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As a result, his poetry demonstrates a wide-ranging mastery of form, from long or epic poems (e.g., A Treatise on Poetry) to poems of just two lines (e.g., "On the Death of a Poet" from the collection This), and from prose poems and free verse to classic forms such as the ode or elegy. Some of his poems use rhyme, but many do not.
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
Diane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist; Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction; Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright; Harold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante; János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost; Tamás Aczél (1921 ...
Luis Omar Salinas (1937–2008) was a leading Chicano poet [1] who published a number of well-received collections of poetry, including the Crazy Gypsy, which has been described as "a classic of contemporary and Chicano poetry", [2] I Go Dreaming Serenades, and Afternoon of The Unreal.
Many of the poems in Soft Science appear in Choi's 2017 chapbook Death by Sex Machine. [1] Choi began the chapbook without "[...] really [knowing] what it might turn into". [ 1 ] Choi has also said she drew inspiration for the collection from a series of poems she wrote about the character Kyoko from the 2015 science fiction film Ex Machina [ 2 ...
The book's title comes from a poem by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The caged bird, a symbol for the chained slave, is an image Angelou uses throughout all her writings. [26] The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy": [note 1]
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.