Biography of american poets of the 1800s

The written word has a long history of conveying our greatest passions. And poetry, in particular, has often been the chosen vehicle to express such feelings as love, hate, disillusionment, and snark.

Poetry has looked different in different times, but no matter its form, it never ceases to convey a striking snapshot of the world surrounding it.

Biography of american poets of the 1800s and early

Perhaps it is poetry’s economy of letters—that which requires the great poetic masters to pack more punch in, typically, less space—that makes it such an enduring form. It does, after all, hold immense power. Today, we’d like to explore a particular moment in history—the eighteenth century—and the poets who populated it.

Notable Early Eighteenth Century Poets

The early part of the eighteenth century saw the rise of Alexander Pope.

In his work, and especially in one of his earliest works, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Pope is famous for using heroic couplets—two adjacent, rhyming lines of iambic pentameter—to great effect. The oft quoted,