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Kenneth Flexner Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata.He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician.His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. [1]
The poem’s 4th stanza continues to identify the garden with a retreat from sexuality. It includes allusions to the myths of Apollo and Daphne and Pan and Syrinx from Ovid ’s Metamorphoses , stories that both describe a nymph’s escape from threatened rape through transforming into a plant.
S. Amin Tabish is also a poet and has written poems in English, Urdu and Kashmiri. Four Music CDs based on his lyrics – Doad te Dugg, Ake Omri Hound Souruye Safar, Sakoon Diluk, and Mioth Zaher – containing over 70 songs have been released. The lyrics have been composed and sung by noted singers and artists of Jammu & Kashmir. [17] [18]
According to Ott and Broman, Aniara is an effort to "[mediate] between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend". [10] Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the "curved space" from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson's description of the cosmos as "a bowl of glass ...
David Rytman Slavitt (born March 23, 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.. Slavitt has written a number of novels and numerous translations from Greek, Latin, and other languages.
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...