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Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
Williams's major collections are Spring and All (1923), The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962), and Paterson (1963, repr. 1992). His most anthologized poem is " The Red Wheelbarrow ", an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles (see also " This Is Just to Say ").
Before wedding guests and her brother’s new wife, Hope Carew read aloud a globe-trotting engagement plan — filled with private jets, yachts and a $130 million diamond ring — that the groom ...
“The Young Wife” is set in 2033 but steeped in the emotional themes of the 2020 pandemic when isolation and the yearning for connection and community rubbed up against each other constantly.
Sonnet 116 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” ... You are the kindest, gentlest, most loving mother a son could ever ask for. You have taught us what strength really means ...
The Ballad of the Outer Dark and Other Poems (1979, Enitharmon Press) The Breaking of the Wave (1979, Golgonooza Press) The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins (1986) - reprinted as paperback Golgonooza Press, 2000 and 2005 ISBN 0-903880-73-3; LMNTRE Poems by Vernon Watkins Illustrated by Alan Perry (1999, Ty Llen Publications) - chiefly poems ...