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The Scottish painter John Faed produced a series of illustrations featuring scenes from the poem, some of which were subsequently engraved by William Miller. [4] Scenes from the poem also inspired paintings by David Wilkie [5] and William Kidd, [6] and William Allan's painting of Burns writing the poem was subsequently engraved by John Burnet. [7]
The sixteen-page publication of the poem became a best-seller, [26] and the recording of the poem was awarded a Grammy Award. [27] The poem was featured in the film August 28: A Day in the Life of a People, which debuted at the opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. [28] [29] [30]
PCSO Lottery Draw (formerly Philippine Lotto Draw and Philippine Lottery Draw) is a Philippine television game show broadcast by PTV/NBN, IBC and D8TV [1] under the joint venture between PCSO, IBC and Digital8. The show aired daily (except on National Election Day, and during the Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday holiday period), it aired ...
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
Poems of Today was a series of anthologies of poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish, produced by the English Association. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Poems of Today (1915, first series)
He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. [3] It is thought that she was the first inspiration for his unfinished epic poem about Goethe, a personal hero of his. In this unpublished work, which Byron referred to in his letters as his magnum opus, he switches the gender of Goethe and gives him the same ...
"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's college nickname, "Phinney". [1]
One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco first recited at the second inauguration of Barack Obama, making Blanco the fifth poet to read during a United States presidential inauguration. "One Today" was called "a fine example of public poetry, in keeping with Blanco’s other work: Loose, open lines of mostly conversational verse, a flexible ...