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Robert Graves. Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) [1] [2] was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Robert Graves produced more than 140 ...
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. [1] " Holy Sonnet XIV " – also known by its first line as " Batter my heart, three-person'd God " – is a poem written by the English poet John Donne (1572 – 1631). It is a part of a larger series of poems called Holy Sonnets, comprising nineteen poems in total. The poem was printed and published for ...
"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
A vet writes, ”Let me help you;/you’re not alone.”. Through writing poetry, veterans evoke their thoughts in nearly endless ways. One vet writes, “We are left to care for each other ...
Paul-Marie Verlaine ( / vɛərˈlɛn / vair-LEN, [1] French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry .
Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda ( / nəˈruːdə / nə-ROO-də; [1] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ⓘ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. [2] Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and ...
—from "Six Years Later"," Trans. Richard Wilbur In 1955, Brodsky began writing his own poetry and producing literary translations. He circulated them in secret, and some were published by the underground journal, Sintaksis (Syntax, Russian: Си́нтаксис). His writings were apolitical. By 1958 he was already well known in literary circles for his poems "The Jewish cemetery near ...
Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem ( Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata [la dʒeruzaˈlɛmme libeˈraːta]; lit. 'The freed Jerusalem' ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of ...