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Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
A Wall Street Journal story in May 2020 described it as "keeping the realities of life's ugliness from young innocents" and noted that the poem has gone viral after catastrophes such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the May 2017 suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, England, the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the coronavirus ...
Descent of Alette, Disobedience, Culture of One, Mysteries of Small Houses, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet . Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York ...
Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founding member of the Temenos Academy.
The couple had no children. In 1930 Davies edited the poetry anthology Jewels of Song for Cape, choosing works by over 120 poets, including William Blake, Thomas Campion, Shakespeare, Tennyson and W. B. Yeats. Of his own poems he added only "The Kingfisher" and "Leisure". The collection reappeared as An Anthology of Short Poems in 1938.
Maybe she had children, and wanted to warn them about the wayward world beyond adolescence. Maybe her mother, or her mother's mother, told her the story, and as a child she delighted in its shocking twists and turns. Maybe it helped break up the mundanity of her domestic duties, or the telling of the story felt like a duty in itself.
She was the sister of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and the third of five children born to Ann Cookson and John Wordsworth. Following the death of her mother in 1778, Dorothy was sent alone to live with her second cousin, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire until 1787.