Selected Works of William Barnes: Dorsetshire's Unvictorian Nineteenth Century Poet

Written for VCU ENGL 322: Victorian Poetry

The assignment for this piece was to edit an anthology of works by a neglected Victorian poet.  We were to include a cover letter expressing why we felt the anthology should be published, a table of contents listing the poems we wished to include in the anthology, an introduction to the anthology, and a list of further reading on the poet.  Sorry the footnote links don't seem to work, but the numbers match up.  And in case you want to learn more about him check out the William Barnes Society.  Click the title to see the full text.

The Seven Chairs

Written for VCU ENGL 307: Teaching Writing Skills
Spring 2011

This piece was written for an assignment in which we were given several images from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and asked to write a story based on one of the images and using the caption for that image.

The fifth one ended up in France.

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e e cummings

i have just found this draft from several years back entitled e e cummings it was entirely blank except for that title so i have written this post to go with it and am posting it

Sittin' on the shitter

Sittin' on the shitter
And I wish you could'a' been 'ere
Cause its only now that you can see the glitter
That I had last night for dinner.

I wrote this a while back on a slip of paper that consequently became lost.  This post in turn became lost as a draft that I forgot was here for an even longer period of time, but I'm looking through all my drafts now and found it so it will now become an official post.  I think it was a draft because I felt that at some point I would use it as a starting point for a longer poem, but I don't see that happening anytime in the near future so here it is.