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John Lawrence Ashbery [1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2]Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time
John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
The resulting poem has been quoted at parties, conferences, patriotic rallies and in thousands of pubs and hotels over the past 120 years. When US President Ronald Reagan visited Ireland in 1984, he quoted the first verse to rousing applause.
As a philosopher, Santayana is known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", [4] and "Only the dead have seen the end of war", [5] and his definition of beauty as "Pleasure objectified". [6]
"O Valiant Hearts" is a hymn remembering the fallen of the First World War. It often features prominently in annual Remembrance Day services in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth. Words were taken from a poem by Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (1872–1954), published in The Supreme Sacrifice, and other Poems in Time of War (1919). [1]
To those who knew him, John “Blackfeather” Jeffries was synonymous with the word Occaneechi. For decades Jeffries, a past chairman of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation who died Tuesday ...
"Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene.
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