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Specpo down the Ages
Five Centuries of Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, and Exploratory Science Poetry in English
1500-1700
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Anonymous
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Margaret Cavendish
“Of Stars”
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Christopher Marlowe
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John Milton
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William Shakespeare
“Queen Mab” from Romeo and Juliet
“The Weird Sisters’ Chant” from Macbeth
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Edmund Spenser
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1700-1800
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Robert Burns
“Tam Lin” (reworking of a traditional ballad)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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William Wordsworth
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1800-1850
George Gordon, Lord Byron
“Darkness”
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Lewis Carroll
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John Keats
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Henry Thomas Liddell
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Thomas Moore
“A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp”
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Edgar Allan Poe
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John Stagg
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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1850-1900
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William Allingham
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Ambrose Bierce
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Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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Stephen Crane
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Emily Dickinson
Rudyard Kipling
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Edward Lear
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Christina Rosetti
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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W. B. Yeats
“Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea”
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1900-1950
Stephen Vincent Benét
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G. K. Chesterton
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Robert Frost
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Robert Graves
“The Railway Carriage (Welsh Incident)”
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C. S. Lewis
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H. P. Lovecraft
“The Wood”
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Walter de la Mare
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Don Marquis
“This Earth, It Is Also a Star”
“Haunted”
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge”
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Alfred Noyes
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Wilfred Owen
“The Show”
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Genevieve Taggard
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J. R. R. Tolkien
“Far over the misty mountains cold”
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1950-2000
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Jaimes Alsop
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Margaret Atwood
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W. H. Auden
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Richard Brautigan
“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”
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Roald Dahl
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Neil Gaiman
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Robert Hayden
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Denis Johnson
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Edwin Morgan
“The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
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May Swenson
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Jane Yolen
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2000-2020
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F. J. Bergmann
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Kyle Dargan
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Nitoo Das
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Todd Dillard
“Rewind”
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Margarita Engle
“The Headless Horseman of Cuba”
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Michael R. Fosburg
“How Strange the Starship’s Shudder”
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Millie Ho
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John Philip Johnson
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Deborah P. Kolodji
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Nicole J. LeBoeuf
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Susan McLean
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Mari Ness
“Snowmelt”
“Ice”
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Catherine Pierce
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Lawrence Raab
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Ann K. Schwader
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Tracy K. Smith
“Sci-Fi”
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Mary Soon Lee
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Holly Lyn Walrath
“All the Glory of Her Earthly Shell”
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2020-present
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Davian Aw
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Beth Cato
“Field Trip to See the Mermaid”
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Mark Dimaisip
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Jack Kin Lim
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Marissa Lingen
“Identity”
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Terese Mason Pierre
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”
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Brandon O'Brien
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Gretchen Tessmer