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Ina Coolbrith was born Josephine Donna Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, the last of three daughters of Agnes Moulton Coolbrith and Don Carlos Smith, brother to Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. [8] Coolbrith's father died of malarial fever four months after her birth, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and a sister died one month after that; [ 8 ] Coolbrith's mother ...
Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane, Henry Fuseli (1824). The Faerie Queene was an extremely popular topic with artists.. Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret illustrates a scene from book III of The Faerie Queene, a 16th-century allegorical epic poem by Edmund Spenser, [15] in which Busirane, [B] an evil sorcerer, abducts the beautiful Amoret (representing married virtue ...
James Whitcomb Riley was a poet who achieved national fame in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. [1] The poem was inspired by a real girl he grew up with, named Mary Alice "Allie" Smith. Mary Alice Smith was born near Liberty, Union County, Indiana, 25 September 1850.
The Female Advocate takes John Duncombe's The Feminead: or, female genius. A poem (1754) as its inspiration. Scott expresses gratitude and admiration for Duncombe, then justifies her own project with her stated wish to expand his original list of "female geniuses", as well as to include some of those who came to prominence since he wrote (page v).
On New Year's day 1562 Mary travelled from Holyrood Palace to Seton Palace and perhaps the poem was presented at the home of a leading courtier and her Master of Requests, George Seton, 7th Lord Seton. [4] 'Ane New Yeir Gift' is Scott's longest poem at 224 lines, and it is written in Middle Scots. [5] It is a lyrical poem in 28 stanzas of 8 ...
The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem, by James Hogg was first published by George Goldie in Edinburgh, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in London on 30 January 1813. [4] On 14 June the same publishers re-issued the copies remaining unsold as a second edition, with replacement pages at the beginning and end.
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She began this transition by working in a newspaper to build her skills then fully committing to poetry. She is the only recipient of the Mark Twain fellowship from Elmira College . Her time in a place Mark Twain once lived in inspired her work, Foretasting Heaven: Conversations with Twain at Quarry Farm.