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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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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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