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4686783. Followed by. Door into the Dark. Death of a Naturalist (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group. Death of a Naturalist won the Cholmondeley ...
This Is Just to Say. " This Is Just to Say " (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it was a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2][3]
Lekhnath Paudyal. Lekhnath Paudyal (Nepali: लेखनाथ पौड्याल; December 28 1884–1966) is regarded as the founding father of modern Nepali poetry literature (Kabi Shiromani) in the twentieth-century. [1][2] His most important contribution is believed to be to the enrichment and refinement of the language rather than to ...
1. Signature. Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Stevens's first period begins with the publication of ...
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
Pomes Penyeach was written over a 20-year period, from 1904 to 1924, and originally published on 7 July 1927 by Shakespeare and Company, for the price of one shilling (twelve pence) or twelve francs. The title is a play on "poems" and pommes (the French word for apples) which are here offered at "a penny each" in either currency.
His poetry often explores an oneiric mental landscape which underlies everyday experience, with recurrent themes of alienation and ecstasy; its tone is most often curious and subtly bemused. He also writes vivid, imaginative short stories & flash fiction, featured in two of his recently published books.
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