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Robert Franklin Williams
Robert F. Williams 1925— Civil rights and political activist World War II Proletarian Poet A Call to Arm... Read more |
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey , 1774-1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a friendship with Coleridge and joined with him in a plan for an American utopia along the Susquehanna River that was never actualized. Southey married in... Read more |
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Womens rights
WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT This entry includes 2 subentries: The Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth Century The Nineteenth Century During the Colonial era and the first decades of the Republic, there were always women who strove to secure equal rights for themselves. Some assumed the business... Read more |
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Ronald M. Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin 1931-, American legal philosopher. b. Worcester, Mass. A professor at Yale University Law School (1962-69) and then professor of philosophy and jurisprudence in a joint appointment with New York Univ. and Oxford (1969-), Dworkin's work such as Taking Rights Seriously (1977) rejects... Read more |
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conquest
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS Founded in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), now part of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, was a critical institution linking together the African American community in the south and in the north. The union, composed entirely of... Read more |
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commune
commune , in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune in municipal government, the term is also used to denote a town itself to which a charter of liberties was granted by the sovereign... Read more |
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Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin 1835-1913, English author, b. Leeds. Originally trained for a legal career, he eventually turned to writing and politics. From 1883-95 he edited the National Review. Although in 1896 he succeeded Tennyson as poet laureate, his poetry is negligible, and he was the butt of many... Read more |
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James Berry
James Berry 1925– Poet, children’s author Frustrated by Island Home Edited Anthology Began Writing for Children Selected writings Sources James Berry, who was born in Jamaica but moved to England as a young man, has helped to forge a new type of poetry that draws on... Read more |
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe 1860-1936, American editor, critic, and poet, b. Chicago. In 1912 she founded Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which paid and encouraged both established and new poets. Monroe's literary reputation is based on her editorship of this important magazine. She introduced to readers such... Read more |
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Wheatley, Phillis
...1784), African‐American poet.Born in West Africa, Wheatley...Bible. Admiring the English poets John Milton and Thomas Gray...translation of Homer, and the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid, she began...an engraved portrait of the poet, the first book published ... |
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Angelou, Maya
...African-American autobiographer and poet, born in St Louis, Missouri. Rooted in...Writers' Guild, and her role within the civil rights movement. An exuberant and technically assured poet with a commitment to the politics of race... |
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Whitman, Walt
Whitman, Walt (1819–1892), poet.Walt Whitman revolutionized poetry by...verge of unraveling. The proof of the poet, he wrote, “is that his country absorbs...spirit of the antislavery and women's rights movements.Although Leaves of Grass was... |
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Kilmer, (Alfred) Joyce
Kilmer, [Alfred] Joyce (1886–1918), poet, journalist, and critic, whose best‐known work...Kilmer (1888–1941), his widow, was known as a poet in her own right, having published Candles That Burn (1919), Vigils... |
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travel writing
...and continued to inspire novelists and poets, particularly during the Romantic period...writing developed into a genre in its own right in the 19th and 20th cents.: British writers...desert on a camel (Tracks, 1980); and poets S. Armitage and G. Maxwell have visited... |
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Duffy, Carol Ann
Duffy, Carol Ann (1955– ), poet, born in Glasgow, educated at Liverpool University. Her debut...loss, and memory, the search for ‘first space and the right place’ begun here came to predominate in The Other Country...one of Britain's most popular, respected, and influential ... |
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Hugo, Richard (Franklin)
Hugo, Richard [Franklin] (1923–82), Seattle‐born poet and the director of creative writing at the University of Montana...which is partly epistles addressed to other contemporary poets; Selected Poems (1979); White Center (1980); and The Right Madness on Skye (1980). The ... |
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Romanticism
...cent. encouraged the assertion of individual and national rights, denying legitimacy (forcibly in the American and French Revolutions...Milton as their principal models of the sublime embodied in the poet's boundless imaginative genius. In this, the Romantics took the partly nationalistic ... |
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CORRECT
...Johnson, 1736, quoted in Boswell's Life). 3. To set right, amend, mark or point out errors in (a text, essay, etc...and bring into line: ‘I praye maister Iohn Skelton ... poet laureate in the vnyuersite of oxenforde, to ouersee and correcte... |
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Daguiar, Fred
D'aguiar, Fred (1960– ), poet and novelist, born in London, and brought up as a child in Guyana...examination of British and cross-cultural identity; and Bill of Rights (1998), a long poem focusing on the 1978 Jonestown massacre in... |
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hand
...originally from the American poet William Ross Wallace (d. 1881...Greek, in the writing of the poet Epicharmus (c.530–440 bc...of the Roman philosopher and poet Seneca the Younger (c.4 bc...the kingdom of God.’the right hand doesn't know what the... |
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Śabda
...illuminating power (śakti); (ii) nāda, perceptible only to a poet or ṛṣi; (iii) anāhata, potential (e.g. a thought...whether humans can hear it or not. Śabda has power in its own right, not just in speech, especially in mantras or in bells and drums... |
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landscape gardening
...and presented an effect of natural, rolling grassland coming right up to the house, with distant clumps of trees.The expansiveness...liberty. Pioneers of the new taste in gardening, favoured by the poet Alexander Pope, were Stephen Switzer (1682–1745), Charles... |
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Lully, Jean-Baptiste
...tastes, from 1673 he turned to opera comp. and obtained from the King exclusive rights to arrange operatic perfs. in Paris. For the next 14 years, working with the poet Quinault, he not only wrote about 20 operas and ballets, but prod. and cond... |
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latent
...transmitted to another body. DERIVATIVES: la·tent·ly adv. THE RIGHT WORD abeyant, dormant, latent, quiescent, potential...but teachers are usually quick to spot a potential artist or poet in the classroom. Dormant and quiescent are less frequently...but it is most commonly used in its noun ... |
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liberty
...draped female figure carrying a book of laws in her left hand and holding aloft a torch in her right; it is inscribed with lines by the American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–87). Dedicated in 1886, it was designed by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi... |
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triplism
...sky, earth, and underground; space: before, behind, and right here. Some commentators, especially the influential Georges Dumézil...disciplined trio, Genii Cucullati, in Britain. The Roman poet Lucan (1st cent. AD) proposed that the Gaulish gods Esus... |
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golden
...prosperity, and happiness; originally, the Greek and Roman poets' name for the first period of history, when the human race lived...at Bruges in 1430 by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. The right of investiture in the order of the Golden Fleece belonged... |
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Ramsay, Allan
...Allan (1713–84). Portrait painter, born in Edinburgh, son of the poet Allan Ramsay. He studied in Edinburgh, London, Rome, and Naples...as a portrait painter ended in 1773 when he suffered an accident to his right arm. |
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Wollstonecraft, Mary
...1790 she published A Vindication of the Rights of Man in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections...best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), defied Jean-Jacques...daughter Mary, who became the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
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bright
...radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining Looking for just the right word to capture the quality of the light on a moonlit night...striking brilliance (the sky was resplendent with stars). Poets also prefer adjectives like effulgent and refulgent, both of... |
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latent
...but teachers are usually quick to spot a potential artist or poet in the classroom. Dormant and quiescent are less frequently...inactive, but it is most commonly used as a noun (personal rights and privileges kept in abeyance until the danger had passed... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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POETS IN MOTION: SLAM AMERICA CHRONICLES CROSS-COUNTRY ODYSSEY.(Pasatiempo)
...poetry in an array of voices. "Right now is an incredibly vibrant...Haiku Death Match,o where two poets vie for audience approval by...Yo Mama Samurai,o in which poets explore racist words and insulting...write poetry, a handful of poets answer that they ... |
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POET Software Launches 'Powered by POET' Program for ASPs to Simplify...
...management application because POET will work closely with us in...solution for B2B eCommerce. POET made our choice simple-we chose the right product and the right partner...populate many eProcurement sites, POET eCS-SP is a "self service... |
 "Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME)")
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Poets rage, rage against Belfast official
...in the end she was the only poet to submit a letter of application...you as a longtime hardworking poet and artist," she said Wednesday...there just wouldn't be a poet laureate right now." In the Republican Journal...applause from the indignant ... |
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Poets House Launches New Poetry Project At Five Major Zoos Across America.
...teach them how." Celebrated poets selected to serve as poets-in-residence have combed...R. Tolkien -- to find the right verse. Each poet-in-residence collaborated...County Zoo opens on June 19. The Poets-in-Residence are Sandra... |
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Poet Software Announces General Availability of New Content Management Suite...
...Bartels, president and chief executive officer of POET Software. "POET has the right product at the right time to provide immediate XML...applications more effectively and efficiently." POET is the only company in the content management ... |
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Poets and politics
...opinions. On the other hand, some poets have been great rascals. We...brilliance or their eloquence. Poets are just ordinary people who...Utah State University and poet laureate of Utah: "You can...year, I submitted a poem to 'Poets Against the War' with ... |
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Poet Software announces new electronic catalogue validation software for...
...often done by the IT department. POET eSupplierPort centralises purchasing...the purchasing department." POET eSupplierPort ensures that the right products are purchased at contractually...extent and number of checkpoints. POET eSupplierPort streamlines ... |
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POET SOFTWARE DEBUTS ELECTRONIC CATALOG VALIDATION SOFTWARE.(Product...
...often done by the IT department. Poet eSupplierPort centralizes purchasing...the purchasing department." Poet eSupplierPort ensures that the right products are purchased at contractually...extent and number of checkpoints. Poet eSupplierPort streamlines ... |
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POETS, POETS EVERYWHERE SHARON OLDS, THE NEW STATE POET, SEES HER ART IN ALL...
...8-year-old, you'd be right again. It comes from ``Song...As the sixth official state poet, Olds received the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poets at the gathering on Tuesday...America, and she'd put a poet in every elementary school and...are hundreds of ... |
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The poets' club
...with the Israeli Left. ISRAELI POETS identified with the Right - whether religiously or politically...the kind of young, spirited poets who have sprung up around the...Granted, there is a religious poet among festival participants...Hebrew and a good number ... |
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