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(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, an influential fantasy novel, [1] and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and ...
Geoff Page writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "in general confirms long-held impressions of Hope: the dry detached amusement, the steady quatrains, 'the long isolation of the heart', the erudition (both scientific and literary), the old man still savouring sensual joys. A few poems set you back slightly.
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1955. [1]The collection consists of 39 poems, most are published in this collection for the first time and others are reprinted from various Australian poetry publications.
Paris: A Poem is a long poem by Hope Mirrlees, described as "modernism's lost masterpiece" by critic Julia Briggs. [1] Mirrlees wrote the six-hundred-line poem in spring 1919. Although the title page of the first edition mistakenly has the year 1919, it was first published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press .
World Poetry Tree: An Anthology for Hope, Love and Peace is a global poetry anthology published in 2022 edited by Arab poet Adel Khozam with the support of the UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth. [1] According to Emirates News Agency , this book will go down in the history of world exhibitions as the first initiative of its kind to collect in an ...
The original poem was in three paragraphs of 16 lines each (for a total of 48). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The exact date of this document is uncertain, although it is usually dated between 1745 [ 1 ] and 1750. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This was later published in the author's posthumous Poems, &c. (1773) and later again in his Works (1814, vol. ii).
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