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Illustration for Longfellow's poem "Excelsior" from an 1846 collection. The poem was included in Ballads and Other Poems (1842), which also included other well-known poems such as "The Wreck of the Hesperus" "Excelsior" is a short poem written in 1841 by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet.He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
Silver: Poems is a 2024 poetry collection by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [1] The book's poems utilize wide variety of techniques—ranging from elegy to terza rima —and discuss broad themes of faith, truth, and crisis, among others.
His poetic short drama Mozart and Salieri (like The Stone Guest, one of the so-called four Little Tragedies, a collective characterization by Pushkin himself in 1830 letter to Pyotr Pletnyov [35]) was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as well as providing the libretto (almost verbatim) to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart and Salieri.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Montale wrote more than ten anthologies of short lyrics, a journal of poetry translation, plus several books of prose translations, two books of literary criticism, and one of fantasy prose. [ citation needed ] Alongside his imaginative work he was a constant contributor to Italy's most important newspaper, the Corriere della Sera , for which ...
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses , in the section titled "Life and Death (Echoes)".