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"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review , and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole .
Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called The Wild Swans at Coole, represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic. [2] [3]
His speeches generally focused on the lives of trees, forestry issues, preservation of natural lands, and the lives of wild animals. Often in his speeches and written articles he encouraged people of all ages to get outside and into nature. His photographs illustrated the articles that he wrote about Longs Peak. He also wrote poetry.
Benson's Wild Animal Farm was a private zoo and amusement park in Hudson, New Hampshire, United States. It opened to the public in 1926 and closed in 1987, after having been renamed New England Playworld for its final year. The state of New Hampshire acquired the property in 1989 and transferred it to the town of Hudson in 2009.
Howletts Wild Animal Park (formerly known as Howletts Zoo) in the parish of Bekesbourne, [2] near Canterbury in Kent, was established as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall. [1] In 1962, the House known as Howletts was being restored. A small cottage was inhabited by an employee. The animal collection was opened to the public in 1975. [1]
But the animals come to this land, and continue to true heaven, not by a bridge but by balloon. The first mention of the "Rainbow Bridge" story online is a post on the newsgroup rec.pets.dogs, dated 7 January 1993, quoting the poem from a 1992 (or earlier) issue of Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League Newsletter , which in turn is stated to ...
Pak Tu-jin (Korean: 박두진, 10 March 1916 – 16 September 1998) was a Korean poet. [1] A voluminous writer of nature poetry, Pak Tu-jin is chiefly notable for the way he turned his subjects into symbols of the newly emerging national situation of Korea in the second half of the 20th century.
Wild Animal Park may refer to: San Diego Zoo Safari Park, formerly known as the San Diego Wild Animal Park, near Escondido, California; Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, in Bedfordshire, England; South Lakes Safari Zoo (Formerly South Lakes Wild Animal Park), near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England