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"The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets.
Smith published his first book of poetry, Counting Descent, in 2016. [10] It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association [11] and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards. [12] He was on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list [13] and Ebony's 2017 Power 100 list. [14]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game, and the exchange of winnings.
She is known to be a hostile contender of the "Footprints" poem and declines to be interviewed about it, although she writes letters to those who write about the poem online. [1] A collection of poetry by Carty with a claim to authorship of "Footprints" was published in 2004. [4] Mary Stevenson is also a purported author of the poem circa 1936.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
"The Life That I Have" (sometimes referred to as "Yours") is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War. In the war, famous poems were used to encrypt messages. This was, however, found to be insecure because enemy cryptanalysts were able to locate the original from published sources. Marks countered this ...
"The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams.Originally published without a title, it was designated "XXII" in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse and prose.
[6] Although not addressed in this poem, the racial discrepancies that arose after the creation of the Barbie Doll, such as "hair type, facial features, and skin color” have been addressed throughout the years. [6] Therefore, the purpose of the poem was to display the struggle women faced because of these societal issues in hopes of changing ...