"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect commonly known as the Kilmarnock volume or Kilmarnock edition, is a collection of poetry by Robert Burns, first printed and issued by John Wilson of Kilmarnock on 31 July 1786. It was the first published edition of Burns' work. It cost 3 shillings and 612 copies were printed. The volume was dedicated to Gavin Hamilton. The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like ""Halloween"" (written in 1785), ""The Twa Dogs"" and ""The Cotter's Saturday Night,"" which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with"
"Prose and Poems"". Starck's ""Cathedrals and Parking Lots: Collected Poems"" is the second book in this series. Clemens Starck Clemens Starck (born 1937 in Rochester, NY) is an American poet. He is the author of seven books of poems, and recipient of the 1996 William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award and the Oregon Book Award for ""Journeyman's Wages"". Two of his other books were also finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Several of his poems, including ""One of the Locals"", were read by Garrison Keillor on ""The Writer's Almanac"". A chapter dedicated to Starck’s poetry, “Clemens Starck: ‘poems in my head,"
"broken down as follows into further parts, resulting in a total of 34 separate printed volumes : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Kubla Khan"", as well as the major prose work ""Biographia Literaria"". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to"
"to the author's family and friends as well as political events of the time. It is possible that Zimorowic published them as a tribute to his wife on the tenth anniversary of her death. Zimorowic acknowledges the most important earlier Polish pastoral poet Szymon Szymonowic, whose ""Sielanki"" appeared in 1614, as his master, but his own poems are notable for their local, ""Ruthenian"" (i.e. Ukrainian) colour and are clearly set in the landscape around Lwów. Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (August 20, 1597 – October 14, 1677) was a Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era, most famous"
"Fitz-Greene Halleck Fitz-Greene Halleck (July 8, 1790 – November 19, 1867) was an American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. Born and reared in Guilford, Connecticut, he went to New York City at the age of 20, and lived and worked there for nearly four decades. He was sometimes called ""the American Byron"". His poetry was popular and widely read but later fell out of favor. It has been studied since the late twentieth century for its homosexual themes and insights into nineteenth-century society. In 1832, Halleck, a cultural celebrity, started working as personal"
"male 'Honorary Lasses'. A number of Burns Clubs hold collections of Burns' manuscripts, artefacts or memorabilia such as the Irvine Burns Club which holds the only surviving holograph manuscripts from the Kilmarnock volume of """"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"""" printed and issued by John Wilson, Kilmarnock, on 31 July 1786. Many clubs also have libraries that contain volumes from the many printed works relating to the bard and to Scottish poets, history and culture. Annual wreath laying ceremonies are held to commemorate personal events such as the birth and death of the poet as well as other significant events"
"Clemens Starck Clemens Starck (born 1937 in Rochester, NY) is an American poet. He is the author of seven books of poems, and recipient of the 1996 William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award and the Oregon Book Award for ""Journeyman's Wages"". Two of his other books were also finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Several of his poems, including ""One of the Locals"", were read by Garrison Keillor on ""The Writer's Almanac"". A chapter dedicated to Starck’s poetry, “Clemens Starck: ‘poems in my head, a hammer in my hand,” is within ""Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets"", written by Erik Muller"
"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"
"the printing of the 1786 'Kilmarnock Edition' of Robert Burns' poems, together with John Hamilton, later Dr. Hamilton, a medical student and son of Provost Charles Hamilton of Irvine. The Hamiltons lived at the entry to the Glasgow Vennel close to Burns ' lodgings and may have been a link in his coming to Irvine in the first instance. The Earl of Eglinton also sent ten guineas to Burns on his arrival in Edinburgh as a subscription for a 'brace', that is two copies, quoted however as 42 by most authors (36 by one and in the subscribers list) of"
"Burt Kimmelman Burt Joseph Kimmelman (born May 5, 1947) is an American poet and scholar. Born and raised in New York City after World War Two, Burt Kimmelman has published nine collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and has been featured on The Writer's Almanac radio program, recited by Garrison Keillor. He has been the subject of a number of published interviews. He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: ""The ""Winter Mind"": William Bronk and American Letters"" (1998) and ""The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona"""
"Szymon Szymonowic Szymon Szymonowic (in Latin, Simon Simonides; in Armenian, Շիմոն Շիմոնովիչ; also, in Polish, ""Szymonowicz"" and ""Bendoński""; born Lwów, 24 October 1558 – died 5 May 1629, Czarnięcin, near Zamość) was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as ""the Polish Pindar."" Szymonowic studied in Poland (Lwów, Kraków), France and Belgium. From 1586 he was associated with Grand Hetman and Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, with whom in 1593–1605 he organized the Zamojski Academy. In 1590 he was elevated to the nobility (""szlachta""), with Kościesza coat-of-arms. A humanist fluent in Greek and Latin, Szymonowic wrote in Polish ""Sielanki"" (Pastorals, 1614),"
"which he was most familiar; and a group like ""Puir Mailie"" and ""To a Mouse"", which, in the tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of Burns' personality. Six of the original manuscript versions of the poems from the book are in the possession of the Irvine Burns Club. A miniature facsimile issued in a protective case with a magnifying glass was produced for the benefit of troops in World War I. Source: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect commonly known as the Kilmarnock volume or Kilmarnock edition,"
"Gibbons Ruark Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as ""The New Yorker"", ""The New Republic"", and ""Poetry"". His collections include ""Rescue the Perishing"", ""Small Rain"", ""Keeping Company"", ""Reeds"", ""A Program for Survival"", ""Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems"", ""Staying Blue"", and, most recently, ""The Road to Ballyvaughan."" He has won numerous awards including three Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and a"
"for an enormous sum ... I am wandering from one friend's house to another."" On 31 July 1786 John Wilson published the volume of works by Robert Burns, ""Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect"". Known as the Kilmarnock volume, it sold for 3 shillings and contained much of his best writing, including ""The Twa Dogs"", ""Address to the Deil"", ""Halloween"", ""The Cotter's Saturday Night"", ""To a Mouse"", ""Epitaph for James Smith"", and ""To a Mountain Daisy"", many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. The success of the work was immediate, and soon he was known across the country."
"Stanisław Barańczak Stanisław Barańczak (November 13, 1946 – December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others. Born in Poznań, Poland on November 13, 1946, Barańczak was raised by his father Jan and mother Zofia, both doctors. He was the brother of the novelist Małgorzata Musierowicz. He"
"This was at the period when the first ""Georgian Poetry"" anthology was being hatched. Gibson was one of the insiders. During the early part of his writing life, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson wrote poems that featured the ""macabre."" One such poem is ""Flannan Isle"", based on a real life mystery. Gibson was one of the founders of the so-called ”Dymock poets”, a community of writers who settled briefly, before the outbreak of the Great War, in the village of Dymock, in north Gloucestershire. His reputation was eclipsed somewhat by the Ezra Pound-T. S. Eliot school of Modernist poetry; his work remained"
"Maurice Riordan Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: ""A Word from the Loki"" (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; ""Floods"" (2000) which took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; ""The Holy Land"" (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems and returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work. It received the Michael Hartnett Award. His anthologies include ""A Quark for"
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Kubla Khan"", as well as the major prose work ""Biographia Literaria"". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He had a major"
"Gary McCormick Gary McCormick is a New Zealand poet, radio and television personality, debater and raconteur. McCormick began writing poetry in 1968. His published volumes are Gypsies (with Jon Benson, 1974), Naked and Nameless (1976), Poems for the Red Engine (1978), Poems by Request (1979), Scarlet Letters (1980), Zephyr (1982) and Lost at Sea (1995). He also wrote Performance—A Guide to the Performing Arts in New Zealand for the Department of Internal Affairs (1979) and the satiric secret diary of Jacques Chirac, Honey, I blew up the Atoll (with Scott Wilson, 1995). He is also a long-time collaborator and friend"
"Bangour (1704–54), socialite Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1712–94), and poet and playwright James Thompson's (1700–48), most famous for the nature poetry of his ""Seasons"". Tobias Smollett (1721–71) was a poet, essayist, satirist and playwright, but is best known for his picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Roderick Random"" (1748) and ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) for which he is often seen as Scotland's first novelist. His work would be a major influence on later novelists such as Thackeray and Dickens. The early eighteenth century was also a period of innovation in Gaelic vernacular poetry. Major figures included Rob Donn"
"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 Thomas, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, and John Drinkwater, some of whom lived near the village in the period between 1911 and 1914. Eleanor Farjeon, who was involved with Edward Thomas, also visited. The group published their own quarterly, entitled 'New Numbers', containing poems such as Brooke's ""The Soldier"". During the First World War Edward"
"Burns's interest, Lapraik published in 1788 a book of poems, ""Poems on Several Occasions"". It was financed by subscribers and printed by John Wilson of Kilmarnock, who had printed Burns's first published poems two years earlier. However, the book did not sell well. Attribution John Lapraik John Lapraik (1727 – 7 May 1807) was a Scottish farmer and poet, and friend of Robert Burns. Lapraik was born at Laigh Dalquhram, about three miles west of Muirkirk, Ayrshire, in 1727. After attending the local school he succeeded his father, as the eldest son, to the family estate, which was of considerable"
"""Dark Matter: Poems of Space"" (with Jocelyn Bell Burnell), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2008 ""Hart Crane: Selected Poems"", Faber 'Poet to Poet' 2008 ""The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics in Translation"", Faber 2014 ""Confidential Reports"" (Immanuel Mifsud), Southword 2005 ""The Play of Waves"" (Immanuel Mifsud), Arc 2017 Maurice Riordan Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: ""A Word from the Loki"" (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; ""Floods"" (2000) which took a more millennial"
"Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (; born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its"
"his wife Kay. In 2008 his book ""Staying Blue"" appeared from Lost Hills Books in Duluth, Minnesota. Gibbons Ruark Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as ""The New Yorker"", ""The New Republic"", and ""Poetry"". His collections include ""Rescue the Perishing"", ""Small Rain"", ""Keeping Company"", ""Reeds"", ""A Program for Survival"", ""Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems"", ""Staying Blue"", and, most recently, ""The Road to Ballyvaughan."" He has won numerous awards including three Poetry Fellowships"
"as well as Border Ballads, poems by William Wordsworth and family, and other verse of regional interest. Some later poets include John Sewart (""Rhymes in the Westmoreland Dialect"", Settle, 1869) and Gwordie Greenup (the pseudonym of Stanley Martin), who published short collections in prose and verse during the 1860s and 1870s. A more recent anthology, ""Oor mak o' toak: an anthology of Lakeland dialect poems, 1747-1946"", was published from Carlisle in 1946 by the Lakeland Dialect Society. Cumbrian dialect The Cumbrian dialect is a local Northern English dialect in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and surrounding northern England, not to"
"copy of the Kilmarnock Edition from one Rev. George Lawrie, of Loudoun Manse. Lawrie is known to have received Burns several times at the manse. In reference to this, Burns' brother Gilbert wrote, """"This was a delightful family scene for our poet, then lately introduced to the world. His mind was roused to a poetic enthusiasm and the stanzas were left in the room where he slept."""" Alongside the stanza referred to, Burns also presented Lawrie's daughters with verses describing his visits to Loudoun Manse and on one window pane in the manse, scratched the following line with his diamond,"
"Ernest Hemingway's ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro"" with the title a quotation from the earlier story. A music video for ""Thanksgiving Day"" was also produced to promote its inclusion on the album. The collection is dedicated to John Dillinger, ""in hope that he is still alive"". Burroughs recites this dedication at the start of his ""Dead City Radio"" recording of the ""Thanksgiving Day"" poem. Tornado Alley (book) Tornado Alley is a collection of short stories and one poem by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, written during the later years of his career and first published in 1989. The first edition"
"Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (August 20, 1597 – October 14, 1677) was a Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era, most famous for his pastoral poems ""Sielanki nowe ruskie"" (""New Ruthenian Pastorals""), first published in Kraków in 1663. He was born into a Lwów Armenian family, his father was of a stonemason, Stanisŀaw Ozimek, and educated at the cathedral school in the city. He began to work for the city chancellery and in 1624 changed his surname to Zimorowic in order to advance his career by distancing himself from his artisanal background. He married Katarzyna Duchnicówna, the"
"Robert Pollok Robert Pollok (19 October 1798 – 15 September 1827) was a Scottish poet best known for his work, ""The Course of Time"", published in the year of his death. Pollok was born at North Moorhouse Farm, Loganswell Renfrewshire, Scotland. Sources differ on the exact year of his birth, some giving 1789, some 1798, and some 1799. He studied at the University of Glasgow for the ministry of the United Secession Church. During this time, he anonymously published three poems: ""Helen of the Glen"", ""The Persecuted Family"", and ""Ralph Gemmell"". After Pollok's death, these would be published together under"
"Lyrical Ballads Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". A second edition was"
"in Liczkowce. He died in 1828 in Liczkowce. It is unknown whether his death date is 20 or 28 March. Unfinished poems: Never-published dramas: Many of his works were published for the first time in ""Pisma zebrane"" (Collected Works), 3 volumes, 1936. Tymon Zaborowski Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828) was a Polish poet. He was influenced at the beginning of his writing career by classicism, then by Romanticism. He is also known, after one of his poems, as """"Wieszcz Miodoboru"""" (""the Bard of the Honey Harvest""). Tymon Zaborowski was born on 18 April 1799 in Liczkowce, Podolia. In 1810–16 he attended the"
"and journalist Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time, Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet. Scott achieved immediate success with his long narrative poem ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1805, followed by the full epic poem ""Marmion"" in 1808. Both were set in the distant Scottish past. The early Romantic Poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection, and their emergence is marked by the first romantic manifesto in English literature, the ""Preface"" to ""Lyrical Ballads"" (1798). The poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"" were mostly by Wordsworth, although Coleridge contributed the long ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner""."