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William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The Little Man Who Wasn ...
In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical group, and on March 27, 1922, the newspaper columnist F.P.A. printed the poem in "The Conning Tower", his column in the New York World. [2] [3] Mearns subsequently wrote many parodies of this poem, giving them the general title of Later Antigonishes. [4]
March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. [2] William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the Ramayana into English verse is first published, in London.
Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross. We do have some secular poetry; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf .
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
Isaac Rosenberg, Poems (posthumous) Edith Sitwell, Façade, the concert version ('an entertainment'), with music by William Walton, performed January 1922 [3] Sacheverell Sitwell, The Hundred and One Harlequins, and Other Poems [3] J. C. Squire, Poems: Second Series; Muriel Stuart, Poems; W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
"It is the first mild day of March:" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1798 A whirl-blast from behind the hill 1798, 18 March "A Whirl-Blast from behind the hill" Poems of the Fancy: 1800 Expostulation and Reply: 1798 " 'Why, William, on that old grey stone," Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1798 The Tables Turned: 1798