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Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more |
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Christopher Hope
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Hope Theatre
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Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell 1777-1844, Scottish poet. He is best known for his war poems "Hohenlinden," "The Battle of the Baltic," and "Ye Mariners of England." Among his other volumes of poetry are The Pleasure of Hope (1799), Gertrude of Wyoming (1809); and Theodric (1824).... Read more |
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Paul Tortelier
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Paul Kester
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Paul Bailey
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Les Paul
Les Paul 1916-, American guitarist and inventor, b. Waukesha, Wis., as Lester William Polfus. He began playing country music at 14, later switched to jazz, and started his own trio in 1936. Considered one of the finest jazz guitarists, he is famous for his amazing versatility. Dissatisfied with the... Read more |
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C Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis (Cecil Day Lewis), 1904-72, English author, b. Ireland. While he was still at Oxford, he became associated with a group of leftist poets led by W. H. Auden . After graduation he taught at various schools until 1935 and then decided to devote himself to writing. He was professor of... Read more |
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Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux Paul Theroux (born 1941) was an expatriate American writer of numerous works of fiction and of the chronicles of his own travels by train throughout the world. He was a keen observer of the relationships between people and their environments. Paul Theroux was a professional... Read more |
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Socrates in hell: Anthony Hecht, humanism, and the holocaust.(Critical essay)
...to write poetry after Auschwitz...19). The violent and the victims...above all, Paul Celan: those great...exemplify at once poetry and the death...Adorno and Celan demarcate...absence of other hope, seems ... |
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SOCRATES IN HELL: ANTHONY HECHT, HUMANISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST
...to write poetry after Auschwitz...19). The violent and the victims...above all, Paul Celan: those great...exemplify at once poetry and the death...Adorno and Celan demarcate...absence of other hope, seems ... |
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Poet channels Whitman in wake of national tragedy
...necessary to poetry, and instructive...and emerge as poetry, the "small...device recalls the hope and awe expressed...s history of violent death." Other...city!"), and Paul Celan, whose "Death...Times' new ... |