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An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime. James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title "From an Album".
A Poem a Day (1996), Steerforth Press; The poem features, in spoken form, on the album Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry (Part I), originally issued in 1960 on the Folkways Records label and has been used in British television advertisements, including those for Center Parcs and Orange Mobile. [citation needed]
This does not account for the handful of poems published during Emily Dickinson's lifetime, nor poems which first appeared within published letters. 1stS.P: Section and Poem number (both converted to Arabic numerals, and separated by a period) of the poem in its 1st publication as noted above. Poems in the volumes of 1929 and 1935 are not ...
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
My Captain!", a conventional poem on the death of Abraham Lincoln, the only poem to appear in anthologies during Whitman's lifetime. [97] Part of Whitman's role at the Attorney General's office was interviewing former Confederate soldiers for presidential pardons. "There are real characters among them", he later wrote, "and you know I have a ...
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
The poem was generally well received and has been frequently anthologized. Its entry in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia described it as "a favorite of editors". [6] The poem was one of Whitman's most popular during his lifetime, particularly during the Reconstruction era. The scholar Ed Folsom notes that it was his most anthologized poem in those ...
From Noon to Starry Night) ; The Patriotic Poems III (Poems of America) 1860 O Me! O Life! " O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring," Leaves of Grass (Book XX. By the Roadside) O Star of France [1870-71] " O star of France," Leaves of Grass (Book XXIV. Autumn Rivulets) ; The Patriotic Poems IV (Poems of Democracy) O Sun of Real Peace