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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]
Robert Francis (poet) (1901–1987), American poet; Robert Francis (actor) (1930–1955), American actor; Robert Francis (writer) (1909–1946), French writer, winner of the 1934 Prix Femina; Bobby Francis (born 1958), former ice hockey head coach; Bob Francis (radio presenter) (1939–2016), Australian radio presenter and talk back host
Robert Francis belonged to the middle of the Jeune Droite catholique des années 1930 ("Young Catholic Right of the 1930s"). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was a friend of Thierry Maulnier ; together with him and his brother Jean-Pierre Maxence, he wrote Demain la France ("Tomorrow France"), a charge against the Popular Front government, written on the morrow ...
This later led to his developing a book-length essay, published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2009, Two New England Poets: Robert Frost and Robert Francis. Constance Hunting, editor of The Puckerbrush Review, where the essay initially appeared called it "a previously unwritten work of significant scholarship," elucidating the connection between ...
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
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Francis said of the poem "It is a meditation on falling, flying and vertigo". [ 3 ] Wing contains three tributes to other poets, "Frog, Crow" is an adaptation of two famous haiku by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō , "Clock" is an adaption of a famous Dafydd ap Gwilym poem and "A Dream of Cornwall" was written as an elegy for the Scottish poet W ...