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Roster of luminary poets of the Berkshires

Edward Taylor
William Cullen Bryant
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fanny Kemble
Herman Melville
Edith Wharton
W.E.B. DuBois
Archibald MacLeish
Edna St. Vincent Millay
William Jay Smith
Amy Clampitt
Richard Wilbur

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Verses On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, 1728 (by by George Berkeley, 1685-1753)

THE MUSE, disgusted at an age and clime
Barren of every glorious theme,
In distant lands now waits a better time,
Producing subjects worthy fame.

In happy climes, where from the genial sun
And virgin earth such scenes ensue,
The force of art by nature seems outdone,
And fancied beauties by the true;

In happy climes, the seat of innocence,
Where nature guides and virtue rules,
Where men shall not impose for truth and sense
The pedantry of courts and schools:

(<a href=”https://berkshires.readspoems.com/brk/verses-on-the-prospect-of-planting-arts-and-learning-in-america/”>con’t here</a>)

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