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Travel A treatise on English scenery and villages based on his travels 1824–1827 [161] [42] "Trip to Paris by a New-Englander" September 1829: Magazine The Yankee: Travel A treatise on Paris based on Neal's travels in 1827 [162] "If E.A.P. of Baltimore" September 1829: Magazine The Yankee: Literary criticism Neal's first criticism of Edgar ...
Il Penseroso ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to L'Allegro , a vision of poetic mirth .
John Lehmann (seated) with sister Rosamond Lehmann and Lytton Strachey Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English publisher, poet and man of letters . [ 1 ] He founded the periodicals New Writing [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and The London Magazine , and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited .
"Leisure" is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems by the same publisher in 1916.
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1463 – 21 June 1529) was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England. Writing in a period of linguistic transition between Middle English and Early Modern English , Skelton is one of the most important poets of the early Tudor period .
John Lawson Stoddard (April 24, 1850 – June 5, 1931) was an American lecturer, author and photographer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was a pioneer in the use of the stereopticon or magic lantern , adding photographs to his popular lectures about his travels around the world. [ 2 ]
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Mirour de l'Omme ("the mirror of mankind") (also Speculum Hominis), which has the Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408). Gower's major theme is man's salvation.