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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,704 wordsThrough the centuries, decades, and years the world has come by many amazing authors and poets but there are always that select renowned few that will stick out in your memory, one of which being Thomas Stearns Eliot. As you read on you will be taken through the journey of T. S. Eliot's amazing and intriguing life, and his works of poetry. His authoritative prose style he developed in his 20 s helped him re-establish the premises upon which poetry was read, evaluated, and written. In writing str...
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Modern American Poetry First African American
1,571 wordsGwendolyn Brooks and Her Worth to the Literary Canon Gwendolyn Brooks (born in Kansas, 1917) is one of the most famous African American poets. She was the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize and was best known for her amazing portrayal of urban black people, who face poverty and racism in their everyday lives. Despite the wide range of African American poets, Gwendolyn Brooks arguably made the greatest contribution into the Literary Canon not only in the United States, but beca...
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Robert Graves Modern Poetry
858 wordsHaving admired (Riding) Jacksons " The Quids" published in The Fugitive (1924), Robert Graves began correspondence with her. He subsequently arranged with Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press to publish her first collection of poems, The Close Chapel (1926). Afterwards she apparently was invited to become Graves secretary or to collaborate with him on a book about modern poetry. Their thirteen-year relationship (1926 - 39) was besieged with the intricacies of their personal, poeti...
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William Carlos Williams T S Eliot
2,200 wordsA Poets Valediction by Nicholas OConnell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of figu...
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Telling The Story Collected Poems
2,278 wordsLaura (Riding) Jacksons poetry and criticism are intricately linked in their inquiry into the paradoxical nature of human expression and feeling. After practicing poetry from the early 1920 s to 1938, she renounced poetry saying that its no longer served as a means of expressing the modern word / world . Poetry bears in itself the message that it is the destiny of human beings to speak the meaning of being, but it nurses it in itself as in a sacred apartness, not to be translated into the langua...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,844 wordsRobert Lowell (1964) [Lowells review was important for Berryman: it appeared in the New York Review of Books and at the height of Lowells own achievement For the Union Dead had just been published. Lowell was at times baffled, irritated and dismayed by the poems, and when he offered support, it was remarkably tentative... His descriptions would set the tone for other reviewers. When eulogizing Berryman in 1972, Lowell blurted out: " 77 Dream Songs are harder than most hard modern poetry, th...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
9,144 wordsCleanth Brooks The bundle of quotations with which the poem ends has a very definite relation to the general theme of the poem and to several of the major symbols used in the poem. Before Arnaut leaps back into the refining fire of Purgatory with joy he says: " I am Arnaut who weep and go singing; contrite I see my past folly, and joyful I see before me the day I hope for. Now I pray you by that virtue which guides you to the summit of the stair, at times be mindful of my pain. " This ...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Views Of Society
841 wordsThroughout American literature writers have always written on social topics. Writers wrote about what was around them, and this was anything from war to love. Pieces of literature that confront social topics include Walt Whitman's Beat! Beat! Drums! , Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken. From the Civil War through the Modern Age the changing views of social topics is evident through literature. With the brake out of the Civil War came views of societ...
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