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