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American poetry arguably reached its peak in the early-to-mid-20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens and his Harmonium ( 1923 ) and The Auroras of Autumn ( 1950 ), T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land ( 1922 ), Robert Frost and his North of Boston ( 1914 ) and New Hampshire ( 1923 ), Hart Crane and his White Buildings ( 1926 ) and the epic cycle, The Bridge ( 1930 ), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, Paterson, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others.
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Charles Baxter ( born May 13, 1947 ) is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.
American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.
A leading champion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and acute critical essay.
While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.
In poetry, metre ( meter in American English ) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
He shows the ways in which American poetry has inherited Webster and drawn upon his lexicography in order to reinvent it.
* Origin ( magazine ), an American poetry magazine
Seeing poetry slams often reminds me of watching American Idol.
The ministry also developed a new anthology of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet and writer, established a Ruben Dario prize for Latin American writers, the Leonel Rugama prize for young Nicaraguan writers, as well as public poetry readings and contests, cultural festivals and concerts.
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
In a two-year campaign to promote sales, Vegemite was given away free with Kraft Walker cheese products via coupon redemption and this was followed by poetry competitions with imported American Pontiac cars being offered as prizes.
As American poet Kenneth Rexroth explains, Cubism in poetry " is the conscious, deliberate dissociation and recombination of elements into a new artistic entity made self-sufficient by its rigorous architecture.
Carl Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967 ) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry.
In poetry, the work and thought of American Charles Olson was strongly influenced by Whitehead's concepts.
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Williams tried to invent an entirely fresh and uniquely American form of poetry whose subject matter was centered on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
* Charles Johnson Woodbury ( 1844 – 1927 ), American lecturer on poetry and literature
The almanac contained copies of his correspondence with Jefferson, poetry by the African American poet Phillis Wheatley and by the English anti-slavery poet William Cowper, and anti-slavery speeches and essays from England and America.
After World War II, the American New Criticism returned to the lyric, advocating a poetry that made conventional use of rhyme, meter and stanzas, and was modestly personal in the lyric tradition.
Lyric poetry dealing with relationships, sex and domestic life constituted the new mainstream of American poetry in the late 20th century, influenced by the confessional poets of the 1950s and 60s, such as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
We were all afraid that he would be overly affected by the evangelical simplicity of American mindlessness and write an album that wasn't really worth his gift for poetry.
These three volumes featured most of the original poets, ( also including imagist poetry by the American poet John Gould Fletcher ), with the exception of Pound, who had tried to persuade her to drop the Imagist name from her publications and who sardonically dubbed this phase of Imagism " Amy-gism.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935 ) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
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Pure boron was arguably first produced by the American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub in 1909.
Red Sox history has also been marked by the team's intense rivalry with the New York Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.
Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.
Walter Dill Scott, who was elected President of the American Psychological Association ( APA ) in 1919, was arguably the most prominent I – O psychologist of his time, although James McKeen Cattell ( elected APA President in 1895 ) and Hugo Münsterberg ( 1898 ) were influential in the early development of the field.
In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.
That June, Green Day's " Longview " reached number one on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart and became a top forty airplay hit, arguably the first ever American punk song to do so ; just one month later, The Offspring's " Come Out and Play " followed suit.
* June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of College Football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Mass ..
Metal Rhythms sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles ( the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes ).
The anarcho-syndicalist orientation of many early American labour unions arguably played an important role in the formation of the American political spectrum, most significantly of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Only slightly more than a year later, the first landing on the Antarctic mainland was arguably by the American Captain John Davis, a sealer, who claimed to have set foot there on 7 February 1821, though this is not accepted by all historians.
As the " editor " of the papers, Fraser produced a series of historical novels that give a largely picaresque ( or arguably cynical ) description of British and American history during the 19th century.
Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.
In contrast to the Pro Football and the National Baseball Halls of Fame, Springfield honors international and American professionals, as well as American and international amateurs, making it arguably the most comprehensive Hall of Fame among major sports.
John D. Rockerduck was born c. 1878 ( this is arguably in contrast to many stories where he seem to be at least 20 years younger than Scrooge ) to Howard Rockerduck, an American millionaire who had earned his fortune in the California gold rush of 1849.
Jefferson's study of the animal, the Megalonyx jeffersonii was arguably the birth of American paleontology.
Only the Beach Boys were able to sustain popularity into the mid-1960s, producing a string of hit singles and albums including Pet Sounds in 1966, which made them the only American rock or pop group that arguably could rival the Beatles.
The F. W. Woolworth Company ( often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth ) was a retail company that was one of the original pioneers, and arguably the most successful American and international five-and-dime stores, setting trends and creating the modern retail model which stores follow today, worldwide.
Washington will order reinforcements to Charleston, but the city falls on May 12 in what is arguably the worst American defeat of the war.
* Harvard Crimson plays McGill Redmen under rules taken from both association football and rugby football: it is hence arguably the first game of American football as a distinctive code
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack ( or Merrimac ) or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies.
George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was " arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century ... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.
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