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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CRITICS & CRITICISM Matches Found: 86 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PREFATORY EPISTLE TO THE REVIEWERS, by MARIA FALCONAR Poem Text First Line: Stay, gentle child of taste! Who'er thou art Last Line: Shall shine an ode in quarto to your praise.' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. Variant Title(s): Adonais Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readers and the hearers like my books Last Line: I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Variant Title(s): Of Writers That Carp ... Other Men's Books Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What flocks of critics hover here to-day Last Line: Such rivell'd fruits as winter can afford. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To All For Love: Prologue To Antony And Cleopatr Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5 Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc ANSWER TO SOME ELEGANT VERSES SENT BY A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candor compels me, becher! To commend Last Line: Their sneers or censures I alike despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism CHROMOTONES, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice was darker than of old Last Line: And that was intermission. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all." Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers CRITIC AND POET, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man had ever heard a nightingale Last Line: Were it a bird, 'twould answer to my law. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets CRITICISM, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet art hath less of instinct than of thought Last Line: Till beams, with deathless love, the chiseled face. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Critics & Criticism CRITICS AND CONNOISSEURS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious Last Line: Of carrying a stick? Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets DIRGE; JOHN RUSKIN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, upward-stealing vapours, sunset-amber Last Line: To silence and to dust. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900) ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must I hear? - shall hoarse fitzgerald bawl Last Line: Yet rarely blames unjustly, now declare. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Andrews, Miles Peter; Bland, Robert (1779-1825); Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Busby, Thomas (1755-1838); Clarke, Hewson; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Critics & Criticism; Fitzgerald, William Thomas (1759-1829); Giffo EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKETT, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Behold, interred together Last Line: And if he did, 't were shame to 'black-it.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism EXTRACTS FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR CAYENNE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! For the hack can scatter into flight Last Line: There'd be a world's best literature indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Critics & Criticism; Love; Reading FORM DESTRUCTIONIST?ÇÖSCULPTOR, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he turned at the corner near his boarding-house Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Critics & Criticism FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take no notice of the blockheads tame Last Line: Or else for beating clothes they find it handy. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: In royal anna's golden days Last Line: My hand still trembles when I write. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets HIS DEFENCE AGAINST THE IDLE CRITICK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ryme nor marres, nor makes Last Line: To keepe above my fate. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists IDEA: 31. TO THE CRITIC, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer Last Line: I scorn all earthly dung-bred scarabies. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism IN MEMORY OF DAVID KALSTONE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde Subject(s): Aids (disease); Critics & Criticism; Sickness; Illness JUDGMENT SEATS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O little flower, / o tiny golden sun Last Line: Some judgment seat! Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judges; Judgments; State Rights; Secession LESSER EPISTLES: TO MY INGENIOUS AND WORTHY FRIEND W- L-, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poets print their works, the scribbling crew Last Line: When once they're rais'd, they're cursed hard to lay. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Lowndes, William Thomas (1798-1843); Poetry & Poets LINES FREELY TAKEN FROM CALLIMACHUS, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some enemies of mine (and of the muse) Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus Last Line: I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES TO A DON, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remote and ineffectual don Last Line: That dared attack my chesterton Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These critics, who to faith no quarter grant Last Line: Than christ's own servant, or that servant's master. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism MAM'SELLE PRINTEMPS, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her manager (a wise old guy Last Line: "to me you always will be -- spring!" Subject(s): Critics & Criticism METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900) NEVER MIND, by LYMAN A. FRITZ Poem Text First Line: Mind your own business / and go on your way Last Line: "if you ""do"" or you ""don't." Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON A REVIEW CONDEMNING THELYPHTHORA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have read the review; it is learned and wise Last Line: Clear, candid, and witty -- thelyphthora dies. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON CERTAIN CRITICS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who bid us chant this modern age Last Line: Are softly moulded by a filmy blue. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I? Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs ON THE MAGNETIC LADY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But to advise thee, ben, in this strict age Last Line: Cropped, branded, slit, neck-stocked; go, you are stripped. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism PICKING AND CHOOSING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Literature is a phase of life: if Last Line: Skin between the ears, are all we ask. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Literature PIPLING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the critic, pitched like the castrati Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate POEM DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AVIATION, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that's all different now. They've got it fixed Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Critics & Criticism POETS AND CRITICS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hound that trops. A thousand fleas that ride Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Critics & Criticism PROBLEMS WITH THE STORY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story was too long Last Line: To find you. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Story-telling REJOINDER TO A CRITIC, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may be right: 'how can I dare to feel?' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism SONNET: TO A CRITIC, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No theme for song - you say - the strength of man? Last Line: That wrestles songless through the nights and days. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who live in the desert Last Line: Of green incredible light Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets STACCATO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even birds fear me Last Line: For removing my growths. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism TASTE, AN EPISTLE TO A YOUNG CRITIC, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Range from tower-hill all london to the fleet Last Line: Will find this letter long enough. Adieu! Subject(s): Critics & Criticism THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since first to exhibit his plays began Last Line: But teachings the things that are best. Variant Title(s): Aristophane's Defence [or, The Poet And The People] Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel THE CANDIDATE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Enough of actors -- let them play the player Last Line: To grace a stuart brow, she plants on thine. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Critics & Criticism; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Yorke, Philip. 2d Earl Of Hardwicke; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE CANDIDATE: TO THE AUTHORS OF THE 'MONTHLY REVIEW', by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pious pilot, whom the gods provide Last Line: And when you lash the poet, spare the man. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Monthly Review (periodical); Poetry & Poets THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was up and I was young Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime THE CURSE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, confound this surly sister Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Curses; Hate THE DILETTANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most oppressive form of cant Last Line: To win such praises -- from a fool! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Paintings & Painters THE FOREGOING CRITICISM, IN ENGLISH VERSE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole design of this horatian strain Last Line: Readfruge lares, avidasque parcas. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Horace (65-8 B.c.) THE JUDGES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you that dare to judge? Last Line: What atonement she shall pay? Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judgments THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True wit has seen its best days long ago Last Line: That not one locust may be left behind! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Actresses; Dramatists THE OWL CRITIC, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who stuffed that white owl?' no one spoke in the shop Last Line: And the barber kept on shaving. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Owls THE POET AND THE CRITICS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If those who wield the rod forget Last Line: There is no moral to this tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets THE SCOURGE OF VILLAINY: TO DETRACTION I PRESENT MY POESY, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foul canker of fair virtuous action Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate THE SEVEN ARTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dawn of creation that morning Last Line: And the seven will all die a-bourneing. Subject(s): Bourne, Randolph Silliman (1886-1918); Critics & Criticism; Seven Arts (magazine); Social Protest THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails THOUGHTS AFTER RUSKIN, by ELMA MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women reminded him of lilies and roses Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900) THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1), by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reade one, and say, 'tis good; I beare the name Last Line: So that I know a foole be not my iudge. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Critics & Criticism; Reading TO --, WITH ARTHUR AND ALBINA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! If your eye should ever these lines survey Last Line: I feel I cannot censure bear from you. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores Last Line: But, sir, I may not, till you abdicate. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affronting fool, subdue your transient light Last Line: T is decency in dunces to go lame. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TO A GREAT EDITOR, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every human life, however filled Last Line: You shall remain when it has passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919); Critics & Criticism; Editors; Praise TO A KNOT OF UNGENEROUS CRITICS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rail on, rail on, ye heartless crew! Last Line: Yours is the censure, mine the praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few men in any age have second sight Last Line: But never doubt your gift. You are right! You are right! Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great sun sinks behind the town Last Line: There are old-fashioned folk still like it. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO CRITICKS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ile write, because ile give Last Line: The cause, th'effect wo'd die. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO CRITICS, by DOROTHY DUNN Poem Text First Line: Design to captivate Last Line: Unchanged into the pattern of my speech! Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO CRITICS, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: When I was seventeen I heard Last Line: Have passed it in my sleep. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must agree that rubens was a fool Last Line: And not a brewers servant my good sir Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bible; Critics & Criticism; Mythology; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) TO MISS JANE AUSTEN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Madam, I must express respectful wonder Last Line: Our people are creations. Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Critics & Criticism; Novels & Novelists; Writing & Writers TO MR JONSON UPON THESE VERSES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your verses were commended, as 'tis true Last Line: Thy dirty brains, men smell thy want of worth. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO MR SAVAGE, SON OF THE LATE EARL RIVERS, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sink not, my friend, beneath misfortune's weight Last Line: An able critic, but a willing friend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Friendship TO MR. MONTGOMERY; OCCASIONED BY ... ATTACK ON HIS POEMS, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Droop not, sweet bard! The envious cloud Last Line: While shrinks the sterile clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Montgomery, James (1771-1854) TO MY AUNTY, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: My ever dear an' worthy aunty Last Line: Your sage advice in this to follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Advice; Aunts; Critics & Criticism TO MY MERE ENGLISH CENSURER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee my way in epigrams seems new Last Line: Thy faith is all the knowledge that thou hast. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO THE LEARNED CRITIC, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name Last Line: Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These cruel critics put me into passion Last Line: By suffering for the plot, without confessing. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists UPON THE SAME (THE DETRACTER), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask't thee oft, what poets thou hast read Last Line: Then sure thou't like, or thou wilt envie me. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism |
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