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"The Testimony of the Suns" is a lengthy astronomical poem by American poet and playwright George Sterling that combines elements of science, fantasy, science fiction, and philosophy. Literary historian S. T. Joshi called it Sterling's "longest poem and one of h
"The Black Vulture" is a sonnet by American poet George Sterling first printed in March 1910. The poem was cited by Thomas E. Benediktsson in his book George Sterling as "a sonnet which became Sterling’s most consistently praised and most anthologized poem."
George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea.He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Critic and editor H. L. Mencken said: “I think his dramatic poem Lilith was the greatest thing he ever wrote, although his poetic work “A Wine of Wizardry” also was wonderful.” [57] Reporter Carey McWilliams wrote: “‘A Wine of Wizardry’ is perhaps the most famous poem ever written by a western poet. …The poem itself, read today ...
The serial was so successful, and Elliott so personable, that Columbia promoted him to starring in his own series of Western features, replacing Columbia's number-two cowboy star, Robert "Tex" Allen. Henceforth, Gordon Elliott was known as Bill Elliott.
Stephen Vincent Benét (/ b ə ˈ n eɪ / bə-NAY; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of ...
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Trusting in the Emperor's Star. The Battle of Waterloo at Ohain, Belgium, where the sunken lanes were popularized by Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862). Till at last our star faded, And we shouted to our doom Where the sunken road of Ohein Closed us in its quivering gloom. So but now with Tanks a’clatter Have I waddled on the foe