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EXAMPLES OF POETIC TERMS



-- from the poetry of --

William Blake

Robert Browning

Robert Burns

Samuel Butler

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Lewis Carroll

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Abraham Cowley

William Cowper

Adelaide Crapsey

Emily Dickinson

Michael Drayton

John Dryden

Edward Fitzgerald

Oliver Goldsmith

Thomas Gray

George Herbert

Robert Herrick

Oliver Wendall Holmes

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ben Jonson

John Keats

King James I of Scotland

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Richard Lovelace

Lt. Colonel John McCrae

John Milton

Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Pope

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Sir Walter Scott

William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Skelton

Edmund Spenser

Sir John Suckling

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Sara Teasdale

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

James Thomson

François Villon

Isaac Watts

Walt Whitman

William Wordsworth

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Anonymous

Folk Ballads

Limericks

- plus -

An Essay, The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe


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