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Death of a Naturalist (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group .
A page from Night-Thoughts, illustrated by William Blake. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745.
Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The second page of night from the same copy as the previous image. [4] Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down ...
In a rave review for The New York Times, Joan Didion called Sleepless Nights an "extraordinary and haunting book". [4] Writing for The New York Times in 2018, Lauren Groff referred to the book as "brilliant, brittle and strange". [5] In 1979, Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. [6]
The 24-page collection was titled Sequel to Drum-Taps and bore the subtitle When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd and other poems. [14] The eponymous poem filled the first nine pages. [24] In October, after the pamphlet was printed, he returned to Brooklyn to have them integrated with Drum-Taps. [14]
He lies sleepless all night, wanting to be able to sleep, but he cannot. He imagines a flock of sheep leisurely passing by, one after one. He tries imagining the sound of rain, the murmur of bees, the fall of rivers, winds and seas, smooth fields, calm waters and clear sky.
It was one of twelve poems in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. [4] Whitman revised the poem heavily; by the last edition of Leaves of Grass, the poem was changed from its original form to an extent that was unmatched by any other of Whitman's poems. [4] The poem was untitled before 1855, taking the name "I wander all night" from the first ...