Search results for "Poetry of the United States" - New World Encyclopedia
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- novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism ... Warren's work focused on the moral and spiritual conflicts in ...8 KB (1,091 words) - 02:13, 16 December 2022
- in every pulse-beat," and he is one of the most indubitably American ... was raised in a relatively poor family of Swedish immigrants in a rural ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- an American poet whose works brought about the Confessionalist movement in ... Lowell was born into the Boston Brahmin Lowell family, and was raised ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- to be a great but underexposed writer of his age. During his lifetime ... he was highly praised by peers. Employed in the financial field, his writing ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- hymns, and personable poems celebrating the lighter side of life. Like ... Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- a Russian emigre poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... ===In the Soviet Union=== Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- years he remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest twentieth-century ... as a poet are her tremendous dedication to the craft (her notebooks reveal ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- has never been as wide-spread as that of many of her Modernist peers; ... style. She was, and remains, one of the most difficult poets to ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet in the late nineteenth and early ... Dunbar largely failed to convince white critics and patrons of his ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 17:08, 21 November 2022
- closely associated with Robert Lowell and the confessionalist school of ... Indeed, Berryman did as much as possible to conceal and complicate ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- a playwright. She is best known for her poetry belonging to the confessional ... Sexton's poetry was characterized by incisive metaphors, unexpected ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- poet, novelist and jazz critic. His poetry, marked by understatement ... Eva Larkin in Coventry, a provincial city in the Midlands. He was educated ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... and Pound, who supported Mussolini during the Second World War and would ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- literary fame at age 17, after writing the poem, "Thanatopsis." ... In addition to his contribution to romantic poetry, his essays promoted ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Williams associated himself closely with the then-emergent movement of ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
