"married, she confesses that she has loved Charles since they first met years earlier. Charles is appreciative and empathetic but does not requite her love. During the groom's toast, Gareth dies of a heart attack. At Gareth's funeral, his partner Matthew recites the poem ""Funeral Blues"" by W. H. Auden, commemorating his relationship with Gareth. Charles and Tom discuss whether hoping to find your ""one true love"" is just a futile effort and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud to be single, Gareth and Matthew were a ""married"" couple all the while. The fourth wedding"
"group of critics and poets has maintained that unlike other modern poets, Auden's reputation did not decline after his death, and the influence of his later writing was especially strong on younger American poets including John Ashbery, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, and Maxine Kumin. Typical later evaluations describe him as ""arguably the [20th] century's greatest poet"" (Peter Parker and Frank Kermode), who ""now clearly seems the greatest poet in English since Tennyson"" (Philip Hensher). Public recognition of Auden's work sharply increased after his ""Funeral Blues"" (""Stop all the clocks"") was read aloud in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"""
"film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". In the musical ""February House"", produced Off-Broadway in 2012, a large portion of the poem is sung by Auden himself. The show consists of an original score with music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane. In the sixth episode of the 3rd season of British TV series ""Gavin & Stacey"", the poem was read by the character Mick, at the wedding of Nessa and Dave, as it was Dave's favorite poem. In the second episode (""Return of the Golden Child"") of the second season of British TV series ""The IT Crowd"", Derek Pippen begins to"
"nation's best-loved poet"" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society, and in 2008 ""The Times"" named Larkin as the greatest British post-war writer. Three of his poems, ""This Be The Verse"", ""The Whitsun Weddings"" and ""An Arundel Tomb"", featured in the ""Nation's Top 100 Poems"" as voted for by viewers of the BBC's ""Bookworm"" in 1995. Media interest in Larkin has increased in the twenty-first century. Larkin's collection ""The Whitsun Weddings"" is one of the available poetry texts in the AQA English Literature A Level syllabus, while ""High Windows"" is offered by the OCR board. Buses in Hull displayed"
"to become famous through its use in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"") was originally written for Anderson and set to music by Britten as part of Auden and Isherwood's play ""The Ascent of F6"" (1936), then revised by Auden as a separate poem. In later years she owned, and cooked in, the Spinnaker restaurant in Scilly, Kinsale, County Cork, which specialised in seafood and Mediterranean and North African food. Hedli Anderson Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907–1990) was an English singer and actor. Known as Hedli Anderson, she studied singing in England and Germany before returning to London in"
"continues into London, with the afternoon shadows lengthening, his reflections turn to the permanence of what the newly-weds have done, yet its significance, though huge for them, seems to give him an ultimately disappointing message, suggested by the poem's final phrase. However, as a counter balance, rain brings fertility. It is read here by Larkin himself. The Whitsun Weddings (poem) ""The Whitsun Weddings"" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems"
"to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."" (""When Death Comes"" from ""New and Selected Poems"" (1992).) Her collections ""Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems"" (1999), ""Why I Wake Early"" (2004), and ""New and Selected Poems, Volume 2"" (2004) build the themes. The first and second parts of ""Leaf and the Cloud"" are featured in ""The Best American Poetry"" 1999 and 2000, and her essays appear in ""Best American Essays"" 1996, 1998 and 2001. On a return visit to Austerlitz, in the late 1950s,"
"moved fellow poet David Wright to compose ""On A Friend Dying"". Her work continues to be read and republished. In 1988 her poem ""Conjurors"" was republished in its own pamphlet. ""The Florist"" was included in the 1995 anthology ""The Supernatural Index"". ""Conjurors"" was again republished in the 2010 anthology ""A Field of Large Desires"". Julian Orde Julian Orde (31 December 1917 – 1974) was a female English poet, writer and actor. Orde was the eldest child of war artist Cuthbert Orde and Lady Eileen Wellesley, daughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington. The name Julian had been common in the"
"best efforts, and did so in about equal measure."" Charlotte Turner Smith Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806) was an English romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. A successful writer, she published ten novels, three books of poetry, four children's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She saw herself as a poet first and foremost, poetry at that period being considered the most exalted form of literature. Scholars now credit her with"
"usually full chiefly of conventional pious sentiments, the obituary poets in one sense continue the program of meditations on death begun by the eighteenth-century graveyard poets, such as Edward Young's ""Night Thoughts"", and as such continue one of the themes that went into literary Romanticism. Obituary poetry constituted a large portion of the poetry published in American newspapers in the nineteenth century. In 1870, Mark Twain wrote an essay on ""Post-mortem Poetry"", in which he remarked that: and collected examples, such as the following, occasioned by the death of Samuel Pervil Worthington Doble, aged 4 days. The deaths of children"
"Following the death of his father in 1960, McRae returned to Montana with his wife Ruth Hayes to take over the family ranching operations. McRae recalls having recited his first poem at age 4, at the one-room schoolhouse attended by his sisters. Since then, he has published more than 100 poems on topics both humorous and romantic, as well as matters of social concern such as environmental protection. As a poet, McRae is considered a ""fixture at national cowboy poet gatherings"" and is ""internationally known for his poem 'Reincarnation' "". As of 2015, McRae has been an invited performer at"
"he held until his death. He married on 28 April 1914 Nelly Estelle Benjamins (Suriname, 17 August 1891 - Wassenaar, South Holland, 1971), a woman of Sephardic origin born and raised in Suriname. They moved to Great Britain in 1919. They were the parents of: His most famous poem ""Death and the Gardener"" (1926) is a theme taken from Jean Cocteau’s novel ""Le grand écart"". In his turn, Cocteau took the story from Rumi. Another version is in the Babylonian Talmud. The Van Eyck poem was translated in English by David Colmer in 2007. Colmer's translation received the David Reid"
"Four Quartets Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ""Burnt Norton"", was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ""Collected Poems 1909–1935"".) After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"", and ""Little Gidding"", which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career (""East Coker"" in September"
"and social agitation had died down, he returned to his practice as a barrister, which he had deserted, and also wrote largely. He produced a number of novels, including ""The Maid of Warsaw"" and ""Woman's Wrongs"", also some poems, ""The Painter of Florence"",""The Battle Day"" (1855), ""The Revolt of Hindostan"" (1857), and ""Corayda"" (1859). Some of his lyrics, such as ""The Song of the Poor"", ""The Song of the Day Labourers"", and ""The Factory Slave"", were well known. He made several unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament and was about to contest Manchester, with the certainty of being returned, when he"
"Collected Poems (Larkin) Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions include the contents of Larkin's collections ""The North Ship"", ""The Less Deceived"", ""The Whitsun Weddings"" and ""High Windows"", plus other material. For the 1988 edition, editor Anthony Thwaite included all of Philip Larkin's published poetry as well as unpublished and incomplete work. Thwaite organized the poems in chronological order, meaning that poems from"
"poems, ""Footprints in Sand"" (""Fótspor í sandi"") came out and was well received. For the first time he was earning a bit of money from his poetry. Meanwhile, Louisa was beginning to turn his life around. From now on some of his greatest poetry would be inspired by his deepening love and admiration for her. They even began to work on a book together based on his poem about a little country girl, Halla. Just as his fourth and most successful book of poetry to date, ""Journey without Destination"" (""Ferð án fyrirheits""), hit the stores – in December 1942 -"
"to the Bonzos; we were incredibly anarchic, which was probably something shared by the Scaffold as well."" As a poet, McGough came to national prominence through the publication of ""The Mersey Sound"" in 1967. ""The Mersey Sound"" is an anthology of poetry by three Liverpool poets: McGough, Brian Patten, and Adrian Henri. It went on to sell over 500,000 copies, becoming one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time; remaining in continuous publication, it was revised in 1983 and again in 2007. The title of the anthology was a conscious association of the three Liverpool poets with the musical"
"of literature, and while Viceroy of India he compiled and annotated an anthology of great poetry, ""Other Men's Flowers"", which was published in 1944. He wrote the last poem in the anthology himself and described it as a ""...little wayside dandelion of my own"". He had a great memory for poetry and often quoted it at length. He is depicted in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Officers and Gentlemen"", part of the Sword of Honour trilogy, reciting a translation of Callimachus's poetry in public. He was also a member of the Church of England and a deeply religious man. Wavell died on"
""" The Sorrow Garden"", ""The Lost Province"", ""Mr Dineen's Careful Parade"", ""The Last Geraldine Officer"" (""a major achievement"", in the view of academic and poet Maurice Harmon)and ""Merchant Prince"", described as ""an ambitious and substantive book"". The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; ""Without Power"" and ""Asya and Christine"". He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977. His monograph ""Rising from the Ashes"" tells the story of"
"described her poetry as ""superlatively good"". Like other female poets of her era, she reflects the weight of social expectations on women and the experience of post-war spinsterhood. Her most famous poem, ""In the Orchard"", is entirely dialogues and in no kind of verse form, which makes it innovative for its time. She does use rhyme: a mixture of half-rhyme and rhyming couplets (a,b,a,b form). Other famous poems of hers are ""The Seed Shop"", ""The Fools"" and ""Man and his Makers"". She married twice, the second time to the publisher Alfred William Board. Later in life she stopped publishing poetry"
"Revd. Keith, Bishop of Lichfield and Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate). After Prof. Polukhina’s retirement in 2001 she and her husband Prof. Daniel Weissbort run the Fund. Together they compiled and edited ""The Anthology of Russian Women Poets"" (2002) and invited several Russian women poets to present it at The Poetry International, London, 2002. Due to Prof. Weissbort’s illness The Fund ceased to exist in 2012. In December 2014 with a help of a poet Olga Shvarova The Russian Poets Fund was brought back to life. Baron Rowan Williams and a Sir Andrew Motion, a former Poet-laureate of UK, agreed to"
"returned to America on 13 February 1915. During his career as a poet he received four Pulitzer Prizes and was honored twice by the Senate. During the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy, Frost recited his poem ""The Gift Outright"", the first time that a poet had been so honored during an inauguration. Dymock poets The Dymock poets were a literary group of the early 20th century who made their homes near the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire, near to the border with Herefordshire. The 'Dymock Poets' are generally held to have comprised Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward"
"of Songs from Leinster"" (publ. 1914) of which the most famous is ""A Soft Day"". In 1916, by which time she was working as a nurse, she published ""Hallowe'en and Other Poems of the War"". The collection was re-issued the following year as ""The Spires of Oxford, and other Poems"". A 'Publisher's Note' in this 1917 volume explained that ""The verdict of the public, as shown by continual requests to republish, is that ""The Spires of Oxford"" is the most important poem in the volume—and therefore in issuing a new edition with several new poems, we bow to this verdict"
"cared for the poem, because he had muddled up his hands and gauntlets (he implies that the Earl is using his left hand, rather than his right, to clasp his wife's hand), and because the monument itself was a Victorian restoration. An Arundel Tomb ""An Arundel Tomb"" is a c. 1956 poem by Philip Larkin published in 1964 in his collection ""The Whitsun Weddings"". It describes the poet's emotional response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies, with their hands joined, in Chichester Cathedral. The poem comprises 7 verses of 6 lines each, each rhyming ""abbcac"". The effigies"
"republished in ""Tales out of bed"" (1944)). The review was favourable, ranking Slessor above C.J. Brennan and W.B. Yeats. It was written a year before ""Five Bells"" which marked Slessor's move to modernism, a move inspired, according to Rundle and others, by McCuaig. The review therefore covers the pre-modernist parts of Slessor's poetry. In the 1959 New Year Honours, Slessor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature. At the age of 21, Slessor married 28-year-old Noëla Glasson in Ashfield, Sydney, on 18 August 1922. Noëla died of cancer on 22 October"
"The Whitsun Weddings (poem) ""The Whitsun Weddings"" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys. The poem comprises eight stanzas of ten lines, making it one of his longest poems. The rhyming scheme is ""a,b,a,b,c,d,e,c,d,e"" - (a rhyme scheme similar to that used in various of Keats' odes). Larkin describes a stopping-train journey southwards from Paragon Station, Kingston upon Hull, where Larkin was a librarian"
"have lost you, I must take up this thread’...This kind of stitching together has been seen before, most obviously perhaps in another poet who shares Maguire’s botanical and ecological preoccupations, Michael Longley. Sarah Maguire Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, and translator. Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ""The Florist's at Midnight"" (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens,"
"Poems (Wilfred Owen) Poems was a quarto volume of poetry by Wilfred Owen published posthumously by Chatto and Windus in 1920. Owen had been killed on 4 November 1918. It has been described as ""perhaps the finest volume of anti-war poetry to emerge from the War"". The published volume included a sepia toned photograph of the author in military uniform. It was edited by Owen's friend Siegfried Sassoon, with assistance from Edith Sitwell. Sassoon also wrote an introduction, including the words ""The poems printed in this book need no preliminary introduction … All that was strongest in Wilfred Owen survives"
"Whitsun Weddings"", 1964), Ted Hughes (1930–1998) (""The Hawk in the Rain"", 1957) and Irishman (born Northern Ireland) Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) (""Death of a Naturalist"", 1966). Northern Ireland has also produced a number of other significant poets, including Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon. In the 1960s and 1970s Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of 'the familiar', by describing ordinary things in unfamiliar ways, as though, for example, through the eyes of a Martian. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Another literary movement in this period was the British Poetry Revival was a wide-reaching"
"Gertrude Stein (""Gertie"") and Marcel Duchamp (""Duche""). Her poems show an awareness of contemporary consumer culture and offer an acerbic indictment of marriage, as her poem dedicated to Marie Sterner, ""who intended to be a musician/ but Albert married her."" Stettheimer's poems were posthumously assembled in ""Crystal Flowers"", collected and edited by her sister Ettie and published in 1949. Light and diaphanous, these poems were reissued in 2010, with the editors arguing that ""[in] her hands and on her tongue, the surface for Stettheimer is depth."" As an American modernist of German-Jewish heritage, Stettheimer was able to cultivate a distinctive"
"than the strictly pastoral mode; and then the poem rises to ""an exalted vision of cosmic love"" in a way that gives the poem a cultivated complexity that was unique to English literature at that time and which became a model for many later poets. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (also known as Colin Clouts Come Home Again) is a pastoral poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser and published in 1595. It has been the focus of little critical attention in comparison with the poet's other works such as ""The Faerie Queene"", yet it"
"October 1, 1941, aged 52, and was interred at Saint Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Newton, New Jersey. Five lines from her poem, ""Sanctuary"", are inscribed on her gravestone:<poem>There all bright passing beauty is held forever<br>Free from the sense of tears, to be loved without regret<br>There we shall find at their source music and love and laughter,<br>Colour and subtle fragrance and soft incredible textures:<br>Be sure we shall find what our weary hearts desire.</poem> Aline Murray Kilmer Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of"
"Open Poetry. This was followed by the Order of Australia in 1998 for services to literature and international relations between Australia and the Middle East. Anne Fairbairn Anne Fairbairn, (B'ody, née Reid, born 1928) Member of the Order of Australia is a widely published Australian poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture. She is the only granddaughter of Australia's fourth Prime Minister, George Reid. In 1965, she married Geoffrey Forrester Fairbairn, a Professor in the Department of History at the Australian National University. Geoffrey died in London of lung cancer on 11 September 1980. Fairbairn has been known for her"