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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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  • Lapis lazuli, also referred to as lapis, is a stone with one of the ... jewelry, carvings, mosaics, and a variety of ornamental pieces. In addition ...
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  • but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...
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  • described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... Coleridge's close friendship with the poet William Wordsworth ...
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  • famous for her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...
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  • Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of ... political power, but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by ...
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  • ; June 6 1236 – January 9 1283), also Man Tin Cheung, Duke of Xingguo ... his achievements as a poet. A dozen of his lyric poems are extant ...
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  • to such an association. One such poem is the frequently anthologized “The ... baptized by Jacob Tekahionwake Johnson on the encouragement of Sir William ...
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  • and public figure. He is considered among the most influential figures in ... Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and ...
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  • An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... In 1868, she helped establish the New England Suffrage Association ...
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  • most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ...
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