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Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems is the debut collection of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, published in 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf. The title poem, 79 pages long, is named for an image by British painter Thomas Stothard. The collection won the National Book Award for Poetry, [1] the first debut collection to win the award since 1974.
Robin Coste Lewis (born 1964) is an American poet, artist, and scholar. Poet Laureate Emeritus of Los Angeles, Lewis's debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2015––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation ...
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"Shine, Perishing Republic" is a poem by the American writer Robinson Jeffers, first published in 1925 in the collection Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems. It describes an increasingly corrupt American empire, which it advises readers to view through the naturalizing perspective of social cycles. Jeffers wrote two companion poems in the ...
A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.
Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems (1907) The Golden Hynde (1908) Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (1913) Watchers of the Sky (1922) Songs of Shadow-of-a-Leaf (1924) The Book of Earth (1925) The Last Voyage (1930) The Torch-bearers (1937)(the three books now combined as a single work) Shadows on the Down (1941) Collected Poems (1950) Daddy Fell ...
A True Tale of Robin Hood (Roud 3996, Child 154) is an English folk song, featuring Robin Hood and, indeed, presents a full account of his life, from before his becoming an outlaw, to his death. It describes him as the Earl of Huntington , which is a fairly late development in the ballads.
A Way of Walking : Poems in the Traditional Forms and Metres of Japan (1994) Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems, 1947–1977 (1994) Samhain (1994) The Edge Of Time: Poems And Translations (1995) Three for Nick (1995) One Leaf Shaking: Collected Later Poems, 1977–1990 (1996) A Further Spring: Love Poems (1996) Lens of Crystal: Poems ...