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Ozymandias" (/ ˌ ɒ z ɪ ˈ m æ n d i ə s / OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) [1] is the title of a sonnet published in 1818 by Horace Smith (1779–1849). Smith wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley wrote and published "Ozymandias" in 1818.
Dave Smith holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees in English from the University of Virginia, Southern Illinois University, and Ohio University, respectively.He is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, and has also published works of prose and edited collections. [2]
At the time it was written, Harkins was a bakery worker and aspiring artist living in Carlisle, Cumbria. [1] Writing in the Daily Mail in 2003, he said: [2] I was 23 when I first met Anne Lloyd, my inspiration for the poem I called 'Remember Me'. She was 16 and didn't know me, but I had seen her about and knocked on her door one evening in ...
All of which makes for a rarity in contemporary poetry: It's what book clubs call "readable."" [6] David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath, but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize ...
The Yale Review observed the more personal tone of Smith's poems regarding HIV alongside the broader political poems pertaining to police brutality, Black Lives Matter, and white supremacy. [8] Lambda Literary analyzed the various kinds of violence which Smith sought to critique, later stating, "And, despite everything, there is a stream of ...
Selected poems : Thomas Hardy, edited with an introduction and notes by David Wright, Penguin (1978) Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy, David Wright ed., Penguin Books (1979) Selected poems and prose / Edward Thomas, edited with an introduction by David Wright, Harmondsworth : Penguin (1981) An Anthology from X, Oxford University Press (1988)
Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller , How the Word Is Passed , which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times .
He was particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray was the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, including "Hemingway: A Desperate Life" (2011), "When" (2007), "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" (2006) and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004 ...