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“The poetry of earth is never dead”

Keats wrote this sonnet on December 30, 1816 after a challenge by Leigh Hunt.  Hunt printed both sonnets in The Examiner.  Keats’s sonnet appeared in his Poems (1817).  The last six lines anticipate...

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Horsehead Nebula imaged through Herschel telescope

The Herschel space telescope, named for astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, is soon-to-be-retired. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22217334  

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Akala, Hip Hop & Shakespeare

Also for Shakespeare’s birthday, Hip Hop and Shakespeare, lyricism, language and power. TEDxAldeburgh-Akala

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“Silencer of dragon’s yell.”

Written in 1816 as a valentine for Keats’s brother George (to send to his finance) and published in Poems 1817. To *   *    *   * [Georgiana Augusta Wylie, afterwards Mrs. George Keats]  HADST thou...

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“The small warm rain/Melts out the frozen incense from all flowers,”

Today is so beautiful. “When in mid-May the sickening East wind Shifts sudden to the south, the small warm rain Melts out the frozen incense from all flowers, And fills the air with so much pleasant...

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Herman Melville b. August 1, 1819. Three Poems “…and so the universal thump...

Melville the poet is perhaps less well known than Melville the author of the sublime MOBY DICK (the greatest novel in English, I think).  Here are three of Melville’s poems in honor of his birthday....

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Lovers and madmen

“More strange than true: I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever...

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