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
- 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
