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In Blackwater Woods. Depicts a map of Cape Cod with National Seashore shaded in green. In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive, which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. [1] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to ...
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. [2] [3] Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing.
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Title page of the first book edition (December 1922) First published in The Criterion (UK) The Dial (US) Country United Kingdom Publication date 16 October 1922 (UK) c. 20 October 1922 (US) Lines 434 Full text The Waste Land at Wikisource The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th ...
Ill nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the flowers." " The Gods of the Copybook Headings " is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, characterized by biographer Sir David Gilmour as one of several "ferocious post-war eruptions" of Kipling's souring sentiment concerning the state of Anglo-European society. [ 1] It was first published in the Sunday ...
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by sincere wonderment and profound connection with the environment, conveyed in ...
Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. It tells the story of Laura and Lizzie who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. [ 1] In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, was not ...
The Gate of the Year. "The Gate of the Year" is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The poem was originally published with the title, "God Knows" by the author. Haskins studied and taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century.
The idea of Mary as a guiding star for seafarers has led to devotion to Our Lady, Star of the Sea in many Catholic coastal and fishing communities. Numerous churches, schools and colleges are dedicated to "Stella Maris, Our Lady Star of the Sea," or "Mary, Star of the Sea."