And when it comes to inspirational poems, there is no shortage of uplifting poetic words in that body of work. “When I Read the Book” is about an accomplished person reading their biography ...
7, 1863 - 1864 October Meeting. Louis, Duke of Orleans;... October Meeting. Louis, Duke of Orleans; Memorial of Gettysburg; The Selling of Joseph; Poem by Phillis Wheatley This is the metadata section ...
Barnaby Martin of Listening In looks at the origin of the incredibly poignant scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral in which ...
Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...
Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth-century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, ...
and was once voted Britain’s favourite poem. But who wrote it? For decades, it was a mystery. In 1977, when John Wayne read it at Howard Hawks’s funeral, he credited it to that prolific ...
Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day. Petri is the author of "A.P.'s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)" and ...
DWINA Gibb, widow of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, fought back tears as she read out the poem she penned for her husband's funeral. Legendary singer Robin died in 2012 and at his funeral wife Dwina ...
Judges said that the poem’s “paradoxical lyricism in the account of an abduction demands reading and rereading. Opening with the speaker’s recollection of ‘finding herself’ in her ...