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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
Thomas Kellner (born May 28, 1966, in Bonn) is a German fine-art photographer, lecturer and curator. He became known above all for his large-format photographs of famous architectural monuments , which, through many individual images and a shifted camera perspective, look like "photo mosaics".
Thomas Locker (June 26, 1937 — March 9, 2012) [1] was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of children's literature [2] His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting.
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8. 1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences" 2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because" 3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat” 1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus"
Henry John Newbolt was born in Bilston, Wolverhampton (then in Staffordshire, but now in the West Midlands), son of the vicar of St Mary's Church, the Rev. Henry Francis Newbolt (1824–1866), and his second wife, Emily née Stubbs (1838–1921), the older brother of Sir Francis Newbolt.
Rodney Marvin McKuen (/ m ə ˈ k j uː ə n / mə-KEW-ən; né Woolever; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer.He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s.
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ ˌ k w ɪ l ər ˈ k uː tʃ /; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism .
Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life and education