Poetry Flashcards
Edgar Allen Poe
USA (Boston, Baltimore). Poems: The Raven, Annabel Lee, Lenore, A Dream Within A Dream, Alone, The Bells. “great faith in fools”
Books: The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, The Masque of Red Death.
Maya Angelou
St Louis. Civil Rights Leader. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, On The Pulse of Morning, Still I Rise.
Emily Dickinson
Amherst, Mass. Eccentric, posthumous. Hope is the thing with feathers.
Shel Silverstein
Chicago. The Giving Tree, Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up.
Robert Frost
San Fran. 4 Pulitzers. The Road Not Taken, The Gift Outright, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Nothing Gold Can Stay, New Hampshire series.
Walt Whitman
Long Island. Civil War. Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain, When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloomed.
Langston Hughes
Harlem Reniassance. Harlem (Dream Deferred), I Too Sing America.
Pablo Neruda
Chile. I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You.
Thomas Hardy
Victorian England. Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure.
Rudyard Kipling
British India. The Jungle Book, If - , Gunga Din, Just So Stories, The Man Who Would Be King.
Oscar Wilde
Ireland, gay. The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Vision.
John Keats
London, died young. Ode to a Nightingale, Sleep and Poetry.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Victorian England, married Robert Browning eloped to Italy. How Do I Love Thee, Aurora Leigh.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
England. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War), “tis better to have loved and lost…”
William Blake
London, prophetic works. The Tyger, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence (The Lamb, The Shepherd).
Sylvia Plath
Boston, confessional poetry. The Bell Jar, Ariel.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maine. Translated Dante, Harvard prof. Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha.
William Wordsworth
England, Father of Romanticism. The Prelude.
Mark Twain
Missouri. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston, Essayist. “Self-Reliance”.
John Donne
London. The Flea.
WB Yeats
Ireland. “The Tower”, “Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems”, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium.
Lord Byron
London, fought in the Greek War of Independence. Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
Lewis Carroll
England. Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Jabberwocky, Hunting of the Snark.
Dante Alghieri
Florence. Divine Comedy, concepts of hell, heaven, purgatory.
Geoffrey Chaucer
England. Canterbury Tales.
T.S. Eliot
St Louis. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock, The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, Four Quartets. Friends with Ezra Pound.
Ezra Pound
Idaho, fascist, moved to Venice, went crazy. Friends with TS Eliot. The Cantos, Ripostes.
John Milton
England. Paradise Lost (about Adam and Eve).
Sappho
Ancient Lesbos, Greece, possible lesbian. Ode to Aphrodite.
Homer
Ancient Greece. The Iliad, The Odyssey.
James Joyce
Dublin. Ulysses, The Portrait of a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
England. Friends with William Wordworth. Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Biographia Literaria.
Edgar Lee Masters
USA. Spoon River Anthology, biographies of famous Americans.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Britain. Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
