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The 7th stanza of Irish poet John Boyle O'Reilly's "The Exile of the Gael," written in 1887, and O'Reilly's calling card, from the Boston College collection of John Boyle O'Reilly.We are enjoying the details in this cover decoration of American writer Alice Cary's "A Lover's Diary," published in 1868. Cary (1820-1871) and her sister Phoebe (1824-1871) were both well-known poets.G is for Garden, from "A Poet's Alphabet" by Welsh writer W.H. Davies (1871-1940). Davies was also the author of "The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp."The cover of London Lyrics by English poet Frederick Locker-Lampson, published in NY in 1891.Follow us on Twitter!
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Daily Archives: October 8, 2010
Archives Diary: The Simplest Things from the John Wieners Collection
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties. These lines written by Charles Olson (1910-1970) have been fixed in my brain since the first time I read the poem “Maximus, to Himself,” and it … Continue reading
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