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The earliest recorded version—about a girl named Mary—appears among the vaudeville jokes collected by Ed Lowry during his career in the 1910s, '20s, and '30s, [2] although versions about Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat [16] [self-published source]) and Lulu (the star of "Bang Bang Lulu") may record older traditions.
Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman: Winner [8] 1979 Philip Levine: Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere: Winner: 1980 Frederick Seidel: Sunrise: Winner [9] 1981 A.R. Ammons: A Coast of Trees: Winner: 1982 Katha Pollitt: Antarctic Traveler: Winner [10] 1983 James Merrill: The Changing Light at Sandover: Winner ...
Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut. [1] Another early use was an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee, [2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette. [3]
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The personal nature of many of the verses of the Nine Lyric Poets led to the present sense of "lyric poetry" but the original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. [5]
Hill's first poetry collection, Saying Hello at the Station (Chatto & Windus), was published in 1984. [2] Selima Hill won first prize in the 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer International Poetry Competition for her long poem, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, and her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S ...
The poetic style of the Heavenly Question is markedly different from the other sections of the Chuci collection, with the exception of the "Nine Songs" ("Jiuge"). The poetic form of the Heavenly Questions is the four-character line, more similar to the Shijing than to the predominantly variable lines generally typical of the Chuci pieces, the vocabulary also differs from most of the rest of ...
Wickramasinghe was an early practitioner of the genre of poetry called nisandas, which ignored the restrictions placed on poetry by the traditional prosodic patterns. It drew inspiration from the work of Eliot , Pound , Whitman and other western poets and was part of a movement called Peradeniya School.