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John Fitzgerald Lee (May 5, 1813 – June 17, 1884) was the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1849 until 1862 [1] and the first Judge Advocate ...
John Robert Lee (born 1948) is a Saint Lucian Christian poet, writer, journalist and librarian. He has been awarded the Saint Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for his contribution to the development of Saint Lucian arts and culture. [1] In 2017, his Collected Poems (1975–2015) were published by Peepal Tree Press. [2]
Kenneth Flexner Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media.
Michael Joseph Alexander (21 May 1941 – 5 November 2023) was a British translator, poet, academic and broadcaster. He held the Berry Chair of English Literature at the University of St Andrews until his retirement in 2003.
Lee is the author of thirty-seven published books and ten published chapbooks and he is the editor of nearly ten published anthologies. A popular performer of children's poems and songs, he has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, Kitchener Public Library, and Hillfield Strathallen private school.
The Beautiful Inventions (Secker and Warburg, 1983; Poetry Book Society Choice) Selected Poems 1954 to 1982 (Secker & Warburg, 1985, and Penguin Books, 1986) Partingtime Hall (with James Fenton, Salamander Press, 1987, and Penguin Books, 1989) Pillow Talk; The Grey Among the Green (Chatto and Windus, 1988) The Mechanical Body; Stones and Fires ...
Scott Mahler wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Ashbery's poetry has been called mysterious, original, difficult, dream-like, Romantic, a part of the continuum of American poetry that includes Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane. It's also been called elusive, inauthentic, unmusical and overmannered.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror received three major literary prizes: the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. To date, Ashbery is the only writer working in any genre to receive a Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award in the same ...