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The Corn Law Rhymes were initially thought to be written by an uneducated Sheffield mechanic, who had rejected conventional Romantic ideals for a new style of working-class poetry aimed at changing the system. Elliott was described as "a red son of the furnace", and called "the Yorkshire Burns" or "the Burns of the manufacturing city". The ...
Like most poems in Alice, the poem is a parody of a poem then well-known to children, Robert Southey's didactic poem "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", originally published in 1799. Like the other poems parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice, this original poem is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. [3]
Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, [1] c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.Born into the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, he was son-in-law to Emperor Avitus and was appointed Urban prefect of Rome by Emperor Anthemius in 468.
The fashion for coterie poetry of the period gave Donne a means to seek patronage. Many of his poems were written for wealthy friends or patrons, especially for MP Sir Robert Drury of Hawsted (1575–1615), whom he met in 1610 and who became his chief patron, furnishing him and his family an apartment in his large house in Drury Lane. [11]
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Son Quotes from the Bible. 67. “Behold, sons are a gift from the Lord. Happy the man whose quiver is filled with them.” — Psalm 127: 3-5. 68. “My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart ...
Hartley was born in Clevedon, a small village near Bristol. [3] His father mentions Hartley in several poems, including the well-known Frost at Midnight, where he addresses him as his "babe so beautiful", and in his The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, both of which are concerned with young Hartley's future.
Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, have had their ups and downs over the years, but Tina Knowles has stood by her son-in-law through it all. While Beyoncé documented Jay-Z’s (real name Shawn ...