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Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
Thomas at 3 years old. Edward Thomas was the son of Mary Elizabeth Townsend and Philip Henry Thomas, a civil servant, author, preacher and local politician. [1] He was born in Lambeth, an area of present-day south London, previously in Surrey. [2]
Cannan published three volumes of poetry during and after the war. These were In War Time (1917), The Splendid Days (1919) which was dedicated to Bevil Quiller-Couch, and The House of Hope (1923), dedicated to her father. In 1934, she wrote one novel The Lonely Generation.
Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol on 25 November 1890 at 5 Adelaide Place near St. Mary Redcliffe. [2] He was the second of six children and the eldest son (his twin brother died at birth) of his parents, Barnett (formerly Dovber) and Hacha Rosenberg, who were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Britain from Dvinsk (now in Latvia).
The son of the poet John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols, Robert Nichols was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford.Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914, Nichols served on the Western Front, including the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme, until invalided home with shell shock in August 1916.
The first publication of the poem in the UK was in The Times of 15 May 1922, while the poem also appeared in the US in the New York World. [6] The text of the poem includes references to Nieuport (a coastal port down-river from Ypres ), and "four Red Rivers", said to be the Somme , the Marne , the Oise and the Yser , which all flow through the ...
According to the oral tradition of Wyeth's family, the war poet and Pound were friends. [33] [34] Wyeth's book of poems, a sonnet sequence entitled This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets, was published in 1928. [1] Wyeth's sonnets are in a mixture of iambic pentameter and the "loose five stress most commonly used in popular spoken verse."
For instance, he wrote and argued beautifully about the merit of verse at the time of World War II. [7] He wrote a piece of criticism on Italian Nationalism and English Letters by Harry W. Rudman regarding the contributions made by Italian exiles in England to English literature, which were in the form of poetry by and large. [ 8 ]