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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
An illustration to the 1830 version of the poem, by W. E. F. Britten (c. 1901) "The maid-of-honour blooming fair, The page has caught her hand in his" —Illustrated under George T. Andrew (New York, c. 1885) The Day-Dream is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem The Sleeping ...
The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), by the American poet John Berryman.According to Berryman's "Note" to The Dream Songs, "This volume combines 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, comprising Books I through VII of a poem whose working title, since 1955, has been The Dream Songs."
The Tithonus poem is twelve lines long, [11] and is in a metre called "acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion". [12] It is the fourth poem by Sappho to be sufficiently complete to treat as an entire work, along with the Ode to Aphrodite, fragment 16, and fragment 31; [13] a fifth, the Brothers Poem, was discovered in ...
"Dream" is a poem by Taras Shevchenko from 1844, a lyrical pamphlet, the first work of satire in his work and in new Ukrainian literature directed against social and national oppression, against the then socio-political system, autocracy, serfdom, the church, against "the slavish obedience of the masses" and "the national treason of the top of Ukrainian society, which went to the service of ...
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The first poem called The Dreame, which is one of only two published dream visions written by a woman in the early modern period, defends the education of women with an allegory of the writer's struggle to enter the world of learning and her devastating departure from it.
A Dream of Fair Women is a poem by Alfred Tennyson. It was written and published in 1833 as "A Legend of Fair Women", but was heavily revised for republication under its present tile in 1842. [1] The opening lines of the poem are: As when a man, that sails in a balloon, Downlooking sees the solid shining ground.