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The Eye of the Earth is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. The work was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the African poetry book category, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in its year of publication. The collection comprises nineteen poems that explore nature ...
Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, [1] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
Folio 129r of the early eleventh-century Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 43, showing a page of Bede's Latin text, with Cædmon's Hymn added in the lower margin. Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator.
"To Marguerite: Continued" is a poem by Matthew Arnold. It was first published in Empedocles on Etna , with the title, "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis". In the 1857 edition, the poem is printed as a sequel to the poem "Isolation: To Marguerite." There, it first adopted the simplified title.
"Earth's Answer" is a poem by William Blake within his larger collection called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (published 1794). [2] It is the response to the previous poem in The Songs of Experience-- Introduction (Blake, 1794). In the Introduction, the bard asks the Earth to wake up and claim ownership. In this poem, the feminine Earth ...
William Livingston Larned was an American author and poet. He is known for his works "Father Forgets" [2] and "Advertisement Illustration". [3] In 1909, he penned a poem titled "Florida's State Flower" to commemorate the designation of the orange blossom as the official state flower of Florida.
The Earth in the Attic is a 2008 debut poetry collection by Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah; at the time, Joudah was a medical doctor and had worked with Doctors Without Borders since 2001. [1] The book was published by Yale University Press after Louise Glück had selected it for the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 2007.