Poetry

Forms

• The Sonnet (mandatory for the AP test)
• Riddles 
• Meter (review for the AP test)
• The Villanelle (suggested for the AP test)
• The Triolet
• The Limerick
• The Clerihew
• Sestina
• Spoken Word 
• More Forms
 

Writers and Texts

• Beowulf
• Dante Alighieri
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1340--1400)
• Milton, Donne, and Herrick
• Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth
• Byron, Shelley, and Keats
• Robert Frost
• Billy Collins
• Seamus Heaney Aside
• Videos
• Blackberry-Picking
• Digging #1: Wallstreet Journal, 2013. Heaney is reading in 2010 at Villanova.
• Digging #2: BBC Montage
• Plath and Hughes Interview (20 min.)

Other Resources

• The Poetry Foundation