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The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [ 1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
0-571-19472-9. Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [ 1 ...
December 8, 1915. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.
1798, April 18 The Old Man of the Alps "Stranger! whose eyes a look of pity shew," 1798, March 8 1798, March 8 [xv]To a Young Lady [Miss Lavinia Poole] on her Recovery from a Fever "Why need I say, Louisa dear!" 1798, March 31 1799, December 9 Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt. "At midnight by the stream I roved," 1798 1798, April 18
Primarily Slovene, some works in German. France Prešeren[ ii] ( pronounced [fɾanˈtsɛ pɾɛˈʃeːɾn] ⓘ) (2 or 3 December 1800 [ iii] – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic [ 4] Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages. [ 5][ 6] He has been considered the greatest Slovene classical poet and has inspired ...
Men and Women was Browning's first published work after a five-year hiatus, and his first collection of shorter poems since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. His reputation had still not recovered from the disastrous failure of Sordello fifteen years previously, and Browning was at the time comprehensively overshadowed by his wife in terms of both critical reception and commercial ...
Bread and Roses. "As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray"—first lines of Bread and Roses. Image of workers marching during the Lawrence textile strike. " Bread and Roses " is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song.