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Poetry, Literature, Nature, Travel

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry

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Literature, Poetry, Religion

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Poetry, Literature, Philosophy, Romance

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Poetry, Literature, Philosophy

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...sworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleri...

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...abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are “April is the cruelest month” (its first line); “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”; and “Shantih sh...

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...nd influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon. (Summary by Alan Da...

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...death on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. FitzGerald also produced Latin translations of certain rubaiyat. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential. Indeed, The term Rubaiyat by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that FitzGerald used in his t...

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Literature, Poetry