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Cyril Christo (born 11 May 1960, Paris, France) is a writer, poet, photographer, filmmaker and animal rights activist residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [1] He has created or co-created a number of poetry and photography books that include Lost Africa: The Eyes of Origin, Walking Thunder: In the Footsteps of the African Elephant, and In Predatory Light: In Search of Lions, Tigers and Polar Bears.
She is known to be a hostile contender of the "Footprints" poem and declines to be interviewed about it, although she writes letters to those who write about the poem online. [1] A collection of poetry by Carty with a claim to authorship of "Footprints" was published in 2004. [4] Mary Stevenson is also a purported author of the poem circa 1936.
Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems (1907) The Golden Hynde (1908) Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (1913) Watchers of the Sky (1922) Songs of Shadow-of-a-Leaf (1924) The Book of Earth (1925) The Last Voyage (1930) The Torch-bearers (1937)(the three books now combined as a single work) Shadows on the Down (1941) Collected Poems (1950) Daddy Fell ...
The family settled in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine, where Millay would write the first of the poems that would bring her literary fame. The family's house in Camden was "between the mountains and the sea where baskets of apples and drying herbs on the porch mingled their scents with those of the neighboring pine ...
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ()) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Vera Bell or Vera Alberta [1] or Albertha [2] Bell (born 1906; date of death unknown) was a Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright. [3] [4] Her 1948 poem "Ancestor on the Auction Block" has been anthologized several times [5] [6] although a 2005 review of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse says "some of the earlier poems survive only as amusing museum pieces, such as Vera Bell's ...
George Sandys (/ s æ n d z / "sands"; 2 March 1578 [1] – March 1644) was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator. [2] He was known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus, as well as his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.