Ghostly Poems
The ancient practice of channeling gets a new twist in this delightful collection of poems. Whether or not readers believe that the ghosts of such noted poets as Edgar Allen Poe, W. H. Auden, the Brownings, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Gertrude Stein are now writing new poetic works through the hands of Bill Thompson, these enchanting encounters are a welcome and witty addition to those interested in poetry and the beloved styles of the great poetic masters. This new offering...
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Ghostly Poems Bill ThompsonNever a maker of verses himself, Bill Thompson was startled when he began to receive couplets and rhymes that seem to come from some of the famous poets of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as from such distant personae as the Greek philosopher, Callinus."My poets are definitely dead," Thompson writes in the introduction to Ghostly Poems, a delightful collection that includes works that he attributes to 42 versifiers, including W.H. Auden, the Brownings, Robert Frost, Longfellow, Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein. Although in their graves, the poets are (accordingly to Thompson) very much alive in spirit snd Thompson was merely the go-between for conveying their thoughts from on high.These enchanting encounters from American, British and Canadian poetsm many of whom were widely read in their day, are a tantalizing and often playful literary collage.Back inside flapBill Thompson When asked what influenced his life, Bill Thompson replied, "The movies, the public library, the Quaker Meeting, and holding, Janet Flanner's hand."Author both dead and alive seem to like him, which may explain why his personal library contains more than 60,000 volumns collected over a thirty year period and why long-deceased writers converse with (or through him) via telapathic writing.He hails from western Pennsylvania but now divides his time between the Hudson Valley in New York, the lowcountry of South Carolina and St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
I find that I may take your pen in hand
ContentsW.H. Auden 3John Betjeman 4Elizabrth Bishop 5Louise Bogan 6Rupert Brooke 7Elizabeth Barrett Browning 8Robert Browing 10Callinus 11e.e. cummings 12Emily Dickinson 13Howard Dietz 15H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 16T.S. Eliot 18Robert Frost 20Robinson Jeffers 22John Keats 23Joyce Kilmer 24Sidney Lanier 25Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 26Amy Lowell 28Robert Lowell 29Phyllis McGinley 31Archibald MacLeish 39Edna St. Vincent Millay 40Marianne Moore 43Ogden Nash 46Wilfred Owen 51Dorothy Parker 53Sylvia Plath 69Plato 70Edgar Allen Poe 71Ezra Pound 72James Whitcomb Riley 73Robert Service 75Anne Sexton 76William Shakespeare 77Stephen Spender 78Gertrude Stein 79Walt Whitman 82Oscar Wilde 85William Butler Yeats 86B.L. Thompson 87Acknowledgements 88
