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However, many shorter poems have since been written. A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited "Fleas" as above, and Ali responded, "I've got ...
1816 first edition title page. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, near Windsor Great Park and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock.
Died. October 1992. United States. Occupation. literary writer, academic and translator. Years active. late 1950s–1992. Ali El-Makk ( (Arabic: علي المك; 13 February 1937 - October 1992) ), full name Ali Muhammad Ali El-Mak, also spelled Ali El-Maak or Ali Makk, was a Sudanese writer, translator and literary scholar, known for his short ...
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756) Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic.
Ghazal. An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt. The ghazal[a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry. [2] Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved ...
ISBN. 9788184759969. The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 collection of poems written by the Kashmiri-American [a] poet Agha Shahid Ali. [2][3] The title poem, which has become a symbol for freedom, is one of the most famous about Kashmir. In the decades since its publication, under renewed conflict and censorship in the region, it has ...
El Nora Alila (Hebrew: אֵל נוֹרָא עֲלִילָה), also transliterated as Ayl Nora Alilah, [ 1 ] is a piyyut (liturgical poem) that begins the Ne'ilah service at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. The piyyut is recited as part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi liturgy, [ 2 ] and has been adopted by some Ashkenazic communities.
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy. Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy (1 January 1944 – 23 August 1989, Ad-Damir, Sudan) was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern poetry in Sudan.