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The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. [1] The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner. [1]
Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene (12 May 1930 – 11 August 2006) was a South African poet best known for his translation of the epic Zulu poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active supporter and organiser of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He later taught at the University ...
Signature. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before ...
Elanor Evans (1937–1958; divorced) Elise Asher (1958–2004; her death) Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (/ ˈkjuːnɪts /; July 28, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. [ 1 ]
Contents. You can shed tears that she is gone. " You can shed tears that she is gone... " is the opening line of a piece of popular verse, based on a short prose poem, " Remember Me ", written in 1982 by English painter and poet David Harkins (born 14 November 1958). The verse – sometimes also known as " She Is Gone " – has often been given ...
She lived with her mother, a Métis woman who struggled with alcoholism, for parts of her childhood. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] John-Kehewin began writing poetry at age six, as a way to express he feelings. [ 4 ] She became aware of the lack of literature centering First Nations voices at a young age, after seeing the lack of representation in the books in ...
Form. References. Contemplations (poem) " Contemplations " is a 17th-century poem by English colonist Anne Bradstreet. The poem's meaning is debated, with some scholars arguing that it is a Puritan religious poem while others argue that it is a Romantic poem.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. " A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning " is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death. Based ...