The 19th century was the age of poetry.
Poetry has been around in various
incarnations since humans first put hand to pen....and probably even earlier; there is
much scholarly belief that the earliest forms of metaphor and poetic expression spurred
the very evolution of communication and language itself.
And though some of the most imaginative
and creative poetry was created centuries earlier. For example: Tu Fu of the
Tang Dynasty in China wrote in the seventh century B.C., William Shakespeare wrote his
famous sonnets in the 16th century, Dante wrote his Inferno in the thirteenth
century. For many, it is in the nineteenth century where poetry reaches its peek.
Included on the site you can find at
the bottom of this page are short biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percey Bysshe
Shelley, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, and some of the greatest poets of the nineteenth
century, along with examples of of their work.
