List of the most popular authors from China, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
Graves's poems—together with his translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths; his memoir of his early life, including his role in World War I, Good-Bye to All That; and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess—have never been out of ...
One day in early September 1914 the poet Laurence Binyon sat on the Cornish cliffs gazing out at the sea. It was the first few weeks of the First World War and the terrible news of the casualties in France must have weighed heavily on his mind. It was in that moment, so far from th...
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Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen was a famous British war poet in World War I. The horrible violence of war turned Owen into a poetic genius. In a two-year period during the war, Owen published only four of his poems, and grew from a negligible minor poet into a famous English-language poet....
A poem about the end of days, when the world will end by either fire or ice. "Fire and Ice" is one of Robert Frost's most popular poems. It was first published in 1920 in Harper's Magazine. inFamous Sad Poems Some say the world will end in fire, ...
The earliest surviving mention of the "sword in the stone" episode comes from the three Merlin poems by Robert de Boron (~1200). Robert's version had the sword thrust into an anvil upon a stone; later writers omitted the anvil. It is not, I believe, until Malory's famous and in...
Jules Verne Around the World in 80 Days 265 Sinclair Lewis Babbit 473 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 736 Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1352 René Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences 63 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ...
One of several Hughes poems about dreams and fittingly titled, this 1922 poem appeared in World Tomorrow.“Dreams,” an eight-line poem, remains a popular inspirational quote. It partially reads: “Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly....
Like many futurists, he took an irredentist position during World War I. Ungaretti debuted as a poet while fighting in the trenches, publishing one of his best-known pieces, L'allegria ("The Joy"). During the interwar period, Ungaretti was a collaborator of Benito Mussolini (whom he met ...