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"Lycidas" (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago , dedicated to the memory of Edward King , a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.
The dating of the poems' composition has been tied to the dating of Donne's conversion to Anglicanism. His first biographer, Izaak Walton, claimed the poems dated from the time of Donne's ministry (he became a priest in 1615); modern scholarship agrees that the poems date from 1609 to 1610, the same period during which he wrote an anti-Catholic polemic, Pseudo-Martyr.
Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. It was first published in 1633, two years after the author's death. [1] It is included in the "Holy Sonnets," a collection of nineteen poems written by John Donne.
Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 [1] (see 1820 in poetry).
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35. [1] It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears , and its first performance was by them at the Wigmore Hall , London on 22 November 1945.
John Robert Lee (born 1948) is a Saint Lucian Christian poet, writer, journalist and librarian. He has been awarded the Saint Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for his contribution to the development of Saint Lucian arts and culture. [1] In 2017, his Collected Poems (1975–2015) were published by Peepal Tree Press. [2]
John Tenniel, St. Cecilia (1850) illustrating Dryden's ode, in the Parliament Poets' Hall "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every 22 November from 1683 to 1703.
The Fall of the Angels is a Miltonesque epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world. It was published anonymously in 1821 only months before Polidori's death. The only known contemporary review of the poem was a negative one, published on 5 May 1821.