You still can find The Harvard Classics in homes across the country. In 51 handsome matching...Shribman, David M
But young Joseph had an idea. A few years before, he had written a rather beautiful poem called ‘Stille Nacht’. So, he asked Franz Xavez Gruber, a schoolmaster and organist in a nearby town, to set his six-stanza poem to music. ...
In 1876 Mary Sawyer, by then known as Mary Tyler, proclaimed that she was the Mary in the poem, and that a John Roulstone had written the words after visiting her school, and seeing the lamb. It is generally believed now that Roulstone wrote the first three stanzas, and the rest were ...
Hughes penned this poem when he was just 17 years old. Written on his way to visit his father, the work both summarizes the experience of the young, black writer and encapsulates the struggle of African-Americans across the span of time. Hughes uses famous locations of African civilizations a...
Be a bird or a cloud a la Meghdoot – the classic poem of poet Kalidasa, and see India from its perspective. In Meghdoot a lovelorn Yaksha sends the message to his beloved wife in the city of Alkapuri, somewhere deep in the Himalayas from the hills of Ramtek in central India through a...
This little poem we’re reading today profoundly influenced the American tradition of Santa Claus. Moore had St. Nicholas coming on Christmas Eve, rather than Christmas Day, as did Washington Irving, in his Old Christmas series of essays. The Christmas visitor had many different influences at the...
Polydor brought together an eclectic group of musicians – along with actor Liam Neeson – to pay tribute to Belfast-born Van Morrison. Neeson recorded a spoken-word version of Morrison’s poem-like “Coney Island,” while Sinéad O’Connor brings a graceful touch to “You Make Me Feel So ...
“Rejection Slips” is a three-part poem which parodies the styles of Campbell’s, Gold’s, and Boucher’s rejection letters. The first is unusual and good enough and the second is quite funny but both are more fannish in their appeal and won’t register with every fiction or poetry ...
He composed poem in the form of a ballad taught people never to annoy their sisters, followed by a magazine illustrated by Charles himself. After leaving Rugby in 1850, Charles wrote his own masterpiece,The Rectory Umbrella And Mischmasch, while preparing for the Oxford entrance examination at ...
Day One We read and discuss a poem I bring, and workshop your poems. I will set an exercise, for you to try before Day Two workshop, and hand out more exercises, in case you want to try any for the following three days.