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As the poem reflects Yeats's expectations for his young daughter, feminist critiques of the poem have questioned the poet's general approach to women through the text's portrayal of women in society. In Yeats's Ghosts, Brenda Maddox suggests that the poem is "designed deliberately to offend women" and labels it as "offensive". Maddox argues ...
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
The poem centres on Lord Fairfax's daughter Maria. Marvell wrote another country house poem to Lord Fairfax, the lesser-known Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilborough. [4] Thomas Carew also wrote two country house poems in the mould of To Penshurst: To Saxham and To My Friend G. N., from Wrest.
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide. [ 1 ]
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Her first book, My Father's Daughter, published in 1965, has been widely used as a literature text in schools all over the world, and her books have been translated into German, Danish, Norwegian and Greek. [1] Her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992). [2]
His second volume of poems, Passport to the War, was published fourteen years later; the book went largely unnoticed, although it featured some of Kunitz's best-known poems, and soon fell out of print. Kunitz's confidence was not in the best of shape when, in 1959, he had trouble finding a publisher for his third book, Selected Poems: 1928-1958.