John Milton began writing poetry at the age of ten. After finishing his formal education at Cambridge, he read almost everything available in Latin, Greek, Italian and English. He was appointed Latin Secretary where he worked so hard that eyestrain, from years of late night reading, caused him to become totally blind at the age of forty- five. In the final years of his life he wrote (through dictation) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

William Blake’s lyrics appeared in two sets of volumes:

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  Songs of Innocence (from which The Divine Image has been chosen)
• Songs of Experience (from which The Human Abstract has been taken)

William Blake was a poet, painter and engraver.He abhorred the rationalism and materialism of his times. What he saw and painted were human beings beset with evil, yet striving for the divine within them.Blake’s lyrics appeared in two sets of volumes:

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  Songs of Innocence (from which The Divine Image has been chosen)
• Songs of Experience (from which The Human Abstract has been taken)

W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic. He was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival, and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923

Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of America’s quintessential poets of the nineteenth century. Her poetry is characterised by unconventional capitalisation and extensive use of dashes, along with unusual imagery and lyric style.......Please read and drop your comments.Click on the link below

One of the greatest literary figures in Malayalam,Kamala Das was born in the year 1934 in Punnayurkulum, in South Malabar, Kerala. The present poem tells about her for fearless journalism

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man......

This poem represents the complex distillation of a lifetime of unusual thought and feeling.This Poem is written by A.K. Ramanujan, one of India’s finest Englishlanguage poets..