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Men and Women was Browning's first published work after a five-year hiatus, and his first collection of shorter poems since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. His reputation had still not recovered from the disastrous failure of Sordello fifteen years previously, and Browning was at the time comprehensively overshadowed by his wife in terms of both critical reception and commercial ...
Browning's poem inspired singer-songwriter Clifford T Ward in his sentimental 1973 song "Home Thoughts from Abroad", which also makes reference to other romantic poets John Keats and William Wordsworth. [5] In 1995, Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad" was voted 46th in a BBC poll to find the United Kingdom's favourite poems. [6]
The phrase occurs in Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, Passing, when the character Hugh Wentworth, while watching black and white men and women dancing together, chats with Irene and says, "Not having tripped the light fantastic with any males, I'm not in a position to argue the point." [9]
The Isle of Ladies is an anonymous fifteenth-century dream vision poem about an island governed by women which is invaded by men, after which there ensues a series of courtly romantic exploits. [1] It is thought to draw on Chaucerian conventions, and some believe it to be written on the occasion of an aristocratic betrothal. [ 2 ]
To the same Flower (second poem) [sequel to "To The Daisy"] 1802 "With little here to do or see" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 To the Daisy (third poem) 1802 "Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere," Poems of the Fancy (1815–32); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1837–) 1807 The Green Linnet 1803 "Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed"
Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere, Cumbria. William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, [42] [43] and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. His widow, Mary, published his lengthy autobiographical "Poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. [44]
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William Livingston Larned was an American author and poet. He is known for his works "Father Forgets" [ 2 ] and "Advertisement Illustration" . [ 3 ] In 1909, he penned a poem titled "Florida's State Flower" to commemorate the designation of the orange blossom as the official state flower of Florida .