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George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist.
Although considered to be myth, it is said that Schubert first came up with the idea to write "An Sylvia" as he was walking in Vienna and entered a beer garden with friends. [1] There, he found a volume of Shakespeare on a table and as he was reading, he apparently exclaimed, "Oh! I have such a pretty melody running in my head.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
It was first published in a Sunday school paper, Gospel Teacher (renamed, Myrtle). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] Soon after her phonographic poem was published, it appeared in the Methodist Sunday-School Advocate , with an additional verse about missionary pennies , to which she laid no claim.
G. R. Hibbard: "The Country House Poem of the Seventeenth Century," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 19 (1956), pp. 159–174; William McClung: The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry (1977) Hugh Jenkins: Feigned Commonwealths, the Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community (1998, ISBN 0-8207-0292-7)
Nick Kenny's poem, "Pirate's Moon," illustrated by Richard Bassford. Nicholas Aloysius Kenny (February 3, 1895 in Astoria, New York - December 1, 1975 in Sarasota, Florida ) was a syndicated newspaper columnist, a song lyricist and a poet who wrote light verse in the Edgar Guest tradition.
[25] The poem was first set to be published on April 28, 1849 in the journal Flag of our Union, which Poe said was a "paper for which sheer necessity compels me to write." Fearing its publication there would consign it "to the tomb of the Capulets," he sent it to Nathaniel Parker Willis for publication in the Home Journal on the same day as ...
His poems speak of deep concerns for nature and expose man's cruelty to it. His notable poems include, How Do You Withstand (1966), Body (1976), Mirrored Mirroring (1991) and On killing a tree . He also wrote three plays, titled Princes (1971), Savaksa (1982) and Mr. Behram (1987).