about the results of “settling” for a non-soulmate. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Why you should try reading and writing poetry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was the first of the literary sisters to die. Her older sister Charlotte identified this poem as her final composition. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

With her two sisters, Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), the author of Jane Eyre , published poetry before making a name for herself as a novelist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Anne Bronte (1820-1849), best known as the author of the novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , also published poetry along with her sisters (all using male pseudonyms). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Mary Bolles Branch (1840-1922) wrote books for children as well as travel literature; here she depicts the creation and recovery of an fossil. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

John G. C. Brainard (1795–1828), a sometime lawyer, wrote a beautiful wedding poem before dying of tuberculosis. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Mary E. Bradley (1835-1930), best known for a radical Science Fiction novel wherein good-mannered blonde women clone themselves, talks about being brought back from an early death into longterm disappointment. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Anna C. Brackett (1836-1911) writes of the national desire that the dying President James Garfield will recover in 1881 from the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) explores the notion that time heals sorrows. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Francis W. Bourdillon (1852-1921) shares a pessimistic view of love's availability in these two poems. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

American writer Anna Lynch (1815-1891) was traveling in Italy, doing research on the public school system, when she met Italian professor Vincenzo Botta; he came to the US and they married two years later. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), aka “Horace” Bonar to his friends, who lost five of his nine children in infancy or childhood, wrote many hymns still sung today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

George Henry Boker (1823-1890) seems to have been inspired to write verse by much grander influences than I can claim. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) wrote about the lives of rural laborers, and here celebrates his love for the environment far from the city. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

William Blake (1757-1827) included his famous description of a fearsome feline and its genesis in his collection Songs of Experience . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

William Cox Bennett (1820-1895) celebrates the benefits of timely precipitation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) reflects on the dust that was human glory in one of the more magnificent of the world’s sepulchers in London. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879) describes the last evening of an American Civil War Union soldier in her best-known poem. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) describes a major crisis in a woman’s life: when she finds her first gray hair. She realizes death approaches and she’s no longer a belle. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Fletcher Bates (1831-1903) compares poets to productive insects, whose contributions may be minute, but are nonetheless valuable. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

James Beattie (1735-1803) describes a bucolic village morning almost three hundred years ago; so many natural sounds! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838-1916), editor of The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, contemplates a lover’s mood, the idealisation of the past, and Autumn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

Joel Barlow (1754-1812) preaches what he practiced—that freedom leads to equality, social and economic justice, and general blessing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe

David Barker (1816-1874), a now-forgotten American poet, compares the tomb to a covered bridge. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe