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Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham 1852-1940, American poet, b. Oregon City, Oreg. He grew up in California and later taught school there. In 1899 he achieved widespread popularity for the poem "The Man with the Hoe." Inspired by Millet's famous painting, the poem was a protest against the degradation and... Read more |
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Jones Very
Jones Very 1813-80, American poet, b. Salem, Mass., studied at Harvard Divinity School. His mystical poems express his belief in total surrender to the will of God and his reverence for nature as a symbol of the Divine. Emerson edited Very's Essays and Poems (1839). Posthumous volumes of Very's... Read more |
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Alexander Montgomerie
Alexander Montgomerie , c.1556-c.1610, Scottish poet. His principal poem, The Cherry and the Sloe (1597), is a pedestrian and ambiguous allegory that enjoyed considerable popularity in its time. Montgomerie's other work includes a verse polemic against Home of Polwarth, 70 sonnets, and... Read more |
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Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer 1886-1918, American poet, b. New Brunswick, N.J., educated at Rutgers College and Columbia (B.A., 1908). He is known chiefly for his poem "Trees," in Trees and Other Poems (1914).... Read more |
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Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt , 1730-86, English scholar. He was noted for his studies of Shakespeare (1766) and for his edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (5 vol., 1775-78). Tyrwhitt revealed in 1777 that the "Rowley Poems" were not actually Middle English poems, but a fabrication by young Thomas... Read more |
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Widsith
Widsith , 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book . It is an account of the wanderings of a Germanic minstrel and of the legends he relates. The poem gives an excellent description of minstrel life in the Germanic heroic age.... Read more |
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haiku
haiku , an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. It usually consists of 17 jion (Japanese symbol-sounds). The term is also used for foreign adaptations of the haiku, notably the poems of the imagists . These poems are... Read more |
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Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare , 1873-1956, English poet and novelist. For many years he worked in the accounting department of the Anglo-American Oil Company. Much of his verse and prose shows delight in imaginative excursions into the shadowed world between the real and the unreal. Included among his books of... Read more |
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pearl
The Pearl one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author, who flourished c.1370-1390. The Pearl is usually explained as an elegy for the poet's young daughter; in an... Read more |
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Books: Poems that read themselves William Scammell on an engaging collection...
...Billy Collins's selected poems arrive on this side of...you can see why. The poems are so open and relaxed...back to enjoy. The title poem sounds as though it...about books, teaching poems, history, jazz, all...You could say he's a bit too anxious to work the...though Billy Collins is the ... |
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I TRUST HER WITH MY DARK SECRETS!; Effervescent April Branning has livened up...
...is that it is totally unconditional - and that's what true friendship is all about. JULIE ON DEBBIE THERE'S a wonderful poem about the times when you can just be yourself without having to weigh and measure your words or trust with another person. That... |
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The Robert Chalmers Interview: WILDE MAN He's written endless poems and books...
...tragedies, the best part of 100 poems, the critical essays, the...Keats wrote nearly all his best poems in one year. These days, if a poet wrote loads of poems in one year everyone would say: `Oh, it's a bit fly-by- night really... |
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history: It takes a real man to wear the kilt; On every foreign field, where...
...particularly of the Irish, who came in great numbers after the Potato Famine and gave the city its Catholic tradition. Their songs, poems, gab and bitter/sweet jokes are still central to the Liverpudlian character - once bubbling and brooding along the river... |
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Everyday poems for everyman; As he prepares for the publication of his life's...
...as you can imagine area bit embarrassing. So I didn...were. But some of the poems were written to order...those.'' Some of the poems have never been published...head chopped off. The poem starts:``The Queen...say, is the gear.'' Poems written at the time of...passionate and it was ... |
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Douglas Oliver's New York poem.(poem 'Penniless Politics')
...different from predecessor poems. Serious predecessors would include poems by Whitman, Crane, and Ginsberg, as well as poems by the various generations...fuzzy words which any poem would ignore in order...its moment, though its real moment is the future since...New York speech, and a ... |
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Lines on our favourite pOEms
...those lines belongs to the real world of natural speech...when I'm feeling a bit low and lacking in confidence...this as a pessimistic poem, I think the last couple...be substance in a great poem. We teach Frost in the...about love, then I have a poem on the same subject to...level and the ... |
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Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems.
...older, wiser, perhaps a bit sadder. Despite its unevenness...knee at that. This fine poem sees Etheridge as the...associative range of this poem demonstrates Aubert...this and other strong poems cannot, however, raise...on a pad of paper--a poem inspired, one hopes...him, he remembers his ... |
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Gathering Poems from Sandburg's 'Great Period'
...1916. Would you read a bit, please, of Chicago...would dream of starting a poem like that? Mr. BERMAN...his inspiration in this poem and some others was to...write that Sandburg's poems are fresh and noisy like...s a softer, gentler poem. Mr. BERMAN: That...STAMBERG: But there's a ... |
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Outcry as pupils taught 'cat-killing' poem
...expressed outrage that a poem depicting a child killing...slamming a door. The poem's violent content has...Peebles High School with the poem and said she feared such...chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, called the...suddenly terrified And he bit his knuckles and cried... |
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