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The Merritt Parkway (also known locally as " The Merritt ") is a controlled-access parkway in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with a small section at the northern end in New Haven County. Designed for Connecticut's Gold Coast, the parkway is known for its scenic layout, its uniquely styled signage, and the architecturally elaborate overpasses ...
Denise Levertov. Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust.
Route 15 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut that runs 83.53 miles (134.43 km) from a connection with New York 's Hutchinson River Parkway in Greenwich, Connecticut, to its northern terminus intersecting with Interstate 84 (I-84) in East Hartford, Connecticut. Route 15 consists of four distinct sections: the Merritt Parkway, the ...
The Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge (also known as the Sikorsky Memorial Bridge, and as the Housatonic River Bridge) carries the controlled-access Merritt Parkway ( Connecticut Route 15) over the Housatonic River, between Stratford and Milford, Connecticut . The first bridge on the site, known as the Sikorsky Bridge, was completed in 1940 ...
Mark Jarman. Mark F. Jarman (born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky) is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s. Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of eleven books of ...
Poetry. Johnson's literature, especially his Lives of the Poets series, is marked by various opinions on what would make a poetic work excellent. He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language. In particular, he was suspicious of John Milton 's language ...
Heroic couplet. Publication date. 1713. Metre. Iambic pentameter. Full text. Windsor Forest (4th edition)/Windsor Forest at Wikisource. Windsor-Forest is a narrative poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, published in 1713. It is not to be confused with the eight-line poem entitled "Lines Written in Windsor Forest".
Yale College (1873) Columbia Law School (1876) Occupation. Banker. Signature. Schuyler Merritt (December 16, 1853 – April 1, 1953) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1917 to 1931 and 1933 to 1937. He is the namesake of the Merritt Parkway.