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    Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. Poems & Poets. Topics & Themes. Features. Events & Programs. About Us. ... 1877—1933. Share. French poet Raymond Roussel is frequently described as one of 20th-century literature's most eccentric writers. His work is notable for its inscrutable surfaces and ...
    • Selections From Hopkins's Letters

      In 1877 he was ordained, and in 1884 he became a professor of classics at University College, Dublin. Hopkins burned his early poems when he became a Jesuit. Around 1875 he began to write poetry again, prompted to commemorate the deaths of five Franciscan nuns in the wreck of the Deutschland, the ship carrying them when they were exiled from ...

    • Rose Fyleman

      Rose Fyleman was a prolific English writer whose publications include more than sixty volumes of fiction, poetry, and plays. Fyleman was born in 1877 in Nottingham, England. She attended University College in Nottingham, then undertook training for a career as an opera singer. Fyleman failed to find work in opera, but she nonetheless managed to ...

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    His Poems (1877) brought him renown and led to his appointment as lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in 1879. Lanier's idiosyncratic theories of prosody, laid out in The Science of English Verse (1880), held that poetry and music shared the same underlying structure.
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    The poem begins as an imitation of Milton's "Il Penseroso," but its development embodies in embryo the general movement in Hopkins's early art from representations of ideal worlds to representations of this world which culminated in his famous 1877 poems on nature. His initial attempt to attain a spiritual vision in "Il Mystico" is ...
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    In 1877 he was ordained, and in 1884 he became a professor of classics at University College, Dublin. Hopkins burned his early poems when he became a Jesuit. Around 1875 he began to write poetry again, prompted to commemorate the deaths of five Franciscan nuns in the wreck of the Deutschland, the ship carrying them when they were exiled from ...
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    Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. ... 1877—1938. Share. Muhammad Iqbal, a vital historical figure in Urdu and Persian literature, was born to a Kashmiri Muslim family in Sialkot, India, which is now part of Pakistan. ...
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    Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. Poems & Poets. Topics & Themes. Features. Events & Programs ... poems, which the author desires to dedicate to the cause of education and humanity (1873) and Walden's Sacred Poems, with a Sketch of His Life (1877). Poems by Alfred Islay Walden. Introductory to ...
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    1871 until 1877 were miserable years for Kipling. "In addition to feelings of bewilderment and abandonment" from being deserted by his parents, writes Mary A. O'Toole in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "Kipling had to suffer bullying by the woman of the house and her son." Kipling may have brought some of this treatment on ...
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    Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. ... "The Windhover" is a sonnet as fierce and alive as that kestrel he saw in May 1877. When I first read it, for all my teenage ignorance about theology and archaic word meanings ...
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    Rose Fyleman was a prolific English writer whose publications include more than sixty volumes of fiction, poetry, and plays. Fyleman was born in 1877 in Nottingham, England. She attended University College in Nottingham, then undertook training for a career as an opera singer. Fyleman failed to find work in opera, but she nonetheless managed to ...

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