Collection 44
Well-Educated Mind — Poetry
From Gilgamesh to Yeats: the poem as the oldest technology for compressing meaning into sound and memory.
What is the poem trying to do that a paragraph cannot?
Level 1·Accessible
- PoemsHenry Wadsworth LongfellowComing soonPoemsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
Level 2·Engagement
- The Epic of GilgameshAnonymousComing soonThe Epic of GilgameshAnonymous
- The OdysseyHomerComing soonThe OdysseyHomer
- Sir Gawain and the Green KnightAnonymousComing soonSir Gawain and the Green KnightAnonymous
- SonnetsWilliam ShakespeareComing soonSonnetsWilliam Shakespeare
- Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam BlakeComing soonSongs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake
- PoemsWilliam WordsworthComing soonPoemsWilliam Wordsworth
- PoemsSamuel Taylor ColeridgeComing soonPoemsSamuel Taylor Coleridge
- PoemsJohn KeatsComing soonPoemsJohn Keats
- PoemsAlfred, Lord TennysonComing soonPoemsAlfred, Lord Tennyson
- PoemsEmily DickinsonComing soonPoemsEmily Dickinson
- PoemsChristina RossettiComing soonPoemsChristina Rossetti
- PoemsPaul Laurence DunbarComing soonPoemsPaul Laurence Dunbar
Level 3·Advanced
- Greek LyricistsVariousComing soonGreek LyricistsVarious
- OdesHoraceComing soonOdesHorace
- InfernoDante AlighieriComing soonInfernoDante Alighieri
- The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey ChaucerComing soonThe Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
- PoemsJohn DonneComing soonPoemsJohn Donne
- PoemsGerard Manley HopkinsComing soonPoemsGerard Manley Hopkins
- PoemsWilliam Butler YeatsComing soonPoemsWilliam Butler Yeats