A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. Such poems were...

The Country House (play), 2014 play by Donald Margulies The Country House (restaurant), a restaurant in Clarendon Hills, Illinois Country house poem, a...

English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This...

a tutor for Fairfax's daughter, Mary. An example of a country house poem, "Upon Appleton House" describes Fairfax's Nunappleton estate while also reflecting...

several short poems, each dedicated to a different woman, a long title poem Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the first English country house poem entitled "The...

—Robert Burns "Halloween" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785. First published in 1786, the poem is included in the Kilmarnock...

in the company with gods. "A Country Life", another 17th-century work by Katherine Philips, was also a country house poem. Philips focuses on the joys...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was...

In 1611 the estate at Cookham was the subject of the first ever country house poem, Emilia Lanier's "Description of Cookham", which pays tribute to her...

topographical poetry include the country house poem, written in 17th-century England to compliment a wealthy patron, and the prospect poem, describing the view from...

works by Thomas, in In Country Sleep, and Other Poems (New Directions, 1952) and Collected Poems, 1934–1952 (Dent, 1952). The poem entered the public domain...

and her daughter Lady Anne Clifford. This is the first published country-house poem in English (Ben Jonson's better known "To Penshurst" may have been...

aristocratic supporters, but the most famous are his country-house poem "To Penshurst" and the poem "To Celia" ("Come, my Celia, let us prove") that appears...

topographical poetry include the country house poem, written in 17th-century England to compliment a wealthy patron, and the prospect poem, describing the view from...

"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He...

at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? “The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The...

country house poem "To My Friend G.N. from Wrest" in 1639 that described the old house which was demolished between 1834 and 1840. The present house was...

(Boydell and Brewer, 2015), Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems (Liverpool University Press, 2021), and Contraflow: Lines of Englishness...

as his personality, are the subject of Andrew Marvell's country house poem, Upon Appleton House. The troubles of the later Commonwealth recalled Lord Fairfax...

poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country...

Best Picture. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats. The plot follows the paths of the...

"Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and...

Pluto, which Scott uses in the fifth canto: Scott refers to his developing poem, so it is clear that the overall shape of the work was clear from the outset...

"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in...

journal entries, and verse. "On the Situation of Highbury" (1665), a country house poem included in the collection, has received particular attention from...

spacing of the stresses. The origin of the name limerick for this type of poem is debated. The name is generally taken to be a reference to the City or...

written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as...

The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of...

the following year. This sorrow is expressed in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem Lines on the Mausoleum of the Princess Charlotte, at Claremont, published...

Random House. 1930. Collected Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Holt (UK: Longmans Green, 1930) 1933. The Lone Striker. US: Knopf 1934. Selected Poems: Third...