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11. "Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk." 12. "That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t." 13. "If we can just convince other people to get ...
John Holmes (January 6, 1904 – June 22, 1962), born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. [1] [2] [3] He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years.
The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 collection of poems written by the Kashmiri-American [a] poet Agha Shahid Ali. [2] [3] The title poem, which has become a symbol for freedom, is one of the most famous about Kashmir. In the decades since its publication, under renewed conflict and censorship in the region, it has been cited by ...
1913 image featuring portraits representing four of the fireside poets: Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, and Whittier. The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets [1] – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were very popular among readers and critics both in the United ...
Today I am blessed.” “Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.” “Life offers us tickets to places which we ...
The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [32] [33] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [34] No other poet has been so honored.
An edition of collected poetry was published only after Carman's death, due greatly to the persistence of his literary executor, Lorne Pierce." [5] During the 1920s, Carman was a member of the Halifax literary and social set, The Song Fishermen. In 1927 he edited The Oxford Book of American Verse. [16]
The Major Metaphysical Poets of the 17th Century, Washington Square Press, 1969. The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse from Colonial Days to the Present, Washington Square Press, 1972. A Little Treasury of American Poetry: The Chief Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day, ISBN 0-684-10666-3, Macmillan, 1975.