Poe's Poetic Fan Pillows

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

John Bunyan

"Out damn Spot

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Dating an English Major

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Oh, this old thing?"

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Letters escape from a caged book.

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."