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John Engman (1949–1996) was an American poet from Minneapolis, Minnesota. [ 1 ] He published several books of poems, most notably Keeping Still, Mountain (Galileo Press, 1984) [ 2 ] and Temporary Help: Poems (1998). [ 3 ]
The Garden" is a widely anthologized poem by the seventeenth-century English poet, Andrew Marvell. The poem was first published posthumously in Miscellaneous Poems (1681). [ 1 ] “ The Garden” is one of several poems by Marvell to feature gardens, including his “Nymph Complaining for the Death her Fawn,” “The Mower Against Gardens ...
John Sleigh Pudney (19 January 1909 – 10 November 1977) was a British poet, journalist and author. He was known especially for his popular poetry written during the Second World War , but he also wrote novels, short stories and children's fiction.
"Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, [1] and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. [2]
The first evidence of the poems that were to become the "Calamus" cluster is an unpublished manuscript sequence of twelve poems entitled "Live Oak With Moss," written in or before spring 1859. [4] These poems were all incorporated in Whitman's 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, but out of their original sequence. These poems seem to recount the ...
"The Song of the Vermonters, 1779" Also known as "The Green Mountaineer" is a poem by the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) about the U.S. state of Vermont during its years of independence (1777–1791), sometimes called the Vermont Republic. [1]
The poem is written in Whitman's signature free verse style. Whitman, who praises words "as simple as grass" (section 39) forgoes standard verse and stanza patterns in favor of a simple, legible style that can appeal to a mass audience. [7] Critics have noted a strong Transcendentalist influence on the poem. In section 32, for instance, Whitman ...
Jack Sullivan writes that Whitman "had an early, intuitive appreciation of vocal music, one that, as he himself acknowledged, helped shape Leaves of Grass" [109] Sullivan claims that one of the first compositions setting Whitman's poem, Charles Villiers Stanford ' s Elegiac Ode, Op. 21 (1884), a four-movement work scored for baritone and ...