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1854 In Poetry
— From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works published in English United Kingdom * William Allingham, ''Day and Night Songs''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T. Percy Jones", ''Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz'', subtitle: "A Spasmodic tragedy" * Thomas De Quincey, ''Selections Grave and Gay'', including biographical essays (originally published in ''Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840) on some of the Lake Poets (see also '' Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets'' 1860, in which all of the ''Recollections'' essays were published) * Eliza Craven Green, " Ellan Vannin" (later set to music) * John Keats, ''The Poetical Works of John Keats'', edited by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (poem)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in ''The Examiner''. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time. The poem was subsequently revised and expanded for inclusion in '' Maud and Other Poems'' (1855). History Composition During 1854, when the United Kingdom was engaged in the Crimean War, Tennyson wrote several patriotic poems under various pseudonyms. Scholars speculate that Tennyson created his pen names because these verses used a traditional structure Tennyson employed in his earlier career but suppressed during the 1840s, worrying that poems like "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (which he initially signed only A.T.) "might prove not to be decorous for a poet laureate". The poem was written after the Light Cavalry Brigade suffere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellan Vannin (poem)
''Ellan Vannin'' (the Manx-language name of the Isle of Man) is a poem and song, often referred to as "the alternative Manx national anthem", the words of which were written by Eliza Craven Green in 1854 and later set to music by someone called either J. Townsend or F. H. Townend (sources vary). The Manx-language name ''Ellan Vannin'' is commonly mispronounced in renditions of the song, including in the Bee Gees version, since written Manx uses an orthography based on Welsh rather than Irish/Scots gaelic, which does not accurately transcribe the "ʲə" sound found in the word for "island" in spoken Manx Gaelic. The correct pronunciation is . Poem English-language version :''When the summer day is over'' :''And its busy cares have flown,'' :''I sit beneath the starlight'' :''With a weary heart, alone,'' :''Then rises like a vision,'' :''Sparkling bright in nature's glee,'' :''My own dear '' :''With its green hills by the sea.'' :''Then I hear the wavelets murmur'' :''As they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William J
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Cary
Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871).She was a great poet who composed a Legend of Northland which is a very beautiful poem. The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled. Phoebe Cary was born on September 4, 1824, in Mount Healthy, Ohio near Cincinnati, and she and her sister Alice were raised on the Clovernook farm in what is now North College Hill, Ohio.Kane, Paul. ''Poetry of the American Renaissance''. New York: George Braziller, 1995: 297. While they were raised in a Universalist household and held political and religious views that were liberal and reformist, they often attended Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist services and were friendly with ministers of all these denominations and others.Edwards, June.The Cary Sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the ''New York Evening Post''. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry. Biography Youth and education Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant (b. Aug. 12, 1767, d. Mar. 20, 1820), a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell (b. Dec. 4, 1768, d. May 6, 1847). The genealogy of his mother traces back to passengers on the ''Mayflower'': John Alden (b. 1599, d. 1687), his wife Priscilla Mullins and her parents William an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Paul Blood
Benjamin Paul Blood (November 21, 1832 – January 15, 1919) was an American philosopher, mystic and poet. His idiosyncratic work explored his development of his pluralist philosophy, culminating in the posthumously published book ''Pluriverse''. Biography He was born in Amsterdam, New York. His father, John Blood, was a prosperous landowner. Blood was known as an intelligent man but an unfocused one. Initially, his writing consisted of letters, either to local newspapers or to friends such as James Hutchison Stirling, Alfred Tennyson and William James. H. M. Kallen wrote of Blood:He was born in 1832 and lived for eighty-six years. During that time he wrote much, but unsystematically. His favorite form of publication was letters to newspapers, mainly local newspapers with a small circulation. These letters dealt with an astonishing diversity of subjects, from local petty politics or the tricks of spiritualist mediums to principles of industry and finance and profundities of meta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary English models of poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, List of poets from the United States, poets from the United States had begun to take their place at the forefront of the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones on the far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Examiner (1808–86)
Examiner or The Examiner may refer to: Occupations * Bank examiner, a kind of auditor * Examiner (Roman Catholicism), a type of office in the Roman Catholic Church * Examinership, a concept in Irish law * Medical examiner * Patent examiner * Trademark examiner, an attorney employed by a government entity Newspapers Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Kiama, New South Wales), a newspaper published in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Perth), a weekly newspaper published in two editions in south-eastern Perth, Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Tasmania), a daily paper in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia * ''The Daily Examiner'', local newspaper in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia Canada * ''Westmount Examiner'', a newspaper in Westmount, Quebec * ''The Examiner'' (Toronto), a newspaper founded by Francis Hincks United Kingdom * ''The Examiner'' (1710–1714), an early 18th-century journal with contributions by Jonathan Swift * ''The Examiner'' (1808–86), a we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charge Of The Light Brigade (poem)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in ''The Examiner''. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time. The poem was subsequently revised and expanded for inclusion in '' Maud and Other Poems'' (1855). History Composition During 1854, when the United Kingdom was engaged in the Crimean War, Tennyson wrote several patriotic poems under various pseudonyms. Scholars speculate that Tennyson created his pen names because these verses used a traditional structure Tennyson employed in his earlier career but suppressed during the 1840s, worrying that poems like "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (which he initially signed only A.T.) "might prove not to be decorous for a poet laureate". The poem was written after the Light Cavalry Brigade suffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 1 – American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing " Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. * May 17 – Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro published her first collection in Galician, ''Cantares gallegos'' ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the ''Día das Letras Galegas'' ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain. Works published in English United Kingdom * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ''The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets'', essays first published in the ''Athenaeum'' 1842 and revised before the author's death; posthumousCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Robert Browning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1856 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of ''The Death of Chatterton'' in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton. Works published in English United Kingdom * Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ** ''Aurora Leigh'' (first published November 15, dated 1857) ** ''Poems'' (see also ''Poems'' 1844, 1850, 1853) * Sydney Dobell, ''England in Time of War'' * Edward Fitzgerald, written anonymously, ''Salaman and Absal'' * Walter Savage Landor, ''Antony and Octavius'' * Coventry Patmore, ''The Espousals'' (''The Angel in the House'', Volume 2; see also ''The Betrothal'' 1854, ''Faithful for Ever'' 1860, ''The Victories of Love'' 1863) * Wesley family, ''The Bards of Epworth'', anthology United States * George Henry Boker, ''Plays and Poems''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Angel In The House
''The Angel in the House'' is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Although largely ignored upon publication, it became enormously popular in the United States during the later 19th century and then in Britain, and its influence continued well into the twentieth century as it became part of many English Literature courses once adopted by W. W. Norton & Company into ''The Norton Anthology of English Literature''. The poem was an idealised account of Patmore's courtship of his first wife, Emily Augusta Andrews (1824–1862), whom he married in 1847 and believed to be the perfect woman. According to Carol Christ, it is not a very good poem, "yet it is culturally significant, not only for its definition of the sexual ideal, but also for the clarity with which it represents the male concerns that motivate fascination with that ideal." The poem The poem is in two main parts, but was originally published in four installments. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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