Poet w h davies biography graphic organizer
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Handle with Care: an interview with Louisa Reid
by Ana McLaughlinin Interviews, Books
Handle with Care, Louise Reid’s latest YA novel, introduces us to best friends Ashley and Ruby. In the dramatic opening scenes, Ruby – whose sections are written in verse – goes into labour during a history class with a baby she didn’t know she was having. The book examines issues of mental health, friendship, family and responsibility, while deeply engaging the reader with the situations of the girls and the people around them. It’s both brilliantly plotted – I was desperate to see how events would unfold – and profoundly moving.
When Louisa and I spoke and I confessed to sobbing as I read, she told me that writing it was an emotional experience, too: “It took me a while to finish this book. I started writing it a while ago, then I stopped because I could see where the story wanted to go. I wasn’t sure if it was a direction I would be allowed to go in, or if my readership would find it too much. But in the end, that was what the story demanded. Things don’t always turn out the way they should in real life, and I feel like my readers know that. We need to acknowledge that mistakes are made, and that there are victims and there are consequences. It would have been going agains
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THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Tiffany Vergon, Cam Venezuela and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale
Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
O! 't is an easy thing
To write and sing;
But to write true, unfeigned verse
Is very hard!
—HENRY VAUGHAN, 1655
TO MY FRIEND FOR FORTY YEARS
FRANK W. HUBBARD
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The publishers of the works of the poets from whom illustrative passages are cited in this volume, have courteously and generously given permission, and I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to The Macmillan Company, who publish the poems of Thomas Hardy, William Watson, John Masefield, W. W. Gibson, Ralph Hodgson, W. B. Yeats, "A. E.," James Stephens, E. A. Robinson, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, J. C. Underwood, Fannie Stearns Davis; to Henry Holt and Company, who publish the poems of Walter De La Mare, Edward Thomas, Padraic Colum, Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Margaret Widdemer, Carl Sandburg, and the two poems by Henry A. Beers quoted in this book, which appeared in The Ways of Yale; to Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers of the poems of George Santayana,
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