May Probyn
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Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn (1856 – 1909), was an English
poet
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Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse
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She is also included in many other anthologies, such as
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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse
Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse most commonly means the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation...
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She is also included in many other anthologies, such as
- The Golden Book of Modern English Poetry (1922),
- The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (see Oxford religious poetry anthologiesOxford religious poetry anthologies-Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse:The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English...
) - The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1922) (see Oxford period poetry anthologiesOxford period poetry anthologiesThese are Oxford poetry anthologies of English poetry, which select from a given period. See also The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse.-New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse :Edited by Alastair Fowler...
) - The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (1997) (see Penguin poetry anthologiesPenguin poetry anthologiesThe Penguin poetry anthologies, published by Penguin Books, have at times played the role of a 'third force' in British poetry, less literary than those from Faber and Faber, and less academic than those from Oxford University Press....
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