Some scholars believe that the art of poetry may predate literacy. Others, however, suggest that poetry did not necessarily predate writing. The oldest surviving epic poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, comes from the 3rd millennium BCE in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, now Iraq), and was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, on papyrus. A …
Stephen Miller commented that the Statue of Liberty wasn’t originally the immigration symbol that Emma Lazarus’ poem suggests. Was he right?
Aleksandr Pushkin is, by common agreement — at least among his own compatriots — the greatest of all Russian writers. The major part of his lyrical poetry was written between 1820 and 1830, but some of his poetical masterpieces were composed in the last seven years of his life, when he was turning his attention to prose.
The story of Mary Stevenson, the author of the immortal poem. Mary wrote ‘Footprints’ in 1936 when she was very and knew nothing of copyrighting. Many have falsely claimed authorship including Margaret Fishback Powers. This is the Only Authorized Footprints in the Sand Web Site on the internet.
Poetry Daily, the online web anthology and bookstore. A new poem every day, along with poetry news, archives, and more.
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Vladimir Nabokov. An Evening of Russian Poetry ‘…seems to be the best train. Miss Ethel Winter of the Department of English will meet you at the station and…’
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.The German term Tondichtung (tone poem) appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828. …
