Dead Poets' Society Locationless, New South Wales, Australia
By Slider & Smurf on Wednesday 1 January 2003. Waypoint GCBCF1

14th

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12th

N 43° 45.555 W 071° 41.447
This is the Robert Frost house found on the Plymouth State University grounds. They honor him because he lived in the house while he taught at Normal school duting the 1911-12 school year.
 

11th

This poet memorial is located in Philadelphia, PA in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial of 1957. It is located on Kelly Dr. near Girard Ave.

I hope this monument fits into this cache.

This are contains 4 statues dedicated not to specific people but to the people who shaped this nation. There are 4 statues, The Preacher, The Poet, The Scientist and The Laborer.

To see the other 3 statues, please [url=http://www.fpaa.org/samuel_garden.html]click here[/url].


 

10th

The given coordinates lead you into the castle garden in Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany where you will find the memorial of Johann Peter Hebel.

Johann Peter Hebel (May 10, 1760 - September 22, 1826), German poet and popular writer, was born at Basel.
The father dying when the child was little over a year old, he was brought up amidst poverty-stricken conditions in the village of Hausen in the Wiesental, where he received his earliest education. Being of brilliant promise, he found friends who enabled him to complete his school education and to study theology (1778-1780) at Erlangen. At the end of his university course he was for a time a private tutor, then became teacher at the Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, and in 1808 was appointed director of the school. He was subsequently appointed member of the Consistory and evangelical prelate. He died at Schwetzingen, near Heidelberg.

Hebel is one of the most widely read of all German popular poets and writers. His poetical narratives and lyric poems, written in the Alemanic dialect (also known as Allemanisch), are popular in the best sense. His Allemannische Gedichte (1803) bucolicize, in the words of Goethe, the whole world in the most attractive manner (verbauert das ganze Universum auf die anmutigste Weise).
Indeed, few modern German poets surpass him in fidelity, naïveté, humour, and in the freshness and vigour of his descriptions. His poem, Die Wiese, has been described by Johannes Scherr as the pearl of German idyllic poetry ; while his prose writings, especially the narratives and essays contained in the Schatzkaestlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes (Tuebingen, 1811; new edition, Stuttgart 1869, 1888), belong to the best class of German stories, and according to August Friedrich Christian Vilmar (1800-1868) in his Geschichte der deutschen Literatur are worth more than a cartload of novels (wiegen ein ganzes Fuder Romane auf). Memorials have been erected to him at Karlsruhe, Basel and Schwetzingen.

 

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This memorial to Ben King is found in St. Joseph, Michigan. Benjamin Franklin King was an author of "popular poetry" in the late 1800s. He wrote for newspapers and magazines primarily. He was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, and immortalized the St. Joseph River in the poem "The River St. Joe." A stanza appears on the memorial:
Where the bumblebee sips and the clover's in bloom,
And the zephyrs come laden with peachblow perfume.
Where the thistledown pauses in search of a rose
And the myrtle and woodbine and wild ivy grows;
Oh, give me the spot that I once used to know
by the side of the placid old River St. Joe.
 

4th

We found a memorial to Constance Fenimore Woolson on Mackinac Island. She is the great niece to James Fenimore Cooper who wrote "The Last of the Mohicans." Constance was also a writer. She wrote poems and a novel. Attached are pictures of the names of her works and the memorial itself. The memorial is called Anne's tablet because Constance wrote a novel on Mackinac Island about a girl named Anne. The novel itself also took place on Mackinac. Mackinac Island is located directly between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lower Michigan on the Straits of Mackinac.
 

3rd

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) wrote a number of famous works including the unfinished "Kubla Khan" which starts:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.

He's also well known for his Rime of the Ancient Mariner (I had to learn that one at school).

Coleridge was addicted to opium but, while living at this spot in Church Street in Calne in Wiltshire, still managed to write his Biographia Literaria (1817), which according to the Columbia University Press Encyclopaedia contains "accounts of his literary life and critical essays on philosophical and literary subjects. It presents Coleridge's theories of the creative imagination, but its debt to other writers, notably the German idealist philosophers, is often so heavy that the line between legitimate borrowing and plagiarism becomes blurred."
 

3rd

We found this statue of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) in 1.Bezirk of Vienna.
Greetings
Team Katzilla
 

3rd

Poet: Robert Burns
Monument Location: Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Australia

Poor light, coupled with low battery prevented me getting a decent close up photo today of this monument.

Paid for my contributions to the Caledonian Society in 1904, it was moved to its current location in 1970. Apparently every Scot in Melbourne contributed.

While researching Burns further, his most famous work is probably Auld Lang Syne, though I've never seen it attributed to him until seeing it online tonight.

More on the poet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
Robert Burns Online: http://www.robertburns.org/
More on Treasury Gardens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_Gardens,_Melbourne


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Completed as part of Partic's September Locationless Bonanza, successfully locating 21 unique locations in Melbourne.

Check the Melbourne Bonanza out on Google Earth http://www.kpsystems.com.au/geocaching/googleearth/locationless.kmz
 

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This statue of Tage Danielsson, a famous Swedish comic, poet and writer can be found in Linköping, Sweden, where he was born.
 

2nd

This is a monument for greatest Latvian poet Rainis. Rainis was the pen name of Janis Plieksans, who lived from 1865-1929 and who is described as "the most distinguished Latvian writer of all time" by the Latvian Institute. He was also known, according to the New Theatre Institute of Latvia web site, as "one of the most outstanding European playwrights of the first half of the 20th century - if we judge by the intensity of philosophical thought and uniqueness of style. Rainis' multilayered plays encompass Indo-European mythology, the cultures of Ancient Egypt and the Bible, modern philosophy, Latvian folklore, thus broadening his thought to the scale of the whole of mankind. Rainis deals with archetypal conflicts, but at the same time his plays are deeply national. One of the central themes is the man of the future, who would harmoniously unite the rational and the spiritual. The path leading to this ideal - through love, self-sacrifice and suffering - is the core of many Rainis' plays."


 

31st

This head is William Shakespeare and is located in the Shakespeare Gardens in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. It was unveiled Sept.5, 1949. Stratford is famous for its "Stratford Festival" of theatre productions, including, predominantly, the plays of William Shakespeare.
 

29th

Joaquin Miller, Known as the Poet of the Sierra’s or The Byron of the West. He was a controversial character in his day. His contemporaries disliked him branding him as a liar and fake. However he gained popularity in England and became a sensation. http://www.woodminster.com/Webpages/Joaquin.html
These coordinates and pictures are of a small monument that is all but forgotten on a country lane near Mr. Miller’s childhood home in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Here is a quote of Joaquin’s that I do like (I haven’t found many I do).
"That man who lives for self alone - lives for the meanest mortal known"

A sampling of his verse can be found here, including a reminiscence of home in the Willamette Valley. http://www.cowboypoetry.com/miller.htm
Literary Traveler has a very well done biography of his life here. http://www.literarytraveler.com/miller/joaquinmiller.htm

 

29th

This is a memorialstone for the great norwegian poet Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, 06.04.1818 - 31.07.1870. Placed at Gran, Hadeland, Norway.
Some of the things he have wrote:
"Ferdaminne frå sumaren" (1860-1861)
"A NORSEMANS VIEW OF BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH", (1863)
"Storegut, episke dikt" (1866),
 

27th

This area has monuments dedication to Virginia Legends. At this location is a monument dedicated to non other that Edger Allen Poe. A dark poet with some twisting plots. Also around this position are monuments dedicated to former President, Astronauts, Tennis Players, and Musicians. On the plaque it mentions several well known poems written by said author. Pictures to post tomorrow.
 

24th

Tis is another statue of the german poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) in Vienna (1st. district).
More about Schiller's work:
http://www.friedrich-von-schiller.de/werkverzeichnis.htm
Thank's for the interesting cache!
Termite2712
 

22nd

This is the monument in memory of Michel Rodange (1827-1876). He's knwon for his adaptation "De Renert" of Goethe's "Reineke Fuchs" (a fable about fox), to the luxembourgish society. Michel Rodange is one of Luxembourg's most famous poet and writer.

 

16th

#3. This is the statue of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) in The Hague, Holland. Huygens was one of the most famous Dutch poets in the 17th century. The reason why we choose Huygens as our favorite Dead Poet is that he was not only a poet but also a great painter, composer, musician and philosopher. Some of his well knowen acquaintance were Spinoza, Descartes and Vondel. The statue is placed on the Scheveningseweg because one of his dreams was a stone road between Scheveninge and The Hague and the Scheveningseweg was build after his idea. Thank you for this nice cache wich learned us a bit more about our own little country.
 

16th

Sandor Marai in Kosice, Zbrojnicna street.

Edited link to this poet:
http://www.frankfurt.matav.hu/angol/irok/marai/elet.htm

[This entry was edited by bikerkiri on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 11:54:16 PM.]
 

11th

James Whitcomb Riley - Monument on the steps of the Hancock County Courthouse, City of Greenfield, Indiana (a little east of Indianapolis)

James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, surrounded by farmland and primitive forests. The wooden planked National Road, which American pioneers and settlers used to travel to the western half of the nation, ran right through Greenfield. The area was diverse in culture, with people from many different homelands, though outwardly appearing as rough wilderness and newly settled country.

Riley's father, being a frontier politician and lawyer, named his son after an Indiana governor, James Whitcomb. Riley's mother was, of course, a homemaker, and she also wrote poetry. Riley had a difficult time academically, but possessed a talent for language, especially that of his own people. His father wanted him to become a lawyer, but Riley did not apply himself to law. For a time he traveled the American Midwest as a sign painter. He also traveled with a medicine salesman, and drew crowds by playing songs and performing impersonations of people he had met in his travels.

Riley's childhood and home were also great influences on him. His most famous poems were about people and situations from his real life. His poems, "The Raggedy Man," and "Little Orphant Annie," are about a hired hand and an orphan girl who helped on the family farm. The farmhand and Annie told the local children stories that Riley immortalized in his work. His poems, though of epic proportion in many senses, told of everyday things.

Riley, like many poets, published his first works in newspapers. At first he wrote under a pen name, "Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone." He often wrote in his own dialect, appealing to the majority of people with his common style and words. Garland held Riley alike to Mark Twain, for his ability to use natural dialect in his writing and speech, though also possessing the ability to speak in a more precise and standard English. After the success of his written work, Riley took to the road again, and traveled around the country to recite his poems in every city. This earned him great popularity, and people were fascinated by his dialect and use of the language, as well as his cheerful sense of humor.

In 1883, a collection of his poems was published, entitled "The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems," followed by "Rhymes of Childhood" in 1890, "Poems Here at Home" in 1893, and "Knee Deep in June," in 1912. His most famous poems are "Little Orphant Annie," "The Raggedy Man," "When the Frost Is On the Punkin," and "The Runaway Boy." In Riley's later life, these volumes attracted both national and international readers, and he became the wealthiest writer of the time. He was honorably labeled as America's "Children's Poet," and as "The Hoosier Poet," in his home state.

James Whitcomb Riley died of a stroke on 22 July, 1916. The United States President, Woodrow Wilson, sent a note to the poet's family, saying Riley was "...a man who imparted joyful pleasure and a thoughtful view of many things that other men would have missed." Named after him in Indianapolis, the state capital, is Riley Hospital for Children.

In 1999, his hometown of Greenfield and his fans celebrated his 150th birthday, and Indiana governor, Frank O'Bannon, proclaimed October 7, 1999, "James Whitcomb Riley Day." Each year Greenfield hosts a "James Whitcomb Riley Festival," and the children of the area honor the poet by placing flowers on his statue at the Hancock County Courthouse.


"With a cheery word and a wave of the hand He has wandered into a foreign land- He is not dead, he is just away!"
--James Whitcomb Riley
 

11th

This poetess is Annette von Droste Huelshoff
She was born in 1797 in my hometown Muenster (germany). She died on 34. July 1848 in Meerburg (lake constance germany), this is where I found this one. You can find some some poems.

This is one of her most best known poems (The boy in the moor):
Der Knabe im Moor
O, schaurig ist’s, übers Moor zu gehen,
Wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
Sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
Und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche,
Unter jedem Tritte ein Quellchen springt,
Wenn aus der Spalte es zischt und singt –
O, schaurig ist’, übers Moor zu gehen,
Wenn das Röhricht knistert im Hauche!

Fest hält die Fibel das zitternde Kind
Und rennt, als ob man es jage;
Hohl über die Fläche sauset der Wind –
Was raschelt drüben am Hage?
Das ist der gespenstige Gräberknecht,
Der dem Meister die besten Torfe verzecht;
Hu, hu, es bricht wie ein irres Rind!
Hinducket das Knäblein zage.

Vom Ufer starret Gestumpf hervor,
Unheimlich nicket die Föhre,
Der Knabe rennt, gespannt das Ohr,
Durch Riesenhalme wie Speere;
Und wie es rieselt und knittert darin!
Das ist die unselige Spinnerin,
Das ist die gebannte Spinnlenor’,
Die den Haspel dreht im Geröhre!
Voran, voran! Nur immer im Lauf,
Voran, als woll’ es ihn holen;
Vor seinem Fuße brodelt es auf,
Es pfeift ihm unter den Sohlen
Wie eine gespenstige Melodei;
Das ist der Geigenmann ungetreu,
Das ist der diebische Fiedler Knauf,
Der den Hochzeitheller gestohlen!

Da birst das Moor, ein Seufzer geht
Hervor aus der klaffenden Höhle;
Weh, weh, da ruft die verdammte Margreth:
„Ho, ho, meine arme Seele!“
Der Knabe springt wie ein wundes Reh,
Wär’ nicht Schutzengel in seiner Näh’,
Seine bleichen Knöchelchen fände spät
Ein Gräber im Moorgeschwele.

Da mählich gründet der Boden sich,
Und drüben, neben der Weide,
Die Lampe flimmert so heimatlich,
Der Knabe steht an der Scheide.
Tief atmet er auf, zum Moor zurück
Noch immer wirft er den scheuen Blick:
Ja, im Geröhre war’s fürchterlich,
O, schaurig war’s in der Heide!



Thanks for the Cache,

Grisu



 

10th

Dylan Thomas - World renowned Poet from (old!) South Wales.

Dylan was born in Swansea and the attached photographs were taken in Swansea marina where there is a tribute to Dylan Thomas, also in the background of the statue picture, you can see the "Dylan Thomas Theatre" in his memory.

Whilst not strictly a poem (and Im not a poem fan), one of Dylans most famous productions (IM-limited-HO) is "Under Milk Wood" which was a "play for voices" but Dylan also wrote many poems too.

One of the characters of Under Milk Wood (Captain Cat) has also been immortalised in statue form and can be seen in the remaining pictures which is a short distance away from Dylans statue.

More information on Dylan can be found here...
http://www.dylanthomas.com/

And the local council has a second tribute page (Aug 2005) at...
http://www.dylanthomas.org/

Thanks for the cache,
Regards,
Chez, Chantico and Poppy
 

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N 39° 42.229 W 104° 58.137
This statue commemorates "Dutch Lullaby," one of the most popular children's poems in early 20th century America, written by poet EUGENE FIELD (1850-1895). The poem is better known by the name of the three children in the statue: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. (Nod is "nodding off" behind the other two and isn't visible in the photo.)

Near the statue is the Denver home of Eugene Field, who was also a muckraking newspaperman, wit, and raconteur. His cynical newspaper writing contrasts greatly with his sentimental poetry, which also includes "The Duel [between the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat]" and "Little Boy Blue."

Here are a few lines from the poem represented in the statue:
Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew,
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we,"
Said Wynken, Blynken and Nod.
****
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head.
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle bed.
So shut your eyes, while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea.
Where the old shoe rocked the fisherman three;
Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

[This entry was edited by BluePearl on Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 7:04:47 PM.]
 

7th

This plate remembers the place where the parents of the famous german Author Georg Buechner had their home. This House stood in Darmstadt / Germany. As you can see in the Log from Wutzebear (26. May 2004) there is a Award named after Georg Buechner.
Thanks for the Cache!


 

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A monument in Malmedy, Belgium dedicated to french poet Guillaume Apolinnaire.

The coordinates are actually those of suggested parking place to my cache [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4cb20344-a405-491b-9887-50847ed271a2]Apolinnaire in Stavelot[/url]. This place is the location of the monument.

Guillaume Apolinaire is a famous french poet, writer and art critic, who was born in 1880 and died in 1918. Amongs his most famous works are "Alcools" and "Les Onze Mille Verges".

More information on him [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire]here[/url].

Don't have a pic right here, but look at the gallery of my cache, and you'll see pictures of the monument.

Edit 05/08: I agree with the owner that this log does not comply with the requirements(no pic of the monument with my GPSr). Next maintenance visit I will correct this. Also corrected the coordinates which were those of my cache, not of the monument, and edited some typos.

[This entry was edited by Jiheffe on Friday, August 05, 2005 at 3:21:36 AM.]
 

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This is a statue of Thomas Hardy, possibly the greatest author and poet to be born in Dorset, UK.

While probably most famous for his novels of 'Wessex' including Far From the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (both made into major films) he was also a highly rated poet.

This statue is located in Dorchester (Hardy's Casterbridge) close to the Top 'o Town roundabout, and is a very familiar childhood memory as it was on the route from my parents house to the local library where I spent many happy hours.

Thanks for the cache;

Hampk
 

31st

Alexander Duchnovic (1803 - 1965)
- revivalist of Carpathian Ruthenians in Eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia
- greek catholic priest, pedagogue, poet
- the most famous poem: "Podkarpadskyje Rusiny" = Carpathian Ruthenians
Alexander Duchnovic Theatre (in the 3rd largest city in Slovakia, Presov) is a national theatre, where the performances are played in the Ruthenian language. It was established in 1945 as The Ukrainian National Theatre and had its residency in Prešov.
In the beginning the performances were played in Russian , then in Ukrainian the last ten years the performances are played in Ruthenian.
The Alexander Duchnovic Theatre is the only professional theatre in the world that performs in Ruthenian Language.
 

30th

Monument of Kazinczy Ferencz in Kosice, Slovakia. He lived and worked in this building on Main street.
1759–1831, Hungarian author and critic. The influence of Kazinczy’s works made him a leading reformer of the Hungarian language. He was imprisoned (1795–1801) for revolutionary activity. He is known for his didactic verse (e.g., Poetai Berke, 1813), biographies, and Hungarian translations of Shakespeare and major European authors. Kazinczy’s voluminous correspondence is of great historical value.
 

29th

Sir Winston Churchill was a Prime Minister of England, author and also less known as a poet. I found this statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.
Heres a poem from him:

THE INFLUENZA

Oh how shall I its deeds recount
Or measure the untold amount
Of ills that it has done?
From China’s bright celestial land
E’en to Arabia’s thirsty sand
It journeyed with the sun.

O’er miles of bleak Siberia’s plains
Where Russian exiles toil in chains
It moved with noiseless tread;
And as it slowly glided by
There followed it across the sky
The spirits of the dead.

The Ural peaks by it were scaled
And every bar and barrier failed
To turn it from its way;
Slowly and surely on it came,
Heralded by its awful fame,
Increasing day by day.

On Moscow’s fair and famous town
Where fell the first Napoleon’s crown
It made a direful swoop;
The rich, the poor, the high, the low
Alike the various symptoms know,
Alike before it droop.

Nor adverse winds, nor floods of rain
Might stay the thrice-accursed bane;
And with unsparing hand,
Impartial, cruel and severe
It travelled on allied with fear
And smote the fatherland.

Fair Alsace and forlorn Lorraine,
The cause of bitterness and pain
In many a Gaelic breast,
Receive the vile, insatiate scourge,
And from their towns with it emerge
And never stay nor rest.

And now Europa groans aloud,
And ‘neath the heavy thunder-cloud
Hushed is both song and dance;
The germs of illness wend their way
To westward each succeeding day
And enter merry France.

Fair land of Gaul, thy patriots brave
Who fear not death and scorn the grave
Cannot this foe oppose,
Whose loathsome hand and cruel sting,
Whose poisonous breath and blighted wing
Full well thy cities know.

In Calais port the illness stays,
As did the French in former days,
To threaten Freedom’s isle;
But now no Nelson could o’erthrow
This cruel, unconquerable foe,
Nor save us from its guile.

Yet Father Neptune strove right well
To moderate this plague of Hell,
And thwart it in its course;
And though it passed the streak of brine
And penetrated this thin line,
It came with broken force.

For though it ravaged far and wide
Both village, town and countryside,
Its power to kill was o’er;
And with the favouring winds of Spring
(Blest is the time of which I sing)
It left our native shore.

God shield our Empire from the might
Of war or famine, plague or blight
And all the power of Hell,
And keep it ever in the hands
Of those who fought ‘gainst other lands,
Who fought and conquered well.

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=463


 

27th

This memorial is dedicated to famous Finnish poet and writer Lauri Viita. It was put here when 75 years of his birth was passed. Lauri Viita was born in 1916. He died in a car accident in 1965. There's also a Lauri Viita museum and a society dedicated to him in Tampere.
This memorial is located in Pyynikki area, in Tampere, Finland.

More details about Viita in English:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lviita.htm
 

23rd

We were on our way to Frederick, Maryland to the grave of this poet, but stopped by the C&O Canal in Georgetown for another locationless cache. Parked our car at 34th Street just off M Street, looked up, and there was the Francis Scott Key Memorial! So, here is a monument to Francis Scott Key. He is bviously a poet of national significnace since the poem he wrote about the defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812 was set to music and became the National Anthem of the United States of America.
 

18th

Wen Tian Xiang ( AD 1236 - 1283 )

He was a great national hero during the Southern Sung Dynasty. When his country and the people was in great peril, he fought bravely against the enemy but was finally held captuive. During his captivity, he wrote the Zhengqi Song and other poems to demonstrate his readiness to sacrifice everything for his country.

He is remembered here in Singapore, in the Marina Bay Park.
 

17th

We found this monument while out doing other caches. This is the birthplace for a poet named Will Carleton. This location is in Hudson, Michigan. Born in 1845, died 1912. Known for his sentimental poems of rural life. Most famous for "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse." Here's a link to this poem: http://www.poorhousestory.com/over_the_hill.htm
Kind of sad!
 

16th

This is the memorial of poet J.H. Erkko (1849-1906), in front of the Town Hall of his home town, Orimattila in Finland. Erkko is known to be one of the first poets to write in Finnish, and he is known for his Finnish nationalist poems. Today he is best remembered by two of his poems that were used for anthems "Hämäläisten laulu" and "Olet maamme, armahin Suomenmaa". He work spans 20 volumes, including plays. This was my cache #100 - wanted something special for it.

Kaksi nälkää
Kamarissa istui koulupoika, käsi poskell', itku silmissä.
Poloiselta silt' ei luku luista, vaikk' on kirja auki pöydällä.
Mut käsi kantaa pettupalaa, sille silmä kyyneliä valaa.

Poski kalpea hän istuu siinä, neuvotonna kaipaa neuvoa.
Rahaa, ruokaa kodista hän vartoi, mut näytteheks' sai pettua, mustaa, katkeraa kuin murhe itse,
joka polttaa, viiltää sydämitse.

Two hungers (hmmm... my translation)
A schoolboy in his chamber, hand on cheek, tears in his eyes.
His eyes cannot read, although the book is opened.
In his hand he carries but a loaf of pettu, on it tear drops falling.

Pale cheeks, he sits there, so lost and crying for advice.
Money, food, that he had awaited from home, but instead got this loaf of pettu,
black and bitter like the sorrow, burning and tearing the heart.

(pettu is a bread that was baked during the hunger years, made of flour and ground pine bark)
 

13th

Found the monument of jon sveinsson, the founder of Nonni, a famous nordic figure in childrens literature in Akureyri, near the museum were also the Nonni House is placed.

Regards skaut
 

12th

Moin, this memorial from Betzhorn, Germany. It's build for Hermann Löns, in Germany a very well-known poet. Visit my cache "Hermann Löns".

333-half-evil
 

11th

While tromping through the Parthenon I came upon the tomb of Voltaire. I had always thought of him ore as a philosopher but the word "poet" appeared on nearby display so I researched further. According to Wikipedia, "To his own age Voltaire was pre-eminently a poet and a philosopher; the unkindness of succeeding ages has sometimes questioned whether he had any title to either name, and especially to the latter." And that was good enough for me! (Photos to be loaded on July 19th.) TFTC!
 

11th

The three busts in the picture are, from left to right, Euripides, Sophocles, (GPS in between) and Aeschylus, the three greatest ancieng Greek playwrights. They all lived in the 5th century BC (the Golden Age of Pericles). The plays they wrote are all in verse so they are considered great poets. In fact, perhaps I should log this find 3 times, each for every poet? No? Oh well

These busts are outside the National Garden in downtown Athens, Greece.
 

10th

James Whitcomb Riley Birthplace. Greenfield, IN. James Whitcomb Riley, born Oct. 7, 1849, died July 22, 1916. Famous for his "Hoosier Dialect", and often called "The Peoples Laureate", as well as "The Children's Poet". His most famous poems are "Little Orphant Annie," "The Raggedy Man," "When the Frost Is On the Punkin," and "The Runaway Boy."
 

9th

Here is the birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier. There is a tour here and the whole bit. The museum was closed this day. This is in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Whittier was once considered a national treasure; his birthday was a holiday in many states, and his verse memorized by schoolchildren.
Whittier's poetry is out of fashion today, but many of his poems on Quaker themes can still be read with pleasure and value, especially by Friends or those interested in Quaker faith and history. Here are a list of some of his poems.
http://www.kimopress.com/whittier.htm

 

9th

Monument en mémoire d'un des plus grand poète du Québec Félix Leclerc. Ce monument est situé à La Tuque (Québec, Canada). Il y a aussi un sentier historique en son honheur dans la ville. Pour plus d'information sur Flélix: http://www.comnet.ca/~rg/felix.htm
 

8th

On Friday, April 08, 2005 Dunscott posted a find for William Blake as being buried in St Pauls in London
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=7d43710e-96f7-41b5-a1b2-4f7f9afadac5

However he is not, William Blake is buried in Bunhill Fields to the north of the City

Blake is rememberd for his poem Jerusalem

however the English writer, Peter Marshall, in William Blake: Visionary Anarchist (1988), described Blake as:

"a revolutionary anarchist, looking back to the gnostic heresies of the Middle Ages and anticipating modern anarchism and social ecology. With William Godwin, he stands as a great forerunner of British Anarchism".


 

6th

The grave of danish poet J. P. Jacobsen

J. P. Jacobsen
During his lifetime (1847-85), J.P. Jacobsen published three books: the novels Fru Marie Grubbe (Mrs Marie Grubbe 1876 ) and Niels Lyhne (Niels Lyhne 1880), and a book of short stories Mogens og andre Noveller (Mogens and Other Stories 1882). Further titles in this select canon, the arabesques and his other lyric poetry, were published posthumously. The melancholic anti-hero Niels Lyhne and the self-willed Marie Grubbe are only ostensibly historical novels which debate specific issues. They are not naturalist schematic novels, but sophisticated studies in the disparity between longing and fate, based on equal parts modern psychology, natural science and ontology. Desire, death, insanity and the relentless regularities of nature are recurrent themes. In both the novels and short stories the main characters are portrayed in sketches and fragmented sequences. All of Jacobsen´s works break stylistically and thematically with the prevalent conventions of genre. They are all written in a complex style, which alternates between exquisite, detailed and richly varied descriptions, often with impressionist effect, and short, matter-of-fact passages, frequently a kind of summing-up. The narrator´s comments break into the ongoing text. The writing is disconnected and visibly fragmented. The texts appear as compositions of set-pieces rather than organic unities. A red cable has not been anxiously drawn through every single character´s stages and phases, as Jacobsen himself observed in a letter. This is the determining factor in giving his work the distinct quality of being a pioneering genre. The style and manner of composition are an important aspect of Jacobsen´s modern poetics. He foreshadows modernism by, inter alia, letting language function as its own artistic implement and by manifesting a loss of any confidently grounded world view. The germane world view which colours Jacobsen´s writing draws on existential consequences of insights gleaned by the natural sciences which transgress his contemporary deterministic Darwinism in intuitive (morphologic) anticipation of scientific cognition, topical at the time (for example, turn-of-the-century quantum theories and later neo-Darwinism´s bias towards discontinuity and monstrosity). These insights are reflected in the themes mentioned, variable pitch of styles, complex (discontinuous) systems of composition and nihilistic delineation of character.

From www.litteraturnet.dk
 

2nd

A joint momument to Danish poets Johan Herman Wessel (1742-1785) and Johannes Ewald (1743-1781). This particular log concerns Wessel, so somebody else can log a find for Ewald if they can find another momument for him.

Johan Herman Wessel (October 6, 1742 - December 29, 1785) was a major name in Norwegian and Danish literature. Some of his satirical works and poems are still popular. His major work is the play "Kierlighed Uden Strømper" a title that would translate to "love without socks". Allegedly he wrote the following about himself:

"Han syntes skabt til bagateller
Og noget stort han blev ej heller"

approximately:

"He seemed made for trifles
And he didn't make it big, either"

This particular momument is located right in the middle of Copenhagen, right next to one of the citys most charming tourist attactions "Rundetaarn", the Round Tower. Don't miss it when you are here!

 

29th

This Shakespeare Memorial Garden on the campus of Purdue North Central in Westville, Indiana was a pleasant surprise. It is the lovechild of a pair of professors at the school. Scatteed about are "flowery" quotes from the Bard. I hope you enjoy the pics! TFTC
 

21st

Quintessential Oz balladeer..."Banjo" Paterson. His most famous poem ...probably the unofficial anthem of Australia... "Waltzing Matilda".
Found this plaque on the Sydney waterfront. Had already visited a site earlier dedicated to "Banjo" in Yass, New South Wales (site of coords). We'd been hoping to place a Virtual Cache here but unfortunately geocaching rules have changed... so we changed too.
 

19th

Found this grave memorial with this touching poem for a child that died as a fugitive slave orphan. This area of Oberlin Ohio was a critical underground railroad site to for slaves to Canada.
 

18th

This memorial commemorates the famous Japanese poet Matsuo Basho who elevated haiku in his travel diaries and anthologies. Basho visited Nagoya in the winter of 1684 and summoned his disciples to compose a haiku sequence inspired by the season, published as "Winter Days" (Fuyu no Hi). This was the first appearance of "Shofu" style of Haiku.
 

17th

G.S. Sharat Chandra - Mt. Moriah Cemetary - Kansas City, Missouri

Chandra was one of the most honored poets of his generation. His 1993 book Family of Mirrors was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He had traveled the world, giving readings in settings as prestigious as Oxford University and the Library of Congress.

This is one of his poems:

Brother

Last night I arrived
a few minutes
before the storm,
on the lake the waves slow,
a gray froth cresting.
Again and again the computer voice said
you were disconnected
while the wind rattled
the motel sign outside my room
to gather
its nightlong arctic howl,
like an orphan moaning in sleep
for words in the ceaseless
pelting of sleet,
the night falling
to hold a truce with the dark
In the Botticellian stillness
of a clear dawn I drove
by the backroads to your house,
autumn leaves like a school of yellow tails
hitting the windshield
in a ceremony of bloodletting.
Your doorbell rang hollow,
I peered through the glass door,
for a moment I thought
my reflection was you
on the otherside,
staring back,
holding hands to my face.
It was only the blurred hold of memory
escaping through a field of glass.
Under the juniper bush
you planted when your wife died,
I found the discarded sale sign, and looked for a window
where you'd prove me wrong
signaling to say
it was all a bad joke.
As I head back, I see the new
owners, pale behind car windows
driving to your house,
You're gone who knows where,
sliced into small portions
in the aisles of dust and memory.
-- G.S. Sharat Chandra
 

16th

Guido Gezelle, Flanders greatest poet rests here on the city graveyard of Bruges.
Gezelle was a catholic priest.
 

13th

This is the grave of Robert Newton Calvert,well known as Poet,Composer & Hawkwind.One of his well known songs was Silver Machine.He is buried in Minster cemetery located on the outskirts of Margate in Kent.
 

12th

Samuel Friedrich Sauter lived from 1766 until 1846. He was born in Flehingen which is a small village in Southern Germany approx. 50 km off Heidelberg. Sauter was a popular poet who wrote a great many of poems. His best poem „Der Wachtelschlag“ was set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
 

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Memorial located in the city of Coimbra, Portugal, to honour the renowned Portuguese writer Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha.

The inscription reads «Miguel Torga, 1907-1995, Poet and Doctor, which for over half a century practiced on this building.»

Poet, writer, novelist, playwright, diarist and essayist, winner of the Prémio Camões, according to some, Torga is the «reincarnation of the classic mythical poet - the poet who lives in intimacy with elemental forces (earth, sun, wind and water) and celebrates them in his song.»




 

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John Charles McNeill (1874 - 1907) is considered one of the foremost literary figures of NC and was hailed for many years by popular acclaim as NC's unofficial poet laureate. In 1905 he was the first winner of the Patterson Cup for literary excellence in NC. Some of his books include: Lyrics from Cotton Land, Possums and Persimmons, and Songs, Merry and Sad. He is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Wagram, NC near where he was raised.
 

7th

Samo Chalupka, Bratislava, Slovakia

Slovak romantic poetry of the early 19th cent. is represented by the satirical writings of Samo Chalupka 1812-83, Samo studied at the Evangelical Lutheran Lyceum of Bratislava, and also in Vienna. He studied theology and philosophy. He was the oldest member of the Ludovít Štúr generation of the Slovak national revival. He was one of the founders and active members of the Czech-Slovak Association. His best poem: Mor ho! (approx. Crush him!)


Mor ho!
Zleteli orly z Tatry, tiahnu na podolia,
ponad vysoké hory, ponad rovné polia;
preleteli cez Dunaj, cez tú šíru vodu,
sadli tam za pomedzím slovenského rodu.

Duní Dunaj a luna za lunou sa valí:
nad ním svieti pevný hrad na vysokom bralí.
Pod tým hradom Riman-cár zastal si táborom:
belia sa rady šiatrov dalekým priestorom.

... continue http://www.klasici.sk/klasici/chalupka_samo-mor_ho.html
 

6th

V.Hugo Vianden(Luxembourg)
Victor Hugo,the famous French poet, came four times to Vianden. In August 1862 on a journey through the Ardennes, Hugo was delighted by the imposing scenery of Vianden. He returned to Vianden in 1863 and was warmly welcomed by the local philharmonic society. After a short stay in 1865, Hugo, having been expelled from Belgium on 30th May 1871, found a refuge at Vianden. While his family and attendants put up at the Hotel Koch - an inn rather than a hotel- V. Hugo took up his residence on the first floor of the neighbouring house, next to the bridge. Here the poet wrote part of the "Annee Terrible". From his window he saw the majestic outline of the castle and he watched the busy activity of Vianden's inhabitants. "Vianden, he wrote, embedded in a splendid landscape, will be visited one day by tourists from the whole of Europe, attracted both by its sinister but magnificent ruin and by its cheerful and happy people."
V. Hugo's house at the bridge was arranged into the Victor Hugo Museum in 1935 "restore 2002". Manuscript letters of the poet's, his furniture and personal documents as well as reproductions of his drawings sketched during his stay are shown. Rodin's famous bust of v. Hugo, a present of the French Senate, stands on the breastwork of the bridge.

 

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City, Country: Bratislava, Slovakia
Poet: Janko Kral (24. 4. 1822 Liptovský sv. Mikuláš, + 23. 5. 1876 Zlaté Moravce) - slovak national poet and campagnier for our freedom

Monument is placed in Park of Janko Kral near river Danube in Bratislava, where he was living and composing for a six year. Romantic and fighting-for-freedom poet.

Sample of poem "Slovo" against chauvinism:

„Chorvát, Madar naši brati,
nech má každý co mu patrí,
nadvláda len právo haní -
všetci sme rovnaký páni”

 

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Well I think you have already justified this one for me. I thought you would be interested in another memorial to D Mackellar that is located at Circular Quay in Sydney.
 

30th

This statue of Ebenezer Elliott which can be found in Weston Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Ebenezer Elliott was a poet and corn-law rhymer. The statue is allegedly seated on a rock in one of the spots described in his poems. He was such an important figure in Sheffield that the people of Sheffield raised the £600 commission fee for the statue in 1854! More information on Ebenezer Elliott can be found by using the following link:

http://www.tilthammer.com/bio/elliott.html

Thanks
Chris, Mick and Eva
 

29th

N 45° 29.990 W 073° 34.274
Poet Robert Burns in Dominion Square, Montreal PQ
 

28th

Yet another Robert Burns Memorial in Dundee, Scotland. TFTC.
 

28th

Researched this one and found the gravesite of one of the best Black poets in the the USA. She was an Illinois Poet Laureate. She was known as Gwendoyln Brooks. Her married name was Bradley. I went to Lincoln Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois to visit her grave. Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College, then married poet Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr., writer for Wilson Press and father of their children, Henry and Nora. There is something special being done for her by her daughter with her headstone, so it is missing right now, but she’s buried next to her husband. I took a picture of his gravestone. I'm attaching the link regarding her accomplishements - http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-11,pageNum-74.html. Thanks for the cache. I learned a lot about this great poet and also about cemeteries.

 

22nd

Another Memorial of Schiller. Found this one near Blaubeuren, South-Germany. The Point is called *Schillerstein*. You will have a wonderfull view over the valley .
Regards from Germany
Schnuffel & Spürnase
 

21st

Shipley Windmill is in a small Village called Shipley West Sussex. England.
The famous writer and poet Hillaire Belloc owned the mill until his death in 1953. He lived in the ajoining cottage Kings Land with his wife Elodie, they moved there when they fell in love with it in 1906. Belloc wrote childrens publications such as 'The Bad Book of Beasts' and 'Cautionary tales for Children' and 'Rhymes for Children' but he particularly loved writing poetry and he was abidingly successful as a comic poet.He wrtoe over 150 prose works. Other works included ' Path to Rome', 'Tales of Sussex'and 'The Four Men'. Today Bellocs grandson occupy's his home and the Windmill has a plaque above the door in memory of Belloc. The Windmill has been lovingly restored in his memory, where he wrote many of his works and fulfiled his last days.

 

20th

German famous poet Friedrich Schiller was only 46 years old as he died. 2005 we have a "Year of Schiller", because of his dead in 1805 - now 200 years ago.
This statue - without Schiller, but with his name - I found in Ludwigsburg, South Germany. It´s called "Schiller - Bank / Console" and contents some verses of Friedrich Schiller.
Greetings from Germany,
team edelstein
Ottomar & Elisabeth
 

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This statue is of John Wesley. It is located behind St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England.

John Wesley wrote at least 30 poems that become well-known and popular church hymns, such as:

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast
All That Pass By, to Jesus Draw Near
Ho! Everyone That Thirsts, Draw Nigh
Sinners, Obey the Gospel-Word!
Thy Faithfulness, Lord
Sinners, Turn, Why Will Ye Die?
Let the Beasts Their Breath Resign
What Could Your Redeemer Do
Ye Thirsty For God, to Jesus Give Ear
God, the Offended God Most High
Come, Ye That Love the Lord

The Wesley statue is in the North West corner of the churchyard. It was erected 1988, and is a bronze cast of Manning’s early 19th century marble statue at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Wesley worshipped in the Chancel on the Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 and Friday 26 of May, Whit Week, 1738.

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This is the statue of Jose Regio. This is the most important poet from Vila do Conde, a city in the north of Portugal. He was born in 17-Sep-1901 and dead in 22-Dec-1969. He write many books alone and with other writers. Also in many newspapers. He was one founder of "Presenca" one of the most important magazines in the 30's and 40's.
This photo shows the Jose Regio's Statue in Vila do Conde located in the square with his name.
 

15th

This is the Heinrich-Heine-Memorial in Düsseldorf. Heine is claimed to be a son of our hometown, while some other cities do as well (he travelled quite a lot). More background information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine
One of his most famous poetry every German knows is "Nachtgedanken": http://www.derweg.org/personen/werke/heineged.html
 

14th

N 42° 00.673 W 096° 34.650
THe private study of John G. Neihardt. Poet Laureaute of the State of Nebraska.
 

11th

Here is the grave of Jack Kerouac, reluctant spokesman for the Beat Movement of the 1950's, buried in Lowell, Massachusetts. He coined the term "Beat Generation" and wrote many novels and poetry throughout the '40's, '50's and '60's. His most famous work was "On the Road" published in 1957, and is still a testament to the counter-culture of today.
 

6th

Chile
8th region
Talcahuano


This monument is to honor two very famous poets of Chile (and of course in the whole world)
PABLO NERUDA and GABRIELA MISTRAL
Both poets won the nobel price of literature: Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Neruda in 1971. There are no many countries in the world with two nobelprice winners of literature....

The monument is located near the road Talcahuano - Concepción
 

5th

#73
Many members of the Krupp family were born, lived, worked and died in Essen. Therefore you can find a lot of monuments on the "Meisenburg Friedhof" in Essen (Ruhr-Area, Germany).
The best known member of the family is probably Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. He was born in 1907 and died in 1967.
For more information visit e.g.: http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/K/Krupp.html

Greetings from Germany & CU @ the World Cup 2006
The Wild Cards


 

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famous world war one poet who died during that war.
he was born in oswestry and this memorial is in the grounds of shrewsbury abbey.
 

1st

The statue of Slovak national poet - Jan Holly, Bratislava, Slovak republic.
 

28th

Ina Donna Coolbrith was California's first poet laureate, given the title "The Loved Laurel Crowned Poet of California," by the state legislature in 1919. She was born in 1841 and came to California at the age of ten. After a bad marriage, she moved to San Francisco when she was 20 and reinvented herself. She published numerous works of poetry and was a friend and mentor to three generations of writers and artists, including Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Isadora Duncan, and Jack London. Although she achieved world acclaim, Coolbrith is perhaps equally famous for something she didn't write after the San Francisco earthquake and the fire of 1906 burned all of her notes for a history of literary California. She died in 1928. This plaque is found in a park dedicated to her owner on Russian Hill in San Francisco. A separate plaque by the Coolbrith society designates part of the park as a "Poet's Corner."
 

27th

N 40° 12.302 W 008° 25.629
FLORBELA de Alma Conceição ESPANCA was born in Vila Viçosa (a small town in south Portugal) in 1894 and die in Matosinhos (in the north of Portugal) in 1930.
In 1917 she published the first poems.
Having married several times, she have always been unhappy, and she becomes drugs adict.
Florbela was a fragil person, and she suffer of several diseases and fobies.
The monument, located in Coimbra, is a memorial to Florbela's simple personality.
 

25th

I found a monument to a poet that tell´s me a lot. We have the same first name - Miguel (Michael) - and we both study in the same city: Coimbra (Portugal).
It´s a classic poet but very easy to read. In Portugal we read the books of Miguel Torga very soon at the school, like "Os Bichos" (1940) or "Os Novos Contos da Montanha (1944).
Miguel Torga is the literary name of Adolfo Correia Rocha, born in August 12 in the 1907 year; he was born in a litlle vilage named S. Martinho da Anta, district of Vila Real, Portugal.
He graduate in Medicine in 1933 by the University of Coimbra (the city of the students).
He starts a diary in 1932 until 1994 (16 Vol.) and in 1960 he was a Nobel Candidate. He´s name was advanced by a Teacher of the University of Montpelier who teach a few years in Portugal.
He died in 1955 at January 17, in the city of Coimbra.

In my memory he still alive...

 

24th

Was on an afternoon caching adventure and passed by the Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky--burial place of Daniel Boone and other notable pioneers. Also there is the gravel of Timothy O'Hara, who wrote the poem, "Bivouac of the Dead," which is inscribed, at least in part, on placards across Arlington National Cemetery. See http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/bivouac.htm for the full text of the poem and the history surrounding it. Very interesting story, and a moving poem.
 

23rd

Found Algernon Charles Swinburne's grave whilst on a visit to the Isle of Wight. He is buried in Bonchurch New Church.
He was a very contraversial poet as in his younger years he wrote death wish and anti christian poetry.
As he got older his poetry was devoted to politics and philosophy. He wrote many poems some of which were The Leper, A Ballad of Death and St. Dorothy.
He grew up in Bonchurch, but lived some of his life in Putney, only to come back to Bonchurch to be buried. He was born April 5th 1837 - died April 10th 1909.
Thanks for setting this interesting cache.
The Coastway Cruisers
 

23rd

Today we found the grave of the german poet Gottfried Kinkel on the Kreuzberg-cementery in Bonn (Germany)!

Greetings from Germany!
Roland
 

22nd

Lucy Maud Montgomery is known and loved the world over for her novel, Anne of Green Gables and is tied in spirit and heart to her native Prince Edward Island, Canada. What is less well known is that as the wife of a minister she also lived in other places around Canada - specifically in Norval Ontario from 1926 to 1935. The town has built a memorial garden as a tribute to her. The plaque is located in the garden.

She is also less well known for her poetry, but she wrote and published many poems.

Maud Montgomery was well aware that greatness as a poet was beyond her reach, but her verses were capable of putting into words what ordinary people felt and often could not explain. They express the sense of awe and delight arising from the simple human experiences of all that is lovely in the world. "I've written one real poem out of my heart," she confided to a friend in a week when she had sent off several verses she knew to be pot-boilers. But even these held a small kernel of thought, of appreciation, of gratitude for the gift of natural beauty.

 

18th

Hart Crane Memorial Park is located in Cleveland, Ohio adjacent to the Cuyahoga River and one of the many lift bridges in the area. A fitting location as his best known piece is titled "The Bridge". The sculpture in the park evokes the water as well as the gritiness of the inner-city - it's industrial yet "flows".
We recently placed a cache here without even realizing that the location could be used for a locationless (Mom and Pop Art - (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3f0f5f53-a2b3-49ac-a1d6-d0ffc1605653 Waypoint GCND8N)

A brief biography cribbed online from http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors.aspx?id=161&mode=detail®ion=none

Harold Hart Crane, regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899. His father, a successful candy and syrup manufacturer, later moved the family to Warren before sending his son to live with his maternal grandmother in Cleveland. Crane, formerly raised in an unhappy and dysfunctional home due to his parents' inability to get along, immersed himself in the books available at his grandmother's house. It was there, at the age of ten, that he marveled at his grandmother's collection of books and told his Aunt Alice, "I'm going to be a poet." Though his high school education was never officially completed, Crane did attend East High School, then a premier high school in Cleveland, where he studied the "Classical" program of English literature and composition, mathematics, and languages. At the age of 17, Crane moved to New York City, the first of many times he would move between Ohio and New York working various odd jobs in both locations and learning the art of writing poetry. For instance, in New York City, Crane sold advertisements for the avant-garde literary journal Little Review, which published poets such as T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats and had Ezra Pound as its foreign editor. In Cleveland, he worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and had a friend in Norwegian immigrant and frustrated artist Ernest Nelson, whose experience with grief was his inspiration for the poem "Praises for an Urn". Crane's poetry, an attempt to unite the style of modernism with the spirit of American romanticism as seen in Whitman and Emerson, was published in two volumes while he was alive. White Buildings (1926) contains, among others, the poems "My Grandmother's Love Letters" and "Garden Abstract". The Bridge (1930) consists of the title poem--an epic series of closely related long poems inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge and celebrating life in America. Crane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931, which he used to travel to Mexico to research and write an epic poem about the Aztec civilization. Not much was accomplished, however, and Crane, reportedly ravaged by alcohol and returning to an America in the midst of the Great Depression, jumped off his return ship to his death on April 27, 1932.

Awards
Helen Waire Levinson Prize, 1930; Guggenheim fellow, 1931-32.

 

14th

Oscar Wilde
The above location is for a walk created as a memorial to Oscar Wilde in Reading, UK.

The walk is situated right outside the walls of Reading Gaol, now a young offenders institute.

The witty poet and playwright was imprisoned for 2 years, firstly in Wandsworth, and later in Reading Gaol for homosexuality, which in his day was a crime under gross indecency.

Whilst in Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde was reduced from a famous, highly-acclaimed name to code C33, his cell number.
Prisoner C33 was also the pseudonym under which his world famous “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” was first published in 1898.
http://www.poetry-online.org/wilde_the_ballad_of_reading_goal.htm


Other well known works by Wilde include:
The Importance of being earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray

A more detailed bibliography can be found here:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Oscar_Wilde.htm



 

14th

This is the monument for Bo Zetterlind in Strängnäs Sweden, he wrote a lot of interesting things, one part freely translated by me:
Freedom is the most beautiful thing, that could be searched for the world around.

/Johan
 

9th

In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant-Colonel John McRae

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing,fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flander's fields.

About the author
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote Flanders Fields in May of 1915. Colonel McCrae was a member of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and was working on the front lines, aiding fallen soldiers, when he wrote this poem. I hope that each of us, regardless of our political opinions and our differences, can take a moment today and send our thoughts and prayers to the families of those who sacraficed for their country.


 

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N 44° 12.759 W 071° 45.388
Robert Frost
"The Frost Place"
and center for the arts.
Franconia, NH

From the massive information sign on Interstate 93/Franconia Notch Parkway, I expected a much bigger place. But I followed the signs and this is what I found. A small New England style house with a quaint front porch.

An excerpt from an About.com article on the Frost book "Breath of Parted Lips".

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One legacy left to us by Robert Frost is the house at Franconia, New Hampshire. It's the place where he wrote a great deal of poetry, and by walking by the places Frost frequented, we can no doubt derive new insights into his poetry. In "The Frost Place," Donald Sheehan writes, "Frost walked the hills and woods and roads here, and hiked the mountain trails, in what appears to have been a kind of contemplative practice of silent attentiveness."

To preserve the history of the place, the people of Franconia voted to buy Frost's old farm and create The Frost Place, a museum and center for poetry and arts. The place has continued to serve as an inspiration to writers in the last 24 years since it was opened as the Frost Place.
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The views in the area are breathtaking and I can easily see how it would inspire a great poet such as Frost.

NOTE: I currently live in Derry, NH, home of the Robert Frost Farm.
I also drive through Franconia every time I visit my home town of Berlin, NH.

Check out the websites for more info.

About.com (Breath of Parted Lips)
Frommer's Travel
Fodor's Travel Guide
Answers.com - Robert Frost Bio
ClassBrain.com
Getaway Guides

TFTC,
Boutin

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8th

William Blake (1757-1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th- century.

Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier who encouraged Blake's artistic talents. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. In 1767 he was sent to Henry Pars' drawing school. Blake has recorded that from his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks and that he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures.

At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly.

Blake's first book of poems, Poetical Sketches, appeared in 1783 and was followed by Songs of Innocence (1789), and Songs of ExperienceE (1794). His most famous poem "The Tyger", was part of his Songs of Experience. In these works the world is seen from a child's point of view, but they also function as parables of adult experience.

Blake engraved and published most of his major works himself. Famous among his "Prophetic Books" are The Book of Thel(1789) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,(1790) The Book of Urizen,(1794) America(1793), Milton(1804-8)and Jerusalem.(1804-20).In the "Prophetic Books", Blake expressed his lifelong concern with the struggle of the soul to free its natural energies from reason and organized religion. Among Blake's later artistic works are drawings and engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy and the 21 illustrations to the book of Job, which was completed when he was almost 70 years old.

Though generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime, posterity rediscovered Blake and today he is highly rated both as a poet and artist.

His grave and memorial stones are located in Saint Pauls Cathederal, London UK. There is a strict no camera rule in the cathederal and crypt so this is taken from the DOme above the memorial

 

7th

Poet Enrique Gonzales Martinez, Guadalajara Mexico

This monument to the memory of the Mexican Poet 'Enrique Gonzales Martinez' is one of 17 bronze sculptures surrounding the 'Rotonda de Hombres Ilustres de Jalisco' - in the historic center of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The central colonnaded rotunda, in this tree shaded square, covers a mausoleum containing the remains of many of Jalisco States famous sons (and daughters) including this famous Mexican 'Poeta'.

Enrique Gonzalez Martinez (1871 - 1952) was a poet, physician, and diplomat. His poetry was collected and edited in three volumes of Poesias (1938-40). He had a medical practice, and in his later years served as ambassador to Argentina, Chile, and Spain.

While wintering in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, we visited Guadalajara several times. Photo taken Feb. 21, 05.

 

6th

Thomas Moore
Irish Poet and Composer
Born 28 May 1779
Died 25 February 1852

Buried in the Churchyard of St Nicholas's Church, Bromham, Wiltshire, UK

He was born in Dublin and was educated as a lawyer, his translation of Anacreon was a great success, and following this success he then wrote many poems. He was appointed the registrar of the Admiralty Court in Bermuda in 1803. He then arranged for a deputy and returned and settled in Wiltshire. He then published the Irish Melodies (1807-1834) and The Twopenny Postbag (1812) then in 1817 Lalla Rookh.

His deputy in Bermuda embezzled £6,000 pounds and so in order to avoid arrest Moore in 1819 went to Italy and then Paris. He returned once more to Wiltshire in 1822 and published The Loves of the Angel (1823). In 1827 he wrote the novel Epicurean, he also wrote the biography of Byron for whom he had a great respect.

The gravestone is a most magnificent Celtic cross that has hardly weathered at all over the years. On one side is inscribed his name and a bit of his poetry and on the other an extract from a verse of Byron's. This extract may be seen in the accompanying photograph.

May they both rest in Peace

 

29th

Henry Lawson Obelisk, Grenfell NSW, Australia

Henry Lawson was born in Grenfell NSW on 17 June 1867 and is one of Australia's most famous and most popular poets. The obelisk is located in the vicinity of what was once the Emu Creek diggings and it marks the location of Peter Larsen's (Henry's father) bush tent and the place where Henry was born. Each June long weekend the Henry Lawson Festival of Arts is held. It attracts Lawson lovers as well as poets, writers and singers to the town. Henry Lawson continued his vast literary output right up until his death on 2nd September 1922.


 

29th

Arkansas--We found this on our Spring Break roadtrip. This was in Van Buren, Arkansas. Albert Pike was a poet, educator and General in the Confederate Army. There are several streets named after him in the surrounding areas
 

27th

Johanna van Buren

A popular poetress who did wrote her poems in the saskian native language. Her poetry is mainly about nature and rural art...

She lived from 1881 - 1962 and her poetry was published in books and newspaper. She has her own museum in Hellendoorn called "De Valkhof".

Ne moand veur muddewinter,
As d’n advent begint,
Tot weer de daege lengt en
Dree Koningen der zint,
Nemp mennig boerenjongen
In ’t noord’lijk Twentelaand,
Met ’t vallen van den oavend
Den hölten hoorn ter haand.

The statue shows Johanna with a book on her lap. It was made in 1981 and can be found in the centre of Hellendoorn in the Netherlands.

greetings from the schoth family.
 

26th

"Garcilaso de la Vega" is a Spanish poet of the s.XVI, born in Toledo, Spain.
For more information, you can visit the fantastic web page in:
http://www.garcilaso.org/

 

25th

A memorial to Henry Timrod ; born Dec 8, 1828, Charleston, SC, USA - died Oct 6, 1867, Columbia, SC, USA

This memorial is in Charleston, SC, USA, the place of his birth.

Henry Timrod was an American poet who was called “the laureate of the Confederacy.”

Below is one of his poems, written in 1864 dur­ing the Ameri­can ci­vil war ---

FAINT FALLS THE GENTLE VOICE OF PRAYER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Faint falls the gentle voice of prayer,
In the wild sounds that fill the air,
Yet, Lord, we know that voice is heard,
Not less than if Thy throne it stirred.

Thine ear, Thou tender One, is caught,
If we but bend the knee in thought;
No choral song that shakes the sky
Floats farther than the Christian’s sigh.

Not all the darkness of the land
Can hide the lifted eye and hand;
Nor need the clanging conflict cease,
To make Thee hear our cries for peace.

 

23rd

Memorial to the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917) on "Shoulder Of Mutton HilL" overlooking Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
The first picture shows the memorial stone, with my GPS, the second pic is a closeup of the inscription, the third pic shows the memorial from behind with the beautifull view of the vale below.From 1906 he rented houses in Steep, near Petersfield in Hampshire. Devotees annually walk from Steep to Selborne around the time of his birthday (3 March), the flowers by the stone were left by these visitors.

Quote from the Edward Thomas Fellowship:

Edward Thomas is widely regarded as a major poet and his posthumous influence on English poetry has been considerable. His poetry was all written during the last few years of his life, before this remarkable flowering of genius was cut short by death in action at the Battle of Arras. The poems remain as much alive now as when they were written, quietly yet surely capturing the essence of the English countryside which Edward Thomas knew through all his senses. He is the least rhetorical of poets, modestly sharing his experiences with his readers and leading them into the reality behind the words until, for instance, we too can almost hear 'all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire'.

In my mission to find locationless caches in and around my home town of Petersfield, this is number 7.
 

16th

Lorine Niedecker lived on blackhawk island in fort atkinson, wi for most of her life. she chose the topics of her poetry from her world around her, i.e., blakhawk island, its natural beauty, her family, her friends, science, history, and her own travels were all fair game for her art.


 

16th

Now see two famous german poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the entry to the “Semper”-opera house of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
Friedrich Schiller has been living from 1785 to 1787 in Dresden. Here has been working at “Don Carlos”
Goethe visited sometimes Schiller in his flates.

Importand publications:
Gothe: “Faust”
Schiller: “Don Carlos”, “On the gladness” (Beethoven, 9. symphonie )
2005 is in germany “Schiller”-year († 1805)

 

11th

This is the grave of Robert Lee Frost World Famous Poet.
One of his Poems. This grave is located in the Old Bennington Cemetary in Bennington Vermont USA.
A Boundless Moment


He halted in the wind, and--what was that
Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there bringing March against his thought,
And yet too ready to believe the most.

'Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom,' I said;
And truly it was fair enough for flowers
had we but in us to assume in march
Such white luxuriance of May for ours.

We stood a moment so in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves.

Robert Lee Frost




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2nd

I found this poet's Society in Germany.
The poets are the Gebrüder Grimm with Dorothea Viehmann.
She lived in Kassel and told the Gebrüder Grimm fairy-tales. And then they wrote it down.

Greetings
Borroquito
 

27th

Guido Gezelle, dense, language scientist, translator and publicist, was born in Bruges on 1 May 1830. After his college years and priest studies, he gave proof of a smooth knowledge of languages and writingtalent, he became a teacher in 1854, to the kleinseminarie at Roeselare. Gezelle gave there among others languages, accompanied the rather vast colony foreign students, especially english, and got during two school years (1857-1859) a honourable task as a teacher in the poësis, the second last year of the humaniora.

This is one of the fomst famous poet:
Het Schryverke.
(Gyrinus natans.)
O krinklende winklende waterding,
Met 't zwarte kabotseken aen,
Wat zien ik toch geren uw kopke flink
Al schryven op 't waterke gaen!
Gy leeft en gy roert en gy loopt zoo snel,
Al zie 'k u noch arrem noch been;
Gy wendt en gy weet uwen weg zoo wel,
Al zie 'k u geen ooge, geen één.
Wat waert, of wat zyt, of wat zult gy zyn?
Verklaer het en zeg het my, toe!
Wat zyt gy toch, blinkende knopke fyn,
Dat nimmer van schryven zyt moe?
Gy loopt over 't spegelend waterklaer,
En 't water niet méér en verroert
Dan of het een gladdige windje waer,
Dat stille over 't waterke voert.
O schryverkes, schryverkes zegt my dan, -
Met twintigen zyt ge ende meer,
En is er geen een die 't my zeggen kan? -
Wat schryft en wat schryft gy zoo zeer?

 

25th

I found this monument for Heinrich Heine in munich in the so called "Finazgarten" in a cave.
he lived for two years in munich.

look for more about Heinrich Heine:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine

ingo_3
 

22nd

LUDWIG KESSING
(Miner and Homeland-Poet)
*14.8.1869 Essen-Ueberuhr
+24.2.1940 Essen-Kupferdreh
He was a famous poet in the Ruhrpott, that was the most important area of cole mines and steel industry in germany.
The monument stands in the Ludwig-Kessing-Park in Essen-Ueberruhr nearly by the ruins of his birthplace.
Here a poem of the fall of the mine Mönkhoff:

"Mönkenbank
(von Ludwig Kessing)

Wo auf die Ruhr in weiter Runde
Ruinen blicken von den Höh'n,
Liegt laubbekränzet auch im Grunde
ein Mauerwerk so mal'risch schön!

Nicht Harfenton ist hier erklungen,
wenn kühne Ritter frisch gezecht;
Der Knappen Schar hat hier gerungen
in ihrem Schweiß nur schlicht und recht.

Auch ist kein Sieger eingeritten,
des Kranzes wert nach hartem Strauß,
von hier nur trug mit raschen Schritten,
der Bergmann seinen Lohn nach Haus.

Doch wie bei jenen Machtgestalten
auch zarte Minne meist gewohnt,
hat auch des Knappen reges Walten
im Thal die Liebe fromm gelohnt.

Oft, wenn zur Grube ich muß lenken
und all die Trümmer dort wie hier
mich in Gedankentief versenken,
wie nichtig scheint dann alles mir!

Wo sind sie nur mit ihrer Habe,
mit ihren Kämpfen, Melodien?
Die Brombeer wächst auf ihrem Grabe,
wie hier der Strauch aus dem Kamin.

Und auch um mich das volle Treiben -
Wie Burg- und Ritterzeit versank,
wird nicht auch ihm ersparet bleiben
das Los der Zeche Mönkenbank."

Glueckauf
Die 5 Steinweisen
 

22nd

I present to you :

Hendrik van Veldeke, the first know Flemish language written poet in Belgium. He was born on the outskirts of Hasselt in 1128 and died in 1190.
Here's an example of what he wrote:

Ez tuont diu vogelîn schîn,
Daz siu die boume sehent gebluot,
Ir sanc machet mir den muot
Sô guot, daz ich vrô bin
Noch trûric niht kan sîn.
Got êre sî, diu mir daz tuot,
Al über den Rîn,
Daz mir der sorgen ist gebuot,
Aldâ mîn lîp verre ist in ellende.

I must confess that the local language has changed a lot since then and that it's almost not readable for me

Grtz,

Alain"Boskeun"
 

20th

Found the grave and heritage plaque for poet Stephen Leacock in Sutton, Ontario, Canada as part of a team effort with my girlfriend Ellesche (see her log below too).

Here is a link to the Canadian Archives web site with lots of information about Stephen Leacock:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/leacock/t5-211-e.html

A couple of his other well known poems include "Oh! Mr. Malthus!" (335 lines) and "The Social Plan".

The Social Plan
by Stephen Leacock

I know a very tiresome Man
Who keeps on saying, "Social Plan."
At every Dinner, every Talk
Where Men foregather, eat or walk,
No matter where, -- this Awful Man
Brings on his goddam Social Plan.
The Fall in Wheat, the Rise in Bread,
The social Breakers dead ahead,
The Economic Paradox
That drives the Nation on the rocks,
The Wheels that false Abundance clogs --
And frightens us from raising Hogs, --
This dreary field, the Gloomy Man
Surveys and hiccoughs, Social Plan.

Till simpler Men begin to find
His croaking aggravates their mind,
And makes them anxious to avoid
All mention of the Unemployed,
And leads them even to abhor
The People called Deserving Poor.
For me, my sympathies now pass
To the poor Plutocratic Class.
The Crowd that now appeals to me
Is what he calls the Bourgeoisie.

So I have got a Social Plan
To take him by the Neck,
And lock him in a Luggage van
And tie on it a check,
Marked MOSCOW VIA TURKESTAN,
Now, how's that for a Social Plan?


 

20th

While visiting Sutton, Ontario we found the grave of Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944). Although more widely known as a humourist and political economist, Leacock was also a poet. He was born in Swanmore, England and came to Canada at the age of 6. His family settled at a farm near Sutton and he is buried in the churchyard of St. George's Anglican Church. There were several graves belonging to members of his family. His most famous work, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, details life in a small Ontario town. I remember reading about the Reverend Dean Drone and it made me smile thinking that he may have been a former Reverend of St. George's.
 

20th

Cascais, Portugal

“As armas e os Barões assinalados
Que da Ocidental praia Lusitana
Por mares nunca de antes navegados
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;”

É assim que começam “Os Lusíadas”, a obra mais celebrada de Luís de Camões.

Nascido por volta de 1524 (há poucas certezas sobre a sua vida, na realidade), perdeu um olho em Ceuta (daí a pala) numa escaramuça entre 1549 e 1551, tendo embarcado para a Índia em 1552, depois de preso devido a uma rixa em Lisboa. Terá sido entre 1554 e 1569 que, na Índia e em Moçambique redige “Os Lusíadas”, poema épico em 10 cantos, uma das obras maiores da literatura Portuguesa – quem nunca o leu, faça o favor de se apressar. Em 1572, já de volta a Lisboa assiste à publicação de “Os Lusíadas”, o que lhe permite uma renda anual da Coroa – muito bem vinda devido à sua situação de pobreza. Morre a 10 de Junho de 1580, dois anos depois da batalha de Alcácer Quibir, e em plena época de perda de independência nacional.

A praça central de Cascais, tem o seu nome, numa antiga homenagem. É um ambiente que certamente o jovem e boémio Camões aprovaria, com as suas esplanadas, que à noite se enchem de gente de todas, as idades, para assistirem a um pequeno concerto, ou simplesmente para conversarem e tomarem um copo.


Cascais, Portugal

I will not translate the above poem – it takes another poet to translate what one as written.

Born around 1524 (there are many doubts about his life), Luís de Camões is one of Portugal’s best ever writers (and maybe the best). He lost an eye in a skirmish with the enemy in Ceuta (nowadays Marocco) causing is trademark image of a man with an eyeshade. He is sent to India in 1552, after being arrested in a fight back in Lisbon – and it is there that this then recognized great poet finds inspiration to write the book of a lifetime. Between 1554 and 1569, in India and Mozambique, Camões writes “Os Lusíadas”, an epic poem about Portugal and its journeys around the world, “giving new worlds to the world” – if you never read it, please go to your library NOW. Back in Lisbon in 1572, he publishes his book (earning a King’s annual fee for that) and dies in 1580 – in the middle of Portugal’s independence loss.

Cascais named its center square after this poet. It is a place the bohemian and young Camões would approve, with its esplanades, that are always full at night for a concert, a little chat or some drinks.



 

20th

On the east side of Laura's main street in South Australia's mid-north and outside of the Dick Biles Gallery is a statue of CJ Dennis. Came across this by accident as the mini-zyths remembered we needed a poet from our 'spotto' list kept with them in the back seat.
At the base of the statue is a plaque is the following.
************************
CJ DENNIS 1876-1938
creator of
"THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE"
and other verse
AUSTRALIA'S MOST PROLIFIC
POET
Born at Auburn
Resided at Laura
During his formative years

SCULPTOR
Dave GRiffiths (Adelaide)
Erected Jubilee Year - 1986

************************************
We'll, that pretty much explains everything, except how weird the guy looks. I guess that's OK, he's a poet.



When the evening sun slants through the gums,
By my forest-rimmed abode
Once more the old clear picture comes,
And my mind drifts down the road;
Back to the town by Beetaloo,
Where the Rocky River strays;
Back to the old kind friends I knew
In the dear dead Laura days.

This poem, 'Laura Days' was written by C.J. Dennis to celebrate the town's Golden Jubilee (fifty years) in 1932.

For more about him see
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/dennis.htm

 

13th

William Blake born 28th November 1757, died 12th August 1827
English poet, painter, and engraver, publisher, mystic and visionary

The location is for the headstone for William Blake and his wife in the public cemetery at Bunnhill Fields Cemetery, (which could be a corruption of Bone Hill), which was the main burial ground for Non-conformists between 1695 and 1852. Blake and his wife were buried in unmarked common graves which accounts for the description on the headstone. More fortunate neighbours have more impressive memorials, these being Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan

His most famous poem "The Tyger” was contained in his “Songs of Experience (1794)”, which he illustrated and published. “This book of poems the world is seen from a child's point of view, but they also function as parables of adult experience. The first verse is:-

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry

Another poem which he is famous for is “Jerusalem”, which is usually sung as a hymn. This` also used as the anthem fat Women’s Institute meetings. The poem was originally used as the introduction to - Milton, a poem in two books, “To Justify the Ways of God and Men”. These finished and engraved between 1803 and 1808
The first verse of Jerusalem:-

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

Blake also hated the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England and looked forward to the establishment of a New Jerusalem "in England's green and pleasant land." Between 1804 and 1818 he produced an edition of his own poem JERUSALEM with 100 engravings.

William Blake has been regarded in many ways as the archetype of the non-conformist artist, battling in loneliness with the greatest elemental themes. Examples of Blake’s paintings can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1

For further information on Blake see http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/blake/blakes_l.htm
For details of his poetical works see http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm
TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO

 

11th

The statue of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in Florence, Italy, Santa Croce square. Dante is the must famous italian poet of all time, he wrote the Divine Comedy.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri remains today one of the pillars upon which the European literary tradition has been built. Originally titled simply Commedia, Dante's masterpiece was written at the end of his life and finished just before his death in 1321. In an era of hand-copied manuscripts, it reached a large and appreciative audience quickly. By the year 1400, no fewer than 12 commentaries devoted to detailed expositions of its meaning had appeared to support the text. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote on the poet's life and in 1373-1374 delivered the first public lectures on Dante's Commedia.

"Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here." ( Inferno canto 3.1.1.)



 

7th

Stefan Andres, German Poet
found this in Unkel at Rhine by Stefan – Andres - Plaza , Germany.

Born Jun 06, 1906, Schweich, Eifel, Germany
Died Jun. 06, 1970, Rom, Italy

Infos:
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/a/andres_s_p.shtml
http://www.stefan-andres-gesellschaft.de/
http://www.hochschulstellenmarkt.de/info/s/st/stefan_andres.html

 

6th

Tilton, NH at the Tilton Seminary School.
This is the "house by the side of the road" that inspired the poem of the same name by Sam Walter Foss.
Here is a link to the poem
http://www.essentia.com/book/poems/Roadhouse.htm
He was the "Poet of the People" and amazingly related to both Daniel Webster and John Greenleaf Whittier.
While librarian of the Somerville Public Library it grew to be the second largest library in New England in circulation.
Foss wrote for many prominent magazines and newspapers of the day including The Boston Globe.
 

29th

We found this cache at Quevedo round, in Madrid, Spain. It is the Francisco Quevedo estatue.

He was born, probably, on 17 September 1580 in Madrid, died on 8 September 1645 in Villanueva de los Infantes.

Quevedo was one of the most important poets of the Baroque period.

He writed moral and metaphysical poems, loving poems and satirical poems and other.

For more info, visit link [www.secuoyas.com/escritoresespanoles/quevedo.htm]

Thanks for this cache.
Goldfinders.
 

28th

Geocache found on this Friday, the 28th of January 2005. This is the monument to Lope de Vega placed in the city of Getafe, Madrid, Spain. Lope de Vega (1562-1635) is one of the very much important poetry, theatre and novel writer, not only in Spain, also in the rest of the world. Best Regards. / Juande.
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Geocache encontrado en este Viernes, 28 de Enero de 2005. Este es el monumento a Lope de Vega ubicado en la ciudad de Getafe, Madrid, España. Lope de Vega (1562-1635) es uno de los más relevantes autores de poesía, teatro y novela, no sólo de España, sino también del mundo. Un Saludo. / Juande.
 

26th

This statue of Robert Burns outside Arbroath Library, Scotland was photographed the morning after Burns Night - a celebration of Burns life and works - when many Scots will dine on the traditional Haggis,neeps and tatties.

Details about the more formal celebrations may be found [url=http://www.rabbie-burns.com/the_supper/index.cfm]here[/url]
 

23rd

Soir d'hiver
Ah! comme la neige a neigé!
Ma vitre est un jardin de givre.
Ah! comme la neige a neigé!
Qu'est-ce que le spasme de vivre.
À la douleur que j'ai, que j'ai!

La vie d'Émile Nelligan est une longue tragédie. Sa réelle biographie est méconnue du public: il est souvent cru que Nelligan s'était suicidé à un très jeune âge. Il sera influencé par les poètes symbolistes (Verlaine, Beaudelaire, Poe...) et le romantisme de Chopin. Son œuvre comprend quelque 170 poèmes, sonnets, rondeaux et chansons qu'il a écrit alors qu'il était âgé entre 16 et 19 ans. Elle se caractérise par un lyrisme débordant de tristesse, de nostalgie, de sensibilité extrême, de douleur intérieure et de symboles. Né le 24 décembre 1879, fils d'un père Irlandais et d'une Canadienne française, il passera toute sa vie à Montréal. En 1899, Le Vaisseau d'or, son poême le plus connu, contribue à lui bâtir une renommée légendaire dans la littérature québécoise. Surmené, malade et menacé de démence, Nelligan sera interné où il y restera jusqu'à sa mort, le 18 novembre 1941.

Winter evening
Oh! how the snow has snowed!
My window is a garden of frost.
Oh! How the snow has snowed!
What is this spasm of life
To the pain I have, I have!

Émile Nelligan's life was one long tragedy. His real biography is misknown from the public: it is often thought Nelligan committed suicide at a very young age. He will be influenced by the symbolist poets, including Verlaine, Beaudelaire and Poe, and by the romanticism of Chopin. His work includes some 170 poems, sonnets, rondels and songs that he wrote between the ages of 16 and 19. His work is characterized by a lyricism overflowing with sadness, nostalgia, extreme sensitivity, inner sorrow and symbols. Born December 24 1879, son of an Irish and a French Canadian, he will spend his entire life in Montreal. In 1899, Le Vaisseau d'or, his most reknowned poem, contributes to his legendary fame in Quebec literature. Overworked, ill and facing dementia, Nelligan was interned, where he remained until his death on November 18, 1941.

GC#62
 

23rd

This is the so-called Loensgrab. It covers supposedly the remains of the home poet Hermann Loens fallen in the year 1914 in france. He lived many years near of Hanover and the majority of his books describe the simple life of the farmers in the Lueneburger heath and also many experiences from life, own to his, as a hunter. His best known books are "Der letzte Hansbur" and "Der Wehrwolf ".
On the memorial stands: Your eyes let be open, concludedly your mouth, and walk quietly, secret things become to you like this. H.L.

[This entry was edited by Puschel&Mausohr on Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 9:31:35 AM.]
 

23rd

Duke August von Platen (1796 - 1835) is a famous poet from Germany.
Here in this house in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, wrote Platen in the
summer 1824 a few poems.

 

18th

To quote http://www.mytholmroyd.net/tedhughes/th1.html :

"Ted Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, was born at 1, Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd on 17th. August 1930. He was the youngest of the three children of William and Edith Hughes (nee Farrar) who were both from well established Calder Valley families."
 

18th

This is the statue of Ammon Wrigley in Uppermill. Ammon was a poet and historian who was born in 1861 and died in 1946. He wrote mostly about the Saddleworth area which borders Lancashire and Yorkshire. He was given the opportunity to move to Hollywood and write for the film industry, an opportunity he turned down. His death was commemorated by the BBC who broadcast a hour long programme about him on the 15th of September 1946.

The picture was taken in the snow so it's not great.
 

17th

We were at the Brothers-Grimm-Monument in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. The brothers Grimm are world-wide known as fairy tale writers and collectors. Nevertheless Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm did not only write fairy tales. They also wrote about the German mythology, the history of the German language, the German heroic legend and many more topics. In Germany there is a tourist route called „German Fairy-tale Route“ http://www.deutsche-maerchenstrasse.de/seiten/index_en.html . It is a route of more than 600km, stretching from Hanau in the south to Bremen in the north. It goes past places where the Brothers Grimm have lived and worked, as well as places and landscapes in which their fairy-tales were set. It goes through Göttingen. Besides Göttingen is strongly connected with the brothers Grimm. Here they worked as professors and librarians. The Brothers Grimm were also part of the famous „Göttinger Sieben“, 7 professors, who protested against a violation of the constitution by King Ernst August of Hannover in the year of 1837. The protest started a liberal movement in whole Germany.

Thanks for the cache and
Greetings from M. und B. from Göttingen
 

14th

I am so glad that no one has come across this monument to the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
I love Dartmoor and this was a fantastic hunt and a great walk on a lousy day for weather

Ted Hughes was one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He became Poet Laureate in 1984.
His life was sometimes painful and controversial. His wife, the American poet Sylvia Plath commited suicide.
Feminists blamed Ted Hughes, and took his silence as admission of guilt.
Another partner, Assia Wevill also committed sucide, killing their daughter too.
Ted Hughes poetry was inspired by the wild, elemental forces of nature. Much of it was based on the 40 years he spent, living and farming in Devon.

The Mystery of the Monument
A remaining mystery is how the memorial got here. It is Dartmoor granite, but not from this part of the moor.
Friends of Ted Hughes say a helicopter was used, with the help of Prince Charles who owns the area and was a close friend of the poet.
The Duchy of Cornwall wouldn't comment on that, saying only that it didn't usually give permission for memorials, but as Ted was a special and dear friend of Prince Charles, a rare exception was made.

For more information on Ted Hughes just do a search on the internet, there are loads of sites.
Thanks for a great challange.

Wadders


 

11th

The famous 19th-century poetess Annette von Droste Hülshoff
was already introduced by the Sertuerner-Team when they
found Haus Rüschhaus, which is a museum now.
Looking for a memorial to claim this cache, I accidentally
found this statue of Annette von Droste Hülshoff today.
There is another statue of the musician Julius Otto
Grimm nearby. In fact, his one made me have a closer look
at the park, and thus I found AvDH.
Unfortunately, the inscription, which only consists of the
name and nothing else, is hardly legible.

West468
(Find #71: Tue, 01/11/2005, 17:07)
 

10th

Henry Kendall was an Australian Poet and short story writer of some reknown. This monument near Gosford is a marker to where Kendall was known to have written his poem "Bellbirds". Kendall lived in the Gosford area for a little while and his cottage is situated at West Gosford (now a museum). He is also depicted on the $10 note.
 

9th

Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904)
Mt Vernon Ohio, Historical Marker
Born in Mt. Vernon, on October 29, 1815. He wrote "Dixie's Land" and other "walk-arounds," written in an artificial black dialect. "Dixie's Land" became the anthem of the Confederate States. [p]I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land![p]


 

9th

We found this "Poetenwäldchen" (poets-wood) in Nürnberg Bavaria/Germany as we made a cache on this location. We life only a fwe kilometers away, but we didn´t heared anything of this before yesterday.
We made this cache today, and so we took the pictures of two poets. They were member of "Pegnesischem Blumenorden" (www.irrhain.de)

thx 4 the cache

(# 430)
 

5th

This monument honors John Greenleaf Whittier.
It is located on Rte. 91 in York, ME

Whittier was once considered a national treasure; his birthday was a holiday in many states, and his verse memorized by schoolchildren.

Whittier's poetry is out of fashion today, but many of his poems on Quaker themes can still be read with pleasure and value, especially by Friends or those interested in Quaker faith and history.

I tried to include his poem which is partly quoted on the stone but there were too many characters

If you do a web search for Maud Muller you can easily find the poem to read it.


 

1st

Rexford, Eben E.
While in general the biographies in this book are of the authors of serials or booklets published by Beadle, it seems necessary to include also a few other writers whose names appeared constantly in the pages of the Saturday Journal and the Banner Weekly. Among these, the name of Eben Eugene Rexford appeared for years as the author of short sketches and almost weekly poems. His place among poets is owing largely to two popular songs, "Silver Threads among the Gold" and "Only a Pansy Blossom." Most of his poems are as far on the lugubrious side as are the poems of a certain recent popular poet on the pollyanna, but they are just as bad, and are reminiscent of the poems of Emmeline Grangerford.(1) "When I am Dead," "To One in Heaven," "A Last Look." "At the Judgment Day," "Do the Dead Hear?" "The Undiscovered Shores," "Not Dead," "When Rest Comes," "In the City of the Dead," "A Lust Soul," "A Dead Hope," "When I would Die," and so ad infinitum—all the same old story of busted hearts, withered hopes, and welcome grave.

Eben Eugene Rexford, a son of Jabez Burrows Rexford and his wife, Rebecca Wilcox, was born in Johnsburg, Warren County, New York, July 16, 1848. When he was about eight years of age his parents removed to Ellington, Wisconsin, near Shiocton, where his father farmed. Like many of the dime novelists, he began to write when very young, and at fifteen published his first poem, "To My Wife" (!) in the New York Weekly, and at seventeen had had several poems accepted and paid for by Frank Leslie. He taught school in 1865 and 1866, then entered Lawrence College at Appleton, Wisconsin, and remained there for three years. It was during his student days that he wrote his famous song "Silver Threads among the Gold." After leaving college, he went to Shiocton and began to make literature his profession, although for a time he also presided over a rural post office which paid him something less than one hundred dollars a year.

He was married December 9, 1890,(2) to Mrs. Harriet Bauman Harsh, at Shiocton.

Rexford wrote many short sketches and over a thousand poems for the Saturday Journal and the Banner Weekly. He also wrote poems, sketches, and short stories for the Ladies' Home Journal, Youth's Companion, Harpers Young People, Chicago Ledger, Lippincott's Magazine, Outlook, Independent, Congregationalist, Frank Leslie''s Popular Monthly, Golden Days, and many other periodicals, and nickel novels for the Nickel Library and other publications. He published a book of poems, "Brother and Lover," in 1886 and a novel, "John Fielding and his Enemy," in 1888. In 1885 he became interested in horticulture and conducted that department in Home and Flowers, and from 1890 to 1900 a similar department in the Ladies' Home Journal. He also wrote a number of horticultural books: "Grandmother's Garden" (1887), "Home Floriculture" (1888), and "The Swamp Secret" (1897).

Rexford died of typhoid fever in a hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 16, 1916.

REFERENCES: J. L. Shaylor, "Eben E. Rexford," Magazine of Poetry, VIII, 1896, 310-11; Lamb's Biog. Dict., Boston, 1903, Chicago Ledger, XIV, April 14, 1886, 4, with portrait; Appleton's Cyc. Amer. Biog., V, 1888, 225-26; Nat. Cyc. Amer. Biog., X, 1909, 55; Elmo Scott Watson, "Add to Your List of 'Red Letter Days' in July, Birthdays of Two Who Deserve Remembrance for Their Gifts to America's Folk Literature," syndicated article in various newspapers.


 

31st

Once again the famous German Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who wrote "Nathan der Weise" and "Minna von Barnhelm". This statue is in Braunschweig, where he died in 1781.

Thanks and regards from Germany
Horst
 

26th

The coords given are for Robert Lee Frost's final marker in the Frost Family Plot in the Old Bennington,VT Cemetery,where he was placed after his death on 1-29-1963. The second set of coords (N42*56.067 W073*12.597) are for the Frost Farm Home on Rt.7A north of Bennington, which is now a museum In 1955-56 Vermont State Legislature named a Mt, in Ripton after Frost & 1961 also named him Poet Laureate of Vermont [^] http://www.ketzle.com/frost/frostbio.htm
 

20th

Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836)

Famous Austrian playwright, poet, actor and director.
He is best known for his plays, which are still very popular.
They combine scenes from the lives of "ordinary" (nowadays one would say working-class) people with fantastical elements (good fairies etc.) His most famous plays are "Der Verschwender" (The Spendthrift) and "Der Bauer als Millionär" (The Farmer As Millonaire).
Ferdinand Raimund came to a tragic end : he was bitten by a dog, and, convinced he had contracted rabies, shot himself

Some poems can be found here :
http://ferdinandraimund.at/gedichte/index.html

The statue is located opposite the "Volkstheater" (People's Theatre) in Vienna, Austria.
 

17th

This is the gravestone of James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 located in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. James Russell Lowell was an essayist,satirist, poet, editor, professor and diplomat and was one of the leading forces in nineteenth century American literature. He succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as professor of modern languages at Harvard and was also editor of the Atlantic Monthly. One of his most famous poems is called She Came and Went.
 

16th

It's quite fitting that Washington Irving, possibly best known for his "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York. Washington Irving, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist, was one of the first Americans to make a living solely from his writings. His gravesite has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Here's a link to one poem I found online:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2000/i/irving01.html
 

14th

Welcome to Poets Park in Oeiras, Portugal. The name is accurate. Within the park you will find statues to around twenty famous portuguese poets. The Gardens are very well maintained and quite peaceful. A place to visit if you need some peace.

I chose as an example, one of my favourite poets. Florbela Espanca lived in the early 20th century and wrote a few tragic and love sonets. They are usually very sad or very passionate. She took her own life in 1930
 

7th

Hello Slider & Smurf... The Red Fox Raiders found a monument for Robert Burns in Victoria Park,Spring Garden Road,Halifax Nova Scotia.
Westward walk up Spring Garden,past many great shops,pubs and restaurants,will bring you to the intersection of Spring Garden and South Park Steet.To your right is the Public Garden; to your left and south of Spring Garden is Victoria Park. Here,standing high on a pedestal,is th Nova Scotia capital's statue of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.
Presented to the city by the British Society on September 13,1919. Cast in bronze,it is a replica of one in Ayr,Scotland,by George A. Larson. It stands on a pedestal of Nova Scotia granite decorated with bronze bass-reliefs of scenes from Burns poems:"To a Mouse","The Cotter's Saturday Night","Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o'Shanter
Thanks for the hunt and happy geocaching!
 

5th

Edgar Allan Poe
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This is the National Historic Site of one of the homes that Edgar Allan Poe lived in during his 6 years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During those 6 years, Poe lived in 5 different houses in Philadelphia. This is 234 North Seventh Street, above Spring Garden Avenue. Poe, along with his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm, moved into this small brick house sometime between the fall of 1842 and June of 1843 and left in April of 1844. Like all of Poe's homes, this one was rented. Of his 5 different Philadelphia homes, only this one still survives.

In the side garden stand a sculpture of one of his most famous characters "The Raven."

 

4th

John Ruskin. I visited Coniston in Cumbria (England) where I took these pic's of the grave of the famous poet John Ruskin,Born 1819-1900. there is also a john Ruskin museum in the village of Coniston.
 

24th

Karel Hynek Mácha (16 November 1810 - November 5, 1836) was a Czech romantic poet.

His lyrical epic poem Máj (May), which was published in 1836 shortly before his death, was judged by his contemporaries as immoral and a threat to society. His reputation improved after his death and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism.
He is buried at the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic.

Tabacek

 

24th

The grave and the memorial of Czech poet Vitezslav Nezval is located at the National Cemetary Vysehrad in Prague, Czech republic.

Vitezslav Nezval (1900-1958) was perhaps the most prolific writer in Prague during the 1920s and 30s. An original member of the avant-garde group of artists Devetsil (Nine Forces), he was a founding figure of the Poetist movement. His output consists of a number of poetry collections, experimental plays and novels, memoirs, essays, and translations. His best work is from the interwar period. Along with Karel Teige, Jindrich Styrsky, and Toyen, Nezval frequently traveled to Paris, engaging with the French surrealists. Forging a friendship with André Breton and Paul Eluard, he was instrumental in founding The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia in 1934 (the first such group outside of France), serving as editor of the group's journal Surrealismus.

Thanks for the cache
 

22nd

Henry Vaughan, the notable Welsh poet is buried in the churchyard in the tiny hamlet of Llansantffraed, in the Usk Valley in South Wales. He died on 23rd April 1695 at the age of 73. He was one of twin sons of Thomas Vaughan of Tretower Court, a splendid building that can be visited today.
The Vaughans backed the royalists in the English Civil War, 1642-49, which ended with the execution of Charles I. The family suffered a perod of deprivation as a result, until the Restoration, in 1666. From this time, Henry practised medicine in his native county, Breconshire.
Writing under the names Swan of Usk and Silurist (a member of the local ancient tribe, the Silures), his poetry reflects the local landscape and his journeys in faith. The grave bears the poet's chosen epitaph:
Servus inutilis peccator maximus hic jaceo gloria misere.
 

19th

This memorial is to the best known and loved Cornish poet and historian of the 20th century A.L. Rowse.
It is situated on a headland called 'Blackhead' South of St. Austell, Cornwll (G.B.)
Made of Cornish Granite the memorial is inscribed:-

A L ROWSE CH
1903-1997
POET & HISTORIAN
LEF A GERNOW
VOICE OF CORNWALL
THIS WAS THE LAND
OF MY CONTENT

Rowse was a St. Austell man who was a great champion of all things Cornish. The memorial was placed here because it was an area he used to regularly walk and gave him great inspiration.
 

17th

Thomas Gray was born in 1716. He was an English Poet & Classical Scholar. In 1757 he was offered the post of Poet Laureate which he declined.

Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard (1751), believed to have been written in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, has become a lasting contribution to the English heritage. It is still one of the most popular and most frequently quoted poems in the English language; before the battle of the Plains of Abraham, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited it to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow."

This impressive monument in his honour can be found just outside Stoke Poges church yard in an area under the name of 'grays field'.




 

10th

Ivor Gurney, Poet and Composer, 1890 - 1937 - http://www.geneva.edu/%7Edksmith/gurney/

The plaque stands on the site of the birthplace of Ivor in Gloucester, UK. 3 Queen Street no longer exists and the site is now occupied by a 1950's shopping precinct.

The co-ordinates are the last valid ones I got when walking towards the plaque as the plaque is effectively "inside", at least so far as GPS signals are concerned.
 

7th

Gabriele D'Annunzio is one of the most famous and important poets in Italian Literature.
But besides being a great poet, he is also remembered as an hero during the World War I. In fact we found this memorial in Gorizia, Italy, whose surroundings are famous because they have been historical battlegrounds during the same war.

Chikka & Kazuma (geocaching.kazuma.net)
 

7th

Robert Burns seems to be the most celebrated poet on this location page.

Here's a memorial to a single night that he spent in a dwelling in the High Street of Falkirk, Scotland.

Burns was a renowned philanderer who was frequently disloyal to his wife and was much sought after by the gentlewomen of Edinburgh, but History does not recall who he slept with that night:I


{Typo and co-ords corrected}


 

6th

The statue of Slovak national poet - Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav, Hviezdoslavovo square, Bratislava, Slovak republic.
 

2nd

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

One of the great English poets who was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, UK on the 21 October 1772 and died in London on the 25 July 1834

The plaque is on the beautiful church of Ottery St Mary and the family house is nearby where his descendants still live.

 

2nd

Florence - Italy. The façade of the Palazzo Uffizi (home of the Uffizi Gallery built from 1560 by Giorgio Vasari - 1511/1574) in Florence is decorated with a series of statues in niches. The picture shows Dante Alighieri, but there are also Petrarca, Boccaccio, and many other famous florentine artists (available for other logs). Another statue of Dante is in Piazza Santa Croce, already logged by nicogiorgi with an exhaustive description of life and masterpieces of the Divine Poet.
 

31st

This is Haus Rüschhaus in Münster, Germany. The famous german poet and writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848) lived here from 1826-1846. Her most famous piece is probably "Die Judenbuche", read this and other pieces online at: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/droste.htm

More about her life and her writings and poetry (in german) at: http://www.droste-gesellschaft.de/annette/

Another claim to fame for Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: She became the lady on the german 20 mark bill that was in use prior to the euro conversion.

 

30th

Found this memorial to 14 year old poet Jason Scott Bivens-Rose while visiting in Oklahoma City. Thanks!

[This entry was edited by mondou2 on Saturday, October 30, 2004 at 10:17:04 PM.]  

29th

August Strindberg is one of Swedens greatest writers of all times. He's not only written poetry, but also novels, stories and plays. Several of his works have been translated to english too. This is a site on the internet which we provide as proof of his greatness, but it shouldn't be hard for you to find loads and loads of webpages about him - also in german and french!

http://www.worldandihomeschool.com/public_articles/1994/january/wis11866.asp
 

27th

Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was an eccentric ( a poet ) in the gold country of California (mostly Auburn). Although the plaque claims he was international, I think that may be an overstatement. He really wasn't national, but was know in the majority of california and the populated areas of Nevada. He lived during a time where mining was dwindling and the mining areas were in decline and people were looking for something to be proud of. This site represents his tomb although it is relocated.
 

25th

Today I visited the Holy Cross War Graveyard in Scopwick, Lincolnshire (UK). It was very sobering walking down the grave lines and reading the names and ages of the young men who lie there. One of them is Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee who wrote the most inspirational poem of aviation literature, 'High Flight'.

John was born in China to an American father and an English mother. He loved poetry and admired the war poet Rupert Brooke. In 1940 he left his studies at Yale university and joined the Royal Canadian Airforce in the hope of aiding the UK in the Second World War. He gained his wings in 1941 and went to Wales for advanced training and then onto Wellingore, in Lincolnshire.

He was so excited after his first flight in a Spitfire that he jotted his feelings on an envelope and sent it to his parents, along with the note: '"It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed. I thought it might interest you." The poem was 'High Flight'.

A few weeks later John was dead. He was not killed in combat, but in a collision with a trainer. A local farmer saw John's Spitfire disintegrate and watched him struggle to get out. His parachute failed to open. He was nineteen years old.

The poem is known worldwide and has become the aviator's anthem. The memorial to the seven astronauts who died in the Challenger shuttle explosion has the 'High Flight' poem on the back:

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

[This entry was edited by Froginabog on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at 5:39:06 AM.]
 

24th

William Wordsworth on Westminster Bridge, London, England

This is the very spot that Wordsworth composed "Westminster Bridge" (the following). It is now commemorated with a plate.

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

I took two photos, the first of plate and GPS, the second of the modern view from the bridge whcih is rather different to 1802. It now shows the London Eye, the largest observation wheel in the world (which we had just "flown".


 

23rd

This statue (1964 by sculptor Terho Sakki) was placed in Tampere, Finland, in honor of a Finnish poet Yrjö Jylhä (1903-1956). His poems are said to be brusque and masculine, but he himself was inwardly responsive and sensitive. The turning point in Jylhä's career was the Winter War (1939-40), when he witnessed as an officer the horrors of the front line. His major work, KIIRASTULI (1941), is generally considered the best lyrical work emerging from this period of the Finnish history.

You know not who he is or whence hailing,
Know nothing of the man within ken
But that against your pistol's mouth comes, assailing,
Some one of the race of men.
Thus do East and West each other encounter,
Thus do men facing each other fare.
The one lived, of this the mindful recounter,
The other is being missed somewhere.
(from 'Meeting in the Woods', in Kiirastuli, 1941, trans. by Cid Erik Tallqvist)

Yrjö Jylhä was born in Tampere. At school Jylhä was especially interested in drawing and athletics - he won a gold medal in javelin throw in an athletic contest between schools. Also some of his later poems were sports-minded. As an aspiring poet Jylhä was encouraged by the literary association Nuoren Voiman Liitto. His first poems Jylhä wrote at the age of 17. After graduating from lycée, he volunteered in the army. In 1924 he entered the University of Turku and later in the same year he started his studied at the University of Helsinki. In the anthology Nuoret runoilijat I (1924) Jylhä published six poems, which also appeared in his first collection of poems, RUOSKANJÄLJET, in 1926. Two years later followed KURIMUS (1928), but then Jylhä concentrated on translating works for nine years.

Jylhä translated into Finnish works from such classic authors as Heine, Shakespeare, La Fontaine and Milton.
During the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet aggression, Jylhä served in the army as a company commander, and at the information department.

This information was found at:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/yrjojylh.htm
 

19th

This is William Daniel's grave in San Jose. In 1979, William came to San Jose, California. During his years in San Jose, William served as the Editor of the Assyrian Star magazine, wrote numerous articles, poems, and musical pieces. In 1983, he published the third and last volume of the epic of "Kateeny the Great", immortalizing it in a compilation of over 7,000 verses, and narrated Volume I and II of the Epic on tape.



http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2003/3.17.03/index.php#TheLighthouse
 

18th

This is the final Resting place for the Poet of Saginaw
Michigan Theodore Roethke, His family ran a greenhouse / hothouse as it would have been called. I grew-up a stones
throw from that very Hot house, and walked past his family
home on my way to South Middle School. I have read some of his poetry, particularly the one that dealt with the Green house.

A park is also dedicated to his memory is located at
N 43° 24.700 W 084° 06.400 Log these coordinates into
your home location to look at the map of the park Online.
He would have liked the park, its a kids park with a small pond surrounded by trees.

Also there is a Monument in the form of a historical Marker
Located on the Lawn of his family home on Gratiot Road about four miles due east of the Park, and Grave.
The Monument is located near N43° 24.850 W083° 59.000
Look for a STate of Michigan Historical Monument marker.

Lastly the location of the original Family greenhouse
which is now renamed Gartners GreenHouse is located at
N43° 25.300 W 083° 59.500 I lived about .200 degrees North
of that location. I may even still have a shard or two
of an old pot from there.

I hope someone who has an interest in poets
will find this intersting.

DoctorSlime Reporting
18 Oct. 2004

(I will add pictures for the Park, Marker, Home, GreenHouse, and GPS just as soon as I get a few extra moments to run out to do so. )

 

17th

This is James Joyce's statue in the city centre of Dublin, Ireland. Well, what more is there to say? Joyce is THE poet of Dublin. His Ulysees, Dubliners or Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man are famous throughout of the world. Many places in Dublin can be detected in Ulysses and every year people are celebrating Bloomsday in honor of his figure Leonard Bloom and of Joyce! http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/
 

13th

Johann Woflgang von Goethe
stayed three times in kassel. to remember this the "goethegesellschaft kassel" erected this monument in 2001. The "Stadthallengarten" in Kassel/Germany is in the same street like my home.

 

5th

This is the grave of the First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is buried in the churchyard at Mells near Frome in Somerset, England. Siegfried Sassoon was born in Weirleigh, Kent, England on September 8, 1886. Sassoon enlisted into Sussex Yeomanry as a trooper two days before the outbreak of the First World War. He survived the war and left the Army in March 1919.He did not serve in the Second World War, but lived with his wife Hester Gatty (whom he married in 1933) and their son George, in Wiltshire. Although the marriage ended in 1945, Sassoon lived on in his Wiltshire home at Heytesbury House until he died in 1967, at the age of 80.


 

28th

This is the grave of C J Dennis, the poet who is probably best known for The Sentimental Bloke. He was born in Auburn, South Australia on 7 September 1876, and died in Melbourne on 22 June 1938. He is buried in Box Hill Cemetery in Melbourne's east.

The exact number is unclear, but Dennis seems to have produced somewhere in the vicinity of 4,000 pieces of prose and poetry during his 40 or so years as a writer. It would be hard to find another Australian writer who comes close to the sheer volume of material he produced.
 

26th

John Gould Fletcher is buried in Mt Holly Cemetery located at I630 and Broadway in Little Rock, ARkansas. He received the Pulitizer Prize for Poetry in 1939.
geoark1
 

25th

Purdy, Alfred Wellington, O.C., O.O.
Buried in Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Ontario, Canada

Purdy won the Governor General’s Award in 1965 and 1986. In 1973 he won the A.J.M. Smith Award for poetry. He published his autobiography, Reaching for the Beaufort Sea in 1993, as well as a new collection of poems that same year, Naked With Summer in Your Mouth. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on June 21, 1982 and also a recipient of the Order of Ontario.

As well as poetry, Purdy wrote plays for radio and television, articles and reviews for magazines, and edited anthologies.

 

25th

Esaias Tegnér (the older), 1782 - 1846. Poet, professor at Lund university from 1810, bishop of Växjö from 1824. Member of the Swedish Akademy, chair 8, from 1818 until his death.

The coordinates lead to a statue located beween the Cathedral and the old gymnasium in Växjö. A picture will be uploaded within the 24 hours.
 

21st

Cecil Day-Lewis is buried in St.Michael's Churchyard,Stinsford,Dorset. Day-Lewis' poetry was greatly influenced by Thomas Hardy. Day-Lewis was part of a group of the 1930s left wing poets sometimes referred to as the Pylon Poets which included W.H.Auden,Louis MacNeice & Stephen Spender.He was professor of poetry & Oxford from 1951-1956 & became Poet Laureate in 1968 after the death of John Masefield.
"Tempt me no more, for I
Have known the lightning's hour,
The poet's inward pride,
The certainty of power.
(from 'Tempt Me No More') "


 

19th

The family home of Vachael Lindsay (1879 - 1931) has been converted into a popular attraction in Springfield, IL. He was one of the American Poets of the early 20th century and the following link http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/lindsay has details of his life and work. Local poetry readings are often given at the home. http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/sites/lindsay.htm which is just south of the Governor's mansion in Springfield, IL.

 

18th

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the most famous portuguese poet after Camões. He is the author of some of the greatest poems in Portugal, many of them written under one of is four heteronyms (Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis e Alváro de Campos).


Many of his poems were writen in the "A Brasileira", one historical coffe-house in Lisbon. "A Brasileira" was founded in 1905 and sill is one of the most famous coffe-house of Lisbon in the current days.

So, this statue was raised in front "A Brasileira" to pay homage to this great portuguese poet.

[This entry was edited by [Walrus] on Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 1:13:57 PM.]

 

12th

You've noted all the info on Sidney Lanier. This is where he died. When I was in school (50s and 60s) we heard a good bit about this Southern poet. He served in the Confederate army and contracted TB while in a yankee prison. He wrote a nature poetry in a Romantic vein. This is where he died....probably while trying to get some good mountain air. HC

 

11th

Taras Shevchenko - National Poet of Ukraine - Champion of Freedom and Justice for All. Dedicated by the Ukranian Canadian Community to commemorate his death and to celebrate 70 years in Canada from 1891-1961. This monument is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba near the Legislature.The bronze statue was sculptored in New York by Andrew Daragan, who was assisted by Roman Kowal of Winnipeg. On the memorial it says:
"He revived and inspired a nation down-trodden by oppression - and fearless appeal to right and truth speaks as eloquently in our time as it did in his."

 

10th

This is Hans Sachs who was a famous poet in my hometown Nürnberg, Germany. Mainly he wrote short and funny plays that are still performed in several open air festivals.
Regards, protankgirl (Ulla & Roland).

 

3rd

Found the grave site of Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). Who was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. Poe's stormy personal life and his haunting poems and stories combined to make him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. His most known poem, The Raven" is a narrative poem with strong dramatic force. In 18 six-line stanzas, it describes the narrator's midnight visit by a raven that repeatedly utters the single word "Nevermore." In an agony of grief over his lost love, Lenore, the speaker plagues the bird with increasingly desperate questions. However, the raven does not alter its answer, which forms the poem's haunting refrain.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more."








 

3rd

This poet named M.Heyting (8-13-1918/6-9-1992)we ran into during a short cachingholiday in and around Borger in N. Netherlands.
Heyting was a poet, who used to write his poems in the local dialect of the region he lived in: Drenthe-province.
He was fame was not only regional. National he was the symbol of Drenthe in poetry.

 

2nd

Another Statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This one is situated on the famous "Ringstrasse" in Vienna/Austria. If you want to find out more of Goethe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe

thx for this nice idea
Schatzmeister

 

30th

Evert Taube is a Swedish poet, songwriter, singer and storyteller. He was also a good lute player. The statue is a work of Willy Gordon and is raised at Evert Taubes Terass on Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

19th

William Barnes Statue at Dorchester, Dorset England.
A poet that wrote in a Dorset dialect which can be quite hard to read until becoming familiar with it. He commands his own appreciation society .
William Barnes was born in 1801 at Bagber, near Sturminster Newton in North Dorset. He was educated locally and worked as a solicitor's clerk until 1823, when he became a schoolmaster. In 1827 he married Julia Miles. Her death, in 1852, affected him deeply; many of his poems describe his love for her. He was ordained in 1848 and was appointed curate at Whitcombe near Dorchester. Barnes died in 1886; his obituary in the Saturday Review read: 'There is no doubt that he is the best pastoral poet we possess.
[http://www.netpoets.com/classic/002000.htm for some of his poems


 

18th

Found a statue of Robert Burns, Scotland's most famous national poet, who lived from 1759-1796, in City Park in Denver, CO. The statue resides in a beautiful, peaceful, landscaped area of the park, surrounded by many flower beds. Inscribed on the base of the statue is "A poet peasant born. Who more of fame's immortal dower unto his country brings than all her kings. The statue was earected and unveiled by Caledonian Club No. 1 of Denver, Colorado on July 4, 1904.

 

14th

This statue of Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish religious philosopher, whose concern with individual existence, choice, and commitment profoundly influenced modern theology and philosophy, especially existentialism.

The square in front of the Royal Danish Library is named after him and in the Library garden this statue is positioned.

 

8th

This statue of William Shakespere was found in London's, Leicester Square area. William Shakespeare (born April 1564) is widely considered to have been the greatest writer and poet the English language has ever known. He wrote 154 sonnets and several major poems, some of which are considered to be the most brilliant pieces of English literature ever written, because of Shakespeare's ability to rise beyond the narrative and describe the innermost and the most profound aspects of human nature. He is believed to have written most of his works between 1585 and 1613. This statue is dated 1874. Thanks for an interesting cache idea!

 

8th

Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
(ca. 1622 - 8.16.1676, really old!)
searchengine: grimmelshausen (many hits)
pic from his deathplace memorial in Renchen/Germany

 

8th

This monument to Thomas Moore is located along the Niagara Parkway near the the McFarland Farm historical site in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. The close-up picture tells the story. This monument was recently placed about 30 feet from my archived cache, "neath the old oak tree" which was washed away by erosion.

 

7th

N 50° 58.788 E 011° 19.553
The monument of Goethe and Schiller in Weimar, one of the most famous ones in Germany dedicated to two famous poets!

Goethe lived in Weimar from 1776 to his death in 1832.
Schiller visited Weimar several times and lived there from 1799 to his death in 1805.
They worked together from 1795 to 1805, a time that is called the "Weimarer Klassik".

MrSandman (with Jona, Robin and Feline)

[This entry was edited by mrsandman on Friday, August 27, 2004 at 2:02:33 PM.]
 

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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)
This Kentucky Poet Laureate was born and lived most of his life in W- Hollow, near Greenup. An educator and prolific writer. Staurt authored books, short stories, and poems which portray Appalachian Ky. He received Guggenheim fellowship. 1937: nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. 1977. Works Include ( The Thread That Runs So True and Man with a Bull- Tongue Plow.) The required Pics are posted.

 

29th

Fountain of Hans Sachs in Nuremberg / Germany.

Hans Sachs lived from 1494 to 1576 in Nuremberg. He was shoemaker, poet and mastersinger (Meistersinger). He is one of the most productive poets of german language and wrote more than 4000 songs/poems and more than 200 dramas. He plays a leading role in the opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner.

The fountain in the old city of Nuremburg has been erected in 1984. It represents a poem of Hans Sachs about the good and bad times in marriage.

We discovered this monument during our trip through the southern part of Germany. Nuremberg is a city highly to recommend!

 

27th

Monument of "Mouse Ketti" in the little village of Burmerange, Luxembourg in honor of the national poet AUGUSTE LIESCH (1874-1949)

He is famous in Luxembourg for his writings in the Luxembourgish language. He was a social critic using humor and satire to ridicule authoritarism and other -isms. His most famous book is called 'D'MAUS KAETTI'. The book is still published and available in Luxembourg. ISBN number of the book is: 8798206044

Informations in german language could be found on this site:
http://www.al.lu/luxtiere/tiere/mausketti.htm

 

25th

Found this statur of August-Ganther in Oberkirch , Garmany

August Ganther was famous local writer an inhabitant with honors of Oberkirch. He was born here.
He wrote:
"D'r Schwarzwald", "Reu und Leid", "E Lährer", "E neddi Schuel", "Uf em Gottesacker", "D'r guet Herr Pfarrer", "D'r Geißbock" and "Neujohrswunsch".

visit Link:
http://www.oberkirch.de/inhalt/oberkirch/pages/ehrenbuerger

thanks
engeladus

 

23rd

Anton Wildgans

(1881–1932). The Austrian writer Anton Wildgans made his reputation as a poet of warmth and passion. He later became noted for his mystical dramas, which were charged with the symbolism typical of German expressionism.

Wildgans was born on April 17, 1881, in Vienna, Austria. The son of a judge, he became a lawyer but soon turned to writing. His popular early poems, among which was "Die Sonette an Ead"(1913), were followed by dramas like "Armut"(1914) or "Dies irae"(1918).
He defended the independence of Austria during the 1. Republic ("Rede über Österreich", 1930).

The monument is situated in a municipial block of flats in the 3. District of Vienna (built 1932-1933).



 

21st

Robert Frost attended Dartmouth College for a couple of months. This was sufficient for Dartmouth to have some special collections in the library as well as a memorial.

 

15th

This is a picture of the Ernest Hemingway center located on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The center was dedicated to the long-time Idaho resident. Thanks for the locationless cache,
Cpt Mike

 

13th

North Hampton, New Hampshire, is the final resting place of the Poet Ogden Nash. He is remembered for some of his rhymes such as: "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker". Go to http://www.westegg.com/nash/ to check more of his poetry. He published 19 books of poetry and the U.S. Postal Service dedicated a stamp to him in 2002.

 

11th

In front of the chapel in the abandoned Sheffield General Cemetery in the UK stands the Rotunda. This now overgrown enclosure housed the grave and a bronze statue of James Montgomery, a 19th century poet. Born in 1771 in Scotland, James Montgomery became a journalist and later a celebrated poet and writer of hymns. His poems were distinctly religious and he enjoyed a wide popularity across the whole country. Several years after his death in 1854 the people of Sheffield still thought enough of him to subscribe to the statue that was placed in the Rotunda.

More details, including a photograph of the rotunda in all of its’ original glory can be found at http://www.gencem.org/explore/architecture/rotunda.html

Examples of his poetry can be read at http://www.poemhunter.com/james-montgomery/poet-6575/


 

10th

This memorial is located in a small park behind the 'Neue Wache' in the center of Berlin, Germany.
It is dedicated to Heinrich Heine, a famous romantic poet from Germany.
More about Heinrich Heine at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine
The memorial is a relatively recent addition to that location. It should have been there originally in 1956, but for some reason it was actually put in a park somewhere else and was moved to the current location about half a century later in 2002.

 

9th

[URL=http://www.nhstateparks.org/ParksPages/FrostFarm/Frost.html] Robert Frost Farm[/URL]
New Hampshire Historic Site
Route 28
Derry, NH, USA

The Robert Frost Farm was home to Robert Frost and his family from 1900-1911. Frost, one of the nation's most acclaimed poets whose writings are said to be the epitome of New England, attributed many of his poems to memories from the Derry years. The simple two-story white clapboard farmhouse is typical of New England in the 1880s. The property is a New Hampshire Historic Site and is listed on the National Registry for historic landmarks of national significance.

Some of the poems that Robert Frost wrote directly relate to activities that he undertook while at the farm. In particular, the [URL=http://www.nhstateparks.org/ParksPages/FrostFarm/FrostHistPropMndWl.html] Mending Wall[/URL], and [URL=http://www.nhstateparks.org/ParksPages/FrostFarm/FrostHistPropHyla.html] Hyla Brook[/URL] both relate to the farm itself.




 

3rd

This is a monument in Guatemala City, Guatemala, dedicated to Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan author and poet, and 1967 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature.

 

30th

Memorial to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) This is a monument called Thoreau's Hut located in Pennypack Park in Philadelphia which I found enroute to the Bloomfield cache also located about .25 miles or so from this site. Thoreau was known as a well-respected poet and philosopher and his life and it's work's influence is still very prevalent today. One of his most famous works is Walden. He is also the author of Civil Disobedience. A web site with excellent links and resources on Thoreau, his works and his life can be found at http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html. This particular memorial, which I found beautifully crafted was constructed and dedicated just last year in 2003. The area is surrounded by bird houses & blinds, and hundreds-year-old trees. The seat within the hut is an excellent place to take in the nature - a subject Thoreau held in the highest of regard. He also focused a lot on self knowledge and respect of fellow man. A quote from "Economy", Chapter 1 of his book Walden:

"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance -- which his growth requires -- who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

Enjoy the photo and treat yourself to enjoying his work - as I have and intend to further. Thanks for a great Cache. ~Loves2Wander



 

23rd

Sir Walter Scott
Novelist and Poet 1771 - 1832.
The 9th of 12 children, interested in local folk lore, fairy tales and legends. This statue used to stand at the east end of Perth High Street (Scotland) until it was moved to the entrance of the South Inch (park) to make room for traffic. The council paid £10.00 for this statue in 1845.

 

22nd

Burns is surely the most monumented poet in the world. This likeness is in Sydney's Domain near the Art Gallery and State Parliament. Why there? Why Burns? No explanation - but the following was gleaned from other sources:
"Bronze statue (2.9 metres high) by Frederick Pomeroy of Scottish poet Robert Burns on stone pedestal of Melbourne granite, mostly in the rough, with one polished course in the centre, 1905."
He is leaning on a plough with pencil in hand...
Took photo, left appreciation.

 

20th

This is the Edgar Allen Poe Shrine and Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Poe had many famous works including: The Masque of the Red Death, the Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Fall of the House of Usher, and the Raven. Poe lived in Richmond where he worked at the Southern Literary Messenger. He also married his young cousin in Richmond.
Here's the museum's website: http://www.poemuseum.org/index.html

Thanks!





 

20th

Well, well well....it seems the cacheKidds logged this before we did BUT we were actually at the memorial (they couldn't find the statue!) Here's why we think we deserve to share credit for this "find":

The Richmond Virginia Edgar Allen Poe Museum actually has nothing to do with the life of Poe. He didn't live in the house (though he may have visited the house during his time in Richmond). The museum is simply "the oldest house in Richmond". The memorial to Poe is a bust in an alcove at the back of the gardens. The gardens were created to represent gardens Poe wrote about. In the alcove is a bust of Poe and an iron shelf that contains several Poe books, which you can sit and read next to the bust (so Poe can look over your shoulder...sorta creepy). Unfortunately for us, some mean spirited person stole "The Raven" from the book of poems [:(!]
Poe is a writer and poet of international significance. His works are published in every language.

The connection between the monument and the poet is ...well, the monument is OF the poet (his bust), and the "museum" is merely a store of Poe souvenirs.

And last but not least: to provide some justification as to the significance of the poet's work...all we have to say is "Quote the Raven "Nevermore!". He deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller.

So why a Poe museum in Richmond Virginia?....

Poe's parents, David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, were touring actors; both died before he was 3 years old, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond, Va., and baptized Edgar Allan Poe. His childhood was uneventful, although he studied (1815-20) for 5 years in England. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia but stayed for only a year. Although a good student, he ran up large gambling debts that Allan refused to pay. Allan prevented his return to the university and broke off Poe's engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster, his Richmond sweetheart. Lacking any means of support, Poe enlisted in the army.
Temporarily reconciled, Allan secured Poe's release from the army and his appointment to West Point but refused to provide financial support. After 6 months Poe apparently contrived to be dismissed from West Point for disobedience of orders.

Poe next took up residence in Baltimore with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia. Poe, his aunt, and Virginia moved to Richmond in 1835, and he became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and married Virginia, who was not yet 14 years old.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is sometimes considered the first detective story ever written!. Exemplary among his musical, mellifluous verses are The Raven (1845) and The Bells (1849).

Virginia's death in January 1847 was a heavy blow, but Poe continued to write and lecture. In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond, lectured, and was accepted anew by the fiancee he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain." Today, some physicians and historians argue that he died of rabies!!!


[This entry was edited by Walden Pond on Friday, June 25, 2004 at 10:48:06 AM.]

 

17th

This cache is located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Americo Lugo was a great poet, writer and lawyer in the Dominican Republic. He's internationally known for his prose and writing. He rests in the "Panteon Nacional" or national pantheon, were the most important dominicans rest. This cache is very important for me, since I am a descendant of Americo Lugo (my father is his closest relative alive).

 

16th

Samuel Ullman Museum in Birmingham, Alabama

The folowing is an excerpt from his best known poem, "Youth":

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

HISTORY:
Born in 1840 Germany to Jewish parents, Ullman immigrated with his family to America to escape discrimination they in Europe. In May 1861, Ullman joined the 16th Mississippi Regiment, who joined other Confederate forces that fought in the northern Virginia campaigns with Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. At war's end, Ullman moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where he married the eldest daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, began a family, established a mercantile business, and began what became a pattern of civic and religious activism that continued for the rest of his life.

In 1884, Ullman moved to Birmingham where he hoped to find better economic opportunities for his family. He became an important progressive leader during Birmingham's formative years, taking stands on behalf of laborers, women, and children. He served on civic and community boards, including one of the nation's earliest units of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Ullman is best remembered locally for his 18 years of service on Birmingham's Board of Education, where he earned a reputation as a tireless and fearless advocate for improved and equivalent access to educational opportunities for all the city's children, black and white.

Ullman's poem, "Youth," was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur, who placed a version of the poem on the wall of his office in Tokyo when he became Supreme Allied Commander in Japan. He often quoted from the poem in his speeches. General MacArthur's influence gave the poem popularity throughout Japan and provided the people of that nation with spiritual energy to pursue rebuilding their own lives and that of their nation.

Interest in the poet who penned the words of "Youth" led many Japanese to visit Birmingham to learn more about Ullman. Such visits ultimately led in 1993 to a joint fund raising effort in Japan and the United States for the purpose of purchasing and renovating Ullman's home in Birmingham. That house, owned and operated by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, now serves as a multi-use museum that honors Samuel Ullman's life and work.

 

9th

This is a statue called "Nathan der Weise". In the background is the Lessinghaus. It was the house of Gotthold Ephraim LEssing (1777-1781). In there, he has written: Nathan der Weise, Emilia Galotti, Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts and others. Today it is a museum, dedicated to G. E. Lessing. It is located in middle of Wolfenbüttel/Lower Saxony/Germany.

More Informations under: www.hab.de / www.lessing-akademie.de / www.wolfenbuettel-tourismus.de

Thks & regards,
Freely

 

3rd

SKERRYVORE - this is now a garden designed and constructed by the Bournemouth Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson who occupied the house on the site from April 1885 until August 1887. The house, which was destroyed by enemy bombing on 16th November 1940, was named after the Skerryvore lighthouse built by the Stevenson family firm on the Argyle coast, a model of which is in the gardens. Stevenson wrote many books whilst residing at Skerryvore, including 'Kidnapped' and 'The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.
Here are a couple of his poems, appropriately named:

Skerryvore

For love of lovely words, and for the sake
Of those, my kinsmen and my countrymen,
Who early and late in the windy ocean toiled
To plant a star for seamen, where was then
The surfy haunt of seals and cormorants:
I, on the lintel of this cot, inscribe
The name of a strong tower.

Skerryvore: The Parallel

Here all is sunny, and when the truant gull
Skims the green level of the lawn, his wing
Dispetals roses; here the house is framed
Of kneaded brick and the plumed mountain pine,
Such clay as artists fashion and such wood
As the tree-climbing urchin breaks. But there
Eternal granite hewn from the living isle
And dowelled with brute iron, rears a tower
That from its wet foundation to its crown
Of glittering glass, stands, in the sweep of winds,
Immovable, immortal, eminent.

 

26th

This is the stone on the grave of Nikolaus Schwarzkopf. Living in the 20th century he wrote some famous german poems and got the Georg-Buechner-Award for his works. He was born in Urberach and wrote some stories about his home town. After he lived most of his life in Darmstadt, he was buried in Urberach.

Thanks for this cache, as I can present you a piece of my home town.

Greetings from Urberach/Germany,
wutzebear



 

20th

The grave of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, 1804-1879.
In Porvoo cemetary, Finland
Finnish national poet, he wrote the words to our national anthem. His most known poem collection is called "Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat" - The Tales of Ensign Ståhl. It tells of the War of Finland 1808-1809. There is even a cache dedicated to this Ensign: GC5F07.
The monument is sculptured by his son Walter Runeberg.

 

18th

It seems there are many monuments to Robbie Burns around the world. We also have one in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It is located in the well known Stanley Park.

To me, the most remarkable thing about Burns is not the world wide and centuries lasting recognition he has earned. It is that he was able to win this remarkable fame inside of the 37 years he lived.

I think I will have a little haggis and single malt scotch in his honour today (well, the single malt scotch anyway).

 

18th

Hilda Doolittle was born September 10, 1886 and died September 27, 1961 in Switzerland. She is burined in Nisky Hill Cemetary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was a poet. Wrote under the none-de-plume "H. D.". She published volumes of poetry including "Sea Garden," "Hippolytus Temporizes," "Red Roses for Bronze," and "Helen in Egypt". She authored the novels "Palimpsest," "Hedylus," and "Tribute to Freud".

 

10th

This is 27 Wilson Street Perth, UK where William Soutar the Perth Poet spent his last 14 years of his life he was paralysed during the First World War when serving in the Royal Navy. The window on the left of the house was the room he lived in. one of his Poems which he wrote in 1942

Hal o' the Wynd, he taen the field
Alang be the skinklin Tay:
And he hackit doun the men o' Chattan;
Or was it the men o' Kay?
Whan a' was owre he dichetd his blade
And steppit awa richt douce
To draik his drouth in the Skinner's Vennel
At clapperin Clemmy's house.

Hal o' the Wynd had monie a bairn;
And bairns' bairns galore
Wha wud speer about the bloody battle
And what it was fochten for.

"Guid-faith! My dawties, I never kent;
But yon was a dirlin day
Whan I hackit doun the men o' Chattan;
Or was it the men o' Kay?"



 

9th

We found this memorial to and gravestone of Wiliam Blake in the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in London, England. Blake is a world reknown artisit and poet. His most famous poems include "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience". But perhaps his most most famous quote is as follows:

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

Ahh!

Jessex

 

1st

Robert Burns is surely Scotland's greatest Poet
To a Mouse, Tam O Shanter, A Man's a Man, ......countless treasures spilled from the plough and the pen.
Burns was a poet a farmer and an Exciseman.
His life and works are celebrated across the world annually at Burns Suppers. One of the best places to go to a Burns Supper (I'm told) is Moscow in Russia.

 

29th

Adam Lindsay Gordon was a local poet who became nationally famous. He was also a politician and an expert horseman. He was born in England in 1833 and tragically, due to depression, took his own life in 1870, aged just 37. This monument is dedicated to his famous jump on his horse down to a small ledge above Mt Gambier's Blue Lake, before jumping back up again. This spot around the lake is now known as 'Lindsay's Leap'. His poetry is well known throughout Australia, and in particular, the South East.
BB

 

27th

We found this Heinrich-Heine-Monument in front of the University of Dusseldorf,Germany, which is called "Heinrich-Heine-University" since 1988. Heinrich Heine, in full name Johann Heinrich Heine, was a poet of Jewish origin, lived 1789-99. The Napolenonic wars influenced deeply his poetry. He emigrated to Paris in 1831 without seeing his country of birth until his death. Excerpts of his works:

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

And another one:

You're so lovely as a flower,
So pure and fair to see;
I look at you and sadness
Comes stealing over me.
(from "Du bist wie eine Blume", written for Therese Heine, his beloved cousin)

Du bist wie eine Blume
so hold und schön und rein;
ich schau' Dich an und Wehmut
schleicht mir ins Herz hinein.


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26th

This Robert Burns statue honors the Scotish heritage in my town on Barre City, VT. This place of honor is in front of the newly opened Vermont Historical Society, which was once the Spaulding High School for Barre City.

 

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This high school in Montgomery, Alabama is named for Sidney Lanier, the Southern poet. 1842-1881. He has lakes, schools, and many other locations named for him in the southern states.

"Go, trembling song,
And stay not long; oh stay not long;
Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,
But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love."

You can read many more poems of his here: http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/PoemsofSidneyLanier/Chap0.html


 

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Australia’s national poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, who lived almost half his short life in Australia, spent 14 years in the south-east of South Australia. He was a trooper, horse breaker, politician, poet and steeplechase rider. An extraordinary horseman, his famous daredevil ‘leap’ alongside the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier has never been emulated.

The waypoint is at Dingley Dell, the home of Adam Lindsay Gordon from 1864 to 1867. There is a legend that Gordon won the cottage in a card game from its owner George Randall. Today Dingley Dell is a museum and a living memory to Adam Lindsay Gordon and his works The cottage is 2 kms out of Port MacDonnell.




[This entry was edited by Rav 4 Raiders on Monday, April 26, 2004 at 6:54:50 AM.]

 

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Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884) contributed a lot to our beautiful Finnish language. He collected the poems that compose our national epic work Kalevala among many other things. In one of the pictures you can see the humble abode where he was born and raised. It has been a musem for over a century. See also GCB676 Old Stone Walls.

[This entry was edited by muru&seta on Sunday, April 25, 2004 at 8:40:54 AM.]

 

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EINHARD. The mediaval poet Einhard (770 - 840), the friend and biographer of Charlemagne, was born at Seligenstadt in den River Main area of the eastern part of the Frankish Empire. Einhard's talents made him one of the emperor Charlemagne's most trusted advisers. Charlemagne gave Einhard charge of his great public buildings including the construction of the Aachen cathedral. Einhard wrote the book "Einhardi vita Karoli Magni" (The Life of Charlemagne - translated by Samuel Eper Turner, New York 1880).
This monument of Einhard is placed in the german town Eschweiler, N 50° 48.897 E 006° 15.798. The picture shows it with me and my GPS.

 

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James Whitcomb Riley! He's the well known poet from Indiana, USA. "The Frost is on the Pumpkin" etc.
Nice house... interesting thing is 20 years ago I designed the 'new' landscape for his home in the style what was of the Victorian era. The Lockerbie Square area of downtown Indianapolis is a GEM!!


 

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Found the monument showing Adalbert Stifter in the park in front of the "Landhaus" in Linz.
Adalbert Stifter was born 1805 in Oberplan (today Horni Plana / Zchech Republik ),
lived and died 1868 in Linz /Upper Austria.
For more information see: http://www.adalbertstifter.at/
Greetings from Upper Austria, linilois0

 

12th

Found this memorial stone for Julius Busch - poet, musician and architect - in our hometown Neuss / Germany. He's primarily known in Neuss because he wrote the "Neusser Homeward-Ballad". Unfortunately we only have the german version of the text:


Das Neusser Heimatlied
Dort wo die Erft den Rhein begrüßt

1.
Als ich noch ein kleiner Junge war,
sagte Mutti einst zu mir:
schau dir uns´re schöne Stadt mal an
und dann merke dir,
schöner kann´s woanders auch nicht sein,
zieht es dich ins fremde Land,
einmal treibt das Heimweh dich doch heim
und du hast erkannt:

Refrain:
Dort, wo die Erft den Rhein begrüßt
einst meine Wiege stand.
Wo stolz Quirin den Himmel mißt,
da ist mein Heimatland.
Ich grüße dich Novesia
mit Herz und frohem Sinn
und singe dir ein Gloria,
weil ich ein Neusser bin
und singe dir ein Gloria,
weil ich ein Neusser bin.

2.
Römer zogen einst durch unser Land,
bauten eine schöne Stadt,
die auch heute noch in junger Zeit
einen Namen hat.
Stolz und groß ist die Vergangenheit,
die aus deinen Mauern spricht,
Gott beschütze dich für alle Zeit,
Dich vergeß´ ich nicht.

Refrain:
...

3.
Heimatstadt, Du mein Novesia,
Du liegst mir doch nur im Sinn.
Treu sein will ich Dir ein Leben lang,
wo ich immer bin.
Grüßt von weitem dann das Obertor
und ich seh´ mein Elternhaus,
sing vor Freude ich ein Lied Dir vor
in die Welt hinaus:

Refrain:
...

 

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Johannes Ewald 1743-1781 was a lyric writer. He was taken ill and spent some time as a convalescent in Rungsted (much later home of Karen Blixen) where the present monument is found. Among other he wrote the text of the danish royal hymn: "Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast...."
Thomas&Lisa

[This entry was edited by TPN&Lisa on Saturday, April 03, 2004 at 1:37:46 AM.]

 

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This is a buste of the norwegian poewt, writer and language activist Andre Bjerke. Nearly all norwegians have grown up learning his fantastic childrens rhymes.

He lived in this building to his death.

hbrx.

 

31st

This is a buste of the norwegian poet, writer and language activist Andre Bjerke. Nearly all norwegians have grown up learning his fantastic childrens rhymes.

He lived in this building to his death.

hbrx.

 

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Hi folks,

these are statues showing three of the most important and best known german poets: Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe. They are assembled in the "Taunusanlage" in Frankfurt-Main/Germany.

Regards from Germany,
Thomas

 

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Luis Vaz de Camoes, Praça Luis de Camoes, Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

Luis Vaz de Camoes, 1524 or 1525 to 1580, is Portugal's most famous poet, on par with England's Chaucer or Italy's Dante. Famed for his many sonnets and lyric poems, he is best know for the epic poem "Os Lusíadas". The 'Lusiads' refer to the Portuguese people, the Lusitanians, after the myth that Portugal was founded by Lusus the brother of Bacchus.

I chose the statue in the square named for him as the memorial, but I've also visited his tomb in the Mosterio de Jeronimos, and smaller effigies of Camoes are everywhere in Portugal. The first lines of "Os Lusíadas":

As armas e os barões assinalados
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,

E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;

Cheers, Bluelamb03

 

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This is a statue of the world-famous Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen. He wrote plays like Peer Gynt, A Dolls House and a lot of other famous plays. The statue is placed outside the "Reimann-house" in Grimstad where he was a Pharmacie-student.

 

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This is a sittung statue of Walther von der Vogelweide. He is known as the most important poet or "Minnesänger" of the Middle Ages. He lived ca. from 1170 till 1230. His grave is in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. On this monument he is sitting together with two other artists of the early history of Würzburg.
For some information: http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.w/w162790.htm
Greetings fanto


 

15th

Nils Ferlin is one of swedens greatest national poets.
He was born 1898 and died 1961.
For more info: http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/ferlin.html
/J-mannen

 

14th

A local hero of the East Midlands is Lord Byron - famous for his poems and born in 1788, Byron is the most famous and controversial of his contemporaries. He was always a study in contrasts, a melancholy satirist, an aristocratic champion of the common man, handsome and adored but obsessed with a small personal deformity. He fled England to escape scandal and a failed marriage and died of fever in 1824. His natural gift for poetry was the only consistency in his troubled life. Yet even during his own lifetime, his personal life overshadowed his work.
For further details see http://www.online-literature.com/byron/

 

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Robert Burns 'Bachelors' Club' Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Robert Burns, 1759-1796, Scotland’s most famous National Poet… and as you will be aware, is renowned worldwide. He used to visit this literary and debating society in a small building (house) in the small Ayrshire village of Tarbolton.

It was called the 'Bachelors' Club' and was formed in 1780 and is now owned by The National Trust for Scotland with period décor within. (See pictures)

Nearby is the town of Mauchline, home to Burns’s mistress and love, Jean Armor, whom he eventually married. In Mauchline Kirkyard lie the graves of four of his children, and nearby is Poosie Nansie's Tavern, which gave inspiration for his cantata ‘The Jolly Beggars’, and to this day, is still a lively pub and going concern after all these years.

I saw a nice statue of the ‘Bonnie lass’ Jean Armor on Mauchline main street when passing through the town. Visit the Burns House Museum if you’re in the area!.

Tnx, DD


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These pictures are of the sign to Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, IL. http://www.nps.gov/carl/ states that, "Carl Sandburg, nationally renowned poet, biographer, lecturer, newspaper columnist, folksinger, author of American fairytales, and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, provided broad and enduring 20th century insight into the circumstances, worth and spirit of the American people. He passionately championed for the everyday working person, those who may neither have had the words nor the power to speak for themselves."

AND From the Carl Sandburg College website, http://www.sandburg.edu/About_CSC/History/history.html

History of Carl Sandburg College

Carl Sandburg College is named for poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who was born and raised in Galesburg.
(and)
Sandburg published numerous volumes including, Chicago Poems; Cornhuskers; Rootabaga Stories; The People, Yes; Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years, and Always the Young Strangers. He received two Pulitzer Prizes — in history for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) and in poetry for his Collected Poems (1951). The central theme throughout Sandburg's works is his belief in the essential goodness and drive of the common man and woman. His writing is full of optimism for the future of the human race.

Carl Sandburg and his mentor, Professor Philip Green Wright of Lombard College, also located in Galesburg, envisioned the establishment of "a People's Industrial College, where people of all ages would be taught, in addition to literature, philosophy, sociology, science, music, and art, something about industry and farming, such as agriculture, horticulture, bee culture, cabinet-making, metalworking, pottery, architecture, printing and publishing, and bookbinding." (From Margaret Sandburg's unpublished manuscript Biography of Carl Sandburg.) The two men felt that this "People's College" should be located by a river or on a lake.

Though Sandburg died in 1967, the College's ties with its namesake remain strong. In 1978, Sandburg's youngest daughter, Helga Sandburg, and her husband Dr. George Crile, established the Lilian Steichen Sandburg Memorial Scholarship in honor of Helga's mother. It is awarded each year to a second-year student who shows exceptional talent. In 1979, Helga Sandburg was awarded the College's first honorary associate degree. She returned to the campus in 1988 and in 1994 as the commencement speaker at graduation exercises. Carl Sandburg College also coordinates a three-day community festival — The Sandburg Days Festival — held in April to honor Carl Sandburg. The festival is now in its third year, and Helga Sandburg has attended each year.


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The statue of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the greatest poet of Italy, is in Piazza Santa Croce, Florence (Italy).
Generally acclaimed with Shakespeare and Goethe as one of the three universal geniuses of western European literature, Dante Alighieri was also a prose

writer, rhetorician, theorist of his own Italian vernacular literature, moral philosopher, and political thinker, with an immense variety of literary output.

By writing his masterpiece La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) in Italian rather than in Latin he influenced decisively the evolution of European

literature away from its origins in Latin culture and toward the expression of a new civilization. (from: http://www.danteonline.it/english/home_ita.asp)
http://www.florencephotos.com/cat.asp?iCat=46

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant'è amara che poco è più morte;
ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,
dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v' ho scorte.

Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'intrai,
tant'era pien di sonno a quel punto
che la verace via abbandonai.

...



La statua di Dante Alighieri si trova in Piazza Santa Croce a Firenze.
http://www.danteonline.it/italiano/home_ita.asp
http://www.florencephotos.com/cat.asp?iCat=46


g.e.nicogiorgi

 

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Macon, GA - This is the Lanier Cottage, birthplace of the Great American Poet Sidney Lanier, author of "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee". He was born here in 1842. Lanier was a private in the Confederate Army and was captured and imprisioned in Point Lookout, Maryland where he contracted tuberculosis and died at age 39.

This site is now headquarters for the Middle Georgia Historical Society.

 

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This is a memorial to James Hogg, otherwise known as the 'Ettrick Shepherd'. James Hogg was the other great poet of the Borders other than Robert Burns. The memorial statue is situated by the shore of St. Mary's loch between Moffat and Selkirk.

James Hogg was born in 1770 in the Ettrick Valley, in the Borders area of Scotland. He was the sone of a poor farmer and left school after only six months' of formal education. At 7 years of age he began work as a cowherder.
From his mother he had learned the great oral tradition of ballads and folklore of the Borders. In his mid-teens, James Hogg taught himself to read and write and became a shepherd. He began by making songs and verses for local gatherings.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, Hogg was working as a shepherd on the farm Yarrow and he was allowed to use their library. Walter Scott, the newly appointed sheriff of Selkirk, was roaming the Border Valleys in search of the disappearing ballads of the Borders. He met James Hogg and they formed a friendship that lasted throughout their lives.

In 1813, the publication of his cycle of ballads, The Queen's Wake, brought him recognition not only in Edinburgh but in London and America. His reputation as a leading poet of the age was firmly established, and though still a poor man, The Ettrick Shepherd became a celebrity.

When many long day had come and fled,
When grief grew calm and hope was dead,
When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung,
When the bedesman had prayed, and the deadbell rung
Late, late in a gloaming, when all was still,
When the fringe was red on the westlin hill,
The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane,
Thereek o' the cot hung ower the plain,
Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane;
When the ingle lowed wi' an eiry leme--
Late, latein the gloaming Kilmeny came hame!

KILMENY




 

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Ludvig Holberg, located in front of "The Royal Theatre" in Copenhagen Denmark.

In the early 18th century the French Enlightenment and English rationalism started to influence Danish literary circles, and satires became fashionable. As a result, the Danish drama was created by Ludvig Holberg (born in Norway), whose joyous and witty comedies had an enormous impact on all Scandinavian playwrights of the following generations. Holberg may perhaps be called the father of modern Danish literature.


http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/holberg.html



 

1st

Rabbie Burns 1759 - 1796 Scotlands National Poet. This statue of Rabbie is located on Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh.

Haggis Hunter

 

29th

10:47 #314
The Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) memorial in Frederiksberg Kirkegård (dept.2, grave#50), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Adam Oehlenschläger is a famous Danish national poet and dramatist who amongst other significant works wrote "Guldhornene" (The Golden Horns) in 1803. He became one of the Danish Golden Age’s greatest poets and is the poet of Denmark's National anthem : "Der er et yndigt Land" from 1819. Rather than praising the king, the national anthem is based on Norse mythology and old legends, and focuses on the beauty of the country. He also delivered many great works for the theater and like no one else brought the ideas and the tone of the Romanticism to the stage.

More information in English: http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/oehlensc.html#en

Regards from ArktiS
Geocacher.dk

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Located in Timaru, South Island, New Zealand is this monument to Robert Burns, internationally reknown poet. Connection to New Zealand occured when his uncle, Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns (Born 10 April 1796) emigrated from Mossgiel in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the first minister to the Presbyterian congregation of Otago and nephew to the poet Robbie Burns. Inducted as minister of Ballantrae in 1826 Burns threw in his lot with the Free Church of Scotland at the time of the Disruption in 1843. He was involved inthe early plans to establish a Free Church settlement in New Zealand and travelled with the first immigrants on the ship 'Philip Laing' to Otago in 1848. Burns was the spiritual leader and a towering figure of the early colony. His influence in Otago resulted in the area near the city being named Mosgiel, and his influence in the religious growth of the new colony extended to South Canterbury. Mr James Craigie was mayor of Timaru District and a staunch Presbyterian. His religious beliefs and political interests led to his support of the minister Burns, who, being proud of his herritage and his famous uncle, sponsored the erection of this monument, a reminder to the Pakeha (Maori word for English) of their herritage.

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I remembered seeing this Robert Frost statue when I was a student at Hastings College, Hastings, NE. I chose this particular piece because of my affection for his peotry, especially the really well known ones that are so often quoted by those who like to wander down "the road less traveled" i.e. geocachers! In the statue, Frost is actually writing this poem (see pictures).

Here it is for your enjoyment:
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost


Here's a little background on the artist and the connection to Hastings College: It was completed by George W. Lundeen. A native of Holdrege, Nebraska, Lundeen was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar studying at the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy. He holds a masters in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois and a bachelor of arts from Hastings College in Nebraska. George Lundeen established his sculpting studio in Loveland, Colorado in the mid-1970s where he currently lives and works. He mostly works in bronze and has done many other "life-sizes" including Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.



 

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Another Schiller one...well what can I say. He WAS one of the most important ones over here.
This one is in Mannheim, Germany, where Schiller lived 1782 - 1785 and where his play "Die Räuber" premiered.
Thanks for the cache
Rechercheuse


 

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This statue of Patrik Kavanagh stands, or rather sits, beside his beloved Grand Canal in Dublin. Kavanagh lived from 1904 to 1967 and wrote many poems which describe the beauty, and in his earlier work, the lack of beauty, to be found within the Ireland of the early twentieth century. As one website puts it "Kavanagh's reputation as a poet is based on the lyrical quality of his work, his mastery of language and form and his ability to transform the ordinary and the banal into something of significance. ". His "Canal Bank Walk" is appropriate for this log -

Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.



 

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This is a statue called Goethe und Schiller at the pedestrian entrance to Schiller Park in Syracuse. Schiller was a German dramatist, poet, and historian. Goethe was German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist. He is famous for writing the dramatic poem Faust. The statue is dedicated to all German Syracusians.

 

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Near the corner of 7th and John Adams street in Oregon City Oregon is a memorial marker in honor of Edwin Markham. He was born in Oregon City and the marker was placed here 100 years after his birth.

"In his day Markham managed to fuse art and social commentary in a manner that guaranteed him a place among the most famous artists of the late nineteenth century. His reputation has faded because of the somewhat dated nature of his verse; nevertheless, he remains a notable figure for his contributions to American poetry. His work stands as an example of what American critics and readers valued near the turn of the century. His poetry offers insight into an important phase in the development of American letters."
(taken from "American National Biography. Written by William R. Nash for Oxford Press, 1999). The poem that made him famous was "The Man with the Hoe", a poem that "was a strong commentary on America's working class and their tribulations."
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/markham/life.htm



 

16th

Cool!

Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize winner and former national poet

Coordinates are for a sign outside two of his former residences (creepy)

These coordinates are for the gravesites of his parents (same date of death - creepy) and Conrad and his wife

N 32* 02.606'
W 081* 02.606'

Sign says:

CONRAD AIKEN
Conrad Aiken, Poet and Man of Letters, was born in Savannah on August 5, 1889, and lived at No. 228 (opposite) until 1901. After the tragic deaths of his parents, he was moved to New England. Most of his writing career was divided between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Rye, England. In 1962 he returned to Savannah to live and write in the adjoining house, No. 230 until his death August 17, 1973. Of his home here he wrote: "Born in that most magical of cities, Savannah, I was allowed to run wild in that earthly paradise until I was nine; ideal for the boy who early decided he wanted to write."
Though he wrote novels, short stories and critical essays, his first love was poetry. His work earned many awards including the Pulitzer Prize (1930),l National Book Award (1954), and the National medal of literature (1969). He was a member of the national Academy of Arts and Sciences and held the Chair of poetry of the Library of Congress (1950 to 1952). Governor Jimmy Carter appointed him Poet Laureate of Georgia on March 30, 1973. Conrad Aiken is buried beside his parents in Bonaventure Cemetery.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION 1980

Websites of use in learning more:

Historical Marker http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/conradaikenhistmarker.htm
Hall of Honor htmlhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caiken.htm
Remembering Conrand Aiken http://bestreadguide.excursia.com/destinations/USA/GA/savannah/stories/20000817/att_conrad.shtml
Martini Instructions http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/Aiken.html

 

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10:00 AM 1st of 16 for the day

A memorial to poet Robert Burns is located in Confederate Park in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA:
http://www.coj.net/Departments/Parks+and+Recreation/Where+Do+You+Want+To+Play+Today/Confederate+Park.htm . The memorial was erected by the Robert Burns Association of Jacksonville, Florida. Burns is Scotland's national bard. He penned his first verse at the age of 15. He achieved immortality through his almost single-handed efforts to reinvigorate the Scottish vernacular through his wonderful poetry and his rescue of hundreds of the folk songs of Scotland.

Marine Biologist (#401)


 

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Arthur Schnitzler - M.D. and famous poet

The monument is in Türkenschanzpark in the 18th district of Vienna.

Details about Arthur Schnitzler can be found at: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/schnitzl.htm

Thanks for the nice cache, PlanetEarth


 

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Found in Germany, Lower Saxony in the litte town of Mechtshausen. The grave with monument and etrex from "Wilhelm Busch".
http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/museen.html
Greetings
Thomas

 

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This is the final resting place of Philip Morin Freneau.. in Matawan, New Jersey. I remembered visiting this place when I was in grade school.. looks much different now.. anyway below is a little history of him..

Freneau, Philip [Morin] (1752-1832) fulfilled the dream of his wine merchant father, Pierre Fresneau (old spelling) when he entered the Class of 1771 to prepare for the ministry. Well versed in the classics in Monmouth County under the tutelage of William Tennent, Philip entered Princeton as a sophomore in 1768, but the joy of the occasion was marred by his father's financial losses and death the year before. In spite of financial hardships, Philip's Scottish mother believed that her oldest of five children would graduate and join the clergy. Though he was a serious student of theology and a stern moralist all his life, Freneau found his true calling in literature. As his roommate and close friend James Madison recognized early, Freneau's wit and verbal skills would make him a powerful wielder of the pen and a formidable adversary on the battlefields of print. Freneau soon became the unrivaled ``poet of the Revolution'' and is still widely regarded as the ``Father of American Literature.''

To see the rest of his bio, visit http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/freneau_philip.html

 

24th

Found this monument of the famous german poet (Fritz Reuter) near the river "Elbe" in germany.
On this crossroads (place of monument), he lost his little friend, his dog.
The second picture shows his acts (sorry, to read you must zoom !!)

greetings from germany, Stefan

[This entry was edited by Quadman on Monday, January 26, 2004 at 4:33:24 AM.]

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24th

Hip, hip, horray. Our statue is back. See image for verification.

Burns needed a face lift.
The stone was very grotty,
His face a little snotty.
The statue was gift
Now it’s had a wee shift.



 

22nd

The movie "Dead Poets Society" was written by Thomas Schulman, a 1968 graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA), an all boy prep school in Nashville, TN, founded in 1867 (www.montgomerybell.com). The lead role (played by Robin Williams) was based on a real MBA teacher (Sam Pickering), who had graduated from MBA, spent a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Cambridge, and returned to MBA to teach. While the events in the movie were fictional (eg, there was never really a suicide), the plot and the characters were based on real experiences at MBA. This statue stands in one of the main courtyards of the school, erected soon after the movie was released, as a monument to Alfred Lord Tennyson, all the "Dead Poets", and the inspiration offered by teachers at this great institution. My son is currently half way through his freshman year at MBA and is a member of the Hockey and Lacrosse teams. The following passage is engraved on a plaque near the sculpture:

"I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that unraveled world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move"

From Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson



 

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This Heritage Listed home, although now privately owned, was once the Family home of the verse legend Henry Lawson. The town of Gulgong survives on local agriculture and grazing but its wealth is its surviving history. The entire town is retained as it was (almost) of when Henry once walked its streets.

The community envites the tourist dollar and has many significant attractions preserved for not only the tourist but school children, Gold strikes, rural NSW settlement and Chinese / Australian heritage.

This is a must visit town which has the most amazing Museum and attractions.

 

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Henry Lawson lived in the historic town of Gulgong for a time and his family home stands as a monument to this. To add to this the Henry Lawson Centre covers his whole life an is a good visit.


 

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This is a monument for Franz Grillparzer, an Austrian poet who lived from 1791 to 1872. He wrote dramae, often on historical topics (Medea, Sappho, König Ottokars Glück und Ende, etc.) as well as poetry.

Beginning of the Poem "Italien":
Schöner und schöner schmückt sich der Plan,
Schmeichelnde Lüfte wehen mich an!
Fort aus der Prosa Lasten und Müh'
Zieh' ich zum Lande der Poesie.

The Monument is situated in the socalled "Volksgarten", it was finished 1889.
Apart from the poet himself it depicts scenes of some of his major works.

http://www.grillparzer.at/index.html has more information on him.

Gavriel


 

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The statue of the world famous play writer Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), is in front of our National Theatre in Oslo, Norway. He wrote many plays, which is still staged all over the world today, like "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", "Hedda Gabler", "The Wild Duck", etc.
More info in english here: http://www.ibsen.net/index.db2?id=83

 

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The H. C. Andersen Monument, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) has written numerous fairy tales for children and I think they are translated into almost every language in the world. Maybe his most famous fairy tale is the one about the little mermaid - and the statue of her is probably the most popular statue in Copenhagen. He travelled a lot and wrote diaries as well as novels - and he was excellent at paper cutting: http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/hcaklip/index-en.htm
This monument of H. C. Andersen was placed in central Copenhagen in 1961 on the corner of the Town Hall Square and H. C. Andersens Boulevard - just opposite the Tivoli Gardens (the statue is actually looking in that direction). It is very popular to photograph children on the lap of the statue.
In Denmark a lot of festivities will take place in the year 2005, 200 years after the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. See more at http://www.hca2005.com/HCA2005/News

 

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After a little searching on the internet, I found that Alice Duer Miller is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, NJ. The cemetery is on Martin Luther King Ave. She is in section 37, lot 58. Her grave stone looks like a book. I was visiting family in the area and stopped by to get some pictures. Here is a little about her from a website...
Alice Duer Miller was born and raised in the wealthy, influential Duer family of New York. After her formal debut into society, her family's wealth was lost in a bank crisis. She studied mathematics and astronomy at Barnard College beginning in 1895, earning her way through publishing short stories, essays and poems in national magazines.

She graduated in June 1899 and married Henry Wise Miller in October of that year. She began teaching and he initiated a career in business. As he succeeded in business and as a stock trader, she was able to give up teaching and devote herself to writing.

Her specialty was in light fiction. She also traveled and worked for woman suffrage, writing a column "Are Women People?" for the New York Tribune. Her columns were published in 1915 as Are Women People? and more columns in 1917 as Women are People!

By the 1920s her stories were being made into successful motion pictures, and she worked in Hollywood as a writer and even as acted (a bit part) in Soak the Rich.

Her 1940 story, The White Cliffs, is perhaps her best-known story, and its World War II theme of a marriage of an American to a British soldier made it a favorite on both sides of the Atlantic.
Here is a link to a website...http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3643&pt=Alice%20Duer%20Miller


 

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This is the location of Sidney Lanier's Oak, The one that inspired his Poem "Marshes of Glynn".

The monument is located on Hiway 17 in Brunswick Georgia, which is in Glynn County. It is overlooking the marshes.
The monument reads in part"Beath this gracious tree stood Sidney Lanier and under the inspiration of the Oak and the marsh, wrote The Marshes of Glynn"

Sidney Lanier was born in Macon,GA in 1842 and died in 1881 from Tuberculosis. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil war. He has many namesakes around the country. There is Lake Sidney Lanier in North Georgia, Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama.



 

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Madison Julius Cawein
Born Mar 23, 1865
Jefferson County Kentucky, USA
Died Dec 8, 1914
Louisville, Ky

He is buried at Cave Hill Cemetary in Louisville, Ky.

One of the most prolific poets in American History, he published 31 books of verse. Known principally as a "nature" poet because his rhymes of nature, he earned the alliterative nickname, "The Keats of Kentucky" for his sensitive and descriptive works.

SIBYLLINE

by: Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)

HERE is a glory in the apple boughs
Of silver moonlight; like a torch of myrrh,
Burning upon an altar of sweet vows,
Dropped from the hand of some wan worshipper:
And there is life among the apple blooms
Of whisp’ring winds; as if a god addressed
The flamen from the sanctuary glooms
With secrets of the bourne that hope hath guessed,
Saying: ‘Behold! a darkness which illumes,
A waking which is rest.’

There is a blackness in the apple trees
Of tempest; like the ashes of an urn
Hurt hands have gathered upon blistered knees,
With salt of tears, out of the flames that burn:
And there is death among the blooms, that fill
The night with breathless scent,--as when, above
The priest, the vision of his faith doth will
Forth from his soul the beautiful form thereof,--
Saying: ‘Behold! a silence never still;
The other form of love.’

 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is widely regarded as one of America's most influential authors, philosophers and thinkers. At one time a Unitarian minister, Emerson left his pastorate because of doctrinal disputes with his superiors. Soon after, on a trip to Europe, he met a number of intellectuals, including Thomas Carlyle and William Wordsworth.

For more info on his poetry try this link.
http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_poems.htm

The monument is his actual grave marker at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Author's Ridge, Concord, Massachusetts.

 

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This is Evert Taube. He's a statue outside the Opera House in the harbour of Göteborg, Sweden. He was born in this town and was one of Swedens most famous song writer, poet, singer and so on..



 

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This is the Walt Whitman Center for arts which was established in 1976. This building is located in the heart of Camden NJ and is adjacent to the Rutgers University Campus.
When I was a Theatre Major at Rutgers, this building was used as an extra rehearsal space and a place where children's theatre was performed for the local kids. This is /was a library as well, the whole building being used for what Walt Whitman said "...to produce great persons, the rest will follow."
There are very interesting sculptures outside in the park too.

 

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Paul Van Ostayen [°Antwerpen, Belgium 1896 +Miavoye-Anthée, Belgium 1928], brought renewal in poetry, played also with the position, size and form of the letters in his poems, making it often a sort of drawing or representing some rhythm. Many more links on the internet.

 

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Hi!
This memorial from Betzhorn, Germany. It's build for Hermann Löns, in Germany a very well-known poet.
Thanks to Slider & Smurf for the nice cache.
Best wishes
Hans Richardt

http://www.Hans-Richardt.tk


 

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Name: Puschkin memorial
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany (fed. state NRW), Oberbilker Markt

Puschkin was a Russian poet who lived 1799-1837. This memorial was a given to Düsseldorf by the city of Moscow in 1996 on the occasion of signing a twinning contract.

Links:

http://www.duesseldorf.de/presse/st_part/moskau.shtml (German)

http://pskov.freeyellow.com/poetry.htm (a colletion of poems by A. Pushkin)

Marco

 

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Wilfred Wilson Gibson 1878 - 1962
He was a popular poet in the early 20th century and often was referred to as the People's Poet. This is a plaque commemorating his birthplace.

 

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Karin Boye (1900 – 1941)
Karin Maria Boye, novelist, poet, and short story writer, was born in Göteborg, Sweden. Her father was a civil engineer. She was educated at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. After receiving her M.A. she worked as a teacher. She later founded the magazine, SPEKTRUM, with Erik Mesterton and Josef Riwkin and contributed to the magazine ARBETET.
Boye published her first book, MOLN, when she was 22. One of her best known works is the 1940 science fiction novel KALLOCAIN.
Karin Boye committed suicide in Alingsas, Sweden in 1941.

tigwash

 

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In Asheville, North Carolina, in Riverside Cemetery is buried Thomas Wolfe. He born on October 3, 1900 and died September 15, 1938.

Thomas Wolfe is one of the great writers of the twentieth century. His opulent language and unique literary style have elevated his life to legendary status through his four autobiographical novels. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel was published in 1929, only nine years before his death. His second novel, Of Time and the River, was published in 1935. This was followed by a collection of short stories, From Death to Morning, published that same year. An autobiographical essay on writing, The Story of a Novel, was published in 1936. These books, along with many short stories published in magazines, completes the works that appeared during his lifetime. There were three posthumous works--The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and The Hills Beyond--that were gleaned from the huge manuscript Wolfe left behind. All of Wolfe's manuscripts are housed at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Wolfe scholars continue to use these manuscripts to produce such works as the complete edition of The Party at Jack's, published in 1995.

In the Ontroduction of the book "The Face of a Nation -- the Poetical Passages of Thomas Wolfe," by John Wall Wheelock, He writes,

"For all his huge frame, his great force, there was something childlike about Thomas Wolfe. He amazed his friends as often by his naïveté as by those sudden flashes of insight, of phenomenal awareness, that characterized his talk. We were accustomed to surprises from Tom, but of all the things I was to hear him say, none, I think, amazed me more than his remark, vehemently flung out one day and often repeated later: "I'd rather be a poet than anything else in the world. God, what wouldn't I give to be one!" And it was true. No man loved poetry with a deeper passion, or lived with it more constantly, than Tom. What was incredible was the fact that a born poet, the author of some of the most magnificent dithyrambic passages in literature, should not know himself as such, should seem to define poetry by the narrow conventions of verse, something that was a matter of form rather than of spirit.

Now, with the passage of time, it becomes clear that, whatever else he may have been or achieved, Thomas Wolfe was, first of all, a poet -- a lyric poet of extraordinary intensity, with a sensitivity to word-music, to rhythm and cadence, which can be likened only to that of Whitman, whose vision of America and of the American continent he shared."


[This entry was edited by teamgabe on Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 7:08:07 PM.]

 

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The grave and the memorial of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland.

More about Runeberg:
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/runeberg.html


 

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Edgar Allan Poe, no one's logged him yet?? Wow. This statue to him is found on one of the Baltimore college campuses, near the Lyric Theater.

While he considered Richmond, VA, to be his home, Baltimore signifies Edgar's beginnings and ending. Born in Boston in 1809, he was 5 weeks old when his parents brought him to Baltimore. He more or less made Baltimore his home (though he lived in Richmond for some years here and there) until 1835, when he moved to Richmond. He returned to Baltimore in late Sept 1849, and died barely a week later. His remains were laid to rest by his grandparents here in Baltimore.

The house (now also a museum) that Edgar lived in can be found a few miles away at 203 Amity Street. I don't have coordinates for that location, though (I can get them if someone wants them, or post them later when I go back down that way).


[This entry was edited by Indy-Md on Monday, September 29, 2003 at 10:19:23 AM.]

 

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Robert Burns. This is the Burns Club of Atlanta which was founded in 1896. The cottage was built in 1904 and is a replica of the bard's birthplace in Scotland. At the end of the cottage is a memorial to Natures Bard. There are Burns Clubs literally around the world and they all celebrate together on January 25th which is the poet's birthday. These celebrations include a wee dram of whisky, the piping in of the haggis, and the reading of his poetry.

Burn's influence is worldwide. His words have become a part of our lives: The best laid plans of mice and men... The ability to...see ourselves as others see us. And many more. Auld Land Syne is sung around the world to welcome in each new year.

There are over 100,000 links to Burns on the internet.

 

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This person is couperus. This is a famous dutch poet.
Thius monument stands on lange voorhout in the hague the netherlands.

Louis Couperus
(1863-1923)

Louis Couperus is one of the greatest Dutch novelists. He made his name at home and in the Anglo-Saxon countries with psychological novels such as The books of the small souls, The hidden force and Of old people, the things that pass. From the age of forty onwards, he was more and more inspired by classical antiquity. Couperus, who firmly believed in reincarnation, was convinced he had been an ancient Roman in a previous life. His best work in this respect, The mountain of light, on the rise and fall of the deified emperor Heliogabalus, became very popular in Germany. On the whole one can say that his psychological novels had more success in England and the USA, whereas his historical works were more appreciated by the German speaking public. Only a few of his books have been translated into French.

www.louiscouperus.nl

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N 49° 00.861 E 008° 24.196
The Johann Peter Hebel monument can be found in the palace garden of Karlsruhe, Germany.
It was erected in 1835; Hebel was a patriotic poet and lived from 1760 to 1826.
Have a look at (visit link)

Have fun, Markuz
 

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N 49° 36.687 E 006° 07.726
This monument stands in Luxembourg city and commemorates two national poets,Edmond de la Fontaine called Dicks (1823-1891) and Michel Lentz (1820-1893).The coordinates are not very accurate as it was almost impossible to get a sat fix at this site.
 

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N 30° 23.688 W 088° 54.533
Father Abram Ryan was known as the Poet of the Confederacy. He often visited with Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir. Pictures are of a historical marker commemorating him, as well as his home during post Civil War years.

Below is some of his poetry from The Prayer of the South:

And for my dead, Father may I pray?
Ah, sighs may soothe, but prayer shall soothe me more.
I keep eternal watch above their clay—
O rest their souls, my Father, I implore.
Forgive my foes—they know not what they do—
Forgive them all the tears they made me shed;
Forgive them, though my noblest sons they slew,
And bless them, though they curse my poor, dear dead.
 

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N 52° 30.585 E 013° 20.895
This statue shows Theodor Fontane and is located on the verge of the Tiergarten in Berlin / Germany.

Theodor Fontane was born in Neuruppin on 30.12.1819 and died on 20.9.1898 in Berlin. He´s famous for it´s trilogy Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg and for Effi Briest.

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Landy on

Gernot90
 

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N 52° 30.827 E 013° 22.587
On the eastern end of the Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany, one can find the marble Goethe Memorial by F. Schaper which was uncurtained 1880. It's 6 meters high and stands on a base of 4 meters diameter, surrounded by benches and trees. It stands very close to the Brandenburg Gate, only 2 minutes walk from there.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the most popular German poet, known worldwide for his Faust which was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. He also wrote very romantic poems. Some of them can be read here:
(visit link)
Best regards,
Balla & Silly
 

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N 45° 57.569 W 066° 38.107
Robbie Burns Statue located on the South Fredericton Trail, on Queen Street in Fredericton, N.B. Canada. It is beside the Art Gallery of Fredericton and has several quotes of his works on monument.
 

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N 52° 30.821 E 013° 23.558
Friedrich SCHILLER is one of the greatest poets of Germany, who lived from 1759 to 1805. He was a friend to Goethe. There is a monument in Berlin on one of the most beautiful places called ‘Gendarmenmarkt’. It was erected by the city of Berlin in 1869.
Generator & Kiki
Berlin, Germany
 

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N 38° 42.639 W 009° 08.603
Hi there

This is the monument to Luis de Camões, the greatest poet of all.
He lives at the Descobrimento times and is our story teller, about that ages and what my people has done at those times, in the Lusiadas, the biggest Portuguese epic poem.

Nice times…
 

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N 43° 39.173 W 070° 16.016
This is a statue of Henry Wadsworth located in Portland, Maine. (Born: February 27, 1807, Portland, Maine, Died: March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts) American poet, educator, and linguist. He lived in Portland from his childhood. He frequently wrote of Portland locales and stories. His boyhood home remains a museum and this statue of him stands in Longfellow Square at the corner of State Street and Congress Street in Portland.

A collection of his works can be found here:
(visit link)

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N 46° 03.082 E 014° 30.374
This is the monument of France Preseren (1800-1849), considered the greatest of the Slovenian poets due to his contribution to Slovenian language, literature and national identity.
The monument (1905, by Ivan Zajc and Maks Fabiani) is the social and spatial center of the square and was strongly criticized when first unveiled, especially for flaunting a nude muse so near the church.
My translation of Slovenian national anthem - written by Preseren - follows:
Long live all nations
that strive to see the day:
from all the sunlit Earth
quarrel be chased away.


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N 49° 36.609 E 006° 07.872
Hi, this is a monument for a MICHEL RODANGE. You can find it in Luxembourg city next to the cathedral notre dame. The point why I chose this poet is in pact due to the great monument they made for him. On top of it you can see a small fox, in ancient Luxemburgish they called him a REENERT, and that's the link to his poems. His most famous one is called the Reenert, even the youngest know that, and even if they don't remember the name Michel Rodange, they know the story about the small fox.
Hope this was clear , thanks for this cache.
 

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N 48° 46.804 E 009° 11.053
This is Friedrich Schiller a famous german poet.
The most important he create was the Schillers Glocke. It is known all over the world. He lives temporarily in Stuttgart and Mannheim.
Regards
Landmaus

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N 39° 55.608 W 075° 05.623
Walt Whitman's grave is in Camden, NJ on Hadden Avenue. One of his famous lines, Oh Captain, my Captain which was in the movie, Dead Poet's Society.
Team Jim & Linda
Coopersburg, PA
 

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This plaque is located in Schifflange / Luxemburg / Europe. It has been installed on 06.10.1981.

This Luxemburgian poet spent his early years in this house. (1908-1917)

-------- Jos. Keup --------
* 21.03.1891 / † 05.04.1917
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This poem was written by himself (it's in Luxemburgian [B)])

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THANKS FOR THIS CACHE
 

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N 50° 18.043 W 004° 45.365
This monument is to the Cornish Poet and Tudor Historian A.L. Rowse.
This monument is near the cliffs and sea at Black Head, close to the town of St Austell, Cornwall, UK which is the birth place of Alfred Leslie Rowse. He was born in 1903 and died 1997. Coming from a family of china-clay workers he gained a scholaship to Christ Church, Oxford at the age of 17.
He wrote widely on Tudor England and Shakespere; he also wrote poetry much of it about Cornwall, although not so well known for it. He started writing poetry at 17. It came, it is said, in a rush and was imaginative and was according to himself “extremely literary”.
The poem quoted here is from an anthology of ‘Public School Verse’ (sharing space with Graham Green & Christopher Isherwood). It is called ‘Winter’s Night’ -
To-night upon the world has fall’n a mood
Of hideous blackness; mists of driving rain
Have quenched the stars: the moon in solitude
Fitfully, wanly glimmers o’er the plain,
Where roadside puddles catch a fleeting gleam
And bear the reflex to the sightless skies;
Foul, distorted figures throng and teem
Amidst the darkness; shapes of horror rise
And beckon in the trees with writhing limb;
Around the house, the winds in fury race,
Waking shrill voices at their every whim
And tiring not as night moves on apace;
And the coast there beat unceasingly
The thunderous breakers of the wintry sea.

This poem he says reminds him of dark winter nights, sat a table reading, writing and listening to the roar of the old elms outside, (from ‘A Cornish Childhood’, his autobiography).
 

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N 38° 55.221 W 077° 03.693
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Kahlil Gibran

Found this monument to Gibran just off Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC. Kahlil Gibran was born in Lebanon in 1883 but emigrated to Boston with his mother and siblings at an early age. A poet, philosopher and artist, Gibran was among the most important Arabic language authors of the early twentieth century. He also went on to become a famous author and artist in his adopted country, the United States, especially by virtue of the phenomenal popularity of The Prophet (visit link) which was published in 1923. Gibran had a studio at 51 West Tenth Street, in New York City. He died in 1931.

As these pictures were taken at night, they do not do the monument justice.

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N 54° 27.253 W 003° 00.993
DOVE COTTAGE, GRASMERE, CUMBRIA, U.K.

This is the famous cottage that is associated with the famous Cumbrian poet, William Wordsworth. A website about him is:- (visit link)
A verse from one of his poems, Daffodils:-

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Thanks for this cache,

GAZ (Carlisle, U.K.)
 

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N 55° 03.966 W 003° 36.489
Robert Burns House, Dumfries, Scotland.

This memorial is in fact a simple sandstone house where Robert (Rabbie) Burns, Scotland's national poet, spent the last years of his life. It is now a place of pilgrimage for Burns' enthusiasts from around the world.

A sample of his work...

O, my luve is like a red, red rose,...

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a'the seas gang dry.

Till a'the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi the sun!
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o life shall run.

A belated Valentine's, thanks for this 'virtual', enjoyed it.
The Relic's, Carlisle, UK.
 

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N 37° 48.633 W 122° 11.580
Joaquin Miller Park is a beautiful park in Oakland, California which was donated to the city by poet Joaquin Miller. Sadly, the monument to Joaquin Miller has been defaced by graffiti. If anyone can tell me how to clean it off safely, I'll give it a try. To learn more about Joaquin Miller, visit the following website:

(visit link)

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N 55° 42.283 E 013° 11.702
This is a statue of Esaias Tegner (1782-1846), a swedish poet. He started to write at an early age and became later a professor in Greek at the Lund University.

/Euler&Effe
 

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Mary & David found this memorial to 'Banjo' Paterson while doing another cache at Binalong, NSW. From the inscription, Binalong was the boyhood home of Australia's best-loved writer, Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson, balladist, bushman, horseman, and author of 'Waltzing Matilda', whose affectionate memories of his earlier life here inspired many of his most famous poems and stories. He was born near Orange, NSW, eldest of the seven children of a Scot, Andrew Bogle Paterson, and his wife, the former Rose Barton, but moved when he was seven to a property named Illalong, seven kilometres out of Binalong on the Yass road, which his father owned and later managed. From there 'Barty' (as he was known to his family) and his cousin John rode to school in Binalong on their ponies until they went to school in Sydney in 1875. Young Banjo regarded Illalong and Binalong as his home, constantly returning here on holidays from school and law firm until his father's death in 1889. His father is buried in Binalong's Anglican cemetery.
Using the penname 'The Banjo' (the name of one of his Illalong horses) Paterson published numerous bush ballads in the 1880s, but became nationally acclaimed after the publication of his first book of verse, 'The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses' in 1895. He rode as a war correspondent in the Boer War, married (1903), farmed at Wee Jasper and served with the Light Horse in the 1914-1918 War. He wrote poems, tales and memoirs until his death in 1941. His family's old property, Illalong, is still in private hands, and the Banjo Paterson Bridge on the Yass road, opened in 2000, marks its site.

There are several web sites covering his life and works, including this one at the University of Queensland: http://www.uq.edu.au/~mlwham/banjo/index.html

And he saw the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars.
From Clancy of the Overflow by A.B. Paterson

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S 32° 21.855 E 149° 32.103
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The Rats were fortunate enough to see one of Australia's legendary poets memoribillia up close whilst on a recent holiday.
Henry Lawson, (1867 - 1922) was and is one of our best known poets. The towns of Mudgee and Gulgong live on his name with many buildings and structures named in his memory. There is a museum in Gulgong dedicated to his work.
Henry Lawson was not only a good poet, but he also wrote many short stories. Additional info on the man can be found at:
(visit link)
(visit link)

The Rats
 

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S 34° 55.269 E 138° 36.152
>Why is there no statue to Robbie Burns in our land,

It's gone for a refurb, it was looking second hand.North Terrace, Adelaide. Local paradise.

Robert Burns
A very famous Scottish Poet.

Statue is made of marble
Presented by the Caledonian Society. Unveiled 5th May 1894, by the Chief of the
Caledonian Society Hon. J. Darling, M.L.C.

The sculptor was W.J. Maxwell



In Adelaide, the statue of Robert Burns, the famous bard of Scotland, writer of Auld Lang Syne, and arguably one of the top 10 poets of all time is appropriately located outside the State Library of South Australia on North Terrace. On July 21st 1996 the 200th anniversary of his birth a lively, half day celebration of Burns writing was conducted by the Library.


Director of the Library, Mrs Frances Awcock says commenced to the sound of bagpipes and the sight of a flag party and Scottish dancing around the statue, which was a Burns' Centenary gift to Adelaide just over 100 years ago from the Royal Caledonian Society.


After the audience was'piped in' to the Library's historic Institute building they were treated to a packed program highlighting major themes and strengths of Burns' writings The program which was prepared in close association with Mr. Alan Beaton and the Burns Society (SA), featured recitations, tributes and over 30 of the most favourite of Burns' songs. ( These include My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose, Aye Fond Kiss, Scots Were Hae and Coming Through the Rye).


Statues of Burns, which feature in many cities around the world - from Adelaide to Moscow - are testament to the internationally popular and enduring appeal of his work.



Thanks Guys


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N 42° 22.746 W 072° 31.074
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Amherst, MA is the home of Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst; arguably the most famous American poetess. She is world renowned for her brief, insightful poetry. The house she rarely left and her grave-site are only a few hundred meters apart. Four feet of snow on the ground made finding her grave marker easy. I just followed the footprints in the snow. Since her house is easily found at 280 Main St., I posted the coordinates for the grave marker.

Here is a classic example of her wisdom and style.

It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.
 

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N 39° 44.670 W 084° 10.347
Dayton native Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first black writers to gain national prominence. The son of former slaves, he attended school with Orville Wright. He wrote poems in standard English as well as African-American dialect. He died at the age of 33 after achieving international acclaim. His grave is in Dayton's Woodland Cemetery.
 

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N 40° 06.751 W 074° 23.430
Internationally famous Russian poet PUSHKIN 1799-1837 Jackson, NJ - see this link for more information on this memorial & park history.

(visit link)

Russian 19th century author who often has been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin blended Old Slavonic with vernacular Russian into a rich, melodic language. He was the first to use everyday speech in his poetry. Pushkin's Romantic contemporaries were Byron (d. 1824) and Goethe (d. 1832), but his ironic attitude can be connected to the literature of 18th century, especially to Voltaire. Pushkin wrote some 800 lyrics with a dozen narrative poems.

Love passed, the muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity newfound;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.
(from Eugene Onegin, 1823)
Aleksandr Pushkin was born in Moscow into a cultured but poor aristocratic family. On his father's side he was descendant of an ancient noble family and on his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of an black Abyssinian, Gannibal, who served under Peter the Great. In his childhood the future poet was entrusted to nursemaids, French tutors, and governesses. He learned Russian from household serfs and from his nanny, Arina Rodionovna. Pushkin started to write poems from an early age. His first published poem was written when he was only 14.



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S 33° 51.629 E 151° 12.682
Kenneth Slessor was born in Orange, New South Wales in 1901. He published
his first poetry in the Bulletin magazine while still at school and went on
to be one of Australia's finest and most important poets. Some of his best
remembered poems are Five Bells, The Night Ride, Five visions of Captain Cook and
Captain Dobbin. He also worked as a journalist for many Australian
newspapers and as a war correspondent for the A.I.F. in World War II
visiting troops in England, Greece, the Middle-East and New Guinea. Slessor
died in Sydney on 30 June 1971.
 

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N 49° 18.098 W 123° 09.391
I stow the sail, unship the mast:
I wooed you long but my wooing's past;
My paddle will lull you into rest.
O! drowsy wind of the drowsy west,
Sleep, sleep,
By your mountain steep,
Or down where the prairie grasses sweep!
Now fold in slumber your laggard wings,
For soft is the song my paddle sings.

This memorial to Pauline Johnson is located in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

For more info on Pauline Johnson, see:

(visit link)
 

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N 53° 32.283 W 113° 29.373
While doing a multicache in our town, we came across this monument to one of Scotlands greatest sons,and her National Bard, Robbie Burns. This monument is located outside the hotel Macdonald, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; it commemorates the life span of Robbie Burns, and the strong Scottish community that helped found the city of Edmonton. Robbie Burns work is significant, if for no other reason, than the fact that each New Years Eve, as the clock rings in the New Year, we sing 'Auld Lang Syne' [Old Times Gone], an ancient song, revised, but not written, by Burns.


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N 39° 56.669 E 116° 24.497
This is a statue of the Chinese poet Confucius who lived from 551-497 BC. The statue is located in the Temple of Confucius in Beijing, China. The temple was built in 1302 and repaired and rebuilt during the Ming and Qing dynasties and only reopened in 1981 after being badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution. For more information about Confucius see (visit link)
 

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N 53° 33.300 E 009° 59.331
found this in hamburg, germany.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) .
Dramatist, aesthetician, and critic, the main representative of the Enlightenment in Germany. Lessing has been called the true founder of modern German literature. His most famous dramas are Miss Sara Sampson (1755), a domestic tragedy, Minna von Barnhelm (1755), a comedy about honor, marriage, and pretense, and Nathan the Wise (1779), set in Jerusalem during the Crusades.
He moved to Hamburg and assisted in the founding of the Nationaltheater, which was funded by a group of merchants. The project did not gain success. However, Lessing published his reviews of the performances under the title Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767-69). In it he attacked the formalism of neoclassicism, and the French classical theater which dominated the German stage. One of Lessing's targets was Voltaire, whose tragedies he criticized and praised the genius of Shakespeare. In Hamburg he also run with his friend a printing and publishing company. To cover his debts Lessing had to sell his own private library.
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more info: (visit link)
thx for the cache. happy hunting.

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