Villanelle protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form. Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all. Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath wrote villanelles in the 1950s and 1960s, and Elizabeth Bishop wrote a particularly famous and influential villanelle, "One Art," in 1976. The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism. Since then, many contemporary poets have written
Go Gentle nothings in Nicole Kidman's ear on Christmas morning, there's a new girl who commands all of his attention. "Now when you go dancing with young men down at the disco/ Just keep it simple/ You don't have to kiss though," Robbie tells his new daughter Teddy over swaying brass and piano, prepping that serious father talk a good decade and a half in advance. But with a classic whistle line, a smooth melody and Robbie's undiminished star quality, we're pretty certain 'Go Gentle' will stand the test of time to serve its true purpose." On 10 November 2013, Williams performed