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Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian

Expertise

Please be aware that my field of expertise is "Classic Poetry." I do not study and write about Hallmark-Card type verse, doggerel, or pornographic versification.

I assist students/readers in understanding the poems most widely studied in high school and college English classes, for example, Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death," A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of trees," Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Rabindranath Tagore's "The Journey," Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Dana Gioia’s "Words." I direct students/readers to online poetry analyses and/or research sources.

I do not dispense advice on creative writing issues, such as critiquing poems or offering ideas for poems.

Experience

2003 - present AllExperts volunteer 2007 - present Feature Writer for Poetry at Suite101.com

Education/Credentials
1967 Miami University, B.A. Major in German 1971 Ball State University M.A. in German/English 1984 Ball State University M.A. English 1987 Ball state University Ph.D. American, British, World Literature, Rhetoric and Composition

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