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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others ...
A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896.Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.
Milton's 1645. Poems. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton 's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas. Appearing in late 1645 or 1646 (see 1646 in poetry ), the octavo volume, whose full ...
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing, rewriting, and expanding Leaves of Grass[ 1] until his death in 1892. Six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass were produced, depending on how they are distinguished. [ 2]
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [ 1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.
Ossian ( / ˈɒʃən, ˈɒsiən /; Irish Gaelic / Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [ 1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth ...
The Hurting Kind is a 2022 collection of poetry by Ada Limón. The collection was published by Milkweed Editions. Conception and writing. Limón deliberately avoided creating a collection with a "narrative arc". Instead, Limón organized the poems into sections corresponding to the four seasons.
0-571-06665-8. OCLC. 4686783. Followed by. Door into the Dark. Death of a Naturalist (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group.