William WalterOct 27, 20234 minPoetry Bee Blog #5: Clergyman PoetsYou may have noticed in class that I spend a lot of time talking about poems and the poets who wrote them. One of the reasons is that I...
William WalterOct 20, 20233 minPoetry Bee Blog #4: Fantasy of the 1500sEdmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” What do you like to read? Poetry? Detective and mystery? Or works by classic authors, such as Charles...
William WalterOct 9, 20232 minPoetry Bee Blog #3: The First Poet of Western CivilizationIn the first two PQFTDs, we talked about firsts: the first American poet (Anne Bradstreet) and the first known English poet (Caedmon). We...
William WalterSep 28, 20232 minPoetry Bee Blog #2: A Dream-Inspired PoetCaedmon We talked about the first known American poet, Anne Bradstreet. But what about the first English poet? Although the epithet...