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Poetry Collections
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several Poetry, poems by one poet to be published in a single Volume (bibliography), volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets'') to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or Theme (narrative), thematic material. Most poets publish several volumes of poetry through the course of their life while other poets publish one (e.g. Walt Whitman's lifelong expansion of ''Leaves of Grass''). The notion of a "collection" differs in definition from volumes of a poet's "Collected Poems (other), collected poems", "Selected Poems (other), selected poems" or from a anthology, poetry anthology. Typically, a volume entitled "Collected Poems" is a compilation by a poet or an editor of a poet's work that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prufrock And Other Observations
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing it in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'' at the instigation of his fellow American expatriate the poet Ezra Pound. It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem chapbook entitled ''Prufrock and Other Observations'' in 1917. At the time of its publication, the poem was considered outlandish, (citing an unsigned review in ''Literary Review''. 5 July 1917, vol. lxxxiii, 107.) but it is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic shift in poetry from late-19th-century Romantic poetry, Romanticism and Georgian Poetry, Georgian lyrics to Modernist poetry, Modernism. Its structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri and makes several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil And Other Verses From The Red Book
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album '' Horses'' made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, " Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir '' Just Kids'', written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend. She is ranked 47th on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of all Time, published in 2010, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2011. Early life and education Smith was born on De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguries Of Innocence (poems)
''Auguries of Innocence'' is a poetry collection by Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album '' Horses'' made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fu ..., published in 2005. Contents # "The Lovecrafter" # "Worthly The Lamb Slain For Us" # "Sleep Of The Dodo" # "The Long Road" # "A Phytagorean Traveler" # "Desert Chorus" # "Written By A Lake" # "The Oracle" # "The Setting And The Stone" # "The Mast Is Down" # "The Blue Doll" # "Eve Of All Saints" # "She Lay In The Stream Dreaming Of August Sander" # "Fourteen" # "Birds Of Iraq" # "Marigold" # "Tara" # "To His Daughter" # "The Pride Moves Slowly" # "The Leaves Are Late Falling" # "Wilderness" # "The Geometry Blinked Ruin Unimaginable" # "Fenomenico" # "Three Windows" # "Our Jargon Muffies The Drum # "Death Of A Tramp" # "Mummer Love" # "The Writer's Song" References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal, music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali.'' In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for '' The Colossus and Other Poems'' (1960), '' Ariel'' (1965), and '' The Bell Jar'', a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. ''The Collected Poems'' was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel (poetry Collection)
''Ariel'' is Sylvia Plath's second collection of poetry. It was first released in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. The poems of ''Ariel'', with their free-flowing images and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier '' Colossus'' poems. Ted Hughes, Plath's widower and the editor of ''Ariel'', made substantial changes to her intended plan for the collection by changing her ordering of the poems, dropping some pieces, and adding others. The first American edition was published in 1966 and included an introduction by the poet Robert Lowell. This was appropriate, since, in a BBC interview, Plath had cited Lowell's book '' Life Studies'' as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing in the last phase of her writing career. In the same interview, Plath also cited the poet Anne Sexton as an important influence on her writing during that time, since Sexton was also exploring some of the same dark, taboo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Time (book)
''Another Time'' is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940. This book contains Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939, except for those already published in Letters from Iceland and Journey to a War. These poems are among the best-known of his entire career. The book is divided into three parts, "People and Places", "Lighter Poems", and "Occasional Poems". "People and Places" includes "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun", "Oxford", "A. E. Housman", "Edward Lear", "Herman Melville", "The Capital", "Voltaire at Ferney", "Orpheus", "Musée des Beaux Arts (poem), Musée des Beaux Arts", "Gare du Midi", "Dover", and many other poems. "Lighter Poems" includes "Miss Gee", "O tell me the truth about love", "Funeral Blues", "Calypso", "Roman Wall Blues", "The Unknown Citizen", "Refugee Blues", and other poems. "Occasional Poems" includes "Spain (Auden), Spain 1937", "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", "September 1, 1939", "In Memory of Sigmund Freud", and other poems. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonya Ingram
Tonya Ingram (September 1, 1991 – December 30, 2022) was an American poet, author, speaker, Disability rights movement, disability activist, and mental health advocate. Ingram died on December 30, 2022, waiting for a Kidney transplantation, kidney transplant. Life Education Ingram was a graduate of New York University and Otis College of Art and Design. While at NYU, Ingram performed on the school's poetry slam team, which won the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Ingram founded the team alongside Eric Silver, Matthew Sparacino, and Safia Elhillo. They were coached by Mahogany L. Browne, Mahogany Browne. Performance and poetry Ingram's writing was often about Black feminism and living with Lupus and kidney failure. Ingram performed at the Nuyorican Poets Café, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Lexus Verses and Flow's variety show. Her work was featured in the 2021 Madewell "What Are Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States. Among other honors, Jarrell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the years 1947–48; a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1951; and the National Book Award for Poetry, in 1961. Biography Youth and education Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Hume-Fogg High School where he "practiced tennis, starred in some school plays, and began his career as a critic with satirical essays in a school magazine."Burt, Stephen. ''Randall Jarrell and His Age''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1935. While at Vanderbilt, he edited the student humor magazine ''The Masquerader'', was captain of the tennis team, made Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animal Family
''The Animal Family'' is a 1965 children's novel by American poet and critic Randall Jarrell and illustrated by noted children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak. It is a 1966 Newbery Honor book and has a significant following among adult readers. Plot summary A man, a mermaid, a boy, a bear and a lynx – all orphans – find a home together in a log cabin in the woods by the sea. Through their shared experiences and self-made myths of their own origins, they create their own unique family. Reception "I had not known that I was waiting for 'The Animal Family'," claimed ''Mary Poppins'' author P. L. Travers, "but when it came it was as though I had long been expecting it. That is what happens when one encounters poetry." Reviewing the novel for ''The New York Times'', Travers continues: There is nothing here of Hans Andersen's mawkish portentousness and nostalgia, no longing for an immortal soul, no craving for a pair of legs. ''Our'' mermaid accepts herself as she is, a sea-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Que Quiere!
''Al Que Quiere!'' is a collection of 52 poems by William Carlos Williams, published in 1917 by the Four Seas Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Williams paid $50 to the publisher. The original edition announces, "Many of the poems in this book have appeared in magazines, especially in ''Poetry'', ''Others'', ''The Egoist The Egoist may refer to: * The Egoist (periodical) ''The Egoist'' (subtitled ''An Individualist Review'') was a London literary magazine published from 1914 to 1919, during which time it published important early modernist poetry and fiction. ...'', and ''The Poetry Journal''." Williams's translation of the title is "To Him Who Wants It." He wrote of this, "I have always associated it with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him. ..I was convinced nobody in the world of poetry wanted me but I was there willing to pass the ball if anyone did want it." In this early work, Williams is still finding his voice, still experime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
