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Cornelius Conway Felton, a Greek professor at Harvard College, was personally moved by the poem.As he wrote in a letter to Whittier dated June 26, 1856, "The sensations and memories it called up were delicious as a shower in summer afternoon; and I forgot the intervening years, forgot Latin and Greek — forgot boots and shoes and long-tailed and broad-tailed coats — and revelled again in ...
Poetry collections. The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems (1899) Lincoln and Other Poems (1901) The Real America in Romance, issued from 1909 through 1927 by New York publisher W. H. Wise (1909 through 1927) [13] The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems (1913) Gates of Paradise (1920) Eighty Poems at Eighty (1932) The Ballad of the Gallows Bird ...
She grew up in New York.She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.. Her work has appeared in Calyx, [1] Clackamas Literary Review, [2] Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review.
The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [33] [34] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [35] No other poet has been so honored.
The Raucous Auk: A Menagerie of Poems (1973) Nuts to You & Nuts to Me: An Alphabet of Poems (1974) I Like Old Clothes (1976) Bugs (1976) A House is a House for Me (1978) Yellow Butter, Purple Jelly, Red Jam, Black Bread (1981) The Cozy Book (1982) Mr. and Mrs. Muddle (1988) Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems (1991)
The poem was the subject of the third episode of the first season of Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018–), which first aired on April 1, 2018. The program featured then former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, as well as the renowned poets Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Duckworth.
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During the years of her great activity in evangelistic and temperance work, her literary impulses were over-shadowed by the moral work in which she was engaged. Later in life, she wrote more. Her memorial odes to James A. Garfield and John Bartholomew Gough were widely quoted, as were also many other of her poems. Her lectures were always ...