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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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The Uses of Poetry

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Bookseller, David Zimmerman, Poetry, Arkansas, Living News
Daniel Krotz

Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News
Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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A Truly Epic Movie

John Lundberg | Posted 06.03.2009 | Living

Read More: John Milton, The Poetic Life, Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost Movie, Living News
John Lundberg

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good. No, we're definitely not talking abou...

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EPIPHANY: Celebrating Moments of Truth

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Wordsworth, Religion, Divorce, Advent, John Milton, Christmastide, 12 Days of Christmas, Feast of the Epiphany, Magi, Three Wisemen, Epiphanies, Living News
Cathleen Falsani

Realizing that you're happy in your own skin, where you're meant to be, glad to be shod of something unhealthy, and everything is going to be OK, is a profound truth.

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Ranking The Best Poets Ever

John Lundberg | Posted 08.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Top 10 Best Poets, William Blake, John Milton, The Inner Life, Top Poets, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Chaucer, Best Poets, 10 Best Poets, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, John Keats, Maya Angelou, Dante, Living News
John Lundberg

In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...

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