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Famous Barnstormer Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Barnstormer poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous barnstormer poems. These examples illustrate what a famous barnstormer poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Epitaphs For Two Players

...I. EDWIN BOOTH

An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatres, but the hotels were provided with crude assembly rooms for strolling players.


The youth played in the blear hotel.
The rafters gleamed with glories strange.
And winds of mourning Elsinore
Howling at chance and fate and change;
Voices of old Europe's dead
Disturbed the new-built cattle-shed,
The street, th...Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel

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