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Another example can be found on the 5th day of the 2nd month, as the grieving mother composes her own poem and expresses her pain and unwillingness to forget about her child. [9] An interpretation can be that the child is still among the group spiritually, and the mother's grief is the emotional attachment keeping the child from moving on.
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry , Imagism , Objectivism , and the British Poetry Revival .
In 18th-century Britain, travel literature was highly popular, and almost every famous writer worked in the travel literature form; [13] Gulliver's Travels (1726), for example, is a social satire imitating one, and Captain James Cook's diaries (1784) were the equivalent of today's best-sellers. [14]
The Delphian Club was founded in Baltimore in 1816. [1] The number of Baltimore printers, publishers, and booksellers had doubled in the preceding years. [2] Many residents expected the city to become America's leading cultural and commercial center following the War of 1812 and the literary community dubbed Baltimore "the Rome of the United States". [3]
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
To make poetry more approachable, Camarda turned to some of the best lyrical artists of the 20th Century, showing students that modern pop stars have a lot in common with the classic Romantic poets.
The Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore was founded in March 1890, and was the idea of two young writers, Louisa C.Osburne Haughton and Hester Crawford Dorsey, who issued an invitation to discuss founding a club “to further greater intellectual development of the women of Baltimore and to promote social relations among those of similar ...
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