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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963) was a Welsh poet, illustrator, BBC broadcaster, and journalist. She was born Blodwen Myfanwy Haycock in Pontnewynydd , Wales , near Pontypool , in the traditional county of Monmouthshire , .
Blue Cloud moved to the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City for several years in the 1970s–80s, where he continued to write, carve and paint, while also working as a carpenter. There he met guitarist Rex Richardson, and toured across the U.S. in 1979 with Richardson, who set his poems to music.
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2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8. 1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences" 2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because" 3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat” 1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus"
Thomas Locker (June 26, 1937 — March 9, 2012) [1] was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of children's literature [2] His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting.
On the basis of linguistic criteria Norris J. Lacy suggests that the poem took its present form around AD 900. [3] Marged Haycock notes that the poem shares a formal peculiarity with a number of pre-Gogynfeirdd poems found in the Book of Taliesin, that is, the caesura usually divides the lines into a longer and shorter section. [4]
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