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The poem concerns the 6th-century figures Myrddin and Gwenddydd, who are presented as brother and sister with a friendly and harmonious relationship.Reference is made to the death of Gwenddolau at the battle of Arfderydd and Myrddin's consequent descent into madness, and to the 6th-century kings Rhydderch Hael, Morgant Fawr, and Urien Rheged, but otherwise the poem largely consists of ...
Gwenddydd (1891), a drypoint engraving by Sir Hubert von Herkomer. Gwenddydd, also known as Gwendydd and Ganieda, is a character from Welsh legend.She first appears in the early Welsh poems like the Dialogue of Myrddin and Gwenddydd and in the 12th-century Latin Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth, where she is represented as being a figure in the Old North of Britain, the sister of Myrddin ...
John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene.
"Lycidas" (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The ...
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1463 – 21 June 1529) was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England.Writing in a period of linguistic transition between Middle English and Early Modern English, Skelton is one of the most important poets of the early Tudor period.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
Poems for Grandmothers, illustrated by Patricia Callen-Clark, Holiday House, 1990. Poems for Brothers, Poems for Sisters, illustrated by Jean Zallinger, Holiday House, 1991. Lots of Limericks, Macmillan, 1991. If You Ever Meet a Whale, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, Holiday House, 1992. A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship, McElderry, 1992.
Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco, California, in 1874. His poems were initially published in the United Kingdom before being published in the United States. He was a four time recipient of Pulitzer Prize, and was widely referred as an esteemed poet. [2]