The Daily Poem

William Shakespeare's "It Was a Lover and His Lass"

Happy birthday to the Bard! NB: Anyone itching to dig deeper into Shakespeare’s plays should...

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Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris"

Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943. She is the author of numerous poetry collections,...

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• 2 días

Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"

Francis Thompson was born in Northwest England in 1859. The son of Catholic converts, as a boy he...

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• 5 días

William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"

Today’s poem–benign anthem of the resilient human spirit or a hymn to radical autonomy?–has...

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• 6 días

John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"

What do John Donne, Paul Simon, and AC/DC have in common? Today’s poem. Happy reading! Get...

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• 7 días

Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"

Today it’s Whitman (and Dylan) on the march of progress. Get full access to The Daily Poem...

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• 8 días

Wendell Berry's "The Plan"

Today’s poem imagines what you might do when you’re through paying taxes. Get full access...

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• 9 días

Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"

Today’s poem is an ekphrasis on a portrait of the poet himself–all that the portrait does and...

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• 12 días

Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"

Today’s poem is a lighter take on the self-portrait ekphrasis. What is it about the self-portrait...

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• 13 días

Elizabeth Jennings' "Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits"

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved to Oxford at the age of...

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• 14 días

Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"

Richard Howard (born Oct 13, 1929, died march 31, 2022) was credited with introducing modern...

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• 15 días

Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"

ekphrasis: “Description” in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more...

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• 16 días

Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Today’s poem is in honor of April being (according to now-outdated tradition) the last prudent...

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• 19 días

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott made his debut as an 18-year-old with In a Green...

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• 20 días

George Herbert's "The Church-floore"

In today’s poem: George Herbert meditating on the simple profundity of a single, sustained...

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• 21 días

Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"

Today’s poem–a layered, jokingly-serious response to one of last week’s–comes from Ogden Nash,...

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• 22 días

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"

A joyous Eastertide and happy reading to you all! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast...

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• 23 días

Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

English peer and poet George Gordon Byron was one of the bad boys of the Romantic movement and,...

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• 25 días

Andrew Marvell's "A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure"

Due to the inconsistencies and ambiguities within his work and the scarcity of information about...

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• 25 días

Louis Simpson's "American Poetry"

Poet, editor, translator, and critic Louis Simpson was born in Jamaica to Scottish and Russian...

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• 28 días