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To pass the time, he began sketching images of hospital machines and scenes of medical procedures. He later began to work those ideas into a book. Geisel quipped that he was "fed up with a social life consisting entirely of doctors". [2] You're Only Old Once! was Seuss's first adult book since The Seven Lady Godivas, which was published in 1939.
"If Life were slumber on a bed of down," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 In the Channel, between the coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man 1833 "Ranging the heights of Scawfell or Black-Comb" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 At Sea off the Isle of Man 1833
Although the "Lucy poems" share stylistic and thematic similarities, it was not Wordsworth but literary critics who first presented the five poems as a unified set called the "Lucy poems". The grouping was originally suggested by critic Thomas Powell in 1831 and later advocated by Margaret Oliphant in an 1871 essay.
The poem plays a significant role in one section of The Mathematics of Magic, a 1940 novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. Having traveled to the parallel world of Edmund Spenser 's The Faerie Queene , Harold Shea and Reed Chalmer are seized by a monster, the Blatant Beast, who demands of them (on pain of death) a work of epic poetry.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...
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Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
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