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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. [1] [2] It was written between 2003 and 2006. [3] [4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017 [1]) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. [2]Her best known works include the novels Zennor in Darkness, A Spell of Winter and The Siege, and her last book of poetry Inside the Wave.
Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963) was a Welsh poet, illustrator, BBC broadcaster, and journalist. She was born Blodwen Myfanwy Haycock in Pontnewynydd , Wales , near Pontypool , in the traditional county of Monmouthshire , .
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. [1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet.. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ tʃ / AWL-dritch; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly , during which he published writers including Charles W. Chesnutt . [ 1 ]
Young is working on two books: a non-fiction book called Bunk on the U.S. history of lies and hoaxes, and a poetry collection that he has described as being "about African American history and also personal history, growing up in Kansas, which has a long black history including Langston Hughes and others."