A co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. ... His mother, Margaret (b.1736), was the daughter of Robert Campbell of Craignish and Mary, daughter of Robert Simpson, "a celebrated Royal Armourer".[2] Around 1737, his father went to Falmouth, Virginia as a merchant in business with his wife's brother Daniel Campbell, becoming a Tobacco Lord trading between there and Glasgow. ... He found refuge in a Scottishmonastery. ... It contains on the whole an admirable selection...

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Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. ... During these years Moore was reading much avant-garde poetry and criticism and was beginning to publish subjective reviews and critical essays. In 1916 Moore moved with her mother from Carlisle to Chatham, New Jersey, to help keep house for her brother, by then a Yale University graduate and a Presbyterian minister. ... And "An Octopus," one of Moore's most splendid long poems, is a scientifically accurate, highly colored word picture, with annotated quotations, of Mount Rainier, in Washington State, which she had climbed in 1920 with ...

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In this essay I will try to look at one of his poems, The Lamb which a consider to be of great significance from different aspects: firstly I will try to place it in the context of innocence based on the collection of songs, then try to explore the religious hints in the poem and finally, since the poems in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience come in pairs, I cannot avoid bringing the two poems in comparison. ... The child speaks to the lamb as to his companion, sister or brother. ... Based on Jesus" words, "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you ...

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Robert Frost found "Beauty and meaning in commonplace objects, such as a drooping birch tree and an old stone wall, and drew universal significance from the experiences of a farmer or country boy" (A Tribute to Robert Frost). ... She believes that Frost displays love in The Road Not Taken, but not love between men and women, she believes that it was a higher love among men, brothers and friendship. ... Although Edward Thomas may have inspired the poem, the poem was not written as a portrait of brotherly love. ...

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Beyond the words of the poem, an on-going interaction between man and nature can be found. In "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", this interaction results in man, or the knight in this case, losing out in a spiritual conflict to nature, or the faery's child, "And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side". ... In this poem, nature is dominant and therefore powerful, as everything in the poem can be related back to nature as "the sedge has wither"d from the lake- and even the imagery used has a strong link with nature, "she found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and mann...

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{Doren, 58} Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother, George, was wounded and in a hospital in Washington, D.C. He found George nearly recovered but saw other soldiers badly in need of care. ...

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• Grade Level: High School