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The poem is a grimly realistic piece set in France during the Hundred Years' War. The doomed lovers Jehane and Robert de Marny flee with a small escort through a convincingly portrayed rain-swept countryside, to reach the safety of English-held Gascony. They are however intercepted by the treacherous Godmar and have a last despairing parting ...
This Is Just To Say. This Is Just to Say. (Wall poem in The Hague) " This Is Just to Say " (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it was a note left on a kitchen table.
W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats[ a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Responsibilities and Other Poems was published by Macmillan in 1916. This trade edition contained one new poem “The Well and the Tree,” which was subsequently removed from the sequence to become part of the play, At the Hawk’s Well. This work also included some poems from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) and the 1913 poems from ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. List of published works by William Butler Yeats. This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats(1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literatureand a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or ...
I sigh that kiss you, . ^ Trevor Hold: Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers (2005), p 281. "Cradle Song (1920, 1959) is a wistful lullaby, in which the cradle- rocking accompaniment is subtly and sparingly used. Gurney sets an early version of Yeats's poem, so however much one prefers the later words (printed by the editors in small ...
Remorse for Intemperate Speech. "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It appeared in his 1933 volume of poems The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Yeats wrote this poem in August 1931. The contents speaks about the fanatic feelings and the capacity for hatred a person can feel in the dark part of ...
The White Doe of Rylstone by John William Inchbold. The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons is a long narrative poem by William Wordsworth, written initially in 1807–08, but not finally revised and published until 1815. It is set during the Rising of the North in 1569 and combines historical and legendary subject-matter.