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About the Book 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. Also in this Book 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. About us Leopold Classic Library has the goal of making available to readers the classic books that have been out of print for decades. While these books may have occasional imperfections, we consider that only hand checking of every page ensures readable content without poor picture quality, blurred or missing text etc. That's why we: • republish only hand checked books; • that are high quality; • enabling readers to see classic books in original formats; that • are unlikely to have missing or blurred pages. You can search "Leopold Classic Library" in categories of your interest to find other books in our extensive collection. Happy reading!
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Louise Collier Willcox was born on April 24, 1865 in Chicago, Ill. , one of four children of the Rev. Robert Laird and Mary (Price) Collier. Her father, a Unitarian clergyman, was of a Maryland family; her mother's people lived in Iowa. When she was seven her mother died, and soon afterward the father took Louise and her brother, Hiram Price Collier, to Europe with him.
Louise was taught at first by private tutors. She studied in France, Germany, and England, and then attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig (1882 - 83). Later she lived in England and met some of the eminent men of the period, among them John Bright, Cardinal Newman, and Joseph Chamberlain. In 1887 she joined the faculty of the Leache-Wood Seminary of Norfolk, Va. , which at that period was exerting a wide influence upon the cultural development of Tidewater Virginia. Always positive in her tastes and ideas in literature and art, she was one of the most active forces in the school during the three years of her teaching there.
She was a frequent visitor to New York when she was at the same time a publisher's reader and an editorial writer for several periodicals. With her husband and two children, she traveled extensively in Europe. She was at times editorial writer for Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar, and a regular writer for the Delineator. From 1906 to 1913 she was a member of the editorial staff of the North American Review, contributing principally critical and review articles. She was also reader and adviser for the Macmillan Company (1903 - 09) and for E. P. Dutton & Company (1910 - 17). Her first book, Answers of the Ages (1900), edited in collaboration with Irene K. Leache, was an anthology of quotations from famous people bearing on the nature of God, man, and the soul. Her most original writing appears in The Human Way (1909), a collection of essays on topics ranging from "The Service of Books" to "Friendship, " "Out-of-Doors, " and "The Hidden Life. " Her notable anthology of mystic poetry, A Manual of Spiritual Fortification (1910), was later republished as A Manual of Mystic Verse (1917). Two small books, The Road to Joy (1911), and The House in Order (1917), are collections of essays that show her growing interest in religious and mystical thought. An ably selected anthology of verse for children, The Torch, was issued in two handsome editions, the first in 1924. During the latter part of her life she devoted much of her time to the translation of books by contemporary French and German authors, among them My Friend from Limousin (1923), by Jean Giraudoux; Gold (1924), a translation of Jacob Wassermann's Ulrika Woytich; The Sentimental Bestiary (1924), by Charles Derennes; The Sardonic Smile (1926), by Ludwig Diehl; and The Bewitched (1928), by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. She died in Paris, while on a visit to her son, on Friday, September 13, 1929.
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She was a woman of striking appearance, and an energetic and markedly individual personality. Her power as an intellectual force exerted itself in many ways upon the community in which she lived.
She was married on June 25, 1890, to J. Westmore Willcox, attorney of Norfolk, and made Norfolk her home for the remainder of her life.
