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The poem is notable for omitting entirely the second voyage (perhaps because Moore did not sail a second time on the ship) and for the more social setting given to the sailors who signed up for the Tiger (including farmers in their absence worrying over who would do the ploughing and women worrying over not having enough men for husbands). [6]
In 2012, Moore served as the prestigious Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor [6] at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. She is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems, translated by Paul Schmidt.
Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects.
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. Her father, John Milton Moore, a mechanical engineer and inventor, suffered a psychotic episode, as a consequence of which her parents separated before she was born; Moore never met him.
He married the poet Virginia Moore (1903–1993) in 1927; their son, John Moore Untermeyer (1928), was renamed John Fitzallen Moore after a painful 1929 divorce. In the 1930s, he divorced Jean Starr Untermeyer and married Esther Antin (1894–1983).
Moore in 2009. Richard O. Moore (February 26, 1920 – March 25, 2015) was an American poet associated with Kenneth Rexroth [1] and the San Francisco Renaissance. [2]His earliest poetry was published in 1945 in Circle Magazine by George Leite.
According to biographer Suzanne Rodriguez, the collection's publication meant that Barney became the first woman poet to openly write about the love of women since Sappho. [56] Her mother contributed pastel illustrations of the poems' subjects, wholly unaware three of the four women who modelled for her were her daughter's lovers. [57]
July 21 – Greenock Burns Club established to honour the memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns (died 1796). [1]The second edition of Specimens of the Early English Poets, edited by George Ellis and covering poems from the Old English through to the 17th century, is influential in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry, going through a further 4 editions.