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"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, [1] though the two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.
Carruth wrote more than 30 books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, essays, a novel and two poetry anthologies. Prior to his affiliation with Harper's, he served as editor-in-chief of Poetry (1949–1950) and as advisory editor of The Hudson Review for twenty years.
Whitfield's poems often expressed the oppression affecting African Americans, and moral corruption in politics and religion. [9] One of Whitfield's most famous poems was America, published in 1853 in his poetry book. The poem embodies many of Whitfield's ideas about the hypocrisy of American freedom and democracy, and the difficult lives for ...
The essay offers a profound look at the poem and its role in society. In a paragraph mid-essay, Emerson observes: For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something ...
Griswold was born to Rufus and Deborah (Wass) Griswold [2] on February 13, 1815, [3] in Vermont, near Rutland, and raised a strict Calvinist [4] in the hamlet of Benson. [5] He was the twelfth of fourteen children and his father was a farmer and shoemaker. [5]
[8] [9] His poems and essay volumes, such as From a College Window and The Upton Letters (essays in the form of letters) were famous in his time; and he left one of the longest diaries ever written: some four million words. [10] His literary criticisms of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward FitzGerald, Walter Pater and John Ruskin rank among his ...
Matthew Arnold praised it as "the best short poem in the language", [5] and the poet and critic Richard Wilbur has described it as "America's first flawless poem". [citation needed] The narrator in George du Maurier's "Peter Ibbetson" calls it "the most beautiful poem in the world". [citation needed]