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English. " Wynken, Blynken, and Nod " is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's ...
David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". [ 4 ] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.
978-1-890447-04-5. Dewey Decimal. 811/.54. LC Class. PS3552.E72496 A64 1999. Actual Air is a book of poetry written by David Berman and published by Open City Books in July 1999. [2][3] A limited hardcover version was published by Drag City in August 2003. [4]
David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. [1] Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner attended Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Naval ROTC and graduated in three years. [2] He received an M.A. in English from the Indiana University in 1949 [3] and had a long association with the ...
Poet Dylan Thomas c. 1937–1938. " Do not go gentle into that good night " is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [2] the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
David Wojnarowicz. David Michael Wojnarowicz (/ ˌvɔɪnəˈroʊvɪtʃ / VOY-nə-ROH-vitch; [1] September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. [2] He incorporated personal narratives ...
Diop was the son of Maria Mandessi Bell (1896–1990), a member of the Cameroonian Bell family, of which Rudolf Duala Manga Bell and Ndumbe Lobe Bell, both kings of the Duala people, were also members. [4] He started writing poems while he was still in school, and his poems started appearing in Présence Africaine since he was just 15. [5]
Night (poem) " Night " is a poem in the illuminated 1789 collection Songs of Innocence by William Blake, later incorporated into the larger compilation Songs of Innocence and of Experience. "Night" speaks about the coming of evil when darkness arrives, as angels protect and keep the sheep from the impending dangers.