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James David Corrothers (July 2, 1869 – February 12, 1917) [1] was an African-American poet, journalist, and minister whom editor Timothy Thomas Fortune called "the coming poet of the race." When Corrothers died, W. E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to the race and to literature."
Illuminations is an incomplete suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in La Vogue , a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine , Rimbaud's former ...
J. C. Blumenfeld (c. 1810 –c. 1840) was a Polish-Jewish revolutionary and poet. Blumenfeld was one of the leaders of a band of young Poles concerned in the Polish revolution of 1831 . [ 1 ]
Blumenfeld-Kosinski's 1990 Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture explored how medieval and Renaissance midwives, physicians, and visual artists performed Caesarean sections when women had died during childbirth, how manuscript illuminations depicted the operation, and where the term originated ...
Dewi Emrys was the pen-name of the west Wales poet David Emrys James (28 May 1881 – 20 September 1952), who wrote in the Welsh language. He was born at Majorca House in New Quay , Cardiganshire. His father, Thomas Emrys James, was a minister of the Congregational denomination at Llandudno, and Dewi's mother Mary Ellen (née Jones), was the ...
Murray Harold Blumenfeld (October 15, 1923 – November 1, 2014) was an American classical composer. He wrote over thirty musical compositions. He wrote over thirty musical compositions. He was also a conductor, a music critic, and an educator, having taught in the Washington University in St. Louis music department for almost thirty years.
Illuminations opens Friday, Nov. 18, and runs nightly from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Dec. 31 this year. The display is closed Nov. 23 and 24 and Dec. 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ...
All of which makes for a rarity in contemporary poetry: It's what book clubs call "readable."" [6] David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath, but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize ...