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In contrast with the very formal panegyric style of many of Pindar's odes, Horatian odes often tackle more intimate subjects, such as love and friendship, and were not written for public performance. Some of the most renowned Horatian odes were written by English Romantic poet John Keats , most famously Ode to a Nightingale (1819).
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Furthermore, many of the songs, based on internal evidence, appear to be written either by women, or from the perspective of a female persona. The repeated emphasis on female authorship of poetry in the Shijing was made much of in the process of attempting to give the poems of the women poets of the Ming - Qing period canonical status. [ 23 ]
Book 1 consists of 38 poems. The opening sequence of nine poems are all in a different metre, with a tenth metre appearing in 1.11. It has been suggested that poems 1.12–1.18 form a second parade, this time of allusions to or imitations of a variety of Greek lyric poets: Pindar in 1.12, Sappho in 1.13, Alcaeus in 1.14, Bacchylides in 1.15, Stesichorus in 1.16, Anacreon in 1.17, and Alcaeus ...
Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet, first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955; Esther Raab (1894–1981), Palestinian/Israeli poet and prose writer; Elsa Rautee (1897–1987), Finnish poet; Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English writer, poet and gardener
John Tenniel, St. Cecilia (1850) illustrating Dryden's ode, in the Parliament Poets' Hall "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every 22 November from 1683 to 1703.
Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.
Detail of the Queen Alexandra Memorial, situated opposite St James's Palace in London. Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode, otherwise known as "So many true Princesses who have gone", is an ode written by John Masefield and set to music for choir and orchestra by Sir Edward Elgar for the occasion of the unveiling of Sir Alfred Gilbert's memorial to Queen Alexandra on 8 June 1932 [1] outside ...