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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.
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 Francis (poet) (1901–1987), American poet; Robert Francis (actor) (1930–1955), American actor; Robert Francis (writer) (1909–1946), French writer, winner of the 1934 Prix Femina; Bobby Francis (born 1958), former ice hockey head coach; Bob Francis (radio presenter) (1939–2016), Australian radio presenter and talk back host
He is an authority on fellow poet Robert Francis (poet), [2] a friend and literary mentor. [3] He is also the writer and editor of Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker that was published by Talmi Entertainment in November 2012 as a children's book illustrated by Olga Lorionova.
Francis said of the poem "It is a meditation on falling, flying and vertigo". [ 3 ] Wing contains three tributes to other poets, "Frog, Crow" is an adaptation of two famous haiku by the Japanese poet Matsuo BashÅ , "Clock" is an adaption of a famous Dafydd ap Gwilym poem and "A Dream of Cornwall" was written as an elegy for the Scottish poet W ...
Robert Francis Spencer: University of Minnesota: Poetry of West Pakistan as a reflection of nationalist, religious and social expression [112] [109] Economics: Robert Wayne Clower: Northwestern University [66] Phoebus J. Dhrymes: University of Pennsylvania [58] [36] Peter Arthur Diamond: University of California, Berkeley
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
"Those Winter Sundays" is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913–1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognized works, together with "Middle Passage". [1]