Philip Freneau (1752-1832), whose poems include “American Liberty” (1775) and “The Indian Burying Ground” (1788), is known as the “poet of the American Revolution”.
He was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson’s.
John Donne (1572?-1631) wrote, “Go and catch a falling star,/Get with child a mandrake root”, in the opening lines to the poem, “Song,” which was published posthumously, in 1633.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
In The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 3. Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia, runs for his life after hearing “A savage clamor!” He doesn’t make it; his death is reported later in the scene.
In the 1964 play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hans-berry, it was located in Greenwich Village, New York City.
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.
The source of the title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel (1929) was John Milton’s poem “Lycidas” (1637). Milton asks his dead friend, now an angel, to look back compassionately on his still-living friends: Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth: And, 0 ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.