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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
2,097 wordsKnowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970 s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions, " most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment -- as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a ...
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Social And Political Gwendolyn Brooks
1,897 wordsGwendolyn Brooks, the Influence of Children in her Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the greatest black poets of the 20 th Century. Her outstanding works that deal with various issues of black community people are popular in contemporary curriculum study of poetry. Gwendolyn Brooks was incredibly devoted to children. After she was named Poet Laureate of Illinois, she created the Poet Laureate Awards, which she gave every year to children in kindergarten through 12 th grade. She also did close t...
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1,551 wordsNaomi Long Madgett Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D. C. , but moved to Detroit in 1920. His first published poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. His early reading included English poets from whom he learned form. He was later influenced by the work of Jean Booker and County Cullen. His employment in a foundry is recalled in " George" (Poem Counterpoem), written after encountering a...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First World War
3,375 wordsThe attitudes of poets towards war have always been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each poet either condoning or condemning war, and justifying their attitudes in whatever way possible. I aim to explore the change in the portrayal of war before and during the twentieth century, and also the structures and devices poets use to convey their views persuasively, and justify them. These two poems describe war, and scenes from war, with varying levels of intensity and reality and also from diff...
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Absalom And Achitophel Poet Laureate
2,753 wordsEngland's Controversial And Exceptional Genius Essay, Research Englands Controversial And Exceptional Genius John Dryden: England's Controversial and Exceptional Genius John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the later part of the seventeenth century, dominating the literary world as a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, and a respected writer of the Restoration period. With Dryden's great literary and critical influence on the Englis...
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Absalom And Achitophel Poet Laureate
2,752 wordsJohn Dryden: England's Controversial And Exceptional Essay, John Dryden: England's Controversial And Exceptional John Dryden: England's Controversial and Exceptional Genius John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the later part of the seventeenth century, dominating the literary world as a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, and a respected writer of the Restoration period. With Dryden's great literary and critical influence on the En...
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2,780 wordsJohn Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the later part of the seventeenth century, dominating the literary world as a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, and a respected writer of the Restoration period. With Dryden's great literary and critical influence on the English society during the Restoration period he has made a name for himself, which will be studied and honored for years to come. John Dryden was born in Northamptonshire, in...
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Absalom And Achitophel Poet Laureate
2,739 wordsJohn Dryden: England's Controversial and Exceptional Genius John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the later part of the seventeenth century, dominating the literary world as a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, and a respected writer of the Restoration period. With Dryden's great literary and critical influence on the English society during the Restoration period he has made a name for himself, which will be studied and honored for...
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