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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
- A private library is a library under the care of private ownership ... Private libraries often reflect the interests of the owner and the ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized ... raised by his great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- | field = painting, sculpture, poetry | training = ... graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Largely self-taught, he excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil ... Although he is often remembered for his pictures of bucolic scenes ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 23:11, 17 May 2023
- singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead singer and predominant ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams ... Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 06:10, 27 February 2023
- and short story writer who became one of the most popular authors of ... Comparisons aside, Wharton is one of the most significant American ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. 1984, for Best Children’s Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends. His book, A ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are ... Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- #039;s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of ... is almost entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... Stevenson was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the New England Transcendentalists ... In search of adventure, the young Melville left his native Massachusetts ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- American artist whose works initiated the first indigenous art movement ... His historical and allegorical paintings of the 1820s and 1830s gave ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- is legendary, and she is known today as one of the most brilliant writers ... Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; ...18 KB (2,914 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or ... in rodeos, while some work exclusively in the rodeo. Cowboys also spawned ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement ... Her first three books, “Under the Sea Wind”, “The Sea Around ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family ... The swan is one of the largest, fastest swimming, and fastest flying ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- He composed over 300 works comprised of operas, symphonies, oratorios ... Camille Saint-Saëns's sensitive renderings of using instruments ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- structural linguistics. He is arguably the most influential figure in ... in Poland) to an orthodox Jewish family of Lithuanian origins. His parents ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and ... The Symbolist movement in literature has its roots in Les Fleurs du ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- and ethnographer, famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and ... 1883, in Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... Works of philosophy, history, economics, journalism, and most fiction ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... His wife and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms ... Female Seminary on November 8, 1837, it is the "first of the Seven Sisters ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- |birthplace=Chicago, Illinois, United States |deathdate =1959|3|26|1888|7|23 |deathplace=San Diego, California, United States |occupation =Novelist ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ideas, arising from a philosophy based on the ego, sensuous pleasure, and ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... Although several species are often considered weeds, people around ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism ... Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- was a well-known mime. He performed all over the world in order to spread the ... hat topped with a red flower. Marceau showed the world every emotion imaginable ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the ... terms, perhaps adopted to increase the "science" aspect ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental ... Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- innovator, armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned ... inventor, and Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... and theology, but he was less concerned with the social and psychological anomie ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- , was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic of culture and novelist. Santayana ... Santayana's main philosophical works are The Sense of Beauty ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among the first to draw upon history ... Scott’s works follow the transition from the eighteenth century ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns ... Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and homilies in verse ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawī بدوي, a generic name ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... An eloquent writer and speaker, she used these talents to further ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
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- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Dame Muriel Spark, (February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) was the greatest ... had left Sydney and Robin. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1944 and ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
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- for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... as a "cheery elf," rather than the common image of the austere ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels ... distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. Pioneered ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Greece and raised in Wales, he emigrated to the United States at the age of ... in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published ... are explained to a wider audience. In the past, scientists interested ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by ... The organization's programs emphasize developing community level ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- writer who played an important part in the development of twentieth century ... Henry Aaron Budington but used a variety of names during his life, including ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- philosopher, and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers ... Avicenna is also well known for his medical work, The Canon of Medicine ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth ... The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans Baptized Mary Anne ... 22, 1880) an English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 07:37, 15 May 2024
- He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ... country musicians and was an integral part of the Texas musical culture which ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... Bangladesh's rank among the most densely populated countries ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman ... music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth ... The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ...25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 nations ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at ... A tea house or tearoom is a venue designed for people to gather for ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a "nonprofit, membership ... The organization was founded by Fred Kilgour, and its offices are ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
- – August 28, 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- writer, lecturer, and social reformer during the early 1900s. She was born ... Gilman was born Charlotte Anna Perkins in Hartford, Connecticut, the ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably ... While Western philosophy is closely related to conceptual components ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an ... The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe ... They flourished from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history ... James I ruled at a time when the fallout from the Reformation was ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American ... #039;s first female playwright. She was also the first woman to publish an ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter ... Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
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- clear and forceful singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and ... He brought a more spiritual, as opposed to dogmatic, understanding ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" ... ) is a sort of processed animal hide that is thin, smooth, durable ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and ... for children who had become homeless due to the war or were suffering serious ...12 KB (1,678 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- |popplace=United States (New Mexico) |rels=Christianity (incl. syncretist ... The Zuni (also spelled Zuñi) or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- and pride in Russian culture. His style of composing gained international ... The first of his nine symphonies premiered in 1882 when Glazunov was ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- from Mississippi who is regarded as one of America's most influential ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Founded in 1971, by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most ... are independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... documented, albeit controversially, over the centuries and numerous cultures ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- As a "woman of letters" who published successfully in mulitple ... politics, and she herself provided a model of the female writer for contemporary ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- Free schools have their roots in the anarchist Modern Schools of Spain ... A variety of free schools and affiliated organizations are found throughout ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 06:52, 23 January 2023
- and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" ... , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...44 KB (6,485 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- The Shoshone (also spelled Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...26 KB (4,027 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the sensual ... Award in 2010. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ... He published the famous stories of Poor Richard's Almanack and ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea ... Slave labor brought from Africa to work the sugarcane fields in the ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- a moral theory according to which welfare is the fundamental human good. Welfare ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
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- and educator. As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science ... gases becoming famous for his co-discovery of oxygen, which he called "dephlo ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
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- and their demure conversation. Evolving in the mid-eighteenth century, from ... The geisha saw their peak numbers in the 1920s, with over 80,000 practicing ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... often wrote as an ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was one of the most famous and admired ... through space exploration. And although most of his themes were about everyday ...20 KB (2,916 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly ... such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation ... The word "juggling" derives from the Middle English jogelen ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- New Yorker, The The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern ... Southeast African lingua franca, making it the most widely spoken language ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- In spiritualism, the term Medium refers to a person with a psychic ... ==History of mediumship== Human beings have attempted to contact spirits ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... Mill formulated the “greatest happiness principle,” which held ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper ... The Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes; this includes four in editorial ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present. Vietnamese art has ... The golden age of Vietnamese art occurred during the Ly dynasty (1010 ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- quot; or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German ... The historical origin of Faust's name and persona remains unclear ...35 KB (5,273 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2024
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
