Which month is mentioned in the first line of Robert Browning's poem 'Home Thoughts From Abroad'?
"of the author, Robert Browning, who received the money from his aunt, Mrs Silverthorne. It is a long poem composed in homage to Shelley and somewhat in his style. Originally Browning considered ""Pauline"" as the first of a series written by different aspects of himself, but he soon abandoned this idea. The press noticed the publication. W. J. Fox writing in ""The Monthly Repository"" of April 1833 discerned merit in the work. Allan Cunningham praised it in the ""Athenaeum"". However, it sold no copies. Some years later, probably in 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti came across it in the Reading Room"
"Love Among the Ruins (poem) ""Love Among the Ruins"" is an 1855 poem by Robert Browning. It is the first poem in the collection ""Men and Women"". The poem begins: ""Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,<br> ""Miles and miles<br> ""On the solitary pastures where our sheep<br> ""Half-asleep<br> ""Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop<br> ""As they crop---<br> ""Was the site once of a city great and gay,<br> ""(So they say)<br> ""Of our country's very capital, its prince<br> ""Ages since<br> ""Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far<br> ""Peace or war."" Browning here employs an unusual structure of rhyming"
"Annotated versions Recordings The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the"
"The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the mantra in the"
"had been considering writing a long poem since around 1905, but work did not begin until May 1915 when Pound wrote to his mother that he was working on a long poem. He published the first three cantos in June, July and August 1917, in the journal ""Poetry"". In this version, the poem began as an address by the poet to Robert Browning. Pound came to believe that this narrative voice compromised the intent of his poetic vision, and these first three ur-cantos were soon abandoned and a new starting point sought. The answer was a Latin version of Homer's"
"her novel ""February"", The earliest works of poetry in British North America, mainly written by visitors and targeted at a European audience, described the new territories in optimistic terms. One of the first works was Robert Hayman's ""Quodlibets"", a collection of verses composed in Newfoundland and published in 1628. After World War II, Newfoundland poet E. J. Pratt described the struggle to make a living from the sea in poems about maritime life and the history of Canada. In 1923, his first commercial poetry collection, ""Newfoundland Verse"", was released. It is frequently archaic in diction, and reflects a pietistic and"
"and annotated by Valerie Eliot. The full poem prior to the Pound editorial changes is contained in the facsimile. The drafts of the poem reveal that it originally contained almost twice as much material as the final published version. The significant cuts are in part due to Ezra Pound's suggested changes, although Eliot himself also removed large sections. The now famous opening lines of the poem—""April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land""—did not originally appear until the top of the second page of the typescript. The first page of the typescript contained 54 lines"
"the Modern World, 1815–1910"" was published the following year. He also wrote poetry, including (in Latin) an ""Ode to the Penis"" which, he informed his friend Lord Latymer was ""superficially rather smutty, but intrinsically very religious and spiritual"". The First World War began in August 1914, while Browning was in Italy. His offer to return to England as a stand-in teacher for those called to military service was ignored, and he decided to remain in Rome. Here he enjoyed an agreeable life in the English colony, listening to music, serving on various committees and acting as President of the British"
"recorded it on August 27, 1898 on a Berliner cylinder E2013 Extract: <poem> It is ten weary years since I left England's shore In a far distant country to roam. How I long to return to my own native land, To my friends and the old folks at home. Last night, as a slumbered, I had a strange dream. One that seemed to bring distant friends near. I dreamt of Old England, the land of my birth, To the heart of her sons ever dear. ""Chorus"" I saw the old homestead and faces I love I saw England's valleys and"
"had inspired Latin verses to remember the order of long and short months. The first known published form appeared in a 1488 edition of the Latin verses of Anianus: In 2011, the Welsh author Roger Bryan discovered an older English form of the poem written at the bottom of a page of saints' days for February within a Latin manuscript in the British Library's Harleian manuscripts. He dated the entry to 1425 ±20 years. The first published English version appeared in Richard Grafton's ""Abridgment of the Chronicles of England"" in 1562 as ""A Rule to Know How Many Dayes Euery"
"novelists Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and the ""Swedenborgian"" James John Garth Wilkinson. As well as Brewster, fellow scientists Michael Faraday and Thomas Huxley were prominent contemporary critics of Home's claims. It was the poet Robert Browning however, who proved to be one of Home's most adamant critics. After attending a séance of Home's, Browning wrote in a letter to ""The Times"" that: 'the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture'. Browning gave his unflattering impression of Home in the poem, ""Sludge the Medium"" (1864). His wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was convinced that"
"home in Edinburgh. She has many anecdotes of these encounters in her book, ""Poets, Patriots, and Lovers"", that give insights into their personalities. For example, she has a 'hazy memory' of Thomas Carlyle ""standing by my table stooping as he spread golden syrup on a slice of bread for me at my breakfast."" Later, in April 1884, (aged 16) she flirted innocently with the poet Robert Browning (aged 71) who came over to her at breakfast and said: She also spent a fortnight or so with the philosopher Herbert Spencer at his home in Brighton. She recalled that Spencer abhorred"
"importance of his poetic memorial of these revolutionary figures. The date of the Easter Rising can be seen in the structure of the poem also: there are 16 lines (for 1916) in the first and third stanzas, 24 lines (for April 24, the date the Rising began) in the second and fourth stanzas, and four stanzas in total (which refers to April, the fourth month of the year). Easter, 1916 Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday,"
"reside side by side in the United States. Frost's most famous poem, ""The Road Not Taken"", was inspired by walks with Thomas and Thomas's indecisiveness about which route to take. By August 1914, the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire had become the residence of a number of literary figures, including Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas was a visitor at this time. Thomas immortalised the (now-abandoned) railway station at Adlestrop in a poem of that name after his train made a stop at the Cotswolds station on 24 June 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First"
"to Léonce Miranda, Anna de Beaupré to Clara de Millefleurs, Saint-Aubin to Saint-Rambert, and so on. The poem was published during the first week of May 1873 by Smith, Elder & Co., but they did not need to reprint it until, in 1889, along with ""The Inn Album"", it formed volume 12 of his ""Poetical Works"". Reviews were mixed. ""The Spectator"" spoke for many when it said that ""Mr. Browning has not succeeded in giving any true poetic excuse for telling a story so full of disagreeable elements."" The anonymous reviewer in ""Harper's Magazine"" was undeterred by the fact that"
"Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson, John Everett Millais and Henry James. Their only child, Robert Gregory, was born in 1881. He was killed during the First World War while serving as a pilot, an event which inspired W. B. Yeats's poems ""An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"", ""In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"" and ""Shepherd and Goatherd"". The Gregorys travelled in Ceylon, India, Spain, Italy and Egypt. While in Egypt, Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, ""A Woman's Sonnets"". Her earliest work to appear under her"
"for ten years he lived a life of ease in London, where he became the intimate friend of Robert Browning, of whose poem ""Waring"" he was the subject. An account of the friendship between the two men appeared in ""The Contemporary Review"" for January 1905, by W. H. Griffin. Among his books of poetry, ""Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream"" (1872), about Māori life, is the best known, and ""Flotsam and Jetsam"" (1877) is dedicated to Browning. Decadent poet Ernest Dowson was his great-nephew. In 1842 Domett emigrated to New Zealand, where he filled many important administrative posts,"
"“The Trials of January Jones,” or “The Thing You Least Expect,” which are decidedly about the failure of communication in human relationships. “A Square Green Patch of Earth,” about an elderly couple and their relationship, employs symbolism (a white and then dark ibis) and the resulting loss of a loved one and grief. J. Peter Bergman, in his November 2010 review of the book in ""Edge,"" said there is a “condition of universality that pervades the poems that open this book.” He cites the poems “The Tarot Reader,” “The Marriage” and “The Algebra of Love” as examples. The poem ""Going"
"The poem is quoted by the character Rupert Birkin in ""Women in Love"", a novel by D. H. Lawrence. The title of the poem is also made the title of a novella by the British satirist Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins (poem) ""Love Among the Ruins"" is an 1855 poem by Robert Browning. It is the first poem in the collection ""Men and Women"". The poem begins: ""Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,<br> ""Miles and miles<br> ""On the solitary pastures where our sheep<br> ""Half-asleep<br> ""Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop<br> ""As they crop---<br> ""Was the site"
"to how unpredictable and fragile life is. This poem uses some figurative language including onomatopoeia, alliteration, imagery, and many others. Harold Bloom said it is ""one of Frost's most respected poems, but it has not received the same depth of critical attention and explication as poems such as ""The Road Not Taken"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Out, Out— ""Out, Out"" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost, published in 1916. ""Out Out"" tells the story of a young boy who dies after his hand is severed by a ""buzz-saw"". The poem focuses on people's reactions"
"on the human soul and his own burgeoning consciousness. Originally titled ""A Child's Remembrance"", the poem was first published in the ""Saturday Press"" on December 24, 1859. The newspaper included this introduction: ""Our readers may, if they choose, consider as our Christmas or New Year's present to them, the curious warble by Walt Whitman"". The poem was later included in the 1860 edition of ""Leaves of Grass"" under the title ""A Word Out of the Sea"" (and occasionally erroneously referred to, even by Whitman himself, as ""A Voice Out of the Sea""). ""Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"" is found"
"himself as a Romantic poet. Browning described himself within the poem as ""priest and prophet"" and therefore gave himself both the meaning and purpose that he was seeking as a young man. Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (also known as Pauline) is the first published poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1832, and published anonymously in 1833. The poem is the confession of an unnamed poet to his lover, the eponymous woman. It was first reprinted in 1868 with no alterations to the text. Arthur Symons described the poem as a"
"a plea to his home state of Maryland to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Randall later claimed the poem was written ""almost involuntarily"" in the middle of the night on April 26, 1861. Being unable to sleep after hearing the news, he claimed ""some powerful spirit appeared to possess me... the whole poem was dashed off rapidly... [under] what may be called a conflagration of the senses, if not an inspiration of the intellect"". The poem contains many references to the Revolutionary War as well as to the Mexican–American War and Maryland figures in that war (many"
"Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, a Poem (1850) is, despite the title, often treated as two poems by Robert Browning, rather than as one poem in two parts. It was the first new work published by Robert Browning after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and their departure for Italy, and is widely considered to show the influence of his wife's religious beliefs. ""Christmas-Eve"" is an account of a vision in which the narrator is taken to a Nonconformist church, to St. Peter's in Rome, to a Göttingen lecture theatre where a practitioner of the Higher criticism is discoursing"
"as part of ""The Poetical Works of Robert Browning"", vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), and by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin and Joseph Phelan as part of ""The Poems of Browning"", vol. 3 (London: Longman, 1993). Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, a Poem (1850) is, despite the title, often treated as two poems by Robert Browning, rather than as one poem in two parts. It was the first new work published by Robert Browning after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and their departure for Italy, and is widely considered to show the influence of his wife's religious beliefs."
"with the feelings which were popular in New England, in regard both to U.S. and to foreign affairs, as was shown by her ""Occasional Ode"", written in June, 1809, in which Napoleon was denounced with vehemence and power. This poem was first printed in the seventh volume of the ""Monthly Anthology"", and though it bore the marks of hasty composition, in some minute defects, it was altogether a fine piece. She was a contributor of poems to the ""Monthly Anthology"", the ""Unitarian Miscellany"", and ""The Port Folio"", during the publication of those magazines, and to other periodicals. Her productions were"
"written first and ""To Autumn"" written last. Sometime between these two, he wrote ""Ode to a Nightingale"". It is possible that ""Ode to a Nightingale"" was written between 26 April and 18 May 1819, based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to Fanny Brawne on May Day. The poem was composed at the Hampstead house Keats shared with Brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum tree in the garden. According to Keats' friend Brown, Keats finished the ode in just one morning: ""In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had"
"1882. “Baby” a poem, in ""Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Magazine"". 1888. “John Fielding and His Enemy.” 1888. “The Woman He Loved” in ""Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Magazine"". 1889. “One of Bobby’s Troubles,” a poem, in ""Ladies’ Home Journal"", Vol. 6, No. 10, September 1889. 1889. “Carol for Christmas,” in ""Ladies’ Home Journal"", Vol. 7, No. 1, December 1889. 1890. “The Vision,” a poem, in ""Ladies’ Home Journal"", Vol. 7, No. 3, February 1890. 1890. “There’s No Time Like the Present,” a poem, in ""Ladies’ Home Journal"", Vol. 7, No. 4, March 1890. 1892. “One of a Thousand: A Serial Story,”"
"the poem. Tennyson shares similar ideas in ""The Lady of Shalott"", as do other Victorian authors who contribute to the popular conversation about the artistic processes. Porphyria's Lover ""Porphyria's Lover"" is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as ""Porphyria"" in the January 1836 issue of ""Monthly Repository"". Browning later republished it in ""Dramatic Lyrics"" (1842) paired with ""Johannes Agricola in Meditation"" under the title ""Madhouse Cells"". The poem did not receive its definitive title until 1863. ""Porphyria's Lover"" is Browning's first ever short dramatic monologue, and also the first of his poems to examine abnormal psychology. Although"
"in it, chronologically, to be written was ""Going,"" of February 1946. It is about death, and , according to Andrew Motion, is the kind of poem for which Larkin ""is so often regarded as an unrelievedly pessimistic poet"" Its concluding lines, ""What is under my hands, / That I cannot feel? / What loads my hands down?"", presage the helplessness, the dread of the atrophying of emotion, the despair, and the magnetic terror of death in the poems that follow. These are Larkin's most persistent themes. Throughout the collection, the feeling of diminishment and loss is pervasive, whether in the"
"Brooklyn August Brooklyn August is a poem by Stephen King that first appeared in 1971 in ""Io"" magazine and was later collected in King's ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"" in 1993. It also pairs with another story in that collection, ""Head Down."" The poem is reflective in tone, a nostalgic look back at what many consider to be the glory days of baseball as America's national pastime, focusing on the heyday of the Los Angeles Dodgers in their days as the Brooklyn Dodgers under the management of Walter Alston. The poems title reflects the tone of the poem, as it describes the"
"nature and his weak spots. When his brother George went to America, Keats wrote to him in great detail, the body of letters becoming ""the real diary"" and self-revelation of Keats' life, as well as containing an exposition of his philosophy, and the first drafts of poems containing some of Keats' finest writing and thought. Gittings describes them as akin to a ""spiritual journal"" not written for a specific other, so much as for synthesis. Keats also reflected on the background and composition of his poetry, and specific letters often coincide with or anticipate the poems they describe. In February"
"Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's early career began promisingly, but collapsed. The long poems ""Pauline"" and ""Paracelsus"" received some acclaim, but in 1840 the difficult ""Sordello"", which was seen as wilfully obscure, brought his poetry into disrepute. His reputation took more than a decade to recover, during which time he moved away from the"