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Not After Midnight, and other stories [2] is a 1971 collection of five long stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was first published in Britain by Gollancz (with a cover by du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower [ 1 ] [ 4 ] ), and in America by Doubleday under the title Don't Look Now . [ 3 ]
Similarly, the words "the centre cannot hold" in the same line are used in the title of Elyn Saks' book about her experience with schizophrenia while obtaining her PhD at Oxford, and later her JD at Yale, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2008), [17] Jonathan Alter's book on U.S. President Barack Obama's first term, The Center ...
Other poems apparently alluding to the "midnight poem" include Elizabeth Bishop's "Insomnia" – whose first line fits the meter used in the Greek fragment, and which shares setting and tone with it – and H.D.'s "Night", which is thematically linked with the poem, also concerned with the passage of time and isolation. [39]
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).
The poem first appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems, published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy in London: [3] We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever:
The poem was considered by many of Keats's contemporaries and the succeeding Victorians to be one of his finest and was influential in 19th-century literature. [1] The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes (or St. Agnes' Eve). St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th-century Rome. The eve ...
First instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German Second instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German. Zarathustra's roundelay (German: Zarathustra's Rundgesang), [1] also called the Midnight Song (Mitternachts-Lied [2]) or Once More (German: Noch ein Mal), [3] is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...