Poetry in the 2019 tagset

[larryhammer]

A compilation post for poems in the tagset. Please comment with ones I've missed, as I'm sure there are a lot. Most of these are readily available in the public domain or with public-domain translations -- the one that's PD in only some jurisdictions and so harder to find, I've given a link:

The Aeneid - Virgil

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) - Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Earthly Paradise - William Morris

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

King Henry (English and Scottish Popular Ballads - F.J. Child)

Hymn to Demeter - Homer

Iliad - Homer

Kudrunlied (Poem)

Mahabharata - Vyasa

Nibelungenlied

Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto

Ramayana - Valmiki

Sir Patrick Spens (Traditional Ballad)

Snow-Bound - John Greenleaf Whittier

The Twa Sisters (Ballad)

Taliessin through Logres - Charles Williams

Willie of Winsbury (Child 100)


bonus meta:

Poetry Elements (Anthropomorphic)

---L.

Comments

[ashglory]

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) - Algernon Charles Swinburne is also in the tagset! It's available on Poetry Foundation.

[larryhammer]

Ah -- missed that. Thanks!

[emperor]

Murder in the Cathedral is a play in verse form, which might count?

[larryhammer]

There are also other plays in verse, such as a bunch of Elizabethan ones by Shakespeare and Marlowe. I left those out as dramas rather than poems, but they should be noted as also existing. Ditto, there are a few poet RPF requests, including Sappho, Enheduanna, and Li He.

[ruiswrites]

If ballads like "The Twa Sisters" do count - then probably "Sir Patrick Spens (Traditional Ballad)" also deserves a place on the list?

[larryhammer]

Yes, it would -- I did not notice it, buried in the songs like that, nor King Henry (English and Scottish Popular Ballads - F.J. Child). (Twa Sisters is tucked into the Books and Literature.)

Added. Thanks!

[cadenzamuse]

I did a poor job nominating Willie of Winsbury, which is in as "Willie of Winsbury (Child 100)--Anais Mitchell" because that's the version I'm familiar with, but I really meant "tell me more about Child Ballad 100" and would be happy for it to go on the list with Sir Patrick Spens, which is also a Child Ballad. There's nothing particularly Anais Mitchell about it except of course her music.

[larryhammer]

That fits the bill. Added.

[karanguni]

We have some loooong poems this year...

[larryhammer]

Several epic-ass poems! I love it.