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...Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)...

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Sea stories, Poetry, Philosophy

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and ...

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...iversity. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ... ...821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ‘t is true t... ...e from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T is poetry — at least by his assertion, And may appear so when the dog st... ...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...she chooses, The fame you envy and the skill you need; And recollect a poet nothing loses In giving to his brethren their full meed Of mer... ...s to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 Meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate, In honest simple verse, this song to... ...like him too, though quite the same none; But then they shone not on the poet’s page, And so have been forgotten:— I condemn none, But can’t... ...He lied with such a fervour of intention There was no doubt he earn’d his laureate pension. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Three” 93 But he had geni... ...Would scarcely join again the ‘reformadoes,’ Whom he forsook to fill the laureate’s sty: And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes, Whether i...

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...volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 18, 2011. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. ...

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Animals, Instruction, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Poetry

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...Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of her more enduring stories. It ...

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...volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011. Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Maga...

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Fantasy, Music, Nature, Romance, Poetry

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...volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 2, 2011. In 1842 the government awarded Wordsworth a civil list pension amounting to £300 a year. With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused ...

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...volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda, he found his work very light and uninspiring, so only spen...

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...y there have been many creative artists whose fame depends largely on their association with a much greater artist. Such the case of Thomas Shadwell, poet and prolific writer of low brow comedies, who is today most famous as the butt of satire by one of greatest and most influential English poets, John Dryden. Shadwell and Dryden were at first colleagues and collaborators,...

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...Theological Immortal Romance is an Elysian love story written in poetic form by author Kevin Brian Wright about, love, devotion, and the angelic beauty of his beloved - Isabella. Within the story the reader embarks on a spiritual journey of love and romance seen through the eyes of the aut...

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...evin Brian Wright is a genius, what a fantastic book. I am a very big fan of poetry and this book made me cry and a few other emotions I thought I los... ...d so much more. It takes you where no book has gone before. This book brings poetry to a new level. Perry Facchiano - OZ - Find Me Guilty When I read ... ... on a magical journey into the unknown. This was so exciting for me to read. Poetry this good is hard to find. I loved everything about the book, I hi... ... is a masterfully written romance brilliantly voiced by the mind of a master poet. His relationship with rich expressions, daring originality and imag... ...utely amazing and nothing less than heavenly. On this defining trail of love poetry it will bring the beloved Isabella to life before your eyes. With ... ... hearts, crowns of eternity above her stars fall within the hands of Saints. Laureates breathe still as angels, for the Lord is feared upon his presen...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bar...

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...’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense ... ...on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passio... ...an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity of the true and original creator. Bartlett ... ...est, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, nove... ...ritten with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...brilliant, colorful.” eaders of this book who would l... ...shed a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from...

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...cal fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...ate worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each no... ...an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity of the true and original creator. Bartlett ... ...est, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, nove... ...ritten with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...brilliant, colorful.” eaders of this book who would l... ...shed a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from... ...rnal When the Owl Cries Adiós Mi México Forward, Children! POETRY Wherehill Spokes for Memory NONFICTION The Haciendas...

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...ts beautifully rendered in Stevenson’s effortless cadences and perfect rhymes went a long way, I imagine, to making me believe from an early age that poetry was the best way to explain and discover everything, and subsequently made me want to be a poet myself, or at least surround myself with poetry as much as possible. Reading these poems to my own children is one of my f...

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... an’ a Bittock V. A Lowden Sabbath Morn VI. The Spaewife VII. The Blast—1875 VIII. The Counterblast—1886 IX. The Counterblast Ironical X. Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club XI. Embro Hie Kirk XII. The Scotman’s Return from Abroad XIII. “Late in the nicht...” XIV. My Conscience! XV. To Doctor John Brown XVI. “It’s an owercome sooth for age an’ youth....

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...an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity of the true and original creator. Bartlett ... ...est, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, nove... ...ritten with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...brilliant, colorful.” eaders of this book who would l... ...shed a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from... ...rnal When the Owl Cries Adiós Mi México Forward, Children! POETRY Wherehill Spokes for Memory NONFICTION The Haciendas... ...t distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. For the...

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...rse from the sub-atomic levels to the galaxies, and from amoebas to Nobel laureates strongly implies, if not necessitates, a creating mind. ... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...e influenced positively by uplifting ideas, like our Constitution and the poetry of Burns, we can be influenced negatively by the Marquis de Sade an... ...is aborted. Still, highly respected religious leaders, including two Nobel laureates, have opened the door to admit abortion in some circumstances. B... ...gainst contraception. Gandhi advocated abstinence as the means. But Nobel Laureate Rabinindreth Tagore advocated artificial methods. ―The Ta... ... The term lesbian doesn‘t bother me. It makes some sense. Certainly the poet Sappho‘s school for young women on the island of Lesbos cultivated th...

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...se would not have—Drew Endy and Randy Rettberg in synthetic biol- ogy, Nobel laureates Sir John Sulston and Harold Varmus in genomics and biology more... ...f earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to the people wh... ...37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 23 more allegory, one more life of a poet, one more imitation of Juvenal? I firmly believe not. I firmly believe... ...friend-of-the-court brief from seventeen economists, several of them No- bel laureates. 30 The economists made exactly Macaulay’s argument, though in ... ...tuition that this is a bad idea comes from our intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. A... ...de the property system altogether. One kind of “stealing” is legal, says the poet, because the state changes the law of property to give the “lords an... ...magine a line. At one end sits a monk painstakingly transcribing Aristotle’s Poetics. In the middle lies the Gutenberg printing press. Three-quarters ...

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...y one turns from it a little surprised that it is not better. Contemporary poetry, both in the Lit. and out of it, is, to my thinking, spending too mu... ...rose. The Scotch elders in " The Little Minister " would certainly call it poetry, because every line begins with a capital letter. It contains, moreo... ...s pursuits; translation, the writing of books, magazine arti- cles and bad poetry, travel, teach- ing and lecturing. As an educator, his rank is high.... ...lilt R,-i]ucsl cal, nature-loving, narrative, dra- matic and even didactic poetry It has ranged from the simple ciuatrain to the eleven-canto poem For... ...ek to create it, if bo make the world seem larger, fuller of the spirit of poetry and a hundred thousand thoughts which have not yet been expressed, t... ...e mag- azine. Mr. HoUey's "America; 11108" is a pleading for an Ameri- can laureate who shall sing of the men who : "liave been laboring to set aright...

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...ic. The goal was now a federated Yugoslavia with Croat autonomy within it. There is poetic justice in that his death - at the hand of a Montenegrin ... ...omething and knowing something." Richard Feynman, Physicist and 1965 Nobel Prize laureate (1918-1988) "You have all I dare say heard of the anima... ... by fear and terror. According to Nadezhda Mandelshtam, wife of the famous Russian poet Osip who was killed on Stalin's orders, as a result of a t... ...y: http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Return After...

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...1988), one of the greatest physicists of the 20 th century and a Nobel prize laureate in physics. This depiction is, even today, the most concise d... ...ution. His stature derives not only from his literary achievements as a lyric poet, novelist, and dramatist, but also from his often significant con... ...ship with others and the world around you. Using language both scientific and poetic, he probes the most profound questions of spirituality and exis...

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...an even paperbacks. John Bell (competing with Dr. Johnson) published "The Poets of Great Britain" in 1777-83. Each of the 109 volumes cost six shill... ...f our readers which still possess a consciousness of higher spiritual and poetic orders I would like to note a relationship: the predominance of vis... ... your terms and even went far beyond by asking himself, with his habitual poetic genius: "Wouldn't Life be just a strange kind of Death?". Anyway, N... ... It is a prime demonstration of the Solow Paradox. Named after the Nobel laureate in economics, it was stated by him thus: "You can see the compute... ...//www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Fiction: http://samvak.trip... ... Medium or a Message? TrendSiters - Digital Content and Web Technologies Poetry of Healing and Abuse: My Poems English Fiction at Gorgelink - Click...

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...................................................................... 17 THE POET AND HIS BOOK ............................................................ ..................................................................... 21 TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG ......................................................... ...lease you, gentle sirs,” “Alack!” and “Well-a-day!” 18 Second April THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND ... ...BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK THE POET AND HIS BOOK Down, you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel! I have... ...ing,— One salt taste of the sea once more? 22 Second April T T T T TO A POET O A POET O A POET O A POET O A POET THA THA THA THA THAT DIED T DIED T... ...th this man that, after you, Sharing not your happy fate, Sat as England’s Laureate? Vainly, in these iron days, Strives the poet in your praise, Mins...