Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero [1] [2] to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.
The Tradition is a 2019 poetry collection by American poet Jericho Brown. [2]The collection won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3] Judges of the prize called the book "a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence."
A Polish sociologist, Leon Winiarski, who was active at the end of the 19th century, was disgusted with the poem.In his view, Browning should not have written it, writing: "We have to laugh, when we read that this eighty-year-old man standing at the edge of a grave thinks that the greatest happiness in life is in 'kissing a girl'."
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
Michael Steven Harper (March 18, 1938 – May 7, 2016) was an American poet and English professor at Brown University, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. His poetry was influenced by jazz and history .
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith; I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
In 1940, New Directions issued Brown's first poetry collection, The End of a Decade. The following year, Charles Scribner's Sons published his documentary-style epic, The Poem of Bunker Hill . The 158-page stanzaic verse about the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War won praise for its poetic skill and its timely presentation ...