Since the dawn of language, poets have celebrated the majestic immensity of Earth's oceans, the powerful waters that create and destroy, the intense drama and soothing gentleness of waves, the dangerous voyages to distant shores, and the indelible sensory memories set on shifting sandy beaches drenched in sunshine.
This collection joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of select modern writers, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea.
Includes a reading guide for teachers and book groups, and biographies of the poets inside.
Classic
Dante Alighieri
Joseph Auslander
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
George Shepard Burleigh
Lord Byron
Bliss Carman
Stephen Crane
H. D.
Emily Dickinson
A. E.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Arthur Guiterman
Thomas Hardy
Sadakichi Hartmann
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
D. H. Lawrence
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Masefield
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marianne Moore
Thomas Moore
John Boyle O'Reilly
Eva L. Ogden
Ezra Pound
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alan Seeger
William Shakespeare
John Sterling
Wallace Stevens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sara Teasdale
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
Current
Joel Allegretti
Carol Alena Aronoff
Janet Barry
Sidney Bending
Ben Bever
Jenny Blackford
Eloise Bruce
R. T. Castleberry
Bill Cushing
Lauren Davis
Elizabeth Ruth Deyro
Agnieszka Filipek
Marj Hahne
David Holper
Gene Hult
Clarissa Jakobsons
Marjorie Maddox
Paul Magrs
Lucinda Marshall
Stephen McGuinness
Leah Mueller
Ciarán Parkes
Winston Plowes
Suzanne S. Rancourt
Meg Smith
Alec Solomita
Alison Stone
Larry D. Thacker
Lynne Viti
Dickinson, Emily: - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was American lyric poet who lived mostly in isolation with her family in Amherst, MA, and commanded an original brilliance of style and integrity of vision. Her poetry was not publicly recognized in her lifetime, but she is now considered to be one of the most important and influential 19th-century American poets and a central figure in Western literature
Hult, Gene: - Gene Hult is the publisher of Houston, TX-based Brighten Press, and edited this anthology. After being the managing editor of the Denver Quarterly, he worked in children's editorial in NYC for nearly 30 years. Gene has written more than 120 books published for children and young adults, mostly under his pseudonym J. E. Bright (jebright.com). His first book of poetry was entitled Render, and his second, Catfish and After, is forthcoming in 2019. Please visit genehult.com, or follow Gene on Twitter and Instagram @citysqwirl.
Yeats, William Butler: - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and one of the great writers of the 20th century. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. Often considered a Symbolist, he was preoccupied with metaphysics, the occult, physical and spiritual masks, mythology (especially Irish legends) as well as with cyclical theories of life, although he retained his formalism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetry collections include The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, and The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
