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The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem, by James Hogg was first published by George Goldie in Edinburgh, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in London on 30 January 1813. [4] On 14 June the same publishers re-issued the copies remaining unsold as a second edition, with replacement pages at the beginning and end.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
Maria James (October 11, 1793 – September 11, 1868 [1]) was a Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant.Her poetry includes Ode on the Fourth of July 1833.As a child, she emigrated with her family from Wales to New York.
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Central to this poem is the story of Protesilaus and Laodamia from the Trojan cycle. Protesilaus and Laodamia were married shortly before the Trojan War, in which he was the first Greek to die. In her grief, Laodamia committed suicide by jumping onto the fire that destroyed a bronze statue of her late husband.
Ashley Judd spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the trauma she has worked hard to face, the grief she now feels, and how her mother’s spirit is still very much alive in her life.
After completing his Highland poem Mador of the Moor in February 1814, Hogg conceived the idea of 'a volume of romantic poems, to be entitled "Midsummer Night Dreams".' [1] The first poem he composed for this project was Connel of Dee, in which a shepherd's social aspirations come to an end when he has a nightmare of a hellish marriage and violent death.
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