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Subject: PRINTING & PRINTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah


A PLEASANT INFECTIVE AGAINST PRINTING, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The press is too much with us: small and great
Last Line: His soul to nature, -- careless of the type!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Printing & Printers


ERICH THE PRINTER—(B. 1883-D. 1938): (1929), by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men's names (the prayers against misbirth)
Subject(s): Printing & Printers


HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men
Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns


PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: FUST AND FRIENDS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, up, up - next step of the staircase
Last Line: Fust. I foresee such a man.
Subject(s): Fust, Johann (1400-1466); Printing & Printers


PRINT SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the pin-ups of the nude
Last Line: Queer for looking.
Subject(s): Business; Printing & Printers; Businessmen; Businesswomen


SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 1. THE PRINTING-PRESS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In boyhood's days we read with keen delight
Last Line: And spake -- and heaven and earth in answer rung.
Subject(s): Printing & Printers


THE HAPPY PRINTER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The printer's is a happy lot
Last Line: And gets an old age pension.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Printing & Printers


THE PASSIONATE PRINTER TO HIS LOVE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me and be my dear
Last Line: Amandus typographicus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Printing & Printers


TO AN EDITOR (ON THE RETURN OF A MANUSCRIPT), by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So my 'lines are too heavy'-you 'want something / light'
Last Line: Than reams of the stuff you are printing for verse.
Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Printing & Printers; Publishing; Publishers


ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress
Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press!
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys