What was E. E. Cummings' first published poem?
E. E. Cummings
Cummings returned to Paris in 1921 and had lived there for two years before returning to New York. His collection "Tulips and Chimneys" was published in 1923 and his inventive use of grammar and syntax is evident. The book was heavily cut by his editor. "XLI Poems" was published in 1925. With these collections, Cummings made his reputation as an avant garde poet.
Ewa Kuryluk
Kuryluk's first poetry was written in German and published in the high school magazine she founded, which was subsequently banned by the school authorities because of being too “existentialist”. In 1967, she debuted in the Warsaw magazine “Ty i Ja” with a travelogue in the form of letters, and she published two collections of poems. Her M.A. thesis was published as “Wiedeńska apokalipsa” (Viennese Apocalypse) in 1974, her first collection of essays on Austrian art and literature around 1900, and her Ph.D. dissertation was released as “Salome albo o Rozkoszy” (Salome or on Voluptuousness) in 1976, a study of the grotesque focusing on Aubrey Beardsley. The book was published in 1986 as "Salome and Judas in the Cave of Sex. The Grotesque: Origins, Iconography, Techniques" by Northwestern University Press.
William Kirby (author)
Kirby's first full-length work was a long narrative, "The U.E.: a tale of Upper Canada". Written in 1846 the poem spoke to his political views of the time. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to have it published until 1859, when he published it himself in the "Niagara Mail".
Four Quartets
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, "Burnt Norton", was published with a collection of his early works (1936's "Collected Poems 1909–1935".) After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages", and "Little Gidding", which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career ("East Coker" in September 1940, "Burnt Norton" in February 1941, "The Dry Salvages" in September 1941 and "Little Gidding" in 1942.) The poems were not collected until Eliot's New York publisher printed them together in 1943.
E. E. Cummings
"" was probably Cummings' most successful play. It is an allegorical Christmas fantasy presented in one act of five scenes. The play was inspired by his daughter Nancy, with whom he was reunited in 1946. It was first published in the Harvard College magazine, "Wake". The play's main characters are Santa Claus, his family (Woman and Child), Death, and Mob. At the outset of the play, Santa Claus' family has disintegrated due to their lust for knowledge (Science). After a series of events, however, Santa Claus' faith in love and his rejection of the materialism and disappointment he associates with Science are reaffirmed, and he is reunited with Woman and Child.
Mae Virginia Cowdery
Cowdery won first prize in a 1927 poetry contest from "The Crisis" for her poem "Longings;" another poem won the Krigwa Prize. She went to New York in order to attend Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and frequented night places in Greenwich Village. During the late 1920s, she established her reputation by publishing in journals, magazines and anthologies. She did not publish her own collection of poetry until her book "We Lift Our Voices: And Other Poems" (1936), but was one of the few African-American women poets in the first half of the 20th century to publish a book of her work. "It was critically well received."
E. E. Cummings
The seeds of Cummings' unconventional style appear well established even in his earliest work. At age six, he wrote to his father:
E. E. Cummings
Some of Cummings' most famous poems do not involve much, if any, odd typography or punctuation, but still carry his unmistakable style, particularly in unusual and impressionistic word order.
Rose Terry Cooke
Terry's first published poem appeared in the "New York Daily Tribune" in 1851 and received high praise from the editor Charles A. Dana. In 1855, she published "The Mormon's Wife" in "Graham's Magazine", of which Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward wrote that it "dealt powerfully with the leprosy of Mormonism, and wrung from the heart tears dried only by the heat of indignation," and interpreted the story as early evidence of Cooke's "intuitions of genius... a genius [which] became the ultimate expression of generations of hard Puritan ancestry." This was followed by a piece for the "Atlantic Monthly", the leading story in the first number. Around 1858, when Rose was about twenty-nine her idolized sister Alice, younger than herself by nearly five years, married; and in the delicate state of this sister's health her two children became the care and delight of Cooke. In 1860, she published a volume of poems, and in 1888, she published more verse with her "Complete Poems".
E. J. Pratt
Pratt's first published poem was "A Poem on the May examinations," printed in "Acta Victoriana" in 1909 when he was a student. In 1917 he privately published a long poem, "Rachel: A Sea Story of Newfoundland". He then spent two years working on a verse drama, "Clay", which he ended by burning (except for one copy which Mrs. Pratt managed to save).
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
"anyone lived in a pretty how town" is a poem written by E. E. Cummings. First published in 1940, the poem details the lives of residents in a nameless town. Like much of Cummings's work, the poem is actually untitled, so critics use the first line to refer to the poem. Cummings often wrote in a manner that did not follow standard English syntax and punctuation. This style is evident in the poem's first line, which is written in all lowercase letters and contains the unlikely phrase "pretty how town".
Henry Holcomb Bennett
It was first published in "The Youth's Companion" on January 13, 1898. It was collected in "An American Anthology" in 1900, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908). The poem was also published in "The Young and Field Reader", Book Five, Boston, Ginn and Company, c. 1915, submitted by Ross I. Morrison, Sr and "Woman's World" in July 1919. It was soon published and sung widely—especially on the 4th of July. Years later, poet E. E. Cummings recited the poem at his class's commencement.
Joy Farm
Joy Farm, also known as the E. E. Cummings House, is a historic farmstead on Joy Farm Road in the Silver Lake part of Madison, New Hampshire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 in recognition for its place as the longtime summer home of poet E. E. Cummings (1894–1962).
E. Pauline Johnson
Scholars have had difficulty identifying Johnson's complete works, as much was published in periodicals. Her first volume of poetry, "The White Wampum", was published in London, England in 1895. It was followed by "Canadian Born" in 1903. The contents of these volumes, together with additional poems, were published as the collection "Flint and Feather" in 1912. Reprinted many times, this book has been one of the best-selling titles of Canadian poetry. Since the 1917 edition, "Flint and Feather" has been misleadingly subtitled "The Complete Poems of E. Pauline Johnson". But in 2002, professors Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag produced an edition, "Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose", that contains all of Johnson's poems found up to that date.
La Ferté-Macé
During the First World War, the village housed a military detention camp, the "Dépôt de Triage". Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage". This was based on their having expressed anti war opinions. Cummings' experiences in the camp at La Ferté-Mace were the basis for his novel, "The Enormous Room". The three-building complex, with a church and two classroom buildings, had previously served as a seminary and lycée. The prisoners were kept on the top floor of the largest building, which was open and spanned most of the floor.
Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession
Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (also known as Pauline) is the first published poem by Robert Browning. It was written in 1832, and published anonymously in 1833. The poem is the confession of an unnamed poet to his lover, the eponymous woman. It was first reprinted in 1868 with no alterations to the text.
E. E. Cummings
During the rest of the 1920s and 1930s, Cummings returned to Paris a number of times, and traveled throughout Europe, meeting, among others, artist Pablo Picasso. In 1931 Cummings traveled to the Soviet Union, recounting his experiences in "Eimi", published two years later. During these years Cummings also traveled to Northern Africa and Mexico. He worked as an essayist and portrait artist for "Vanity Fair" magazine (1924–1927).
Pamelia Sarah Vining
Yule contributed poems extensively to journals and newspapers in both Canada and the United States from about 1856. Her earliest appearance in an anthology seems to have been the three poems which William Turner Coggeshall included in "The poets and poetry of the West" (New York, 1860). The appearance of eight of her poems in Edward Hartley Dewart*’s Selections from Canadian poets, which was published in Montreal by John Lovell in 1864, brought her work before a larger Canadian public, and Dewart’s enthusiasm for her poetry (“There is no Canadian poet whose poetry we have read, and re-read, with greater interest and delight than Miss Vining’s”) helped to establish her reputation. Her earliest separate publication was The names of Jesus; a poem, originally read at the Canadian Literary Institute on 27 Jan. 1866. A more substantial work, Poems of the heart and home, appeared in Toronto in 1881. Some time after her marriage she began to write fiction. Ada Emory; or, the sister’s Bible; a story and Up hill; or Paul Sutherland’s progress (1887) were issued in Philadelphia by the American Baptist Publication Society. No copy of Ada Emory has been located; that it was published in 1871 is confirmed in the autobiographical note; advertisements for it appeared in Canadian Baptist between 1873 and 1876. The only recorded copy of the second novel, the one deposited at the Library of Congress, was at some later point discarded. Sowing and reaping: or, records of the Ellisson family, a temperance novel, was published in Toronto by William Briggs* in 1889 (not 1899, as is usually stated). She also edited the papers of her husband and published them, together with her memoir of him, as Records of a vanished life . . . (Toronto, 1876). In addition to her poetry and fiction she published on religious subjects, contributing, for example, a series of Sunday school lessons to The Christian helper (Toronto) in the early 1880s. A number of unpublished manuscripts remain among her papers at the Canadian Baptist Archives, including “The Heathen World,” a substantial non-fiction work that deals with the church’s obligation to carry the gospel to the heathen. Excerpts were published in the Canadian Missionary Link between 1886 and 1888.
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
"Song" is a ballad-style poem, which was first published in "Tamerlane and Other Poems" in 1827, the speaker tells of a former love he saw from afar on her wedding day. A blush on her cheek, despite all the happiness around her, displays a hidden shame for having lost the speaker's love.
The Conqueror Worm
"The Conqueror Worm" was first published as a stand-alone poem in the January 1843 issue of "Graham's Magazine". Shortly after, it was included among several other poems by Poe in the February 25 issue of the "Saturday Museum" in a feature called "The Poets & Poetry of Philadelphia: Edgar Allan Poe". It was later included in Poe's poetry collection "The Raven and Other Poems" in 1845. That same year, it was incorporated into "Ligeia" for the first time when the story was reprinted in the February 15, 1845, issue of the "New York World". "Ligeia" was again republished with "The Conqueror Worm" in the September 27, 1845, issue of "The Broadway Journal" while Poe was its editor. This was not unusual for Poe, who had also incorporated poems "The Coliseum" and "To One in Paradise" into tales.
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 copies of the collection still exist.
Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn
Allyn intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her and she remained at home, entering into society and writing quietly for the local papers. Her articles were signed using various pen names in order to avoid displeasing one of her brothers, who did not wish to have a "bluestocking" in the family. Her first published poems appeared in the Cleveland "Plain Dealer", when she was only thirteen years old. Besides composing poems for recitation in school, she often wrote songs, both words and music, when she could not find songs suited to various occasions.
E. E. Cummings
In the 1930s Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs was Cummings' publisher; he had started the Golden Eagle Press after working as a typographer and publisher.
E. B. C. Jones
Jones's first novel, "Quiet Interior", was published in 1920 and praised by such notable contemporary authors as Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West. She went on to write a handful of other novels: "The Singing Captives" (1921), "The Wedgwood Medallion" (1923), "Inigo Sandys" (1924), "Helen and Felicia" (1927), and "Morning and Cloud" (1932). Although they were generally well received, they have fallen into obscurity in the years since.
Edith Cummings
Edith Cummings (March 26, 1899 – November 1984) was an American socialite and one of the premier amateur golfers of her generation. She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago, at the end of the First World War. She became nationally famous following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of "Time" magazine.
An Embarrassing Position
Kate Chopin wrote "An Embarrassing Position" while living in St. Louis, Missouri. She submitted it to the "New York Herald" drama competition, but did not win. It appeared in the St. Louis "Mirror" on December 19, 1895. Later, interest in her work grew, and in 1970 the play was published as part of "Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories" by the Library of America.
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
"Romance" first appeared as "Preface" in the 1829 collection "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems" then, in 1831, as "Introduction" in "Poems By Edgar A. Poe". It took the title "Romance" in the February 25, 1843 issue of the "Philadelphia Saturday Museum". The early versions made some allusion to alcohol with lines like, "drunkenness of the soul" and "the glories of the bowl." In the poem, the speaker refers to some exotic bird that has been with him his whole life. He also says, "I could not love except where Death / Was mingling his with Beauty's breath," a line often termed autobiographical as many of the women in Poe's love life were ill (an early love Jane Stanard died of tuberculosis, as did his wife Virginia; also, his later love Sarah Helen Whitman had a weak heart, etc.).
The Cantos
Pound had been considering writing a long poem since around 1905, but work did not begin until May 1915 when Pound wrote to his mother that he was working on a long poem. He published the first three cantos in June, July and August 1917, in the journal "Poetry". In this version, the poem began as an address by the poet to Robert Browning. Pound came to believe that this narrative voice compromised the intent of his poetic vision, and these first three ur-cantos were soon abandoned and a new starting point sought. The answer was a Latin version of Homer's "Odyssey" by the Renaissance scholar Andreas Divus that Pound had bought in Paris sometime between 1906 and 1910.
Burton Cummings
On the November 23, 2010 morning show episode of "Canada AM", Cummings announced that he would be releasing a book of poetry in 2011, mentioning that he had been working on it for the past three years. He stated that the works of Kipling, Keats and Edgar Allan Poe were great inspirations to him during the writing process, adding, "I like to be influenced by the best." The collection, titled "The Writings of B. L. Cummings," was released in mid-2017 and sold out. A second edition is in the works as of June 2017.
On June 28, 2011, it was announced that Cummings will receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and will be inducted on October 1 at Elgin Theatre in Toronto. He previously received a star as part of The Guess Who in 2001.
Laurie Lee
Lee's first love was always poetry, though he was only moderately successful as a poet. Lee's poems had appeared in the "Gloucester Citizen" and the "Birmingham Post", and in October 1934 his poem 'Life' won a prize from, and publication in, the "Sunday Referee", a national paper. Another poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in 1940 and his first volume of poems, "The Sun My Monument," was launched in 1944. This was followed by "The Bloom of Candles" (1947) and "My Many-coated Man" (1955). Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countryside. The poem "Twelfth Night" from "My Many-coated Man" was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968.
Ray Cummings
Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre. His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel "The Girl in the Golden Atom" published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's "The Diamond Lens" with H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine") and a sequel, "The People of the Golden Atom", published in 1920.
Fanny Crosby
In 1841, "New York Herald" published Crosby's eulogy on the death of President William Henry Harrison, thus beginning her literary career. Her poems were published frequently in "The Saturday Evening Post", the "Clinton Signal", the "Fireman's Journal", and the "Saturday Emporium".
Crosby was reluctant to have her poems published, as she considered them to be "unfinished productions", but she acquiesced eventually because it would publicize the Institution and raise funds for it. (She had suffered an illness that caused her to leave the NYIB in order to recuperate.) Her first book "A Blind Girl and Other Poems" was published in April 1844 after encouragement by the Institution, including “An Evening Hymn" based on Psalm 4:8, which she described as her first published hymn. In 1853, her "Monterey and Other Poems" was published which included poems focusing on the recent Mexican–American War, and a poem pleading for the US to help those affected by the Irish Potato Famine. She stated in her 1903 autobiography, edited by Will Carleton, that she "was under a feeling of sadness and depression at this time".
E. E. Cummings
Cummings also wrote children's books and novels. A notable example of his versatility is an introduction he wrote for a collection of the comic strip "Krazy Kat".
Ethel Colburn Mayne
Mayne's first published work came when in 1895, aged 30, she submitted a short story to the recently established literary periodical "The Yellow Book".
The editor Henry Harland accepted it, writing her an effusive letter, and the story, "A Pen-and-ink Effect", appeared in July 1895 in Volume 6 of the periodical, under the pen name Frances E. Huntley.
In September 1895, her short story "Her Story and His" was published in "Chapman's Magazine of Fiction", under the same pen name.
Catharina Questiers
Catharina wrote her first poem with her brother, David, when she was 8 years old. She continued to mold her craft until her first work appeared in “Corpse’s Complaint”, written after the death of her admired and well esteemed friend and poet, Tesselschade Roemersdr Visscher. The poem appeared in JacobViverius, “Wintery Nights”. [2]
No Thanks (poetry collection)
No Thanks is a 1935 collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings. Cummings is also often referred to as e.e. cummings due to his creative use of orthography in some of his work, and his perceived bias for the lowercase form of his name. He self-published the collection with the help of his mother and dedicated it to the fourteen publishing houses who turned the collection down. The book is unconventionally bound not on the left but rather the top, like a stenographer's pad.
This was his most difficult collection of poems to publish and well-received due to its originality.
W. B. Yeats
His first significant poem was "The Island of Statues", a fantasy work that took Edmund Spenser and Shelley for its poetic models. The piece was serialized in the "Dublin University Review". Yeats wished to include it in his first collection, but it was deemed too long, and in fact was never republished in his lifetime. Quinx Books published the poem in complete form for the first time in 2014. His first solo publication was the pamphlet "Mosada: A Dramatic Poem" (1886), which comprised a print run of 100 copies paid for by his father. This was followed by the collection "The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems" (1889), which arranged a series of verse that dated as far back as the mid-1880s. The long title poem contains, in the words of his biographer R. F. Foster, "obscure Gaelic names, striking repetitions [and] an unremitting rhythm subtly varied as the poem proceeded through its three sections";
We rode in sorrow, with strong hounds three,
Bran, Sceolan, and Lomair,
On a morning misty and mild and fair.
The mist-drops hung on the fragrant trees,
And in the blossoms hung the bees.
We rode in sadness above Lough Lean,
For our best were dead on Gavra's green.
Santa Claus: A Morality
Santa Claus: A Morality (or just Santa Claus) is a play written by 20th-century poet E. E. Cummings in 1946. The play is an allegorical Christmas tale consisting of one act of five scenes. In the play, Santa Claus deals with the increasing materialism and lust for knowledge around him and becomes consumed by it because of Death. However, the love Santa has for his family allows him to reject these things.
Epigram
The first work of English literature penned in North America was Robert Hayman's "Quodlibets, Lately Come Over from New Britaniola, Old Newfoundland," which is a collection of over 300 epigrams, many of which do not conform to the two-line rule or trend. While the collection was written between 1618 and 1628 in what is now Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, it was published shortly after his return to Britain. 
In Victorian times the epigram couplet was often used by the prolific American poet Emily Dickinson. Her poem No. 1534 is a typical example of her eleven poetic epigrams. The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings. Her best example is in her sequenced sonnet poem entitled "Brother and Sister" in which each of the eleven sequenced sonnet ends with a couplet. In her sonnets, the preceding lead-in-line, to the couplet ending of each, could be thought of as a title for the couplet, as is shown in Sonnet VIII of the sequence.
Ernest Myers
Myers published poetry in "The Puritans" (1869), translated the "Odes" of Pindar (1874), followed in 1877 by a volume entitled "Poems". A further, larger volume of his own poetry followed in 1880, "The Defence of Rome and Other Poems", and he contributed an article on Aeschylus to a collection of Classical essays edited by Evelyn Abbott.
Epithalamium
E. E. Cummings also returns to the form in his poem "Epithalamion", which appears in his 1923 book "Tulips and Chimneys". E.E.Cummings' Epithalamion consists of three seven octave parts, and includes numerous references to ancient Greece.
C. K. Williams
His first book, "Lies"', was published in 1969, and he published many collections of poetry. His "Collected Poems" appeared in 2006, of which Peter Campion wrote in The Boston Globe: “Throughout the five decades represented in his new "Collected Poems", Williams has maintained the most sincere, and largest, ambitions. Like Yeats and Lowell before him, he writes from the borderland between private and public life…(His poems) join skeptical intelligence and emotional sincerity, to make sense of the world and ourselves. C.K. Williams has set a new standard for American poetry."
E. E. Cummings House
The house was designed by Walker and Kimball for Edward E. Cummings, a professor at Harvard and a local pastor, and was built in 1893. Cummings' son the poet E. E. Cummings, was born here the following year, and lived here until he graduated from Harvard (BA 1915, MA 1917), and moved to New York City. Cummings described the house in his "six nonlectures": "My own home faced the Cambridge world as a finely and solidly constructed mansion, preceded by a large oval lawn and ringed with an imposing white-pine hedge," and "The big Cambridge house was in this respect, as in all other respects, a true home."
Emily Dickinson
Although Dickinson's acquaintances were most likely aware of her writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Dickinson's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of her work became apparent to the public. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, though both heavily edited the content. A 1998 New York Times article revealed that of the many edits made to Dickinson's work, the name "Susan" was often deliberately removed. At least 11 of Dickinson's poems were dedicated to sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, though all the dedications were obliterated, presumably by Todd. A complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas H. Johnson published "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" in 1955.
James Joyce
Joyce published a number of books of poetry. His first mature published work was the satirical broadside "The Holy Office" (1904), in which he proclaimed himself to be the superior of many prominent members of the Celtic Revival. His first full-length poetry collection "Chamber Music" (1907; referring, Joyce joked, to the sound of urine hitting the side of a chamber pot) consisted of 36 short lyrics. This publication led to his inclusion in the "Imagist Anthology", edited by Ezra Pound, who was a champion of Joyce's work. Other poetry Joyce published in his lifetime include "Gas From A Burner" (1912), "Pomes Penyeach" (1927), and "Ecce Puer" (written in 1932 to mark the birth of his grandson and the recent death of his father). It was published by the Black Sun Press in "Collected Poems" (1936).
E. E. Cummings
Many of Cummings' poems are satirical and address social issues but have an equal or even stronger bias toward romanticism: time and again his poems celebrate love, sex, and the season of rebirth.
Emma G. Cummings
Cummings was the first woman to hold a town office in Brookline, when she was elected a member of the town's tree planting committee. Cummings was elected an Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1903. Also in 1903, she gave a lecture to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society about trees in the Southern United States. In 1904 her ornithological pocket guide "Baby Pathfinder to the Birds", co-authored with Harriet E. Richards, was described in "The Auk" as "a convenient and helpful "vade mecum"", praised in the "Journal of Education" as a valuable guide that "no beginner or would-be beginner should be without", and cited by the "Boston Herald" as evidence of Cummings' exemplary status as a "twentieth century woman." She was a member of the tree planting committee from 1902 to 1939, and in 1938 published a book on the committee's history and notable trees of the town. Her book "Brookline's Trees" was praised by "The Boston Globe", and the "Boston Herald" noted that it was "much used by teachers and in schools." Cummings was also a member of the Brookline Historical Society and gave talks to the membership on her travels, such as to Hawaii in 1923, and she was on the science sub-committee of the Brookline Education Society.
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The title "Stanzas" was assigned to this untitled poem originally printed in "Tamerlane and Other Poems" in 1827. Another poem with the title "Stanzas" was published in the "Graham's Magazine" in December 1845 and signed "P." It was attributed to Poe based on a copy owned by Frances Osgood, on which she had pencilled notes.
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
Mathews published her first collection of poetry, "Poems" in 1796, under her maiden name, Eliza Kirkham Strong, as it wasn't until 1797 she married Charles Mathews. She completed several novels and children's books as well as numerous uncollected poems, including a collection of essays called "The Pharos: A Collection of Periodical Essays", published in 1787. Her final publication, the 1801 novel "What Has Been", concerns a woman’s inability to support her family by writing fiction. Her second poetry collection, also called "Poems" (1802), gathered and published posthumously, is mainly composed of sonnets, elegies, and odes.
Emily Elizabeth Veeder
Her first book was "Her Brother Donnard" (Philadelphia, 1891). Veeder occasionally contributed verses to prominent periodicals. Her first appearance with a collected volume of poetry, however, was in the book to which the first poem, "In The Garden", gave its title (1895). She arranged several of her poems to music of her own composition. Much of the time, she was exhausted by invalidism. In her hours of pain, she rose above physical suffering and her habitual temper was buoyant and helpful. She possessed originality and piquancy. A keen observation of human nature and a nice discrimination of character give point to her conversation and her literary work. She was very facile with anecdotes. Some of her purely outdoor work shows her genuine love of nature; while in her versified story, "Entranced", her narrative power stood out, and her "Austin’s Painting of Christ" revealed the true devotional bent of her mind.
Emily Dickinson
The surge of posthumous publication gave Dickinson's poetry its first public exposure. Backed by Higginson and with a favorable notice from William Dean Howells, an editor of "Harper's Magazine", the poetry received mixed reviews after it was first published in 1890. Higginson himself stated in his preface to the first edition of Dickinson's published work that the poetry's quality "is that of extraordinary grasp and insight", albeit "without the proper control and chastening" that the experience of publishing during her lifetime might have conferred. His judgment that her opus was "incomplete and unsatisfactory" would be echoed in the essays of the New Critics in the 1930s.
T. E. Hulme
From about 1907 Hulme became interested in philosophy, translating works by Henri Bergson and sitting in on lectures at Cambridge. He translated Georges Sorel's "Reflections on Violence". The most important influences on his thought were Bergson, who asserted that 'human experience is relative, but religious and ethical values are absolute' and, later, Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), German art historian and critic – in particular his "Abstraktion und Einfühlung" ("Abstraction and Empathy", 1908). Hulme was influenced by Remy de Gourmont's aristocratic concept of art and his studies of sensibility and style. From 1909 Hulme contributed critical articles to "The New Age", edited by A. R. Orage.
Hulme developed an interest in poetry and wrote a small number of poems. He was made secretary of the Poets' Club, attended by such establishment figures as Edmund Gosse and Henry Newbolt. There he encountered Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint. In late 1908 Hulme delivered his paper "A Lecture on Modern Poetry" to the club. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset", both published in 1909 in a Poets' Club anthology, have the distinction of being the first Imagist poems. A further five poems were published in "The New Age" in 1912 as "The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme". Despite this misleading title, Hulme in fact wrote about 25 poems totalling some 260 lines, of which the majority were possibly written between 1908 and 1910. Robert Frost met Hulme in 1913 and was influenced by his ideas. The publisher of the book 'Ripostes' (to which Pound appended the 'complete' poetical works of T. E. Hulme) spoke in that book of Hulme 'the meta-physician, who achieves great rhythmical beauty in curious verse-forms.'
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Hamilton's first miscellaneous poems appeared in 1878, and attracted no notice whatever; and it was only with the publication of "The New Medusa" that his poetry began to receive attention. This volume was followed, in 1885, by one entitled "Apollo and Marsyas", and his next publication, entitled "Imaginary Sonnets", came out in the fall of 1888. As a writer of sonnets he is most remarkable.
Charles Hopkinson
Hopkinson then began a lucrative career as a portrait painter in Cambridge winning awards like the Logan Medal of the arts (1926), and soon his first commission being a baby portrait in 1896 of poet E. E. Cummings, a work that is in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Susan Marr Spalding
Her poetical career dates back to her girlhood. Her poems were artistic productions, and she excelled in sonnet writing, ranking among the most successful sonnet writers of the day. Her work having a peculiar charm, she contributed to many prominent periodicals. 
Spalding was best known and least known by her poem, "Fate". The poem itself was widely copied and claimed, and its title was sometimes changed to "Kismet", but not until 1893 was Spalding's right of authorship absolutely settled. Edwin Milton Royle, who used it in his play of "Friends", was inundated with letters from persons purporting to be its author, so that he placed Spalding's name upon all his programmes. The lines first appeared in print in the "New York Graphic", in 1876. Spalding said,— "I happen to have still in my possession the note from William Augustus Croffut –one of "The Graphic's" editors– accepting the poem, speaking of it in the highest terms and expressing his regret that the "New York Graphic" could not pay for poetry, which letter has more than once quenched a too-insistent claimant. It is, by the way, the only bit of blank verse I ever wrote." "Fate" was set to music by Emma Lore.
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Up to this point, Poe had not written much poetry. His earliest lines of verse were a couplet labeled "Poetry", presumably written sometime in 1824 in the ledger book of Allan & Ellis, his foster father's mercantile company. The lines read: "Last night with many cares & toils oppress'd / Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest—". The earliest known full-length poem by Poe, "O, Tempora! O, Mores!", is a satirical poem whose authorship is the subject of some dispute. Nevertheless, calling himself "irrecoverably a poet", he had been working on a few longer poems at the University of Virginia, whose manuscripts he brought with him to Boston.
E. E. Cummings
He expressed transcendental leanings his entire life. As he matured, Cummings moved to an "I, Thou" relationship with God. His journals are replete with references to ""le bon Dieu"", as well as prayers for inspiration in his poetry and artwork (such as "Bon Dieu! may i some day do something truly great. amen."). Cummings "also prayed for strength to be his essential self ('may I be I is the only prayer—not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong'), and for relief of spirit in times of depression ('almighty God! I thank thee for my soul; & may I never die spiritually into a mere mind through disease of loneliness')."
Emily Dickinson
Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly 1800 poems, Dickinson's first volume was published four years after her death. Until Thomas H. Johnson published Dickinson's "Complete Poems" in 1955, Dickinson's poems were considerably edited and altered from their manuscript versions. Since 1890 Dickinson has remained continuously in print.
Puella Mea
Puella Mea is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is notable as his longest poem, at 290 lines. The title is Latin and translates as "My Girl", referring to Elaine Orr Thayer, his first wife, and the mother of his only child, Nancy Thayer Andrews.
E. E. Cummings
Despite Cummings' familiarity with avant-garde styles (likely affected by the "Calligrammes" of French poet Apollinaire, according to a contemporary observation), much of his work is quite traditional. Many of his poems are sonnets, albeit often with a modern twist. He occasionally used the blues form and acrostics. Cummings' poetry often deals with themes of love and nature, as well as the relationship of the individual to the masses and to the world. His poems are also often rife with satire.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Coatsworth began her career publishing her poetry in magazines. Her first book was a poetry collection for adults, "Fox Footprints", in 1912. A conversation with her friend, Louise Seaman, who had just founded the first children's book publishing department in the United States at Macmillan, led Coatsworth to write her first children's book, "The Cat and the Captain". In 1930 "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" appeared. The story of an artist who is painting a picture of Buddha for a group of monks, it won the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
Fred Tompkins
The 1980s saw Tompkins setting music to the poetry of Emily Dickinson and E. E. Cummings (Lucy Shelton premiered his "Three Poems to E. E. Cummings" in a “live” radio broadcast on WBAI-FM radio in New York City), and in the 1990s he composed music to pieces by John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and St. Louis poet Michael Castro. The early 1980s also saw the premier of pieces Tompkins composed for the French horn player John Clark, which also incorporated the use of string synthesizer, arco bass, pizzicato bass and drums. In 1989, the world premiere of his piece "Duet Melody" was held at the Bar Harbor Festival and was performed by David Bilger and his wife Dorinne Bilger.
Kermit Moyer
Kermit Moyer moved to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1970 and began teaching at American University that fall. He won the university's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1981. Moyer began writing poetry in 1981 and published a few of his poems in lesser-known literary magazines; but he returned to his original ambition of writing fiction in the summer of 1982. Moyer's first published story was "The Compass of the Heart," which appeared in the Fall 1983 issue of "The Georgia Review". In the 1980s, he published stories in literary journals such as "The Southern Review", "The Sewanee Review", "The Crescent Review", and "The Hudson Review". In 1988, a collection of Moyer's stories, called "Tumbling", was published by the University of Illinois Press in its Illinois Short Fiction Series to rave reviews in "Publishers Weekly" and The New York Times Book Review.
Robert E. Howard
Howard's first published poem was "", in an early 1923 issue of local newspaper "The Baylor United Statement". His first published story was "Spear and Fang", sold in late November 1924 and published in the July 1925 issue of the pulp magazine "Weird Tales". However, Howard's first real success was the Sailor Steve Costigan series of humorous boxing stories, beginning with "The Pit of the Serpent" published in the July 1929 issue of the pulp magazine "Fight Stories".
Joe Cummings
His first poetry collection, "Threats and Gossip", was published by McArthur & Company Publishing in 2007.
William Ellery Leonard
In 1906, Leonard accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. He was recruited by Charles R. Van Hise, whose Wisconsin Idea dictated that research would be a cornerstone of the university. He befriended graduate student Leonard Bloomfield, with whom he would maintain a lifelong friendship. Leonard published his first book of poems as "Sonnets and Poems" to little fanfare in 1906. Among his prominent students at Wisconsin were literary critic Leslie Fiedler, activist Carl Haessler, poet Marya Zaturenska, activist Mildred Harnack, and poet Clara Leiser, the latter two outspoken opponents of Nazism.
E. B. White
E. B. White published his first article in "The New Yorker" in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for almost six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the magazine's most important contributor, this at a time when it was arguably the most important literary magazine in America. From the beginning to the end of his career at "The New Yorker," he frequently provided what the magazine calls "Newsbreaks" (short, witty comments on oddly worded printed items from many sources) under various categories such as "Block That Metaphor." He also served as a columnist for "Harper's Magazine" from 1938 to 1943.
Caresse Crosby
In April, 1927, they founded an English language publishing company, first called Éditions Narcisse, after their black whippet, Narcisse Noir. They used the press as an avenue to publish their own poetry in small editions of finely-made, hard-bound volumes. Their first effort was Caresse's "Painted Shores", in which she wrote about their relationship, including their reconciliation after one of his affairs. Her writing matured somewhat, and the book was more creatively organized than her prior efforts. In 1928, she wrote an epic poem which was published as "The Stranger". The writing is addressed to the men in her life: her father, husband, and son. In an experimental fashion she explored the various kinds of love she had known. Later that year, "Impossible Melodies" explored similar themes. The Crosbys enjoyed a positive reception from their initial work and decided to expand the press to serve other authors.
Emmeline B. Wells
Wells also wrote numerous short stories and poems, many of which were published. She later compiled her poetry into a single volume, "Musings and Memories". In 1912 she became the first Utah woman to receive an honorary degree, in literature, awarded her by Brigham Young University.
Aeneas Francon Williams
Williams’ first volume of poems "Dream Drift, by a Young Lover" was published in 1932. The suggestion of a priest being perceived as a ‘young lover’ was a bold move on both Williams and the publisher's part. It was certainly uncommon for a member of the cloth to reveal a poetic side that included talk of lovemaking. "The Dundee Courier" in their appraisal of the work noted that, ‘Mr. Williams' poems reveal their author in many moods, as a nature lover, sportsman, and lover. Only an angler could have written his poems on "Fishing" and "Wound Up". There is a whimsical, almost ‘Barriesque’ (James M. Barrie) touch about some of his nature poems, which is infinitely attractive.’
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Keats' generation was familiar enough with the polished literary translations of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which gave Homer an urbane gloss similar to Virgil, but expressed in blank verse or heroic couplets. Chapman's vigorous and earthy paraphrase (1616) was put before Keats by Charles Cowden Clarke, a friend from his days as a pupil at a boarding school in Enfield Town. They sat up together till daylight to read it: "Keats shouting with delight as some passage of especial energy struck his imagination. At ten o'clock the next morning, Mr. Clarke found the sonnet on his breakfast-table." The poem was first published in "The Examiner" on 1 December, 1816.
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
First published in the New York "Evening Mirror"'s February 21, 1846 issue, "A Valentine" was written specifically for Frances Sargent Osgood, whose name is hidden within the lines of the poem. In its first publication, it had the title "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below." To find the name, take the first letter of the first line, then the second letter of the second line, then the third letter of the third line, and so on. Before its publication, it was presented at a private literary salon at the home of Anne Lynch Botta on February 14, 1846. Though Poe was not in attendance, it was a very public revelation of his affection for Osgood.
88 Poems
88 Poems is a book of the collected poetry of author Ernest Hemingway, published in 1979. It includes a number of poems published in magazines, the poems which appeared in Hemingway's first book, "Three Stories and Ten Poems", and 47 previously unpublished poems that were found in private collections and in the Hemingway papers held by the Kennedy Library.
EIMI
EIMI is a 1933 travelogue by poet E. E. Cummings, dealing with a visit to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1931. The book is written in the form of abstract prose verse.
E. E. Cummings
Cummings wanted to be a poet from childhood and wrote poetry daily from age 8 to 22, exploring assorted forms. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree "magna cum laude" and Phi Beta Kappa in 1915 and received a Master of Arts degree from the university in 1916. In his studies at Harvard, he developed an interest in modern poetry, which ignored conventional grammar and syntax, while aiming for a dynamic use of language. Upon graduating, he worked for a book dealer.
In 1917, with the First World War ongoing in Europe, Cummings enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. On the boat to France, he met William Slater Brown. They became fast friends. Due to an administrative mix-up, Cummings and Brown were not assigned to an ambulance unit for five weeks, during which time the two of them explored Paris. He fell in love with the city, to which he would return throughout his life.
Tulips and Chimneys
This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to Cummings' poetry; his work had been published previously alongside others' in "Eight Harvard Poets".
Elizabeth Prentiss
In 1851, George Prentiss became the pastor of Mercer Street Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Though Elizabeth struggled with chronic health problems, she went on to have three more healthy children. "Little Little Lou's Sayings and Doings", published in 1868, included her poem "Mr. Nobody" which went on to become a children's classic. The poem is often mistakenly attributed to "anonymous" or the later poet Walter de la Mare. Her first book of stories, "Little Susy's Six Birthdays", written in just ten days, was published in 1853. In 1856, following the nearly fatal illness of her daughter Minnie, she wrote the hymn "More Love to Thee."
Albert Pike
As a young man of letters, Pike wrote poetry, and he continued to do so for the rest of his life. At 23, he published his first poem, "Hymns to the Gods." Later work was printed in literary journals such as Blackwood's "Edinburgh Magazine" and local newspapers. His first collection of poetry, "Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country", was published in 1834. He later gathered many of his poems and republished them in "Hymns to the Gods and Other Poems" (1872). After his death these were published again in "Gen. Albert Pike's Poems" (1900) and "Lyrics and Love Songs" (1916).
Guo Jingming
Guo's writing talent emerged in his middle school years. Guo continued to read, including famous works Chinese literature and Wuxia fiction, especially those written by Jin Yong and Gu Long. Large amount of reading taught and inspired him more in writing, so that Guo started writing for magazines. In 1997, Guo published his first poem, "Loneliness", in a national magazine named "Rensheng Shiliuqi". "Loneliness" is a contemporary poem, expressing Guo's personal feelings of melancholy during school times. Guo received 10 RMB (approximately 1.5 US Dollars) as the remuneration from Rengsheng Shiliuqi magazine, and it meant a lot to Guo as well as his family.
The Enormous Room
The Enormous Room (The Green-Eyed Stores) is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I.
Andreas Munch
Munch made his literary debut in 1836 with the poetry collection "Ephemerer" ("Ephemera"). His first play was "Kong Sverres Ungdom" from 1837, written for the opening of Christiania Theatre´s new building. In 1840 he published the one-act play "Donna Clara", set in Spain. He edited the newspaper "Den Constitutionelle" from 1841 to 1846. His story "Den Ensomme. En Sjælehistorie" was first printed in "Den Constitutionelle" in 1846. From 1846 to 1848 he made an educational European tour together with his family, and visited France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He published the poetry collection ¨"Digte, gamle og nye" in 1848, and "Nye Digte" in 1850. His poetry collection "Sorg og Trøst" from 1852 was written after the death of his wife and son. In 1866 Edvard Grieg composed music to the poem "Vuggesang" from this collection, published as Opus 9 together with three other songs with text by Munch. In "Vuggesang" the father sings for his newborn son after the mother's death. In the 1850s he wrote three historic plays in verse, "Salomon de Caus" (1854), "En Aften paa Giske" (1855), and "Lord William Russell" (1857).
Poems (Golding collection)
Poems was the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for "Lord of the Flies", among other novels), released in 1934, 20 years before "Lord of the Flies" (his second major work and first novel).
Lauris Edmond
Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first collection of verse, "In Middle Air", only in 1975, at the age of 51. The work was awarded the PEN Best First Book Award for 1975. She began her editorial activities in 1979, and in 1980 published a selection of poems by Chris Ward. In 1981 she edited the letters of A.R.D. Fairburn (1904–1957), a noted New Zealand poet of an earlier generation. It was a bold move on her part as the writer in question was not known for his progressive views, but the publication established her as an all‑round woman of letters. At the same time she received the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, which enabled her to stay in the south of France for several months. Edmond's first work of prose was "High Country Weather", a book billed as a novel though in fact an extended short‑story of a deeply biographical character, telling — however veiledly — the story of her own incompatible marriage to Trevor Edmond (1920–1990); it was published in 1984, at about the time of her real‑life marriage's dissolution. The feminist awakening marked by that book was sustained in a collection of other women’s ‘stories’ published under her co‑editorship two years later. As Janet Wilson wrote in "The Guardian", "She was friend to several generations of women, especially writers, who admired her as a pioneer for breaking with social convention and carving out a successful literary life at a time when this seemed risky".
Edward Hyams
Hyams published his first novel, "The Wings of the Morning" in 1939.
Tulips and Chimneys
Tulips and Chimneys is the first collection of poetry by E. E. Cummings, published in 1923 (see 1923 in poetry).
Trees (poem)
"Trees" was first published in the August 1913 issue of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse". The magazine, which had begun publishing the year before in Chicago, Illinois, quickly became the "principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world" publishing the early works of poets who became the major influences on the development of twentieth-century literature (including T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay). "Poetry" paid Kilmer six dollars to print the poem, which was immediately successful. The following year, Kilmer included "Trees" in his collection "Trees and Other Poems" published by the George H. Doran Company.
E. Pauline Johnson
The success of this performance began the poet's 15-year stage career, as she was signed up by Frank Yeigh, who had organized the Liberal event. He gave her the headline for her first show on 19 February 1892, where she debuted a new poem written for the event, "The Song My Paddle Sings". Johnson was perceived as quite young (although she was then 31), a beauty, and an exotic Native performer. After her first recital season, she decided to emphasize the Native aspects of her public figure by assembling and wearing a feminine Native costume. She wore it during the first part of the show, when reciting her dramatic "Indian" lyrics. At intermission she changed into fashionable English dress; in the second half, she appeared as a Victorian lady to recite her "English" verse.
Ezra Pound
Pound arrived in Gibraltar on 23 March 1908, where for a few weeks he earned $15 a day working as a guide to American tourists. By the end of April he was in Venice, living over a bakery near the San Vio bridge. In July he self-published his first book of poetry, "A Lume Spento" ("With Tapers Quenched"). The "London Evening Standard" called it "wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative, passionate, and spiritual". The title was from the third canto of Dante's "Purgatorio", which alluded to the death of Manfred, King of Sicily. The book was dedicated to his friend, the Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who had recently died of tuberculosis.
In August Pound moved to London, where he lived almost continuously for the next 12 years; he told his university friend William Carlos Williams: "London, deah old Lundon, is the place for poesy." English poets such as Maurice Hewlett, Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson had made a particular kind of Victorian verse—stirring, pompous and propagandistic—popular with the public. According to modernist scholar James Knapp, Pound rejected the idea of poetry as "versified moral essay"; he wanted to focus on the individual experience, the concrete rather than the abstract.
Joe Gould (writer)
Gould is mentioned in several poems by E. E. Cummings.
E. E. Cummings
As well as being influenced by notable modernists, including Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, Cummings in his early work drew upon the imagist experiments of Amy Lowell. Later, his visits to Paris exposed him to Dada and Surrealism, which he reflected in his work. He began to rely on symbolism and allegory, where he once had used simile and metaphor. In his later work, he rarely used comparisons that required objects that were not previously mentioned in the poem, choosing to use a symbol instead. Due to this, his later poetry is "frequently more lucid, more moving, and more profound than his earlier." Cummings also liked to incorporate imagery of nature and death into much of his poetry.
William Orcutt Cushing
Cushing started his training to become a Unitarian minister based along his parents' theology. His first posting as an ordained minister was to Searsburg, New York, west of Trumansburg. There he met his future wife, Rea, and they were married in 1854. In the same year, Cushing wrote his first hymn, "When he Cometh", based on Malachi 3:17, for children in his Sunday School.
Emma Catherine Embury
On May 10, 1828, she married Daniel Embury, a Brooklyn banker., and in her married life, was singularly happy. Her husband was a notable mathematician. He appreciated fully the peculiar talents of his wife, and in every way encouraged their development. Together, they drew around them a charmed circle of friends. In 1828, Embury published her first collection of poems, "Guido, a Tale: Sketches from History and Other Poems", and in 1830, she published her first book of prose, "Pictures of Early Life". For a time, she was one of two "lady editors" for "Graham's Magazine" in Philadelphia, along with Ann S. Stephens. During the 1830s and 1840s, she served as a host or guest at literary salons in New York City in the circle including Anne Lynch Botta and Frances Sargent Osgood.
Edith Mary England
Her first published poems appeared in the "Australian Town and Country Journal" in 1915 and her first poetry collection was published in 1927. She published eight novels during her lifetime with the first appearing as a serial in "The Queenslander" in 1928-29.
E. E. Cummings
In 1943, modern dancer and choreographer Jean Erdman presented "The Transformations of Medusa, Forever and Sunsmell" with a commissioned score by John Cage and a spoken text from the title poem by E. E. Cummings, sponsored by the Arts Club of Chicago. Erdman also choreographed "Twenty Poems" (1960), a cycle of E. E. Cummings' poems for eight dancers and one actor, with a commissioned score by Teiji Ito. It was performed in the round at the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village.
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Originally a poem called "To Elizabeth," dedicated to Poe's cousin Elizabeth Herring and written in an album of hers. It was then published in a revised version in the September 1835 issue of the "Southern Literary Messenger" as "Lines Written in an Album" and apparently addressed to Eliza White. The poem in this version began, "Eliza! let they generous heart / From its present pathway part not." White was the then 18-year-old daughter of Thomas Willis White, Poe's employer while he worked at the "Messenger". Poe may have considered pursuing a relationship with her before his marriage to his cousin Virginia. One story suggests that Virginia's mother Maria expedited Poe's marriage to Virginia in order to prevent Poe's involvement with Eliza White. T. W. White's apprentice in old age would later say that Poe and Eliza were nothing more than friends.
John Addington Symonds
Symonds also translated classical poetry on homoerotic themes, and wrote poems drawing on ancient Greek imagery and language such as "Eudiades", which has been called "the most famous of his homoerotic poems". While the taboos of Victorian England prevented Symonds from speaking openly about homosexuality, his works published for a general audience contained strong implications and some of the first direct references to male-male sexual love in English literature. For example, in "The Meeting of David and Jonathan", from 1878, Jonathan takes David "In his arms of strength / [and] in that kiss / Soul into soul was knit and bliss to bliss". The same year, his translations of Michelangelo's sonnets to the painter's beloved Tommaso Cavalieri restore the male pronouns which had been made female by previous editors. In November 2016, Symonds' homoerotic poem, 'The Song of the Swimmer', written in 1867, was published for the first time in the "Times Literary Supplement".
Edythe Mae Gordon
In 1925, Gordon's husband Eugene organized an African-American literary group, the Saturday Evening Quill Club, out of which grew a literary magazine, "Saturday Evening Quill", of which he became the editor. Published three times a year, "Quill" contains most of the surviving specimens of Gordon's writing. Her first piece for "Quill" was a 1928 short story, "Subversion." It was listed among the year's distinguished stories by the O. Henry Award prize committee, which at the time rarely noticed works by non-white authors. Gordon would go on to publish two more short stories and a dozen poems in "Quill". She also published two poems in the 1938 anthology "Negro Voices", edited by Beatrice Murphy.
E. A. Richardson
Emory Aaron Richardson was born on a farm in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana. He began writing poetry in 1910. The first poem to establish him as a poet was his famous "My Alligator Grin".
E. E. Cummings
According to his testimony in "EIMI", Cummings had little interest in politics until his trip to the Soviet Union in 1931, after which he shifted rightward on many political and social issues. Despite his radical and bohemian public image, he was a Republican, and later, an ardent supporter of Joseph McCarthy.
Fairy Tales (Cummings book)
Fairy Tales is a book of short stories by E. E. Cummings, published posthumously in 1965. It contains four stories: "The Old Man Who Said 'Why'", "The Elephant and the Butterfly", "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie", and "The Little Girl Named I". The book is printed in full color with illustrations by John Eaton.
Caroline Dana Howe
Her first literary work appeared in the "Portland Transcript", and in this, as in other leading publications, her contributions of prose and verse were favorably received by the public. In 1862, the Massachusetts Sunday School Society published in book form a story written by her, which passed through several editions. Her verse was characterized by lyric power, by grace of diction, by religious fervor and aspiration, and a sincere heartiness. It was adapted for music, and more than 30 of her hymns and songs were published in collections for church choirs, and in sheet music, becoming very popular. In 1885, a collection of Howe's poems was made under title of "Ashes for Flame and Other Poems".