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  2. The Black Vulture - Wikipedia

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    Genre (s) nature. " The Black Vulture " is a sonnet by American poet George Sterling first printed in March 1910. The poem was cited by Thomas E. Benediktsson in his book George Sterling as "a sonnet which became Sterling’s most consistently praised and most anthologized poem." [1] Poet and critic William Rose Benét wrote: “As for ‘The ...

  3. Sonnets to Orpheus - Wikipedia

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    Original text. Die Sonette an Orpheus at German Wikisource. The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) [1] are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian - Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense ...

  4. A Farewell to Arms (poem) - Wikipedia

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    A Farewell to Arms is an occasional sonnet written by George Peele.It is the coda of Peele's Polyhymnia, written for the Accession Day tilt of 1590. [1] The prior thirteen parts of Polyhymnia are each blank verse descriptions of pairs of contestants with vague impressions of their combat, though Peele does not name the victors.

  5. George Meredith - Wikipedia

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    3. Signature. George Meredith OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian literary circles.

  6. Duino Elegies - Wikipedia

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    The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", [1] and began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea.

  7. Rival Poet - Wikipedia

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    The Rival Poet is one of several characters, either fictional or real persons, featured in William Shakespeare's sonnets. The sonnets most commonly identified as the Rival Poet group exist within the Fair Youth group in sonnets 78 – 86. Several theories about these characters, the Rival Poet included, have been expounded, and scholarly debate ...

  8. Sonnet 18 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.

  9. George Sterling - Wikipedia

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    George Sterling. George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century.