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Pauline B. Barrington (born Pauline V. Bucknor; July 11, 1876 – December 5, 1956) [1] was an American writer recognized for her 1916 poem "Education", which protested American involvement in World War I. "Education" was included in the first anthology dedicated exclusively to women's poetry from World War I, Scars Upon My Heart (1981).
Shane L. Koyczan / ˈ k ɔɪ ˌ z æ n /, [2] born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University.He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders.
The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer and Michael Hulse.The founders "wished to draw together national and international perspectives on three major historical and contemporary themes uniting the disciplines of poetry and medicine: medicine as inspiration for the writings of poets; effects of poetic creativity on the experience of illness by ...
Len Pennie is a poet, Scots language performer and writer, and mental-health advocate. [2] She became known on social media in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland for her "Scots word of the day" and poem (Scots: poyum) videos. [3] [4] [5]
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects is a poetry collection written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 1854. [1] Her non-fiction collection of poems and essays consists of a brief preface followed by a collection of poems and three short writings. [ 2 ]
from Songs of Joy and Others (1911) Davies returned to Britain, to a rough life largely in London shelters and doss-houses, including a Salvation Army hostel in Southwark known as "The Ark", which he grew to despise. Fearing the reaction of his fellow tramps to his writings, Davies would pretend to sleep, while composing his poems in his head, for later transcription in private. At one point ...
The poem is referenced in the title, "England, My England", a short story by D. H. Lawrence, and also in England, Their England, a satiric novel by A. G. Macdonell about 1920s English society. Nelson Mandela recited the poem " Invictus " to other prisoners incarcerated alongside him at Robben Island , some believe because it expressed in its ...
Pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it. At the time the poem was published, its heroic couplet style was quite a new poetic form and Pope's work an ambitious attempt to identify and refine his own positions as a poet and critic. It was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of ...