Introducing Professor Driscoll: Rhymes and their reasons: Poems of cradles and bough-breakings, too, moon-jumping cows and ten kids in a shoe (Nursery rhymes) -- Rhymes that prompt laughter (If that's what you're after) (Nonsense verse) -- Nineteen lines but just two rhymes (Villanelle) -- There once was a poem so outrageous, read aloud, it became quite contagious (Limerick) -- Haikus have three lines and seventeen syllables simple, beautiful (Haiku) -- Gather round for a story of heroes and glory (Narrative verse) -- My dear, aren't you smitten by these words that I've written? (Lyric verse) -- Poem fantastic (Though usually old) that may teach a lesson (So it's often retold) (Ballad) -- Sheep, shepherds, and other sappy stuff (Pastoral) -- Poems of feelings and hearts shining bright (They're a pleasure to hear, but a devil to write) (Sonnet) -- When you haven't got time to think of a rhyme (Free verse) -- Alphabet poems, riddles, epitaphs, and other unusual styles (Poems peculiar) -- Poetry's greats: Rulers of rhyme, legends of the lyric and superstars of the spoken word: First poet-Homer (c. 700-800 B.C.) -- Bard-William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Free spirit-John Milton (1608-1674) --Artist-William Blake (1757-1827) -- People's poet-William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- Daughter, wife, and poet-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- Poet of "Fantastic Terrors"-Edgar Allan Poe -- Rebel without applause-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Voice of America-Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Poet of heaven and earth-Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- Poems of everyday beauty-Robert Frost (1875-1963) -- Adventurer-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Englishman in Bombay-Rudyard Kipling (1863-1936) -- Good poet for bad children-Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) -- American spirit-Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Thinker-W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Brave new voice-Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Beat of the city-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ) -- Irish eye-Seamus Heaney (1939- ) -- Visions of Mexico-Octavio Paz (1914-1998) -- Caged bird's song-Maya Angelou (1928- ).