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Lovelace's brother, Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England. They were also great nephews of both George Sandys [ 7 ] (2 March 1577 – March 1644), an English traveller, colonist and poet; and of Sir Edwin Sandys [ 8 ] (9 December 1561 ...
The four-day celebration of poetry has been called “poetry heaven” by the 1995–1997 US Poet Laureate Robert Hass, “a new Woodstock” by the Christian Science Monitor, and “Wordstock” by The New York Times. [citation needed] The festival has been sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in even-numbered years since 1986. [1]
Robert F. Stockton was born at Morven, Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey, into a political family; his father Richard Stockton was a U.S. senator and representative, and his grandfather, Judge Richard Stockton, was attorney general for New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
North of Boston is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, first published in 1914 by David Nutt, in London. Most of the poems resemble short dramas or dialogues. It is also called a book of people because most of the poems deal with New England themes and Yankee farmers. Ezra Pound wrote a review of this collection in 1914. Despite it being ...
Robert A. King (September 20, 1862 – April 13, 1932) was a prolific early twentieth century American composer, who wrote under pen names including the pen names, ...
Dodsley's collection of poems, A collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748, 3 vols.) was ‘to preserve to the public those poetical performances, which seemed to merit a longer remembrance than what would probably be secured to them by the Manner wherein they were originally published’ (Collection of Poems, 1748, vol. 1.iii–iv). Given his ...
King was buried in the St. Joseph City, Michigan Cemetery. A monument later erected in Lake Bluff Park, Berrien County, Michigan in 1924 features a bronze bust of King created by Chicago sculptor Leonard Crunelle. [4] On the granite monument base are lines from his poem "The River St. Joe": [5] Where the bumblebee sips and the clover's in bloom,
Men in the Off Hours includes two personal pieces about the author's parents. Carson's father Robert had Alzheimer's disease, and the poem "Father's Old Blue Cardigan" deals with his mental decline. Carson closes the collection with the prose piece "Appendix to Ordinary Time", using crossed-out phrases from the diaries and manuscripts of ...