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After writing "Ode to Psyche", Keats sent the poem to his brother and explained his new ode form: "I have been endeavouring to discover a better Sonnet stanza than we have. The legitimate does not suit the language well, from the pouncing rhymes; the other appears too elegiac, and the couplet at the end of it has seldom a pleasing effect. I do ...
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. [1] Of Irish descent, he was born in London. [2] He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers ...
Joseph O. Legaspi [1] is an American poet. [2] He is the author of two full length poetry collections and two full-length poetry chapbooks. [3] [4] [5]With the poet Sarah Gambito, he cofounded Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization that nurtures generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Hannah Lawrence was a daughter of John Lawrence and Anna Burling. [1] [7]Hannah Lawrence came from a respected and proud Quaker family, who had arrived in the New World already in the 17th century and had settled on Long Island.
An Ode to the Queen: 1877-09: More Poetic Gems: 1962: Queen Victoria: An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year: 1887-06: Poetic Gems [First Series] 1890: Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria: Annie Marshall the Foundling: 1888-02: Poetic Gems [Second Series] 1891 Attempted Assassination of the Queen: 1882-05: Poetic Gems [First Series] 1890 ...
In addition to epinikia, a victorious athlete might be honored with a statue, as with this charioteer found at Delphi, probably a champion driver at the Pythian Games. The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Greek ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known in English as a victory ode.
The last words of the ode, potenti ... maris deo ' to the god who has power over the sea ' are found in the manuscripts and in the ancient commentator Porphyrio; nonetheless, Nisbet and Hubbard in their commentary (1970), following a conjecture of Zielinski (1901), [4] suggest that the original reading may have been potenti ... maris deae ' to the goddess who has power over the sea ', i.e. Venus.