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

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  • 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 ...
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  • Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym ... Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. Some ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...
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