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The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for concert band, written by the American composer Alfred Reed in 1980. [1] Reed was inspired by the poem Atalanta in Calydon [2] (1865) by Victorian era English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. According to Reed himself, the poem's ...
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not very far.
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
Consistently-formatted table for presenting information about poems Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Name name Poem name Default Pagename String required Author author Author(s) of the poem (should be link to their respective article if available). String suggested Date of publication publication_date Date published ...
Anne Marriott (November 5, 1913 – October 10, 1997) [1] was a Canadian writer who won the Governor General's Award for her book Calling Adventurers! "She was renowned especially for the narrative poem The Wind, Our Enemy," which she wrote while still in her twenties.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Poems about the wind" The following 7 pages are in this ...
"The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or llatai, usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. [17] It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can include a close and warmly-appreciative description of a llatai , even when, as is often the case in Dafydd's poems, he is ...