Classic Verse: King David to Coleridge

From Rawlinson's manuscript 28.05.2023 19:17 ↓

And from various women and men's voices

The crux of modernity 22.05.2023 29:14 ↓

with erudition and imagination Henry Moore perceives what Einstein proved

IN our Language , two most influential poets 07.05.2023 25:41 ↓

One from Heaven, one from earth Inspire mankind by sweet verse.

The two G's 02.04.2023 25:04 ↓

From Earth's woes free

the Swift has returned 26.03.2023 24:18 ↓

A Prince amongst the Learned

the best of the West 15.03.2023 28:29 ↓

Ay, let none protest!

Crabbe's last tale 09.03.2023 29:44 ↓

and an end note from Herbert

Hints from a transformed tree, tales of flower and birdie 01.03.2023 29:59 ↓

and over a half of  one Clifford's mythic  story

from early to late 23.02.2023 21:47 ↓

dominates

Closer 14.02.2023 22:12 ↓

When  ?

IN Dryden , a wide discussion reigns 06.02.2023 29:59 ↓

We'll not know his like again

late in the 17th : two wits side by side 24.01.2023 24:39 ↓

wrote verse that will survive

Prior to Gold , did Smith just have brass? Listen , decide, and I pray clap 16.01.2023 22:21 ↓

end the  17th C and see the 18th cynical be

FROM A DIM PAST TO DREAMS HATCHED 27.12.2022 28:17 ↓

They lie side by side /Dear Ovid and sweet Poe  whose  music   thrives/ who'd guess shook hands , Odso 

honour the season with song and sonnet 20.12.2022 22:53 ↓

16th to 19th C : a few tasty treats

Vibrations of Wordsworth 12.12.2022 19:23 ↓

some of the rarer sort

the world created , translated :Not that one ; one pagan explication of the human sink 05.12.2022 28:32 ↓

Hear  this Roman host , from Ovid's best , through  Dryden's ghost 

The wit's playfellow 28.11.2022 21:25 ↓

And Pope's fine friend , speaks here of those light years , and then of the end.

Many sweets 21.11.2022 25:00 ↓

We visit , an original partly copied : and some  loving practitioners  of Poetry

from Marlowe's quill and Keat's lovin' skills 14.11.2022 28:25 ↓

For Ovid and Endymion , we hear a new begin'on

17th and 19th C ,, see the abilities 07.11.2022 19:27 ↓

Of Rochester and of Keats : some verse you may find neat , and of the first most indiscreet , but of the latter do ye know , he died from his  kindness , by a  cold blow

Ole Defoe , of England, great 30.10.2022 29:59 ↓

does the hypocrite excoriate, Did he write this from  Newgate?

From David 25.10.2022 14:07 ↓

Feelings strong ; also strange?

TO TEST Robert Browning's reason for why he published them 17.10.2022 23:55 ↓

Let' us compare apples with  oranges , ah hem

from ancient Tuscany to the court of the 2nd Charles 10.10.2022 21:59 ↓

by way of Dryden's translation