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Opinion: How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other's poetry is a good start
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...
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Leaves of Grass
Poems with a darker outlook in the third edition reflected Whitman's uneasiness regarding the future of the United States itself in the years leading to the Civil War. Whitman rearranged the poems ...
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...
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Walt Whitman and the Civil War
But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved ... visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated.
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How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or ...