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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
“One’s Self I Sing” is a poem by Walt Whitman, published in 1867 as the first poem for the final phase of Leaves of Grass.Although the general attitude towards the poem was not favorable, in July 1855 Whitman received the famous letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson in appreciation of his words of strength, freedom, and power, as well as, “meets the demand I am always making of what seemed ...
William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, writer, critic and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson 's character Long John Silver ...
Ode: Intimations of Immortality. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (also known as "Ode", "Immortality Ode" or "Great Ode") is a poem by William Wordsworth, completed in 1804 and published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas written among a series ...
Leigh Hunt in a portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon. " Jenny kiss'd Me " (original title: Rondeau) [1] is a poem by the English essayist Leigh Hunt. It was first published in November 1838 by the Monthly Chronicle. [2] The poem — per its original title, a rondeau — was inspired by Jane Welsh, the wife of Thomas Carlyle.
Elizabeth Jennings was born at The Bungalow, Tower Road, Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, younger daughter of physician Henry Cecil Jennings (1893–1967), MA, BSc (Oxon.), MB BS (Lond.), DPH, medical officer of health for Oxfordshire, and (Helen) Mary, née Turner. [2][3] When she was seven, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for ...
The Panther (poem) Artists at the Jardin des Plantes. " The Panther " (subtitled: " In Jardin des Plantes, Paris "; German: Der Panther: Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris) is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written between 1902 and 1903. [1] It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in ...
Sir Galahad (poem) Illustration, c. 1901, by W. E. F. Britten. " Sir Galahad " is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, and published in his 1842 collection of poetry. It is one of his many poems that deal with the legend of King Arthur, and describes Galahad experiencing a vision of the Holy Grail.