LOVE OF BEAUTY: Philokalía
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III. Enrichment: Poets
By Cycle:
Poets: ~500-1500
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“For a person to become a Christian he must have a poetic soul. He must become a poet. Christ does not wish insensitive souls in His company. A Christian, albeit only when he loves, is a poet and lives amid poetry. Poetic hearts embrace love and sense it deeply.”
~St. Porphyrios, Wounded by Love, pg. 218
4-Cycle Overview:
Cycle 1: Poet Options (~500-1500)
St. Ephrem the Syrian (306-373)
St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390)
St. Romanos the Melodist (480-550)
St. Cassiani (Kassia the nun) (810-865)
St. Joseph the Hymnographer (816-886)
St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Julian of Norwich (1342-1420)
Cycle 2: Poet Options (~1500-1800)
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
John Donne (1572-1631)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Anne Bradstreet (1619-1672)
John Milton (1608-1674) [Recitation Page]
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
William Blake (1757-1827) [Recitation Page]
Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) [Recitation Page]
Cycle 3: Poet Options (~1800-1900)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) [Recitation Page]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [Recitation Page]
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) [Recitation Page]
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) [Recitation Page]
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Cycle 4: Poet Options (~1800-1900)
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1936)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) [Readings; Recitation Page]
[Form 1] A.A. Milne (1882-1956): Now We Are Six [Readings; Recitation Page]
St. Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956)
Robert Frost (1874-1963) [Readings; Recitation Page]
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) [Readings; Recitation Page]
[Form 1] A.A. Milne (1882-1956): When We Were Young
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Giorgos Themelis (1900-1976)
Scott Cairns (1954-Present)
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