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It is probably Housman's best-known poem, [1] [2] and one of the most anthologized of English lyrics. [3] Its opening line has become a part of the language, "inextricably lodged in the public mind and vocabulary". [4] In a 1995 poll it was chosen as one of the British people's 100 favourite poems. It has been set to music over 60 times.
Joyce Kilmer's reputation as a poet is staked largely on the widespread popularity of this one poem. "Trees" was liked immediately on first publication in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; [26] when Trees and Other Poems was published the following year, the review in Poetry focused on the "nursery rhyme" directness and simplicity of the poems ...
"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the village of Binsey , northwest of Oxford , England , and overlooking Port Meadow on the bank of the River Thames . [ 3 ]
"Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.
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The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos .
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To a Friend. (On the Banks of the Derwent) 1833 "Pastor and Patriot!—at whose bidding rise" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Mary Queen of Scots. (Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington) 1833