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Hace 2 días · The terms “Fireside Poets” or “Schoolroom Poets” are used to designate a group of five poets—William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell—who were popular in America in the latter half of the 19th century. Their poetry was read both around household ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · Robert Lowell met Larkin when he was fifty, and wrote to Elizabeth Bishop that T.S. Eliot, who was forty years older, looked younger than Larkin did. In 1955, when he was thirty-three, Larkin’s mother spent a month in hospital suffering from a condition no doctor could diagnose, and as soon as she was better her son followed suit.
7 de may. de 2024 · A poet whose restlessness and personal torments granted him a legendary status in his own time, Crane was deemed “the Shelley of [our] age” by Robert Lowell. Early life and background. Crane grew up in Cleveland, where his boyhood and education were disturbed by his parents’ unhappy marriage, which culminated in divorce when he ...
Hace 1 día · The police demanded your passport in the street. The police have that unmistakable tone even in another tongue. Around midnight you'd turn feral if he didn't call, his voice guiding you beyond the stony fortress of the self. Your best friend texted, Fuck a Gemini at your peril. Your gums bled when you flossed in his bathroom.
10 de may. de 2024 · Work-table, litter, books and standing lamp, plain things, my stalled equipment, the old broom --- but I am living in a tidied room, for ten nights now I've felt the creeping damp float over my pajamas' wilted white . . .
25 de abr. de 2024 · Many of the contemporary poets she praised, like Merrill and Robert Lowell, could be assimilated to that lineage. She was suspicious of more experimental or avant-garde tendencies, and...
Hace 6 días · Her engagement with the American literary tradition as well as contemporary American poets, notably Robert Lowell, was allegedly greater than any British-born poet of her generation (p. 311). Greene reads the Whitmanesque multi-syllabled lines in ‘Heart and mind’ from Green song and other poems (1944).
