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List Of Poems
This is a list of poems – individual notable poems (not poetry collections or anthologies), of any length, often published in book form if long enough, or, if a short poem, as a tract or broadside. 0–9 * "1914" – Wilfred Owen A * " A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" – Gene Ziegler (1994) * " A Question" – Robert Frost * " A Terre" – Wilfred Owen * '' Absalom and Achitophel'' – John Dryden ( 1681, continuation attrib. to Nahum Tate) * "Adam's Curse" – William Butler Yeats * "Address to the Deil" – Robert Burns * ''Aeneid'' – Virgil (1st century BC) * "After Apple-Picking" – Robert Frost * '' The Age of Anxiety'' – W. H. Auden (1948) * "And did those feet in ancient time" – William Blake * "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" – Richard Brautigan (1967) * "Amar Sonar Bangla" – Rabindranath Tagore * ''Aniara'' (Verse novel) – Harry Martinson (1956) * "Anne Hathaway" – Carol Ann Duffy * ''Annus Mirabilis'' – John D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 (poem)
This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen. * "1914" * " A New Heaven" * "A Terre" * "Anthem for Doomed Youth" * "The Bending over of Clancy Year 12 on October 19th" * "Arms and the Boy" * "As Bronze may be much Beautified" * "Asleep" * " At a Calvary near the Ancre" * "Beauty" * "But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" * "Conscious" * "Cramped in that Funny Hole" * "Disabled" * "''Dulce et Decorum Est''" * "Elegy in April and September" * "Exposure" * " Futility" * "Greater Love" * "Happiness" * "Has Your Soul Sipped?" * "Hospital Barge" * "I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson" * "Insensibility" * "Inspection" * "Le Christianisme" * "Mental Cases" * "Miners" * "Music" * "S. I. W." * "Schoolmistress" * "Six O'Clock in Princes Street" * "Smile, Smile, Smile" * Soldier's Dream * "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action" * "Spells and Incantations" * "Spring Offensive" * " Strange Meeting" * " The Calls" * "The Chances" * "The Dead-Beat "The Dead-Beat" is a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age Of Anxiety
''The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue'' (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and personal identity, identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialisation, industrialized world. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes. The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein), ''The Age of Anxiety'' (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra), which in turn was used for both a 1950 ballet by Jerome Robbins and a 2014 ballet by Liam Scarlett. A Textual criticism, critical edition of the poem, edited by Alan Jacobs, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011. "The Age of Anxiety" is also the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annus Mirabilis (poem)
''Annus Mirabilis'' is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the "year of miracles" of London. Despite the poem's name, the year had been one of great tragedy, including the Great Fire of London. The title was perhaps meant to suggest that the events of the year could have been worse. Dryden wrote the poem while at Charlton in Wiltshire, where he went to escape one of the great events of the year: the Great Plague of London. Johnson, Samuel. "Johnson on Annus Mirabilis" ''Annus Mirabilis''. John Dryden and William Dougal Christie. Clarendon Press (1915) p.xi-xii. Historical context The title of Dryden's poem, used without capitalisation, ''annus mirabilis'', derives its meaning from its Latin origins and describes a year of particularly notable events. According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', Dryden's use of the term for the title of his poem constitutes the first known written use of the phrase in an English text. ''Oxford Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly gay poet to hold the Poet Laureate position. Her collections include ''Standing Female Nude'' (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; ''Selling Manhattan'' (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; ''Mean Time'' (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and ''Rapture'' (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in accessible language. Early life Carol Ann Duffy was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, considered a poor part of Glasgow. She was the daughter of Mary (née Black) and Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter. Her mother's parents were Irish, and her father had Irish grandparents. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Hathaway (poem)
"Anne Hathaway" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare. Overview This poem, a sonnet, appears in ''The World's Wife ''The World's Wife'' is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador (imprint), Picador and Anvil Press Poetry and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. Duffy's poem ...'', published in 1999, a collection of poems. The poem is based on the famous passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight. Anne remembers their lovemaking as a form of "romance and drama", unlike the "prose" written on the best bed used by guests, "I hold him in the casket of my widow's head/ as he held me upon that next best bed". In ''The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway'', Katherine Scheil describes it as "… enteringon an intima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 25 – English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. *June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at the church of St George the Martyr, Holborn, London and spend the night at his flat at 18 Rugby Street. *September 6 – American poet Richard Eberhart, having been sent by ''The New York Times'' to San Francisco to report on the poetry scene there, publishes this day an article in the ''New York Times Book Review'' titled "West Coast Rhythms" which helps call national attention to Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl'' as "the most remarkable poem of the young group" of poets who are becoming known as the spokesmen of the Beat Generation. On November 1, ''Howl and Other Poems'', is published by City Lights Bookstore. *The Lake Eden campus of Black Mountain College, the birthplace of the Black Mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson (6May 190411February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.Örjan Lindberger "Människan i tiden. Eyvind Johnsons liv och författarskap 1938–1976" Bonniers 1990, pp. 445–447 He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." Life Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden. At a young age he lost both his parents, his father died of tuberculosis in 1910 and a year later his mother emigrated to Portland, Oregon leaving behind her children, whereafter Martinson was placed as a foster child (''Kommunalbarn'') in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniara
''Aniara'' ( sv, Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956. ''Aniara'' has been translated to around twenty languages. It was adapted into an opera in 1959 and a Swedish feature film in 2018. Title In a 1997 Swedish edition of ''Aniara,'' literary scholar Johan Wrede writes that the neologism “Aniara” is Harry Martinson's own invention. Martinson came up with the word years before writing the work while reading astronomer Arthur Eddington, then giving it the meaning as the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali'', he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district* * * and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Sonar Bangla
"" ( bn, আমার সোনার বাংলা, lit=My Golden Bengal, ) is the national anthem of Bangladesh. An ode to Mother Bengal, the lyrics were written by Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore in 1905, while the melody of the hymn was adopted from the Baul singer Gagan Harkara's song "Ami Kothay Pabo Tare" () set to Dadra Tala. The modern instrumental rendition was arranged by Bangladeshi musician Samar Das. Etymology The word literally means "made of gold", with meaning gold, and showing possession. It is used as a term of endearment meaning "beloved", but in the song the words may be interpreted to express the preciousness of Bengal. History The song was written in 1905 during the first partition of Bengal, when the ruling British Empire had an undivided province of Bengal Presidency split into two parts; the decision was announced on 20 July by the then-Viceroy of India Lord Curzon, taking effect on 16 October. This divide of Bengal, being along co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels ''Trout Fishing in America'' (1967), ''In Watermelon Sugar'' (1968), and ''The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966'' (1971). Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with ''A Confederate General from Big Sur'' (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate States of America, Confederate general from Big Sur. Brautigan would go on to publish numerous prose and poetry collections until 1982. He died by suicide in 1984. Early life Background Braut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It presents an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which machines improve and protect the lives of humans. The poem has counterculture and hippie themes, influenced by Cold War-era technology. It has been interpreted both as utopian and as an ironic critique of the utopia it describes. It is Brautigan's most frequently reprinted poem. Synopsis and analysis Brautigan wrote the poem and eponymous collection between January 17–26, 1967, while a poet-in-residence at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The poem is 99 words in 3 stanzas, and describes a technological utopia in which humans and technology work together for the greater good. Brautigan writes about "mammals and computers liv ngtogether in mutually programming harmony", with technology acting as caretakers while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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