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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.
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
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 BashÅ , "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 ...
The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.
New Hampshire is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert Frost, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [ 1 ] The book included several of Frost's most well-known poems, including " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ", [ 2 ] " Nothing Gold Can Stay " [ 3 ] and " Fire and Ice ". [ 4 ]
Beginning in 2002, he has also published five books of non-fiction prose, mixing nature writing, thoughts on poetics, and philosophical and environmental reflections. Critical discourse has included him in a group of Canadian poets known as the 'thinking and singing poets,' along with Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn and Jan Zwicky.
Selected Poems (2018) Surfacing (2019), essays; Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West, Gingko Library, 2019. ISBN 9781909942288; Editor: Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland (2020) Skeins o Geese (2023), 12 poems complemented by Woodcuts by Jo Sweeting. Published by Fine Press Poetry.
In his collection of essays, The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, Langbaum has an essay called “The New Nature Poetry,” which argues that nature poetry is still alive but in a new guise. “Our nature philosophy” he writes, “has been made not only by Darwin but by Freud and Frazer.