First Line Poetry

Archive for December, 2007

T.S. Elliot

One of the most remembered and well read of all poets in history is T.S. Elliot. He was born in 1888 in Missouri and was educated at Harvard and graduated in Philosophy at Oxford. He then worked was a school master, a bank clerk and later as the editor of Faber & Faber of which […]

Oscar Wilde: Genius interrupted

Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous poets and playwrights in history. He was highly misunderstood and got great critical acclaim as well as drew a lot of criticism from society for both his literature as well as his lifestyle. Although he gained fame and popularity through his plays like Lady Windermere’s Fan and […]

Poetic inspiration

One topic of great interest this week is Real Networks’ move of retrenching employees. The move of laying off workers usually meets with strong disapproval and striker and unrest from labour unions and the workers. The first to lay off the labour force was Dell that cut down its employee strength by one tenth when […]

An ode to an unacknowledged poetic genius

I’m sure there are more than a million Doors’ fans in the world. You, you’re probably one yourself. But have you ever thought of Jim Morrison as a poet? I know ‘Light my fire’ probably isn’t Wordsworth, but it still has a quality which makes you identify with him, something the likes of Wordsworth and […]