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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Swist has published over two hundred feature articles and reviews, yet his focus has been writing poetry. His poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, such as Alaska Quarterly Review and Spiritus, the latter issued by Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as popular magazines such as Rolling Stone and Yankee.
Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its predecessor Dramatic Lyrics, are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later ...
In the short piece, Alex described how throughout life, we experience multiple ups and downs, but that our friends and family act like the safety bar that holds us in. The teen's poem then takes a ...
"The Circus of the Sun" is a poem by American poet Robert Lax (1915–2000). First published in 1959 by Journeyman Press [1] [2] it consists of a cycle of 31 short poems that tell the story of a traveling circus. The poem is included in the collections: 33 Poems (1987), Love Had a Compass (1997), and Circus Days and Nights (2000).
Brissenden was born on 13 March 1928 at Wentworthville, Sydney to schoolteacher Arthur Piercy Brissenden, and Nellie Annie (née Rogers). After studying at Bowral and Cowra high schools, Brissenden earned a scholarship to St Andrew's College, University of Sydney, where he achieved a Bachelor of Arts with honours and a Master of Arts.
Robert Francis belonged to the middle of the Jeune Droite catholique des années 1930 ("Young Catholic Right of the 1930s"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was a friend of Thierry Maulnier ; together with him and his brother Jean-Pierre Maxence, he wrote Demain la France ("Tomorrow France"), a charge against the Popular Front government, written on the morrow ...
North of Boston is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, first published in 1914 by David Nutt, in London. Most of the poems resemble short dramas or dialogues. It is also called a book of people because most of the poems deal with New England themes and Yankee farmers. Ezra Pound wrote a review of this collection in 1914. Despite it being ...