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The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. It was illustrated with notable engravings by William Blake .
The collections contends with Vuong's grief of having lost his mother, who passed in November of 2019, as well as suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Vuong said he experienced grief both as a son and also as a writer: "Like any child, I look at the blank page and I said, how do I play...the only place I could look to was the poems, because it was the only place I found linguistic ...
Mary TallMountain was born on June 19, 1918, in Nulato, Alaska, to a mother of Russian and Native American heritage, and a father of Irish-Scottish descent, who was an American soldier. [6] She was born to the Athabascan tribe, which is believed to be one of the original tribes that came over to Alaska via land bridge from Asia. [ 3 ]
Born in Cheapside, London, Robert Herrick was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. [2] He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood on after Henry VIII's dissolution in the mid-16th century.
Mary Dow Brine (1838-1925) [1] was an American poet, novelist, and lyricist. Her best-known poem is "Somebody's Mother," and her most noteworthy book was " My Boy and I or On the Road to Slumberland ," an elegant book illustrated by Dora Wheeler and produced as part of a brief foray into publishing by Louis Comfort Tiffany .
Mary Britton Miller (6 August 1883 – 3 April 1975), best known by her pen name as Isabel Bolton, was an American poet and novelist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She achieved her greatest critical success with the publication of three novels after the age of sixty, under her pen name.
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Although she had written since girlhood, she published nothing until Psyche (1805), a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas. Psyche was admired by many and praised by Moore in his poem, "To Mrs. Henry Tighe on reading her Psyche". [3] Having suffered for at least a year, Mary Tighe endured a serious attack of tuberculosis in 1805. In ...