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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the " confessional " school of poetry.
"Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), by the American poet John Berryman.According to Berryman's "Note" to The Dream Songs, "This volume combines 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, comprising Books I through VII of a poem whose working title, since 1955, has been The Dream Songs."
The association with the tune "Yorkshire" (sometimes also "Stockport") is an early one: some accounts describe it being sung under the direction of its composer by a group of local men and boys for Christmas 1750, some time after the writing of the poem; [5] although it is not possible to tell how the poem was originally divided along to the tune.
The Song of Life, a 1920 book by W. H. Davies; The Song of Life, a 1913 short story by William J. Locke; The Song of Life and Other Poems, a book by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak; see 1947 in poetry; Cîntul vieții (The Song of Life), a 1950 book by Alexandru Toma; Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life, a biography of Ernst von Dohnányi by Iona von ...
John Tenniel, St. Cecilia (1850) illustrating Dryden's ode, in the Parliament Poets' Hall "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every 22 November from 1683 to 1703.
10. The Distillers, “Drain the Blood” The Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle reportedly wrote this song and entire Coral Fang album amid a messy divorce from Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong ...
The English rock band Arctic Monkeys brought the poem to a wider audience via an adaptation [6] that serves as the closing track on their 2013 album AM. The adaptation, produced by James Ford and Ross Orton, contains novel lyrics written by lead singer Alex Turner. By 3 April 2024, the recitation had received over two billion streams on Spotify ...