D.H. Lawrence Poems

 

While D.H. Lawrence is known to modern audiences primarily as a novelist and short story writer, the author's initial forays into literature were his poems. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885, David Herbert Lawrence's childhood was spent around the colleries of the Eastwood area, where his father and most of the other men in his family worked as miners. Although Lawrence ...

Rudyard Kipling Poems

 

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Few poets are more beloved by more people than Rudyard Kipling. A favorite of readers both young and old, known the world over, Rudyard Kipling's poems - and stories - have proven both popular and evergreen. Born ...

Ted Hughes Poems

 

Good metrical rhymed verse, if it’s to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse. ~ Ted Hughes Poet Ted Hughes stormy private life often overshadowed his poetry, giving him a notoriety that even the most readable and accessible of poets ...

Thomas Hardy Poems

 

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. ~ Thomas Hardy A failed novelist turned poet, Thomas Hardy could be called a writer's writer, his novels and verses read more by other writers than by the public, especially during his lifetime, when the frank sexuality of his novels and the ...

Allen Ginsberg Poems

 

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” “The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.” “I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks… And ...