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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
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym ... Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. Some ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- 28, 1925) was a famous Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry ... Yesenin's roots were in the Russian countryside. His poetry showed ...12 KB (1,781 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- an American anthropologist, who pioneered the ethnohistorical research technique ... In 1900, Swanton received his Ph.D. and started his fieldwork on the ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- to be regarded alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets ... Ever the recluse, Dickinson's poetry is hard to classify. She ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- 29, 1963) was an American poet, arguably the most recognized American poet ... Modernist poetry largely abandoned conventional poetic forms as obsolete ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- Anne Bradstreet (circa 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first ... Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton England. She was the ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize ... was involved in agrarian reform following the revolution, activities which ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- and short story writer, who is arguably the most prominent and influential ... Wright's early works, most notably the autobiographical work ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971 ... Light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Poems considered ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African ... Although her poetry about the colonies' struggle for freedom ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one ... Leading artists of the movement included Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) was the pen name of ... Seferis helped to introduce the poetry of Symbolism to the Greek language ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- wrote in a neat, clean style that made his poetry readily accessible at a time ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- ethical or sexual themes, treating issues of good and evil which are played ... was from a middle class Anglican Church of Ireland family from Dublin ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- (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 ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,528 words) - 04:51, 9 April 2024
- composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved ... modern art movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking world simply ... Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional capitalization ... for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- Henry Timrod, (December 8, 1828—October 7, 1867), was called The ... In addition to the perspective Timrod offers to historians and those ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- poet. He also directed several films. Before the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ... subjects, Yevtushenko was never a member of the Soviet dissident community ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... Coleridge's close friendship with the poet William Wordsworth ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (3,157 words) - 01:56, 27 February 2023
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of ... political power, but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- ; 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 ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- to such an association. One such poem is the frequently anthologized “The ... baptized by Jacob Tekahionwake Johnson on the encouragement of Sir William ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- and public figure. He is considered among the most influential figures in ... Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... In 1868, she helped establish the New England Suffrage Association ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- 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 ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... Traditionally, waka has had no concept of rhyme (certain arrangements ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- - January 9, 2014) was an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and ... sexual politics. His most famous play, "The Dutchman," addresses ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ... He has written extensively about the relationship between language ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- , better known as José Martí, was a leader of the Cuban independence movement ... were his books for children, La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age) being the most ...19 KB (3,059 words) - 06:30, 6 May 2024
- and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel ... Aldington is associated with the poetic group around Ezra Pound, the ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... He won the three Pulitzer Prizes (both fiction and drama), numerous ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry had been included in Griswold's ...41 KB (6,146 words) - 17:44, 22 December 2022
- October 21, 1969), also known as "King of the Beatniks" and "Father ... writings and in his novels that he rejected the values of the time and was ...22 KB (3,414 words) - 21:03, 25 December 2022
- 2004) was a Polish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- colonial roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- his first literary works in Russian under the pseudonym of Sirin, but rose ... #039;s affair with a 12-year-old girl, and the uniquely structured Pale Fire ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- philosopher and poet. His most famous work, the Kuzari, defended Judaism against ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... Russian Futurism began roughly in the early 1910s; in 1912, a year ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... in Massachusetts. Peabody's father was the dentist Dr. Nathaniel Peabody ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- Scottish novelist, best known for his novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- 250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The inscription on the neck reads ... personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
