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The Sunlight on the Garden is a poem of four stanzas, each of six lines. It is a highly formal poem, and has been much admired as an example of MacNeice's poetic technique. All the lines are loose three-beat lines or trimeters, except for the fifth line of each stanza, which is a dimeter. The rhyme scheme is ABCBBA. The A rhyme in the first ...
Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC. His poetry, which frequently explores themes of introspection, empiricism, and belonging, is considered to be among the greatest of twentieth century literature.
Autumn Journal is an autobiographical long poem in twenty-four sections by Louis MacNeice.It was written between August and December 1938, and published as a single volume by Faber and Faber in May 1939.
John Donne's poetry represented a shift from classical forms to more personal poetry. Donne is noted for his poetic metre , which was structured with changing and jagged rhythms that closely resemble casual speech (it was for this that the more classical-minded Ben Jonson commented that "Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging").
This book was mainly a collection of poems, but the poems told an overarching story of Rene Descartes death. [2] In the beginning of The Death of the Philosopher, Catherine Descartes speaks about a pastor from Stockholm. She talks about how after figuring out she was the niece of Rene Descartes, the pastor told her that he was in Stockholm when ...
Katherine Bradley Edith Cooper. Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of the English authors Katherine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913).
The Garland of Sulpicia, [1] also sometimes known as the Sulpicia cycle [2] or the Sulpicia-Cerinthus cycle, is a group of five Latin love poems written in elegiac couplets and included in volume 3 of the collected works of Tibullus (Tibullus 3.8–3.12 = Tibullus 4.2–4.6).
It was described in 1949 as "forthright love poems" and said to be "the best-selling poetry volume of recent years" having sold 350,000 copies at that time. Atlantic Records issued it as the company's first 33 1 ⁄ 3-rpm long-playing album in March 1949, with the poem narrated by John Dall and scored for a 28 piece orchestra and 16 voice chorus.