The Poetry of July: A Month in Verse
By William Shakespeare , John Keats , Emily Dickinson , Walt Whitman , and Alexander Pope
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ISBN: 9781780002064
July, deep in the heart of summer, evokes thoughts of long days in the sun and is a rich harvest of colors and sights. William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and more collect and describe their thoughts on these themes for our delight.
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Summary
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July, deep in the heart of summer, evokes thoughts of long days in the sun and is a rich harvest of colors and sights. William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and more collect and describe their thoughts on these themes for our delight.
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Author Bio: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
Author Bio: John Keats
John Keats (1795–1821) was an English romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not generally well received by critics; however, after his death, his reputation grew to the extent that by the end of the nineteenth century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He has had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. His poetry is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popularly read and analyzed.
Author Bio: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house, and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. Her poetry reflects her loneliness, and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955.
Author Bio: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was the son of a carpenter. His formal schooling ended at age eleven, when he was apprenticed to a printer in Brooklyn. He spent the next two decades as a printer, freelance writer, and editor in New York. In 1855, at his own expense, he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which would mark him as the major poetic voice of an emerging America. Whitman would go on expanding and revising it for the rest of his life, with the final edition appearing in 1892, the year of his death.
Author Bio: Alexander Pope
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Poetry |
| Runtime: | 0.68 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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