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The book won the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. [6] Tess Taylor described the book's poetry in NPR as feeling "both anonymous and universal" and commented on the window it offered to the lives of women living in Afghanistan. [7] The book was described as a "rich and graceful collection" by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. in the Harvard Review.
In 1845, Horton published another book of poetry, The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North-Carolina, To Which Is Prefixed The Life of the Author, Written by Himself. Newspapers took notice again in December–January 1849 – 1850, [ 15 ] and advertisements for the book were printed in a Hillsborough newspaper from 1852 ...
Poetry, on the other hand, is like honey, in that it is "a sweetener that sugarcoats the bitter medicine of Epicurean philosophy and entices the audience to swallow it." [ 16 ] [ 17 ] (Of note, Lucretius repeats these 25 lines, almost verbatim, in the introduction to the fourth book.) [ 18 ]
[4] The book is remarkable mainly for its title poem, "At the Long Sault: May 1660," a dramatic retelling of the Battle of Long Sault, which belongs with the great Canadian historical poems. It was co-edited by E.K. Brown, who the same year published his own volume On Canadian Poetry: a book that was a major boost to Lampman's reputation. Brown ...
The sea and time are common motifs in Swinburne's poetry. Poems and Ballads, First Series is the first collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866. The book was instantly popular, and equally controversial. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism.
"Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.
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 tail lines, i.e. the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth, each have three stresses, and all others have four. [17] With two exceptions, both in the first stanza, each line in the poem includes two or more alliterating words, [18] linking the two halves of each line together and also connecting the tail line with the preceding line. [19]