Editing Envoi (section)

==Later developments==
In English, poems with envoi have been written by poets as diverse as [[Henry Austin Dobson|Austin Dobson]], [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] and [[Ezra Pound]]. [[G. K. Chesterton]] and [[Hilaire Belloc]] went through a period of adding envois to their humorous and satirical poems.

Using an envoi as a 'sending-out' poem was already quite typical by the eighteenth and nineteenth century, with poets like [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Henry Longfellow]] using the form in the 1890s, and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] writing his 'L'envoi' which he addressed to the reader.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_J._W._von_Goethe/Volume_9/L'Envoi|title=The Works of J. W. von Goethe, Volume 9|last=Goethe|first=Johann Wolfgang von}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bartleby.com/356/17.html|title=L'Envoi. Earlier Poems. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1893. Complete Poetical Works|website=www.bartleby.com|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> Ezra Pound's 'Envoi' to his longer poem [[Hugh Selwyn Mauberley]] (1920) begins "Go, dumb-born book",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44914/envoi-56d2243243e40|title=Envoi by Ezra Pound|date=2019-10-31|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> and thus explicitly gives the 'Envoi' title to the long-standing genre of writing a farewell poem addressed to the book of poems itself, previously used for example by [[Edmund Spenser]] in [[The Shepheardes Calender|''The'' ''Shepheardes Calender'']] (1579)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/sfront.html|title=The Shepheardes Calender -- Frontmatter|website=www.luminarium.org|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> or [[Anne Bradstreet]] in 'The Author to Her Book' (1650s).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Author_to_Her_Book|title=The Author To Her Book|last=Bradstreet|first=Anne}}</ref> Later writers such as [[William Morris Meredith Jr.|William Meredith]] and [[Meg Bateman]] have also written envois of this kind.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poem/envoi|title=Envoi by William Meredith - Poems {{!}} Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/envoi-2464?showmodal=en|title=Envoi (Meg Bateman)|website=www.lyrikline.org|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref>

The envoi is also often written as a postscript or farewell from the poet as they face death, even if that death might be some distance away. Poets who have written envois in this style include [[Rudyard Kipling]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Seven_Seas/L'Envoi|title=The Seven Seas|last=Kipling|first=Rudyard}}</ref> [[Willa Cather]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poem/lenvoi|title=L'Envoi by Willa Cather - Poems {{!}} Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> [[James McAuley]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/mcauley-james/poems/envoi-0151006|title=Australian Poetry Library|website=www.poetrylibrary.edu.au|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> the suffragist [[Emily Davison]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://emilydavisonproject.org/2018/09/30/lenvoi-a-poem-by-emily-wilding-davison/|title=L'Envoi, a poem by Emily Wilding Davison – Emily Davison Memorial Project|last=EDMP|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> and [[Llewelyn Wyn Griffith|Wyn Griffith]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://allpoetry.com/poem/8620827-Envoi-by-Wyn-Griffith|title=Envoi by Wyn Griffith|last=Envoi|website=allpoetry.com|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref>