Alfred Edward Housman ( /ˈhaʊsmən/ ; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman , was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. [1] Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War . Through their song-settings, the poems became closely assoc...
Apr 12, 2021•9 min
Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem from Rosalie Grayer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Apr 05, 2021•7 min
The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse . Rood is from the Old English word rōd 'pole', or more specifically ' crucifix '. Preserved in the 10th-century Vercelli Book , the poem may be as old as the 8th-century Ruthwell Cross , and is considered as one of the oldest works of Old English literature . -From Wikipedia: Hosted on Acast. Se...
Apr 02, 2021•9 min
Let's kick off April with the world's greatest poems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Apr 01, 2021•3 min
Alfred Edward Housman ( /ˈhaʊsmən/ ; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman , was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. [1] Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War . Through their song-settings, the poems became closely assoc...
Mar 31, 2021•6 min
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, [2] philosopher , lay theologian , and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox ". [3] Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." [4] Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown , [5] and wrote on apologetics . Even some of those w...
Mar 30, 2021•6 min
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which was promoting a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. - Bio via Wikipedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 29, 2021•8 min
Robert Southey ( /ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/ ; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets , William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Southey had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably Byron , accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as...
Mar 26, 2021•5 min
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings , as he is attributed in many of his published works, [1] was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry . Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and...
Mar 25, 2021•6 min
Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism . - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 24, 2021•6 min
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement . He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain. - -Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Mar 23, 2021•8 min
Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas , was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman , in his 1955 introduction to Song at the Year's Turning , the first collection of Thomas's poetry from a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remembered long after he himself was forgotten. M. Wynn Thomas said: "He was the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales becau...
Mar 23, 2021•7 min
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude , a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally kn...
Mar 18, 2021•7 min
Today's episode features two poems by the great contemporary poet, Rhina Espaillat, both of which were recently published in Plough quarterly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 17, 2021•8 min
In honor of the Ideas of March (yesterday), today's poem is Brutus' speech from act III, scene II of Julius Caesar , Shakespeare's wonderful play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 16, 2021•9 min
William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was an American dramatist and poet . Moody was author of The Great Divide , first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. His poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death). - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
Mar 15, 2021•6 min
John Donne ( /dʌn/ DUN ; 22 January 1572 [1] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England . [3] Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). [2] He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets . His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets , love poems, religious poems, Latin translat...
Mar 11, 2021•8 min
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett ; /ˈbraʊnɪŋ/ ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era , popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 10, 2021•7 min
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist , cultural critic , and farmer. [1] He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers , a recipient of The National Humanities Medal , and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award . [2] On January 28, 2015, he became the f...
Mar 09, 2021•9 min
Maya Angelou ( /ˈændʒəloʊ/ ( listen ) ANN-jəl-oh ; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson ; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist . She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. [3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focu...
Mar 08, 2021•6 min
Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister ; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. While a librarian at the all-black Dunbar High School, a position she held for 20 years, she supplemented the original three books by bringing others from her own collection at home. Though she lived outside New York City, the recognized center of the Harlem Renaissance , also known as the New Negro Movement , she was an important member of this g...
Mar 05, 2021•6 min
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington . She published under the pen name H.D. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Mar 04, 2021•9 min
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress , from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. [1] For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry , [2] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , [3] and Bollingen Prize . Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov , Professor of the History of Art and American...
Mar 02, 2021•7 min
In today's episode, David shares three poems by the great Richard Wilbur, who was born 100 years ago today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Mar 01, 2021•9 min
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include " Paul Revere's Ride ", The Song of Hiawatha , and Evangeline . He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, ...
Feb 26, 2021•7 min
James Russell Lowell ( /ˈloʊəl/ ; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet , critic, editor, and diplomat . He is associated with the Fireside Poets , a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets . These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Feb 25, 2021•8 min
Bio via Britannica.com : Edna St. Vincent Millay , (born February 22, 1892, Rockland , Maine , U.S.—died October 19, 1950, Austerlitz, New York), American poet and dramatist who came to personify romantic rebellion and bravado in the 1920s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Feb 24, 2021•10 min
Today's poem is for those snowed in and ready for spring. Bio via Wikipedia: Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship , was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived , followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He c...
Feb 23, 2021•7 min
Yesterday was W.H. Auden's birthday, so here's one of his great ones. Bio via Wikipedia : Wystan Hugh Auden ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1...
Feb 22, 2021•7 min
A poem dedicated to this long, cold winter. Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017) [1] was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books . She won the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn . [2] - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscrib...
Feb 18, 2021•6 min
