Famous Fenton Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Fenton poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous fenton poems. These examples illustrate what a famous fenton poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...on Magdalen
Bridge with two figures in the
Deer Park wandering in white
Flurries of February dusk.
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James Fenton you are King
Of Oxford Poetry and Seamus
Heaney holds the Laureate’s Crown
With sceptre and with gown,
The carved heads have grown
On grey Sheldonian stone.
The railings on the ramparts
On York Wall held my breath
As I walked my ten year old
Spirit in rain and sun, wind
Willing me on while no one knew
Where I had gone.
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With every...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...I’d love to make
A poet’s map of but never will.
"Oh to break loose" Lowell’s magic lines
Entice me still but slimy Fenton had to have his will
And slate it in the NYB, arguing that panetone
Isn’t tin foil as Lowell thought. James you are a dreadful bore,
A pedantic creep like hundreds more, five A4 pages
Of sniping and nit-picking for how many greenbacks?
A thousand or two I’d guess, they couldn’t pay you less
For churning out such a king-size mess
But not even yo...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
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