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William James Austin (December 4, 1949 – August 15, 2019) was a New York City poet, writer, musician, visual artist, and academic. Austin received his PhD on fellowship from Tulane University in New Orleans, and was an associate professor of English and philosophy, and artistic director of the Visiting Writers Program at SUNY, Farmingdale .
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.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...
Nevertheless, the last line of his poem "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" famously reads, "I have wasted my life." [ 4 ] Technically, Wright was an innovator, especially in the use of his titles, first lines, and last lines, which he used to great dramatic effect in defense of the lives of the disenfranchised.
Reverend William James Dawson (1854–1928) was an English clergyman, lecturer, and author. He was the father of the novelist and poet Coningsby Dawson . Born at Towcester , Northamptonshire on 21 November 1854, he was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset , and Didsbury College , Manchester .
The first poem of Pomes Penyeach is entitled "Tilly" and represents the bonus offering of this penny-a-poem collection. (The poem was originally entitled "Cabra", after the Cabra district of Dublin where Joyce was living at the time of his mother's death.) [citation needed] The poems were initially rejected for publication by Ezra Pound. [1]
William Roderick James (June 6, 1892 – September 3, 1942) [1] was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse , for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal , [ 2 ] and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children.
Shelley, a Poem: With Other Writings Relating to Shelley, to Which Is Added An Essay on the Poems of William Blake (1884; with preface by Bertram Dobell) Selections from Original Contributions by James Thomson to "Cope's Tobacco Plant." (1889; with preface by Walter Lewin) Poems, Essays and Fragments (1892; edited, with preface, by J. M. Robertson)