Archivi tag: Poetry
Giovanni Rose: Tottenham teenager wins poetry award
from: BBC News Teenager Giovanni Rose won an international competition with his poem Welcome to Tottenham.
Deep Underground, a Chinese Miner Discovered Poetry in the Toil
Book Week NI: ‘I am the poetry pharmacist’
Philanthropist and author William Sieghart says he can find a poem to ease anyone’s troubles.
Cotton, slavery and poetry: Theatre turns spotlight on its problematic past
from: BBC News Manchester‘s Royal Exchange was key to the 19th Century cotton trade, which relied on slavery.
Michael Rosen wins children’s poetry award after battling Covid-19
George Orwell – Nonsense Poetry
In many languages, it is said, there is no nonsense poetry, and there is not a great deal of it even in English. The bulk of it is in nursery rhymes and scraps of folk poetry, some of which may not have been strictly nonsensical at the start, but have become so because their original… Leggi tutto »
George Orwell – Poetry and the Microphone
About a year ago I and a number of others were engaged in broadcasting literary programmes to India, and among other things we broadcast a good deal of verse by contemporary and near-contemporary English writers—for example, Eliot, Herbert Read, Auden, Spender, Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Robert Bridges, Edmund Blunden, D.H. Lawrence. Whenever it… Leggi tutto »
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry
EText-No. 260 Title: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry Author: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Language: English Link: etext95/inbro10.txt EText-No. 260 Title: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry Author: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Language: English Link: etext95/inbro10.zip
John Keats – Sleep and Poetry
What is more gentle than a wind in summer? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily from bower to bower? What is more tranquil than a musk-rose blowing In a green island, far from all men’s knowing? More healthful than the leafiness of… Leggi tutto »