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The Caldecott committee praised James' "love-letter to the contemporary barbershop" [18] and the Newbery committee similarly praised Barnes' "joyous paean to... a great haircut". [19] Additionally, the book was recognized by the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award , with Barnes its winner for writing and James an honor winner for illustrations.
Lucrezia de' Medici by Bronzino or Alessandro Allori, generally believed to be the subject of the poem "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. [1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter ...
The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker, and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (Random House, 1940). [ 1 ] The poem is the epitaph of a man identified only by a combination of letters and numbers, JS/07/M/378, who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government ...
"Her Kind" is a poem published in 1960 by American poet Anne Sexton. [1] Writing throughout the Cold War , Sexton was keenly aware of the economic importance of American housewives in the 1960s. "Her Kind" concludes with an "[un]ashamed" (20) confession of suicide-desire that individualizes death against a twentieth-century backdrop of genocide ...
The poem is one of Clare's most famous protestation poems. Swordy Well in Marholm, now Swaddywell, is an area of scientific interest. The Langdyke Countryside Trust established Swaddywell Pit nature reserve in 2003. [1] Poet Paul Farley celebrated Clare's work through this poem on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. [2]
"The Raven" was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless ...
"Daddy" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was composed on October 12, 1962, one month after her separation from Ted Hughes and four months before her death. It was published posthumously in Ariel during 1965 [1] alongside many other of her final poems, such as "Tulips" and "Lady Lazarus".
"An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined in Chichester Cathedral .