Ann Kelly Cox About me Normal, Illinois By this poet Lesson PlanEkphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry Herman Melville Though the American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891) is most famous for his visionary novel Moby-Dick, he was also a poet of great distinction.… Edmund Waller Like many other English poets of his day, Edmund Waller (1606-1687) was swept up in the political turmoil of the English Civil War. In the 1640s,… Thomas Campion The English Renaissance poet Thomas Campion (1567-1620) studied law and medicine, before practicing as a physician in London. Campion composed songs…
