The Poetry of April: A Month in Verse
By various authors
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ISBN: 9781780002033
April, the fourth month of the year, heralds spring in earnest and of course brings us the month's famous April showers. For out poets in this collection, including Wilfred Owen, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others, the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon.
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Summary
Summary
April, the fourth month of the year, heralds spring in earnest and of course brings us the month's famous April showers. For out poets in this collection, including Wilfred Owen, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others, the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon.
Author
Author Bio: Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to patriotic verse written by earlier war poets. He was killed in action at age twenty-five, just one week before the armistice, and most of his poems were published posthumously. In November 1985, he was one of sixteen poets of the Great War commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey‘s Poet’s Corner. His best-known works include “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Insensibility,” “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” “Futility,” and “Strange Meeting.”
Author Bio: Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Scotland. He studied engineering and law at the University of Edinburgh and then began writing while traveling in France. The publication of Treasure Island in 1883 brought him fame and entered him on a course of romantic fiction beloved by young and old alike.
Author Bio: Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American author and clergyman. He graduated from Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and later served as a professor of English literature at Princeton. Among his best known works are The Other Wise Man, The First Christmas Tree, and his poem Time Is.
Author Bio: Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English poet, dramatist, and novelist, was born on the Egdon Heath in Dorset. He studied in Dorchester and apprenticed to an architect before leaving for London, where he began to write. Unable to find a public for his poetry, which idealized the rural life, he turned to the novel and met with success as well as controversy. The strong public reaction against some of his darker themes turned him back to writing verse. Today several of his novels are considered masterpieces of tragedy.
Author Bio: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “The Masque of Anarchy,” and others.
Author Bio: various authors
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Poetry |
| Runtime: | 0.65 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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