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a
palinode
is a type of
retraction
poem
championed by
Chaucer
?
a
poem
by
William Newton
led to an end to
gibbeting
corpses
in
Derbyshire
?
a
poem
by
Edward Coote Pinkney
, a failed lawyer and former
Navy
midshipman
, was used by
Edgar Allan Poe
to woo
Sarah Helen Whitman
?
Red Plague
, a
poem
of
Józef Szczepański
, commander of
Batalion Parasol
during the
Warsaw Uprising
, was banned in the
People's Republic of Poland
due to its
anti-Soviet
sentiments?
despite apparently predicting that future
naval warfare
would rely on boarding actions,
Kipling
's
satirical
poem
The Ballad of the
"Clampherdown"
, was taken seriously when published in
1892
?
the
1870
poem
"
The Heathen Chinee
," written by
Bret Harte
as a
satire
of
racial prejudice
, was publicly embraced as a mockery of
Chinese immigrants
, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the
U.S.
more than any other work at the time?
upon reading
Marshall S. Cornwell
's
poem
"Success," American
writer
and
poet
James Whitcomb Riley
wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
the identity of the language or
dialect
of the
Cançó de Santa Fe
, a
hagiographical
poem
about
Saint Faith
, has been debated since the 16th century?
the earliest surviving
ensenhamen
(an
Occitan
didactic
poem
) was written by the
troubadour
Garin lo Brun
around 1155?
the
wife
of
troubadour
Raimon Jordan
joined the sect of the
Cathars
, while the troubadour himself declared in a
poem
that he would give up
eternity
in
Paradise
for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
Chidiock Tichborne
wrote his only known
poem
on the eve of his
execution
for
treason
?
Arishima Ikuma
,
Japanese
novelist
, published his new-style
poems
and
short stories
as a vehicle to introduce the works of the
French
impressionist
painter
Paul Cézanne
to the
Japanese public
?
Jonathan Swift
's
"
A Description of a City Shower
"
is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best
poem
?
James Russell Lowell's
satirical
poem
A Fable for Critics
(1848) made fun of many poets of the day, including himself?
Indian actress
Kamalinee Mukherjee
's
poem
was selected for an international poetry contest in
Washington, D.C.
just before she began her acting career in the
Telugu film industry
?
Alexander Pope
's
"
An Essay on Criticism
"
is a
poem
written in
heroic couplets
?
Jonathan Swift
's
(pictured)
1709
poem
"
A Description of the Morning
"
, which discusses contemporary life in
London
, provided inspiration for
William Hogarth
's series of paintings
Four Times of the Day
?
Stevie Smith
's most famous
poem
, "
Not Waving but Drowning
", describes a man who
drowns
because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
William Butler Yeats
wrote the
poem
"
A Prayer for My Daughter
"
in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the
Irish War of Independence
?
William Butler Yeats
originally published the
poem
"
On being asked for a War Poem
" under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
William Butler Yeats
intended the
poem
"
Politics
"
to be an
envoi
to
"
The Circus Animals' Desertion
"
and for it to be last in his final collection of poems?
"
A Supermarket in California
" is a
poem
by
Allen Ginsberg
published in 1956 and dedicated to
Walt Whitman
in the centennial year of the first edition of
Leaves of Grass
?
Facts on topics related to Poem
Poetry
Egyptian
poet
Farouk Shousha
has described the decline in the quality of
Arabic
in Egypt as "an issue of national security"?
poet
Robert Hass
, a two-term
American Poet Laureate
, is a neighbor of
Nobel laureate
Czesław Miłosz
?
British
Conservative
politician
Sir John Loveridge
published
poetry
and exhibited
paintings
and
sculpture
after serving 13 years as a
member of Parliament
?
Andrew Carroll
went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the
Academy of American Poets
, distributing 100,000 free
poetry
books at
truck stops
, hospital
waiting rooms
and
train stations
?
Charles Wilfred Orr
wrote more settings of
A. E. Housman
's
poetry
than any other
composer
?
Thomas Bancroft
'
s
Times out of Tune
(1658) includes verses against
whoring
,
gluttony
,
alcoholism
,
hedonism
,
lying
,
pride in clothing
,
betrayal
,
ambition
,
cowardice
, and the abuse of
poetry
?
Tomás Rivera
, a
Chicano
author
,
poet
, and
educator
, was the first
Mexican American
chancellor of the
University of California
system?
Urdu literature
is dominated by
poetry
, often of the
ghazal
form?
Western Ganga literature
included
Kannada
poetry
and prose written by
royalty
, on topics ranging from
religion
to
elephant
management?
a
cento
is a
poetic
work composed entirely of
verses
taken from other authors?
Anthology
A Perfect Vacuum
, a 1971 book by Polish author
Stanisław Lem
, is an
anthology
of imaginary
reviews
of nonexistent books?
Leaving Springfield
is a non-fiction
anthology
of essays analyzing the impact of the television program
The Simpsons
on society?
New Writings in SF
is the earliest of the notable
science fiction
anthology
series published in the 1960s and 1970s?
The God Stealer
is the most
anthologized
short story
written by
Filipino National Artist
F. Sionil José
?
early in his short acting career
Tod Griffin
played
George Washington
and
Patrick Henry
on
NBC
's
Hallmark Hall of Fame
anthology
series
?
the 1955–56
NBC
series
Frontier
was only the second
western
anthology
program on
television
, preceded by
Death Valley Days
?
Rhyme
the
Calvinist
philosopher
and
New Testament
scholar
Vern Poythress
argues that
mathematics
is the
rhyme
of the
universe
?
Poet
Hoosier
poet
James Whitcomb Riley
's poem "
Little Orphant Annie
" was first published in the
Indianapolis Journal
?
Iraqi
poet
Nazik Al-Malaika
was the first person to write in
free verse
in
Arabic
?
Jamaican
-born
poet
,
playwright
and
screenwriter
Evan Jones
wrote the 1963
BBC
television play
Madhouse on Castle Street
in which
Bob Dylan
made his acting début?
Kavirajamarga
, the earliest
extant
literary work in the
Kannada language
, was written by King
Amoghavarsha I
who was a famous
poet
and a
scholar
?
poet
Anna Williams
's works include
On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon
?
poet
Forceythe Willson
believed he was
clairvoyant
and that he could serve as a
medium
for communication with the dead?
poet
Violet Kazue de Cristoforo
wrote
haikus
while she and her family were detained in
Japanese American internment
camps during
World War II
?
poet
and
playwright
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
(
pictured
), known as the Polish
Sappho
, discussed topics such as
abortion
, extra-marital affairs, and
incest
?
Russian
avant-garde
poet
and
singer-songwriter
Alexei Khvostenko
is often referred to as the "grandfather of
Russian rock
"?
Russian
philologist
Mikhail Gasparov
was also a
poet
, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
Prose
theologian
and
preacher
Carl Fredrik Wisløff
's 1946 book
I Know in Whom I Believe
was recognized in 2008 as one of
Norway
's most influential books of
prose
?
the first major work published by American poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
,
Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea
, was a book of
prose
sketches inspired by
Washington Irving
?
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