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1842 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English United Kingdom * Robert Browning, '' Dramatic Lyrics'', including "My Last Duchess", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"; the author's first collection of shorter poems (reprinted, with some revisions and omissions in ''Poems'' 1849; see also ''Bells and Pomegranates'' 1841, reprinted each year from 1843–1846) * Thomas Campbell, ''The Pilgrim of Glencoe, with Other Poems'' * Frederick William Faber, ''The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems'' * J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'', anthology * Leigh Hunt, ''The Palfrey'' * Thomas Babington Macaulay, ''Lays of Ancient Rome'', including "Horatius" * Robert Montgomery, ''Luther'' * Alfred Tennyson, ''Poems'', including "Locksley Hall", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses", " Lady Clara Vere de Vere", " The Two Voices", "The Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was an English historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best known for his '' The History of England'', a seminal example of Whig history which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy, in which he was guided by his conviction that Western European culture was superior to that of India and the Middle East. Early life Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire on 25 October 1800, the son of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander, who became a colonial governor and abolitionist, and Selina Mills of Bristol, a former pupil of Hannah More. They named their first child after his uncle Thomas Bab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the Constitution of the United States, constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native Americans in the United States, Native American societies). Most of the early colonists' work was similar to contemporary English models of Meter (poetry), poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, an American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, List of poets from the United States, poets like Walt Whitman were winning an enthusiastic audience abroad and had joined the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism, Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ''masterpiece, magnum opus'' is generally considered to be ''The Prelude'', a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and was a key figure of the Romantic poets. Early life Family and education The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Power Of The Passions And Other Poems
''The Power of the Passions and other Poems'' was a 19th-century poetry collection written by Katharine Augusta Ware, and published in New York City and London. A few months before she died, Ware published, in London, a selection from her writings, under the title of ''The Power of the Passions and other Poems''. The composition from which the volume has its principal title was originally printed in ''The Knickerbocker'', for April in the same year. In his ''The Female Poets of America'', Griswold remarks that this, though the longest, is scarcely the best of her productions, but it has passages of consider able strength and boldness, and some felicities of expression. She describes a public dancer, as: Moving as if her element were air, And music was the echo of her step; and there are many other lines noticeable for a picturesque beauty or a fine cadence. In other poems, also, are parts which are much superior to their contexts, as if written in moments of inspiration, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Augusta Ware
Katharine Augusta Ware (1797–1843) was a 19th-century American poet and the editor of the Boston-based literary periodical, '' Bower of Taste''. A selection from her writings, under the title of '' The Power of the Passions and other Poems'', was published in London in 1842. Biography Katharine (sometimes misspelled "Katherine") Augusta Ware was born in 1797 at Quincy, Massachusetts, where her father was a physician. She was remarkable in childhood for a love of reading. She wrote verses at a very early age. Her talent was evident when, at the age of fifteen, she penned a poignant poem commemorating the death of Robert Treat Paine, a work that earned her a place in the collection of Paine's works. In 1819, she married Charles A. Ware, an officer of the United States Navy. in the ensuing years, she gained recognition as an accomplished writer of odes for public events and contributed to literary journals. Among her odes was one addressed to Lafayette and presented to him in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Of Shalott
"The Lady of Shalott" () is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text '' Donna di Scalotta'', the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem, one published in 1832 (in ''Poems'', incorrectly dated 1833), of 20 stanzas, the other in 1842, of 19 stanzas (also in a book named ''Poems''), and returned to the story in "Lancelot and Elaine". The vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism of "The Lady of Shalott" inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers, as well as other authors and artists. Background Like Tennyson's other early works, such as " Sir Galahad", the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources. It is inspired by the legend of Elaine of Astolat, as recounted in a 13th-century Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godiva (poem)
"Godiva" is a poem written in 1840 by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson when he was returning from Coventry to London, after his visit to Warwickshire in that year. It was first published in 1842. No alteration was made in any subsequent edition. on The Literature Network The poem is based on the story of the Countess , an Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
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The Two Voices
"The Two Voices" is a poem written by future Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Alfred, Lord Tennyson between 1833 and 1834. It was included in his 1842 collection of ''Poems''. Tennyson wrote the poem, titled "Thoughts of a Suicide" in manuscript, after the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833. The poem was autobiographical. Background Tennyson explained, "When I wrote 'The Two Voices' I was so utterly miserable, a burden to myself and to my family, that I said, 'Is life worth anything?'" (Hill, 54). In the poem, one voice urges the other to suicide ("There is one remedy for all" repeated on lines 201 and 237); the poet's arguments against it range from vanity to desperation, yet the voice discredits all. The poem's ending delivers no conclusions, and has been widely criticized—the poet finds no internal affirmation, invoking "solace outside himself" (Tucker). "The Two Voices" was published following a ten-year span (1832-1842) in which Tennyson did not publish anyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Clara Vere De Vere
"Lady Clara Vere de Vere" is an English poem written by Alfred Tennyson, part of his collected ''Poems'' published in 1842. The poem is about a lady in a family of aristocrats, and includes numerous references to nobility, such as to earls or coats of arms. One such line from the poem goes, "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood." This line gave the title to the film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets''. Lewis Carroll's poem "Echoes" is based on "Lady Clare Vere de Vere". Tennyson spent some time as a guest at Curragh Chase and wrote the poem to show his close friendship with the de Vere family. Despite this, the poem is a scathing rebuke. The speaker tells that Lady Clara has rebuffed a young, but low-born man who loved her, and he committed suicide after her rejection. The references to coronets and earls are deployed ironically—the poem's speaker is not, in fact, impressed with the Vere de Vere ancestry, and all of her noble claims can't balance ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulysses (poem)
"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian era, Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received Poems (Tennyson, 1842), second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is a popular example of the dramatic monologue. Facing old age, mythical hero Odysseus, Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Homer's Ithaca, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels. Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus, Ulysses yearns to explore again. The Ulysses character (in Greek language, Greek, Odysseus) has been widely examined in literature. His adventures were first recorded in Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' (c. 800–700 BC), and Tennyson draws on Homer's narrative in the poem. Most critics, however, find that Tennyson's Ulysses recalls Dante Alighieri, Dante's Ulisse in his ''The Divine Comedy#Inferno, Inferno'' (c. 1320). In Dante's re-telling, Ulisse is conde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksley Hall
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of ''Poems''. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits. According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat. Poetic form "Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated; moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
