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He published a number of poems, and was regarded as significant enough in his time to be included by Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Poets. 'The Choice' is the poem for which Pomfret is now probably most remembered, especially as it was chosen by Roger Lonsdale as the first poem in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. [2]
The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo, which alternatively acquired the label "Nashe's Dildo", [1] is an erotic poem by Thomas Nashe, thought to have been composed around 1592 or 1593. [2] The poem survives in three extant manuscript versions [3] [4] and was first printed in 1899. [5]
A Choice of Kipling's Verse, made by T. S. Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling is a book first published in December 1941 (by Faber and Faber in UK, and by Charles Scribner's Sons in U.S.A.). It is in two parts.
Each poem offers a puzzle to solve, because every poet wrote in response to a specific song. As you seek a poem’s shadowing song, look closely at word choice. Poems, unlike prose, are short beings.
Buckdancer's Choice (1965) is a collection of poems by James Dickey. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry [1] in 1966 and the Melville Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America. [2] The opening poem, "The Firebombing," relates a World War II pilot's memory of a night air raid on Beppu, Japan.
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known Hobson's choice is "I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it", wherein "leaving it" is strongly undesirable.
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2]
One major exception is the fourth verse of the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon, which is often known as The Ode to the Fallen, or simply as The Ode. W.H. Auden also wrote Ode , one of the most popular poems from his earlier career when he lived in London, in opposition to people's ignorance over the reality of war.