Shakira is a talented lady, no doubt. Her voice warbles like a bird; she can dance up a storm, and she writes poetry in her native Spanish as a hobby. That said, I do not think her talents extend to having two birthdays that span years.
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Is the Astrology Book and the Poet the same man?
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Charles Olson was a postmodern poet, sort of a Jack Kerouac, in verse. Separated by twelve years, both men came from Central Massachusetts, — Olson from Worcester, Kerouac from nearby Lowell – a twenty-mile distance probably shorter if the crow flies. Both men went to Harvard, but Olson was huge: six foot six in his stocking feet and weighed about 250 pounds; Kerouac was slight easily half that soaking wet. Both left the Bay State, only Charlie returned. As his size was stunning, and he had the prophetic nickname of “the Bull,” Before he was a poet he was renown…
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Constantine P. Cavafy, was the pseudonym of Konstantínos Pétrou Kaváfis. He was born April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, and died 70 years later on his birthday, April 29, 1933, in Alexandria. His parents were both from the Greek community in Constantinople (now Istanbul) Turkey. Historically, this was Anatolia.
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Our header image is William Blake’s rendition of Paradise Lost — written for the poem.
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Who was Tennyson? Alfred Tennyson was the most popular poet of the Victorian age. With royal patronage, Queen Victoria made Tennyson Poet Laureate in 1850 for his poetry defined an era. There was a time when his poems, particularly the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. were de rigeur for high school literature.
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In Autumn Moonlight In autumn moonlight, when the white air wanIs fragrant in the wake of summer hence,‘Tis sweet to sit entranced, and muse thereonIn melancholy and godlike indolence:When the proud spirit, lull’d by mortal primeTo fond pretence of immortality.Vieweth all moments from the birth of time,All things whate’er have been or yet shall be.And like the garden where the year is spent,The ruin of old life is full of yearning,Mingling poetic rapture of lamentWith flowers and sunshine of spring’s sure returning;Only in visions of the white air wanBy godlike fancy seized and dwelt upon. Robert Seymour Bridges …
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Marc Jones has this incorrectly marked as L. Stowacki, September 4, 1809, place unknown. His correct name is Juliusz Slowacki, born in Krzemieniec Poland; now Ukraine. Slowacki is one of the “Three Bards” of Polish literature and a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, concurrent with Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats in England. He is also the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, Polish history, mysticism and Orientalism. Primarily a dramatist, he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas Kordian and Balladyna and the poems…
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Recently I was reading a series of essays, “English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism” edited by M. H. Abrams in 1960. One writer, I think it was the poet Donald Davie, mentioned how when he was young and first introduced to the Romantics he loved Shelley to the point of memorizing his poems and quoting him freely. Now writing in 1956 and 25 years after university, he found there were few poems by him he could bare to read, much less quote. I found that hilarious because as a young lit student, I too loved Shelley and like he, here…
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That James Russell Lowell is part of the Jones 1000 makes sense; Jones considered himself a minor poet and wrote esoteric verse whenever he could much like Aleister Crowley, his contemporary, did. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was born at Elmwood the family home, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 22nd of February 1819. James was the son of Charles Lowell (1782-1861), the famous minister for the West Congregational (Unitarian) Church of Boston. Chas. Lowell was for many years the lone voice against slavery and called for its abolition. On his mother’s side James was descended from the Spences and Traills, who made…
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Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19, 1943 at 9:50 am in St. Mary’s Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas. Her father, Seth Joplin, worked at Texaco, and she had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. When she had acclaim she admitted that the Empress of the blues singer, contralto Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and the voice of the Civil Rights movement, Odetta¹ ( 1930-2008) was her vocal inspiration. She has a wonderful voice and died too young from a heroin overdose on October 3, 1970 in Hollywood California. We have rectified this chart to 28 Aquarius that highlights her eccentric…
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HOW DO I LOVE THEE? (From Sonnets from the Portuguese) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning HOW do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the…
