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12 lug 2011 · Brooke was an inspiration to poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the poem "High Flight". Magee idolised Brooke and wrote a poem about him ("Sonnet to Rupert Brooke"). Magee also won the same poetry prize at Rugby School which Brooke had won 34 years earlier. As a war poet Brooke came to public attention in 1915 when The Times Literary ...
British Poet. Born 18 March 1893 in Plas Wilmot, Oswestry, England. Died 04 November 1918 in Sambre-Oise Canal, Ors, France. Wilfred Owen was a poet and soldier who wrote some of the most memorable poems of the First World War. His theme of "the pity of war" continues to influence the cultural memory of 1914-18 and to shape ideas of war itself.
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Posthumous Poems 1824. After Shelley's death in the Gulf of Spezia in July 1822 Mary Shelley (then aged 25) stayed on in Italy for a year before returning to London with her son Percy. Posthumous poems, edited from manuscript, was the initial step in the work of publicizing Shelley's poetry that was to occupy her for the next fifteen years.
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Home Percy Shelley: Poems E-Text: Preface: To The Volume Of Posthumous Poems Published In 1824 E-Text Percy Shelley: Poems Preface: To The Volume Of Posthumous Poems Published In 1824. In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, Ed in alto intelletto un puro core . Frutto senile in sul giovenil fibre, E in aspetto pensoso anima lieta.-PETRARCA.
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