William Butler Yeats speaks of a similar relocation to a place where he can live forever in his poem "Sailing to Byzantium". ... William Butler Yeats, himself, is most likely the speaker. ... He declares that he will no longer take his "bodily form from any natural thing," but rather he says, in an allusion to "Grecian goldsmiths," that he will fashion himself as a bird made of gold forged by these craftsmen. The repetition of the word "gold" is used to highlight the supremacy of Yeats" chosen form. ... William Butler Yeats recognizes this fact in "Sailing to Byzantium". ...

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One such poet that immediately springs to mind is William Blake who seemed to take a particular dislike to the abuse of children. ... It refers to gold leaf foil as used to measure electrical charges in Faraday's famous experiment. ... Just as light is reflected from gold foil, flashing out in multiplying rays, so to does the light of God, which leads men, continue to increase. ...

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The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who asked him to contribute articles. ... William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) - American poet and journalist, born in Cummington, Massachusetts, and trained in law. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... William Carlos Williams- The American writer avoided artificiality and sentimentality in his work by producing clear, direct verse about common, everyday ...

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The unicorn is described in full detail including their gold horns which show the beauty of being young. ... The fourth poem "from ODE: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth is separated into two stanzas. ...

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Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. ... He studied under such versatile men as William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt. ... Marriage William Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915. ... He died of  emphysema in London on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at  Golder's Green Crematorium. ...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. American literature has been apart of our history since our settlement. Throughout our history, America has generated many great authors. These authors write works of literature that educate ...

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