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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney , 1939-, Irish poet, b. Londonderry (now Derry), Northern Ireland. Heaney may be the finest poet writing in English today. In his early works, such as Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door into the Dark (1969), Heaney is a lyrical nature poet, writing with limpid simplicity about... Read more |
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Beowulf
Beowulf , oldest English epic, probably composed in the early 8th cent. by an Anglian bard in the vicinity of Northumbria. It survives in only one manuscript, written c.AD 1000 by two scribes and preserved in the British Museum in the collection of Sir Robert Cotton. The materials for the poem are... Read more |
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Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn Mona Van Duyn (born 1921) was the first woman to be appointed poet laureate of the United States, serving from October 1992 to May 1993. On the occasion of Mona Van Duyn's appointment as poet laureate, the Library of Congress' Information Bulletin (June 29, 1992) described the... Read more |
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Black Mountain poets
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Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall1914–2000 Poet, publisher, editor In his roles as poet and publisher, Dudley Randall was the leading exponent of the new black poetry movement of the 1960s. Randall, whose critically-acclaimed poems prompted Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to name him the Poet Laureate of the City of... Read more |
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William King (poet)
William King 1663-1712, English poet. He supported the Tory and High Church party. He is noted for his humorous and satirical writings, which include Dialogues of the Dead (attacks against Richard Bentley, pub. 1699) and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1709).... Read more |
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman 1833-1908, American banker, poet, and critic, b. Hartford, Conn., attended Yale. A successful Wall St. broker, he was also one of the leading poets of his time although his somewhat derivative poetry, similar to Tennyson's in style, is little read today. As critic he wrote... Read more |
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Cavalier poets
Cavalier poets a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between c.1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England, mixing sophistication with naïveté, elegance with raciness.... Read more |
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Lake poets
Lake Poets, Lake School, terms applied to Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and sometimes to De Quincey, who lived in the Lake District. The expression ‘Lake School’ seems first to appear in the Edinburgh Review of August 1817. In his Recollections of the Lake Poets, De Quincey denies... Read more |
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Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud , 1854-91, French poet who had a great influence on the symbolists and subsequent modern poets, b. Charleville. A defiant and precocious youth, Rimbaud at 16 sent some poems to Verlaine , who liked his work and invited him to Paris. In 1872-73 the two poets lived together in London... Read more |
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Seamus Heaney pays his dues to the poets. (book review)
...8. 99) WHAT do poets do when they are...new book. "Father Seamus " Heaney, , poetry 's ultimate...Electric Light, Heaney 's 11th collection...poems looking back to his childhood in rural...describes the child Seamus 's homesickness...the end, as the poet remembers the woman... |
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Pol O Muiri: Shouldn't Seamus be new Poet Laureate?
...since. Irish poets are due 400 years back pay. Parity of...order? Irish poets can aspire...standing army of poets has swollen...The post of Poet Laureate carries...workshop. Seamus Heaney for Poet Laureate? Why not? His passport may... |
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Seamus Heaney, Human Chain.
...dead, to confront his own dead. He meets again his father Anchises, whom...has been central in Seamus Heaney's poetry, from the...1966), when the poet takes his vow of commitment to...Heaney, like Aeneas, pays a visit to the world... |
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Thomas Kinsella. Collected Poems, 1956-2001.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
...contemporary of Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet best known to the...major subject of Heaney's poetry but...sufficient subject if his life were heroic...but it isn't. His bitterness is reflected...he knew how to pay his dues to the Irish heroic... |
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The Difficulty of We: the epistolary poems of Michael Longley and Derek...
...dedicated to his fellow poets Seamus Heaney and Derek...together in his volume An...the other poet within a week, he had to pay out a bottle...for these poets to find an...community versus poet, were a...interviews. Heaney, Mahon...probably largely ... |
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Lovely lyrical lament
Poets, playwrights...celebrate poet Seamus Heaney and his newest work...barrister and poet John O...there with his wife, Michelene...price you pay for power...Farrell. Other poets at the opening...1960s, is due out next...playwright and Heaney's ... |
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POET SLEPT WITH TEENS; EXCLUSIVE O 'Searcaigh row over movie's sex claims.(News)
...best-known poets has been accused...followed to his "spiritual...Nepal where he pays the school fees...award-winning poet O'Searcaigh...money during his trips. Neasa...Searcaigh in his work to assist...even helped pay for their schoolbooks...writers including Seamus ... |
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Oppression or censorship? Israeli poet caught in crossfire
...by the Israeli poet, Amir Or, at...which agreed to pay his air fare. The...offering to pay his air fare to Dublin...is affirming his allegiance to...other writers due to take part in...night, include Seamus Heaney, John Carey... |
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The poet and the spy
...if uncommon, his view of the world...for Poetry for his collection The...wasn't either Seamus Heaney or Ted Hughes...with another one due in August. Most of his books have been...electricity customers pay 25 per cent on...remember, a poet whose work fuses... |
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PETER JOLLIFFE
...Peter Jolliffe, poet and bookseller...literature that took his fancy. He was...the first in his field to inspire customers to pay serious money...writers such as Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon...when he shared his own poetry with...sullen art. Poets he loved ... |
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