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However, he is today best remembered for one of his poems, "Dawn on the Irish Coast"[2] also known as the "Emigrants Anthem". The poem was set to music in 1896 by A A Needham and popularised in song by Harry Plunket Greene. It was inspired by a friend's account of a brief return visit to Ireland.
The Zig Zag Walk: Poems 1963-1968, (1973) Poem In Progress, (1975) The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980, (1979) Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream: Selected Poems, (1981) The Transformation: Poems January to March 1981, (1983) John Logan: The Collected Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd., 1989, ISBN 978-0-918526-65-6
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
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Ahead, literary icons give their two cents on the day’s dawn (oh, E.B. White, we love the way you think: “But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to ...
One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco first recited at the second inauguration of Barack Obama, making Blanco the fifth poet to read during a United States presidential inauguration. "One Today" was called "a fine example of public poetry, in keeping with Blanco’s other work: Loose, open lines of mostly conversational verse, a flexible ...
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) [1] was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement.
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