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"Illinois" is the regional anthem (or state song) of the U.S. state of Illinois. Written in about 1890 by Civil War veteran Charles H. Chamberlin (1891–1894), the verses were set to the tune of "Baby Mine," a popular song composed in 1876 [ 1 ] by Archibald Johnston (died 1887). [ 2 ] "
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Vachel Lindsay in 1912. While in New York in 1905 Lindsay turned to poetry in earnest. He tried to sell his poems on the streets. Self-printing his poems, he began to barter a pamphlet titled Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, which he traded for food as a self-perceived modern version of a medieval troubadour.
Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming: If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood shakes off pity And virtue least preferreth: And if they do reply,
And much thanks to all those who assist at the Reference Desk,Newbyguesses - Talk 22:16, 25 June 2007 (UTC) Also, don't forget the Stanford Encyclopedia of Phlosophy, which our article links to. Also most of our philosophy articles seem to link to Stanford Encyc. articles. If Wikipedia ever went kaput, I would end up there all the time.
[The city had fallen] [I Played in the Smallest Theatres] [The stone is] [They wheeled out] [Lover of endless] [The flies] [History lesson] Part II [The hundred-year-old] [In a forest of] [Everything's foreseeable] [He calls one dog] [A dog with a soul] [Time—the lizard] [Margaret was copying] [A poem about sitting] [Dear Friedrich] [Tropical ...
Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature. [5] Chicago Poems , and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920) represent Sandburg's attempts to found an American version of social realism, writing expansive verse in praise of American agriculture and industry.
The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems, edited and introduced by William J. Martz, Scott, Foresman (1966) Near the Ocean (1967) R. F. K., 1925-1968 privately printed limited edition (1969) Notebook 1967-1968 (1969) (revised and expanded as Notebook, 1970) The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire (1969)