Geoffrey Chaucer: 1343 - 1400 (Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature)
Medieval poet, Middle English
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by
A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.
The Canterbury Tales by
Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas #65533; Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted intographic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery, of piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will appeal to those who have enjoyedThe Canterbury Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, delectable introduction.
Victorian poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 (Poetry Foundation)
Alfred Tennyson (The Victorian Web)
(American born) British Modernist poet
T.S. Eliot and the Modernist Movement
On "the Journey of the Magi" (American Poetry Society)
T.S. Eliot: 1888 - 1965 (Poetry Foundation)
Australian poet WW2, see handout
Kenneth Slessor (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
Kenneth Adolf Slessor (Australian War memorial)
Kenneth Slessor Part One (ABC)
Pre-modernist American poet (published 1890)\
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886 (Poetry Foundation)
Emily Dickinson's Biography (Emily Dickinson Museum)
Tasmanian poet (published 2004)
Sarah Day (Australian Poetry Library)