enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_Having_Left...

    Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement is a poem written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. Like his earlier poem The Eolian Harp , it discusses Coleridge's understanding of nature and his married life, which was suffering from problems that developed after the previous poem.

  3. Conversation poems - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_poems

    20th-century literary critics often categorise eight of Coleridge's poems (The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, Dejection: An Ode, To William Wordsworth) as a group, usually as his "conversation poems".

  4. Pastoral elegy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_elegy

    The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss. This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation of the Muse ...

  5. Thomas Traherne - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Traherne

    Thomas Traherne (/ t r ə ˈ h ɑːr n /; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on 27 September.

  6. In Memoriam A.H.H. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H.

    In 133 cantos, including the prologue and the epilogue, Tennyson uses the stylistic beats of tetrameter to address the subjects of spiritual loss and themes of nostalgia, philosophic speculation, and Romantic fantasy in service to mourning the death of his friend, the poet A. H. Hallam; thus, in Canto IX, Tennyson describes the return of the ...

  7. Joseph M. Scriven - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Scriven

    Joseph Scriven, described as one who lived the Christian life of service to his fellows, was born at Ballymoney Lodge, Banbridge on the 10th of September 1819. His father was Captain John Scriven of the Royal Marines; His mother was Jane Medlicott, sister of a Wiltshire Vicar, the Rev. Joseph Medlicott whom her son was named after.

  8. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_poetry

    The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears in the New Testament. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which appear in the Gospel of Luke, take the Biblical poetry of the psalms of the Hebrew Bible as their models. [1] Many Biblical scholars also believe that St Paul of Tarsus quotes bits of early Christian hymns in his epistles.

  9. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave...

    Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...