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  2. The Bride of Abydos - Wikipedia

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    In a letter to a friend, he himself notes the nature of its composition "for the sake of employment". [3] In his personal Diary of 16 November 1813, Byron claims to have written The Bride "stans pede in uno" [ 4 ] (a direct quotation [ i 1 ] from Horace 's Satires 2.10, [ 6 ] decrying the rapid production of poor verse for commercial gain).

  3. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea - Wikipedia

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    Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (née Kingsmill; April 1661 – 5 August 1720), was an English poet and courtier.Finch wrote in many genres and on many topics - including fables, odes, songs, and religious verse - which are informed by "political ideology, religious orientation, and aesthetic sensibility". [1]

  4. Fanny Imlay - Wikipedia

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    Fanny's half-sister Mary grew up to write Frankenstein and married Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading Romantic poet, who composed a poem on Fanny's death. Although Gilbert Imlay and Mary Wollstonecraft lived together happily for brief periods before and after the birth of Fanny, he left Wollstonecraft in France in the midst of the Revolution. In ...

  5. The secrets, lies and many half siblings of an L.A. writer's ...

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    Bilton now shares strong bonds with several half-siblings, often musing on their eerie similarities (they almost all love cats and philosophy) and the genetics underlying her own life story.

  6. Mary Robinson (poet) - Wikipedia

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    When Robinson was about 14 years old, Hester Darby encouraged her to accept the proposal of an articled clerk, Thomas Robinson, who claimed to have an inheritance.Mary was against this idea; however, after falling ill and watching him take care of her and her younger brother, she felt that she owed him, and she did not want to disappoint her mother who was pushing for the engagement.

  7. How to Write a Real Love Poem (Without Clichés or Bad ... - AOL

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    The poem encourages us not to miss the world’s deliciousness: “Quiet’s cool flesh—/let’s sniff and eat it./There are ways/to make of the moment/a topiary/so the pleasure’s in/walking ...

  8. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

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    The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation

  9. Kahlil Gibran - Wikipedia

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    Gibran wrote him a prose poem in January and would become one of the aged man's last visitors. [67] After Ryder's death in 1917, Gibran's poem would be quoted first by Henry McBride in the latter's posthumous tribute to Ryder, then by newspapers across the country, from which would come the first widespread mention of Gibran's name in America. [68]