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Category: Classic Poetry

Critical essays on famous classic poetry.

Classical & Modern Poets: A Comparative Exploration
Classic Poetry / Poets

Classical & Modern Poets: A Comparative Exploration

A brief perusal through history reveals the richness and dynamism inherent in poetry, an art form that reflects the complex beauty of human emotions, experiences, …

“A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” by Jonathan Swift – Poem Analysis
Classic Poetry

“A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” by Jonathan Swift – Poem Analysis

It may seem to the modern reader that the eighteenth-century English poets were very disapproving of women. It is hard to explain otherwise their clear …

Natural Landscape in William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey
Classic Poetry

Natural Landscape in William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey

This is the second part of a short essay comparing the ways in which natural landscape is described in select excerpts of Alexander Pope’s Windsor …

Natural Landscape in Alexander Pope’s Windsor Forest
Classic Poetry

Natural Landscape in Alexander Pope’s Windsor Forest

This is the first part of a short essay comparing the ways in which natural landscape is described in select excerpts of Alexander Pope’s Windsor …

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