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Robert Bly. Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), [1] which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, [2] and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement.
1910 (114 years ago) ( 1910) " If— " is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [ 1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [ 2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of ...
Paterson as a baby with his nanny, Wiradjuri girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, [2] related to the future first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton. [3]
When the old man died. Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tock, tick, tock), His life seconds numbering, (tick, tock, tick, tock), It stopp'd short — never to go again — When the old man died. In watching its pendulum swing to and fro, Many hours had he spent while a boy. And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
Sailing to Byzantium. " Sailing to Byzantium " is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [ 1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium ( Constantinople) as a metaphor for ...
Song of Myself. Steel engraving of Walt Whitman. " Song of Myself " is a poem by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision." [1]
The Witch of Coos. The Pauper Witch of Grafton. A Star In A Stone Boat. The Star Splitter. In A Disused Graveyard. Fragmentary Blue. A Brook in the City. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk) Gathering Leaves.
Happy birthday, William Shatner!The legendary actor turned 90 on Monday, taking to Twitter to thank his family, friends and fans for all their sweet tributes and well wishes. "Well! I must say ...