Jean François Marmontel
Jean François Marmontel , 1723-99, French critic, dramatist, and story writer, contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie. Educated by the Jesuits, he taught in Jesuit schools until 1745, when, encouraged by Voltaire, he went to Paris. His works, popular in his day, include Denys le tyran (1748), a tragedy; Contes moraux, which appeared in the Mercure between 1761 and 1786; Bélisaire (1767), a plea for tolerance; and his Mémoires (4 vol., 1804), written for his children. He was a member of the French Academy.
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Amy Clampitt's pilgrimage.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 4/16/1990; ; 700+ words
; AMY CLAMPITT'S PILGRIMAGE LIKE THE TORNADOES that occasionally rip across the flatlands of her native Iowa. Amy Clampitt seizes upon whatever in her path. No living poet writes with fiercer...
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Obituary: Amy Clampitt
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; Amy Clampitt, poet: born New Providence, Iowa 15...luminaries as John Ashbery, Seamus Heaney and Amy Clampitt, the American poet whose first collection...festival, I jumped at the chance to arrange Amy Clampitt's lodging in my college and to serve...
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AMY CLAMPITT REVEALS THE POETRY OF NATURE WITH HER OWN DEFT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/6/1990; ; 700+ words
; WESTWARD By Amy Clampitt Knopf, 111 pages, $18.95 Amy Clampitt is a wonder. Her poems pay lithe and subtle attention...have never seen a meadowlark or a nightingale, seeing Amy Clampitt -- and hearing her make art out of flashes of wings...
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The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
Magazine article from: Poetry; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.00. From her first volume...her fifth and last book, A Silence Opens (I994), Amy Clampitt (I920-94) stunned readers with her descriptions...
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Amy Clampitt, poet who earned Guggenheim Fellowship; at 74
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/14/1994; ; 661 words
; Amy Clampitt, the poet who began her career at the...her home in Lenox. She was 74. Ms. Clampitt authored five collections of poetry...Richard Tillinghast, who wrote that Ms. Clampitt "immediately merits consideration as...
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A garrulous creature.(Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt)(Book review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Amy Clampitt Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt, Edited by Willard Spiegelman. Columbia University Press, 336 pages, $39.50 Some thirty years before she began rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ted Hughes and Kurt Vounegut...
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AMY CLAMPITT, 74; POET.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/12/1994; 700+ words
; ...New York Times LENOX, Mass. Amy Clampitt, known for her dense, ornate...editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Ms. Clampitt published her first full-length...Alfred Corn wrote in a review. Ms. Clampitt was born in New Providence, Iowa...
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The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt.
Magazine article from: Poetry; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...book, A Silence Opens (1994), Amy Clampitt (1920-94) stunned readers with...Salter rightfully points out that Clampitt's "vocabulary may well be the...are .... Yet what motivates Clampitt's radical concern with surface...
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Politics, purses, poetry: the letters of a poet; How did shy Amy Clampitt of Iowa emerge as an acclaimed poet at the age of 63?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 8/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...Elizabeth Lund The late Amy Clampitt has always been something...voice? In "Love, Amy," a selection of...they get to see Clampitt's life - which...lives. Korn and Clampitt, neither of whom...death. "Love, Amy" is full of colorful...
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"Nobody knows the story": Amy Clampitt's poems of childhood.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994) IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT...ON MEMORY, AND THIS IS THE CASE WITH CLAMPITT. SHE SAYS THAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT...childhood, one's own or another's. Clampitt herself said that she did not usually...
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Amy Clampitt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amy Clampitt 1920-94, American poet, b. New Providence, Iowa. A librarian and...Archaic Figure (1987), Westward (1990), and A Silence Opens (1994). Clampitt's collected poems appeared in 1997. Her densely ornate and richly allusive...
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Clampitt, Amy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Clampitt, Amy (1920–94), poet. A native...center of some of her richest verse, Clampitt graduated from Grinnell College. She...that of a mature and various talent. Clampitt writes about growing up in rural Iowa...
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