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Betjeman, Sir John

(Encyclopedia) Betjeman, Sir JohnBetjeman, Sir Johnbĕtˈjəmən [key], 1906–84, English poet, b. London. Traditional in rhyme and meter, his verse combined a witty appraisal of the English present with…

Brewer's: Kendal Green

Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…

John Keats: Specimen of an Induction to a Poem

by JohnKeats"Places of nestling green for ...CalidoreSpecimen of an Induction to a Poem Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry; For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye. Not like the…

John Keats: Part 1

by John Keats Part 2Part 1 Upon a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy…

John Keats: Chaucer

by JohnKeatsSleep and PoetryChaucer What is more gentle than a wind in summer? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily…

John Keats: Robin Hood

by John Keats Lines on the Mermaid TavernTo AutumnRobin Hood To a Friend No! those days are gone away, And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried all Under the…

John Keats: Book III

by John Keats Book IIBook III Thus in alternate uproar and sad peace, Amazed were those Titans utterly. O leave them, Muse! O leave them to their woes; For thou art weak to sing…

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

Halleck, Fitz-Greene

(Encyclopedia) Halleck, Fitz-GreeneHalleck, Fitz-Greenehălˈĭk [key], 1790–1867, American poet, b. Guilford, Conn. He was joint author, with Joseph Rodman Drake, of the humorous lampoons “Croaker…