Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Author	Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN	0946497079

Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2

I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...

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William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth   6 June, 1982
Read for AP English. I rather like Wordsworth, even though I'm not a huge poetry fan.
 
Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume II, which I have kept
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31 March, 2017
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John Keats

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Author	William Faulkner
ISBN	1563127881

Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later...

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William Wordsworth

Introduce young children to the timeless poetry of William Wordsworth, whose traditional verse is accompanied by vivid oil paintings inspired by the poem's original themes. These beautiful images create a parallel story accessible to children: Lonely little Robot doesn't have much to be happy...