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Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
Ernest Charles Jones (25 January 1819 – 26 January 1869) was an English poet, novelist and Chartist. Dorothy Thompson points out that Jones was born into the landed gentry, became a barrister, and left a large documentary record.
1996: Walking the Black Cat: Poems, [30] (National Book Award in Poetry finalist) 1997: Looking for Trouble: Selected Early and More Recent Poems. Faber and Faber. 1997. ISBN 9780571192335. 1999: Jackstraws: Poems [30] (The New York Times Notable Book of the Year) ISBN 9780156010986; 1999: Simic, Charles (1999). Selected Early Poems. ISBN ...
The Triumph of Time" is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, [1] published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. [2] It is in adapted ottava rima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration. [3] The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love.
Poems often arrange their lines in patterns of masculine and feminine endings, for instance in "A Psalm of Life", cited above, every couplet consists of a feminine ending followed by a masculine one. This is the pattern followed by the hymns that are classified as "87.87" in standard nomenclature (for this system see Meter (hymn) ); an example ...
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[10] (Abbey had drawn from an earlier poem, "The Faithful Engineer," by William Shakespeare Hays. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] ) Also known by its first line "Life is like a mountain railroad", the song has been recorded by Boxcar Willie , Carter Family , Bill Monroe , Chuck Wagon Gang , The Oak Ridge Boys , Tennessee Ernie Ford , Merle Haggard , Johnny Cash ...
After attending Longton High School, Tomlinson read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied with Donald Davie.After leaving university he taught for several years in Camden Town, London, followed by a brief period as secretary to Percy Lubbock in Italy, before returning to London as an M.A. student at Royal Holloway, University of London.