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18th century. An Essay on the Principle of Population by T.R. Malthus, originally published anonymously. Anti-Machiavel by Frederick the Great, originally published anonymously. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, originally published anonymously. The Sorrows of Yamba by Hannah More, originally published anonymously.
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 October 2024. American poet (1830–1886) Emily Dickinson Daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847; the only authenticated portrait of Dickinson after early childhood Born (1830-12-10) December 10, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. Died May 15, 1886 (1886-05-15) (aged 55 ...
Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
The Wanderer (Old English poem) The Wanderer. (Old English poem) The narrator of the "wise man"'s speech, and the "wise man", presumably the "Wanderer" himself. The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book. It comprises 115 lines of alliterative verse. As is often the case with Anglo-Saxon verse ...
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.
Ode on a Grecian Urn. Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats. " Ode on a Grecian Urn " is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819[1] (see 1820 in poetry). The poem is one of the "Great Odes of 1819", which also include "Ode on Indolence ...
Hart Crane's "C33" as published in Bruno's Weekly in 1917. : 28 Crane's first published work poem was "C33", which was published in the Greenwich journal Bruno's Weekly in 1917 : 75 in a feature entitled "Oscar Wilde: Poems in His Praise". : 22 The poem is named after Oscar Wilde's cell in The Ballad of Reading Gaol and his name appeared misspelled in print as "Harold H Crone". : 27 The style ...