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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror received three major literary prizes: the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. To date, Ashbery is the only writer working in any genre to receive a Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award in the same ...
The poem is dedicated to Auden's friends James and Tania Stern. It was first published in 1944 together with Auden's long poem, his Christmas Oratorio "For the Time Being" in a book also titled For the Time Being. [2] A critical edition with introduction and copious textual notes by Arthur Kirsch was published in 2003 by Princeton University Press.
"The Mirror" (Welsh: Y Drych) is a poem in the form of a cywydd [1] by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets. [2] The poem describes how Dafydd, languishing with lovesickness for an unnamed Gwynedd woman, is appalled by the wasted appearance of his face in the mirror. [ 3 ] "
Mirour de l'Omme ("the mirror of mankind") (also Speculum Hominis), which has the Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408). Gower's major theme is man's salvation.
Mirror (Korean: 거울) is a poem written by the Korean author Yi Sang. It was published in the October 1933 issue of Catholic Youth ( 가톨릭 청년 , Volume 5). Other works by Yi Sang that also explore the theme of mirrors include Crow's Eye View, Poem No. 15 ( 오감도 시 제 15호 ) and Bright Mirror ( 명경 ).
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1820 To -----, on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 1816 "Inmate of a mountain-dwelling," Poems of the Imagination: 1820 Vernal Ode 1817 "Beneath the concave of an April sky," Poems of the Imagination (1820); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827 and 1832); Poems of the Imagination (1836) 1820 Ode ...
Most of the poems take the form of ghosts examining themselves and their deeds in front of a mirror. Similar titles were popular in the Middle Ages and there were numerous other works which presented themselves as a speculum (Latin for "mirror") chief among them the Speculum Maius by Vincent de Beauvais, who lived during the time.