The contributors
Poets
The writers of the press — their words, their studios, a note in their own hand.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Public-domain classic
English poet (1806–1861). Her verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Public-domain classic
Scottish poet and writer (1850–1894). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Public-domain classic
American poet (1872–1906). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Public-domain classic
American poet (1807–1882). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Rudyard Kipling
Public-domain classic
English poet and writer (1865–1936). These poems are in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Public-domain classic
English Romantic poet (1792–1822). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Robert Burns
Public-domain classic
Scottish poet (1759–1796). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Public-domain classic
English poet (1809–1892). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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William Shakespeare
Public-domain classic
English playwright and poet (1564–1616). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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William Wordsworth
Public-domain classic
English Romantic poet (1770–1850). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Robert Frost
American poet (1874–1963). These early poems are in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Public-domain classic
American poet and writer (1809–1849). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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W. B. Yeats
Public-domain classic
Irish poet (1865–1939). These early poems are in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Sara Teasdale
Public-domain classic
American poet (1884–1933). Her early verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Lord Byron
Public-domain classic
English Romantic poet (1788–1824). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Public-domain classic
English Romantic poet (1772–1834). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Emily Brontë
Public-domain classic
English poet and novelist (1818–1848). Her verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Oscar Wilde
Public-domain classic
Irish poet and writer (1854–1900). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public-domain classic
American essayist and poet (1803–1882). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Public-domain classic
English poet (1844–1889). His verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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John Keats
Public-domain classic
English Romantic poet (1795–1821). Public-domain classic.
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Christina Rossetti
Public-domain classic
English poet (1830–1894). Public-domain classic.
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Emily Dickinson
Public-domain classic
American poet (1830–1886). Her verse is in the public domain — presented here as a classic.
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William Blake
Public-domain classic
English poet & engraver (1757–1827). Public-domain classic.
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