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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 ...
The South Carolina Poetry Archives at Furman University is a collection of published works, manuscripts, and ephemeral materials from over one hundred authors. It is housed in Greenville, South Carolina , at the Special Collections and Archives department of the James B. Duke Library.
Kensington Garden (1722), Tickell's longest poem, is sometimes viewed as inflated and pedantic. It has been said that Tickell's poetic powers were awakened by his admiration for the person and genius of Addison, and undoubtedly his best work is the sincere and dignified elegy addressed to Addison's stepson Edward Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick on ...
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.His best known works include his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his memoir, Exile's Return (1934; rev. 1951), written as a chronicler and fellow traveller of the Lost Generation and an influential editor and talent scout at Viking Press.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ tʃ / AWL-dritch; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly , during which he published writers including Charles W. Chesnutt . [ 1 ]
Joyce Carol Thomas (May 25, 1938 – August 13, 2016) [1] was an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and author of more than 30 children's books. Background [ edit ]
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 .
A Poem Is a Naked Person is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Les Blank, filmed in 1972–1974 [1] but not publicly released until 2015, after Blank's death. The film is a documentary about musician Leon Russell , produced and financed largely by Russell and his then-business partner Denny Cordell .