Articles related to "British Poet"

British poet Walter de la Mare captures a night scene wherein the moonlight has bathed everything in silver.

The Folding Mirror poetry form calls for two sides of a poem to mirror each other structurally either side of a folding middle line, but there are no limits to length.

Philip Larkin has been called England's greatest post-war poet, in addition to being voted "the nation's best-loved poet" by the Poetry Book Society.

Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney uses rhetoric and grammatical innuendo to enforce the validity of Astrophil's advances on Stella in this celebrated sonnet sequence.

19th century sonnet "Bright Star" constitutes a halfway point between Petrarchan and Shakespearean styles of sonnet; this tension is integral to the success of the poem.

Any story of 19th-century British poet Arthur Henry Hallam is short. He only lived to be twenty-two. But he made an impact on British poetry and Alfred Tennyson forever.

This cycle of 63 poems by A.E. Housman has been continuously in print since it was self-published in 1896.

Pamela Blevins is the world's authority on Marion Scott, English violinist, music critic and writer. Her book will stand as the definitive work about this creative woman.

The story of two brilliant and multi-talented musicians and writers whose lives were intertwined professionally and personally, brought to life by author Pamela Blevins.

Brief biography and works of American-born British poet, critic, essayist and dramatist T.S. Eliot, 1948 Nobel laureate for literature.

Famous British sculptor / painter and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, with Mississippi building magnate, help to promote timeless work of the world's best poets.

Passion is not only a part of torrid love. It also ignites our experience of many things. Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers, Goethe said.

Brief biography and works of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Bowning, famous for "Sonnets from the Portuguese."

2009 is the 200th anniversary of Alfred Lord Tennyson's birth. There are many upcoming events this year celebrating his life. They are listed and described briefly below.

All of Europe was enmeshed in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, but in North America Canadians and Americans were casting their eyes westward.

A British poet, American writer and New Zealand painter had a lot in common: deeply felt concerns about society, and a similar sense of how people might seek fulfilment.

Britain's landscape poets have done more to preserve its countryside than any environmental or ecological conservancy has.

Like many children's bedtime stories and fairy tales, Goldilocks and The Three Bears has changed over time.

There are no rules when it comes to choosing wedding readings. Explore ideas ranging from poems like : Will I Have to be Sexy at 60, to a Harry Potter excerpt

Presidents, poets and historians have characterized the pilgrims as devout, dauntless spiritual and political mentors for America. Here are some quotes.

Americans spend around $40 billion annually on diet programs, diet meals, diet supplements and diet fads. Check out some of the most bizarre weight-loss plans in history.

Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's new Poet Laureate, is the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay person to hold the honour in the 341 year history of the role.

Seamus Heaney wrote not only of his identity as an Irishman, but Northern Ireland's semi-schizophrenic position as both British and Irish.

A collection of famous and sometimes provocative quotes about the meaning and nature of liberty is offered for debate and discussion.

Born in 1788, during the enlightenment period, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, epitomised the romance of Regency England.

This British psychedelic-era group left a legacy of great music between 1966-68, including "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Disraeli Gears", and may yet reform once again.

There are a surprising number of celebrities with OCD. Famous people with obsessive-compulsive disorder can be an inspiration for other sufferers of this disorder.