About Poetry Books

About Poetry Books

BLOG SESSION

January 6th, 2018

Good Afternoon Poets, Writers, and all Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors ~ We are back for another exciting Blog Session that is focused on Poetry Books.  Surely, all the Poets of our Blog will find this Session interesting, but so will the Lovers of Poetry, and those Writers here with us who try their hand at poetry writing every now and then.

If you are a Poet, or a lover of poetry, it is pretty understandable if you have a bookshelf that contains a few very nice Poetry Books written by some famous, and in many cases -- not so famous Poets.  Your poetry is worthy of being bound in a book!

We've all heard certain names, and read the poetry of most of the famous Poets of our time.  Like who has not heard of Edgar Allan Poe ~ whose book of poetry is pictured at the top of this Blog (with Illustrations inside by W. Heath Robinson).

Edgar Allan Poe

One of the most famous of Poe's poems is "The Raven", which is a narrative poem by this well known American Writer.  Edgar Allan Poe's poem was first published in January 1845.  The poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.  It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.  The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore".  The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

In a previous Blog Session, we discussed the fabulous idea of making a Poetry Journal.  If you are a Poet, then you can appreciate having a wonderful Journal just for your poetry writings.  You can be very creative with your Poetry Journal by decorating it and placing embellishments on your Journal that speak to your heart.  Making your Poetry Journal personal and attractive will inspire you to write in it. 

Poetry Journal for the Poet

For this Session, please grab your Poetry Journal dear friends.  It does not have to be decorated yet.  And, if you do not yet have your Poetry Journal, you have a little time to pick one up and start thinking about how you'd like to decorate it.  The point is, we would like to start writing in our Journals.

Get your poetry cap out, and be sure to check back in here for our next Blog Session where we will discuss how to get your Poetry Journal decorated and how to work on unique poetry creations!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

Poetry Art

Lessons for the Poet

Creating your Poetry Journal

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2018 - All Rights Reserved

FAMOUS POETS

FAMOUS POETS

BLOG SESSION

December 11th, 2017

Good Afternoon Blog Readers, Followers, Poets, Poetry Lovers & Visitors ~ We are back for another great Blog Session about Famous Poets!

Today's Blog Session will shed light on some Famous Poets.  If you are a Poet, or a poetry lover, you'll need to grab your Journal to take notes.

Can you imagine a time back in the day when there was a certain Poet that amazed poetry readers with his poetics, and still does to this day?  Take a look at who this man is . . .

Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809 - October 07, 1849

(Died at age 40)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.  Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.  He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS:

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1845) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. [Excerpt]

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1809 - 1892

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (In Memoriam A.H.H.), "Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs is not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten,/Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new".

Alfred Lord Tennyson is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Oscar Wilde

Born October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland

Died November 30, 1900 in Paris, France

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.  After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Oscar Wilde was a Poet and a Dramatist whose reputation rests on his only Novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891),  and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).  He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art's sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality and ending in his imprisonment (1895-97).

Wilde was born of professional and literary parents.  His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, who also published books on archaeology, folklore, and the satirist Jonathan Swift.  His mother, who wrote under the name Speranza, was a revolutionary poet and an authority on Celtic myth and folklore.

In the final decade of his life, Wilde wrote and published nearly all of his major work.  In his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (published in Lippincott’s Magazine, 1890, and in book form, revised and expanded by six chapters, 1891), Wilde combined the supernatural elements of the Gothic novel with the unspeakable sins of French decadent fiction.  Critics charged immorality despite Dorian’s self-destruction; Wilde, however, insisted on the amoral nature of art regardless of an apparently moral ending.  Intentions (1891), consisting of previously published essays, restated his aesthetic attitude toward art by borrowing ideas from the French poets Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire and the American painter James McNeill Whistler.  In the same year, two volumes of stories and fairy tales also appeared, testifying to his extraordinary creative inventiveness: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories and A House of Pomegranates.

T. S. Eliot

Born September 26,1888

Died January 4, 1965

(Died at age 76)

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".  He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there.  He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American citizenship.

• Awards:  Nobel Prize in Literature (1948); Tony Award for Best Play (1950); Tony Award for Best Original Score (1983); Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1983); Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (1981); Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical (1983); Outer Critics Award for Best Play (1950)

Movies:  Cats ~ Murder in the Cathedral ~ The Waste Land

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

MORE FAMOUS POETS!

When we come back,

get ready to learn more

inspirational information

for the Poet in you!

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved