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  • A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... legacy, his effort to establish and maintain the highest standards in the profession ...
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  • known to all who were close to her, is one of Canada's most beloved ... She lived a remarkably sincere, humble, and sacrificial life of Christian ...
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  • memoirist. She is best known today for her poetry, and particularly her work ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...
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  • (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...
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  • Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...
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  • is now Columbia University in 1826, he was the first faculty member to have ... to Roman Catholicism in 1763, he took the name Lorenzo Da Ponte, the ...
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  • was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...
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  • lawyer and amateur poet. While watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry ... because there were no schools nearby. At the age of ten he was sent to ...
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  • composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...
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  • author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...
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  • World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved ... modern art movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ...
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  • and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...
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  • الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking world simply ... Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...
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  • publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional capitalization ... for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation ...
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  • Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...
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  • and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...
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  • Henry Timrod, (December 8, 1828—October 7, 1867), was called The ... In addition to the perspective Timrod offers to historians and those ...
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  • 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...
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  • poet. He also directed several films. Before the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ... subjects, Yevtushenko was never a member of the Soviet dissident community ...
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  • and dramatist who is widely considered to be the most important Spanish poet ... In his early years, García Lorca's poetry was marked by the ...
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