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The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v " Alysoun " or " Alison ", also known as " Bytuene Mersh ant Averil ", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated is a 1987 study by the American author Eliot Weinberger, with an addendum written by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. The work analyzes 19 renditions of the Chinese-language nature poem "Deer Grove", which was originally written by the Tang -era poet Wang Wei (699–759).
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]
Joe Pintauro was born on November 22, 1930, in Queens, New York.His father, Aniello Pintauro, was a cabinetmaker, and his mother was Carmela (Iovino) Pintauro. [1] He had two older siblings, a brother named Anthony (Tony) who was three years older and a sister named Mildred who was fifteen years older. [2]
Wyatt returns to the ship, and ties himself to the box with a rope. "In another instant both body and box were in the sea—disappearing suddenly, at once and forever." About a month after the incident, the narrator happens to meet the captain. Hardy explains that the box had, in fact, held the corpse of Wyatt's recently deceased young wife.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [2]
He began writing poetry during World War II, after a Red Cross worker handed him an anthology of poetry. In 1963, Field's book Stand Up, Friend, With Me was awarded the prestigious Lamont Poetry Prize and was published. In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963–1992. [3]
This he expanded as The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems (1962). A selection of his verse appeared in A Puffin Quartet of Poets (1958). [5] For Rieu himself, his poems were a sideline, aimed mainly at children. [8] Rieu wrote the short story "Pudding Law: A Nightmare", included in The Great Book for Girls, published by Oxford University Press.