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1820 cover of Prometheus Unbound, C. and J. Collier, London. " Ode to the West Wind " is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in Cascine wood [1] near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. [2]
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. [1] The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742. Originally titled Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard, the poem was completed when Gray was ...
In Whitman’s poem, the reader can find symbolism through the journey of life and the open, democratic society of that time. In the first 8 sections of the poem, Whitman observes the freedoms in life shown through the open road, “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road; Healthy, free, the world before me; The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌædoʊˈneɪ.ɪs /) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [1] The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 ...
The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]
Sisir Kumar Das. Sisir Kumar Das (1936–2003) was a linguist, poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and a prolific scholar of Indian literature. [ 1 ] He is considered by many as the " doyen of Indian literary historiographers". [ 2 ] Almost singlehandedly, Das built an integrated history of Indian literature composed of many languages, a ...
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound," 1792 1893 To Disappointment. "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway," 1792 1895 A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. "Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream," 1792 1895 Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) "Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose" 1792 1796, Mach 25
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.