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The Beauty of the Husband won Carson the T. S. Eliot Prize on her third consecutive nomination in 2001, [5] making her the first woman to be awarded this honour. [6] That same year, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, [7] and the Quebec Writers' Federation Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. [8]
Angry, her father denied her any support. Finding herself in poverty because her new husband's family was not rich, Zhuo Wenjun opened a wine shop. Ashamed that his daughter was a simple innkeeper, her father relented and gave them money and servants. [2] Emperor Wu learned of Sima Xiangru's talent and offered him an official cargo in the ...
Cora travelled with a trunk full of classic literature, including Shakespeare and Milton, which she read to her children. The family settled in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine, where Millay would write the first of the poems that would bring her literary fame. The family's house in Camden was "between the mountains ...
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Panayanthitta Kunhiraman Nair (4 October 1905 – 27 May 1978), also known as Mahakavi P, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.He was known for his romantic poems which detailed the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in South India as well as the realities of his life and times.
Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 19 July 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised.
Mahadevi credits her mother for inspiring her to write poems and to take an interest in literature. [25] Having been wed as a child, Mahadevi was expected to go live with her husband following her graduation in 1929, which she refused [26] as she found his hunting and meat-eating offensive. [27]
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...