Tag Archives: poets

“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

After posting the poem”My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke on Father’s Day, I’ve been off on  a Roethke tangent, I confess, revisiting many of my fav Roethke poems.  Here’s one that lodged itself in my brain long ago like a … Continue reading →

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“What Each of Us Is Seeking the Poet Already Knows” – Harvard Classics (now free online)

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

Poetry: A General Introduction. HARVARD  CLASSICS The Harvard Classics have just now become available–for free– online. The nearly 60 books in this series are so well written, erudite, thoughtful and stimulating, that I want to share them with you. If … Continue reading →

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DON’T TRIP ON THE TROPES: “There Came a Day at Summer’s Full Entirely for Me”

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

(c) Copyright 2013, Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved. Here is another beautiful example of Emily Dickinson‘s “sacramental” relationship with the natural world (cf., my previous posts).         THERE came a day at summer’s full Entirely for me; I … Continue reading →

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Emily Dickinson’s Encounters with the Sublime

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

© Copyright 2013, Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved.                                          Nature and God – I neither knew                    Yet Both so well knew me                    They startled, like Executors                    Of My identity.—E.D. I’ve read, studied and written about … Continue reading →

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Love Fled

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

The creative person’s life is full of bunny trails, astonishments/surprises (most pulled off by the powerful imagination which hides out, resides in the murk of the unconscious.  It will not be thwarted; it will prevail.). One thing leads to another.  … Continue reading →

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“When I have Fears that I may Cease to be” by John Keats (read by Tom O’Bedlam)

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Margaret Jean Langstaff

Originally posted on Learnalltheway:
John Keats, Portrait by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn (National Portrait Gallery, London). (Photo credit: Books18)   When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be BY JOHN KEATS When I have fears that I may…

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