Search results for "Poetry of the United States" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized ... raised by his great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in ...
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  • A private library is a library under the care of private ownership ... Private libraries often reflect the interests of the owner and the ...
    22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
  • American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...
    24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...
    39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
  • | field = painting, sculpture, poetry | training = ... graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ...
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  • Largely self-taught, he excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil ... Although he is often remembered for his pictures of bucolic scenes ...
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  • singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead singer and predominant ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...
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  • 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams ... Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique ...
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  • Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...
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  • and short story writer who became one of the most popular authors of ... Comparisons aside, Wharton is one of the most significant American ...
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  • Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ...
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  • The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...
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  • was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...
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  • event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are ... Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...
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  • cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. 1984, for Best Children’s Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends. His book, A ...
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  • "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...
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  • actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...
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  • #039;s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of ... is almost entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested ...
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  • travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... Stevenson was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on ...
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