Tradition Digitized

50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers.


Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from being unsuited to our digital age, poetry, with its short, striking word fragments, can twist and turn on the most dynamic screens. Tradition Digitized presents traditional poems not in the fixed layouts we’re accustomed to, but in the new medium of dynamic layouts.


Come watch poetry flow again.


Table of Contents

1. Anonymous, Beowülf

2. Anonymous, Westron Winde

3. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales 1–18

4. Anonymous, I Sing of a Maiden

5. Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene 1.1.1–18

6. Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella 2

7. William Shakespeare, Richard II 3.2.143–77

8. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 1.5.93–107

9. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 2.1.2–49

10. William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 1 1.2.188–210

11. William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7.136–66

12. William Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.66–86

13. William Shakespeare, Macbeth 5.5.15–27

14. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra 2.2.200–50

15. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

16. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73

17. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

18. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 129

19. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130

20. William Shakespeare, Tempest, 1.2.396–401

21. John Donne, The Sunne Rising

22. John Donne, The Canonization

23. John Donne, A Feaver

24. John Donne, A Valediction of my name, in the window

25. John Donne, A Valediction forbidding mourning

26. John Milton, Paradise Lost 1.1–26

27. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

28. William Blake, The Garden of Love

29. William Blake, London

30. William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge

31. John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

32. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

33. John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

34. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

35. Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

36. Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

37. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

38. Emily Dickinson, There’s a certain Slant of light

39. Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

40. Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comes

41. Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--

42. Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur

43. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring

44. Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

45. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

46. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hurrahing in Harvest

47. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall

48. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid

49. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves

50. Gerard Manley Hopkins, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection