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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
A translator of the Estonian poet Aleksis Rannit, Lyman's translations have been published in two volumes, Cantus Firmus and Signum et Verbum. [4] He edited a posthumously published collection of Robert Francis's poetry, and an anthology of twentieth-century New England poetry titled After Frost. [1]
First edition. The Faber Book of Modern American Verse was a poetry anthology edited by W. H. Auden, and published in London in 1956 by Faber and Faber.Auden had moved from the UK to the United States in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry scene, particularly through his time spent on the Yale Younger Poets.
Robert Francis Brissenden AO (13 March 1928 – 7 April 1991) was an Australian poet, novelist, critic, and academic. [1] Life.
Francis' first published work was a collection of W.S Graham poems in 2004. He also authored a study on the life of W.S Graham in the same year. [4] "Mere" is dedicated to the poet John Barnie, the title comes from an Old English word for pond. "Monomoon" is a poem written only using words that contain the letter O.
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2] Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), [1] which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, [2] and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement.