Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.
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An autobiography describing the early years of the poet.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the "Negro dialect" associated with the antebellum South, though he also used the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Introduction
Critics at the time complained about his handling of the material, not his subject. The novel was not a commercial success.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Later work
The work attracted the attention of James Whitcomb Riley, the popular "Hoosier Poet". Both Riley and Dunbar wrote poems in both standard English and dialect.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Writing career
Dunbar and his wife separated in 1902, but they never divorced. Depression and declining health drove him to a dependence on alcohol, which further damaged his health.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
Dunbar's work is known for its colorful language and a conversational tone, with a brilliant rhetorical structure. These traits were well matched to the tune-writing ability of Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862–1946), with whom he collaborated.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Literary style
The next year, Dunbar asked the Wrights to publish his dialect poems in book form, but the brothers did not have a facility that could print books. They suggested he go to the United Brethren Publishing House which, in 1893, printed Dunbar's first collection of poetry, "Oak and Ivy". Dunbar subsidized the printing of the book, and quickly earned back his investment in two weeks by selling copies personally, often to passengers on his elevator. The larger section of the book, the "Oak" section, consisted of traditional verse, whereas the smaller section, the "Ivy", featured light poems written in dialect.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Writing career
Angered that editors refused to print his more traditional poems, Dunbar accused Howells of "[doing] me irrevocable harm in the dictum he laid down regarding my dialect verse." Dunbar, was continuing in a literary tradition that used Negro dialect; his predecessors included such writers as Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris and George Washington Cable. Two brief examples of Dunbar's work, the first in standard English and the second in dialect, demonstrate the diversity of the poet's works:
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Use of dialect
Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associated with the "Harper's Weekly", and Dunbar was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. He wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy "In Dahomey" (1903), the first all-African-American musical produced on Broadway in New York. The musical later toured in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dunbar also wrote in conventional English in other poetry and novels. Since the late 20th century, scholars have become more interested in these other works. Suffering from tuberculosis, which then had no cure, Dunbar died in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 33.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Introduction
Dunbar begins with a description of Spring. The sleeping poet has a dream in which he is visited by the personification of May. She demands that he rises and compose a poem in her honour.
The Thrissil and the Rois | The Introduction
He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form." This collection was published in 1931, following the Harlem Renaissance, which led to a great outpouring of literary and artistic works by blacks. They explored new topics, expressing ideas about urban life and migration to the North. In his writing, Johnson also criticized Dunbar for his dialect poems, saying they had fostered stereotypes of blacks as comical or pathetic, and reinforced the restriction that blacks write only about scenes of antebellum plantation life in the South.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Critical response and legacy
Dunbar became the first African-American poet to earn national distinction and acceptance. "The New York Times" called him "a true singer of the people – white or black." Frederick Douglass once referred to Dunbar as, "one of the sweetest songsters his race has produced and a man of whom [he hoped] great things." His friend and writer James Weldon Johnson highly praised Dunbar, writing in "The Book of American Negro Poetry:" "Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Critical response and legacy
The marriage of Dunbar's parents was troubled, and Dunbar's mother left Joshua soon after having their second child, a daughter. Joshua died on August 16, 1885, when Paul was 13 years old. Dunbar wrote his first poem at the age of six and gave his first public recital at the age of nine. His mother assisted him in his schooling, having learned to read expressly for that purpose. She often read the Bible with him, and thought he might become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was the first independent black denomination in America, founded in Philadelphia in the early 19th century.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Early life
Dunbar wrote much of his work in conventional English, while using African-American dialect for some of it, as well as regional dialects. Dunbar felt there was something suspect about the marketability of dialect poems, as if blacks were limited to a constrained form of expression not associated with the educated class. One interviewer reported that Dunbar told him, "I am tired, so tired of dialect", though he is also quoted as saying, "my natural speech is dialect" and "my love is for the Negro pieces". Dunbar credited William Dean Howells with promoting his early success, but was dismayed at the critic's encouragement that he concentrate on dialect poetry.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Use of dialect
William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520) was a Scottish poet. William Dunbar may also refer to:
William Dunbar (disambiguation) | Introduction
He and his wife moved to the capital, where they lived in the comfortable LeDroit Park neighborhood. At the urging of his wife, Dunbar soon left the job to focus on his writing, which he promoted through public readings. While in Washington, DC, Dunbar attended Howard University after the publication of "Lyrics of Lowly Life". In 1900, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), then often fatal, and his doctors recommended drinking whisky to alleviate his symptoms. On the advice of his doctors, he moved to Colorado with his wife, as the cold, dry mountain air was considered favorable for TB patients.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
Dunbar was prolific during his relatively short career: he published a dozen books of poetry, four books of short stories, four novels, lyrics for a musical, and a play. His first collection of short stories, "Folks From Dixie" (1898), a sometimes "harsh examination of racial prejudice", had favorable reviews. This was not the case for his first novel, "The Uncalled" (1898), which critics described as "dull and unconvincing". Dunbar explored the spiritual struggles of a white minister Frederick Brent, who had been abandoned as a child by his alcoholic father and raised by a virtuous white spinster, Hester Prime. (Both the minister and woman's names recalled Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," which featured a central character named Hester Prynne.) With this novel, Dunbar has been noted as one of the first African Americans to cross the "color line" by writing a work solely about white society.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Later work
"Ode to Ethiopia" is an 1896 poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, a noted African-American poet who achieved a national reputation in the United States before the end of the nineteenth century.
Ode to Ethiopia | Introduction
At the age of 16, Dunbar published the poems "Our Martyred Soldiers" and "On The River" in 1888 in Dayton's "The Herald" newspaper. In 1890 Dunbar wrote and edited "The Tattler", Dayton's first weekly African-American newspaper. It was printed by the fledgling company of his high-school acquaintances, Wilbur and Orville Wright. The paper lasted six weeks. After completing his formal schooling in 1891, Dunbar took a job as an elevator operator, earning a salary of four dollars a week. He had hoped to study law, but was not able to because of his mother's limited finances. He was restricted at work because of racial discrimination.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Writing career
Paul Laurence Dunbar achieved national and international acclaim in a literary world that was almost exclusively reserved for whites, producing a body of work that included novels, plays, short stories, lyrics, and over 400 published poems. His work, which reflected much of the African American experience in the United States, contributed to a growing social consciousness and cultural identity for African Americans. Although he died in 1906, his writings contributed to later developments in African American history, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the early Civil Rights Movement. He was a neighbor and lifelong friend of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park | Paul Laurence Dunbar
Corrothers thought that poetry in "standard English" was more appropriate for the twentieth century. In his autobiography, "In Spite of the Handicap", Corrothers claimed credit for bringing the work of another poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, to the attention of William Dean Howells.
James D. Corrothers | Introduction
Dickey states that Paul's late poetry was his best. One of these late poems, "Song After Making Love" was published in 2008 by Cold Mountain Review at Appalachian State University.
Paul Carroll (poet) | Introduction
James Dunbar FRSE FSAS LL.D. (born 1742, died 28 May 1798) was a British philosophical writer. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.
James Dunbar (writer) | Introduction
Here is a poem by Laurence Lerner (not infringing copyright, since submitted by the author, who holds the copyright!) Kaspar Hauser All that long time there was the place I was, All that long same, the dark and constant same. I came to being and it bit my eyes.
Laurence Lerner | Poem
Dunbar declares that he has recently suffered a headache which has prevented him from composing poetry. He compares the pain to being pierced by an arrow and adds that he finds it difficult to look at sources of light. He records that his attempts at writing were thwarted by his discomfort. He is unable to take pleasure in entertainments while affected by the migraine.
On His Heid-Ake | The Poem
Laurence James Lieberman is an American poet and professor.
Laurence Lieberman | Introduction
After returning from the United Kingdom, Dunbar married Alice Ruth Moore, on March 6, 1898. She was a teacher and poet from New Orleans whom he had met three years earlier. Dunbar called her "the sweetest, smartest little girl I ever saw". A graduate of Straight University (now Dillard University), a historically black college, Moore is best known for her short story collection, "Violets". She and her husband also wrote books of poetry as companion pieces. An account of their love, life and marriage was portrayed in "Oak and Ivy," a 2001 play by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson. In October 1897 Dunbar took a job at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Marriage and declining health
"A Question" is a poem by Robert Frost, first published in 1942 in "A Witness Tree".
A Question (poem) | Introduction
Robert Nugent Dunbar (also Nugent-Dunbar, 31 May 1798 – 25 July 1866) was a British poet.
Robert Nugent Dunbar | Introduction
He published: The latter work deals with such topics as the "Primeval Form of society", "Language as an Universal Accomplishment", "The Criterion of a Polished Tongue", "The Hereditary Genius of Nations".
James Dunbar (writer) | Publications
in 1878. He was the author of much verse which like his father's was of only mediocre quality. He was well known in the literary circles of his day, and was a good friend to Henry Kendall.
Laurence Hynes Halloran | Legacy
This opening, from the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford", continues:
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest | Introduction
Numerous schools and places have been named in honor of Dunbar. These include: -Lower schools: -College buildings: -Other institutions:
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Legacy and honors
I have seen him writhe under mental pain even upon a criticism of a poem."
Sumner Lincoln Fairfield | Introduction
William Dunbar's poetry contained a wide variety of subjects, moods and metres. He wrote many devout religious works and noble courtly pieces but he also produced comic pieces which often made use of scurrilous elements and uninhibited language.
William Dunbar | Dunbar's poetry
Laurence Curran Hodgson (November 6, 1874 – March 24, 1937) was an American newspaper journalist, poet, and politician from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Laurence C. Hodgson | Introduction
In 1501 and 1502, he participated in an embassy to England in the staff of Andrew Forman, Bishop of Moray. From 1500 the poet was employed at the court of King James in a role for which he received an annual pension. His duties are not recorded; he is referred to only as a or servant; but it is to this period that the bulk of his poetry can be dated. Several of Dunbar's poems were included in the Chepman and Myllar prints of 1508, the first books to be printed in Scotland.
William Dunbar | Biography
Dunbar had a long association with Dayton. He was born there in 1872, the son of former slaves, and his first poems were printed in the "Dayton Herald" in 1888. His first book, "Oak and Ivy" (1892) was published in Dayton by the United Brethren Publishing House as well. After serving as an elevator operator in Dayton and meeting some success for his writings, Dunbar took a job in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress. Dunbar purchased the home for his mother, Matilda Dunbar, in June 1904. The house is an eight-room brick structure on a quiet street. When Dunbar separated from his wife Alice Ruth Moore in 1902, he moved in as well.
Paul Laurence Dunbar House | History
The only copy manuscript of this text is in French, and although the style is very close to that of Dunbar's, it is unlikely that he was the author of this anonymous text. Dunbar's chief allegorical poems are "The Goldyn Targe" and "The Thrissil and the Rois". The motif of the former is the poet's futile endeavour, in a dream, to ward off Dame Beauty's arrows by Reason's "scheld of gold." When wounded and made prisoner, he discovers the true beauty of the lady: when she leaves him, he is handed over to Heaviness. The noise of the ship's guns, as the company sails off, wakes the poet to the real pleasures of a May morning.
William Dunbar | Work and influence
For the Scottish Literary Renaissance in the mid-twentieth century, Dunbar was a touchstone. Many tried to imitate his style, and "high-brow" subject matter, such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Sydney Goodsir Smith. As MacDiarmid himself said, they had to go "back to Dunbar". To make Dunbar more accessible to the modern reader "Selected Poems of William Dunbar: An Interlinear Translation" was published by Lawrence Siegler in 2010. Dunbar is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
William Dunbar | "Back to Dunbar"
Laurence Housman (; 18 July 1865 – 20 February 1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.
Laurence Housman | Introduction
As a young man, he aspired to be a poet.
Horace Rublee | Introduction
Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet.
Paul Durcan | Introduction
William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460–died by 1530) was a Scottish makar poet active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV and produced a large body of work in Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles. He was likely a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in "The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie". His surname is also spelt "Dumbar".
William Dunbar | Introduction
Dunbar works on the same theme in a shorter poem, known as "Beauty and the Prisoner". The "Thrissil and the Rois" is a wikt:prothalamium in honour of King James and Queen Margaret.
William Dunbar | Work and influence
In the poem as it survives, there are two exchanges. Dunbar opens with a three-stanza address to his commissar which pours lofty scorn on the poetic pretensions of Kennedy and his commissar, describing what must happen if their self-promotion should move him to reluctantly unleash his own far superior powers; which boast Kennedy answers, also in three stanzas, with a direct, highly personalised address to Dunbar, knocking his claims down to size and commanding him to bide his wheesht. Needless to say, Dunbar does not obey the injunction and a sustained poetic attack follows (25 stanzas) which Kennedy matches with a longer and equally sustained reply thirteen stanzas longer again (38).
The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie | Outline and performance
A poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon from The Literary Souvenir, 1826 illustrative of a picture of that name, by Leaky (sic), then in the British Gallery.
James Leakey | External Links
William Dunbar was a poet employed at the court of King James IV of Scotland. His poetry often adopted the traditional themes of court poets, such as religious subjects, satire and the marking of great events. However On His Heid-Ake deals with the commonplace details of his private life.
On His Heid-Ake | Summary
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered on American urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the forces that extinguish the dreams of African Americans.
The Sport of the Gods | Introduction
In addition to his book "Blindness" which was translated into several languages, he also wrote free verse. Among his published poems were: "Lines written on the death of Reverend Jame Reeb", "To Paul Dever" (former Governor of Massachusetts), and "Search for Identification" (on the death of Malcolm X).
Thomas J. Carroll | Author
Jarrett has recently completed writing a comprehensive biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Dayton-born African American poet of the turn of the 20th century. To support his writing of the biography, in 2010, Jarrett won the Walter Jackson Bate Fellowship in English Literature from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Four years later, he won the ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. The three books written by Jarrett have spawned eight additional books of African American literature and literary criticism, including the Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium.
Gene Andrew Jarrett | Scholarship
Letitia Elizabeth Landon published her poem "Lines. Supposed to be the Prayer of the Supplicating Nymph in Mr. Lawrence Macdonald’s Exhibition of Sculptures" in the Literary Gazette in 1831.
Lawrence Macdonald | In Literature
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's "If—", first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1896 in poetry | Introduction
As long ago as 1817, he had mourned the death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales in "The Lament of Britannia", octavo, London. He died at Paris in 1866.
Robert Nugent Dunbar | Life
Dunbar appeals to the Queen to treat his "faithful brother" well. He asserts that, although he joked with James Dog in verse, no malice was intended. He merely wanted to entertain the Queen. He dispenses more praise for Dog.
He Is Na Dog, He Is a Lam | The Poem
Laurence Collinson (1925 – 10 November 1986) was a British and Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist, and secondary school teacher.
Laurence Collinson | Introduction
Fifty Poems is a collection of poetry by fantasy author Lord Dunsany. His first poetry collection, it was first published in hardcover simultaneously in London and New York City by G. P. Putnam's Sons in October, 1929. The book collects fifty poems by the author.
Fifty Poems | Introduction
Paul Legault ( ; born June 25, 1985) is a Canadian-American poet.
Paul Legault | Introduction
She married the poet Ridgely Torrence in 1914. Dunbar died in 1953. Her work has been anthologized by Dorothy Scarborough and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Olivia Howard Dunbar | Life
He and his work have appeared on the BBC, in The Observer and The Independent, and at the Edinburgh Festival and assorted London theatres.
Laurence Shorter | Introduction
Dr. Janet Dunbar is an American composer.
Janet Dunbar | Introduction
— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden", first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1899 in poetry | Introduction
He died in Los Angeles in 1947.
Laurence D'Orsay | Introduction
Nan Dunbar (18 July 1928 – 3 April 2005) was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford. She is known for her 1995 edition of Aristophanes' "The Birds".
Nan Dunbar | Introduction
Callis was the second husband of poet Alice Dunbar; their marriage ended in divorce.
Henry Arthur Callis | Personal life
Some of Dunbar's poems were clearly commissioned to mark public events. His allegory "The Thrissil and the Rois" commemorated the marriage of Margaret of England to King James in 1503 while the "Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny" welcomed the arrival of a distinguished Franco-Scottish soldier as the French ambassador in 1508. Local events were also marked such as the visit of Queen Margaret to the " in 1511.
William Dunbar | Commemorative and occasional works
Among his students were poet Robert Pinsky and fiction writer Alan Cheuse.
Francis Fergusson | Introduction
Cinquevalli's life and career is the subject of a poem by Edwin Morgan, the National Poet of Scotland from 2004–2010.
Paul Cinquevalli | Literary references
However, he could not keep up this form, and after 1946 he appeared but rarely.
Leonard Blunt | Introduction
Geordie dialect words William Dunbar
Dunbar's local songs and recitations 1874 | See also
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Henry Austin (poet) | Introduction
French Laurence (3 April 1757 – 27 February 1809) was an English jurist and man of letters, a close associate of Edmund Burke whose literary executor he became.
French Laurence | Introduction
In the preface to "More Poems", Laurence Housman quoted the following instructions from the poet's will: Only two collections of A. E. Housman's poems had been published at widely separated intervals during his lifetime, "A Shropshire Lad" (1896) and "Last Poems" (1922). Laurence published a further 49 poems in "More Poems" on 26 October 1936, only a few months after the poet's death. The first impression was of 8,856 copies, followed immediately by a second impression of 5081; a later corrected third printing of 7,500 followed that. The American edition published that year had several textual differences to the British original.
More Poems | Editing
The following poems provide an introduction to his work:
Ivor Gurney | Selected poems
Non-Fiction: Short stories: Novel
Laurence D'Orsay | Partial bibliography
Lawrence Williams or Laurence Williams may refer to:
Lawrence Williams | Introduction
A Letter to a Young Poet was an epistolary letter by Virginia Woolf, written in 1932 to John Lehman, laying out her views on modern poetry.
A Letter to a Young Poet | Introduction
It is unclear whether the name "John Dunbar" was chosen as a corollary to the historical figure.
Dances with Wolves | Historical references
Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.
Paul Farley | Introduction
"Sea Surface full of Clouds" is a poem from the second, 1931, edition of Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium". It was first published in 1924, so it is restricted by copyright. However, brief parts of it are quoted here as , and the whole poem is available elsewhere on the Internet.
Sea Surface Full of Clouds | Introduction
Paul Carroll (July 15, 1927 – August 31, 1996) was an American poet and the founder of the Poetry Center of Chicago. A professor for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and professor emeritus, his books include "Poem in Its Skin" and "Odes". While a student, he was an editor of "Chicago Review". In 1985 he won the Chicago Poet's Award, and the city published his book "The Garden of Earthly Delights". His papers, "The Paul Carroll Papers", are archived in the Special Collection Research Center at the University of Chicago Library. Among those papers are documents between Carroll's buddy, fellow poet and critic James Dickey, where Mr.
Paul Carroll (poet) | Introduction
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine "The Chameleon" in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. In Wilde's definition, "the love that dare not speak its name" was:
The love that dare not speak its name | Introduction
Other court entertainments were more personal. "Of James Dog" and its sequel "He Is Na Dog, He Is a Lam" describe the poet's dealings with the keeper of the Queen's wardrobe.
William Dunbar | Court entertainment
James Donald Farrar (5 October 1923 – 26 July 1944) was an English poet.
James Farrar | Introduction
Several poems in Laurence's selection for "More Poems" had already been considered by Housman for his previous collections, even reaching the page proof stage, before being rejected as not meeting his editorial aims there. Among them was the earnest “The Sage to the Young Man” (4), with its old fashioned forms of address, originally destined for "A Shropshire Lad". It had, however, been published anonymously at a later date in the school magazine "The Edwardian" (April 1916). Five more, Poems 18, 26, 33, 45 and 46, had been intended for "Last Poems". Among work taken from old publications, Poem 48 was one of the earliest, having appeared as “Parta Quies”, under his initials only, in "Waifs and Strays" (March 1881).
More Poems | The poems
When Barton was a boy, his father instructed him to guess the distance between his mother's bedroom window and the window at the home next door, to which he guessed 20 ft. "Well, my boy," his father told him, "You are a Protestant; but always remember that if you had been born 20 ft. to the east you would have been a Catholic."
Dunbar Barton | Introduction
Dunstan Gale (fl. 1596) was an English poet. Gale was the author of a poem entitled "Pyramus and Thisbe", supposed to have been printed for the first time in 1597, as the dedication is addressed "To the Worshipful his verie friend D. B. H. Nov. 25th, 1596". It was published with Greene's "History of Arbasto" in 1617, in the title of which it is spoken of as "a lovely poem".
Dunstan Gale | Introduction
The long poem "Marimarusa" was published in 1978.
J. F. Hendry | Introduction
385–7), others are given in the "Shakespearean Repository" (ed. James Hamilton Fennell, January 1823), in "Select Poetry" (Parker Soc. ii. 450–1), and in Corser's "Collectanea Anglo-Poetica" (xi. 432–5).
James Yates (poet) | Introduction
Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem is an 1855 poetic play, the first published work of Scottish author George MacDonald. It is written mostly in unrhymed iambic pentameter, although portions are written in rhymed iambic pentameter, mixed iambic and anapestic tetrameter, and other forms. In its original printing, the piece is 183 pages long. It is prefaced with a dedicatory poem entitled "To Louisa Powell MacDonald" (MacDonald's wife).
Within and Without | Introduction
It featured poetry by James D. Corrothers, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
The Voice of the Negro | Introduction
The "Lament for the Makaris" ("Lament for the poets", c. 1505) of the Scottish makar or poet William Dunbar consists of a general introductory section (quoted from below) followed by a list of dead Scots poets with the Latin refrain "Timor mortis conturbat me" ("the fear of death disturbs me") at the end of each of the 25 four-line stanzas: On to the ded gois all estatis, Princis, prelotis, and potestatis, Baith riche and pur of al degre; Timor mortis conturbat me. He takis the knychtis in to feild, Anarmit under helme and scheild;
Ubi sunt | William Dunbar
Paul Collin (12 July 1843 – 5 February 1915) was a French poet, writer, translator and librettist.
Paul Collin | Introduction
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Donald Lawrence | Introduction
His obituary in "The Times" said of him, "Seldom has there been a more romantic or amply filled career; never, perhaps, a stranger or more apparently contradictory personality."
Laurence Oliphant (author) | Final years
George Dunbar FRSE (1777–6 December 1851) was a Scottish classical scholar and lexicographer who authored a classical Greek dictionary, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh.
George Dunbar (classical scholar) | Introduction
Readings by Laurence Lerner of several of his poems appear on YouTube
Laurence Lerner | Readings
"I Am" (or "Lines: I Am") is a poem written by English poet John Clare in late 1844 or 1845 and published in 1848. It was composed when Clare was in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum (commonly Northampton County Asylum, and later renamed St Andrew's Hospital), isolated by his mental illness from his family and friends.
I Am (poem) | Introduction
Dunbar's poem "The Birth of Antichrist" seems to be a second satire of John Damian with its reference to a flying abbot clothed in feathers. Damian's career was described by the later historian John Lesley.
The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland | Historical context
His poetry has continued to appear in a variety of weird fiction and speculative poetry-oriented journals.
Donald Sidney-Fryer | Introduction
Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence (1861–1952) was a British barrister and judge.
Paul Ogden Lawrence | Introduction