February — A Poem by John Clare
February A poem from The Shepherd’s Calendar by John Clare (mini-bio at end) The snow is gone from cottage tops The thatch moss glows in brighter green And eves in quick succession drops Where...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth and parents Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), an English poet and philosopher, was born on the 21st of October 1772, at his father’s vicarage of Ottery St Mary’s, Devonshire....
John Keats Biography (1911)
John Keats (1795 – 1821) was an English Romantic poet, often mentioned along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Texts for Literature and Composition
English II: Literature and Composition What does Literature and Composition cover? Literature and Composition is a college-preparatory literature and composition course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth Five years have passed; five summers with the length Of...
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ADDRESSED TO CHARLES LAMB, OF THE INDIA HOUSE, LONDON In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid a visit to the author’s cottage; and...
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
FROST AT MIDNIGHT by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at...
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. 5 So twice...
