Literature
- John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 ? 8 November 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is also known for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
- Ode To The Nightingale By John Keats
Throughout the poem we are represented to the suffering of the speaker. He wonders why man is so inhuman with other man, where other elements of nature work with each other in harmony. The First Stanza: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My...
- Hear The Voice Of The Bard! By William Blake
Hear the voice of the Bard! by William Blake Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees Whose ears have heard The Holy Word, That walk'd among the ancient trees. Calling the lapsed Soul And weeping in the evening dew; That might...
- Coleridge, To William Wordsworth
Coleridge, To William Wordsworth Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More than historic, that prophetic Lay Wherein (high theme by thee first sung aright) Of the foundations and the building up Of a Human...
- Famous Writers & Their Work
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major...
Literature
LONDON, 1802
LONDON, 1802
by: William Wordsworth 1770-1850
MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
by: William Wordsworth 1770-1850
MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
- John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 ? 8 November 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is also known for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
- Ode To The Nightingale By John Keats
Throughout the poem we are represented to the suffering of the speaker. He wonders why man is so inhuman with other man, where other elements of nature work with each other in harmony. The First Stanza: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My...
- Hear The Voice Of The Bard! By William Blake
Hear the voice of the Bard! by William Blake Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees Whose ears have heard The Holy Word, That walk'd among the ancient trees. Calling the lapsed Soul And weeping in the evening dew; That might...
- Coleridge, To William Wordsworth
Coleridge, To William Wordsworth Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More than historic, that prophetic Lay Wherein (high theme by thee first sung aright) Of the foundations and the building up Of a Human...
- Famous Writers & Their Work
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major...