A couple of days ago I was cleaning out my now unused study - recently I have been finding other places to write, my bed, the bathroom, even in the bath, as the portability of the laptop proves very convenient - and I stumbled upon a book, well read, yet discarded in my 'old age'. Gwen Harwood"'"s collection of poems was now sitting in my hand, and after five minutes of staring blankly at the book I opened it and flicked through the pages. ... Notes in the margin of my book, defacing the text, made it hard t...

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• Grade Level: High School

In England a publisher was found for Phillis's first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was the first book of published poetry by an African American. Because some were skeptical of Phillis really being the author, due to her age and their racism, her publisher added a note at the beginning of the manuscript. ... Her second book was lost and never recovered. ...

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

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In his 4th Century B.C. work Poetics, Greek philosopher Aristotle effectively creates the world's first critical book concerning the laws of literature. ... Aristotle, a student of Plato, clearly has Plato's arguments in mind when he takes up the question of imitation in his book on poetics. ... He explains that a critic must " treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a ...

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Scotch Drink The Poem Scotch Drink by Robert Burns was the second poem in the Kilmarnock Volume, Burns first published book of poems, written in the mid 1780's. ... Burns cleverly moves the poem through two transition stanzas (lamenting the loss of the privileged tax-free still of the upper-class and cursing the excise) to end on a note descriptive of his own ideal. ...

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Because the Bible was probably the first book Phyllis encountered, it is no surprise that her faith in God is relished throughout her writings in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phyllis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. ... For instance, line 25 of To Maecenas, " soon the same beauties should my mind adorn, and the same ardors in my soul should burn: then should my song in bolder notes arise, and all my numbers pleasingly surprise- As these lines indicate, Phyllis had a passion to write well as a poet and surprise her white peers. ...

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Sidney Colvin notes in the book John Keats: His Life and Poetry "in the light of the tragedy to come its two first quatrains now seem to thrill with prophetic meaning" (259). ... John Middleton Murry states in the book Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats" Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820 "it is not a reply to his own question: "Why did I laugh?"... The phrases, "high-piled book," and "rippen"d grain," show the poets" renouncement which Keats cannot archive. ... Timothy Hilton states in the book Keats and his world "He wrote a sonnet, almost bitter, almost like a snarl, beginning "Why did I la...

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The book was published in 1965, nearly two years after the author's death by suicide. ... The child tries a "handful of notes" and Plath relates the sounds of the vowels to a group of balloons rising. ... Lines seventeen and eighteen read, "Your handful of notes;/ The clear vowels rise like balloons.... Not to mention the beautiful simile that ends the poem, "Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons....

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Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

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Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

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A Caxton is a book representative of the 1st English printed material by William Caxton - Raine is illustrating a book. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

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The copy editor of the book, however, mistook Cummings's intentions as typographical errors and made "corrections." In 1917 Cummings moved to New York, was employed very briefly at a mail-order book company, and soon began working full-time on his poetry and art. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...

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A Caxton is a book representative of the 1st English printed material by William Caxton - Raine is illustrating a book. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

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He wrote many works, which included the poem "Elemental", "My Naughty Book", and "Rose Of All The World". ... In the final stanza, which is just simply two sentences, Lawrence concludes with the bitterest tone of voice of the whole poem, "I am sick of lovable people, Somehow they are a lie" (lines 15-16) Lawrence has deliberately ended on a bitter note so that the audience can fully comprehend what he is writing about. ...

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Following the publication of her first book of complete works, Lowell began to write in a style which she thought to be her very own. ... One year after her death, Amy Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in recognition of the last book she had written and published: "What's O"clock." ... (Lowell, Amy, 449) In "Meeting-House Hill," Amy Lowell makes note of this "meeting house" only once, but rather she focuses on the sites surrounding the building. ...

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Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of poetry concerning men. ... In Book II he claims that "a young man must not be allowed to hear that he does nothing strange when he commits the most ...

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In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ... His most famous and popular work of that kind is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which was later assumed as a source of the modern musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the musical was first staged in London in 1981 and was on for 21 years, enjoying great éclat, until it was taken off in 2002)...

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Garnet writes " he secures a pervading feeling of the mass and movement and elusive force of nature" He continues on "For instance, the reader will note how the feeling of the mountain's might bulk and hanging mass, its vast elbowing flanks, its watching domination of the near fields and scattered farmsteads, begins to grow upon him, till he too is possessed by the idea of exploring its high ravines, its fountain springs and granite terraces." ... Who hasn't seen a forest, either first hand, or in a book? ...

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At the time this book was published it failed to arouse interest at the time, but it has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ...

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This is reminiscent of the intervention of Aphrodite in Book V of Homer's "Iliad" to remove her son Aeneas from the battlefield. ... We see them also in their role as followers, Belinda's army, just as an epic hero would have his faithful servants we see how "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, / We trust the important charge, the petticoat" . ...

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Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

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The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ ) can be interpreted, according to the metaphor meaning explained above, as a request for Eudocia to open herself to a new poem, a new 'flower'. ... At the same time, the whole name is a mocking appellation for his own works because in the language of nineteenth century book-publishers, 'grass' was used to denote works of minor value. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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