Author: Every Writer

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Dulce Et Decorum Est–Wilfred Owen

Posted on January 28, 2010July 12, 2017 by Every Writer

Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893

A month before his death he wrote to his mother: “My nerves are in perfect order. I came out again in order to help these boys; directly, by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can.” Let his own words be his epitaph:?

“Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery.”

~Siegfried Sassoon

When I was a Bird–Katherine Mansfield

Posted on January 27, 2010July 11, 2017 by Every Writer

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was born in 1888 and died in 1923. Prominent in the modernist movement as a short fiction writing, her poetry is lesser know.

The Coronet–Andrew Marvell

Posted on January 25, 2010July 11, 2017 by Every Writer

When for the thorns with which I long, too long, With many a piercing wound, My Saviour’s head have crowned,

The Sleeper in the Valley–Arthur Rimbaud

Posted on January 24, 2010July 11, 2017 by Every Writer

Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 and died in 1891. He was for the most part a boy poet. His work was part of the decadent movement.

John Donne–Meditation XVII

Posted on January 22, 2010July 12, 2017 by Every Writer

John Donne was an English poet born in 1572. He died in 1631. Donne has had a major influence on many generations of poets especially of the metaphysical variety.

To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence–James Elroy Flecker

Posted on January 20, 2010July 12, 2017 by Every Writer

James Elroy Flecker was a British poet who was born in 1884 and died in 1915. He was the most famous poet of the Parnassian Poets.

Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon

Posted on January 20, 2010May 18, 2024 by Every Writer

Siegfried Sassoon was a British poet born Sept. 8, 1886. He died in 1967. Sassoon was served in World War I.

GOOD-BYE–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted on January 18, 2010January 27, 2010 by Every Writer

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 and died in 1882. He was a American poet who lead the Transcendentalist movement.

On Virtue– Phillis Wheatley

Posted on January 17, 2010January 17, 2010 by Every Writer

Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753. She was the first African American to have works published in the United States.