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Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). ... Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last,
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
She was one of two women of her time who published poems on geology, hers being "The Mastodon" (1847), while Felicia Dorothea Heman's work, "Epitaph for a Mineralogist" was published in 1836. [7] The poem "Jack Frost" put his merry pranks to the front and prepared the way for science to give him a true analysis.
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Within this, is the "curious vergel" – this is how Medrano defines his work – various "such senses, sharp answers and very funny and recreational tales, with some curious epitaphs." These stories to which Julián Íñiguez de Medrano refers are called anecdotes, jokes, or chascarrillos (stories of few lines; some take up, exceptionally, a ...
Sylvie Kandé, a Franco-Senegalese author, published an epic poem in three cantos that imagines the fate of Mansa Aboubakar II of Mali. One the scenes imagines that a Mali imperial expedition reaches the Americas before Columbus. [15] Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette (1996) is a feminist poetry epic which critiques the epic poem itself. It ...
Lokhvitskaya excluded all poems addressed to her "spiritual lover," and what was left amounted to a fine collection of elegies full of dark premonitions, quasi-religious fables and thinly veiled farewells to her children. [3] After her death in 1905, the lines of a late 1890s poem which sounded like a perfect epitaph have often been quoted: