The 19th century was the age of poetry.
Poetry has been around in various
incarnations since humans first put hand to pen....and probably even
earlier; there is much scholarly belief that the earliest forms of metaphor
and poetic expression spurred the very evolution of communication and language itself.
And though some of the most imaginative
and creative poetry was created centuries earlier. For
example: Tu Fu of the Tang Dynasty in China wrote in the seventh
century B.C., William Shakespeare wrote his famous sonnets in the 16th
century, Dante wrote his Inferno in the thirteenth century. For
many, it is in the nineteenth century where poetry reaches its peek.
Included here are short biographies of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percey Bysshe Shelley, Walt
Whitman, Lord Byron, and some of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century, along with examples
of of their work.
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