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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
They were discovered, and Bilhana was thrown into prison. While awaiting judgement, he wrote the Chaurisurata Panchashika, a fifty-stanza love poem, not knowing whether he would be sent into exile or die on the gallows. It is unknown what fate Bilhana encountered. [4] Nevertheless, his poem was transmitted orally around India.
His family is of English, Dutch and African descent, reflecting the complex colonial history of the island that he explores in his poetry. His mother, a teacher, loved the arts and often recited poetry around the house. [6] His father was a civil servant and a talented painter. He died when Walcott and his brother were one year old, and were ...
Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin during an exam in the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum on 8 January 1815. Painting by Ilya Repin (1911) Pushkin's married lover Anna Petrovna Kern , for whom he probably wrote the most famous love poem in Russian
Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to the poet's life and artwork. Paul-Marie Verlaine (/ v ɛər ˈ l ɛ n / vair-LEN; [1] French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill.His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 [2] – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd parish.
California Poet Laureate [55] Juan Felipe Herrera was inspired to write about his youth by Picasso's Trozo de Piel or Hunk of Skin (written in Cannes on 9 January 1959), [56] the resulting work appearing in Herrera's 1998 collection of English and Spanish poems Laughing Out Loud, I Fly.
This work both changed fundamentally his own life’s work throughout his remaining 25 years and provided art education with a rationale of unprecedented lucidity and persuasiveness. Key books and pamphlets resulted: Education through Art (Read, 1943); The Education of Free Men (Read, 1944); Culture and Education in a World Order (Read, 1948 ...