Summary of Essays on Poetry
and the Works They Deal With

AUTHOR	WORK
Anonymous	Beowolf
Anonymous	The Seafarer
Emily Dickinson	"Truth is as Old as God"
John Donne	A Valedictory For Mourning
T.S. Eliot	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A. E. Housman	To An Athlete Dying Young
Erica Jong	On the First Night
Robert Lowell	To Speak of the Woe That is in Marriage
Christopher Marlowe	The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sylvia Plath	The Applicant
Edgar Allen Poe	Annabel Lee
Sir Walter Raleigh	The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Adrienne Rich	Living in Sin Necessities of Life
Edwin Arlington Robinson	Richard Cory
Anne Sexton	You All Know the Story of the Other Woman
Sara Teasdale	There Will Come Soft Rains
Alfred Lord Tennyson	The Eagle
Dylan Thomas	Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass
William Carlos Williams	This is Just to Say...