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"Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, [1] and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. [2]
Desert Rat Scrap Book. The Desert Rat Scrap Book (or DRSB) was a roughly quarterly southwestern humor publication based in Thousand Palms, California.DRSB was published in editions of 10,000 to 20,000 copies, whenever its creator, Harry Oliver had sufficient material and enough money to pay the printer.
The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly: "Ashbery invents and reinvents his self in this book-length stream-of-consciousness poem. In manically articulate free verse of long, supple lines, he conjures a secular landscape dotted with shadows of ancient gods...
The Autumn Wind" is a combination of musical score by Sam Spence and a sports-themed poem adapted for the 1974 Oakland Raiders season coverage by NFL Films President and co-founder Steve Sabol (1942–2012, son of founder Ed Sabol, 1916–2015).
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. [1] At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University , having previously taught at Connecticut College , Hunter College , and the Graduate Center, CUNY .
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The poem by which Scott is most remembered now is “The Drum” (Ode 13), an anti-war poem beginning “I hate that drum’s discordant sound” which was widely reprinted after its publication. [19] In England it was set as a vocal piece by Benjamin Frankel as part of his “8 Songs” (Op. 32, 1959), [20] and later by Christopher Dowie. [21]
John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, [1] and most famous for writing "Dawn on the Irish Coast", also known as "The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast".