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1972–1964 BC (short chronology) Discovered. late 1880s. Nippur. Present location. Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient. Istanbul #2461 (also Ni 2461, [1] L.2461) is an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet. Some have labelled it the world's oldest love poem. [2][3] It is on display at the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient (Mesopotamia Hall). [3]
Modernists read the well-known poem "The Second Coming" as a dirge for the decline of European civilisation, but it also expresses Yeats's apocalyptic mystical theories and is shaped by the 1890s. His most important collections of poetry started with The Green Helmet (1910) and Responsibilities (1914). In imagery, Yeats's poetry became sparer ...
The Hawk in the Rain is a collection of 40 poems by the British poet Ted Hughes. Published by Faber and Faber in 1957, it was Hughes's first book of poetry. The book received immediate acclaim in both England and America, where it won the Galbraith Prize. [ 1 ] Many of the book's poems imagine the real and symbolic lives of animals, including a ...
700 BC. Lines. 828. Full text. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica/Works and Days at Wikisource. Works and Days (Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, romanized: Érga kaì Hēmérai) [a] is a didactic poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the ...
—Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses “Michael Robartes and the Dancer”. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war ...
Anactoria is generally considered among Sappho's followers, and is cast as the object of her desire in Sappho's poetry. Anactoria (or Anaktoria ) ( Ancient Greek : Ἀνακτορία ) is a woman mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Sappho , who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE.
William Butler Yeats. Date premiered. 1916. At the Hawk's Well is a one-act play by William Butler Yeats, first performed in 1916 and published in 1917. It is one of five plays by Yeats which are loosely based on the stories of Cuchulain [1] the mythological hero of ancient Ulster. It was the first English-language play heavily influenced by ...