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A well-known example is a poem by Emily Dickinson titled "I Dreaded That First Robin So". Among other 19th-century poems about the first robin of spring is "The First Robin" by William Henry Drummond, which, according to the author's wife, is based on a Quebec superstition that whoever sees the first robin of spring will have good luck. [57]
The poem appears in the 1989 American film Dead Poets Society. [85] John Keating (played by Robin Williams ), an English teacher at the Welton Academy boarding school, [ 86 ] introduces his students to the poem in their first class.
"Vespers" is a poem by the British author A.A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E.H. Shephard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin" persona of Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne.
Cover of US paperback edition of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems. 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 ...
The Edwin Arlington Robinson House in Gardiner, Maine. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, on December 22, 1869. [2] His parents were Edward and Mary (née Palmer). They had wanted a girl, and did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort—at which point other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected the name "Edwin" from a hat ...
Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus is a meditation on the cultural depiction of the black female figure. Juxtaposing autobiography with art-historical constructs of racial identity, she defines and creates self. In poems that consider the boundaries of beauty and terror, Coste Lewis intimately involves us with all that has formed her.
1989: The Death of Cock Robin; 1993: Each in His Season; 1995: The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle; 2006: Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems [7] Prose. In Radical Pursuit: Critical Essays and Lectures (1975) After-images: autobiographical sketches (1999) [8] To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2002) Drama. The Führer Bunker ...
George Cooper (May 14, 1840, New York City – September 26, 1927, New York City) was an American poet remembered chiefly for his song lyrics, many set to music by Stephen Foster. He translated the lyrics of German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, and French musical works into singable English.