Some of his best lyrics, "Hohenlinden", "Ye Mariners of England" and "The Soldier's Dream", belong to his German tour. ... In June 1803 appeared a new edition of the "Pleasures of Hope", to which some lyrics were added. ... In 1809 he published a narrative poem in the Spenserian stanza, Gertrude of Wyoming - referring to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley Massacre - with which were printed some of his best lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"She Walks in Beauty," The Analysis She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the author speaks of the physical beauty of a woman; a female who the author encountered. This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. A s...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, January 29, 1963. He one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize....

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

(Bloom2 51) "Much of Angelou's poetry, almost entirely short lyrics, expresses in short, often jazzy rhythms, themes common to the life experiences of many American blacks- (Bloom2 20) Throughout her work, Maya transformed from the bashful, awkward black girl shamed of her appearance to a proud black woman, proud of her color and curves and who has learned from her various mistakes. ...

• Word Count: 1347
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Walt Whitman was and still is a very influential poet and one of the most famous writers of poetry in American Literature. Whitman was born May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York and died in 1892 (Baym 2076). During his lifetime, Whitman received little acclaim for his works and often struggled to su...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American writer of sixteen collections of poetry, four collections of short stories, and four novels (Miller 393). No Negro of finer artistic spirit has been born in America (Bone 131). He speaks or slavery, rebellion, misery, and freedom i...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The poem England 1819 written by Percy Shelley is categorized by its political and religious discourses and the powerfully emotive language characteristic of the Romantic Poets of the time in which it was written. It also shows the social criticisms or protests that the author enjoyed, as well as ...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

It's ironic that it was in the highly-industrialized America that the author of The Waste Land abandoned urbanism, which filled practically all of his works of the 1920-es, and started writing landscape lyrics. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School