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McFingal: a modern epic poem. Or, The town-meeting is a mock epic poem written by American poet John Trumbull. [1]This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from Thomas Gage's Proclamation, published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of August 1775; it portrays a Scottish Loyalist, McFingal, and his Whig opponent, Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams.
A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [ 1 ] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [ 2 ] but it has also been the subject ...
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Subhuman Redneck Poems is a collection of poems by Australian writer Les Murray, published by Duffy and Snellgrove in 1996. [ 1 ] The collection contains 66 poems which were published in a variety of original publications, with some being published here for the first time.
Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia (born 11 April 1951) is a poet and writer from Samoa.His poem Blue Rain became the title of a collection of his poems first published in 1980 with later editions in the 1990s.
In the poem 'Sea Breeze Bombay' the poet presents a picture of the suffering of the refugees. These people from the north got relief in the worst heat. In the city many communities were reformed. In the hot sun a cool breeze gives pleasant, soothing experience. In the same way, the city Bombay also provided pleasant experience to all the refugees.
The year after it appeared in the collection Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, which was published by Boni & Liveright and republished in 1935 by Random House Modern Library. The poem is included in Random House's The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers from 1938 and volume one of Stanford University Press' The Collected Poetry of Robinson ...
Literary scholars have noted the theme of class in the British caste system as a prominent point of interest in the novel. [1] Critic Hayden Carruth noted that Fowles is preoccupied with "reshuffling classes under British socialism", evoked in the differences in social background between the characters of the working-class Frederick, and Miranda, a member of the bourgeoisie.