"by Terrance Dicks. The planet Rexel 4 is named in an episode of ""The Tomorrow People"" from 1974. The Doctor quotes the line, ""Rage, rage against the dying of the light,"" from ""Do not go gentle into that good night"" by Dylan Thomas — but warns Shakespeare he cannot use it as it is ""somebody else's"". The episode was Gareth Roberts' first writing credit proper on the show, however he had written for Doctor Who many times before. He started writing some Virgin New Adventures, a series of ""Doctor Who"" novels, with ""The Highest Science"" (1993). He went on to"
"before Christmas 1952. It has no title other than its first line, ""Do not go gentle into that good night"", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, ""Rage, rage against the dying of the light"". The poem currently remains under copyright, although the text is available online. The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as"
"Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems ""Do not go gentle into that good night"" and ""And death shall have no dominion""; the 'play for voices' ""Under Milk Wood""; and stories and radio broadcasts such as ""A Child's Christmas in Wales"" and ""Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"". He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged,"
"of the last stanza of ""To Althea, From Prison"": and the end of ""To Lucasta. Going to the Warres"": Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of"
"Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was from a"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"a pit, and the 'darkness' can be seen to convey his obstinacy in refusing to see the 'light' of Christianity. Along with alliteration, which is a key part to all Old English poetry, there are also places in the poem where Cynewulf applies rhyme in order to emphasize certain words, such as in the battle scene (50-55a): <poem> ""Ridon ymb rofne, ðonne rand dynede, </poem> ""('They rode about the famous one; then the shield dinned, the battle-tarp clanged, the king advanced with a troop, a battalion to the battle. The raven yelled from above, dark and greedy for carrion. The"
"Paul Ferris describes as ""unusually blunt""; the ribald ""Lament"" and an ode, in the form of a villanelle, to his dying father ""Do not go gentle into that good night"". Despite a range of wealthy patrons, including Margaret Taylor, Princess Marguerite Caetani and Marged Howard-Stepney, Thomas was still in financial difficulty, and he wrote several begging letters to notable literary figures including the likes of T. S. Eliot. Taylor was not keen on Thomas taking another trip to the United States, and thought that if Thomas had a permanent address in London he would be able to gain steady work"
"the emergence of the heroic couplet, which by the end of the 17th century was the dominant form of English poetry. His early poems include ""On a Girdle"" and ""Go, lovely rose""; his later ""Instructions to a Painter"" (1666, on the Battle of Solebay) and ""Of the Last Verses in the Book"", containing the famous lines, 'The Soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.' His ""Poems"" first appeared in 1645, and ""Divine Poems"" in 1685. His opus includes poetic tributes to both Oliver Cromwell (1655) and Charles II (1660). Edmund Waller"
"protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form. Dylan Thomas's ""Do not go gentle into that good night"" is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all. Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath wrote villanelles in the 1950s and 1960s, and Elizabeth Bishop wrote a particularly famous and influential villanelle, ""One Art,"" in 1976. The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism. Since then, many contemporary poets have written"
"John Dowland John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as ""Come, heavy sleep"" (the basis of Benjamin Britten's 1963 composition for solo guitar, ""Nocturnal after John Dowland""), ""Come again"", ""Flow my tears"", ""I saw my Lady weepe"" and ""In darkness let me dwell"", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's early music revival, has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists. Very little is known of John Dowland's early life,"
"(1973), ""The Best of Enemies"" (1976), ""Sister Dora"" (1977), and ""Star Over Bethlehem"" (1981). <br> <br> Christopher Fry Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably ""The Lady's Not for Burning"", which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry"
"He engaged in literary as well as political feuds with his principal enemies, including Walter Raleigh. His poem """" attacks Raleigh's influence over the queen. Other lyrics were written for masques, including the sonnet """" in praise of the queen as the moral power linking Europe and America, who supports ""the world oppressed"" like the mythical Atlas. During his disgrace he also wrote several bitter and pessimistic verses. His longest poem, """" (beginning ""From silent night...""), is a penitential lament, probably written while imprisoned awaiting execution. Several of Essex's poems were set to music. English composer John Dowland set a"
"much of Langley's work came from the landscapes of Suffolk, where he resided during the closing years of his life. His range of reference was, however, extremely broad, and was informed by close acquaintance with the art criticism of Adrian Stokes and the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. Langley was posthumously awarded the 2011 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, for ""To a Nightingale"", described by the judges as ""a masterclass in precision"". R. F. Langley Roger Francis Langley (commonly known as R. F. Langley, 23 October 1938 – 25 January 2011) was an English poet and diarist. During his"
"Peter Reading Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. ""The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry"" describes his verse as ""strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical"". Interviewed by Robert Potts, he described his work as a combination of ""painstaking care"" and ""misanthropy"". Reading was educated at Alsop High School. After studying painting at Liverpool College of Art, he worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool (1967–68) and at Liverpool College of Art, where"
"James Thomson (poet, born 1834) James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem ""The City of Dreadful Night"" (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, at the age of eight (after his sister died and his father suffered a stroke), he was sent to London where he was raised in an orphanage, the Royal Caledonian Asylum on Chalk (later Caledonian after the asylum) Road near Holloway. Soon after"
"the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of the villanelle can be schematized as AbA abA abA abA abA abAA where letters (""a"" and ""b"") indicate the two rhyme sounds, upper case indicates a refrain (""A""), and superscript numerals ( and ) indicate Refrain 1 and Refrain 2. The pattern is below set against the poem: Do not go gentle into that good night ""Do not go gentle into that good night"" is a poem in"
"biography, ""The Life of James Thomson (B.V.)"". Thomson's pseudonym, ""Bysshe Vanolis"", derives from the names of the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Novalis. He is often distinguished from the earlier Scottish poet James Thomson by the letters ""B.V."" after the name. James Thomson (poet, born 1834) James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem ""The City of Dreadful Night"" (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, at the"
"Thom Gunn Thomson William ""Thom"" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004), was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style. After relocating from England to San Francisco, Gunn wrote about gay-related topics—particularly in his most famous work, ""The Man With Night Sweats"" in 1992—as well as drug use, sex and his bohemian lifestyle. He won major literary awards. Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, the son of Bert Gunn. Both of his"
"and an optimistic view of poetry found within his earlier poems, especially ""Sleep and Poetry"", and rejects them. This loss of pleasure and incorporation of death imagery lends the poem a dark air, which connects ""Ode to a Nightingale"" with Keats' other poems that discuss the demonic nature of poetic imagination, including ""Lamia"". In the poem, Keats imagines the loss of the physical world and sees himself dead—he uses an abrupt, almost brutal word for it—as a ""sod"" over which the nightingale sings. The contrast between the immortal nightingale and mortal man, sitting in his garden, is made all the"
"May Kendall May Kendall (Born Emma Goldworth Kendall) (1861 – 1943) was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel ""That Very Mab"" and the poetry collections ""Dreams to Sell"" and ""Songs from Dreamland"". Possibly her most anthologized poem, ""Lay of the Trilobite,"" is a satire of the popular English response to Darwin's evolutionary theory. ""Lay of the Trilobite"" was originally published in Punch Magazine, to which Kendall contributed for ten years. Much of her literary output focuses on evolution and other scientific discoveries, the New Woman, and satirical portraits of British"
"in the British Armed Forces saying that they ""Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor/But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed/and for the secret Scripture of the poor."" A less well-known poem, ""Reason in Rhyme"", was said by Kettle's friend, Robert Lynd, to represent ""his testament to England as his call to Europeanism is his testament to Ireland."" Tom Kettle Thomas Michael Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP)"
"a Nightingale,' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' and 'To Autumn' as three of the most anthologized lyric poems of tragic vision in English."" To Autumn ""To Autumn"" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ""Lamia"" and ""The Eve of St. Agnes"". ""To Autumn"" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's ""1819 odes"". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he"
"the dim ill-boding shadow Darkling figures, stern or quaint, Now a savage, now a saint, Showing fitfully and faint And those shadows are so dense, Many—very many—more They are sitting day and night Soldier, rogue, and anchorite; And they wrangle and they fight If the stark-faced fellow win, If the priest should gain his will But if each shall have his day, I shall swing and I shall sway In the same old weary way </poem> The Inner Room ""The Inner Room"" is a poem by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in his 1898 poetry collection ""Songs of Action"". Unlike"
"glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though Rudyard Kipling had written a scathing reply, ""The Last of the Light Brigade"", criticising the poverty in which many Light Brigade veterans found themselves in old age. Instead, the new wave of poetry, from the war poets, was written from the point of view of the disenchanted trench soldier. Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literature,"
"refers to Brooke in the scene. The final two lines of the poem are paraphrased by Doremus Jessop in Sinclair Lewis' novel ""It Can't Happen Here"". The comedy sketch Balham, Gateway to the South, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, ends with a verse by ""C. Quills Smith, Balham's own bard"". In a few stanzas the ""bard"" manages to plagiarise or mangle the work of several real poets, and ends with the last two lines of Rupert Brooke's poem. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester The Old Vicarage, Grantchester is a light poem by the English Georgian poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915),"
"English author who made extensive expression upon being of an melancholic disposition is Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (1643). ""Night-Thoughts"" (""The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality""), a long poem in blank verse by Edward Young was published in nine parts (or ""nights"") between 1742 and 1745, and hugely popular in several languages. It had a considerable influence on early Romantics in England, France and Germany. William Blake was commissioned to illustrate a later edition. In the visual arts, this fashionable intellectual melancholy occurs frequently in portraiture of the era, with sitters posed in the form"
"gave its title to this poem, however, was made in the image of London. The poem, despite its insistently bleak tone, won the praise of George Meredith, and also of George Saintsbury, who in ""A History of Nineteenth Century Literature"" wrote that ""what saves Thomson is the perfection with which he expresses the negative and hopeless side of the sense of mystery ..."" The City of Dreadful Night The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James ""B.V."" Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the ""National Reformer"" in 1874, then in 1880"
"poetry is negative, other critics thought differently, especially about poet Edward Young. Critic Isabell St. John Bliss also celebrates Edward Young’s ability to write his poetry in the style of the Graveyard School and at the same time include Christian themes, and Cecil V. Wicker called Young a forerunner in the Romantic movement and described his work as original. The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was Thomas Parnell's ""A Night-Piece on Death"" (1721), in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones: Characteristic later poems include Edward Young's ""Night-Thoughts"" (1742), in which a lonely"
"who had recently become his son-in-law, John Watkins (1809–1858), described the poet's last moments in his “On The Death of Ebenezer Elliott”. Still another tribute with the same title was written by the labouring class poet, John Critchley Prince, in his “Poetic Rosary” (1850) Though honouring him as “No trifling, tinkling, moon-struck Bard"" and ""The proud, unpensioned Laureate of the Poor”, it also acknowledged the elemental violence of his writing. The American poet John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Elliott”, on the other hand, is as forceful as the Englishman had been, forbidding the capitalist “locust swarm that cursed The harvest-fields of"
"oppression while disguising it with the rhetoric of ""Freedom"". As such, Coleridge describes Burke as a male who seeks to harm a feminine incarnation of Freedom, and that Freedom at the end of the poem wishes to restore him as a proper son. The poem also discusses Burke's genius and believes that Burke was intelligent but wrong.William Wordsworth, Coleridge's friend, would also discuss Burke's genius years later in ""The Prelude"" Book 7. ""To Priestley"" was first published in the 11 December 1794 ""Morning Chronicle"". After a mob burned Joseph Priestley's Birmingham house during the summer of 1791, he left England"
"to productions like ""After"", ""The Pipes of Pan"", ""Come, Gentle Night!"" and ""Pleading"""". Dunhill considered some ""...scarcely distinguishable from pot-boilers turned out by baser English composers in the days of ballad concerts."" Come, Gentle Night! ""Come, Gentle Night!"" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901. It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt. The song was written at the same time as Elgar's ""Cockaigne"", and published in 1901 by Boosey & Co. in London and New York. In his"
"London (William Blake poem) London is a poem by William Blake, published in ""Songs of Experience"" in 1794. It is one of the few poems in ""Songs of Experience"" that does not have a corresponding poem in ""Songs of Innocence"". Blake lived in the capital city of London, which was the location for this poem. The poems reference the ""Two Contrary States of the Human Soul"". The ""Songs of Innocence"" section contains poems which reference love, childhood and nature. Critics have suggested that the poems illustrate the effects of modernity on people and nature, through the discussion of dangerous industrial"