The Censored Poets: Verse too frank for its time

Poets prosecuted, expurgated, or driven out for their verse — Byron’s scandals, Whitman’s body electric, and the lyric as an act of defiance.

In this collection

• Not for a Nation
• Where can the Heart be Hidden
• In the Grave no Flower
• The Cornelian
• Ragged Island
• The Solid Sprite who Stands Alone
• To Anne
• Song of the Broad-Axe
• Memorial to D. C
• Here is a Wound that Never will Heal
• The Bride of Abydos
• Mist in the Valley
• I Saw Thee Weep
• The True Encounter
• Love is not Blind
• He Heard the Coughing
• To Thyrza
• The Uprising
• Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides
• Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori
• Dirge Without Music
• The Bivouac's Flame
• Him not the Golden Fang
• Windsor Poetics
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