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A handwritten copy of "Death of the Poet", presumably one of the many contemporary copies which were circulated. From the State Literary Museum, Moscow. "Death of the Poet" (Russian: Смерть Поэта) is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin.
One striking feature of his career is its late start. Stafford was 48 years old when his first major collection of poetry was published, Traveling Through the Dark, [4] which won the 1963 National Book Award for Poetry. [5] The title poem is one of his best-known works. It describes encountering a recently killed doe on a mountain road.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6]
Russian poet, translator, painter, novelist, playwright and military officer: Date of birth/death: 15 October 1814: 27 July 1841: Location of birth/death: Moscow : Pyatigorsk / Пятигорск: Work period: 1828 – Work location
He feels threatened by the frogs and flees. His interest in nature has gone – this is the death of a "naturalist" suggested in the poem's title. The poem makes extensive use of onomatopoeia and a simile that compares the behaviour of the amphibians to warfare ("Some sat poised like mud grenades") amongst other techniques.
However, his poetry is "full of thought and richness of diction", in the words of John William Cousin, who praised Beddoes's short pieces such as "If thou wilt ease thine heart" (from Death's Jest-Book, Act II) and "If there were dreams to sell" ("Dream-Pedlary") as "masterpieces of intense feeling exquisitely expressed". [6]
This, after initially noting the subject matter of the Odes, soon turned to a celebration of the poet's faith in religion and his exemplary death. [26] The poem is a response to John Flaxman's design for the memorial, which depicted Collins seated at a table and studying the New Testament. This in turn was based on the anecdote perpetuated by ...
John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill.His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 [2] – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd parish.