POETRY 



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roes. Thus narrative poetry, the epic and the 

 ballad, was one of the earliest forms of poetry. 

 The lyric, too, was a direct outgrowth of t: 

 early songs set to music, and even dramatic 

 poetry grew out of the choral chants in honor 

 of Bacchus. These three classes really comprise 

 all poetry, if satirical and didactic verse be cx- 

 cepted; and as these two contain little imagi- 

 nation or emotion, and appeal chiefly to the 

 intellect, they are not by all critics classed with 

 poetry. 



As to the form of poetry, the variations which 

 have been invented are almost infinite. Yt t 

 there are certain well-defined rules which no 

 . poet would violate. A tragedy in rhymed cou- 

 plets, for instance, would be an impossibility. 

 nor could an epic be composed in the meter of 

 Shelley's Ode to a Skylark. Rhyme, meter, al- 

 literation all have a place in the making of 

 poetry; and though occasionally a poet arises 

 who, like Whitman, feels that he can dispense 

 with verse form, the majority of readers as 

 well as many critics will always feel a serious 

 lack in his work. 



ItrlntMi SuhjertM. The following articles in 

 these volumes will supplement the above brief 

 discussion of poetry : 



Acrostic Idylls of the King 



Aeneid Iliad 



Alliteration Lake School 



Ancient Mariner, The Lyric Poetry 



Ballad Macbeth 



Beowulf Meter 



Biglow Papers Midsummer Night's 

 Canterbury Tales Dream 



Charge of the Light Mother Goose 



Brigade Nibelungenlied 



Courtship of Miles Ode 



Standish Odyssey 



Drama Paradise Lost 



Pastoral Poetry 



Evangel ine Rhyme 



Hamlet Sonnet 



Hiawatha Spenserian Stanza 

 Idyll 



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Addison. Joseph 

 Annunzio, Gabrlelle d* 

 Arnold, Sir Edwin 

 Arnold, Matthew 

 Austin, Alfred 

 Blake, William 

 Blewett, Jean Mc- 



Klshney 



Bradstreet. Anne 

 Bridges, Robert 

 Browning, Elizabeth 



Barrett 



Browning. Robert 

 Bryant, William 



Cullen 



Burns, Robert 

 Butler, Samuel 



Byron, George Noel 



Gordon 



Cameron, George F. 

 Campbell, Thomas 

 Campbell, William W. 

 Carleton, Will 

 Carman, Bliss 

 Cary, Alice and Phoebe 

 Catullus, Caius Valerius 

 Cawein, Madison J. 

 Chapman, George 

 Chaucer, Geoffrey 

 Coleridge, Samuel 



Taylor 



Cowper, William 

 Crawford, Isabella V. 

 Dante Alighieri 



Drummond, William Morris, William 



Henry .Musset, Alfred de 



Dry den, John Noyes, Alfred 



Dunbar, Paul Laurence Omar Khayyam 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo Ovid 



Field. Eugene Payne. John Howard 



Fitzgerald, Edward Peck. Samuel M. 



Frechette, Louis Honorfi Perry, Bliss 



Gay, John Pindar 



Gerln-Lajoie, Antoine 'Poe, Edgar Allan 



Gilder. Richard Watson Pope, Alexander 



Goethe. Johann Wolf- Procter. Adelaide Anne 



gang von Read, Thomas Buchanan 



Goldsmith. Oliver Riley, James Whitcomb 



Gray, Thomas Rossetti, Christina 

 Halleck, Fitz-Greene Georgina 



Hayne. Paul Hamilton Rossetti, Gabriel 

 Heavysege, Charles Charles Dante 



Heine, Heinrich Ryan, Abram J. 

 Hemans, Felicia Doro-Sachs, Hans 



thea Sadi 



Herrick, Robert Sappho 



Holmes, Oliver Wendell Saxe, John Godfrey 



Homer Scott, Sir Walter 



Hood, Thomas Service, Robert 



Horace Shakespeare, William 



Howe, Julia Ward Shelley, Percy Bysshe 



Hugo, Victor Marie Sidney, Sir Philip 



Hunt, [James Henry] Simms, William Gilmore 



Leigh Simonides 



Ingelow, Jean Smith, Samuel Francis 



Johnson, E. Pauline Snorri Sturluson 



Juvenal (Decimus Southey, Robert 



Junius Juvenalis) Spenser, Edmund 



Keats, John Stanton, Frank L. 



Key, Francis Scott Stedman, Edmund Clar- 

 Kipling, Rudyard ence 



Lamartine, Alphonse de Stevenson, Robert Louis 

 Lampman, Archibald Balfour 



Langrland, William Suckling, Sir John 



Lanier, Sidney Swinburne, Algernon 

 Larcom, Lucy Charles 



Le Gallienne, Richard Tagore, Rabindranath 



Lemay, Lon Pamphile Tasso, Torquato 



Longfellow, Henry Tegner, Esaias 



Wadsworth Tennyson, Alfred 



Loveman, Robert Theocritus 



Lowell, James Russell Thomson, James 



Lucretius, Titus Carus Tlmrod, Henry 



Lytton, Edward Robert Uhland, Johann Ludwig 



Bulwer Van Dyke, Henry 



Mair, Charles Vergil 



Markham, Edwin Voss, Johann Heinrich 

 Martial, (Marcus Vale- Watts, Isaac 



rius Martialis) Whitman, Walt 



Masefleld, John Whittier, John Greenleaf 



Masters, Edgar Lee Wieland, Christoph 

 Meredith, George Martin 



Miller, Cincinnatus Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 



Heine Willis, Nathaniel Parker 



Milton, John Wordsworth, William 



Moody, William V. Yeats, William Butler 



Moore, Thomas Young, Edward 



POETS' CORNER, a part of the south 

 transept of Westminster Abbey which has been 

 dedicated to the great poets of England. There 

 are to be seen the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, 

 Dryden, Gray, Browning and Tennyson, while 



