The Poetry of May: A Month in Verse
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ISBN: 9781780002040
The month of May evokes the beauty and magic of spring in full bloom. In this volume of poetry, our poets, including John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Henry Longfellow, and many others, celebrate this enchanting month.
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Summary
Summary
The month of May evokes the beauty and magic of spring in full bloom. In this volume of poetry, our poets, including John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Henry Longfellow, and many others, celebrate this enchanting month.
Author
Author Bio: various authors
Author Bio: John Milton
John Milton (1608–1674) is considered to be among the most learned of all English poets. After graduating from Cambridge, Milton undertook six years of self-directed study in theology,
philosophy, history, politics, literature, and science. He then spent several years writing pamphlets for the Puritan and Parliamentary causes. His incessant labors setting the typeface eventually
led to blindness. His masterpiece, Paradise Lost, was composed in memory and dictated to a scribe.
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Author Bio: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a leading Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. His experiments in prosody and use of imagery make him an innovator of his time. He attended Oxford University where he became a keen socialite and prolific poet, influenced by contemporaries such as Robert Bridges and Christina Rossetti. Hopkins was ordained in 1877 and became a professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin. Some of his best known works are “The Wreck of the Deutschland” and “The Windhover.”
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Author Bio: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was just twenty-four. “Faust,” his most enduring work, took fifty-seven years to write and was published in its entirety only after Goethe’s death at eighty-three.
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Author Bio: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an influential English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age of English literature with the 1798 joint publication of Lyrical Ballads. He was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
Author Bio: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Known for his narrative historical and mythic poems, his most famous works include Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Tales of Wayside Inn. Versatile as well as prolific, Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics, and experimented in the essay, the short story, the novel, and the verse drama.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 0.75 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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