it is April now, and that means two things:

[angevin2]

1. I HAVEN'T GOT NEARLY ENOUGH TIME TO FINISH THE DISS. OH NOES. *panics*

2. It's National Poetry Month!

And it's in honor of the latter that I am posting now. As I've done for the last two years, I'll post a daily poem for each day of the month (as best I can). Guaranteed no repeats

Comments

[paracelsus]

Beautiful! I love Donne. I've done a course on Chaucer and another that basically riffed on Pearsall's "Chaucer to Spencer". I also love baroque stuff from the continent. Sadly though, my familiarity with versifiers between then and romanticism is pretty pathetic. Do you recommend any other metaphysical poets (or indeed Elizabethan ones I probably missed)?

[angevin2]

For metaphysical poets, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips. For lesser-known (or lesser-read) Elizabethans, Samuel Daniel (pictured in my icon), Michael Drayton, Thomas Nashe (though most of his really cool stuff is prose). Just for starters, since I am going to bed now. :)

(I have posted flipping great wadges of both Daniel's and Drayton's works to lj...)

[paracelsus]

A treasure trove. Your advice is much appreciated. And they all have such badass names!

[speak_me_fair]

Oh, thank you for reminding me about National Poetry Month - and doing it with one of my favourite poets, too.

This is a good plan for the month - I think I'll try and keep it up as well!

[arcadiaego]

I am going to try this. :)