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Michael Macro~; ILLUSTRA1HONS BY TOM LULEVI~EH A and M~eel l1drews A Universal Press Syndicate Company Kansas City THANK YOU for buying this Cader Book—we hope you enjoy it. And thanks as well to the store that sold you this, and the hardworking sales rep who sold it to them. It takes a lot of people to make a book. Here are some of the many who were instrumental: Editorial: Rufus Griscom.Jake Morrissey, Dorothy O'Brien, Regan Brown Design: Charles KrelofF, Orit Mardkha-Tenzer Copy Editing/Proofing: Linda Olle.Jack Murnighan Production: Carol Coe, Cathy Kirkland Legal: Renee Schwartz, Esq. Copyright © 1996 Michael Macrone and Cader Company Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatso ever without written permission of the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America. If you would like to share any thoughts about this book, or are interested in other books by us, please write to: CADER BOOKS 38 E. 29 Street New York, NY 10016 Or visit our cool new web site: http://www.caderbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Macrone, Michael. Brush up your poetry! / by Michael Macrone. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8362-2145-1 1. English poetry. 2. American poetry. 3. English poetry— Explication. 4. American poetry—Explication. I.Title PR1175.M22 1996 821.008—dc20 96-43989 November 1996 First edition 10 98765432 1 ATTENTION: SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES Andrews and McMeel books are available at quantity discounts with bulk purchase for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write to: Special Sales Department, Andrews and McMeel, 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. Contents INTRODUCTION 7 GEOFFREY CHAUCER 11 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 49 THE RENAISSANCE 67 John Skelton • Sir Thomas Wyatt • Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe *John Donne • Ben Jonson Robert Herrick • Richard Lovelace • Henry Vaughan Andrew Marvell JOHN MILTON 91 ALEXANDER POPE 112 THE RESTORATION & 18TH CENTURY 126 Samuel Butler • Thomas Gray • William Cowper WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 135 - 5- THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 144 Robert Burns • William Blake • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott • George Gordon, Lord Byron •John Keats THE LATER 19TH CENTURY 169 Edgar Allan Poe • Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Alfred, Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Robert Browning Walt Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Lewis Carroll Gerard Manley Hopkins • Gelett Burgess • Oscar Wilde WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 206 THE 20TH CENTURY 216 Rudyard Kipling *A.E. Housman • Robert Frost Wallace Stevens • Marianne Moore William Carlos Williams W.H. Auden TS.ELIOT 236 REFERENCES 249 INDEX 250 -6-