(Excerpt from Felicità: A Metrical Romance
O'er the strea...)
Excerpt from Felicità: A Metrical Romance
O'er the stream, her neck is bending, Till - as in the glassy river Sees the lily all its grace Calm reflection back doth give her, True to life, her moral face Still she keeps her prayer repeating Prayer's the music to her thought Still her inner glance is meeting, From that faithful mirror brought.
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(Excerpt from Bianca Cappello: A Tragedy
But sting thy so...)
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But sting thy soul to frenzy, then leave me I need no aid save What these veins can give, Each purple drop is loyal to my will.
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Poetry is a literary form that uses aest...)
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Poetry is a literary form that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language (e.g. phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre) to enhance the prosaic ostensible meaning, or generate an alternative meaning. Poetry uses numerous devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poetry's long history dates back to prehistorical times ehen hunting poetry was created in Africa.
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Poetry as an art form predates written text, with the earliest poetry having been recited or sung, and employed as a way of remembering oral history. The oldest examples of epic poetry include the Epic of Gilgamesh from Bablylon and the Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the Indian Sanskrit epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. The longest epic poems in history were the Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar. Aristotle's Poetics considered that there were three genres of poetry—the epic, the comic, and the tragic. Later aestheticians identified: epic poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry. One of the most popular form since the Late Middle Ages, is the sonnet, which by the 13th century had become standardized as fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme. The form had crystallized further by the 14th century and the Italian Renaissance, under the guidance of Petrarch.
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Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney was an American poet and essayist. Her literary career was associated with such magazines as the Knickerbocker, Graham's, Blackwood's, Sartain's, and Newark Daily Advisor.
Background
Elizabeth C. Kenney was born on December 18, 1810 in New York City, New York, United States. She was the daughter of David Low Dodge, a prominent New York merchant, and Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge. Her maternal grandfather was the colonial poet Aaron Cleveland.
Career
In 1830 Elizabeth married Colonel Edmund Burke Stedman of Hartford, Connecticut, where she lived until the death of her husband in 1835. She then moved to her father's country estate, "Cedar Brook, " near Plainfield, New Jersey. From here she contributed poems and articles to numerous magazines. Her second marriage, in November 1841, connected her even more firmly with the world of letters as she became the wife of the well-known publicist and writer, William Burnet Kinney, at that time editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, of which he was the founder. Some of her best essays and critical articles appeared in the pages of the Advertiser during the ten years succeeding her marriage. In 1850 Mr. Kinney was appointed chargé d'affaires at Sardinia, and from 1850 to 1853 the Kinneys made their residence in Turin where both were popular in social and literary circles.
In 1853, the Sardinian mission having ended, the Kinneys moved to Florence where they lived for more than ten years. Here they were members of the circle which included the Brownings, the Tennysons, the Trollopes, Hiram Powers, the American sculptor, and others. It was during this period that Mrs. Kinney wrote Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), a metrical romance based on an incident in Italian history. In 1865 she and her husband returned to Newark. Two years later Mrs. Kinney's poems, which were widely scattered throughout English and American periodicals, were collected and published (Poems, 1867), and met with both critical and popular approval. Bianca Cappello, a second Italian romance in verse, was published in 1873. This like all of Mrs. Kinney's poetical works is marked by a virile romantic quality.
Many of her poems were in reality tales of adventure, in verse full of color and action but couched in the "poetic" diction of the late nineteenth century. Her nature poetry is simple in manner and expresses a very sincere love of the world. Her essays and critical articles are as a rule sharply to the point in subject matter but softened in the presentation by lightness of treatment and a witty style.
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In March 1830 Elizabeth married Edmund Burke Stedman. Edmund Clarence Stedman was a child of this marriage. In November 1841 she married William Burnet Kinney.