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Spectra
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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© The Oxford Companion to American Literature 1995, originally published by Oxford University Press 1995. (Hide copyright information)
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Spectra, satirical parody of the technique and diction of modern poetry, was published in 1916. Written by
Witter Bynner, under the pseudonym Emanuel Morgan, and
A.D. Ficke, under the pseudonym Anne Knish, the hoax was for a time considered a serious contribution to contemporary verse experiments.
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 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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INSIDE ADOBE WALLS: HISTORIC WITTER BYNNER HOUSE ON THE MARKET.(Real Estate Guide)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 11/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...WEIDEMAN Inside Adobe Walls: Historic Witter Bynner house on the market By Paul Weideman...decades of the poet and essayist Witter Bynner. The bones of the house - operated...partner, Ralph Bolton, for 12 years. Bynner purchased the house in the 1920s...
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2005 WITTER BYNNER FELLOW EMERSON WINS PULIZTER PRIZE FOR POETRY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...release: Claudia Emerson, the 2005 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress...chosen Emerson last year as a Witter Bynner Fellow, along with Martin Walls...which was granted by the Witter Bynner Foundation, in conjunction with...
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POET LAUREATE CHOOSES DAVIS, SZYBIST FOR 12TH ANNUAL WITTER BYNNER AWARD, READING ON FEB. 26
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...Szybist, for the 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships, and will...nonprofit organizations. Witter Bynner was an influential...fans. Previous Witter Bynner fellows were Carol Muske...further information on Witter Bynner fellowships and the poetry...
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POET LAUREATE CHOOSES TWO NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN POETRY FOR 11TH ANNUAL WITTER BYNNER AWARD, READING, MARCH 6
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...Monica Youn, for the 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowships and will introduce...nonprofit organizations. Witter Bynner was an influential...fans. Previous Witter Bynner fellows were Carol Muske...further information on Witter Bynner fellowships and the poetry...
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POET LAUREATE CHOOSES TWO NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN POETRY FOR 10TH ANNUAL WITTER BYNNER AWARD, READING ON MARCH 29
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...Tucker, for the 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowships and will introduce...nonprofit organizations. Witter Bynner was an influential...fans. Previous Witter Bynner fellows were Carol Muske...further information on Witter Bynner fellowships and the poetry...
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2006 WITTER BYNNER FELLOWS JOSEPH STROUD, CONNIE WANEK TO READ ON FEB. 16
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...Stroud and Connie Wanek, the 2006 Witter Bynner Fellows in Poetry, will read at...reservations are required. The Witter Bynner Foundation in New Mexico, in conjunction...for the fellowships, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, was incorporated...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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SOLVAY POET WALLS NAMED '05 WITTER BYNNER FELLOW.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/14/2005; 377 words
; Solvay poet Martin Walls was recently named a 2005 Witter Bynner Fellow by U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser and the Library of Congress. The prestigious fellowship includes a prize of $10...
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D.H. Lawrence's ashes were not eaten!(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...specifically on his story about Witter Bynner eating D. H. Lawrence's ashes...a five-volume edition of Witter Bynner's works published by Farrar, Straus...available--by, to, or about Bynner, there were some 8,000-plus...
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ANNOUNCES FALL 1998 LITERARY SERIES POET LAUREATE ROBERT PINSKY TO KICK OFF SEASON
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 8/18/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...poetry readings by this year's Witter Bynner Fellows and by the winner of the...On Oct. 16, the two 1998 Witter Bynner Fellows, Carol Muske and Carl Phillips...the Montpelier Room. The Witter Bynner Fellowships, from the Witter Bynner...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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LAW & LETTERS.(Preview)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/23/2008; 700+ words
; ...and, most recently, one of two Witter Bynner poetry fellowships the Library of...Thorburn, the other 2008 Witter Bynner poetry fellow, on Friday at the...writer in Niskayuna. BOX: Witter Bynner Fellowship Poetry Reading What...
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Witter Bynner
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Witter Bynner , 1881-1968, American poet, b. Brooklyn...Y., grad. Harvard, 1902. As a poet Bynner had a remarkable facility for catching...frauds ). With Dr. Kaing Kung-Ho, Bynner translated 300 Chinese poems published...
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Bynner, (Harold) Witter
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Bynner, [Harold] Witter (1881–1968), graduated from Harvard (1902), of which he wrote in...with Genius (1951), his recollections of D.H. Lawrence. Richard Wilbur edited Bynner's Selected Poems (1978).
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Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...manuscripts. The modern discovery of Tuckerman was effected by Witter Bynner, who republished the best of his Poems , together with...Sonnets (1931). In a highly eulogistic introduction Bynner calls these works among “the noblest in the...
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Richard Purdy Wilbur
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Racine's Andromache appeared in 1982. He also wrote books for children, edited works by Shakespeare, Poe, and Witter Bynner, and collaborated with Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein on the operetta Candide. A collection of prose works...
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Hughes, Langston 1902–1967
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Letters; Omega Psi Phi. Awards: First prize for poetry, Opportunity magazine, 1925; first prize for poetry, Witter Bynner undergraduate contests, Lincoln University, 1926; Amy Spingarn Award, Crisis; Intercollegiate Poetry Award, Palms...
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