https://robertspcole.com/poetry-is-toxic/ London Poems Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://robertspcole.com/poetry-is-toxic/#comment-42 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:40:01 +0000 http://robertspcole.com/?p=1263#comment-42 Poetry is a lot of things to a lot of people. Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, described the wanderings of the adventurer, Odysseus, and has been called the greatest story ever told. During the English Renaissance, dramatic poets like John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, and of course Shakespeare gave us enough to fill textbooks, lecture halls, and universities. Poems from the ​Romantic period include Goethe’s Faust (1808), Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

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