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The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 [ 1] in an outpouring of grief following the illness ( scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: "Rückert's 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological ...
Parents: Robert and Theodora Black. Website. baxterblack .com. Baxter Black (January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022) was an American cowboy poet and veterinarian. He wrote over 30 books of poetry, fiction —both novels and children's literature —and commentary, selling over two million books, CDs, and DVDs. [ 1]
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry.
Morning Face (1916), a collection of children's stories that also included her photographs, was dedicated to her granddaughter, Jeannette Monroe, whom Stratton-Porter had nicknamed "Morning Face." [ 73 ] "Symbols," her first poem to appear in a national magazine, was published in Good Housekeeping in January 1921.
Michael Rosen. Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written over 200 books for children and adults.
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [ 1] Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published.
Joseph Aaron Coelho OBE FRSL is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022-2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [ 1] In 2024 he was announced the winner of the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The Boy Lost In The Maze.