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Ezra Pound was an admirer of Browning and he frequently used masks or personae (Personae is the title of collection of shorter poems by him). Rather than the poem representing the voice of the author, as in much lyric poetry, the speaker in Pound's persona poems is a made-up character with whom Pound did not completely identify.
"The Idiot Boy" is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a representative of the Romantic movement in English literature. The poem was composed in spring 1798 [ 1 ] and first published in the same year in Lyrical Ballads , a collection of poems written by Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , which is considered to be a turning point in the ...
After the translation of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, English authors began to imitate the inflated language of Romance poetry and narrative to describe misguided or common characters. The most likely genesis for the mock-heroic, as distinct from the picaresque , burlesque , and satirical poem is the comic poem Hudibras (1662–1674 ...
May 17—Arthur Sze, a National Book Award winner and former Santa Fe poet laureate, sees translating poems as the deepest form of exploring them. "I learned my craft through translation," he says.
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Miscellania or poems of all sorts with divers other pieces, 1653; Ariadne deserted by Theseus and found and courted by Bacchus, 1654; Love’s Dominion, 1654; reissued in 1664 as Love's Kingdom, prefaced with the essay A Short Discourse of the English Stage; The Diarium... in burlesque rhyme or drolling verse, 1656
Dickinson incorporates the pronouns you, we, us, your into the poem, and in doing so, draws the reader into the piece. The poem suggests anonymity is preferable to fame. It was first published in 1891 in Poems, Series 2, a collection of Dickinson's poems assembled and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [1]
Many character pieces have titles based on literature (Schumann's Kreisleriana, 1838) or personal experiences (Schumann's Kinderszenen, 1838). [1] Other character pieces have titles suggesting brevity and singularity of concept, such as Beethoven's Bagatelles, or Debussy's Préludes, or casual construction: the title Impromptu is common.