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"Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems. It forms part of the collection known as the Harley Lyrics, and exemplifies its best qualities. [1]
Adalbert von Chamisso in 1831. Frauen-Liebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life) is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in 1830.They describe the course of a woman's love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after.
A subsection of the collection is a group of four poems known as the Rime Petrose, love poems dedicated to a woman called Petra, composed around 1296. [1] Stylistically those poems are regarded as a transition between the love lyric of La Vita Nuova and the more sacred subject matter of the Divine Comedy. [2]
Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer; first American-born woman to publish in own name; Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), Norwegian poet; Anna Bunina (1774–1829), Russian poet; Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), English poet and dramatist; Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet, writer and Bluestocking
The lyric poetry of Europe in this period was created by the pioneers of courtly poetry and courtly love largely without reference to the classical past. [11] The troubadors , travelling composers and performers of songs, began to flourish towards the end of the 11th century and were often imitated in successive centuries.
Ron Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetry; Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writer; Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist; Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-US poet; US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008; Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
"A Dream" is a lyric poem that first appeared without a title in Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. The narrator's "dream of joy departed" causes him to compare and contrast dream and "broken-hearted" reality. Its title was attached when it was published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems in 1829.
This is a list of poems by Emily Dickinson. In addition to the list of first lines which link to the poems' texts, the table notes each poem's publication in several of the most significant collections of Dickinson's poetry—the "manuscript books" created by Dickinson herself before her demise and published posthumously in 1981; the seven ...