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A handwritten copy of "Death of the Poet", presumably one of the many contemporary copies which were circulated. From the State Literary Museum, Moscow. "Death of the Poet" (Russian: Смерть Поэта) is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [6]
Russian poet, translator, painter, novelist, playwright and military officer: Date of birth/death: 15 October 1814: 27 July 1841: Location of birth/death: Moscow : Pyatigorsk / Пятигорск: Work period: 1828 – Work location
One striking feature of his career is its late start. Stafford was 48 years old when his first major collection of poetry was published, Traveling Through the Dark, [4] which won the 1963 National Book Award for Poetry. [5] The title poem is one of his best-known works. It describes encountering a recently killed doe on a mountain road.
His later titles include the 2001 collection of poems Doctor Jazz and a 70-minute audio CD of him reading selections from Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey and Collected Shorter Poems. His Last Poems ( Copper Canyon Press , 2012) combines poems written toward the end of his life with the concluding poems from twenty-six of his previous volumes.
Wikkramasinha is very conscious of his worth as a poet. In the poem, "The Poet", he comes out with his credo of violence as the image of the poet coheres under the general conclusion that the poet is a rebel with social and political consciousness. "The poet is the bomb in the city, Unable to bear the circle of the Seconds in his heart,
The Poet is the fifth novel by American author Michael Connelly. [1] Published in 1996, it is the first of Connelly's novels not to feature Detective Harry Bosch and first to feature Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy .
He feels threatened by the frogs and flees. His interest in nature has gone – this is the death of a "naturalist" suggested in the poem's title. The poem makes extensive use of onomatopoeia and a simile that compares the behaviour of the amphibians to warfare ("Some sat poised like mud grenades") amongst other techniques.