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Dante Micheaux grew up in New Jersey, United States, and studied at New York University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. [7] [8]With his first book of poetry, The Amorous Shepherd, being published 2010, his work has won significant praise, including from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, who described the collection as having "a marvelous sonority ...
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603). Marlowe composed the poem in iambic tetrameter (four feet of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable) in six stanzas , and each stanza is composed of two rhyming couplets; thus the first line of ...
Psalm 23 depicts God as a shepherd of mankind, [5] and the capitalization of the word 'Shepherd' in the first and last lines furthers the idea that the Shepherd is a symbol of God. [5] In the bible, a shepherd's presence is representative of guidance. [6] In this poem, the Shepherd can be viewed as the spiritual guide or a savior of the herd ...
Radio humorist and raconteur Jean Shepherd recorded a collection of Robert Service's poems, Jean Shepherd Reads the Poems of Robert Service. [45] Margaret Rutherford recited most of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" in the 1964 film Murder Most Foul. "The Spell of the Yukon" features significantly in the film Eureka directed by Nicholas Roeg.
A Soapbox Omnibus (1973) is a collection of poetry by Australian writer Rodney Hall. [1] It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1973. [2]The collection consists of 36 poems, most with their original publication in this book, and some of which were had been previously published in The Australian newspaper, and magazines such as The Bulletin, Hemisphere, Quadrant, and Southerly, and various ...
Caeiro was the first of Pessoa's major heteronyms. The first and most famous work Pessoa composed under this name was The Keeper of Sheep , a series of 49 poems he began in 1914 and continued to edit until his death in 1935. The rest of Caeiro's poems are grouped under the headings The Shepherd in Love and Uncollected Poems. Like Pessoa's works ...
In November 1594, in his twenty-first year, Barnfield published anonymously his first work, The Affectionate Shepherd, dedicated with familiar devotion to Penelope Rich, Lady Rich. This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas, in the manner of Lodge and Shakespeare, dealing at large with the complaint of Daphnis for the ...
Britannia's Pastorals (1613); The Shepherd's Pipe (contributing author, 1614) William Browne ( c. 1590 – c. 1645 ) was an English pastoral poet , born at Tavistock, Devon , and educated at Exeter College, Oxford ; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple .