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e. Barks reading at the Festival of Silence, Esvika, Asker, Norway, June 25, 2011. Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, [1] he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations.
Illustration from The Children's Encyclopædia. " After Blenheim " is an anti- war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned ...
Susan Clay Sawitzky. Susan Clay Sawitzky (July 21, 1897 – July 11, 1981) was an American poet and art historian . She was born Susan Jacob Clay in Frankfort, Kentucky, to Charles Donald Clay and his wife, the former Mariah Hensley Pepper. Susan was raised on her father's thoroughbred farm outside of Lexington, Kentucky and in the strict ...
Early in her career, Hoyt was an Associate Editor of the journal Poetry, and also had numerous articles and poems published within the magazine from 1913 to 1936. She also edited the September 1916 edition of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, [3] the woman's number. Other magazines to publish her work include The Egoist and The Masses.
Sol Eytinge Jr. Children. James S. Wyckoff (son) Pearl Eytinge (née Wyckoff) (daughter) Margaret Winship Eytinge (July 1832 – January 26, 1916) was an American author, often associated with children’s short stories and poems who was based in New York. She wrote under the pen-names of Madge Elliot, Bell Thorne and Allie Vernon.
Hope is the keynote of a majority of the poems in this collection; but in many instances the hope is unaccompanied by any certainty of faith, such as a woman of McCord's full life and wide experience must have developed at the time this collection was published. A few of the poems are narrative myths, a direct reflection of her classic temperament.
First edition (publ. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 88 Poems is a book of the collected poetry of author Ernest Hemingway, published in 1979.It includes a number of poems published in magazines, the poems which appeared in Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and 47 previously unpublished poems that were found in private collections and in the Hemingway papers held by the Kennedy ...
Mary Shackleton was born in Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland. She was the daughter of Richard Shackleton (1726–1792) by his second wife, Elizabeth Carleton (1726–1766), and granddaughter of Abraham Shackleton, schoolmaster of Edmund Burke. [1] Her parents were Quakers. She kept a personal diary for most of her life, beginning at 11 and ...