Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 28, 1994 | Copyright information

Births: Jacopo Sannazaro, poet, 1456; Henry Glapthorne, playwright, 1610; Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, philosopher, 1804; Charles Lucas, cellist, organist, conductor and composer, 1808; John Stuart Blackie, classical scholar, 1809; Giulia Grisi, soprano, 1811; Henri-Joseph Harpignies, landscape painter, 1819; Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, 1844; Helen Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator, 1866; Marcel Duchamp, Surrealist painter, 1887; Marie Lohr, actress, 1890; Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee, singe...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

My Poet
Poetry ; I live with a poet. Her boyfriend before me was also a poet, and published a book called Crane, in which all the poems are about her. She looks like a crane - the bird kind. I often find her standing on one leg, leaning against our bookshelves, very still, staring into a book as if for a fish to
The Poet's Prologue; Karl Shapiro, an Outsider Looking Inward
The Washington Post ; THE YOUNGER SON: The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet By Karl Shapiro Algonquin. 287 pp. $17.95 Karl Shapiro was 21 when his first book of poetry was printed, as a favor to his uncle, by a publisher of medical textbooks. Though few of its 200 copies were sold, the 64-page volume
Chapter and Verse, American Style; Richard Wilbur: Boorstin Chooses `A poet for us All' as Second Laureate
The Washington Post ; Richard Wilbur, a much-honored poet, translator and critic, was named yesterday as the second poet laureate of the United States. "He is a poet for us all, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox," said Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin, who is responsible for selecting the laureate.
The Daring of Derzavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia
Canadian Slavonic Papers ; Anna Lisa Crone. The Daring of Derzavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2001. vi, 258 pp. Index. $24.95, paper. Eclipsed by Pushkin, Gavrilo Romanovich Derzhavin's reputation as a poet has struggled for recognition. However, in at least two
TUSCHEN: `NOW THERE'S A POET'.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI) ; ... t know if Tuschen was still in Madison or even alive. A couple of phone calls -- to Soglin and Stuart Levitan -- brought the news that he was alive and living in an apartment on State Street. I did a column nominating Tuschen for Wisconsin poet laureate ...
Poet Donald Hall inspires Nieman fellows: '... even under the tyranny of daily deadlines, journalists can help themselves by thinking like a poet.'.(Nieman Notes)
Nieman Reports ; ... House, 1 have served as his chauffeur, introducer and trusty sidekick. In addition, since 1979 Don has often visited with my news staff at the Concord Monitor for brown-bag lunches. Combining these sessions with the Nieman visits, I have probably heard Don ...
Imants Ziedonis opens clocks. (Latvian poet)(The Baltic Literatures in the 1990s)
World Literature Today ; The poet Imants Ziedonis (b. 1933) is an unusual phenomenon - in poetry, of course, but also unusual are the place and significance of poetry in Latvian history and culture. It is said that in Nepal there are two and a half gods per inhabitant. With us quite surely - everything is collected,
Poet's Wild Braid' has been growing for a century
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ... Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Copyright 2005, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved. (Note: This notice does not apply to those news items already copyrighted and received through wire services or other media.)
Poet seeks farmer support for project
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) ; DES MOINES (AP) - Ethanol maker Poet wants Iowa farmers to hand over their corn cobs, and lots of them. Three years from now, the nation's top ethanol producer hopes to use its plant in Emmetsburg to become one of the first refiners to produce cellulosic ethanol on a large scale. But first Poet
Interview: Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her new book, "To Be the Poet"
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR) ; 00-00-0000 Interview: Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her new book, To Be the Poet Host: LIANE HANSEN Time: 1:00-2:00 PM LIANE HANSEN, host: Maxine Hong Kingston has been writing prose most of her life, and she's very successful at it. She won a National Book Critics Circle award in 1976 for The