The Poetry of November: A Month in Verse
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November, nearly the end of the year, is a time when the land becomes bleaker and harsher— but no less beautiful. For our poets, including Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Thomas Hood, William Wordsworth, and others, the colors of the nearly-fallen leaves, the long nights, and the preparations for the winter ahead are a source of much inspiration.
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November, nearly the end of the year, is a time when the land becomes bleaker and harsher— but no less beautiful. For our poets, including Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Thomas Hood, William Wordsworth, and others, the colors of the nearly-fallen leaves, the long nights, and the preparations for the winter ahead are a source of much inspiration.
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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: Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was born in New York City. Family hardships forced him to leave school for various occupations, including shipping as a cabin boy to Liverpool in 1839—a voyage that sparked his love for the sea. A shrewd social critic and philosopher in his fiction, he is considered an outstanding writer of the sea and a great stylist who mastered both realistic narrative and a rich, rhythmical prose. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumously published novella Billy Budd.
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Author Bio: Sara Teasdale
Sara Trevor Teasdale (1884–1933) was born in St Louis, Missouri. A child of poor health she was fourteen years old when she was well enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907, with her second book in 1911. She was courted by Vachel Lindsay, a great poet, but one who thought he could not provide a suitable standard of living. So Sara married Ernst Filsinger and the couple moved to New York City. In 1917 she released the poetry collection Love Songs, and the following year it won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America.
Author Bio: Archibald Lampman
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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: Janet Hamilton
Janet Hamilton (1795-1873) was a Scottish poet. She wrote in both English and Scots on topics like friendship, Scotland, and spirituality.
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Author Bio: John Keble
John Keble (1792-1866) is the namesake of Keble College, Oxford. He was an English vicar and author, and held the Chair of Poetry at Oxford for ten years. He wrote a number of devotional texts, including his best-known work The Christian Year.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Runtime: | 0.70 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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