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Anniversaries
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Anniversaries
Births: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman emperor, 1503; Marcello
Malpighi, anatomist, 1628; John Playfair, mathematician and
geologist, 1748; Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, poet and
critic, 1772; Thomas Gordon Hake, physician and poet, 1809; Sir
Samuel Ferguson, poet, 1810; Pablo Martin Meliton de Sarasate y
Navascuz, violinist and composer, 1844; Henry Watson Fowler, author
of English Usage, 1858; Leonard Raven-Hill, cartoonist, artist and
illustrator, 1867; Tamara Platonov...
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; 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 ...
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