They say Mona Lisa is a great painter, and they also say William Shakespeare is a good play writer, but who tops them all is A.E Housman a man who took his work serious and his career even more seriously. A.E Housman was a human figure whose life and career were often moving as well as extraordinary. In Housman’s poem it captured the attention of readers everywhere this happen decades ago and people still read his books like he is still with us this goes to show that things never gets old. Housman was born in England in his poems it shows regrets and many more as you read this essay you will see. Housman was never a flashy artist but his reputation remains steady and is one of the most creative artists of his time.
Alfred Edward Housman was born in Fockbury England on March 26 in the year of 1859. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman). Housman was the eldest of seven children Housman has a sibling name Laurence Housman which was his brother and a sister name Clemence Housman they were both writers also. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman) .Housman mother died when he was only twelve years old leaving his father a country solicitor alone. . (A.E. Housman: The Scholar Poet (1979). John Bayle, Housman’s page 3). His mother place was replaced by a lady name Lucy an elder cousin of his father that got married in the year of 1873. (www.victorianweb.org/authors/housman/bio.html)
Furthermore, Housman early schooling was at Bromsgrove England school, called King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and then he attended Bromsgrove School where he first started winning prizes for his unique style of poetry. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman ).
While Housman was at Bromsgrove he was also good in academics not just poetry. In 1877, Housma...
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...f cancer while he was still at an early age leaving him with a stepmother. Housman had a roommate that he loved but they didn’t share the same interest. But on the flip side he had many honors and awards but didn’t accept them, and he also won a degree to St. Johns College. This man will be remembered just like a Mona Lisa, or a William Shakespeare.
Lastly, Housman poem A Shropshire Lad was about a preoccupation with death and no religious consolation. It cycle of 63 poems publishers had turned it down, but he use his own money to publish it. This poem was known before World War 1, and has been printed since May 1896.
Last Poem was release in 1922 this was release for Moses Jackson before he died, and was about him. This poem talks about death, and the cruel universal. This poem left s reveling note for Jackson also. It also talks about the time of the economic.
Young Goodman Brown undergoes the hero’s journey in the story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The hero’s journey is a common guideline of events that many writers use in stories to show the physical, mental, and/or emotional transformation the main character or protagonist undergoes throughout the story. It starts with a call to adventure and a supernatural aid. It is then followed by a road of trials and a symbolic death. In the end, the character has a moment of epiphany or realization and then a return. Hawthorne uses all of these in order to show the loss of innocence in Young Goodman Brown as he experiences the hero’s journey.
James Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Fla. He is best known as being a poet, composor, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture.
himself lucky that he died in his prime and will not out live his fame. Housman
Later in his life he decided that he would use all lower case letters when signing his name. In 1911 Cummings began his studies in Harvard. Throughout his college years he worked as an editor for the literary magazine. This would later influence his paintings and poetry. Cummings left Harvard in 1916 with a master’s degree, his first poems where published the next year in the anthology, Eight Harvard Poets. These poems illustrated his early experiments in style and language for which he later became famous for (Constantakis).
Edward Estlin Cummings was born October 14, 1894 in the town of Cambridge Massachusetts. His father, and most constant source of awe, Edward Cummings, was a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Harvard University. In 1900, Edward left Harvard to become the ordained minister of the South Congregational Church, in Boston. As a child, E.E. attended Cambridge public schools and lived during the summer with his family in their summer home in Silver Lake, New Hampshire. (Kennedy 8-9) E.E. loved his childhood in Cambridge so much that he was inspired to write disputably his most famous poem, "In Just-" (Lane pp. 26-27)
The loss of his mother and is devotion to education spurred him to peruse a degree in dentistry. In 1870 Holliday moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of Philadelphia Dental School. During his studying he wrote his thesis on the “disease of the Teeth”. His mentor during school Lucian Frink who practiced dentistry in Valdosta, Georgia between 1868 until 1879, Holliday attempted to gain the most information possible. At the University of
Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown, was born October 10, 1927 in West Chester Pennsylvania. Johnson, who was an educator and a nurse, went one to serve in the U.S. Army from 1955-1983. At a young age Johnson had aspired to become a nurse. She first applied to the Chester School of Nursing. However, was denied admission because she was African-American. Relentless in her resolve and transcending many obstacles, she instead began training at the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing in New York in 1947, graduating from this institution in 1950. Johnson then went on to practice on the medical cardiovascular ward at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital while becoming head nurse within three months. Subsequently, Johnson began coursework
In Bromley, Herbert George Wells was born. Wells started Morley’s school in Bromley when he was seven, when he was 14 he became apprenticed to a draper. In 1883, Wells rebelled against their fate. Herbert arrived at up park when he was 14. Some events that propelled Wells in a new direction are in his autobiography called “starts in life”. When Herbert George Wells was young his mother taught him how to read, Mostly using big sheet capital letters. Wells Aunt Mary and sister ran a boardinghouse and Wells went to live with them. Wells stumbled upon a lot of knowledge. Wells childhood was very low class. Wells education began when he attended the commercial academy for young gentlemen. Wells moved to Wookey, Somerset in 1880 to help a relative when he was 14 (Abrams 13+; Hall 310+; “Herbert George Wells-Biography”; Kunitz 1492; O’neal 1630; “Wells, H. G.” 122).
John Brown became a legend of his time. He was a God fearing, yet violent man and slaveholders saw him as evil, fanatic, a murderer, lunatic, liar, and horse thief. To abolitionists, he was noble and courageous. John Brown was born in 1800 and grew up in the wilderness of Ohio. At seventeen, he left home and soon mastered the arts of farming, tanning, and home building.
Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies of the Structure of Poetry. London: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
He was still disillusioned by the injustices in life which separated him from God, but he was much more nostalgic for the innocence of his childhood. Housman insisted his poetry was not based on his own pain, but mankind. That was completely the opposite of how he wrote. He projected his own pain into the poetry he wrote. It was as if all of his troubles were too insufferable for him to bear, so he projected them into his work and gave them voice. As time wore on, Housman became more cynical and pessimistic about God and all of the religion he was reared to believe in. Pessimism is the root of atheism. Not believing in God results from a feeling of rejection; losing God results in a loss of ego. Housman was both an atheist and a pessimist. By not believing in God, a supreme being, everything else holds no value. Goodness is blurred by the veil of atheism. Pessimism is a hallmark of atheism, even for those who keep their
Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies of the Structure of Poetry. London: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem composed by Thomas Gray over a period of ten years. Beginning shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West in 1742, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” was first published in 1751. This poem’s use of dubbal entendre may lead the intended audience away from the overall theme of death, mourning, loss, despair and sadness; however, this poem clearly uses several literary devices to convey the author’s feelings toward the death of his friend Richard West, his beloved mother, aunt and those fallen soldiers of the Civil War. This essay will discuss how Gray uses that symbolism and dubbal entendre throughout the poem to convey the inevitability of death, mourning, conflict within self, finding virtue in one’s life, dealing with one’s misfortunes and giving recognition to those who would otherwise seem insignificant.
Oscar Wilde had a quick and fluid intelligence coupled with a gift for languages. His early education included attending Porotra Royal School in Enniskillen (1873) Trinity College in Dublin (1874-1879), and Magdalen College in Oxford. He excelled in his studies. Along with his schoolwork, Wilde began to build his reputation as a poet. His early work garnered some success. In 1878, Oscar Wilde won the Newdigate prize for poetry. His entry was inspired by a vacation to Ravenna.
Playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland (Wright 54). He was the son of two very talented parents. His father, Sir William Ralph Wills Wilde, was a leading eye and ear surgeon, scholar, and noted archeologist. His mother, Jean Francesca Elgee, wrote passionate nationalistic articles for the radical newspaper, The Nation (Wright 54). Although Wilde did not do well in school, he loved the classics and found a passion for writing. He began writing plays, essays, a novel, and many short stories, becoming