Poets as Rappers Back in Ye Olde Daye.
This intriguing essay on Alexander Pope is written so that it doesn’t feel like you’re taking a piece of sandpaper, and rubbing it against your eyes hoping to absorb the information through osmosis like so many essays about poetry do. As soon as I saw him list Nas and Atmosphere as his hip-hop examples I knew the author had spent a bit of time in Minneapolis, and sure enough, he had. And with a smart url like poetryfoundation.org this is a perfect source for a poetry paper, should you need to write a paper on a poet pauper, or any other Pope-r related subject. Click here for poetry essay goodness.