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Paul Brendan Murray, O.P. [1] (born 26 November 1947) is an Irish Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, poet, writer, and professor. Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in Northern Ireland. In 1966 he joined the Irish Dominican Province, and was ordained a priest in 1973.
I Am" (or "Lines: I Am") [1] is a poem written by English poet John Clare in late 1844 or 1845 and published in 1848. It was composed when Clare was in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum [ 2 ] (commonly Northampton County Asylum, and later renamed St Andrew's Hospital), isolated by his mental illness from his family and friends.
It is not often that a “new and selected” documents the progressions, departures, and returns of a writer’s consciousness as lucidly and profoundly as Paul Zimmer’s Crossing to Sunlight Revisited (the long-awaited sequel to 1996's Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems). Zimmer’s newer poems are at the start of the book; they chronicle ...
The repetition within the poem serves to emphasize the extent of the literal river's beauty. Goodman often uses "my" in his poems not as posssession but to describe something to which he has given himself. In this case, "our lordly Hudson" is an elevated version of "my" and the lonely joy the speaker wishes to share. [7]
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"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland , an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain.
The post has been liked more than 700,000 times. Followers commended the poet for putting their feelings of grief, fear and anger into words. "Grateful for your words when words feel impossible ...
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) referred to himself, based on his various literary interests, as a man of letters. [2] While prolific across many literary forms and topical categories, [4] [5] as a humanist, Goodman thought of his writing as serving one common subject—"the organism and the environment"—and one common, pragmatic aim: that the writing should effect a change.