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La donna del lago (English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) [1] based on the French translation [2] of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic Scottish Highlands.
The poem has been set to music, for example by Eric Thiman in the 20th century. In 2007, Cumbria Tourism released a rap version of the poem, featuring MC Nuts, a Lake District red squirrel , in an attempt to capture the "YouTube generation" and attract tourists to the Lake District.
The first page of Ulalume, as the poem first appeared in the American Review in 1847 "Ulalume" (/ ˈ uː l ə l uː m /) is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death.
The twelve-line poem is divided into three quatrains and is an example of Yeats's earlier lyric poems. The poem expresses the speaker's longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree while residing in an urban setting. He can escape the noise of the city and be lulled by the "lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.
Leake in 2020. Brandon Leake (born May 4, 1992) is a spoken word poet, educator and motivational speaker and the winner of the fifteenth season of America's Got Talent. [1] He was the first spoken–word poet to be on America's Got Talent and received the Golden Buzzer award in the first round from Howie Mandel. [2]
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House recites a poem during the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear at the capitol in Frankfort, Ky, December 12, 2023.
Le Lac (English: The Lake) is a poem by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine.The poem was published in 1820. [citation needed]The poem consists of sixteen quatrains.It was met with great acclaim and propelled its author to the forefront of famous romantic poets.