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Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
The poem was also put to music by English folk singer and Kipling Society Fellow Peter Bellamy. German's setting was for baritone voice with piano accompaniment, and published by Cramer in 1911. Elgar set the poem to music late in World War I , with the permission of Kipling, and it was published in "The Teacher's World" , June 19, 1918.
Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime, including brushwood, elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches, whitethroats, swallows and thrushes. The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower ...
The poem rambles aimlessly through six pages about America's past, present, and future before turning to its most famous section: a "call" supposedly sent by "our Great Fate" to the future of America. The call begins as follows: "Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new ...
"Danny Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his ...
David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary and Ukraine. [2]
The May Swenson Poetry Award, sponsored by Utah State University Press, is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitation on subject, the competition honors May Swenson as one of America's most vital and provocative poets of the twentieth century.
Samuel Ullman (April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924) was an American businessman, poet, humanitarian, and religious leader. He is best known today for his poem "Youth," [1] which was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur.