WILLIAM BLAKE – JIM MORRISON

THE POET BEHIND THE DOORS: JIM MORRISON’S POETRY AND THE 1960S COUNTERCULUTRAL MOVEMENT Steven Andrew Erkel, B.A. Thesis Advisor: Ricardo L. Ortiz, Ph.D ABSTRACT While there has been a wealth of literature on Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors, little work has...

William Blake 1757-1827.

A Poison Tree  BY  WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend;  I told my wrath, my wrath did end.  I was angry with my foe:  I told it not, my wrath did grow.  And I waterd it in fears,  Night & morning with my tears:  And I sunned it with smiles,  And with soft...

THE RAVEN

BY EDGAR ALLEN POE January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—      While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,  As of some one gently...